GO SEE THIS MOVIE

and then call your congresspeople to tell them to support HR 676, introduced by John Conyers and Dennis Kucinich - universal, not-for-profit health care health care.

La mattina, quando prendo l'autobus per andare a scuola, attraverso una serie di isolati devastati - costellati da palazzi che sono stati vittime di incendi e mai demoliti o ricosrtuiti, case abbandonate, finestre sbarrate...

Inutile dire che non ci sono molti cartelloni pubblicitari per costosi articoli di consumo. Pero' nella foto qui a fianco si possono vedere due cartelloni pubblicitari che illustrano perfettamente il modo in cui le istituzioni si prendono cura della citta'.

Uno dei cartelloni e' la pubblicita' della birra Corona. Quello a fianco e' un cartellone di reclutamento per l'esercito - che e' un esercito mercenario, pieno per la maggior parte di poveri, e disproporzionalmente composto da ragazzi e ragazze di colore.

Quindi, il messaggio che io ci leggo e' che sono rappresentati gli unici due percorsi accessibili agli studenti: l'esercito o una vita di alcolismo.

Mi sembra che la foto sia particolarmente significativa perche' questi cartelloni sono dietro uno degli innumerevoli tratti di "terra di nessuno" e affissi a uno dei gia' menzionati edifici in rovina.

Tremendo.

Here is a question for all Democratic presidential candidates: Will you keep US troops in Iraq indefinitely? For the next ten years? Do you plan to build and maintain a permanent military base in Iraq? Who - other than Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel would make a clear statement that the US will NOT maintain any kind of military presence in Iraq?

That's what Bush is now openly talking about...

Bush Team Ponders Long Support Role in Iraq

WASHINGTON, June 2 — For the first time, the Bush administration is beginning publicly to discuss basing American troops in Iraq for years, even decades to come, a subject so fraught with political landmines that officials are tiptoeing around the inevitable questions about what the United States’ long-term mission would be there.

President Bush has long talked about the need to maintain an American military presence in the region, without saying exactly where. Several visitors to the White House say that in private, he has sounded intrigued by what he calls the “Korea model,” a reference to the large American presence in South Korea for the 54 years since the armistice that ended open hostilities between North and South.

[...] Administration officials and top military leaders declined to talk on the record about their long-term plans in Iraq. But when speaking on a not-for-attribution basis, they describe a fairly detailed concept. It calls for maintaining three or four major bases in the country, all well outside of the crowded urban areas where casualties have soared. They would include the base at Al Asad in Anbar Province, Balad Air Base about 50 miles north of Baghdad, and Tallil Air Base in the south.