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9/11 Hero Needs a "Miracle"
Sheriff set to sell home October 30th
October 21st, 2007 12:34 am
Barnegat man's work at WTC leaves him ill, facing foreclosure
By Emily Previti / Press of Atlantic City
BARNEGAT TOWNSHIP, NJ - Charles Giles has endured failing health, mounting medical bills and limitations to life as he knew it before Sept. 11, 2001.
Soon, he might add homelessness to the list.
When Giles, then an EMT, responded to the disaster scene at the World Trade Center more than six years ago, he didn't think it would later cost him his home.
But days of inhaling fumes at the site continue to provoke health problems that have prevented Giles from working. The problems were compounded by unanswered medical claims.
Family hardships that began with cutting out cable TV have culminated in their home's foreclosure in March and impending sheriff's sale Oct. 30.
Ocean County sheriff's records show Giles appealed the sale and that the sheriff's office twice delayed the sale originally set for Aug. 21. Judge Fred A. Buczynski pushed the date from Sept. 18 to Oct. 30.
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TODAY, Saturday, October 27th:
All Out Against the War
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Today, Saturday, October 27, in 11 regional centers and other locations around the country, our voices will ring out loud and clear. The war and occupation in Iraq must end, and it must end now!
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
SAVE NEW ORLEANS (by ending the Occupation of Iraq)!
New Orleans is hosting an anti war demonstration on October 27th, in conjunction with the UFPJ national day of action. Here in south Louisiana, we say, SAVE NEW ORLEANS by ending the Occupation of Iraq!
We say, that the Occupation of Iraq spreads hatred of our country to every corner of the world, and it spreads intolerance in the form of racism, from Jena to Fallujah, and back.
Do you want to help New Orleans, the city that the U.S. government has abandoned? Do you want to help save our nation? Then join us in New Orleans on October 27th, and be heard in the streets, as we tell the government that from genocide to Jena, the madness must stop NOW. Join us, as we demand and end to the Occupation NOW! Demand that we must end racism NOW! Our money must be spent here. We can not export "democracy" if we don't even practice it here at home.
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Old friends roll out the welcome mat
October 27th, 2007 4:44 pm
Thousands Of Anti-War Protesters Rally In Union Square
NY1
Anti-war protesters hit the streets Saturday with the message "bring the troops home."
Organizers say tens of thousands of people marched from Union Square to Foley Square in Manhattan this afternoon to demand an end to the war in Iraq, and to call on the Bush administration to bring the troops safely home.
"We stepped into a country that we have no business being in at this point and we need to get out," said one protester. "We have lost too many of our people and they have lost so much."
"New Yorkers are against it. The youth is against it. If this government is really for the people, then they need to hear the people and the people want this war to end," said another protester.
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Anti-War Protests
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Thousands assemble for anti-war march
Updating coverage of Saturday's anti-war march and rally
By Gerry Smith Tribune staff reporter
4:09 PM CDT, October 27, 2007
Among the thousands of protesters who left the park and marched down Ashland was Leonore Lee, 65, of Milwaukee, who said, "This is power to the people. It shows our solidarity and makes me love this country even more."
But as the protesters descended on Federal Plaza, they were met by more than 20 counter-protesters, who were waving American flags and holdings signs reading, "You keep fighting there, we've got your back here."
Beverly Perlson, 50, of Oak Lawn, said her son was on his fourth deployment in Afghanistan with the 82nd Airborne.
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Thousands "die" in anti-war protest on Market St. in SF
Jim Doyle,Susan Sward, Chronicle Staff Writers
Saturday, October 27, 2007
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Anti-War Rally Takes Over Lake Eola Saturday
POSTED: 1:01 pm EDT October 27, 2007
UPDATED: 1:29 pm EDT October 27, 2007
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Marchers for peace take to the streets of Orlando Saturday.
They demanded an end to the war in Iraq, WESH 2 News reported.
"Push forward this new movement to end the war, to end the horrible policies of the Bush administration that are corrupting our civil liberties, that are making America unsafe and we're coming together as this massive statewide entity that will not stand for this anymore," rally organizer Matt DeVlieger said.
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Anti-War Protests
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I MET A MAN. I was riding a bus yesterday. I sat behind the driver. He was a very nice guy that liked to talk while driving. I am not sure how the topic of September 11th came up but it did. He stated he was a bus drive in New York City for 10 years. He was at Ground Zero when the first plane had struck. "Yeah, I was there." he said. "I had stopped the bus like I always did every morning and walked across the street to get some breakfast when all of a sudden there was debris every place. I walked outside to be met with police officers who told us to walk out and directed our movements. He never let me move the bus and is was destroyed when the building collapsed."
I asked why he wasn't in New York City anymore. He stated, "I couldn't stay. It was too much trauma. To many reminders. It was very stressful for me after that day. I was covered in that white dust just like everyone else and I have breathing problems. I use inhalers and see my doctor regularly. They say that will eventually kill me, so I take real good care of myself."
I departed the bus and wished him well. It's strange how so many years have gone by and there are still vivid images that come to mind when conversation turns toward those days. Those terrible days. What is even more unbelievable is that the country has become so misdirected with people willing to propagate an illegal war while the people that caused so much damage to the USA that day roam free in Pakistan with returned alliance of tribal Taliban.
The injustice of September 11th continues to rack this country, while politics as usual dominate the front pages of our media. I don't understand how people of this nation have been so grossly disaffected and the one true war we were supposed to fight has been sidelined for an oil war. It's criminal. I'm sorry, but, the Republican agenda for this country is corrupt to the core and I won't ignore that fact.
October 27th, 2007 3:38 pm
Friends Come To The Aid Of 9/11 First Responder
NBC10
BARNEGAT TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- A fundraiser was held Friday night to help a man who used to make a living helping others.
The Jersey Shore resident was one of the first responders to the attacks at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. But as NBC 10’s Doug Shimell explained, these days, he's in need of a helping hand himself.
"This is not about me. This is about all the 9/11 first responders and rescue workers. Those of us that are sick and dying. We just want our dignity,” Charlie Giles said.
Giles, a former N.Y. EMT, can't work due to lung problems caused by the dust and debris at ground zero. The 9/11 Victims’ Fund hasn't paid his medical bills and his Barnegat Township, N.J., home is in foreclosure. For those reasons, colleagues and local officials went to work to help Giles out. It has become a rescue mission for the rescuer.
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October 21st, 2007 12:34 am
Barnegat man's work at WTC leaves him ill, facing foreclosure
By Emily Previti / Press of Atlantic City
BARNEGAT TOWNSHIP, NJ - Charles Giles has endured failing health, mounting medical bills and limitations to life as he knew it before Sept. 11, 2001.
Soon, he might add homelessness to the list.
When Giles, then an EMT, responded to the disaster scene at the World Trade Center more than six years ago, he didn't think it would later cost him his home.
But days of inhaling fumes at the site continue to provoke health problems that have prevented Giles from working. The problems were compounded by unanswered medical claims.
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October 21st, 2007 12:34 am
Barnegat man's work at WTC leaves him ill, facing foreclosure
By Emily Previti / Press of Atlantic City
BARNEGAT TOWNSHIP, NJ - Charles Giles has endured failing health, mounting medical bills and limitations to life as he knew it before Sept. 11, 2001.
Soon, he might add homelessness to the list.
When Giles, then an EMT, responded to the disaster scene at the World Trade Center more than six years ago, he didn't think it would later cost him his home.
But days of inhaling fumes at the site continue to provoke health problems that have prevented Giles from working. The problems were compounded by unanswered medical claims.
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October 26th, 2007 8:28 pm
US peace activist barred again from entering Canada
Associated Press
OTTAWA: A U.S. peace activist who has been barred from Canada after past arrests for anti-war activities put her on an FBI crime database was denied entry again Thursday, despite having an invitation from several members of Parliament.
Retired U.S. Army Col. Ann Wright was to speak at an anti-war news conference at the invitation of the left-leaning Parliament members, who sent a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper last week advising him that they had invited Wright and another activist.
But while other passengers passed through Customs at Ottawa's airport, Wright was held back and told to return to the U.S.
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October 26th, 2007 2:28 pm
Bush says he'll veto health bill again
By David Espo / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - President Bush accused Democratic lawmakers on Friday of wasting time by passing legislation to expand children's health coverage, knowing that he would veto it again. At the same time, he criticized Congress for failing to approve spending bills to keep the government running.
Bush said Congress had "set a record they should not be proud of: October 26 is the latest date in 20 years that Congress has failed to get a single annual appropriations bill to the president's desk."
He also complained that Congress had failed to pass a permanent extension of a moratorium on state and local taxes on Internet access, and that the Senate had not yet confirmed Michael Mukasey as attorney general. Further, he chided Congress for failing to approve more money for Iraq and Afghanistan.
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October 26th, 2007 6:43 pm
Bush touts Cuban life after Castro
By Ben Feller / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - President Bush, trying to loosen Fidel Castro's nearly half-century hold on power, blistered Cuba's communist regime Wednesday and challenged allies to help foster a democratic uprising or risk the shame of staying silent.
Bush's first major address on Cuba in four years offered no change in U.S. policy and only modest proposals that even he acknowledged would likely be rejected by the island's rulers. With Raul Castro running Cuba on his ailing brother's behalf, it was unclear whether Bush's latest effort would have any effect.
Still, Bush seemed emboldened by even the possibility of regime change in Cuba. An ailing Fidel Castro has not been seen in public since July 2006.
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October 26th, 2007 6:50 pm
Cuba accuses Bush of inciting violence with speech
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba on Wednesday accused U.S. President George W. Bush of encouraging violent uprising against its communist government with a speech in which Bush urged Cubans to push for democratic change.
"You will never force us to our knees," Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque said in response to Bush's speech, which came 15 months after ailing leader Fidel Castro handed over power to his brother.
Bush said he would maintain sanctions against Cuba and called on Cuban military and police officers to join efforts to open Cuba to multi-party democracy, saying liberty was more important that stability.
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October 26th, 2007 1:39 pm
UN issues 'final wake-up call' on population and environment
By James Kanter / International Herald Tribune
PARIS: The human population is living far beyond its means and inflicting damage on the environment that could pass points of no return, according to a major report issued Thursday by the United Nations.
Climate change, the rate of extinction of species and the challenge of feeding a growing population are among the threats putting humanity at risk, the UN Environment Program said in its fourth Global Environmental Outlook since 1997.
"The human population is now so large that the amount of resources needed to sustain it exceeds what is available at current consumption patterns," Achim Steiner, the executive director of the program, said in a telephone interview. Efficient use of resources and reducing waste now are "among the greatest challenges at the beginning of 21st century," he said.
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October 26th, 2007 1:56 pm
Report: Primates in danger of extinction
By Michael Casey / Associated Press
BANGKOK, Thailand - Almost a third of all apes, monkeys and other primates are in danger of extinction because of rampant habitat destruction, the commercial sale of their meat and the trade in illegal wildlife, a report released Friday said.
Of the world's 394 primate species, 114 are classified as threatened with extinction by the World Conservation Union.
The report by Conservation International and the International Primatological Society in Hainan, China, focuses on the plight of the 25 most endangered primates, including China's Hainan gibbon, of which only 17 remain.
"You could fit all the surviving members of the 25 species in a single football stadium; that's how few of them remain on Earth today," said Russell A. Mittermeier, president of Conservation International.
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October 24th, 2007 8:14 pm
Ill-Equipped Soldiers Opt for "Search and Avoid"
By Dahr Jamail / IPS
WATERTOWN, New York, Oct 24 - Iraq war veterans now stationed at a base here say that morale among U.S. soldiers in the country is so poor, many are simply parking their Humvees and pretending to be on patrol, a practice dubbed "search and avoid" missions.
Phil Aliff is an active duty soldier with the 10th Mountain Division stationed at Fort Drum in upstate New York. He served nearly one year in Iraq from August 2005 to July 2006, in the areas of Abu Ghraib and Fallujah, both west of Baghdad.
"Morale was incredibly low," said Aliff, adding that he joined the military because he was raised in a poor family by a single mother and had few other prospects. "Most men in my platoon in Iraq were just in from combat tours in Afghanistan."
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