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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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Congressional Progressive Caucus: Economy Going to Hell Fast

By David Swanson

Live Blogging Progressive Caucus Hearing on Economy

January 16, 2008 – I’m in the Cannon House Office Building Caucus Room, and it’s much fuller than it has been in the past for some recent Congressional Progressive Caucus events. That’s encouraging. But the few Congress Members who were here at the start of the event have left to go vote. Other than the Caucus Co-Chairs Lynn Woolsey and Barbara Lee, who offered opening remarks, I only noticed Sheila Jackson read more

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Hangin' in the Office With Nancy P.

By David Swanson

I had been to Nancy Pelosi’s office in the Cannon House Office Building before. In fact, I’d been there several times and usually had a pleasant stay, often very quick and efficient, other times prolonged by everyone’s enjoyment of the songs my friends in pink were singing, and as often as not resulting in new friendships with fine officers of the Capitol Police who accompanied us out. This time was going to be different.

Just a few of us went by there on Wednesday. read more

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Randi Rhodes Puts Robert Wexler Over 200,000

By David Swanson

The Randi Rhodes Show worked its magic today just as it used to do for www.afterdowningstreet.org almost three years ago. Congressman Robert Wexler came on and discussed the need for Cheney impeachment hearings. His petition at http://wexlerwantshearings.com passed the 200,000 mark before the show was over.

I live blogged this:

3:25 Randi just said that Conyers phoned her last night to chat, and she brought up impeachment, and he refused to talk about it, said that he’d just read more

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What MLK Said About Change

By David Swanson

These are some of the words of Martin Luther King Jr.:

“The nonviolent strategy has been to dramatize the evils of our society in such a way that pressure is brought to bear against those evils by the forces of good will in the community and change is produced. The student sit-ins of 1960 are a classic illustration of this method….

“So far we have had the Constitution backing most of the demands for change, and this has made our work easier, since we could be sure read more

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Halliburton Gang Rape Victim Finds No Justice

By David Swanson

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What does one say to a young woman gang raped by men paid by us to work for a company from which our vice president profits, men who have yet to be charged with any crime, a company yet to make amends in any way, and a presidential administration effectively granted immunity by our representatives in Congress?

I’m going to interview Jamie Leigh Jones on Tuesday evening, January 15th (8 to 9 p.m. ET), and she’ll take questions from the audience. You read more

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The Speech McCain Should Give

By David Swanson

I may be a United States Senator and a candidate for President and the Republican frontrunner. But I am, more importantly (assuming you’ll take my word for it) a man who has been tortured.

There are two key types of people in the world, and I am both of them. I have been tortured, and I have tortured. I have suffered man’s inhumanity to man, and I have turned on my fellow human beings. I am a victim and a criminal. I am a victim who has turned against the victims. I read more

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