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Znet Article Quigley: When Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib Come Home

Znet Article, October, 27 2009 Bill Quigley
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The Louisiana Board that licenses psychologists is facing a growing legal fight over torture and medical care at the infamous Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons.

Znet Article Quigley: Revolutionary Haitian Priest, Gerard Jean-Juste, Presente!

Znet Article, May, 30 2009 Bill Quigley
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Though Haitian priest Father Gerard Jean-Juste died May 27, 2009, at age 62, in Miami from a stroke and breathing problems, he remains present to millions. Justice-loving people world-wide mourn his death and celebrate his life. Pere Jean-Juste ...

Znet Article Quigley: Report from Rafah: Doctors Stopped At Borders

Znet Article, January, 10 2009 Bill Quigley
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Dr. Nicolas Doussis-Rassias and many other volunteer doctors have been waiting in Rafah, Egypt for days. Nicolas and the other physicians came to Rafah to go through the border into Gaza to help the 3000 people wounded by Israeli bombs and heavy ...

Znet Article Quigley: Five Bailout Lessons From Katrina

Znet Article, December, 24 2008 Bill Quigley
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The US has committed nearly three trillion dollars to the financial bailout so far. The Federal Reserve has made more than $2 trillion in emergency loans and another $700 billion has been pledged through Congressional action. Much more money is co...

Znet Article Quigley: McCain Owes America An Apology

Znet Article, November, 13 2008 Bill Quigley
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John McCain spent months fanning the fear-filled fires of folks scared of terrorists, socialists, and anti-Americanism in his campaign for President. On election night he made a fine concession speech and walked away – but the fires are still burn...

Znet Article Quigley: Anger & Hope: Haitian Families Furious Over School Collapse

Znet Article, November, 10 2008 Bill Quigley
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Reports of the deaths caused by the collapse of the school on Friday continue to climb, reaching nearly 100 on Sunday. Several hundred other children escaped or were rescued. Many are still missing.

Znet Article Quigley: Swedish Peace Activists Repeatedly Break Into Weapon Factories

Znet Article, October, 19 2008 Bill Quigley
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Using hammers and bolt cutters, peace activists repeatedly broke into weapon plants and damaged weapons in Sweden. Activists from the Swedish group OFOG/Avrusta admitted damaging twenty high explosive grenade launchers as well as internal parts t...

Znet Article Quigley: Shame: The U.S. War against Unarmed Working Mothers

Znet Article, September, 27 2008 Bill Quigley
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Dozens of petite young mothers gathered this week in the parking lot outside the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Mississippi. Each wore a long dress or pants to hide their electronic ankle bracelets. Lift up a pants leg and you can see th...

Znet Article Quigley: Twenty Questions: Social Justice Quiz 2008 (Answers Below)

Znet Article, September, 10 2008 Bill Quigley
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Social Justice Quiz 2008...

Znet Article Quigley: Displaced Poor Still Arriving in New Orleans As Saints Go Marching In

Znet Article, September, 07 2008 Bill Quigley
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Tears dripped down her face as she searched for her missing suitcase in the busy New Orleans bus station. “It had my ID, my children’s birth certificates, my money and my credit cards,” she softly cried. It was Sunday morning, one week after sh...

Znet Article Quigley: Gustav Impact on Louisiana and Haiti

Znet Article, September, 05 2008 Bill Quigley
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Hurricane Gustav killed 18 people in Louisiana and displaced 1.9 million. Over 800,000 homes are without electricity, nearly half the state, and some will not see power for up to a month. In Haiti, Gustav killed 77 with another 8 missing and dama...

Znet Article Quigley: Living in the Car after Gustave

Znet Article, September, 02 2008 Bill Quigley
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The good news is that nearly two million people evacuated and were spared the direct hit of Gustave. Our sisters and brothers in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, who were not able to leave the point of the storm, lost over 100 lives. The people...

Znet Article Quigley: New Orleans – One Day to Gustave

Znet Article, August, 31 2008 Bill Quigley
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Pink sky colored the morning as cicadas buzz in waves in the old oak trees. What is it they say about “pink sky in morning…?” In New Orleans it is one day to Gustave...

Znet Article Quigley: Waiting for the Bus in New Orleans

Znet Article, August, 30 2008 Bill Quigley
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In the blazing midday sun, hot and thirsty little children walk around bags of diapers and soft suitcases piled outside a locked community center in the Lower Ninth Ward. Military police in camouflage and local police in dark blue uniforms and s...

Znet Article Quigley: Katrina Pain Index – New Orleans Three Years Later

Znet Article, August, 24 2008 Bill Quigley
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New Orleans three years later...

Znet Article Quigley: War Immemorial Day – No Peace for Militarized U.S.

Znet Article, May, 26 2008 Bill Quigley
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Memorial Day is not actually a day to pray for U.S. troops who died in action but rather a day set aside by Congress to pray for peace. The 1950 Joint Resolution of Congress which created Memorial Day says: “Requesting the President to issue a ...

Znet Article Quigley: Twenty Thousand Protest at Fort Benning, Eleven Face Federal Criminal Trials

Znet Article, April, 24 2008 Bill Quigley
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In what has become the nation's largest annual gathering for peace and human rights, over twenty thousand people protested outside the gates of Fort Benning, GA, on November 18, 2007. Eleven people were arrested on federal criminal charges and fac...

Znet Article Quigley: USA Role in Haiti Hunger Riots

Znet Article, April, 22 2008 Bill Quigley
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Riots in Haiti over explosive rises in food costs have claimed the lives of six people. There have also been food riots world-wide in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivorie, Egypt, Guinea, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan and Yemen.

Znet Article Quigley: Half New Orleans Poor Permanently Displaced: Failure or Success?

Znet Article, March, 04 2008 Bill Quigley
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Government reports confirm that half of the working poor, elderly and disabled who lived in New Orleans before Katrina have not returned. Because of critical shortages in low cost housing, few now expect tens of thousands of poor and working ...

Znet Article Quigley: Criminal Justice Meltdown in New Orleans?

Znet Article, December, 12 2007 Bill Quigley
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Some say crime causes a city to be under siege; others say crime is the symptom of a city under siege.Either way, New Orleans is in serious trouble.Our criminal justice system is in unprecedented crisis.

Znet Article Quigley: Injustice in Jena as Nooses Hang from the "White Tree":

Znet Article, July, 05 2007 Bill Quigley
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Injustice in Jena as Nooses Hang from the "White Tree":

Znet Article Quigley: How to Destroy an African-American City - Lessons From Katrina

Znet Article, June, 30 2007 Bill Quigley
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Step One. Delay. If there is one word that sums up the way to destroy an African-American city after a disaster, that word is DELAY. If you are in doubt about any of the following steps - just remember to delay and you will probably be doing the...

Znet Article Quigley: Grandmothers for Peace Get Federal Prison Instead

Znet Article, February, 03 2007 Bill Quigley
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Cathy Webster, a grandmother living in Chico California, organized "A Thousand Grandmothers for Peace" to protest in November 2006 against the torture-training School of the Americas (SOA) (now called the Western Institute of Securit...

Znet Article Quigley: North Dakota Braves and the Atomic Bomb:

Znet Article, September, 17 2006 Bill Quigley
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North Dakota Braves and the Atomic Bomb:

Znet Article Quigley: New Orleans: Leaving the Poor Behind Again!

Znet Article, October, 12 2005 Bill Quigley
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They are doing it again!  My wife and I spent five days and four nights in a hospital in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.  We saw people floating dead in the water.  We watched people die waiting for evacuation to places with food, water, and ...

Znet Article Quigley: Prison Massacre in Haiti

Znet Article, December, 24 2004 Bill Quigley
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"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881) More evidence of the death of human rights in Haiti has been unfolding this month as additional information comes out abo...

Znet Article Quigley: Haitian Priest Jailed Indefinitely

Znet Article, October, 21 2004 Bill Quigley
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After over a week in jail, the charges against Haitian priest Fr. Gerard Jean-Juste have finally been made public by the government. Fr. Jean-Juste, a powerful advocate of the poor, was arrested October 13, 2004, by masked heavily armed gunmen whi...

Znet Article Quigley: The Other Disaster in Haiti

Znet Article, October, 13 2004 Bill Quigley
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In addition to the death and destruction caused by the recent hurricane and floods, there is another disaster going on in Haiti right now. It is a human rights disaster. We just returned from Haiti with a human rights delegation for Pax Christi ...

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