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Only on a panel sponsored by the Campaign for America's Future.Boston"ARE YOU ALL READY TO TAKE BACK AMERICA?" Robert Borosage, the co-director of Campaign for America's Future, asked on Wednesday, standing in front of an enthusiastic crowd at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge. And the crowd sure was ready. They hooted and hollared. They roared and screamed. They nodded their heads vigorously. The day before, Michael Moore had stopped by. On Wednesday, Reps. Dennis Kucinich and Barbara Lee, former senator Gary Hart, and Ambassador Joe Wilson took the stage.The occasion was a debate on the Iraq war, which may...

Claudia Bermúdez, daughter of slain Nicaraguan Contra leader Enrique Bermúdez is challenging Oakland, California tax and spend Democrat Barbara Lee (D-9). Claudia Bermúdez calls herself a Reagan Republican. To learn more http://www.goclaudia.com/

IMPEACH BUSH On Tuesday, the Berkeley City Council will consider recommending to U.S. Representative Barbara Lee that she support the impeachment of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Ashcroft. These unelected criminals have not only violated U.S. and international law by involving the U.S. in wars of aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan, but have now supported the violent overthrow of a legitimate democracy and ally in Haiti, and also kidnapped a chief of state and his wife. (The cross-examination of Noriega by the members of the Congressional Black Caucus yesterday demonstrated this without a doubt.) All of these actions are clearly...

Rep. Barbara Lee's Republican challenger this year is an online CEO, an energetic campaigner -- and also the daughter of the Nicaraguan Contras' late military commander, a heritage that has some East Bay liberals and human rights activists howling. Claudia Bermudez, 50, of Oakland, said she'll confront Lee on issues from homeland security to education. "I'm a businesswoman, I live here in the district -- I don't come as a Contra leader to come and overtake Berkeley." But she touts her father's legacy on her campaign Web site, saying she's "proud to carry on a tradition of political activism that...

Official honored for her 'fearless support of women's rights' Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, will receive the National Organization for Women's Woman of Courage Award today at NOW's national conference in Washington, D.C. "Barbara Lee has been a courageous legislator," said NOW President Kim Gandy. "NOW is grateful for Barbara Lee's fearless support of women's rights, civil liberties and peace. Her bravery in standing up for her beliefs and her commitment to equality and justice are an inspiration to women's rights supporters across the country." Lee said she's honored. "I accept it in the name of the many women of courage...

Chicago (CNSNews.com) - California Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) accuses the Bush administration of pursuing "white supremacist" policies in America. "This administration and allies in Congress are rolling back advances in racial equality, economic opportunity and gender equity," Lee said in a speech at the Rainbow/PUSH organization's 32nd annual convention on Monday. In her keynote address to a women's luncheon, Lee noted that even though the Bush administration distanced itself from Trent Lott's controversial remarks last year (Lott lamented Sen. Strom Thurmond's failed 1948 presidential campaign), the administration has essentially adopted the same racially segregationist platform that Thurmond advanced in 1948....

WASHINGTON -- Looking back on the wreckage of 10 years of lost elections, Democrats in Congress know it's broke. The question is how to fix it. As they look to next year's House races, various Democratic factions -- the moderate Blue Dogs, the Congressional Black Caucus, the Progressive Caucus, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the Congressional Asian Pacific-American Caucus -- are joining to tackle such issues as President Bush's tax cut and changing priorities in the federal budget. "We're much more unified than we were in the past," said Rep. Robert Matsui (D-Calif.), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee,...

<p>Naked women, transvestites, dogs, dancers, singer Harry Belafonte and others joined Rep. Barbara Lee, California Democrat, for an antiwar protest Saturday to "praise the patriotism of the demonstrators and condemn the military action in Iraq," the Oakland Tribune reported yesterday.</p>

In a cruise dubbed the “fantastic voyage,” Haitians will have a chance to turn their image as “boat people” upside down. With the Cruising Into History Haiti 2004 Initiative, launched by the Haiti Support Project, Haiti will finally be honored for what organizers call its triumphant accomplishment of breaking the chains of slavery. On Aug. 14-21, 2004, an estimated 3,100 passengers will be transported to Haiti from Miami on a mega-ship as a part of the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the Haitian Revolution.“We want people to get on board,” said Ron Daniels, founder and chairman of Haiti Support...

<p>Washington -- As war apparently draws nearer, anti-war members of Congress led by Rep. Barbara Lee of Oakland outlined their last-ditch bid on Wednesday to reopen debate on whether the United States should attack Iraq.</p> <p>Lee's vehicle, the latest in a host of anti-war resolutions that the leadership of both houses has refused to take up, is the introduction of a nonbinding resolution that would put the House on record as opposing so-called wars of pre-emption.</p>

SEPTEMBER 2002 Kirk Lies about Radical Anti-Israel Activist's Role in Campaign By Phil Magness Campaign ethics reports show that U.S. Senate candidate Ron Kirk employed a controversial anti-Israel activist named Steven L. Hyland on his campaign through mid-June. But Kirk, who avoided the question until a late September meeting in Houston, now suggests that Hyland, a friend of John Walker Lindh, was merely a 19 or 21 year-old campaign volunteer who put together a few yard signs. In fact, Hyland was a paid campaign aide who received nearly $7,000 in salary over a three month period from the Kirk...

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Lynn C. Woolsey (D-Petaluma) is a strong "no" vote on going to war with Iraq. Rep. Howard L. Berman (D-Mission Hills) is a solid "yes." Rep. Ellen O. Tauscher of Alamo, like many other Democrats on Capitol Hill, wishes the whole issue could be decided after November's elections. The state's Republican lawmakers, meanwhile, have raised no qualms about President Bush's Iraq policy. California's congressional delegation is, in short, a microcosm of Congress as a whole as it grapples with Bush's request for a resolution authorizing use of force against Iraq. "The snapshot is: Republicans are supportive of...

Frost supports Kirk, cites strong defense Cornyn's camp says former Dallas mayor is lacking experience 09/21/2002 By GROMER JEFFERS JR. / The Dallas Morning News A congressional heavy-hitter came out swinging Friday for Senate candidate Ron Kirk, saying he backs a strong national defense and that rival John Cornyn's partisan ways make him a poor choice for Texans. "Ron understands that on issues important to America's defense, there's no place for partisanship," said Rep. Martin Frost of Dallas, the No. 3 Democrat in the House. Mr. Frost campaigned with Mr. Kirk in Grand Prairie, praising his tenure as Dallas...

<p>Washington -- Rep. Barbara Lee of Oakland stood alone last September, casting the only "no" vote when the House gave President Bush backing for the war against terrorists. But now several of her Bay Area Democratic colleagues say they'll join her stance if Bush seeks a resolution authorizing military action against Iraq.</p>

This dithering and equivocation regarding the real threat Saddam poses for America is like Clinton nostalgia; WJC would rather not deal with the difficult and dangerous issues, so he simply ignored them. He figured he could initiate some studies, waste time by ordering Gore to head some bogus commissions, and try to deflect attention away from the Middle East as the source of the terrorist threat, using the hyped up bogey man of right wing militias to get an added political boost out of bombings like OK City. These "moderate fence sitters" who counsel Scowcroft like reticence, even temporary ones...

<p>Barbara Lee was right, and who confirmed it? Rush Limbaugh, of all people.</p> <p>Limbaugh, in his role as constitutional scholar, wrote an op-ed piece in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal titled "Congress already OKd Iraq War."</p> <p>He was referring to the Sept. 14 joint resolution of Congress, which authorized the president to "use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001."</p>

<p>SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — Nine months after casting the lone vote against authorizing President Bush to use force against terrorists, Rep. Barbara Lee is drawing praise from peace activists and disdain from critics.</p> <p>In the March Democratic primary, she received 85 percent of the vote. Her Republican opponent trying to block her bid for a third term to represent the Oakland-Berkeley area says he is lagging in his attempt to raise money.</p>

<p>President Bush and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani may be the new post-Sept. 11 heroes for most of the United States, but in liberal pockets across the country, Congresswoman Barbara Lee -- the Oakland Democrat who was the lone dissenter against the war on terrorism -- is the leader du jour.</p>

America needs to promote more peaceful solutions to post-Sept. 11 global issues, said Rep. Barbara Lee before a packed Chevron Auditorium at International House yesterday. Lee, famous for her controversial vote against granting President Bush war powers for the war on terrorism, stressed the need to pursue measures that promote global peace while at the same time fight terrorism. "I believe the United States and the world should bring terrorists to justice," Lee said. "We should work with other nations to prevent future attacks. But if we hope to restore our own security we must create a campaign to promote...

<p>BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) --  Congresswoman Barbara Lee, the lone vote against war following the Sept. 11 attacks, continued to sound a drumbeat of dissent as she spoke at the University of California.</p> <p>"Peace must be a policy option. It's got to be on the table at all times. It should be really ... our only option if we want to turn over to our children a world that is less dangerous and more secure," she said Monday.</p>