[Please note: Any audio file may be played or posted with email notice to Traprock at charles@traprockpeace.org and attribution to program speakers and sponsors. Any playing or posting shall include a reference to Traprock having copyright to the audio, or another copyright holder if indicated, with all rights reserved. No programs may be edited or… Continue reading Struggle for Self-Determination in Venezuela

Attendees chant before plenary session. See videos below of Martín Sanchez, Venezuela’s consul general in Chicago, on “The Struggle for Self-Determination in Venezuela” and Joel Geier, Associate Editor of the International Socialist Review, on “Resisting US Empire.” Also, see photos and download mp3 audio – including Elizabeth Wrigley-Field’s workshop on imperialism. Chanting

Sgt. Clousing served in Iraq as an interrogator for the US army. See him speak about war crimes committed by US forces. Hear his full talk at https://www.traprockpeace.org/audio/ricky_clousing_16sept06.mp3 (mp3 audio)* 1:09:54 length with Q&A; 64 kbps mono He spoke in D.C. Sept. 16, 2006 (introduced by David Swanson). Clousing says the US is “creating the… Continue reading GI Resister Sgt. Ricky Clousing

[Nov 10th Note: We have a catalog of about 50 videos that we will be posting to this blog, as well as new ones. The advantage of using this blog is that we can stream the videos, so you may watch while they download, via YouTube. Thanks to YouTube! So, check back often as we’ll… Continue reading Holly Near singing “I am Willing”

BIG OIL READY TO SETTLE FOR LESS IN IRAQ? By Nick Mottern, Director, Consumers for Peace. It looks like U.S. Senator from Texas Kay Bailey Hutchison sent a message this month that big oil is abandoning ambitions for quick access to all of Iraq’s oil wealth, for now, and is willing to settle for operating… Continue reading BIG OIL READY TO SETTLE FOR LESS IN IRAQ?

The Pundit Path for Death in Iraq By Norman Solomon No one knows exactly how many Iraqi civilians have died from the war’s violence since the invasion of their country. The new study from public health researchers at Johns Hopkins University estimates that the number of those deaths is around 601,000, while saying the actual… Continue reading The Pundit Path for Death in Iraq

McGovern’s Trojan Horse by Charles Jenks The pitch: The Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) trumpets its continued support of Rep. James McGovern bill (HR 4232) as “a top legislative priority.” PDA urges all to sign its petition to support the bill, as PDA is “committed to cutting off all funding for the deployment of US… Continue reading Rep. James McGovern’s Trojan Horse

August 21, 2006 New Orleans Trying to Make It Home: New Orleans One Year After Katrina Bill Quigley Quigley@loyno.edu Bernice Mosely is 82 and lives alone in New Orleans in a shotgun double. On August 29, 2005, as Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, the levees constructed by the U.S.  Corps of Engineers failed in five… Continue reading Trying to Make It Home: New Orleans One Year After

[This letter was written by Mohammed Mukhaimar, Psychologist, with children of Gaza] Dear World From here…from across the oceans…from Palestine…..the land of open wounds, from our hearts and souls……..we talk to you. Every day, when the sun rises in the morning, and sets in the evening, and the moon appears, we know there is a… Continue reading Dear World – from Gaza

see photos and download audio mp3’s from emergency WMass forum on Middle East war “The building was not targeted.” That’s the Israeli government’s excuse about its killing of many civilians, including at least 16 children by Human Rights Watch, in its bomb attack on Qana, Lebanon on July 30, 2006. It doesn’t cut it.