Magdalena, enhorabuena por la bitácora y por el excelente trabajo que desde distintos soportes realizas. Te sigo la pista desde hace tiempo y, aunque nunca me había atrevido a comentar creo que ya es hora de descubrirse el sombrero ante ti. Sigue así.

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El ABC publica hoy en portada:

ATAÚDES PROHIBIDOS en EE.UU.
El diario «The Seattle» se rebeló el pasado domingo

Fotos de ataúdes de soldados norteamericanos muertos en Irak han comenzado a circular por internet sorteando la estricta prohibición de la Administración Bush sobre este tipo de imágenes.

El diario «The Seattle» se rebeló el pasado domingo contra el veto de la Casa Blanca y publicó esta foto enviada al periódico por una trabajadora civil.

Nena, gracias por recordarnos que en los "estates" existe algo más que Bush y su cuadrilla.. qué malas son las generalizaciones..

La oposicion a la política de Bush es, en algunos casos, muy imaginativa.
Reproduzco aquí una entrevista publicada ayer en la página de Democracy Now sobre cómo el Gobierno de los EE.UU. está intentado reclutar a estudiantes de las "high schools".
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/20/1411229

Tuesday, April 20th, 2004
No Child Left Unrecruited: Army Recruiters Target High Schools

Democracy Now! speaks with Michael Cervantes, an Army veteran with Veterans for Peace who is campaiging against Bush's policy to target high school students for military recruitment. [includes rush transcript]
The U.S. occupation of Iraq has descended into chaos. Over 700 U.S. troops have now been killed in Iraq since the beginning of the invasion, 100 of them in April alone. The past 14 days have reportedly been the deadliest two-week span for US troops since October 1971 during the Vietnam War.
In the face of overwhelming Iraqi resistance, the Pentagon has been forced to extend the stay of some 20,000 soldiers who were scheduled to leave soon for home. Over 130,000 U.S. soldiers remain stationed in Iraq.

But the American military empire stretches far beyond the Middle East. The U.S. maintains a vast network of bases on every continent except Antarctica spanning some 130 countries around the world and the government is continually looking for ways to replenish its overstretched military.

One place it is focusing its attention, is American high schools. Since 2001, the Bush administration has been requiring high schools to disclose student records to military recruiters or risk losing federal aid.

Under a mandate authorized by the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind Act, recruiters are entitled to get the names, addresses and phone numbers of high school juniors and seniors, unless parents or students sign a form requesting that the data be withheld. Districts that don't comply stand to lose millions in federal funding. As one Pentagon spokeswoman told the Los Angeles Times, the policy “Allows the Department of Defense to recruit from a much broader, diverse and more representative group of the youth of America."

Yesterday in Santa Barbara I spoke with Michael Cervantes, an Army veteran with Veterans for Peace who is campaiging against Bush's policy to target high school students for military recruitment. Cervantes fought in the Vietnam war after being drafted out of high school. I asked him what actions he had taken against the policy.

Michael Cervantes, an Army veteran with Veterans for Peace who is campaiging against a Bush administration policy that requires high schools to disclose student records to military recruiters or risk losing federal aid. He fought in the Vietnam War after being drafted out of high school.

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AMY GOODMAN: Yesterday in Santa Barbara, I spoke with Michael Cervantes. He is an Army veteran who is now with Veterans for Peace, who is campaigning against Bush's policy to target high school students for military recruitment. Michael Cervantes fought in the Vietnam War after being recruited right after high school. I asked him what actions he has taken against the policy?

MICHAEL CERVANTES: We started with P.T.A. meetings, and they were real polite and they told us thanks for visiting with us, and letting us know your concerns. This was about the names, addresses and phone numbers being released to the military now. But they said nothing more. So, I made an appointment to talk with the Board trustees at the Oxnard Junior High School District, with two other organizations, the Citizens for Peaceful Resolutions and the ACLU. We asked the Ventura Chapter President to be there. So, we presented for about 20 minutes to the Board, and they were real quiet with us. They really didn't even respond, and it was like -- next. They had someone else to present after us.

AMY GOODMAN: What were you trying to tell them? What were you asking?

MICHAEL CERVANTES: Well, we wanted them to notify the parents, actually. I knew by intuition that the school district had not been notifying the students, and it turns out that I was correct. We had been working with a district staffer, and we found -- I found out through her. She said yes -- the big question is, are you releasing the entire student body of the 11th and 12th grade students out to the military, and the answer to that is yes. So, you have a school district who is doing that and not notifying parents, which is a requirement of the law. So, little by little, we're doing it step by step, trying to maybe even educate the Board. We came back to the Board a second time and presented, and still no -- no one opening their mouths on the Board to us. The best we could get from them was that we have a public administrator that you can talk to about your questions, and -- that's been about it. The most publicity that I can get so far is from the -- can I say the names of these magazines? V.C. Reporter did us real well. They published a two-page letter of mine in their weekly, and then the Ventura County Star published an article from me, and then now the "LA. Times" article just Sunday.