Saturday, March 08, 2003 :::
 

Reuters |
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=2348902

Indonesians Stage Mass Prayer Against War in Iraq
Sun March 9, 2003 12:48 AM ET
By Achmad Sukarsono

SURABAYA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Up to 800,000 people gathered in Indonesia's second-largest city of Surabaya on Sunday to pray for peace in the biggest anti-Iraq war event yet in the world's most populous Muslim nation.

" . . . Muhammad Rizieq, chief of Indonesia's militant Islamic Defenders' Front, underscored that warning. "If the war starts tomorrow, the next day we will have thousands of new Osama bin Ladens who will be ready to destroy U.S. facilities anywhere on earth," he told Reuters. "We are campaigning for the public to besiege and take over the U.S. embassy if war breaks out."

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Beyond Iraq, U.N. Is Issue http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/08/international/middleeast/08ASSE.html?pagewanted=print&position=top

New York Times
March 8, 2003
Beyond Iraq, U.N. Is Issue
By PATRICK E. TYLER
UNITED NATIONS, March 7 —

" . . Many diplomats have heard — and believe — the rumors that were set off by the visit to the White House by Gen. Tommy R. Franks, the Middle East commander: Mr. Bush has given the go-ahead; war is days away, not weeks.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59739-2003Mar7.html

Church Leaders Propose Antiwar Plan

By Alan Cooperman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, March 8, 2003;

The Episcopal bishop of Washington and national leaders of the Methodist, Presbyterian and Baptist churches yesterday proposed a six-point plan "to defeat Saddam Hussein without war."

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Guardian Unlimited | Weblog
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblog

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http://www.timesunion.com/aspstories/storyprint.asp?storyID=113433

The security officer at Crossgates Mall who signed a trespassing complaint against a war protester was fired Friday.

" . . .Williams, who has worked in security at the mall for more than nine years, said he signed the complaint on the orders of his boss, assistant director of security Fred Tallman."

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Friday, March 07, 2003 :::
 

Boycott Crossgates Boycott Crossgates

http://www.boycottcrossgates.org/

" . . . The boycott will continue . . . because Crossgates has not made a formal apology."

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Thursday, March 06, 2003 :::
 

TODAY AT THE WHITE HOUSE:
03.03.2003: Secretary Fleischer Delivers Forceful Rebuttal to Charges of Senselessly Dooming Innocent American GI's Purely for Craven Political Gain: "Last night, President Bush called an emergency meeting of the Presidential Prayer Squad. Working feverishly until dawn with PPS leaders, the President arrived at a plan of action which will ensure that his political future does not mimic that of his vaguely effeminate father..."

03.01.2003: Secretaries Rumsfeld & Wolfowitz Explain Moral Necessity of Nation Bombing Building to Assembled Limp-Wristed Press Nancys

02.27.2003: President Announces Prompt End to Confirmation Filibuster of Hispano-Rican Judicial Nominee Poncho Estrada

02.25.2003: Statement by Press Secretary Fleischer Introducing Revised Federal France-Bashing Standards & Guidelines

02.23.2003: President Bush Graciously Offers Pretty Boy Liberal Traitor George Clooney Front Row Tickets to the Baghdad Shrapnel Orchestra

02.20.2003: Vice President Cheney Issues

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Wednesday, March 05, 2003 :::
 

.newsday.com

http://www.newsday.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=ny%2Dlivit0306§ion=%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Flongisland%2Fcolumnists


" . . . one man in upstate Guilderland was arrested earlier this week -- not for demonstrating but for wearing a peace slogan on his T-shirt while standing in line at a mall food court.

"The front of the shirt said, ‘Peace on Earth,' and the back said ‘Give Peace a Chance,'” said Roger Downs, describing the T-shirt for which his father, 61-year-old Stephen Downs was arrested Monday night.

Ten minutes earlier, father and son had had the peace messages embossed on shirts by a mall vendor. They were stopping to eat when security guards approached and told them they would have to remove the shirts.

Roger, a 31-year-old graduate student at Bard College, complied.

His father, an attorney for the state Commission on Judicial Conduct, decided to see what would happen in America, in March 2003, if a 61-year-old man insisted on wearing a T-shirt that said "Give Peace a Chance” while shopping at the mall.

The security guards ordered him to leave. When the elder Downs refused, they called police, who arrested him for trespassing.

In America, in March 2003, a 61-year-old man who gets arrested for wearing a peace T-shirt gets a court appearance ticket, and a hundred requests for media interviews.

"My father has been handling all the TV interviews, and I'm taking the calls from radio and print,” said the son.

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Guardian Unlimited | Weblog | What is a weblog? http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,394059,00.html

What is a weblog?

A weblog is, literally, a 'log' of the web - a diary-style site, in which the author (a weblogger, or 'blogger') links to other web pages he or she finds interesting. The Guardian weblog is our variation on the theme: it is our pick of the best journalism from around the web.

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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-iraq-usa-shirt.html March 4, 2003

Lawyer Arrested for Wearing a 'Peace' T - Shirt

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawyer was arrested late Monday and charged with trespassing at a public mall in the state of New York after refusing to take off a T-shirt advocating peace that he had just purchased at the mall.

According to the criminal complaint filed on Monday, Stephen Downs was wearing a T-shirt bearing the words ``Give Peace A Chance'' that he had just purchased from a vendor inside the Crossgates Mall in Guilderland, New York, near Albany.

" . . .Downs is the director of the Albany Office of the state Commission on Judicial Conduct . . ."

" . . .

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God, Satan and the Media
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF


http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/04/opinion/04KRIS.html

"... 46 percent of Americans . . . That's the proportion who described themselves in a Gallup poll in December as evangelical or born-again Christians."

" . . . A new Gallup poll shows that 48 percent of Americans believe in creationism, and only 28 percent in evolution (most of the rest aren't sure or lean toward creationism)"

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The Globalist | Biography of Nicholas D. Kristof Nicholas D. Kristof
Writer for the New York Times



Nicholas D. Kristof ( NY Times Columnist)


Nicholas D. Kristof (age 43), and Sheryl WuDunn are the first husband and wife team to win a Pulitzer Prize together for journalism.
They shared the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for their coverage in the New York Times of the Tiananmen democracy movement in China and its bloody supression.
They have also won various other journalism prizes as longtime Asia correspondents for the Times, and in 1994, they published theiir best-selling book, "China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power."
Nicholas Kristof attended Harvard College, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and earning a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, where he studied law and graduated with first-class honors. He has served as the Times bureau chief in Hong Kong, Beijing and Tokyo.
Sheryl WuDunn is a third-generation Chinese-American who grew up in New York City and studied intellectual history at Cornell University.
She has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a Masters degree from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Ms. WuDunn has served as a foreign correspondent in Beijing and Tokyo.

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Tuesday, March 04, 2003 :::
 

USATODAY.com - Travel - News -
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2003/2003-03-04-overseas.htm


Ugly sentiments sting American tourists

Tips for blending in

Concerned about being a magnet for anti-Americanism during your next trip abroad? Bruce McIndoe, CEO of iJet Travel Intelligence, offers his tips for staying under the radar:

Avoid American fast-food restaurants and chains.

Keep discussions of politics to private places, not rowdy bars.

Take a rain check on wearing clothes featuring American flags or sports team logos.


Keep your passport out of sight.


Keep cameras, video equipment and maps tucked away.


Soften your speech; Americans typically overshadow their hosts in the volume department

"I've spent 100 days a year for the past 30 years in Europe, and, generally, people always managed to differentiate a government's action from its citizens," says Rick Steves, a Seattle-based tour operator who specializes in Europe.

"But I have never seen this level of frustration in my lifetime. They just can't understand our push for war, especially the younger generation."

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Sunday, March 02, 2003 :::
 

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/opinion/02FRIE.html?pagewanted=print&position=top
New York Times, March 2, 2003

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
The Long Bomb

". . . I've been to nearly 20 states recently,

and I've found that 95 percent of the country wants to see Iraq dealt with without a war . . . "

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="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/international/europe/02IRIS.html?pagewanted=print&position=top">I
New York Times

March 2, 2003
Ireland Faces Harsh Reality About Abuse of Alcohol
By BRIAN LAVERY

DUBLIN -- The country's biggest Sunday newspaper published a self-help test last weekend under the headline:

"Are We All Alcoholics?"

" . . . alcohol-related social problems are now visible everywhere. Irish companies collectively lose more than $1 billion each year because of hung-over employees calling in sick. Side effects like car accidents and medical care cost the Irish economy another $1.5 billion."

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/international/europe/02IRIS.html?pagewanted=print&position=top

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