The Agenda

Nearly four weeks after I sent 10 questions about HCR 362 to Rep. James Langevin, I still have no answer. However Eileen Sadasiv has sent me a copy of a letter she got from Langevin on Iran and she OK'd my sending it further—see below.

Rod Driver, inveterate thorn in the buttocks of the corpus politicus status quo, sent some questions to U.S. Representative Jim Langevin by email, by fax and by certified snail mail on July 3. As of this writing, he hasn’t “yet received even the ‘I-appreciate-hearing-from-you’ form letter.”

The letter below was published in the Warwick Beacon on July 10, the Westerly Sun on July 17, the online edition of the Providence Journal on July 24, and possibly elsewhere.

Our representatives need to answer questions about Iran

Under orders from AIPAC (the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee), Patrick Kennedy and James Langevin co-sponsored HCR 362—a mysterious and dangerous resolution calling for a blockade of Iran.

Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa has just introduced a bill which the ACLU describes as “an excellent, comprehensive solution to close the Guantanamo prison and end indefinite detention by requiring the government to get its act together and finally charge anyone alleged to have committed a crime.”

Friday, May 18, 10pm at Perishable Theater

Giant faces from political campaign signs come alive to ponder Election Day 2006.

Post-Election Autopsy

Armed with plenty of correction fluid (available in tall shiny red cans for $2 and up at fine dives everywhere), Agenda editors reveled as Democratic asses kicked GOP butt, sending the pachyderms packing. Team Blue gained six Governorships, 29 House seats, and six Senate seats across the nation.

by Riana Good

As an admitted unsure seeker, I belong to a minority.

In a country where more people believe in angels than in evolution, embracing religion is difficult for me. On the one hand, the politically progressive, activist community in which I participate tends to shun most things religious. On the other hand, my experimental spirituality would not fit into most right-wing communities, even if I otherwise felt I belonged there.