We videotaped Tao Rodriguez-Seeger (Pete Seeger's grandson) singing this Appalachian gospel song at an event I participated in a couple months ago in Beacon, NY. The song fit well with the theme of the event--about the need for...

Does anyone know what the Guinness Book's record is for fluorescent orange anti-war bannering on a footbridge above eight lanes of moving traffic? What is the record number of "honks for peace" in an hour? If peace with Iraq and Iran has not been...

Torture and the Courage to be Inconvenienced was the name of the talk scheduled to be given by University of Minnesota Professor of Medicine and Bioethics Dr. Steven Miles yesterday morning, Sunday, May 4th, at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church in Minneapolis (which I attend). Dr. Miles is...

No one will mistake our homemade production of "If I had a banner" for something out of Hollywood.

In Hollywood, you don't have to work around the below zero wind chills and series of snow blizzards we're still...

How uncanny that exactly 40 years after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated during the Vietnam War (and some think possibly because of his opposition to the Vietnam War), we would turn on our radios to hear a Twin Cities radio host re-applying the principles of Hermann Goering to plans...

FULL DISCLOSURE: I wrote the following op-ed almost two weeks ago when an abundance of wishful thinking and the importance and timeliness of the push for FISA changes, investigation of the administration's out-of-control, error-laced terror watch list and other national security-civil liberty issues deluded me into thinking there was a...

News flash from the New York Times:

"Mr. Bush announced no final decision on future troop levels after the video briefing by the commander, Gen. David H. Petraeus, and the diplomat, Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker. The briefing took place on the day...

Or as our Republican-owned local media framed it: "Minneapolis Motorists Don't Like to Wait a Few Minutes at an Intersection". . . Huh?

The little news coverage given in the Twin Cities to the five year anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War...

We kept the message real simple at our Sunday School for motorists hurrying to and from church this morning. Simple enough even for those who only read at the Pet Goat level. The day after Bush used his veto pen to continue our country's...

And let's hope on Monday, March 3rd, that a miracle occurs and the St. Paul Park lottery officials pull out and grant the permit request to hold our "Peace Island" picnic on the final day of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. I'm not kidding about it being a...

I'd banner on this Valentines Day, and I'd banner about the love (needed) between my brothers and my sisters all over this land. The similar song by Pete Seeger sounds a lot better than mine (and click here for Peter, Paul and...

As someone also motivated by the need for the truth about 9/11, as well as aware of the way conflicts of interest have a way of covering up truth, let me add my thanks to Philip Shenon on the release of his new book. Also let me share this recent...

This photo--taken of our Sunday morning vigil--is another attempt to get MSM (main stream motorists) to think. And no, we didn't try to replicate Huckabee's floating cross idea. It just so happens that it's on a church about a half mile behind where we're...

Dick Cheney was at his best shilling for immunity for telecom companies today before the Heritage Foundation. His speech came one day before the Republican rubber stamp machine in the Senate attempts another push to give blanket immunity to the telecommunication companies suspected of engaging in illegal eavesdropping and...

Look carefully at this photo we snapped in Eagan, Minnesota last week across from Cheney-affiliated Lockheed Martin Corp, the largest military weapons contractor in the country. We call our weekly efforts the "Lockheed: We Do NOT Concede" peace vigil.

It was just...

Without the great investigative reporters of yore, who's up to cracking this latest scandal, the substance of which is bigger and certainly much uglier than Watergate (which merely, by comparison, entailed non violent burglary and some dirty tricks)? One wouldn't even need the...

Actually torture is seriously wrong, seriously illegal AND IT SERIOUSLY DOESN'T WORK. Talking heads on TV or radio wouldn't even be able to still debate these propositions if we could simply go to the videotape. Attorney General Mukasey and Deputy Attorney General nominee Mark F. Filip wouldn't be able to...

Someone forwarded me this YouTube video today entitled "The Iraqi Challenge", on the very same day Bush tried to put more pressure on Congress in his weekly radio address to approve more Iraq war funding. The...

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When we quickly painted these banners back in early August for the president's impromptu visit to survey the I-35W bridge collapse, we knew there was a chance we could get them in front of Bush's motorcade. (As it turned out, we were able...

When I got the call from the Minnesota Feminist Caucus a few weeks ago that I had been selected for one of their awards, the first question that flashed through my mind was who told them about that time I publicly burned all my panty hose?

The second thought...