Tompkins County Against War & Occupation

[ June 4, 2008; 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm. ] The weekly Friday Winter Soldier screenings were suspended during the NYS March for Peace. This is the first of two make-up screenings scheduled for Wednesday, June 4. The second make-up screening will be Thursday, June 12. The regular Friday screenings will continue through June 20.

Gender issues and experience with sexism in the [...]

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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. The representatives selected a core group of Palestinian and International NGO’s to halt the Israeli attack against Islamic Charitable Society orphanages and schools. The core group will also develop programs to ease the anxiety that’s been part of the children’s lives from the day the army first began its crusade.

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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, [...]

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[ May 9, 2008; 7:00 pm; ] Colleen Kattau will sing. Mike Blake will speak. A representative of Military Families Speak Out may also speak. 7 pm Unitarian Universalist Church of Cortland, 3 South Church Street (Rte 11) Cortland.

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[ May 9, 2008; 8:00 pm; May 10, 2008; 8:00 pm; May 11, 2008; 4:00 pm; ] Kate Shearman is organizing a dance performance at the Community School of Music & Art to benefit a planned retreat center in Tompkins County for returning soldiers and veterans.

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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 [...]

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A short video from the tail end of the May Day rally on the Ithaca Commons. Speakers: Sally Wessels, E.S.L. Program; Marlena Fontes, Campus Antiwar Network Cornell chapter; Emma Banks, Immigrant & Refugee Services, Catholic Charities.

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Their union says the action is to protest the war in Iraq, but port operators and shippers say it’s an attempt to influence their contract. The 8-to-5 action affects 29 facilities from Seattle to San Diego.
By Louis Sahagun
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
12:08 PM PDT, May 1, 2008
Thousands of dockworkers at 29 West Coast ports, including [...]

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Video 2h:15m, 300 Kbps stream with chapters. Campus Antiwar Network (CAN), Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), the Watermargin Cooperative, and the Bully Pulpit sponsored this Winter Soldier event which started with a selected screening of testimonies from Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan held March 13-16 in Silversprings, Md., including: Jason Washburn, Bryan Casler, Garret Reppenhagen, Tanya Austin, Matthew Childers, and Jon Turner. This was followed by a CAN/IVAW panel including Iraq/Afghanistan veterans Eli Wright, Perry O’Brien, Michael Blake, and Vietnam veteran Ron Applegate. The event concluded with Q&A, with questions ranging from troop withdrawl and support for veterans, to the prospects for change through political action and organizing.

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[ May 1, 2008; 7:00 pm; ] THE RIGHT TO DISSENT
Thursday, May 1st
7pm in Lecture Hall 7
Presented by Binghamton Political Initiative

In the wake of the recent anti-war march on Vestal Parkway that resulted in the violent arrests of nine students, Binghamton Political Initiative will be holding a panel discussion entitled, ‘The Right to Dissent,’ on Thursday, May 1st in Lecture Hall 7 [...]

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