June 2012 Archives
"The gay community, our community, among all the communities in the world, we are the only ones that base it's membership on integrity and telling the truth about ourselves, declassifying that information for the betterment of our entire lives, societies and families. When we do that we realize that the gay movement is more important than just for gay people alone...It was only Bradley Manning who did his job, who fulfilled his duty when he saw war crimes, he stood for truth...As we move forward as a country, we need truth in order to gain justice, you can't have justice without the whole truth...So what he did as a gay American, as a gay soldier, he stood for integrity, I am proud of him."
- LGBTQ rights activist and former army Lieutenant Dan Choi.
The President's assassination presumptions, "the
most radical power a government can seize," must be stopped -- and we must take responsibility to do it.On Friday June 1st Dennis Bernstein, producer and host of KPFA Flashpoints, read from his new book of poetry, Special Ed: Voices from a Hidden Classroom, for a special event at Berkeley's Persian Center.
Internationally known
for decades of path- breaking investigative reporting, Dennis was chosen by Pulse
Media as one of "20 Top Global Media Figures of 2009." His
artist books, co-authored with Warren Lehrer, are in the Special Books Collections
of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and other major museums around the
world. Special Ed: Voices from a Hidden Classroom draws on his years as a New
York public school teacher.
