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Featured Video: Truth and Truthiness episode 2
Featured Video: The Rev. Billy on the Ithaca Commons
Rev Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir exorcise the demon Monsanto from the Cornell Ag School while visiting the Ithaca Commons on April 20, 2008
Featured Video: The Rev. Billy
Rev Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir exorcise a Starbucks cash register, sending money back to Ethopia coffee farmers. Starbucks is blocking Ethiopians from trademarking specialty coffee names, where a trademark could help them negotiate a higher sale price.
Featured Video: An Interview with Riad Hamad
Riad Hamad is a non-violent activist in Austin, Texas who was found drowned, bound with duct tape, in Lady Bird Lake near Austin, TX. This interview produced bt Free Speech TV gives the context of the FBI's harassment of Mr. Hamad for his charity work helping Palestinians. It brings into focus who this man is and why we should remember and honor him, counters the lies being propagated that he supports violence and terrorism. It is hard to fathom that was a suicide. But even if it was, the Bush administration and its right-wing allies are still implicated.
Featured Video: Combat Paper, Scene from "Paper Over Iraq"
Local activists rallied at Cayuga & Green below Rep. Maurice Hinchey Ithaca office on July 1 to publicly express their appreciation of the Congressman’s co-sponsorship of H.Res. 1258 ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH. This short 3-minute video also contains a text track that displays the titles for all thirty-five articles of impeachment —a lot of articles which fly by in a short time. Pause the video and use the scrub bar to read each one.
Over the last four weeks 102 House Democrats and 117 Republicans have agreed to cosponsor a new resolution against Iran that demands that President Bush “initiate an international effort” to impose a land, sea, and air blockade on Iran to prevent it from importing gasoline and to inspect all cargo entering or leaving Iran. Among them is Rep. Michael Arcuri, D. NY 24th, who’s district includes the Towns of Caroline, Dryden, Enfield, Newfield, Lansing, Groton, and Ulysses. [Read more →]
Back to Democracy devoted their regular meeting last Friday to a discussion on the NYS Marches for Peace walk to Watertown and Fort Drum, Alexis Alexander introduced the panel which included Nevin Sabet , John Hamilton and Lynn McMannus. She gave a summary personality and flavor of the march day to day and people’s positive reception and involvement of IVAW and those who have loved ones in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the ever evolving community of people coming in and out of community of walkers. [Read more →]
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Last Friday night, Back to Democracy hosted a discussion of the New York State Marches for Peace walk to Fort Drum at the Trumansburg Firehall. I am posting the video I edited for that event. [Read more →]
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Well everybody, its been a long haul getting through to Hinchey about impeachment this past 12-18 months including meeting with him and Dan Lamb numerous times, getting petitions signed by 3,000 citizens favoring Kucincich’s resolution, staging puppetry activities, having our resolution adopted in city council and county legislature, and so on…… so we are planning a rally to celebrate and show our support for his recent action and change of heart.
Please join us if you can, July 1 Tuesday, 4:30 pm in front of Hinchey’s office corner of Cayuga and Green. Bring appropriate signs, we’ll also have some extras…any questions can be directed to peace-now-ithaca@googlegroups.com.
It is official. Representaive Maurice Hinchey, Dem NY 22nd Congressional District, has co-sponsored House Resolution 1258Impeaching George W. Bush, President of the United States, of high crimes and misdemeanors.
Hinchey has not yet cosigned H. Res. 333 to impeach Vice President Richard B. Cheney, nor has he yet cosigned Rep. Robert Wexler’s (D-FL) letter which calls for impeachment hearings against Cheney.
Hinchey cosigned H. Res. 1258 Wednesday along with Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), the two Representatives becoming the fourth and fifth cosigners of the bill authored by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH).
Here are the cosigners with the dates they added their names to the bill:
Rep Wexler, Robert [FL-19] - 6/11/2008
Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. [CA-6] - 6/11/2008
Rep Lee, Barbara [CA-9] - 6/11/2008
Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. [NY-22] - 6/18/2008
Rep Baldwin, Tammy [WI-2] - 6/18/2008
Hinchey has been under pressure from many of his constituents to make a strong stand on impeachment ever since he publicly called for the impeachment of President Bush but then recanted - calling for the much weaker action of a censure of Bush and Cheney for their pre-war lies instead.
PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 10 May 2008
From: Christian Peacemaker Teams — Hebron Phone: 972 (0)2 222 8485
CPT-NYC Contact: Mary Anne Grady Flores 1-607-280-8797 (just back from Hebron) http://www.hebronorphans.blogspot.org
Representatives from Christian Peacemaker Teams, UNICEF, UNOCHA, Save the Children UK, Defense for Children International, the YMCA, Relief International and other human rights organizations met in Hebron on 8 May to help Hebron’s orphans and students who live with the fear that the Israeli military will close their homes and schools. [Read more →]
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Marchers rally in Dewitt Park then proceed through the Ithaca Commons, up state street hill and the Cornell campus. We pick up the marchers against at their destination, the Dryden Community Building. Rally speakers: John Hamilton, Tom DeGloma, Linda Finlay, Mike Blake, Colleen Boland, and Bob Nape. Musicians: John Simon and Ken Zeserman. Interviews at rally with Frank Baldwin and Rebecca Elgie, and along march with Mike Blake and Louis Debenedette and Rebecca Elgie, among others.(Video credit: Cris McConkey)
I am a member of the video documentation team for New York State Marches for Peace. The march has three converging routes which start May 8 in Ithaca, Rochester and Utica and finish on May 17 at the the Ft. Drum Spring Festival in Watertown. This march brings together various local peace groups with Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) and Military Families Speak Out. Along the route there will be public events. As a member of the video documentation team, I will be gathering footage for a documentary. I also will be uploading video from the march as often as I can. [Read more →]
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