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This just in from Eric Rubin and the Florida Fair Trade Coalition

Help STOP CAFTA!

The Florida Fair Trade Coalition Needs YOUR HELP! Bring your friends, your family and your trusty cell-phone to help make calls to our fellow citizens, asking them to demand a “no” vote on the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). We have some land lines available, so even if you don’t have a cell phone, please join us for the Cell Phone Night to Fight CAFTA!

These Cell-Phone Banks are set up for Tampa, St. Petersburg, Miami, and Orlando. See below for times and locations!

St. Petersburg (3 land lines available for non-cell users):

Sunday, July 24th from 1 to 5pm

Monday, July 25 – July 27th 1 PM 9 PM

FFTC Office

37 4th St. N (Downtown across from open-air post office)

St. Petersburg, FL 33701

Miami:

Monday July 25th and Tuesday July 26th from 6 to 9pm

SEIU Local 11

1680 Michigan Avenue Ste. 1100

Miami Beach

Orlando (9 land lines available for non-cell phone users):

Monday July 25th and Tuesday July 26th from 6 to 9pm

SEIU Local 8

7001 Lake Eleanor Dr Ste. 130

Orlando, FL

Questions? Contact Katie @ 727-896-8224 or katieflfairtrade@hotmail.com

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For Immediate Release: Please post to all lists and use freely

For daily updates and info check out

www.flfairtrade.org

CAFTA Supporters still short votes,

We CAN STOP CAFTA!

HOUSE VOTED EXPECTED JULY 28TH OR 29TH

Make a call to your Representative NOW!

The Capitol switchboard has begun to refuse taking calls after 5 PM and on weekends – Please use the LOCAL numbers listed in the “thank and spank list” below the alert for any call made after 5 PM and weekends

Make a Toll-Free Call to your representative! Call 1-866-340-9281

To be connected to the Capitol Switchboard, and at that point you simply ask the operator to be connected to the Congressional office of your choice!

The Focus is on Ginny Brown-Waite, Cliff Stearns, and Michael Bilirakis, & Jim Davis!

Ginny Brown-Waite (R - 05)

Brooksville (352) 799-8354

Dade City (352) 567-6707

Said she will vote NO – is being pressured to vote with the Pres. Bush. Thank her and let her know you stand with her.

Cliff Stearns (R - 06)

Ocala (352) 351-8777

Gainesville (352) 337-0003

Orange Park (904) 269-3203

Is vacillating and heading towards a YES vote! He voted NO on NAFTA &Fast Track ask him to do the same and VOTE NO for CAFTA.

Jim Davis (D - 11)

Tampa (813) 354-9217
Toll Free: 1 (888) 266-0205

St. Petersburg (727) 867-5301

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Spank hard... Ask him how he can support CAFTA and expect labor, agriculture, or environmental to think of him as friendly in his run for Governor if he VOTES YES to CAFTA

Michael Bilirakis (R - 09)

Palm Harbor (727) 773-2871 or

1-866-773-2871

Tampa (813) 960-8173

Has said NO comment – he did vote NO on NAFTA – ask him to do the same for CAFTA!

Although CAFTA was passed in the Senate, the battle now is focused in the HOUSE! Pro CAFTA supporters have hired on extra lobbyists and are working every representative they think they can move. This is the time when deals will be made for votes, and we cannot afford to let up the pressure. We have to keep reminding our Representatives where we stand, and that they should oppose CAFTA.

Also, we are asking EVERYONE to make an additional phone call to Rep. Jim Davis and tell him that we cannot even begin to consider him for governor if he votes for CAFTA (which he has recently said he will)!

Monday, July 18, 2005

"Suitcase Nukes:" Permanently Lost Luggage

by Nikolai Sokov

February 13, 2004

On February 8, a London-based Arab newspaper, Al-Hayat, reported that in 1998, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda had bought nuclear weapons from Ukraine using the services of a Ukrainian scientist, whose first name was Viktor. Multiple news sources immediately linked this story to the 1997 statement by the late General Alexander Lebed, who claimed that a special commission established by the Russian government in 1996 could not account for about 100 portable nuclear devices (commonly known as "nuclear suitcases").
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Thursday, July 07, 2005

Zarqawi: Everywhere and nowhere
By Dahr Jamail

AMMAN, Jordan - A remarkable proportion of the violence taking place in Iraq is regularly credited to the Jordanian Ahmad al-Khalayleh, better known as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and his al-Qaeda-linked organization in Iraq. Sometimes it seems no car bomb goes off, no ambush occurs that isn't claimed in his name or attributed to him by the Bush administration. Bush and his top officials have, in fact, made good use of him, lifting his reputed feats of terrorism to epic, even mythic, proportions (much aided by various mainstream media outlets). Given that the invasion and occupation of Iraq have now been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to be based on administration lies and manipulations, I begun to wonder if the vaunted Zarqawi even existed.

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Tuesday, July 05, 2005

This interactive map allows you to zoom in on towns or states to find the location of casualties.

Map Of Soldiers Killed By Town

Monday, July 04, 2005

Paul Harvey's Tribute to Slavery, Nukes, Genocide

"We're standing there dying, daring to do nothing decisive because we've declared ourselves to be better than our terrorist enemies--more moral, more civilized,"... "we sent men with rifles into Afghanistan and Iraq and kept our best weapons in their silos"--

"We didn't come this far because we're made of sugar candy. Once upon a time, we elbowed our way onto and across this continent by giving smallpox-infected blankets to Native Americans. That was biological warfare. And we used every other weapon we could get our hands on to grab this land from whomever.

"And we grew prosperous. And yes, we greased the skids with the sweat of slaves. So it goes with most great nation-states, which--feeling guilty about their savage pasts--eventually civilize themselves out of business and wind up invaded and ultimately dominated by the lean, hungry up-and-coming who are not made of sugar candy."

Read FAIR's Call To Action

The Full Transcript Of Paul Harvey's Comments

Thursday, June 30, 2005

It's Deja Vu All Over Again

Bush's Big Gambit

By Stephen Pizzo, News for Real. Posted June 30, 2005.

If imitation is the highest form of flattery, then ex-presidents Johnson and Nixon must be (the only ones) feeling good about Bush's speech on Tuesday.

The Selfless-Sacrifice Gambit

Bush (6/28/05): "Our mission in Iraq is clear: we're helping Iraqis build a free nation that is an ally in the war on terror. We're advancing freedom in the broader Middle East. We are removing a source of violence and instability and laying the foundation of peace for our children and our grandchildren."

Johnson (1965): "We fight (in Vietnam) because we must fight if we are to live in a world where every country can shape its own destiny, and only in such a world will our own freedom be finally secure."

The Giant-Mistake Gambit
Bush (6/28/05): "I recognize that Americans want our troops to come home as quickly as possible. So do I. Some contend that we should set a deadline for withdrawing U.S. forces. Let me explain why that would be a serious mistake. Setting an artificial timetable would send the wrong message… to the enemy, who would know that all they have to do is to wait us out."

Nixon (1969): "An announcement of a fixed timetable for our withdrawal would completely remove any incentive for the enemy to negotiate an agreement. They would simply wait until our forces had withdrawn and then move in."

The Light-At-The-End-Of-The-Tunnel Gambit

Bush: (6/28/05): "Our strategy can be summed up this way: As the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down."

Nixon (1969): "As South Vietnamese forces become stronger, the rate of American withdrawal can become greater."

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