FLOOD THE MAYORS’ OFFICES ASAP St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman 651-266-8510 Minneapolis Mayor RT Rybak (612) 673-2100 (612) 673-3000 outside Minneapolis [...]
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From an activist in NYC getting reports as they come in: I know a lot of people have heard that last night the convergence space in St Paul was raided and that today a series of houses were raided and some organizers were picked off the street and arrested. There is a lot of information to [...] [...] [ September 4, 2008; 4:30 pm; ] September 4, Thursday: Irakli Kakabadze, Fiction Writer, Ithaca City of Asylum Writer in Residence 4:30 pm, Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall A writer and peace activist, Irakli Kakabadze has been a leading figure in the nonviolent movement for social change in Georgia for more than two decades. A member of the Civic Disobedience [...] [...] For more information, click here LET THEM KNOW THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING!!! For more information, click here Action Alert: Protest Police Treatment of DNC Activists Contact: Colorado Legal Eagles info@coloradolegaleagles.org [1] For photos and [...] [...] The Big Questions About Iraq By PATRICK COCKBURN Will Iraq disintegrate if the United States withdraws its combat troops? The US and Iraq are close to agreeing a security accord under which the US would pull its combat troops out of Iraqi cities, towns and villages on June 30, 2009 and out of Iraq by December 31, [...] [...] Activists Break Blockade of Gaza Israel Allows Boats to Deliver Symbolic Shipment of Aid By Linda Gradstein Special to The Washington Post Sunday, August 24, 2008; A12 JERUSALEM, Aug. 23 — Two wooden boats carrying dozens of human rights activists reached the Gaza Strip on Saturday afternoon after the Israeli navy decided no t to hinder the challenge to Israel’s [...] [...] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 18, 2008 Contact: Katherine Hughes katherinehugh [at] gmail.com Dr. Dhafir Support Committee Syracuse Doctor Sentenced to 22 Years in Prison for Helping Iraqi People Heads to Appeals Court August 28 in New York City Oral arguments in the case of Dr. Rafil Dhafir and the Help the Needy charity will be heard at the Second Circuit [...] [...] You are welcome to leave a comment with your thoughts about this alert. Send this message to President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Congressional Leaders, the United Nations, NATO Command, and major U.S. corporate media: Sign the petition: http://www.iacenter.org/anti-war/handsoffcaucasus U.S. Hands Off Georgia and Russia – END NATO NOW! TELL BUSH, CHENEY, RICE AND CONGRESS: U.S. HANDS OFF GEORGIA AND RUSSIA – [...] [...] Bio Matthew Rothschild is the editor of The Progressive magazine. Rothschild has appeared on Nightline, C-SPAN, The O’Reilly Factor, and NPR, and his newspaper commentaries have run in the Chicago Tribune, the L.A. Times, the Miami Herald, and a host of other newspapers. Rothschild is also the author of a book entitled You Have No Rights: Stories of America in Our Repressive Age (New Press, 2007). Rothschild is also the co-founder and director of The Progressive Media Project, which since 1993 has been distributing opinion pieces to newspapers around the country in an effort to diversify and democratize the national debate. [...] [ August 19, 2008; 5:00 pm; August 26, 2008; 5:00 pm; September 2, 2008; 5:00 pm; ] Ithaca Peace Now meets Tuesday at 5:00 pm for a vigil in the West end by the corner of State or Buffalo Street with Fulton (location may alternate). We’ll have our weekly meeting following the rally at 6:00 . “I heard from the Alternatives folks that they heard us loud and clear [...] [...] [ August 19, 2008; 1:00 pm; ] What: Appeal in Steuben County Court of Kuhl protest When: Tuesday August 19, 2008 1:00 PM Where: Steuben County Courthouse 3 E. Pultney Square, Bath Contact: Chris Tate 607 351-3768 or Ellen Grady 607 279-8303 www.FingerLakesForPeace.org Click here for press release [...] Finger Lakes For Peace For Immediate Release August 17, 2008 Activists to Appeal Convictions in Kuhl Protest. Arguments to begin Tuesday August 19th at 1:00 PM Danny Burns, Mark Scibilia-Carver, Ellen Grady, Todd Saddler, and Chris Tate are scheduled to appear in Stueben County Court at 1:00 PM this Tuesday August 19th with their attorney Ray Schlather, concerning the appeal [...] [...] Human Rights Watch report High Toll from Attacks on Populated Areas (Tbilisi, August 14, 2008) – Forces on both sides in the conflict between Georgia and Russia appear to have killed and injured civilians through indiscriminate attacks, respectively, on the towns of Gori and Tskhinvali, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch expressed its deep concern [...] [...] by Patrick J. Buchanan originally published August 15, 2008 by humanevents.com Mikheil Saakashvili’s decision to use the opening of the Olympic Games to cover Georgia’s invasion of its breakaway province of South Ossetia must rank in stupidity with Gamal Abdel-Nasser’s decision to close the Straits of Tiran to Israeli ships. Nasser’s blunder cost him the Sinai in the [...] [...] The large and very advanced nature of the US Naval warships is not only directed at Iran. There is a great fear that Russia and China may oppose the naval and air/land blockade of Iran. If Russian and perhaps Chinese naval warships escort commercial tankers to Iran in violation of the blockade it could be the most dangerous at-sea confrontation since the Cuban Missile Crisis. [...] The Syracuse Peace Council and other local peace activists aim to have a peace presence at the main gate of the NYS Fair Friday, 8/22 through Sunday, 8/31. Please sign up to join us for at least one day from 5-6:30 pm. We will gather at the grassy area (on the left as you face the [...] [...] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: AUGUST 10, 2008 FURTHER INFORMATION Dan Pearson 312-286-8535 Erin Cox 773-391-0040 13 ARRESTED AT FORT MCCOY IN IRAQ WAR CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE Fort McCoy, WI – On August 10, thirteen people were arrested at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin. They attempted to enter the military base to talk with National Guard and Army Reserve [...] [...] [ August 12, 2008; 5:00 pm; ] Join Peace Now for our next one hour Peace rally/vigil on Tuesday, August 12 at 5:00 pm on the corner of W. Seneca St and Fulton St near Alternatives & GreenStar. You’re also welcomed to join us after for our weekly meeting which will cover topics including our Sanctuary Petition, September Teach-in, IVAW’s Northeast Winter [...] [...] [ August 15, 2008 6:00 pm to August 16, 2008 5:00 pm. ] The 10th anniversary Kateri Tekakwitha Peace Conference, Nurturing Peace will be held on Friday evening, August 15 and Saturday, August 16, 2008. Please join us in this Interfaith conference, featuring Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Father Roy Bourgeios,M.M. and Colonel (ret.) Ann Wright at the National Kateri Tekakwitha Shrine in Fonda, NY. All are welcome! See web site [...] [...] |
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