Author name: davidswanson

Is Slavery in Our Future?

By David Swanson

John Bowe’s terrific new book called “Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy” takes the reader on a journey ending in the question I’ve placed above this essay.

Bowe makes three major stops along the way. The first is in Florida, where we learn in depth about the lives of immigrant farm workers held against their will and paid little or nothing for their work. By almost anyone’s definition, this is a story read more

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Screening of "No End in Sight" Plus Remarks by Ann Wright and David Swanson

Progressive Democracy South Jersey

WHEN: Saturday, February 2nd at 6:00 p.m.,

WHERE: Unitarian Church of Cherry Hill, N.J.
401 North Kings Highway
Cherry Hill, NJ 08034
http://www.uucinch.org

“No End in Sight” examines the manner in which the principal errors of U.S. policy – insufficient troop levels, allowing the looting of Baghdad, purging professionals from the Iraqi government, and the disbanding of the Iraqi military – largely created the chaos that engulfs Iraq today.

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Cheney Impeachment News

I’m Interviewing Rep. Robert Wexler About Impeachment on Wednesday 3:15-3:45 p.m. ET

http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/30340

LISTEN HERE:

http://www.thepeoplespeakradio.net/listen-live

And here’s some news: Wexler is now accepting non-Judiciary Committee members signatures on his letter to Conyers urging Cheney impeachment hearings.

That means that no matter where you live, you can ask your congress member to contact Wexler and sign his letter!

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Wexler Meets With Conyers, Still Wants Cheney Impeachment Hearings

Kucinich to Introduce Bush Articles of Impeachment
By David Swanson

I interviewed Congressman Robert Wexler today (listen here: http://www.thepeoplespeakradio.net ), and he said that he had attended a meeting earlier today that included Congressman John Conyers and addressed the topics of contempt and impeachment. There was wide consensus, he said, that contempt should be pursued (for Harriet Miers and read more

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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook – David Swanson, Richard Boyce, and J9 Jan 21, 2008

This week: American activist David Swanson on election year politics at home and abroad, Vancouver Island documentary filmmaker, environmental activist, and campaigner for the homeless, Richard Boyce on the back room deals delivering public forest lands into the hands of Big Timber; and, Janine Bandcroft brings us up to speed on good local goings-on in the coming week. LISTEN HERE.

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A Letter from the Lurch

By David Swanson

Check out this letter I just received by Email:

The lurch was first mentioned in Dante’s “Purgatorio,” and I had always wanted to go there. What can I say? I’m an adventurer. That’s one reason I joined the military in the first place. Well, that and all the lies about money and college and not having to serve in Iraq. When I’d completed my third tour in Iraq and they stop-lossed me, it felt at least as bad as a ticket to purgatory. How could read more

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Plans in the Works to Stop-Loss Congress

By David Swanson

The peace movement is planning 10 days of resistance in March 2008. New additions to the plans include an effort to “stop-loss” Congress. Here’s a schedule from http://resistinmarch.org

MARCH 10 to 12, 2008 (Monday to Wednesday) in Washington, D.C.: Stop-Loss Congress
This March, while tens of thousands of Americans in Washington, D.C., and all over the United States will be participating in acts of nonviolent civil disobedience to protest the ongoing read more

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A Solution for the Peace Movement

By David Swanson

Congress has the power to bring all troops, mercenaries, and contractors home safely this year. The cost of bringing them home is minimal and already covered by funds appropriated for wars and for a military budget that eats up over half of every tax dollar. We cannot afford another year of damaged world relations, of dead bodies, and of enormous financial expense. Representatives can commit to voting No on any appropriations bill that would give another dime to the occupation read more

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Peace Movement's Options in 2008

By David Swanson

What should the peace movement do in 2008 to speed the end of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, bring home the troops and mercenaries and contractors, and stop draining trillions of dollars out of Americans’ pockets for an expense that most of us do not want? And what should all organizations do whose domestic missions are devastated by the occupations’ drain on the national treasury?

Of course, we should continue to work on public education, and on counter recruitment. read more

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