Tompkins County Against War & Occupation

Speaking before the Pentecostal church, Palin painted the current war in Iraq as a messianic affair in which the United States could act out the will of the Lord.
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PBS cameras captured an IVAW member who unfurled banners reading “YOU CAN’T WIN AN OCCUPATION” and “McCAIN VOTES AGAINST VETS” during John McCain’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, Thursday, September 4, 2008.
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Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar were arrested by the Minneapolis Police Department. Charged with conspiracy to riot. Footage from Rick Rowley and Brandon Jourdan. ›Amy Goodman Arrested at RNC on Twin Cities Indymedia.
Goodman and two Democracy Now producers have been arrested on felony charges at the RNC.
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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 [...]

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CPTHebronAdded: August 14, 2008
Less than six months after the Israeli military raided orphanages and schools in Hebron, the Palestinian Authority followed suit in nearby villages. Christian Peacemaker Teams(CPT) visited the orphanage in Beit Ummar a few days after the PA raided it in August 2008.

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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.

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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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Last Friday night, Back to Democracy hosted a discussion of the New York State Marches for Peace walk to Fort Drum at the Trumansburg [...]

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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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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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