[Mb-civic] Rosa Parks's Life/Dick Cheney's Problems from The Nation

[Barbara Siomos]

Rosa Parks, who died last night in Detroit, was remembered today as the mother of the civil rights movement, a powerful but quiet voice for equality and as a humble woman who did not seek the limelight. Read John Nichols's Online Beat for an appreciation of Parks's life. http://www.thenationcom/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=30964

And don't miss The Nation's lead editorial from our December 24th, 1955 issue, which lauds the quiet purposefulness of Parks and the thousands of others who participated in the Montgomery bus boycott. http://www.thenation.com/doc/19551224/editors

Check out other new Nation online exclusives.

David Corn asks if Scooter Libby lied to the grand jury to protect Dick Cheney.
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?bid=3&pid=30938

Katrina vanden Heuvel wants to know if the White House deliberately deceived Congress into authorizing the war. http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut?bid=7&pid=30583

Nicholas von Hoffman argues that the privatization of the nation's greatest, once-public colleges and universities is tragically under way. 
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051107/vonhoffman

Robert Scheer assails the gun industry for buying bulletproof political protection.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051107/scheer1025

Dr. Marc Siegel  says that panic over a possible bird flu pandemic is following a time-honored, and very alarmist, script. 
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051107/bird_flu_scare

Adele Oltman exhumes the hidden history of slavery in New York.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051107/slavery_in_new_york

Peter Rothberg offers ways to help the tens of thousands of victims of the earthquake in Pakistan. http://www.thenation.com/blogs/actnow?bid=4&pid=30448


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The Secret Histories
We wanted to make sure you knew about Nation writer John Friedman's new anthology, The Secret Histories, just released by Picador. Friedman's book is a groundbreaking collection of the journalism that has clarified history. From Edwin Black's investigation into the strategic alliance between IBM and the Nazi regime to I. F. Stone's classic study of the hidden history of the Korean War, from the 1952 Reader's Digest expose of tobacco's link to cancer and heart disease to Seymour Hersh's report on the My Lai massacre, this is the perfect anthology for those seeking to revisit--or discover for the first time--the news stories that have shaped our understanding of the world. Click below for more info and to order copies online. 
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Friedman is moderating a panel with Morley Safer, Philip Gourevitch and Mark Danner TOMORROW, Wednesday, October 26 at 6:30 PM, Cooper Union, in Manhattan in a FREE event co-sponsored by The Nation. Taking place at Cooper Union's Wollman Auditorium, 51 Astor Place, NYC. Click below for info on this and the rest of Friedman's tour schedule which takes him to Washington, DC, New Haven, Boston and Austin, TX.
http://www.picadorusa.com/tours/tours.aspx

Resolved: The Hollywood Reds Did More Harm Than Good--October 27, NYC
A free debate between Victor Navasky vs. Ronald Radosh on the Hollywood Ten and the contemporary lessons of McCarthyism. Moderated by WNYC's Leonard Lopate. At 6:30, Thursday, Oct. 27 at CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue, corner of 34th St.). Seats are limited! Click below for further info.  http://www.thesmithfamilyfoundation.org/event.cfm

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
Award-winning filmmaker Robert Greenwald's new documentary has the potential to raise much more awareness about what's wrong with Wal-Mart and why The film is a powerful, emotional and entertaining way to help trigger change in the way the company conducts business in the US and across the globe.  Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price will debut in a limited theatrical run in NY and LA theaters on November 4th and will expand wide on November 13th to over 3,000 screenings nationwide in churches, colleges, community centers and living rooms in the largest grassroots mobilization in movie history. Click below for details. http://www.walmartmovie.com/?track=nation

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