Part Two of Interview with Activist David Swanson
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June 2009
Van Jones and Nancy Sutley visit energy-improved house in Charlottesville, Va., June 23, 2009
Creating Clean Energy Jobs: Helping People Helping the Environment
Tuesday, June 23, 2009, 11:00 a.m.
Congressman Tom Perriello
Homeowner Ingrid Feggans
Homeowner Chad Thorne
Charlottesville Mayor Dave Norris
Albemarle County Supervisor Ann Mallek
Worker Michael Stewart
Chair of White House Council on Environmental Quality Nancy Sutley
Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise, and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality Van Jones (hovering but not speaking)
Backstory: Admirable,
Rallies Around U.S. To Demand Accountability for Torture
Thursday, June 25, 2009, has been designated Torture Accountability Action Day by a large coalition of human rights groups planning rallies and marches in major U.S. cities, including a rally in Washington, D.C.’s John Marshall Park at 11 a.m. followed by a noon march to the Justice Department where some participants will risk arrest in nonviolent protest if a special prosecutor for torture is not appointed.
http://accountability4torture.com
Events are planned in Washington, D.C.; San Francisco,
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OpEdNews Exclusive Interview with Activist David Swanson
Here’s an interview I did with Joan Brunwasser of OpEdNews.com: READ IT HERE.
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What Bush Told Blair Could End the Wars
By David Swanson
In May 2005 we launched AfterDowningStreet.org to publicize the Downing Street Minutes. By June we’d had great, if fleeting, success. During the following months and years, mountains of new memos and statements emerged on the Iraq War lies, many of them more damaging than the Downing Street documents. But increasingly nobody cared, because evidence of crimes was less interesting
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Citizens Face Prosecution for Speaking Against Wars
WHAT: Four of the people featured in this report by Bill Moyers’ Journal in January ( http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/01092009/watch3.html ) face prosecution for disorderly conduct and unlawful assembly.
WHEN: Monday, June 22, 2009, 9:00 a.m. ET.
WHERE: Before Judge Richard H. Ringell in the Superior Court of The District of Columbia Criminal Division, Courtroom 120.
BACKGROUND: On January 6, 2009, the first day of the 111th Congress, seventy people came to Washington D.C. from all over
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U.S. Govt. Threatens to Prosecute Waterboarding
By David Swanson
We’ve been lobbying the Department of Justice all these months without realizing that the key to justice lay in the Department of the Interior, and specifically in the National Park Service, which has told activist Steve Lane he will be prosecuted if he attempts to demonstrate waterboarding at Thursday’s anti-torture rally in Washington, D.C. The permit for the rally reads “Waterboarding exhibit will not be allowed for safety reasons.”
Of course it’s
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Juneteenth: What's Old Is New Again
By David Swanson
Two statements, 144 years apart:
“The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and free laborer.”
Major General Gordon Granger, June 19, 1865.
“Finally, there remains the question of detainees
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Audio: Justice, Accountability, Media
The Jeff Farias Show 6/17/09
On the Web At 3:30 Duff Conacher is the coordinator of Democracy Watch, an Ottawa-based citizen group advocating democratic reforms, government accountability and corporate responsibility. http://www.dwatch.ca/
At 4:30 PM David Swanson is the author of the upcoming book “Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union” by Seven Stories Press. You can pre-order it and find out when tour will be in your town: https://davidswanson.org/book
At 5 PM
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It Could Happen to Yoo
By David Swanson
Sometimes, during a tsunami of bad news, it’s nice to come up for a breath of encouraging air. The only way to do that this week that I know of is to read a beautiful 42-page order by a judge (PDF). Usually such things don’t strike me as beautiful, but this one says that leading torture lawyer John Yoo can be sued in court by one of his victims. It also says that his arguments
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