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Linda began her writing career over 30 years ago, starting out in advertising and promotions. From 1976 to 1989, she operated an independent public relations service providing specialty writing for individual and corporate clients. Since 2003, Linda has focused on political writing. Her essays, letters and commentaries have appeared in domestic and international journals, newspapers and magazines. She's an educator and creator of a writers' program she's taught privately and in public schools. She currently facilitates an advocacy writing workshop and is developing an advocacy writing program to be implemented in public and private educational institutions and in community based organizations.
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011 Ari Shavit: Israel Has Never Been So Ugly (1 comments)
Respected Israeli commentator and non-Lefty, Ari Shavit, painfully addresses Israel's severe social, political and human rights collapse under Netanyahu's failed administration.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 I Guess Posting Videos Online Can Make You A Terrorist
Tarek Mehanna, the Boston native who was accused of material support for terrorism based on what prosecutors said was his online advocacy on behalf of al Qaeda, was found guilty on all counts Monday.
Thursday, September 22, 2011 Steve Clemons: Obama Tells Palestinians To Stay In Back Of The Bus (1 comments)
Steve Clemons, one of America's most insightful & seasoned foreign policy observers, offers a brilliant analysis of Obama's UN General Assembly speech & failed Middle East policy.
Thursday, December 16, 2010 VIDEO: Police Arrest 131 Antiwar Protesters In Front Of White House
WASHINGTON -- Hoping to spark the country's silent majority into action, 131 antiwar protesters got themselves arrested Thursday, in one of the larger acts of civil disobedience in front of the White House in some time.
Monday, December 13, 2010 Linda Milazzo: Decision Points: Doin' Costco With George Dubya
About a week ago, I stopped by my local Costco. Once in, I noticed George Dubya lying flat on his back atop a pile of other George Dubyas. Not wanting to shop alone, I picked up a Dubya and took him along through the store. While on our little journey, Dubya found himself in lots of interesting places. How 'bout taking a peek and deciding which of Dubya's places suits Dubya the best!
Saturday, December 11, 2010 You Have The Right To Remain Silent: National Lawyers Guild (1 comments)
In these troubling times when activists are under attack by their own government, the National Lawyers Guild provides us critical information on how to protect ourselves if approached by authorities.
Sunday, November 21, 2010 Steve Clemons: The Impact Today and Tomorrow of Chalmers Johnson (3 comments)
Chalmers Johnson led the way in understanding the dynamics of how states manipulated their policy conditions and environments to speed up economic growth. In the neoliberal hive at the University of Chicago, Chalmers Johnson was an apostate and heretic in the field of political economy.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 Netanyahu's Nephew's Plan: Peace For Israelis and Palestinians? Not Without America's Tough Love (1 comments)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a visionary nephew - a PhD student at Brown University, who served a year and a half in prison in Israel for refusing to serve in the military. Jonathan discusses injustice against Palestinians in Israel and asks America to step forward with strength to bring peace to the region.
Friday, August 6, 2010 Israeli Settlers Step Up 'Price Tag' Policy
Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira is one of the leading ideologues of the extreme wing of the religious settler movement. He is known to be a champion of the “price tag” policy of reprisal attacks on Palestinians, including punishing them for attempts by officials to enforce Israeli law against the settlements.
Sunday, July 18, 2010 Blessed Are the Peacemakers... But Not In America (3 comments)
Last month's 6-3 Supreme Court decision in the case of Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project found that humanitarian groups can be judged guilty of aiding and abetting terrorism merely by holding peaceful dialog and engaging in political discussions with proscribed organizations. Those convicted may be sentenced to up 15 years in prison.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 NYTimes: Trapped By Gaza Blockade, Locked in Despair (1 comments)
The Palestinians of Gaza, most of them descended from refugees of the 1948 war that created Israel, have lived through decades of conflict and confrontation. Their scars have accumulated like layers of sedimentary rock, each marking a different crisis — homelessness, occupation, war, dependency.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 Henry Siegman: Israel’s Greatest Loss: Its Moral Imagination
If a people who so recently experienced such unspeakable inhumanities cannot understand the injustice and suffering its territorial ambitions are inflicting, what hope is there for the rest of us?
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 Israel Ally Dianne Feinstein Calls For Probe Into Flotilla Raid (1 comments)
The California Democrat, one of Israel’s most dependable supporters on Capitol Hill, also urged Israel to “reassess” its “forced isolation” of the Gaza Strip and allow more humanitarian assistance and other materials to reach its beleaguered Palestinian population.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 NYTimes: Will Jane Harman Get Swept Away By Progressive Marcy Winograd?
Representative Jane Harman, who represents the state’s 36th District, in Southern California, will find whether she, too, is swept aside by the anti-incumbent sentiment. Ms. Harman, a centrist Democrat, is facing Marcy Winograd, a leading figure in the progressive movement in Los Angeles.
Sunday, December 27, 2009 UPDATE: Gaza Freedom March: 38 Detained By Egypt
London - Ma'an - Egyptian security forces detained 38 participants of the Gaza Freedom March from a hotel in Al-Arish on Sunday at noon, according to a statement issued by the event's organizers.
Thursday, November 5, 2009 Continuing Updates: Army Officer Opens Fire At Fort Hood; death toll rises to 13; 30 wounded; gunman shot, hospitalized
Nidal M. Hasan, 39, a major who had made a career in the military and was trained to treat soldiers under stress, allegedly fired a pair of pistols, one of them semiautomatic, in the soldier readiness facility, authorities said. All around him, soldiers who had been waiting to see doctors scattered or dropped to the floor. Hasan and a civilian policewoman exchanged fire, authorities said. Both were hit.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 BREAKING: Democrat Beats Back Teabaggers in NY "23"; Republican Governors win VA & NJ; Gay Marriage Loses In Maine (2 comments)
Democrat Bill Owens (pictured) withstands the teabagger assault in New York CD 23; Republican governors win New Jersey and Virginia; Progressive Dem John Garamendi wins Congressional seat in Northern CA; Bloomberg re-purchases New York City; gay marriage is defeated in Maine. A roller coaster ride of a night!
Friday, October 16, 2009 CODEPINK Hand Delivers Afghan Petition To President Obama (2 comments)
At a tony San Francisco fundraiser, CODEPINK co-founder Jodie Evans presented President Obama with a signed Afghan petition and told him Afghan women want a seat at the negotiating table.
Saturday, September 19, 2009 Protesters Will Focus On Economy At Next Week's G-20 Summit (3 comments)
After weeks of legal wrangling with Pittsburgh city officials, social justice groups finally secure protest permits for next week's G-20 Summit. CODEPINK will pitch a 3-day tent city to highlight economic issues.
Saturday, September 19, 2009 Iraqi Journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi: Why I Threw The Shoe (4 comments)
Tried and imprisoned for throwing his shoes at then-President George W. Bush during a press conference, the recently released Iraqi journalist explains the desperation that pushed him to act.
Saturday, August 22, 2009 Frank Rich; The Guns of August (1 comments)
Those on the right who defend the reckless radicals inevitably argue “The left does it too!” It’s certainly The protesters of the antiwar group Code Pink have disrupted Congressional hearings. But this is a false equivalence. Code Pink doesn’t show up on Capitol Hill with firearms.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 Military Rape Reports Rise, Prosecutions Still Low
The Pentagon said it received 2,923 reports of sexual assault across the military in the 12 months ending Sept. 30 2008. That's about a 9 percent increase over the totals reported the year before, but only a fraction of the crimes presumably being committed.
