Special Guests on this call was our Healthcare NOT Warfare Co-Chair Norman Solomon who updated us on Afghanistan. David Swanson and Mary Nichols-Rhodes updated us on the July Pittsburgh Peace Convention.
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This is the most encouraging thing I’ve seen in years: Congress standing up as a branch of goverment, not a party or the other party or both parties, but a branch of government attempting to represent the people and enforce the rule of law. I’m dumbfounded.
House overwhelmingly rejects signing statement
By Walter Alarkon, The Hill
The House rebuked President Obama for trying to ignore restrictions to international aid payments, voting overwhelmingly for an amendment forcing the administration
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Hope to see you in Pittsburgh this weekend for this conference. Here’s latest revision of a proposal I’ll present:
Action Proposal
Organize a mass protest march and civil resistance against war funding at House side of Capitol Hill on the 8th anniversary of invading Afghanistan, on Wednesday, October 7th — or alternatively on Monday, October 5th, to be closer to a weekend. Such an action can be combined with local district and state actions, and can include a protest at the
National Assembly to End the Iraq & Afghanistan Wars & Occupations Read More »
By David Swanson
This is not from the Rethink Afghanistan project, which has been producing so many great clips about Afghanistan (including their latest, Part 5, about women). This is a full length film from 2006 about two American women whose husbands were killed on 9-11-2001 who raise money for and visit Afghanistan women whose husbands were killed by American bombs. This movie is probably more relevant now than it was in 2006. It is extremely well done. It’s called Beyond Belief.
The
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By David Swanson
Should soldiers follow illegal orders? Should they take part in illegal wars and occupations? And if they don’t want to do so, what choices do they have? And what can we do to help them? These are some of the questions addressed in a new book by Marjorie Cohn and Kathleen Gilberd called “Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent.”
From: http://www.gregmooreart.com/portraits.html
This book addresses these topics as well as any I’ve
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By David Swanson
The day after ramming through nearly $100 billion more for wars and $100 billion in loans to European banks through the IMF, the majority leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, Steny Hoyer, introduced a “PayGo” bill, requiring that any spending be paid for with cuts in other spending. But having this law on the books would not have stopped the previous day’s legislation. War “supplemental” bills are deemed “emergencies” and an exception
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Charlottesville, VA
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Cindy Sheehan is deservedly the best known peace activist in the United States. Having lost her own son in Iraq, she has worked for the past five years to save others — and she’s not about to let up in her efforts to end our foreign wars and create justice around the world and here at home. More about Cindy:
http://www.cindysheehanssoapbox.com
Please join Cindy for lunch at noon on Saturday, July, 18, 2009, rain or shine, at 707 Gillespie
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By David Swanson
What if you had to choose your top priority for an activist campaign to change a government policy? Would you tell everyone to call and Email and write and try to meet with and protest the president? Would all your marches be to the White House, all your petitions addressed to the president, all your talk be about what the president should do? Or would you focus on Congress instead? Or would you just generally make noise, march around on Saturdays, and hope that both the Congress
March on Congress or President? Read More »
Dissociated Press — Vice President Joe Biden signaled that the Obama administration would not stand in the way if a suspected serial killer in South Carolina chose to attack his neighbors’ children, even as the top U.S. child services officer said any attack on those children would be destabilizing.
“Look, this murderer can determine for himself — he’s a sovereign individual — what’s in his interest and what he decides to do relative to those children and
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