Thursday, March 31 will be a Retirement Security National Day of Action in New York City. Please join others who support Social Security and oppose those who wish to dismantle it for a rally and press conference starting at 4:30 PM at One Madison Ave. Together, we can show those who are funding the GOP effort to privatize our retirements that we won't let Republicans sell our retirement security to Wall Street. Retirement Security National Day of Action ... March 31, 2005 ... 4:30 PM ... One Madison Avenue in NYC

QUOTE OF THE DAY ... The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself. Archibald Macleish

An Important, Exciting Message from Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich
Tuesday, April 5, I will relaunch http://www.kucinich.us, the Web site originally used for my 2004 Presidential campaign. Dedicated to empowering activists nationwide, Kucinich.us will be a platform for educating and organizing around the issues that brought millions of people together to create a politics with heart and intelligence, celebrating our highest capabilities and enabling the triumph of hope over fear. The theme of the new Kucinich.us will be "Insight and Action." To aid in the education and empowerment of activists everywhere, I will share my insights on a range of critical issues. I'll give calls to specific action and provide specific tools to help engage supporters in working to change the world, starting in your own communities.

In a new feature, Report from Washington, I will provide my inside view of late-breaking events from right inside the Capitol. Updated frequently, even several times a day if issues warrant, this report will be your link to what's happening, as it happens. In a new streaming video presentation, I challenge the Administration's plan for privatization of Social Security. This presentation also will be available for purchase on disk and tape, and in a downloadable slide show, suitable for use in grassroots organizing. Those who are prepared to take organizing to a new level and wish to hold Town Hall meetings in their communities will be able to sign up through the website to arrange to have me call in to answer questions after the presentation of this video. This is just the beginning of a new series of Town Hall videos, starting with Social Security and extending to a range of other critical topics. With these insights and tools, you'll be empowered to discuss the issues confidently, to organize, and to carry the message to others. Spring is here. We're back. Together, we'll create a new beginning.

NEWS NEVER TAKES A HOLIDAY

DRIVING INTO DANGER
Pratap Chatterjee, AlterNet
Halliburton is being sued by the family of a truck driver killed in a gun battle for deliberately endangering the lives of its employees in Iraq.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21625/

SCOTT RITTER: NEOCONS AS PARASITES
Larisa Alexandrovna, RawStory.org
Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter says Neocons are parasites "that latch onto democracy until it is no longer convenient."
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21631/

THE PROGRESSIVE DISABILITY PERSPECTIVE
Josie Byzek, AlterNet
When looking at the Terri Schiavo case, I ask my fellow progressives to tweeze the disability perspective out of the culture war rhetoric of either "life at all costs" or "better dead than disabled."
http://www.alternet.org/story/21624/

HIGH AND MIGHTY
Camille Dodero, Boston Phoenix
After a brief stint as a slick, celebrity-driven mag, the pot-appreciation magazine High Times is back to its roots -- and readers are inhaling deeply.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21626/

ENERGY INSANITY
Molly Ivins, AlterNet
In the long history of monumentally bad ideas, the Cheney energy policy is a standout for reasons of both omission and commission. Dumb, dumber and dumbest.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21622/