On the Line
On the Line World Social Forum Mumbai, India Tens of thousands of people attended the fourth annual World Social Forum held this year in Mumbai, India. Since 2001, the World Social Forum has been...
...Carl Kozlowski...
...Everybody always says we have God on our side...
...Father Daniel Berrigan has spent nearly forty years engaged in civil disobedience, protesting against the Vietnam War, nuclear weapons and their manufacturers, and the Iraq War...
...I have never seen this degree of irresponsibility, naked power, high-level duplicity, or the will to just own the world...
...The Time magazine cover that featured him and his brother Philip in their heyday hangs in the bathroom amid dozens of photos with fellow historic figures, while stickers with political slogans cover his front door...
...Rainforest Action Network and Global Exchange are part of a national coalition of more than eighty public interests groups that are calling on Ford to double the fuel economy of its vehicles by 2010...
...God has been part of empire building throughout history...
...According to a 2003 EPA report, Ford's vehicles rank the lowest of any major automaker in overall fuel economy...
...For more information, visit www.jumpstartford.com...
...Berrigan: The whole thing is insane...
...They timed their action to coincide with the LA Auto Show, happening blocks away...
...Berrigan: I have Catholic Worker, and we've had an ecumenical group meeting in the city for the past twenty years now...
...Berrigan: No one comes to the Bible without bringing his life and his attitudes...
...If you don't want to play that dirty game, stay away from it...
...I spoke to the trim and feisty yet preternaturally calm Berrigan in his memorabilia-packed Upper West Side apartment...
...I've never seen such blindness, and I'm scared, but it keeps me moving...
...Q: What do you think of President Bush wearing his faith on his sleeve...
...Q: What do you think of Presidents-whether Clinton waving his Bible on the way to church each week as he's impeached for sexual improprieties or Bush weaving in Scripture as he engages in preemptive war-who express their spirituality in public life...
...Q: How do you maintain your faith in these times...
...The real unspoken credential for that kind of public office is you have to be willing to kill a huge number of people...
...Arnold, the Slasher Sacramento Thousands of people gathered in California's capital to protest Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed budget cuts, which would slash funding for health and social services to the poor, disabled, and elderly...
...For example, in-home services for people with disabilities would be gutted, affecting 75,000 people...
...Q: What do you feel about the times we're in right now...
...I'm blessed with my family...
...Pollution Is Job One Los Angeles Members of Global Exchange and Rainforest Action Network rappelled down the thirty-two story TransAmerica Center in downtown LA on January 8 to unfurl a giant banner...
...The forum started in response to the World Economic Forum and its credo is "Another World Is Possible...
...Ending America's addiction to oil is a matter of national security," stated Mike Brune, executive director of Rainforest Action Network...
...For more information on the World Social Forum 2004, go to www.wsfindia.org...
...More information about California Disability Community Action Network can be found at www.station504.com...
...warmaking and assert democratic principles and individual and community rights...
...Since 2001, the World Social Forum has been a gathering place for activists who question corporate globalization and U.S...
...Berrigan: This is really the most dangerous time of my life...
...But I don't know what he does with the Sermon on the Mount...
...He obviously seeks out parts of the Bible that allow killing...
...Bush comes to the Bible having run a human slaughterhouse in Texas for many years...
Vol. 68 • March 2004 • No. 3
