Tompkins County Against War & Occupation

On September 16, the Community and Organizations committee of Common Council agreed to send the Sanctuary Resolution to final vote on Wednesday, October 1. Although the measure passed handily in committee, there is no guarantee that it will pass next week when the full Council officially votes on the measure. Council members may feel [...]

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Iraq War Resister Jeremy Hinzman won a stay of deportation this week as a judge refused to allow Canada to send him back to the United States to face prosecution for desertion. Hinzman is one of numerous war resisters currently in Canada. Despite the Canadian parliament passing [...]

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North East Winter Soldier
Saturday, October 4th, Rochester, New York
Monroe Community College, Building 4 (Theater)
1000 East Henrietta Road, 14623
Registration starts at 11am, event starts promptly at 12:00 noon -7:00pm
http://www.rochesterIVAW.org
If you would like to help set up, arrive between 9am and 9:30am, we can use all the help we can get!
North East Winter Soldier will feature images, [...]

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[ October 1, 2008; 5:30 pm; ]
Rally to Demand an Economy That Works for Everyone
Main Street, Not Wall Street!

What: A Rally on The Commons in Ithaca to Demand an Economy That Works for Everyone

When: Wednesday, October 1, 2008 @ 5:30 p.m.

Where: Bernie Milton Pavilion (Center Pavilion, on edge of Bank Alley at corner of E. State and Tioga Sts. in Ithaca)

Who: [...]

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[ October 1, 2008; 7:00 pm; ] Please join us: We need a large crowd at the upcoming final vote. We have four to five people lined up to speak on the resolution’s behalf, and now need to gather a large crowd to show Common Council that the resolution has widespread support amongst constituents. Common Council will ask those in the [...]

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[ October 4, 2008; 3:00 pm; ] Russia’s attack on the Republic of Georgia, the tiny Eastern European country to its east, grabbed headlines this August. But Georgia’s biggest enemy is the idea that war is the solution to the territorial conflict-or any conflict-says Irakli Kakabadze, a Georgian writer, poet, and playwright who fled his native country in 2007 when his life [...]

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Russia’s attack on the Republic of Georgia, the tiny Eastern European country to its east, grabbed headlines this August. But Georgia’s biggest enemy is the idea that war is the solution to the territorial conflict-or any conflict-says Irakli Kakabadze, a Georgian writer, poet, and playwright who fled his native country in 2007 when his life was threatened as the result of his writing, antiwar, and human rights activism. “Peace is a dangerous idea to some people,” he observes.
Kakabadze will give a free public reading of his work this year’s Voices of Freedom event, scheduled for 3:00 p.m., Saturday, October 4, at the Unitarian Church of Ithaca.

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Join the forum discussion on this postBy: Irakli Zurab Kakabadze
It is a little more than a month since the world watched a bloody confrontation unfold between Georgia and Russia over South Ossetia.  The conflict was sparked by a miscalculation on the part of Mikhail Saakashvili, President of Georgia, who apparently felt emboldened by [...]

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[ September 29, 2008; 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm. ] ‘Peace zones’ plan for Georgia-Russia crisis will be presented by Ambassador John McDonald
Monday at Cornell

WHAT: Lecture: “The Most Practical Vision for Solving the Georgia-Russia Crisis”
WHEN: Monday, Sept. 29, 2008, 2:30-5:30 p.m.
WHERE: G08, Uris Hall, Cornell University
WHO: Former U.S. Ambassador John W. McDonald; free and open to the public

ITHACA, [...]

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[ September 26, 2008; 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm. September 27, 2008; 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm. ] Right now, we are planning to petition on Friday and Saturday. John and/or I will be at the Cayuga/Buffalo Street corner of Dewitt Park from 12 to 2 on Friday and Saturday to hand out clipboards to anyone who wants to petition (we’ll also be petitioning).

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