[ 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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Please 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. This Sunday, we will follow with a [...] [...] 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 [...] [...] 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. [...] [ 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 [...] [...] [ 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. [...] 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 [...] [...] [ 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 [...] [...] 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 [...] [...] Embedded in Iraq By Michael Massing "Embedded in Iraq", the title of Michael Massing’s article in the current issue of the New York Review of Books in the New York Review of Books, has a surprising double entendre. He concludes: Iranian hegemony over Iraq: that is the Bush administration’s worst nightmare. The Iraq invasion was [...] [...] [ July 10, 2008; 7:00 pm; ] Dear CNY human rights activists, Thanks to many of you for attending “Israel’s 60th Birthday: Catastrophe for Palestinians” and “Hebron Schools and Orphanages Update” in Ithaca. You are invited to an Occupation Witness meeting to get an update about the political and human rights situation in Israel-Palestine and help plan future actions for summer and fall in Central New York. [...] [...] [qt:http://cmprovideo.net/streaming1/Thankyou_Hinchey_7-1-08/Thankyou_Hinchey_7-1-08.mov http://cmprovideo.net/streaming1/Thankyou_Hinchey_7-1-08/Thankyou_Hinchey_7-1-08-poster.mov 480 336] Streaming at 512|384|256 kbps. Duration: 2’49″ Open in Quicktime Player full screen Here is another video which includes Articles of Impeachment with Neil Young’s song ‘Let’s Impeach the President’ Local activists rallied at Cayuga & Green below Rep. Maurice Hinchey Ithaca office on July 1 to publicly express their appreciation [...] [...] What was he thinking? 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 [...] [...] [ July 1, 2008; 4:30 pm; ] Rally to thank Rep. Maurice Hinchey for co-sponsoring House Resolution 1258 Impeaching George W. Bush, President of the United States, of high crimes and misdemeanors Assemble at corner of Cayuga & Green streets, beneath the congressman’s Ithaca office. [...] |
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Commentary: Impeachment Hearing start Friday
Here 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 and lied to that should raise hackles [...] [...]