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"You can't have a mass movement without the masses."--Fred Harris, senator from Oklahoma
In This Issue
The Bush push for an imperial presidency part 2
Who's spying on us? Rumsfeld's Pentagon takes the lead
Also in this issue:
- WHO IS TO BE "DETAINED"?
- SPORTS "BRANDALISM"
- DON'T LOOK DOWN ON IMMIGRANTS, LOOK UP
- THE MANNING MEMO
- A NEW HORROR FROM THE IRS
- BUSH ANNULS A LAW
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August's Lowdown
Corporations scoff at workers' rights--even the right to come home from work alive
Their names probably won't mean mean anything to you, but these people ought to have some modicum of personal recognition: Jason Anderson, Aaron Dale "Bubba" Burkeen, Donald Clark, Stephen Curtis, Gordon Jones, Roy Wyatt Kemp, Karl Kleppinger, Blair Manuel, Dewey Revette, Shane Roshto, and Adam Weise. These are the 11 workers who were killed when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank into the Gulf of Mexico on April 20.
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SPORTS "BRANDALISM"
If you think it's a great idea to hoist over our stadiums such lovable names as Office Depot Center, Bank Of America Stadium, and Enron Field (oops!), how about branding the teams themselves? The first victim is the major league soccer team formerly known as the MetroStars. The Austrian corporation that produces Red Bull, the energy drink and cocktail mixer, recently bought this New York City team. So—shazam!—the MetroStars are now the New York Red Bulls, and the players trot out for each match in jerseys bearing the corporate logo. As the team president gamely says, "We are part of the Red Bull family."
Next: the Wal-Mart Warriors, the Yahoo! Yankees, or the Exxon Mobil Cowboys?