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Bush's "personal commitment" to peace and to a Palestinian state was a welcome assurance from a President who has done virtually nothing to push along either. It was clearly meant to silence antiwar critics who complain that this issue is a more urgent priority than Iraq. Yet Bush offered no new plan, promising only that once Iraq was dealt with, he would begin to implement the long-promised road map for a settlement that his Administration has not moved on in eight months...
...want to understand the future of political protests--or any other grass-roots group activity, for that matter--consider Eli Pariser, 22. The New Yorker was barely old enough to hold candles at his parents' vigils during the Gulf War. Now he's the international coordinator of Moveon.org an antiwar movement that has four paid staff members and no office but wields enough power to set a major metropolis on high alert. Using nothing more than e-mail and instant messages, Pariser can ask an army of 750,000 protesters to take to the streets whenever he chooses--although...
Political demonstrations are the classic example, but the action doesn't have to be political or ever take to the streets. More than 400,000 antiwar protesters last Wednesday jammed switchboards in the White House and Congress with a flood of phone calls, faxes and e-mails in what was billed as the first nationwide virtual demonstration. On the same day in Rio de Janeiro, according to Brazilian authorities, a jailed Brazilian druglord known as Fernandinho Beira-Mar coordinated a round of riots, bombs and bus burnings from his prison cell using a smuggled cell phone...
...read with incredulity Krauthammer's claim that antiwar demonstrators have "the historical memory of a gnat," along with his characterization of U.S. foreign policy toward the Arab world as one of having "kept its distance." Krauthammer neglects to mention the key role played by the U.S. in major events in the Middle East--the overthrow of democracy in Iran and the restoration of the Shah, the Israel-Palestine conflict, the Iran-Iraq war and the Gulf War, to name a few. Perhaps it's Krauthammer who has memory problems. ANNA MARIA DIAMANTI New York City...
...MEXICO President Vicente Fox wants Washington's help on a measure granting legal status to undocumented Mexicans working in the U.S. And the U.S. is a crucial trading partner, accounting for 80% of Mexico's exports. But antiwar sentiment in Mexico is high, which may weigh heavily...