Tompkins County Against War & Occupation

Here are 3 simple steps that you can do to support the oppressed in Palestine:

1. Please call 202-540-3000 This is the Obama Biden transition team telephone number and let them know your thoughts on the conflict. Below is a suggested discussion.
2. Go to www.change.gov, (Obama-Biden website) register yourself, and voice your opinion on the conflict on the foreign policy tab. (below is a suggested discussion)
3. Forward this message on to everyone you know

read more

As the number of casualties continues to mount, civilians in Gaza are in increasingly dire need of food, medical and other emergency assistance. Ask Secretary Rice to urgently express deep concern about Israel's disproportional response and its policies which have brought the Gaza Strip to the brink of humanitarian disaster. Also urge Secretary Rice to call on Israeli authorities and Hamas to immediately cease all unlawful attacks and help reverse the dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza by exerting pressure on Israel to open the crossings to allow adequate quantities of humanitarian aid -- including food, water, medicine and fuel into Gaza.

TAKE ACTION

Save the NY Guard

As the war in Iraq changes from an invasion to a long-term occupation, the President no longer has Congressional authorization for the war. That means that Gov. Paterson is not required to accept the federalization of members of the New York State National Guard to serve in Iraq. Please join PANYS and our allies in a campaign to keep the New York Guard at home where they belong!
For more information, click here.
To sign an on-line petition, click here. Or download a petition here.
To go to the Save the Guard campaign web site, click here.

The ANSWER Coalition is joining with other coalitions, organizations, and networks in a March on the Pentagon on the sixth anniversary of the Iraq war: Saturday, March 21.

http://www.rochesterIVAW.org

VIDEO from North East Winter Soldier

The body of evidence proving George Bush deliberately lied to Congress and the American people about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction is overwhelming. The Senate and House Intelligence Committees have never held hearings on all the well-placed sources who reported Iraq had no WMD's. To honor the U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians who have died for WMD's that did not exist, we urge immediate hearings.
Sign our petition

U.S. Hands Off Georgia and Russia - END NATO NOW!

International Action Center TELL BUSH, CHENEY, RICE AND CONGRESS: U.S. HANDS OFF GEORGIA AND RUSSIA - NO NEW WAR - END NATO NOW!
TAKE ACTION

CPT 2 August 2008 Twenty-three year-old independent journalist Soran Hama was assassinated last week in Kirkuk, Iraq. Before his death, Soran had written articles critical of Kurdish authorities. (See accompanying release, "IRAQ: Journalist's assassination exposes lack of democracy". Supporters of Soran Hama, democracy and human rights in Iraqi Kurdistan are circulating a letter and asking that international support and pressure be brought to bear upon Kurdish authorities whom they hold responsible for this murder. They are calling for a quick international investigation of this killing in order to find out who is directly responsible and to counter the threat that this assassination poses to free expression and democracy in Iraq and Kurdistan. TAKE ACTION.

Please join PDA, The Council for the National Interest and other groups in a national call-in/email campaign to OPPOSE H.C.R 362 and S. Res. 580, the Blockade of Iran bills, and SUPPORT H.C.R. 321, which calls for a diplomatic initiative with Iraq, Iran, Syria, and neighboring countries as a means of getting out of Iraq and resolving other disputes.

TAKE ACTION

At long last, the outcry from the American people for Constitutional justice has compelled the House Judiciary Committee to convene its first hearing, this Friday, July 25th. But will they be real hearings, where members of Congress actually honor their duty to protect and defend the Constitution, or just a fly by with action on impeachment itself still expressly off the agenda?

TAKE ACTION

To: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Department of State, 2201 C Street NW, Washington, DC 20520
We, the undersigned, condemn Israel’s appalling treatment of Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs Gaza correspondent and author of the magazine’s regular feature, “Gaza on the Ground.” The 24-year-old Palestinian journalist was brutally assaulted by Israeli Shin Bet security officials at the Allenby Bridge border crossing on his way home to Gaza on June 26. He had just received the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, which he shared with independent American journalist Dahr Jamail.
TAKE ACTION

March to a Different Drummer—Join the Peace March to Ft. Drum, Watertown
Finger Lakes for Peace (FLFP)—Save our Troops, Bring Them Home!
Ithaca Peace Vigil—Ithaca's longest running peace vigil
Iraq Veterans Against the War
Rochester Against War
Different Drummer Café—Welcomes service members & their guests
The Yellow Rose of Texas Bus for Peace—A journey to help get US out of Iraq
Upstate NY Antiwar Network—September 29 mobilization in Syracuse
COURAGE TO RESIST —supports military objectors
Back to Democracy —Progressive Voices in the Fingerlakes Region