Tompkins County Against War & Occupation

[ August 5, 2008; 5:00 pm; ] Our next vigil/meeting will be on Tuesday, August 5 at 5:00 pm at the corner of Buffalo & Fulton Streets near GreenStar. We will rally from 5 to 6 pm and then make our way to an area eatery for our weekly meeting. The focus this week will be “No War on Iran,” [...]

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Join the forum discussion on this postPlease check out the article Unitarian Forgiveness on Crooks & Liars. The article articulates extremely well a widely shared response to the shootings at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville. In Ithaca, summer services are held from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. on Sunday. [...]

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The IVAW will kick off its national military bases tour this coming weekend, August 1-3d with three public events adjacent to Ft Drum in Watertown, N Y
Friday, August 1st, 7:00 pm, Fundraiser for IVAW’s Bases Tour at the Different Drummer Cafe, 12 Paddock Arcade, Watertown, NY 7:00 pm Readings by Iraq vets [...]

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Rep. Denis Kucinich, D-Ohio, 10th District and Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-New York, 22nd District, testify at the Judiciary Committee hearing “executive power and its constitutional limitation” July 25, 2008.

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[ August 2, 2008; 12:00 pm; ] SAVE THE DATE!!!!
Iraq Veterans Against the War is happy to announce that North East Winter Soldier will be held right here in Rochester this October 4th.

Planning Meeting
Saturday August 2nd @ 12 noon
Antiwar Storefront on Monroe Ave.

There is something for everyone to get excited about this summer, and we want your help. The second planning meeting [...]

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Join the forum discussion on this postHere is my commentary on the Impeachment Hearings (see action alert on right sidebar –you are most welcome to post your own commentary here after you take action):
As compliant and accommodating to central power as the American public often seems to be, there is something about being deceived [...]

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[ July 29, 2008; 4:45 pm; ] Peace-Now-Ithaca Vigil, Tuesday, July 29, 4:45 pm, at the corner of Cayuga & Green Streets. Join us as we rally to end the war in Iraq, support Iraq Veterans Against the War, praise the call for impeachment and encourage our City and County to pass the Sanctuary Resolution.

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Peace-Now-Ithaca is sponsoring a resolution which calls on the Ithaca Common Council and Tompkins County legislature to proclaim the city of Ithaca and Tompkins County to be a “Community of Sanctuary.” The resolution asks Ithaca police officers, county sheriffs and all other city and county officials [to the extent permitted by law] to protect [...]

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[ July 29, 2008; 7:00 pm; ] Soldiers and Students Speak Out
IVAW with Cornell CAN
Tuesday July 29 at 7 pm
Kaufman Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, CU campus

And here’s the agenda:

IVAW Segment:

IVAW members to provide background on who they are and what they do
IVAW to read passages from the book Warrior Writers
Announcement about upcoming IVAW bus tour stopping at Ft. Drum August 1-3

Peace-Now-Ithaca Segment:

Introduction [...]

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From impeachbush.org:
Congress may vote by Tuesday, July 15, on another impeachment resolution offered by Rep. Dennis Kucinich on July 10, 2008. This is a separate resolution from the 35-Articles of Impeachment that was introduced on June 9, 2008.
The new resolution is a single article of impeachment that accuses Bush of lying to Congress about Iraq’s [...]

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