Vigil to Close the SOA/ WHINSEC
November 17-19, 2006

Together We'll Shut it Down!
This November 17-19, thousands of protestors will gather at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia for the Vigil to Close the School of the Americas !

If you are going and need a ride or are willing to provide a ride, contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or call Jerry at 803-957-5726.

Representatives of organizations working on behalf of more than 15 million Afro-descendant people from Peru and Columbia sign letter opposing Free Trade Agreements between the US and the governments of Peru and Colombia.

The letter written to members of Congress also appeals to all African-American citizens of the United States, because they face similar dangers as ours with respect to increasing poverty and insecurity as a result of the economic policies advanced by the Free Trade Agreements. This is a call to our African-American brothers and sisters to join in our common fight against this threat which affects our people.

The major concerns are that 1) labor rules do not protect against discrimination, 2) unjust competition will increase poverty, 3) investment rules would impede protection of Afro-descendant populations, and 4) intellectual property rules would reduce Afro-descendants' access to health care and lead to unnecessary deaths from treatable illness 

Floor It, Howard

by Gary Oliver
(www.earthhouston.net)
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if the administration has it's way.

The government wants to ship thousands of trucks of radioactive waste to SC to turn into fuel, weapons, and tons of liquid waste that are more hazardous than the original solid waste. And the US will ship not only waste generated in the U.S. The government wants to contract with countries around the world to take their radioactive waste, reprocess the waste to create nuclear fuel to ship back to those countries, leaving the newly created high-level radioactive liquid waste with South Carolina.

But thanks to Lindsay Graham it is no longer high-level nuclear waste. After the courts told the government that pouring grout into the sludge at the bottom of tanks of liquid waste as they planned violated safety laws, our Senator Graham pushed legislation that renamed high level nuclear waste to "waste incidental to reprocessing" so they could avoid the safety regulations. It comes in nuclear waste, it stays as "waste incidental to reprocessing". Nothing was said about honesty incidental to public service.

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The SCASC (the South Carolina Alliance for Sustainble Campuses) has organized and they seeking help in creating and distributing materials about the proposed nuclear power plan development in SC.

Students and others interested in helping with this effort for sustainable energy with time, money, or expertise should contact:

Laura Sima
SAGE (Students Allied for a Greener Earth) at USC
723B Henderson St
Columbia, SC 29201