Stories from 2002-02-01
"President Bush's warning to the "evil axis'' of Iran, Iraq and North Korea has raised questions and anxiety at home and abroad. Just what was Mr. Bush signaling when he used the term during his State of the Union address?" [more]
"The United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) said it was "Ý'greatly concerned about the recent public vilification of asylum seekers' and urged governments to show leadership in providing accurate and up-to-date information on asylum seekers and promoting a public debate 'based on facts rather than negative stereotyping.' The High Commissioner's statement follows two weeks of tense protests at the Woomera detention centre, including a hunger strike and threats of self-mutilation by the detainees." [more]
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(IHT, Apr 30)
"In just five years, Bush has challenged more than 750 new laws, by far a record for any president, while becoming the first president since Thomas Jefferson to stay so long in office without issuing a veto." [more]
(Interactivist Info Exchange, Jul 26)
"Horizontalism is not an ideology, however, it is a relationship — a way of relating to one another in a directly democratic way while at the same time creating through the process of discovery. What has resulted is the creation of an amazing complex of movements, all linked." [more] |
This website is a tribute to Why War?, one of the nation's first and most innovative post-9/11 student antiwar organizations. Born on October 22, 2001 at Swarthmore College, we were a handful of freshmen and sophmores who vocally opposed the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. And now, seven years later, we are retiring this website as we focus our efforts on new directions. We hope that it continues to serve future activists and we remain confident that humanity is on the verge birthing a better world.
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