#76 July/August 2005
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TOP STORIES

Wake-up Call: Can radiation from cell phones damage DNA in our brains? When a UW researcher found disturbing data, funding became tight
by Rob Harrill, reprinted with permission from Columns magazine

Welcome Seafair?: Military recruitment is at the heart of the Seattle summer festival
by Glen Milner

Mined Over Maury: A nice island is getting hauled away, bit by bit
by Hannah Lee

FREE THOUGHTS

How to Have Clean and Complete Voter Rolls
by Rob Richie and Steven Hill

MEDIA BEAT by Norman Solomon
From Watergate to Downing Street

READER MAIL
Police State at US/Canada Border; Everybody Lost in Last Years' Vote

NORTHWEST & BEYOND news shorts compiled by Sharlynn Cobaugh Warm Winter Leaves Columbia Basin Dry; Oregonian's Stop-Loss Battle Lost; Summer Sun and Skin Cancer; CA Nurses Take On Schwarzenegger; Harvard Takes Action Against Genocide in Sudan

MONEY

Searching for Tax Fairness
Lack of regulation on capital-gains tax invites non-compliance
by Gerald E. Scorse

Consumers Overlook Opt-Out: contacts for stopping unwanted credit card solicitations
by Tim Covell

ENVIRONMENT

DOT Bans Stealth Radioactive Shipments
Recent ruling against secret shipments of uranium munitions by the Department of Defense
by Glen Milner

TRASH TALK by Dave and Lillian Brummet
Clean Vacationing: Garbage in its Place

Software Reduces Computer-related CO2 Emissions
press release from Userful

DUSEL Not Welcomed in Leavenworth
by Sharlynn Cobaugh

George W. Bush: EnvironWent
cartoon by George Jartos

WORKPLACE

Legislation Can Reduce Store Homicides
by Kenneth Wayne Yarbrough

Farmworkers Boycott Gallo Wines photo and caption by David Bacon

HEALTH

Cellular Antennas
Facts about the technology and related policies
by Tamara Dyer

NATURE DOC by John F. Ruhland, ND
Cell Phone; Naturopathic IVs

CELL PHONES DAMAGE SPERM
by Doug Collins

Fluoride Damages Bones, Studies Show
from New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation

LAW

Scores of Muslim Men Jailed Without Charge
from the ACLU

BOB'S RANDOM LEGAL WISDOM by Bob Anderton
It's OK to Help: The good samaritan rule

CONTACTS/ACTIVISM

NORTHWEST NEIGHBORS
contact list of subscribers who like to talk with you

DO SOMETHING! CALENDAR
Northwest activist events

POLITICS

Red Meat for the Red States: Democrats don't stand a chance unless they choose more meaningful issues
by Brian King

Mexicans Want Democracy, But More
by David Bacon

WAR & PEACE

Poems for Peace
compiled by Stan Penner

Great Seal of the United States: The Bush revisions
cartoon by Andrew Wahl

MISCELLANEOUS

Just because...
by Styx Mundstock

The Danger of Being Tongue-Tied
The US still lags in multilingualism
by Domenico Maceri

The Wanderings and Thoughts of Kip Kellogg
by Vincent Spada

I'm rather tickled with this toon, "Great Seal of the United States (The Bush Revisions)." For those who don't know a lot about our nation's official seal, check out www.greatseal.com for some background. Each element of the seal, which was a collaborative effort of the founding fathers, is heavy with meaning, to which I've offered a few changes:
  • The addition of a prison ball representing the Patriot Act, restraining the eagle of freedom.
  • The slogan E Pluribus Unum--"Out of many, one"--has been replaced with Bush's "Either With Us, or Against Us." (None of that intellectual, foreign-language stuff for W.)
  • The olive branch of peace has been replaced with a second batch of arrows. How better to represent the Bush Doctrine?
Best of all, this cartoon was done by editing a piece of handout art from the government; nothing like turning a piece of propaganda into a critical statement. Let me know how it works for you! Andrew Wahl's cartoons, comments, and contacts are at www.offthewahl.com .

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