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Moving Ideas Newsletter
December 13, 2005
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On Monday, November 21, leaders of Iraqi Shiites, Kurds and Sunnis called for a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S.-led forces in the country in a proclamation issued after an Arab League conference in Cairo. These groups were sharply divided on other issues, but like the Iraqi citizenry, they were united in their belief that it is time for the United States to plan its withdrawal.
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William Fisher says that Bush just appointed a guy to be deputy director of USAID who believes Muslims will burn in hell.
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The highest court in South Africa ruled that the parliament must amend marriage laws to include same-sex couples within the next year.
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Unquestionable evidence of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito's efforts to undercut women's reproductive rights surfaced in a memorandum he wrote while serving in the Reagan Justice Department, reports the Feminist Majority Foundation.
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In upstate New York, housing groups started a brokerage for low-income residents and neighborhoods poorly served by for-profit real estate agents. While it is a nonprofit, the brokerage is still expected to pay for itself.
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Vowing to "Stay the Course" the President made clear that the administration still doesn't recognize the main factor in the war -- that the occupation is driving the resistance, says Erik Leaver.
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World maps illustrating areas of high poverty largely overlap those of high HIV/AIDS prevalence. It's no coincidence that poverty and the HIV-AIDS pandemic have run rampant in these last two decades of neoliberalism, since the root causes of both can be found in the economic model, say Bernardo Useche and Amalia Cabezas.
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The Presidential candidates in Chile’s upcoming elections have been drawn into the volatile battle over the country’s private pension funds. Alvaro Vargas Llosa says that if it continues, one of the few success stories in Latin America’s economy -- imitated in many countries -- could begin to be overturned and the country’s march towards development severely hampered.
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If you're hoping for a non-eventful airline flight this holiday season, the Transportation Security Agency may have a surprise for you. If you're like Ivan Eland, the hapless subject of a recent TSA special security screening, you just might get more "TLC" during a TSA agent's pat-down than you thought was legal in your state.
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Dean Baker says that Reagan was onto something when he closed the tax loopholes that punish regular folks for investing. Posted on TomPaine.com.
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Danny Schechter asks why the American media won't probe whether the report that Bush threatened to bomb Al Jazeera is true.
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Robert Dreyfuss says that the Bush administration's distaste for reality is fueling its enemies in Iraq and in Congress.
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Steven Carbo says that among the ballot initiatives placed before voters in the November 8 elections, two stand out as particularly interesting to government reform activists: Prop 77 in California and Ballot Issue 4 in Ohio would both have created Independent Redistricting Commissions (IRCs), taking the redistricting process away from state legislators with a vested interest in the maps drawn for district boundaries and giving that authority to newly created bodies.
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Read the transcript from an online discussion with policy experts about the relationship between violence against women and HIV/AIDS, and the impact of US global AIDS policy.
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Husain Haqqani and Kenneth Ballen argue that the most critical location for immediate international engagement is not Iraq or Afghanistan, but Pakistan.
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Miles Rapoport, President of Demos and former Secretary of the State of Connecticut, applauds the Connecticut Legislature for its campaign finance reform measure.
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On November 22nd, members of the ACORN Katrina Survivors Association took action in response to the announcement that on December 1st, FEMA would stop paying bills for Katrina victims still living in motels and hotels. Later that same afternoon, FEMA rescinded its unpopular policy and said that it would extend its hotel-housing program by a month in 10 states.
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In this issue: Congress Fails the Poor by not Providing Heating Aid; Louisiana Poor Bear the Brunt of Efforts to “Starve the Beast” of Federal and Local Government; Food Stamp Budget Insufficient When Policymakers Try to Live on It; state reports; and more.
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OneWorld United States offers a snapshot of some of the important work their partners are doing around the globe.
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In this issue: How Nutrition Programs Can Help Low-Income Families Cope with High Energy Costs; Low-Wage Workers Ruined by Katrina Face Hard Struggle to Reclaim Lives; Cities Face Challenges in Connecting Families to Food Stamps; state reports; and more.
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