Building a New World Conference: Join Us in Radford, VA

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http://www.wpaconference.org

May 22-25, 2008 Radford University, Radford, Virginia

Speakers include:

Cindy Sheehan (writer and activist; anti-war leader known as the “Peace Mom”)
William Blum (blogger of “The Anti-Empire Report; author of “Rogue State” and “Killing Hope”)
Kathy Kelly (of Voices in the Wilderness & Voices for Creative Non-Violence)
Michael Parenti (educator; lecturer; author of 20 books; board read more

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Iraq Veteran to Speak Live and Take Your Questions Tonight 8-9 pm ET

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Former Marine Corps Sergeant Adam Kokesh served in a Civil Affairs Group in Iraq’s Western Anbar Province from February to September 2004. Since his return from Iraq, Kokesh has become a leading activist with Iraq Veterans Against the War. He was arrested for disrupting General Patreaus’ testimony before Congress last September. He will discuss what he did and saw in Iraq and why he is working to end the occupation. Listen live and call in with your questions tonight 8-9 pm ET: read more

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Prodigal Petraeus

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By David Swanson

This week’s sermon is from the book of Luke:

And he said, A certain nation had a son.

And the son said to congress, Congress, give me $560 billion. And Congress gave it.

And not many days after, this son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with vicious slaughter and enrichment of sinful people.

And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty resistance in that land; read more

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Successes Sneaking Up on Us

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By David Swanson

Were you aware that…?

A coffee cooperative in Minnesota makes money by creating fair trade and cutting out corporate middlemen.

Family farmers in Vermont survive and prosper by going organic and cooperative.

Health clinics in rural New Mexico are community supported and succeed in ways corporate health care and insurance cannot.

A taxi cab cooperative in Madison, Wisc., run by the cabbies, brings in $6 million per year.

A pharmacist in Austin, Texas, works less and accomplishes read more

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Building a New World

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The first international conference of the World Prout Assembly, entitled, “Building a New World,” committed to ending imperialist wars and affirming models of cooperative, community-based economies and political activism, will be held May 22-25 at Radford University, Radford, Virginia.

World Prout Assembly Founding President Garda Ghista announced: “We seek to bring together activists from all countries fighting for justice in all spheres of life to form one universal coalition read more

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You're Two

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Dear Wesley,

You’re two today and you’re napping. If you’re dreaming, they’re probably happy dreams. You’re almost always happy awake. Whatever your worst dreams are, they’re probably not worse than what I fear may become of this world and your future in it. You’ve spent your first two years and the nine months before that in a loving family in a beautiful town in a very wealthy country that has shared a little of that wealth with us, though not with read more

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Donna Edwards Moves Right, Falls into Line

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By David Swanson

Donna Edwards worked wonders by nearly beating Al Wynn in a Maryland congressional primary in 2006 and threatening to run again. Wynn had been one of the worst members of Congress and became one of the best. He transformed from a defender of loan sharks to a defender of the little guy. He shifted from backing the invasion and occupation of Iraq to opposing it and attending peace rallies. He was the first to sign onto Congressman Kucinich’s articles of impeachment against read more

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Using People's Lives to Win (or Lose) Elections

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By David Swanson

How would you like to vote for a political party that sacrifices hundreds of thousands of lives to win elections? Yeah, neither would I. So, how can they be so sure they will win elections?

Of course I’m talking about the Democratic Party’s strategy of continuing to fund the bloody occupation of Iraq.

Or how would you like to support an activist or think-tank organization that obeys the Democratic Party in the same strategy?

I just took part in a media conference call read more

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A Serious Peace Strategy Emerges

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By David Swanson

In 2006 we elected a Congress to end the occupation of Iraq. If we don’t hold that Congress to it, we will not have the power in 2008 to elect anyone for any stated purpose. Fulfillment of campaign promises will be entirely optional in 2009. Our last chance to hold the current Congress to its commitment is in the coming month of April, when the House takes up Bush’s request for another $102 billion of our grandchildren’s money.

All over the country, ordinary read more

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