ACLU video features prominent figures like Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone and a 9/11 family member reading from one of the infamous Bush administration legal memos used to justify the use of torture against detainees in U.S. custody. The video calls for accountability and the restoration of the rule of law.

The video includes appearances by Oliver Stone, 9/11 family member Patricia Perry, actors Rosie Perez, Noah Emmerich, John Doman and Reg E. Cathey, and musical composer Philip Glass, among others, reading directly from a memo authored by Jay Bybee, former head of the Justice Departments Office of Legal Counsel under the Bush administration. The memo was released in April as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the ACLU.

For more information, visit:
http://www.aclu.org/torturedlogic (video)
http://www.aclu.org/torture
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009, Caterpillar holds annual shareholder meeting. Jewish Voice for Peace will be there to tell them to end the business of demolishing Palestinian homes.



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DEMAND NBC AND MEET THE PRESS STOP SWIFTBOATING OBAMA’S HEALTHCARE REFORM


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Sign form to tell Senators Kerry and Lugar to demand Obama administration outline blueprint for peace in Sudan.

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(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)

Killing puts abortion foes on defense
In worship he found his cause
In prayer he found his score
In murder he found his god

Obama hopeful on Mid-East peace
How simple it must sound
This wistful wishful flight among the fragile beams
Of stone and foul hatred.

Search Is On for Wreckage of Missing Air France Jet
Among protea, cycads, and pincushions and the stunning breath of petals
They surely float. The jagged Drakensberg Peaks, like broken teeth
Shimmering edges, dark lines, not bones, but fractured meadows.

Judge: Release Gitmo Docs
We say we’d die for our beloved country,
We proudly wave her colors and cry
At the thought of promised freedom,
Say we’d descend into the grave of valor-
But what of our torture?

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Probe: Taliban used civilians as ‘human shields’
Since the mighty have blistered with fire
Since so many homes have been crushed
Since all that’s left to grieve is death
Since so many lie hushed in their graves
Since unknown journeys have yet to come
Children, mothers and fathers rise up with full and shaking tongue
And lash this god-awful hatred and war from the earth!
Speak, shout, stand among the dead and be their song…

Pope warns of misuse of religion
“Misuse of religion”… redundant utterance;
Synonymously dripping out a man whose lips

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(A Poetryman Video production)

The lyricists are going home now, receding
to the unforgiving landscape. Breathless,
music surrendered.

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APJ Photomontage

The audience of 2,000 of your sycophants paid $3,100 dollars per table to, I can only assume, listen to you apologize for your pathetically corrupt and mostly incompetent eight years as president. ...No. That would have been too unlike you. Huh, George?

"I want the president to succeed. Gee! That’s mighty patriotic, not to mention grown-up of you, junior!

“I love my country more than I love politics.”

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Head-Lines are short poems carved from the day’s news. Some who have read them have found them to be more palatable than the actual news story. I hope you, the readers of Antemedius, find them to your liking.

Tancredo tells University Students "It IS About Race!"
There is an immense and colorless grief in the world
And so I urge no malice against this frenzied persuasion,
Call for no punishment; seek no apology or pain,
Instead, let us search for our own truths… without weeping.

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