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One of these guys should’ve gotten the peace prize in my opinion!

A Call to all Anti-War Activists from Elaine Brower, member of World Can’t Wait Steering Committee:

PROTEST IN THE STREETS THE DAY AFTER AN ANNOUNCEMENT IS MADE TO SEND MORE TROOPS INTO AFGHANISTAN

We in the anti-war movement have been tirelessly and endlessly calling upon the government to end the occupations. We want our troops out of the middle east, and an end to the drone bombings that are killing thousands of innocent civilians. Continue reading →

From Antiwar.com:

Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK, discusses the mixed reactions of Kabul residents to U.S. occupation in Afghanistan, the bevy of competent and credible Afghans who could replace Hamid Karzai, the delicate balance between timely troop withdrawal and obligatory U.S. rebuilding of Afghan society and how most Afghans join the Taliban for economic and security reasons rather than ideological ones.

Scott Horton interviews Cindy Sheehan on Antiwar Radio.

Cindy Sheehan became a leader of the antiwar movement after her son, Casey, was killed in Iraq. Her efforts to get answers from President Bush, including a vigil in Crawford,Texas, have received national media attention. She has a website, is the author of Peace Mom: A Mother’s Journey through Heartache to Activism and wrote the introduction to 10 Excellent Reasons Not to Join the Military.

1. How to be a good organizer
a) Spend some time thinking about trees
b) Imagine what clear cutting looks like, sounds like, and feels like
c) Recognize that 80% of the world’s forests are gone
d) Be a good organizer

2. How to find like-minded comrades
a) Go to the beach
b) Smell the salty air and listen to the waves
c) Recognize that 90% of the large fish in the ocean are gone
d) Find like-minded comrades Continue reading →

Adrienne watched a government commercial on TV  to “help restore America” and asked me to look into it. It is http://serve.gov/ and turns out to be a site that offers one a chance to either pledge one’s time and money to any one of many government or privately sponsored projects or register a project of your own.  As I read it over, an idea popped into my head, so I created a project! It is now registered on the site.
The organization is We the People
Its intent? “We the People in order to save our Union are working to see the Constitution and Bill of Rights returned, intact and functioning, to the Halls of the United States Government.”
I’m not sure where I (or we) go from here, but I thought it would be a neat idea to form an organization on the government’s own website that deals with one of the greatest problems We the People face.

Apparently it also creates a blog for We the People. Anyone interested in signing on, please send me an e-mail. It would be great if it caught on and many people signed on to the project! The potential membership is around 200 million. I’m not exactly sure about how one works one of these sites, but we’ll figure it out as we go. Comments are sure welcome. We could really have some fun with this, or perhaps even accomplish something.

So, if it sounds interesting, let me know at theplace@wavecable.com

Don’t pledge any money! This is just an idea, but wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could come up with something we could deliver that would make our alleged representatives aware that We the People want our Constitution back?

Imagine that one day in the not to distant future you answer a knock on your door and find that the Police are there to arrest you for a crime that you haven’t committed, but someone has identified you as having the potential to commit that crime some time in the future. Sounds like 1984 Science fiction doesn’t it. But what if it was actually happening right then and there? What would you do? More appropriately, would there be anything you could do? Or are you one of those who loudly state “That could never happen here?” Continue reading →

There is always some reason that they will try to convince you not to believe what you feel in your gut. They will try to bamboozle you
– Barack Obama

I admit I was swept up in the national euphoria of President Obama’s election. I really believed that something would be done about the economic crisis, our unjust “War on Terror”, and the creeping fascism these wars have engendered. But by now it should be clear that President Obama has no plans to change anything. Continue reading →

Dear President Obama,

I just received the letter below, so obviously you have not been reading my letters to you.
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Stephen –

Last year, millions of Americans came together for a great purpose.

Folks like you assembled a grassroots movement that shocked the political establishment and changed the course of our nation. When Washington insiders counted us out, we put it all on the line and changed our democracy from the bottom up. But that’s not why we did it.

The pundits told us it was impossible — that the donations working people could afford and the hours volunteers could give would never loosen the vise grip of big money and powerful special interests. We proved them wrong. But as important as that was, that’s not why we did it. Continue reading →

On the publication of the CIA Inspector General’s Report About the Use of Torture , from The World Can’t Wait:

We understand that the May 2004 Inspector General’s report from the CIA to be released today reveals that the techniques called “enhanced interrogation” by the Bush regime were used prior interrogators receiving legal authorization. The techniques used on detainees went beyond what was authorized, scurrilous as the legal opiniona by John Yoo, Jay Bybee, and other Bush appointees were. Continue reading →