From the AP:

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Iraqi police opened fire in downtown Baghdad Wednesday after demonstrators demanding jobs stormed a police station and threw stones at officers, police said. At least one demonstrator was injured in the shooting.

I can taste the freedom.

Censorship at El Diario: The editor of El Diario, a 90 year-old spanish-language newspaper, has resigned due to the paper's new corporate owner's decision to kill an article by Fidel Castro.

According to several reporters and editors, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, three Cuban reporters at the newspaper, who objected to the article, sent an e-mail message to Cuban exiles in Miami. The reporters called Mr. Castro's article, on improvements in Cuba's educational system, pro-Castro propaganda. A petition was then circulated and sent to the paper's owners, demanding that the article be dropped.

Meanwhile, a locla 35 member in the power plant responds to a recent letter by an anti-union worker

• She states that the university will eventually "get what it wants, a dismantling of the union." I would submit that the majority of the membership would prefer a situation in which a union was not needed. The contentious labor history of the university would suggest that, unless there are significant attitude shifts from both sides, then the union presence will be significant long after she and I have both retired — on a pension vastly improved by the recent strike.

I offer a quote of Martin Luther King Jr. to both the author and those to whom she directs her disgust: "We must learn to live together like brothers, or we are going to perish together as fools."

Also, i don't know who Kenneth Fox is, but anyone who talks about how we need Abbie Hoffman and Pigasus to liberate us from the RIAA's anti-file sharing fascism is A-OK in my boat.

Saqib Kicks Ass. Saqib Bhatti's op-ed in the YDN today about the freedom rides rocked my world. It's powerfully written and reallly makes it clear how important this fight is. Quoth Saqib:

I am going to be there with them this Saturday because I cannot possibly be anywhere else. As a son of immigrant parents, I know firsthand of the difficulties immigrants in America face -- from social stigma to systemic discrimination. As a Muslim, I feel Aleena's and Asim's pain and know that next time it could be someone I care for very deeply -- perhaps even one of the international students here at Yale who went to Hartford just last week for registration. But most of all, as an American, I know that I value freedom and equality far too highly to sit idly by while my government makes a mockery of them in my name.  ¶ 11:06 AM