anti-war

Weekly anti-war vigils

coyote — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:20:30 -0700

Tuesdays:
12:45-1 pm Weekly "Stand for Peace" vigil at Emory University , in front of Woodruff Library.

Thursdays:
5:00-6:00pm Weekly "Stand for Peace" vigil at CNN, Marietta and Centennial Olympic Park.

Fridays:
12:00-1:00 pm Weekly "Stand for Peace" vigil at Colony Square , corner of Peachtree and 14th Street .

12:00-1:00 pm Weekly "Stand for Peace" vigil at Marietta Square ( Cobb Court House).

Saturdays:
12:00-1:00 Weekly "Stand for Peace" vigil at Dekalb Farmers Market At 3000 Ponce de Leon Avenue , Decatur.

Sundays:
12:15-1:00 pm Weekly "Stand for Peace" vigil at the corner of MLK Drive and Washington Street (across from the state capitol).

12 :00-12:30 pm Weekly "Stand for Peace" vigil at 910 Ponce De Leon Ave NE ,Open Door Community.

Police Officers of the World

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:38:34 -0700

The Dangerous Logic of Blocking Protests in the Name of Electing Obama

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:30:08 -0700

The Dangerous Logic of Blocking Protests in the Name of Electing Obama

by Sunsara Taylor

www.revcom.us

Millions believe Barack Obama is the anti-war/anti-Bush candidate. In reality, Obama is proving to be the candidate most effective at getting all-too-many “leaders” of the anti-war movement to shut up and even urge others to go along with wars for empire.

In the name of getting Obama elected, the anti-war movement is being demobilized, and firm opposition to the so-called “war on terror” is being silenced.

In May, Chicago anti-war activists brought Scott Ritter, John Mearsheimer, Stephen Kinzer, and Doug Cassel to speak at a town hall style City Council meeting and everyone expected the City Council to pass a resolution against an attack on Iran the next day. But before this could happen, Mayor Daley objected, saying, “Passing a resolution like that puts a lot of burden upon [Obama’s] candidacy and injects something that should not be injected” into the presidential campaign. Since then, the resolution has been sidelined by City Council aldermen and some of the activists who claim to personally support the bill but have accepted Daley’s logic.

And now, as the Democratic National Convention approaches at the end of August in Denver, people like Leslie Cagan of United for Peace and Justice are working to pour cold water on attempts to bring forward meaningful political protest. Recently she suggested that the anti-war movement just “drop the idea of a big march on Sunday, August 24th” and has insisted that “while there is plenty to be critical about in terms of the Democratic Party leadership we would NOT want [people] to see this as an anti-Democratic Party protest.”

Commemoration of Hiroshima Atomic Bombing

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:27:35 -0700

Start: 08/06/2008 - 7:00pm

End: 08/06/2008 - 8:30pm

Aug. 6 7-8:30pm, Commemoration of Hiroshima Atomic
Bombing, Carter Center Rose Garden, Freedom Parkway. On Aug. 6, 1945,
the US dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima,
immediately incinerating tens of thousands of civilians and leading to
many more deaths from radiation poisoning, burns, and cancers. Days
later, on Aug. 9, the city of Nagasaki was destroyed by another atomic
bombing. For more than six decades, people of the world have demanded
the elimination of nuclear weapons. Music, poetry, reflection.Sponsored
by Partnershps in Peace, WAND, Nuclear Watch South and many
others.

Protest: No War on Iran

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:13:53 -0700

Start: 08/02/2008 - 11:00am

End: 08/02/2008 - 12:30pm

11am-12:30pm,
protest, No War on Iran, Midtown Place, 650 Ponce de Leon
(across from City Hall East)., site of Army Recruiting StationThreats of
military attack, economic sanctions, and land, air and sea
blockades emanate daily from the White House and Congress. It is openly
speculated that Israel will launch an air strike against Iranian nuclear
facilities flying US planes. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has dozens of
nuclear-armed warships off Iran's coast.Despite all the false
claims being made by Bush and others, all evidence is that Iran does NOT
have a nuclear weapons program unlike both the US and Israel. It is
crucial that opposition to a war on Iran be large and loud. Go to
www.stopwaroniran.org for more informationJoin the protest on Aug. 2, a
day of coordinated actions in dozens of US and international cities..
Bring signs, banners, drums, and your friends and neighbors.Volunteers
are needed. Please contact atlantaiac@aol.com if you can help distribute
leaflets, lead chants, make signs etc.

Shame of being an american

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:33:39 -0700

The Shame of being an American

This is a compilation of articles written by right thinking

Americans against American invasion of Iraq. They tell us why they are ashamed

of being American in the "wake of plunder and flames"

and also for "racist imagery and humiliation and the

color of Abu Ghraib".

Name of author :M.A.Hussain

ISBN : 978-81-905861- 1-5

Download it here in pdf format:

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the Visionary Report (inaugural post)

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:36:44 -0700

Over and over we are so-called "educated" to believe in and trust a Certain Way Of Doing Things. Chomsky sheds light on this "good education" a little, and decolonizing indigenous folks shed much more light.

You read things like "Just Leave Us Alone!" by a Papua New Guinea tribesman, and you begin to see that there is more to the picture than what has been systematically presented to all of us living uncritically within colonial societies.

That is a first step. A little Chomsky (whatever incites you), then a good dose of pre-and de-colonizing indigenous folks' ways of seeing. The next step is to see how these truths affect you on a personal, day-to-day basis. How are you colonized (i.e. kept reduced from your original intent to truly live)? In what ways are you and yours affected by this reducing of who we are?

The next step after beginning to basically see these truths is to perhaps play more; that is, create yourself and your life (including at work) how you would LIKE to live. And to go through and beyond the belief that such things are "impossible".
This is *the* innaugaration of "the visionary report", a report whose author(s) wish to inspire people, in a regularly appearing way, beyond the same old again and towards evolutionary meaning and living in this world.

Free the Cuban Five!

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:45:20 -0700

Attorney Leonard Weinglass:

"There are 40 pages of ideological prejudice in the
new ruling from Atlanta"

ARLEEN RODRIGUEZ DERIVET

A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals of Atlanta upheld Wednesday the guilty verdicts of the Cuban Five, prisoners in the United States since 1998. It also vacated the sentences of three of the men, ordering a new sentencing in Miami. The sentences of Rene Gonzalez (15 years) and Gerardo Hernandez (two life terms plus 15 years) were maintained. In the case of Hernandez, the panel voted 2-1. A 16-page [minority] opinion of Judge Phyllis Kravitch states that the government did not present sufficient evidence to prove Gerardo's guilt in the charge of conspiracy to commit murder.

The cases of Ramon Labanino (life sentence plus 18 years), Fernando Gonzalez (19 years) and Antonio Guerrero (life sentence plus 10 years) were sent to the Florida Court for re-sentencing. It will be Judge Joan Lenard who will announce a hearing to issue the new sentencing. Lenard was the presiding judge who, in 2001, issued the harsh sentences to the Cuban Five. The 99-page ruling of the Appeals Court of Atlanta, which explicitly favors the government position, was drafted in a politically charged language unusual for legal texts. It states that the defense arguments in their appeal "are meritless."

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Wake-up, America!

Sat, 17 May 2008 03:20:08 -0700

We Americans should be fed-up and angry as hell!

What has happened to us? When did we get so weak and detached?

Wake-up, America!

We should be phoning our lawmakers in the Washington and various State Capitols and demanding REAL leadership.

It's obvious by now that there is little leadership and that if we don't rise-up together, united, to find REAL leadership we're going to sink like the Titanic!

George W. Bush gave away America! He set us up to become 3rd-rate citizens and a meager nation.

Wake-up, America!

George Walker Bush has defiled our Constitution and made us weaker, as a nation, as a people.

You can either think I'm insane or you may quote me, but that man and his assembly of cohorts gave away the America we once were proud of.

His band of know-nothing, do-nothing, bumbling honchos have made our beloved America weaker and more dependent on foreign energy.

Our domestic infrastructures are corroding away, our education system is falling apart, we have fewer good-paying jobs and more home foreclosures than EVER in our nation, and all our president tells us is that "We must stay the course."

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Making Sense of Barack Obama, What He Says and the American Dilemma

Mon, 05 May 2008 00:57:18 -0700

I need to preface this commentary and say that I have been a member of the Republican Party since the Eisenhower administration of the 1950's.

I need to say that because there will be quite a few folks pointing their fingers and tongues at me as a "Liberal" and that's just not true.

I am just like so many people who are trying to make some sense of the past several decades of Democratic and Republican mismanagement of our nation, and also more or less "soul-searching" and wading through the seemingly endless well-practiced speeches of the candidates of the current presidential "primary", which has evolved into an Ironman marathon of candidate "two-stepping", media rhetoric and political gamesmanship.

Honestly, how the heck can you make any real sense of all this chaos?

I have been forcing myself to listen to the speeches of each of the candidates: John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. I have come to some conclusions that some people may or may not agree with, but I have based my presumptions and opinions with careful consideration.

Consequently, it is my opinion that Barack Obama is the more intelligent of the 3 candidates. Please note that I am NOT stating that he will win come election day or that he is the best candidate for the position.

I simply am saying that Obama is the "brightest" of the bunch.

That said, let's review a few of what Obama and I believe are urgent issues:

The war in Iraq

Middle East Nations

U.S. Budget and Expenditures

A Stagnated Congress

U.S. Economy / Recession

High Cost of Gasoline

A National or Socialized Health Care Program

Creation of Jobs

Education

Transportation

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