SOME NEWS TO ROLL YOU INTO THE WEEKEND

THE PATRIOT ACT'S WATCHDOG
A BuzzFlash Interview
Bernie Sanders was the only member of the House to vote against the original Patriot Act. Now he's the favorite bet to become the next Senator from Vermont.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/22253/

RANGEL: INVESTIGATE WHETHER BUSH INTENTIONALLY MISLED U.S. FOR WAR
Democrat wants information in wake of British memos saying Iraq invasion was president’s goal.
The Associated Press/MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8248236

PUBLIC TRIUMPHS, PRIVATE RIGHTS
Ellen Chesler, Ms. Magazine
Estelle Griswold and Margaret Sanger helped women gain access to birth control and abortion – but just one Supreme Court justice could take it away.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/22245/

PRESSURE GROWING TO PLAN IRAQ EXIT
The Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/06/16/pressure_growing_to_plan_iraq_exit/?page=2

QUOTE OF THE DAY … A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate. Eric Idle

CREATING CHANGE, NOT JUST MOVIES
Robert Greenwald, AlterNet
Can a documentary force Wal-Mart to change its wicked ways? Only with your help, says filmmaker Robert Greenwald.
http://www.alternet.org/story/22250/

DOWNING STREET MEMO A GROWING PROBLEM FOR BUSH
Lawrence O’Rourke / McClatchy Newspapers
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0617-03.htm


[l to r - Ambassador Joseph Wilson, Cindy Sheehan, founder of Gold Star Families for American Peace, Ray McGovern, former CIA agent and John Bonifaz, co-founder, After Downing Street.org are sworn in before the start of a forum on the Downing Street Minutes on Capital Hill in Washington DC on June 16th. The document, created in 2002 for British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that United States President G.W.Bush was intent on invading Iraq and that intelligence was being manipulated to support Bushes interests. Photo by Chris Kleponis]

THE FATHERHOOD DEMOTION
Amy DePaul, AlterNet
The Republicans' new set of welfare reforms emphasize fatherhood in the context of marriage -- at the expense of economic issues.
http://www.alternet.org/story/22242/

DESTROYING PBS
Bush political operative says he’ll erase bias at PBS, by inserting bias
Molly Ivins / Working for Change
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0617-27.htm

THE BLOGFATHER
Jan Frel, AlterNet
Jerome Armstrong of the political blog MyDD discusses how the Internet has changed -- and how it's changing Democratic politics.
http://www.alternet.org/story/22233/

FLAG IS A SYMBOL, REMEMBER?
Reggie Rivers / Denver Post
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0617-32.htm