this may be heavy for survivors
400 March for Cardinal Law's Resignation By Bipasha Ray "Law has brushed off calls for his resignation for months, but for the first time he now faces the same request from priests. Boston-area priests are circulating a draft statement calling for Law's resignation, and plan to deliver it to him if they get 50 signatures...The Boston Priests Forum, a group of about 250 priests, also plans to discuss the possibility of urging Law to resign at a meeting Friday. The latest personnel papers, part of a huge collection of church files that victims' lawyers pried from the archdiocese, document a priest beating his housekeeper and threatening alleged sex abuse victims, another trading cocaine for sex, and a third claiming to be the second coming of Christ in order to entice teenagers training to be nuns into having sex. Later in the week, other papers disclosed that a priest fathered at least two children, and apparently failed to immediately get medical help for the mother of their children when she overdosed. Amid the latest reports, a financial advisory panel gave Law authority on Wednesday to seek a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing for the archdiocese_ a move that may prove financially necessary but would infuriate abuse victims seeking damages." http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/nationworld/ats-ap_top13dec08,0,3985275.story?coll=sns%2Dnewsnation%2Dheadlines
http://www.ccr-ny.org/whatsnew/usa_patriot_act.asp
CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
The USA PATRIOT Act:
What's So Patriotic About Trampling on the Bill of Rights?1
"Although a number of its provisions are not controversial, the USA PATRIOT Act nevertheless stands out as radical in its design. To an unprecedented degree, the Act sacrifices our political freedoms in the name of national security and upsets the democratic values that define our nation by consolidating vast new powers in the executive branch of government. The Act enhances the executive's ability to conduct surveillance and gather intelligence, places an array of new tools at the disposal of the prosecution, including new crimes, enhanced penalties, and longer statutes of limitations, and grants the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) the authority to detain immigrants suspected of terrorism for lengthy, and in some cases indefinite, periods of time. And at the same time that the Act inflates the powers of the executive, it insulates the exercise of these powers from meaningful judicial and Congressional oversight. "
Antiwar Effort Gains Momentum - Growing Peace Movement's Ranks Include Some Unlikely Allies By Evelyn Nieves Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, December 2, 2002; Page A01
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