Monthly Archives: October 2001

14 September 2001 it must of been a mistake ferdinand hadley the poet in parenti’s ‘the politics of the adjectve “political”‘ has been hired to edit speeches of the president and cabinet every time a certain phrase appears she strikes … Continue reading →

23 August 2001 How can you not love the Benighted States of America? where a corporation, a non-person, is treated like a person and in fact is accorded more rights and receives more benefits than a real person, who is … Continue reading →

19 September 2001 Let me get this straight: you lay us off, then you want us all out of patriotism to buy the damn stocks even you won’t touch. What money should we spend on these stocks, our tax refunds? … Continue reading →

September 13, 2001 The kamikaze plane blew off my shoes. The steel beams up the center all gave way. The shrapnel hit the cameraman below. “A few of us remembered Ninety-Three. We knew to take our purses as we fled.” … Continue reading →

15 September 2001 CBS spins a retaliatory mood NPR weeps for our own I think of the families of murdered kids of the world I know we have reaped what we’ve sown All too soon sabers will shake bombs will … Continue reading →

“NO NAZIS, NO KKK, NO FASCIST USA!” chanted hundreds of protesters who stood outside the heavily guarded Champaign Public Library on September 9, on what would otherwise have been a quiet Sunday evening. But on this particular evening Matt Hale, … Continue reading →

Matt Hale’s visit to the Champaign Public Library on the evening of Sunday, September 9 caused a fair amount of controversy in the Champaign-Urbana community. The concern was not so much a fear that his ideologies would take root and … Continue reading →

Recent press reports indicate that the nuclear waste train, scheduled to run through Champaign County on account of its low population density, has been postponed due to concerns over terrorist attack. The New York Times reported the morning of September … Continue reading →

The Illinois Department of Agriculture (IDA) has granted permission for a mega-dairy to be built in rural McLean County, although opponents are continuing to fight against it. The IDA is allowing the dairy, called the Stone Ridge Dairy, to be … Continue reading →

The people of Afghanistan have nothing to do with Osama and his accomplices. On September 11, 2001 the world was stunned with the horrific terrorist attacks on the United States. RAWA stands with the rest of the world in expressing … Continue reading →

What follows is the text of the statement of Representative Barbara Lee (D, 9th Congressional District, CA) given on the floor of the House of Representatives, September 14, 2001, prior to casting the lone dissenting vote against giving the President … Continue reading →

At 7:00 on a Saturday morning, I was awakened by an anonymous phone caller excoriating me for advocating a non-violent response to the terrorist attacks in a letter to the editor published in the News-Gazette. She called my letter “appalling,” … Continue reading →

Editor’s Note: On Friday, September 14, the Daily Illini published a letter entitled “We Must Retaliate”, signed by twenty people who called themselves “members of the University community”. The letter, whose signers have subsequently been found to be members of … Continue reading →

People around the world are still in a state of disbelief. Children ask parents if this was real or a movie. For days we all walked around in a kind of surreal fog, asking ourselves from time to time if … Continue reading →