Tompkins County Against War & Occupation

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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Join the forum discussion on this postFOR 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Join the forum discussion on this postby 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Join the forum discussion on this postI received the following response from my congressman, Michael Arcuri, clarifying his co-sponsorship of House Concurrent Resolution 362. I had joined many constituents who were alarmed the he would sign a resolution that “demands that the President initiate an international effort … prohibiting the export to 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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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 [...]

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Here is another video which includes Articles of Impeachment with Neil Young’s song ‘Let’s Impeach the President’
Local activists [...]

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