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Shenna Bellows on Disappearing Civil Liberties

Published on June 30, 2007 in Featured, Podcasts and Torture. Closed

Abuse of power post 9/11; Updates included

Shenna Bellows, Executive Director of the Maine Civil Liberties Union, gave a talk on October 26, 2006 at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine. This program originally appeared in two parts on the WERU Community Radio Voices programs with Amy Browne. Archives are located HERE and HERE.

The podcast posted today includes an extended introduction with important updates. The continuing hot issues to which Ms. Bellows lends sharp analysis in this program are two of the most vicious assaults on civil liberties in our times: destruction of the 4th amendment to the US Constitution through warrantless government surveillance and indefinite imprisonment and torture of terror war suspects. Discussion of events on these fronts subsequent to Ms. Bellows presentation with links for key news stories appears below the fold.

 
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Nuclear primacy is not security

Published on June 30, 2007 in Featured, nuclear and Opinion/op-ed. Closed

The Bush–Putin agenda in Kennebunkport, Maine this weekend should include critical unfinished business of the post-Cold-War era: immediate steps to outlaw nuclear weapons. However, the US is pursuing a different path.

“… [The United States] [b]ehaving as a superpower that seeks perpetual dominance, … that considers itself and its allies as exempt from international law, will not make us more secure. It will only provoke proliferation, just as our invasion of Iraq has not reduced terrorism but has instead created new grievances and new bands of terrorists. By trying to reap maximum benefit from our temporary role as sole superpower, our government is acting like the terrorist we fear, and in the process is making more likely the very things we fear the most: nuclear terror and a new arms race.”

The excerpt above is from an op-ed published in the Saturday/Sunday June 30–July 1, 2007 edition of the Bangor Daily News. My friend Mike Howard and I co-wrote the piece. The full text (as submitted) of the op-ed is below the fold. The piece does not yet appear on line at the newspaper’s site. If it does, I will post an update.

Update: Posted at Bangor Daily News, HERE.
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Stan Goff on exterminism

Published on November 15, 2005 in Featured, Iraq and Podcasts. 1 Comment

This is a very special podcast featuring a discussion with anti-war activist, Vietnam veteran, and former Special Forces soldier Stan Goff. Stan toured Maine briefly during the fall of 2005 and appeared in Neville Hall, University of Maine, Orono, Maine on Tuesday November 15, 2005. The program covered many topics, but I will call it IRAQ AND EXTERMINISM.

This one is well worth the download.

“It appears to me that the Iraqis have made up their minds that they are not going to accept foreign domination….It’s time for some escalations in the anti-war movement.” –Stan Goff

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85 min; 20 MB; 32 kbps mp3; download link here ->