Most of the interview is about his ongoing effort to impeach Cheney. 

JUAN GONZALEZ: “Congressman, I’d like to ask you, on another matter, a vote this week in Congress over the Peru free trade bill. Many Democrats supported the administration position on this. You’ve been outspoken in your opposition to many of these free trade agreements. Your perspective on this vote?”

REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: “It’s a disaster for the people of Peru. It’s a disaster for farmers whose land is being poisoned by gold mining and the cyanide that’s used in that process. And American workers have absolutely no protection about jobs being moved out of this country. It’s basically a modeling of NAFTA sent to Peru. This is really a continuation of the stripping of rights of peoples of both nations. And a reason why NAFTA has to be canceled — and I’ve said that I would do that as President — that we must get out of the WTO — I said that I would withdraw from the WTO — and to have trade that is wholly and solely based on workers’ rights, human rights and environmental quality principles. And it’s time that we recognize that this whole trade model has been about nothing but a race to the bottom for workers. It’s time we stood up for workers, no matter if they’re in Peru or anywhere else in the world, but certainly in the United States. We should have some concern about what the effect of these trade agreements are on American workers.”

The new play “Rebel Voices” is based on the book, “Voices of a People’s History of the United States,” by historian Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove.” It features dramatic readings of speeches, letters, poems, songs and petitions of people like Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, as well as contemporary voices such as Iraq war resister Camilo Mejía.

Read the transcript or watch the video of Democracy Now!’s interview with Zinn.

They should be here in a week or so.

Also hate most “biking” clothes? Someone should buy me these pants.

$70 bucks, but pretty sweet….from Portland Cyclewear.

Arizona Snowbowl will be holding their annual Job (un)Fair this Wednesday.
Join us and voice/demonstrate your concerns with Snowbowl’s attempts to desecrate the Sacred San Francisco Peaks, cause ecological harm and risk community health.
This is an opportunity to educate people that are considering working at Snowbowl.

What: Protest Arizona Snowbowl’s Job (un)Fair!

When: Wednesday, November 7th from 4PM-7PM

Where: Northern Arizona University’s Walkup Sky Dome (click here for a map)
Why: Snowbowl Ski Area is attempting to expand their current ski area development and make fake snow from treated sewage effluent on the Sacred San Francisco Peaks despite pleas from tribes, environmental groups and the greater community.
Who: You and anyone who cares about community health, our environment and respecting Indigenous cultures!

www.savethepeaks.org

yes, already. Life is moving fast today.

It was pretty rad to see Dr. Doug Brown there, the econ professor. He helped me out with that vegetarian article I wrote (aka meatosaurus rex)… and he rides a bike!

Who: ARN! (animal rights now! of NAU/flagstaff)
What: Demonstration.
When: 10:30 - 12:00.
Where: We are meeting on the east side of Wall Aquatic and in front of the Wettaw building- from there, we will march to the Biology Annex (21B)
http://home.nau.edu/maps.asp
Why: Animal Rights NOW! is holding a demonstration to protest the animal testing facility on campus. Members of ARN! have tried to contact employees of the facility, but they have ignored our requests for information and refuse to meet with us. Though NAU has said that students’ tuition does not go directly to animal testing (they like to call it “using animals for research”), our dollars DO go to pay for equipment, chemicals, and the salaries of these “scientists.”

To throw a little fuel on the fire, I suppose, a faculty member of NAU contacted the boss of one of the ARN! members (the same one I’ve been talking to recently about an article for December) and said this person is a threat to the university and should be fired (and that these views were shared with Pres. Haeger). So there will be increased security, including police. All this for an animal rights protest on campus? What are they hiding?

Come support ARN! and show NAU that we DEMAND answers.

First rally: Monday, Nov. 5, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., public sidewalk in front of Flagstaff Planned Parenthood on South Plaza Way.

As many of you know, Flagstaff Planned Parenthood has recently begun to experience weekly anti-choice protests by fundamentalist Christians (see background information below). The protestors are not simply exercising their First Amendment right to free speech – they are harassing patients, family and friends by shouting through bullhorns, taking photographs of people entering and leaving the clinic, standing in the shopping center parking lot and handing people pamphlets, and generally behaving in an abusive manner. Several protestors have been cited for disorderly conduct. Nearby business owners and patrons have also spoken of harassment. These protests take place on Thursdays.

If you are interested in volunteering, please contact me and I’ll send you a weekly e-mail to let you know the day and time of the weekly rally. Lisa Rayner, Lisa@LisaRayner.com

Background on the anti-choice protestors

The protestors belong to NAU Students for Life and the Flagstaff Chapter of Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust. Members have also been tabling with graphic photographs of late term fetuses on the NAU campus and outside Flagstaff high schools. Members attended a fundamentalist “pro-life boot camp” this summer. They hold extremist views on sex and contraception. For example, they lie to people about hormonal birth control and emergency contraception, claiming that birth control causes abortion (in reality, hormonal birth control methods prevent ovulation). They consider a single-celled fertilized egg that has not yet implanted in a uterus to be the moral equivalent of an infant (or adult woman for that matter). “Survivors” chapter leader “Bud” Shaver was arrested in July in Wichita, Kansas for entering a Lutheran church during the Sunday service and screaming Bible verses at the congregation (a doctor who runs a women’s clinic is a church member).