Hi Pinks and those interested in going to DC for the Jan 27 protest:
CodePINK has its own travel website...check out the link...you can use this link to check for any of your travel plans. Cheapest round trip airfare to DC I found is $164 roundtrip out of JAX. Check out the link.
Message forwarded through PDA, Luis Cuevas. sorry if it is a duplicate - hope to see you in the pink!
Stop the Bushwacking
Meet at Westside Park, hold up signs on the corner of 34th St and 8th Avenue, busy intersection. Take turns holding up signs on each of the 4 corners, and talking at the picnic tables about further action.
January 11, 2007 From: 06:00 PM
Note: CodePINK Women Say: "Pull Out Now!" Wear Pink, bring a sign or use a CodePINK sign.
The most important thing you can do to end war is SHOW UP FOR PEACE EVENTS. Please try to
show up early while there is still daylight. - Jacque Betz. Need a ride? Call me 352-468-2101
CODE; PINK
My sign today: Women Say: Pull Out NOW!
You look marvelous in pink -- see you today?
Message from Pierce and Luis below:
>
>> Subject: Actions Thursday, Saturday, Monday
>
> Hello -
>
> I didn't listen to The Decider's spiel tonight, but I have no doubt I
> wouldn't have liked it.
>
> Others seem to have reached the same conclusion: there are at least
> two street demos planned for Thursday to protest. What I've received
> so far is at the end of this message; here's the gist:
>
> Thursday, 1/11, 4:30 pm: SW 34th St & Archer Road: bring or make
> signs, meet in the CVS parking lot.
> Thursday, 1/11, 6:00 pm: NW 34th St & 8th Ave: park at NW Park parking lot.
>
> (Yes, this shows we do need better coordination locally!)
>
> Also, as I should've mentioned in my last bulletin:
>
> The Gainesville Interfaith Peace Center is emerging from "rest mode"
> after the conclusion of our second successful "Solutions to Violence"
> discussion series.
> As previously announced, we will meet for planning next steps on
> Saturday, January 13, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Note the new
> location: Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1521 NW 34th Street.
> Bring your ideas and suggestions. Already on the table: a prayer
> vigil on the 4th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, similar to the
> event we sponsored last year at the Downtown Community Plaza.
> PLEASE PASS THIS INVITATION ON TO YOUR FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES!
>
> And I can't resist adding another reminder that the Gvl Peace Forum
> meets yet again at the Civic Media Center on Saturday, 1/13, at 2 pm.
> The situation is getting worse - let's get off our tails and do
> things!
>
> Speaking of doing things: Vets for Peace agreed at their meeting
> tonight (Wednesday) to turn out as many as we can with signs and
> banners for peace at the MLK Day March on Monday, 1/15, 12 noon. That
> march starts right after the MLK rally at the Downtown Plaza (which
> itself starts at 10 am), and proceeds down University Ave to Waldo
> Rd, then north to the MLK Center just past NW 8th Ave. There will be
> buses to return marchers to the downtown area (or you can go into the
> center for gospel music and other MLK celebrations and catch other
> buses when that's over). Anyway, you don't need to be a vet to march
> with Vets for Peace - or you can show up and march with pro-peace
> (and/or pro-King, pro-civil rights) signs along with everyone else.
>
> I know there's at least one other event coming up real soon that I
> should be including here, but it probably won't pop into my mind
> until I'm about to go to sleep, and I'd rather get this out pronto.
> If you know what it is, please send it out to everyone on the To:
> list for this message!
>
> The G'ville Iguana deadline has been moved back again, and the next
> issue will be a combined Jan-Feb edition. Whatever you've got going
> that should be in the calendar, pls send it to me by Tuesday morning
> (1/16).
>
> Peace,
>
> Pierce
>
> PS: More details on tomorrow's actions:
>
> Now the Democrats in congress are wimping out on stopping yet another
> escalation of the Iraqi war.They just want to make a symbolic
> gesture, while giving up their constitutional responsibilities. Bush
> will call for more sacrificial victims to to be offered on the altar
> to his vanity and they will give them to him.
> Will you remain idle? I know I won't, I still have a certain
> "attraction" for charging against windmills, I guess it is in my
> blood, and I know that within everyone of you there is a crusty old
> Son and Daughter of Liberty, a believer in social justice and
> supporter of everything that is decent, ready to stand up and deliver
> for your country, let's do it!
>
> How much preparation does it take to grab a sign and rush to the very
> busy corner of sw 34th St. and Archer Road at 4:30 PM on Jan. 11th
> 2007? We will start at the Walgreen's corner and take over the other
> corners as people join us. [I think this means the CVS store, which
> used to be a Walgreen's - prb]
>
> Tell Democrats "don't you dare go back on your words!"
> Democrats of Alachua and Florida tell party leaders "not on our watch"
>
> Join me in this quest, Floridians all over the state are rising to
> the occasion, We jut need one liners and noisemakers: Pass it on,
> far and wide!
>
> No more wars!
> No more deaths!
> No more money for War!
> No more lies!
> Stop the insanity!
> War does not work!
> Honk for peace!
>
> Type them on Word, use font 72 then take it to a print shop and blow
> it up for $5 at Target Copy
>
> In Peace and Solidarity
>
> Luis
>
>
> Join PDA and Allies Working to End the War and Expressing the Will of
> the People:
>
> Watch Rep. McGovern's Video on Cutting off Funding for the War
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeKsXxu69mk>
>
> Sign the Petition to Support Cutting off Funding for the War
> <http://pdamerica.org/petition/mcgovern-petition.php>
>
> Join PDA and UFPJ's March on D.C., Saturday, Jan. 27
> <http://www.pdamerica.org/articles/news/2006-12-22-10-41-08-news.php>
>
> Find an America Says
> NO! Event in Your Area
>
<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/truemajority/event/distri\
butedEventSearch.jsp?distributed_event_KEY=242&tag=pda>
>
>
>
> Stop the Bushwacking
>
> Meet at Westside Park, hold up signs on the corner of 34th St and 8th
> Avenue, busy intersection. Take turns holding up signs on each of the
> 4 corners, and talking at the picnic tables about further action.
> January 11, 2007
> From: 06:00 PM
>
> <>Sign up here
>
>
Howdy and Aloha
The Peace Ribbon Project is currently being displayed in Hawaii. Here is a
photo show for you about the Peace Ribbon. Thanks Marsha, Teresa and those
wonderful feisty Hawaii women.
Your pal for peace,
Jacque
If you would like to display the Peace Ribbon Project or make a panel, please
email me or call me at 352-468-2101. Send completed panels to:
Jacqueline Betz
PO Box 437
Waldo, Florida 32694
>
> From: "MarshaRose" <mrjoy@...>
> Date: 2007/01/11 Thu AM 04:22:53 EST
> To: "Aloha Friends" <mrjoy@...>
> Subject: Fw: The PeaceRibbon Project PhotoShow
>
>
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> I am forwarding two photos of the pink sign at theJan 11 demonstration at 34th
and Archer Rd. There were about 25 people at the Archer rd. demo and then about
25 people at the 34th and NW 8th Av demonstration. We had lots of beeps and
thumbs up. Wish you were there...
Please try to SHOW UP for little peace actions - it's only an hour of your time
and it is energizing. We need YOU to work for peace.
> Subject: photos
>
> Hi Jacqueline,
>
> It really was a pleasure meeting you. Just a few lines to encourage you to
> continue leading the cause of opposing that useless and crazy war (as any
> other war is and has been).
>
> I am attaching a couple of photos I took at 34th street and Archer Road.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Jose
>
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>
> I am forwarding two photos of the pink sign at theJan 11 demonstration at 34th
and Archer Rd. There were about 25 people at the Archer rd. demo and then about
25 people at the 34th and NW 8th Av demonstration. We had lots of beeps and
thumbs up. Wish you were there...
Please try to SHOW UP for little peace actions - it's only an hour of your time
and it is energizing. We need YOU to work for peace.
> Subject: photos
>
> Hi Jacqueline,
>
> It really was a pleasure meeting you. Just a few lines to encourage you to
> continue leading the cause of opposing that useless and crazy war (as any
> other war is and has been).
>
> I am attaching a couple of photos I took at 34th street and Archer Road.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Jose
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE!
> http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/
>
>
Just a reminder for peace folks to join Emmanuel Mennonite Church, Vets for Peace & others on Mon, Jan 15 for the annual ML King gathering & march. The Program is at Noon on the Downtown Plaza. The March, from Downtown to the MLK Center, begins at 1pm. Activities at the MLK Center will eventually move into a gospel program. But go inside for the beginning speeches by local & state officials! Some of it can be lame but some speakers are quite powerful in their call for justice, condemnation of Washington, etc. Should be interesting with Dems now in power & hugh numbers rejecting the Bush plan to see what is said. I always stay for this part & never regret it. Miriam "God didn't call America to engage in a senseless, unjust war" mlk jr
On January 24 in Gainesville there will a walk to celebrate Granny D's 97th birthday. Please post at codepinkgainesville if you plan to attend. I hope to be there - Jacque Betz 468-2101
Subject: Tribute Trek for Granny D (Campaign Finance Reform)
TO: The Friends of Susan B. Anthony (FoSBA)
From: the Coordinator of FoSBA, June Littler
You are receiving this email by virtue of the fact that we have received most of your addresses from your registration at the last FoSBA meeting on Aug. 26, 2006, where Doris "Granny D" was our speaker and Doris Bardon received our award. You may have had guests on your registration slip who also have email addresses, which we did not get, so please forward this message as far and wide as you want to.
On Wed., Jan. 24, 2007, there will be a ten mile walk in honor of Doris "Granny D" Haddock's 97th birthday and as a tribute to her 10 mile a day walk across the United States in 1999-2000 for 14 months to bring attention to Campaign Finance Reform. Walking supporters will gather at the Westside Recreation Center, 1001 NW 34th St., in the parking lot before 10 a.m. and walk to the Gainesville Downtown Plaza, arriving about noon to meet up with other supporters for a bring-your-own brown bag lunch. (If you park in the parking garage off SW 3rd St. and 1st Ave. you can count that as part of YOUR walk.) After a few explanatory remarks about the walk Vivian Filer will read the Declaration of Independence, as Granny D did another time at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. From there the walkers will continue west, through the UF Campus to the Reitz Union, to the Law School, south on Village Drive to Radio Rd. and then west to 34th St. before ending up at the point of origin. (There may be a slight jog in the road to the fire station west of 34th St. to fill out the mileage.) You may join us at any point and leave anytime (cell phones are so handy to ask the family taxi to pick you up). We will be on the sidewalk all the way.
There are a few more t-shirts that are available for $10, in sizes Med., Large, and X-Large. Please let me know by Monday night which ones you want. They are gold with black letters. On the back is "Campaign Finance Reform" and on the front is: "Granny D, Tribute Trek, Gainesville, Florida, 10 miles / 1 day, for her 97th birthday, 24 January 2007"
The actual flag that she carried, "Campaign Finance Reform" is on loan from her and will be displayed at the Downtown Plaza when the walkers arrive.
For more information on clean elections and campaign finance reform see http://www.fcan.org/Clean_money/cleanmoney.htm or follow the links from www.grannyd.com. Those interested in campaign finance reform are welcome to join in the walk or meet at the plaza at noon.
Call 352-371-6944 for more information on the walk.
June Littler 5127 NW 25th Place Gainesville, FL 32606-6420 352-371-6944 juned@... 352-870-3152 cell phone
Hi Pinks,
I attended the Peace Forum Saturday, 1/13, and below find a summary of
upcoming actions based on the meeting. Please, please, mark your calendar!
Tomorrow, Monday, will be the MLK Day parade - CodePINK will have a pink banner
so please please show up and, if possible, wear pink and let's walk with the
peace contingency. I get so lonely when none of my pink peace pals are around.
Last year there was two of us - can we at least try for three people this year?
Meet at the Downtown Community Plaza at noon, look for the pink banner that
says:
OUR LIVES BEGIN TO END WHEN WE BECOME SILENT ABOUT THINGS THAT MATTER-MLK
If you need a ride or want to carpool, call me at 468-2101.
jacque
>
> From: "Pierce R. Butler" <pbutler@...>
> Date: 2007/01/14 Sun PM 12:19:16 EST
> > Subject: Peace Forum Report & MLK Day correction
>
> A surge of antiwar feeling brought 21 people (representing at least
> 14 groups) out to the 9th Gvl Peace Forum on Saturday at the Civic
> Media Center; the immediate next goal is to bring a much larger surge
> to the MLK Day march on Monday. My previous bulletins had a mistaken
> time on that: the actual factual is that the march starts at 1 pm
> (not noon) from the downtown plaza, and the warm-up events start at
> noon (not 10 am): updated details at
>
http://www.co.alachua.fl.us/government/depts/comm/pressreleases.aspx?pr_id=4702
> .
>
> Veterans for Peace and the Civic Media Center will each have large
> banners: get there early to find the organization you want to march
> with, bring pro-peace signs if you can, and wear your walkin' shoes!
> (And bring sign-up lists, if your organization is planning other
> pro-peace projects that civil rights workers and other King
> supporters might want a piece of.)
>
> One such project will be getting underway even before the march is
> finished: "Victory Over Violence", a series of short presentations
> and exercises in conflict prevention and resolution, starts at 2 pm
> at the Wilhelmina Johnson Center, 321 NW 10th St. VOV is a
> youth-sponsored initiative to counteract the causes of violence among
> teens and their communities, and will be followed at 3 pm by a free
> yoga session. For more info, contract Kali Blount (278-8510,
> blounk@...) or Cathrine Beaunae (384-1258).
>
> Another '60s phenomenon re-emerges on 1/15 at 6 pm, as the new!
> improved! Students for a Democratic Society gathers at the Civic
> Media Center to plan its next semester.
>
> That same evening at 7 pm, as on every 3rd Monday until further
> notice, the Peace Alliance will meet at the 2nd Street Bakery (just a
> little south of NW 8th Ave), to continue their work to create a
> national Department of Peace: the major topic will probably be
> planning for their national conference and lobbying effort in
> Washington DC, February 3-5. Get the details from Dan Kahn,
> dankahn2468@..., &/or http://www.thepeacealliance.org/ .
>
> Jumping back to the CMC, after the rubble and the rabble from the SDS
> have been bulldozed away, at 8 pm comes a screening of the
> documentary _Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea_. Yeah, it's not
> really a peace-related item - but anything we can do to support CMC
> events _does_ support peace work in Gainesville...
>
> After Monday comes Tuesday, which means this is as good a place as
> any to remind everyone that CCAWT hosts picketing against the war(s)
> & occupation(s) on the 1st & 3rd Tuesdays of each month,
> approximately 4-6 pm, at the corner of Archer Rd & SW 34th St, and on
> the 2nd & 4th Tuesdays, ditto, at the corner of W. University Ave &
> 13th St - lots of signs available, or show up with your own.
>
> Next, chronologically, the Community Coalition Against War &
> Terrorism, aka CCAWT, meets Thursday, 1/18, 6 pm, at the Wilhelmina
> Johnson Ctr, 321 NW 10th St. The agenda will include activities for
> 1/27 and 2/15 - see below.
>
> Saturday, 1/20, 8 am - 3 pm, the Peace Alliance will be holding a
> "huge" yard sale at the Seraphim Center, 412 NE 16th Ave. To donate
> goodies beforehand, contact 352-337-9126 / dopncf@....
>
> Saturday, 1/27, features a national anti-war demo organized by Win
> Without War http://www.winwithoutwarus.org/, True Majority
> http://www.truemajority.org/ & United for Peace & Justice
> http://www.unitedforpeace.org/ in Washington, with support actions
> across the country. For the DC side of things, check the above web
> sites, as well as the Progressive Democrats for America
> http://pdamerica.org/ (PDA people will be staying at the Harrington
> Hotel - which still has vacancies, but not for long; if you want to
> join their contingent, contact state coordinator Luis A. Cuevas
> (lcuevas@..., 352-213-0637).)
>
> Back here in Hoggetowne, a banquet of 1/27 events is being planned to
> suit a variety of tastes:
> * Jacque Betz (jacquebetz@..., 352-468-2101) and Code Pink are
> planning a get-out-the-letters campaign with "secretaries" setting up
> tables at several locations to ask passersby to "dictate" messages to
> Congress, the White House, etc, for peace - volunteers, card tables,
> manual typewriters, laptop computers, etc are needed.
> * Faith Carr (faithccarr@..., 335-0771) has a vision of every
> vehicle in town sporting a "January 27 - Troops Home Now" sign; she
> also will be coordinating a freeway signage project (see
> http://www.freewayblogger.com/ for examples) to create & hang banners
> across I-75 overpasses for the day.
> * Some of us will also congregate at W. University Ave & 13th St
> with anti-war signs, probably starting around 3 pm (but some may be
> earlier, or later: peace people just aren't very good at marching in
> lockstep).
> * The day's local fun wraps up at 5 pm with a demonstration at the
> new county courthouse on S. Main St & 2nd Ave, where we'll gather,
> compare notes, guzzle pink lemonade from Code Pink, wave signs at
> drivers-by, and (assuming the plan for borrowing sound equipment
> succeeds) listen to a speaker or two, maybe even a musician).
> * The more the merrier: if your outfit has yet other schemes for
> the day, bring 'em on! (And don't forget to notify the local media as
> well as Peace Forum members...)
>
> On Wednesday, 2/7, 7 pm, the Unitarian Fellowship launches the first
> session of "Compassionate Conversation: Building Peace in Your Life
> and the World", a series of evening discussions based on Marshall
> Rosenberg's book _Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life_
> (which - just sayin' - you should probably buy and read before
> attending). These classes continue on Wednesdays through March 28th:
> the gritty details can be extracted from 352-377-1669 or
> admin@....
>
> But nobody can get away from conflict in this wicked ol' world, at
> least not scheduling conflict: that same evening, at 7:30 pm, Martin
> Luther King III speaks at the Curtis M. Phillips Center for
> Performing Arts, 315 Hull Road on the UF campus (off SW 34th St).
>
> On Saturday, 2/10, 10 am, the Interfaith Peace Center continues a
> winning streak at the Westminster Presbyterian Church (corner of NW
> 34th St & 16th Ave) with the 1st of the 3rd series in their highly
> successful "Solutions to Violence" workshops, led by Don Wilson from
> the Gainesville Friends Meeting. ("First of the third... what the???"
> That means there will be 6 workshops, on the 2nd & 4th Saturdays of
> February, March & April; and that this is the third time the IPC has
> offered a "Solutions to Violence" 6-pack, though each workshop covers
> a new topic, not a re-run. In fact, the show starts at 9:45 am for
> those who haven't done the preparatory reading and want a quick
> getting-up-to-speed.) Even though these workshops are held in a
> church and sponsored by an interfaith group, it is not intended as a
> religious program and carries no theological baggage: atheists &
> agnostics need not fear conversion efforts. Eve MacMaster
> (gnvmenno@..., 377-6577) will tell you whatever else you
> need to know, within reason...
>
> The next item on the Peace Forum calendar for the month is, well, the
> Peace Forum meeting on Saturday, 2/10, 2-4 pm, at the Civic Media
> Center (1021 W. University Ave): Cookies! Juice! Conspiracies!
>
> Thursday, 2/15, will be the 4th anniversary of hundreds of people
> around the world standing up to (try to) inform Boy George that
> invading Iraq would be a Really Dumb Idea. The Civic Media Center,
> CCAWT, Vets for Peace & Santa Fe Community College student groups
> will probably sneak a few "we told you so's" into a speak-out planned
> at SFCC for Iraq & Afghan vets that evening (exact time & location
> tba). The idea will be for the vets - any vets of the "Gee-What"
> (Global War on Terror, or GWOT - yes, it does sound like "jihad"...)
> - to say their piece, with the rest of us just listening, & asking
> questions. Documentaries about the war will be shown all day at the
> CMC, and we hope to offer one (possibly _The Ground Truth_
> http://www.thegroundtruth.net/) at SFCC before the speak-out. Details
> will (hey, damn well oughta be) finalized by the Peace Forum on 2/10,
> and in your inbox before then.
>
> Monday, 2/19, 7 pm: Peace Alliance partisans partake of pastries &
> plots at 2nd St. Bakery, probably.
>
> Saturday, 2/24: "Solutions to Violence" continues (see 2/10).
>
> Then comes Monday, 2/19, Presidents' Day: according to my notes,
> someone's planning a silent vigil with "Bring Them Home" signs - but
> the doofus writing said notes didn't say who or where... [ahem!]
>
> On the evening of Wednesday, 2/21, author/historian/political analyst
> Michael Parenti will speak at the Center for the Performing Arts on
> the UF campus, sponsored by the Civic Media Center. Parenti's talk
> will be free (donations beforehand or at the CPA cheerfully
> accepted), but the 5 pm reception/dinner beforehand at the Matheson
> Museum, 513 E. University Ave, will cost ya (at least $15: get the
> details at 373-0010 or http://www.civicmediacenter.org).
>
> Finalizing February, ace satirist Dave Lippman and spoken-word artist
> Chris Chandler will take the stage at the Thomas Center on Wednesday,
> 2/28, 8 pm to lead local objections to George the Worst's abuse of
> nation and world, on behalf of the Civic Media Center.
>
> Moving on to March: so far it looks like the Interfaith Peace Center
> gets things started again with their Saturday, 3/10, 10 am "Solutions
> to Violence" version 3.3 workshop - details above.
>
> Later that same day (2 pm, as it happens), the Peace Forum again
> convenes representatives from Gainesville area pro-peace groups for a
> couple of hours of networking, brainstorming, and subversion:
> interested individuals also welcome.
>
> The Surge comes on the 4th anniversary of Georgezilla's Really Dumb
> Idea, Saturday 3/17. The DC edition will be organized by ANSWER
> http://www.answercoalition.org/. To get there, take the Peace Train,
> an Amtrak group ticket purchase being organized by Wage Peace in
> Jacksonville; see
> http://home.bellsouth.net/p/s/community.dll?ep=16&groupid=144545&ck=
> . Faith Carr (faithccarr@..., 335-0771) will be working on
> Gvl-Wash caravan plans.
>
> Saturday, 3/24: "Solutions to Violence" continues (see 2/10).
> Somebody please write me with the specific topics for each session,
> so I don't end up just copying 'n' pasting the same blurb over 'n'
> over!
>
> Is that all? Is that even right? I doubt it: please fix the goofs 'n'
> fill in the holes by (a) writing us all via the To: list above; (b)
> letting me know so I can plug it into the Iguana Jan-Feb calendar
> (deadline pushed back yet again, to Jan 22 at soonest); (c) passing
> the word to Jerry Rose (sunstateactivist@...), so he can add it
> to http://www.sunstateactivist.org/events.php. (Gratuitous promo:
> "Progressive breakfast club headlines", the summary of under-reported
> news Jerry provides as a morning email, is getting better all the
> time - write him to be added to the subscriber list, or check out a
> sample
> at
<http://www.sunstateactivist.org/whatsnew.php>http://www.sunstateactivist.org/wh\
atsnew.php
> .)
>
> Peace,
>
> Pierce
>
> PS: Does anybody know where Michael Gajdeczka went? Emails sent to
> his address are bouncing back.
>
> PPS: If you are, or know of, members of Students for a Human Society
> or the new UF chapter of Students for a Democrat Society or Nakba '48
> or the UF/SFCC student body in general, please come (back) to Peace
> Forum - we miss ya!
>
>
There were about 1,500 people at the MLK march today in Gainesville, Fl. Perhaps a hundred or more folks and great energy from our little peace community. Thanks to all who SHOWED UP. The most important thing you can do for peace is to please show up. Below is a great little quote of the Dali Lama I received from Jerilyn:
Never give up, No matter what is going on, Never give up, Develop the heart, Too much energy in your country is spent developing the mind, instead of the heart. Be compassionate, not just to your friends but to everyone. Be compassionate, work for peace in your heart and in the world. Work for Peace, and I say again, Never give up, no matter what is happening, no matter what is going on around you, Never give up.
Greetings All:
Our Winter schedule is from 4:00 pm to dark, every 1st and 3rd Tuesday at
Archer Rd. and 34th St., every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at Univ. Av. and 13th St.
The tide has turned in our favor. Cindy Sheehan's moral authority in
galvanizing antiwar sentiments from all walks of life is testimonial to this
fact. The Bushites' criminal callousness in the handling of hurricane
Katrina before and after its landing has further opened the eyes of millions
of folks. Opinion poll after opinion poll have shown overwhelming majority
of the American people wanted troops out of Iraq NOW, yet Bushites and their
cohorts persist in carrying on with their immoral and illegal war.
Recent revelations on the Bushites' egregious disregard for the rule of law
manifested in, to name just a few, illegal spying, kidnapping, authorization
for torture, Abramoff scandal, etc. has only added insult to injury. Further
more, according to a report by Seymour Hersh, these depraved minds are
moving forward with a mad plan for a nuclear attack on Iran.
Also the Bush regime not only pays the bills for the Israeli war machine,
but also gives it the green light to intensify its war on the Palestinians
and Lebanese, rushes an emergency supply of fuel and precision-guided bombs
to enhance the Israeli killing and wrecking spree, while at the same time
blocks all international peace initiatives. And it is using the
Israeli-created humanitarian crisis as a dress rehearsal and a pretext for
attacks on Syria and Iran.
As the approval rating of the Bush regime plummets, its key figures are
stepping up their efforts in fear- and hate-mongering, pressuring Congress
to retroactively legalize torture, warrantless wiretapping and making
changes to War Crimes Act to retroactively protect regime elements from war
crimes prosecution.
With the passage of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which permits
warrantless incarceration and torture of suspected terrorists, an American
police state is fast taking shape. As if the Bush regime has not usurped
sufficient dictatorial power, Frank Morales pointed out that "Public Law
109-364, or the "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" (H.R.5122),
which was signed by the commander in chief on October 17th, 2006, in a
private Oval Office ceremony, allows the President to declare a "public
emergency" and station troops anywhere in America and take control of
state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or
local authorities, in order to "suppress public disorder.""
The Bush regime's condemnation of North Korea stinks of cant and hypocrisy.
All that the North Korea wanted from the US is a peace/nonaggresion treaty,
instead the Bush regime unilaterally abrogated the Agreed Framework
agreement between the Clinton administration and North Korea, recklessly
threatens North Korea by calling it part of the Axis-of-evil, etc. Thus
forcing North Korea to accelerate its development of a nuclear deterrence
capability while maintaining its willingness to negotiate with the US and
making Korea peninsula a nuclear weapons free zone.
According to the October 11th Lancet Journal Report: Bush's illegal and
immoral invasion and occupation of Iraq has caused 655,000 excess Iraqi
deaths over and above the base line annual mortality due to 12 years of
sanctions. We are not even talking about the number of Iraqis injured,
maimed, become sick due to lack of medicine or health care provider, with
broken up families, forced to flee their homes and country, etc.
In this mid-term election the electorates have delivered a resounding
rejection of the Bush agenda. Although the Dems who took over the leadership
of both chambers of Congress have wasted no time to dampen expectations.
However, more favorable political space have been opened up to restore the
Bill of Rights, roll back the police state and militarism, dump the Military
Commissions Act, repeal the Patriot Act, end the illegal and immoral
occupations, bring the troops home to save Iraqi, Afghani and American lives
as well as the environment, etc.
Just as Bush used the phony excuse of "fighting terrorism" to invade and
occupy Iraq, he is using the same excuse to justify support for the invasion
of Somalia by Ethiopia, as well as the killing of a large number of Somali
civilians by the US military. Contrary to heeding the voice of the people to
end the occupation and bring the troops home now, the Bush regime decided on
a troop surge to escalate the killing, aiming at turning sections of Baghdad
and Sadr City into another Fallujah to clear the way for the passage of the
hydrocarbon privatization laws by their Iraqi puppets
Join us tomorrow at 34th St. and Archer Rd. We are always in need of folks
to join us for any length of time between 4:00pm and 6:00pm. Bring your own
signs or use ours - we have lots of them.
Peace. Ku
We have been invited to have our "Dictating Peace" letter-writing booth at the Holistic Fair on Jan 27 (at the United Church of Gainesville, 1624 NW Fifth Av.) between 10-4 p.m. HELP NEEDED
Can you please volunteer for a couple of hours that day? Please!!
> > From: ThirdEyeSpoken <thirdeyespoken@...> > Date: 2007/01/14 Sun AM 09:31:19 EST > To: TES <thirdeyespoken@...> > Subject: Holistic Health Fair!! > > Hey everyone! > > Please join us as we expand our horizons, offering a Holistic Health Fair to the community with the help of Raven Moondance and Maria Minnow!!! > > Besides all the amazing healing lectures, workshop and practicioners on site we will also have spoken word performances including the return of Prodigal Son!!! > > Music by local drummers, singers, and harp players as well!!! > > Please bring donations for Peaceful Paths and GAAP!!! > > Love, ThirdEyeSpoken Productions > > > > --------------------------------- > Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. >
On Jan 16, 2007, at 9:49 PM, Jacqueline Betz wrote:
Howdy Pinks,
We have been invited to have our "Dictating Peace" letter-writing booth at the Holistic Fair on Jan 27 (at the United Church of Gainesville, 1624 NW Fifth Av.) between 10-4 p.m. HELP NEEDED
Can you please volunteer for a couple of hours that day? Please!!
> > From: ThirdEyeSpoken <thirdeyespoken@yahoo.com> > Date: 2007/01/14 Sun AM 09:31:19 EST > To: TES <thirdeyespoken@yahoo.com> > Subject: Holistic Health Fair!! > > Hey everyone! > > Please join us as we expand our horizons, offering a Holistic Health Fair to the community with the help of Raven Moondance and Maria Minnow!!! > > Besides all the amazing healing lectures, workshop and practicioners on site we will also have spoken word performances including the return of Prodigal Son!!! > > Music by local drummers, singers, and harp players as well!!! > > Please bring donations for Peaceful Paths and GAAP!!! > > Love, ThirdEyeSpoken Productions > > > > --------------------------------- > Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. >
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." --Anne Frank
"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do." --Helen Keller
Terrific! There will be pens and paper, Mandate for Peace postcards provided at the booth as well as other details. I've gotten a few responses to volunteer. I'm still waiting to hear from other women who can help that day at the Holistic Fair, at a booth at the Air Potato Roundup, during lunchtime at Satchel's, outside of Maude's/Starbucks, Bageland at Thornebrook, Second St. Bakery...
I had a short spot of AM850 radio today regarding our goal of 1,000 letters on January 27. You can also ask friends to write letters ahead of time and give them to you to help achieve our goal of 1,000 that day.
Thanks. I'll give you a call over the weekend to firm up the plans.
Subject: Re: [codepinkgainesville] Fw: Holistic Health Fair!!-We need hlep at our booth there on the 27th
Jacque,
Put me down from 2-4:00.
Bridget
954-829-4251
On Jan 16, 2007, at 9:49 PM, Jacqueline Betz wrote:
Howdy Pinks,
We have been invited to have our "Dictating Peace" letter-writing booth at the Holistic Fair on Jan 27 (at the United Church of Gainesville, 1624 NW Fifth Av.) between 10-4 p.m. HELP NEEDED
Can you please volunteer for a couple of hours that day? Please!!
> > From: ThirdEyeSpoken <thirdeyespoken@yahoo.com> > Date: 2007/01/14 Sun AM 09:31:19 EST > To: TES <thirdeyespoken@yahoo.com> > Subject: Holistic Health Fair!! > > Hey everyone! > > Please join us as we expand our horizons, offering a Holistic Health Fair to the community with the help of Raven Moondance and Maria Minnow!!! > > Besides all the amazing healing lectures, workshop and practicioners on site we will also have spoken word performances including the return of Prodigal Son!!! > > Music by local drummers, singers, and harp players as well!!! > > Please bring donations for Peaceful Paths and GAAP!!! > > Love, ThirdEyeSpoken Productions > > > > --------------------------------- > Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. >
Do you have a "script" for me to get me going on doing this? Or can you suggest one? We'll talk about it. I have a terror of public speaking but once I get a feel for what I'm doing, I'll be good. I'm a member at UCG, too, so I'll know people there.
Bridget
On Jan 17, 2007, at 12:22 AM, Jacqueline Betz wrote:
Hi Bridget,
Terrific! There will be pens and paper, Mandate for Peace postcards provided at the booth as well as other details. I've gotten a few responses to volunteer. I'm still waiting to hear from other women who can help that day at the Holistic Fair, at a booth at the Air Potato Roundup, during lunchtime at Satchel's, outside of Maude's/Starbucks, Bageland at Thornebrook, Second St. Bakery...
I had a short spot of AM850 radio today regarding our goal of 1,000 letters on January 27. You can also ask friends to write letters ahead of time and give them to you to help achieve our goal of 1,000 that day.
Thanks. I'll give you a call over the weekend to firm up the plans.
Subject: Re: [codepinkgainesville] Fw: Holistic Health Fair!!-We need hlep at our booth there on the 27th
Jacque,
Put me down from 2-4:00.
Bridget
954-829-4251
On Jan 16, 2007, at 9:49 PM, Jacqueline Betz wrote:
Howdy Pinks,
We have been invited to have our "Dictating Peace" letter-writing booth at the Holistic Fair on Jan 27 (at the United Church of Gainesville, 1624 NW Fifth Av.) between 10-4 p.m. HELP NEEDED
Can you please volunteer for a couple of hours that day? Please!!
> > From: ThirdEyeSpoken <thirdeyespoken@yahoo.com> > Date: 2007/01/14 Sun AM 09:31:19 EST > To: TES <thirdeyespoken@yahoo.com> > Subject: Holistic Health Fair!! > > Hey everyone! > > Please join us as we expand our horizons, offering a Holistic Health Fair to the community with the help of Raven Moondance and Maria Minnow!!! > > Besides all the amazing healing lectures, workshop and practicioners on site we will also have spoken word performances including the return of Prodigal Son!!! > > Music by local drummers, singers, and harp players as well!!! > > Please bring donations for Peaceful Paths and GAAP!!! > > Love, ThirdEyeSpoken Productions > > > > --------------------------------- > Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. >
sorry everyone!!! I didn't mean to send to the world
On Jan 17, 2007, at 7:24 AM, Bridget Fitzgerald wrote:
Jacque,
Will I get to meet you that day?
Do you have a "script" for me to get me going on doing this? Or can you suggest one? We'll talk about it. I have a terror of public speaking but once I get a feel for what I'm doing, I'll be good. I'm a member at UCG, too, so I'll know people there.
Bridget
On Jan 17, 2007, at 12:22 AM, Jacqueline Betz wrote:
Hi Bridget,
Terrific! There will be pens and paper, Mandate for Peace postcards provided at the booth as well as other details. I've gotten a few responses to volunteer. I'm still waiting to hear from other women who can help that day at the Holistic Fair, at a booth at the Air Potato Roundup, during lunchtime at Satchel's, outside of Maude's/Starbucks, Bageland at Thornebrook, Second St. Bakery...
I had a short spot of AM850 radio today regarding our goal of 1,000 letters on January 27. You can also ask friends to write letters ahead of time and give them to you to help achieve our goal of 1,000 that day.
Thanks. I'll give you a call over the weekend to firm up the plans.
Subject: Re: [codepinkgainesville] Fw: Holistic Health Fair!!-We need hlep at our booth there on the 27th
Jacque,
Put me down from 2-4:00.
Bridget
954-829-4251
On Jan 16, 2007, at 9:49 PM, Jacqueline Betz wrote:
Howdy Pinks,
We have been invited to have our "Dictating Peace" letter-writing booth at the Holistic Fair on Jan 27 (at the United Church of Gainesville, 1624 NW Fifth Av.) between 10-4 p.m. HELP NEEDED
Can you please volunteer for a couple of hours that day? Please!!
> > From: ThirdEyeSpoken <thirdeyespoken@yahoo.com> > Date: 2007/01/14 Sun AM 09:31:19 EST > To: TES <thirdeyespoken@yahoo.com> > Subject: Holistic Health Fair!! > > Hey everyone! > > Please join us as we expand our horizons, offering a Holistic Health Fair to the community with the help of Raven Moondance and Maria Minnow!!! > > Besides all the amazing healing lectures, workshop and practicioners on site we will also have spoken word performances including the return of Prodigal Son!!! > > Music by local drummers, singers, and harp players as well!!! > > Please bring donations for Peaceful Paths and GAAP!!! > > Love, ThirdEyeSpoken Productions > > > > --------------------------------- > Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. >
Subject: New peace dicussion series begins Feb. 10
in your own name or on my behalf, could get the schedule below posted on the Code Pink website. Use it in any way you think best.
I appreciate your persistence.
Don
Solutions to Violence :
An Ongoing Dialogue
Sponsored by
The Gainesville Interfaith PeaceCenter
Because of the positive response to the 12 discussions held in 2006, the “Solutions to Violence” series will continue in the new year. As before, the selections for discussion will come from the anthology Solutions to Violence, edited by Colman McCarthy and published by The Center for Teaching Peace.
The dates and topics are as follows:
Feb 10: Is Human Nature Inherently Violent?
Feb. 24: Axioms of Nonviolence
March 10: Animal Rights and the Ethics of Nonviolent Eating
March 24: What’s Love Got to Do with It?
April 14: Nonviolent Response to Assault
April 28: The Peace Corps Revisited
Each conversation will focus first on an assigned text (which may be read in the 10-15 minutes before the discussion begins) and then on continuing application, that is, on how we can promote dialogue about peace in our community.
Don Smith will continue to serve as moderator. Don is a Senior Trainer for the Great Books Foundation and belongs to both the Gainesville Friends Meeting and the GainesvilleInterfaithPeaceCenter.
Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1521 NW 34th St
Feb. 10, 24, March 10, 24, April 14, 28,2007
Saturdays 10:00-11:30 a.m.
All sessions are free and open to the public.
Participants may attend one or more sessions.
Contacts: Don Smith (371-3719), Eve McMaster (377-6577)
I finally received official word that the proclamation declaring January 21 - 27 as Separation of Church and State Week will be read at the Gainesville City Commission meeting on January 22nd at/around 5:30pm. Anybody who would like to show support for this invauable Constitutional principle is encouraged to attend. The Commission meets in the City Hall auditorium, 200 East University Avenue.
In the meantime, please forward this notice to any people, groups or lists you think might be interested.
Youtube Video
Hey all here is some footage from our Wickford Rally that a member
has and placed on youtube. RIPDA will start documenting most if not
all our events to place on this sight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxeseOK-R4k
Bob is a Professional media person and will be following our trip to
DC on the 27th. After if PDA would like he can produce a DVD and
provide copies. He can also produce future DVD's for PDA at a decent
price as long as he doesn't have to travel special. WE are paying for
his trip and expenses to get this covered which in the end I think
can be a Big boost for PDA.
As you will see it's apparent I need a bit more sleep from my face,
Bob arrived just after the event as did one other local TV News
station but still did get some good coverage.
Please forward this widely and have all the progressives you know add
this to their favaites or subscribe to this from youtube. We plan on
covering as many of PDA's and other progressive groups as possible
including the Iraq War. Our idea is to eventually turn this into a
progressive ne3ws channel so please check in often. If you have any
activism videos please contact Bob.
Peace to all and keep up the fight! Progressives will win the War!
Bill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxeseOK-R4k
I have received the beautiful Mandate For Peace postcards that coincide with the January 27 national action. We have an action coming up this Saturday, January 27, and need help getting the post cards signed as well as short letters to our elected representatives ending the Iraq War. We will participate in a rally Sat. 27 at 5 p.m. at the Courthouse, south Main St. at 2nd Av. where we will gather all the postcards and letters. We have a goal of 1,000 letters to deliver to our representatives. HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP
Greetings All:
Our Winter schedule is from 4:00 pm to dark, every 1st and 3rd Tuesday at
Archer Rd. and 34th St., every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at Univ. Av. and 13th St.
The tide has turned in our favor. Cindy Sheehan's moral authority in
galvanizing antiwar sentiments from all walks of life is testimonial to this
fact. The Bushites' criminal callousness in the handling of hurricane
Katrina before and after its landing has further opened the eyes of millions
of folks. Opinion poll after opinion poll have shown overwhelming majority
of the American people wanted troops out of Iraq NOW, yet Bushites and their
cohorts persist in carrying on with their immoral and illegal war.
Recent revelations on the Bushites' egregious disregard for the rule of law
manifested in, to name just a few, illegal spying, kidnapping, authorization
for torture, Abramoff scandal, etc. has only added insult to injury. Further
more, according to a report by Seymour Hersh, these depraved minds are
moving forward with a mad plan for a nuclear attack on Iran.
Also the Bush regime not only pays the bills for the Israeli war machine,
but also gives it the green light to intensify its war on the Palestinians
and Lebanese, rushes an emergency supply of fuel and precision-guided bombs
to enhance the Israeli killing and wrecking spree, while at the same time
blocks all international peace initiatives. And it is using the
Israeli-created humanitarian crisis as a dress rehearsal and a pretext for
attacks on Syria and Iran.
As the approval rating of the Bush regime plummets, its key figures are
stepping up their efforts in fear- and hate-mongering, pressuring Congress
to retroactively legalize torture, warrantless wiretapping and making
changes to War Crimes Act to retroactively protect regime elements from war
crimes prosecution.
With the passage of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which permits
warrantless incarceration and torture of suspected terrorists, an American
police state is fast taking shape. As if the Bush regime has not usurped
sufficient dictatorial power, Frank Morales pointed out that "Public Law
109-364, or the "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" (H.R.5122),
which was signed by the commander in chief on October 17th, 2006, in a
private Oval Office ceremony, allows the President to declare a "public
emergency" and station troops anywhere in America and take control of
state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or
local authorities, in order to "suppress public disorder.""
The Bush regime's condemnation of North Korea stinks of cant and hypocrisy.
All that the North Korea wanted from the US is a peace/nonaggresion treaty,
instead the Bush regime unilaterally abrogated the Agreed Framework
agreement between the Clinton administration and North Korea, recklessly
threatens North Korea by calling it part of the Axis-of-evil, etc. Thus
forcing North Korea to accelerate its development of a nuclear deterrence
capability while maintaining its willingness to negotiate with the US and
making Korea peninsula a nuclear weapons free zone.
According to the October 11th Lancet Journal Report: Bush's illegal and
immoral invasion and occupation of Iraq has caused 655,000 excess Iraqi
deaths over and above the base line annual mortality due to 12 years of
sanctions. We are not even talking about the number of Iraqis injured,
maimed, become sick due to lack of medicine or health care provider, with
broken up families, forced to flee their homes and country, etc.
In this mid-term election the electorates have delivered a resounding
rejection of the Bush agenda. Although the Dems who took over the leadership
of both chambers of Congress have wasted no time to dampen expectations.
However, more favorable political space have been opened up to restore the
Bill of Rights, roll back the police state and militarism, dump the Military
Commissions Act, repeal the Patriot Act, end the illegal and immoral
occupations, end war-profiteering, bring the troops home to save Iraqi,
Afghani and American lives as well as the environment, etc.
Just as Bush used the phony excuse of "fighting terrorism" to invade and
occupy Iraq, he is using the same excuse to justify support for the invasion
of Somalia by Ethiopia, as well as the killing of a large number of Somali
civilians by the US military. Contrary to heeding the voice of the people to
end the occupation and bring the troops home now, the Bush regime decided on
a troop surge to escalate the killing, aiming at turning sections of Baghdad
into another Fallujah to clear the way for the passage of the hydrocarbon
privatization laws by their Iraqi puppets
Join us tomorrow at 13th St. and Univ. Av. We are always in need of folks to
join us for any length of time between 4:00pm and 6:00pm. Bring your own
signs or use ours - we have lots of them.
Peace. Ku
A message was sent last week regarding the Granny D walk happening tomorrow, starting at Westwood Park at 10 a.m. and arriving downtown at noon See details below. I will be walking and, hopefully, getting the Mandate for Peace pink postcards signed! I'll be at the Downtown Community Plaza from 12-1 also and have the Mandate for Peace post cards so people can sign them. Maybe I'll see you there?
Your pal for peace,
Jacque Betz
468-2101
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 8:25 PM
Subject: Tribute Trekker's update-Granny D Tribute Walk
(Forgive any duplications.)
All is set for Wednesday's Tribute Trek for Granny D (and Campaign Finance Reform).
Those of you who are walking meet at the Westside Recreation Center parking lot about 9:45 a.m. If we leave at 10 a.m. we will get to the Downtown Plaza (3.7 mi.) before 12 noon without any trouble; we need to set off by 10:15 at the latest (that's still at the rate of 1 mile in 30 minutes - some of us can do it in 20 minutes). Don't forget your lunch and water bottle. I have about 8 people that I am expecting to walk for sure. Let me know who else to add. I'll set aside a t-shirt for you (@$10) so you can wear it during the walk. Any leftovers will be sold at the Plaza after we get there. -- And if there is someone who reads this who is willing to take over the t-shirt concession when we get there to sell the last (maybe 13) t-shirts for us, let me know.
Our permit is for 12-1 p.m. at the Downtown Plaza, so we'll try not to arrive early. The walkers will want to take a breather and eat lunch - at least _I_ will. So you supporters, bring your brown bag lunches and eat with us. There will be a few remarks at some point to explain what we are doing and why. We'll also show you the actual "Campaign Finance Reform" flag that Granny D carried in her cross country trek and that she loaned us for this special occasion.
This is also a reminder that Wed. is her 97th birthday and she will be honored that day in the New Hampshire legislature. Vivian Filer will give us a shot in the arm with her reading of the "Declaration of Independence" before we take off going west toward UF. If you park in the garage on SW 3rd St. you can walk back there with us if you can't go all the way to UF or farther with the main contingent of walkers.
Don't forget to check http://www.grannyd.com - "Clean Elections" and other links from there. Know what we're walking for.
Bring/send your friends, neighbors - pass the word far and wide - there is only a 20% chance of rain (so far).
Thanks a bunch!
jl
June Littler 5127 NW 25th Place Gainesville, FL 32606-6420 352-371-6944 juned@... 352-870-3152 cell phone
Advance apologies for any duplication. I got this message from CodePINKvolusia; the bus will be making a stop in St. Augustine if you want to drive over there and jump on the bus to DC January 27. See the contact info below.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Jan 26, 2007 Alachua County Green Party Contact: Michael Canney Tel. 352-871-1991 Email chicoverde@...
"TROOPS OUT NOW" TO BE MESSAGE OF SATURDAY JAN. 27 'PEACE SURGE" ACTIONS IN GAINESVILLE
Alachua County Greens will join other peace activists on the streets of Gainesville on Saturday January 27, calling for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and an end to the U.S. military occupation. Local actions are being organized around the state and nationwide, in solidarity with the national United for Peace and Justice actions taking place in Washington, DC. 2:00 pm: Greens will join with Veterans for Peace, CCAWT (Community Coalition Against War & Terrorism), Progressive Democrats and others for a sign waving rally at the intersection of Archer Road & SW 34th Street in Gainesville, starting at 2 pm. 5:00 pm: Greens will join with Veterans for Peace, CCAWT (Community Coalition Against War & Terrorism), Progressive Democrats and others for a Rally for Peace at the new courthouse at 235 South Main Street between S. 2nd & 3rd Avenues at 5 pm.
All day: Jacque Betz ( jacquebetz@... ) and Code Pink are organizing a letter-writing campaign in various locations.
Over 3,000 U.S. troops have now been killed in Iraq. Tens of thousands have been seriously injured. More than 600,000 Iraqis have died as a result of this intervention. Iraq'a ancient cities have been destroyed and their country devastated. Over 2 million Iraqis have fled their country to escape the genocidal conditions brought on by the war and occupation. The U.S. government has spent more than $300 billion to prosecute this illegal and immoral campaign. Only Congress can put an end to this war, but Congress has shown that it will not act with conviction and determination unless confronted by an active and vocal citizenry.
Greens support the closing of U.S. military bases in Iraq, a cutoff of funding for the war, and the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops. Lasting peace will only result from a political and diplomatic solution to the sectarian violence, and that cannot occur under U.S. military occupation. The occupation of Iraq cannot serve to prevent violence because the occupation is in fact a primary catalyst for more violence. Even Iraqis who despised Saddam Hussein are joining the resistance, and their fight against the occupiers will continue until the occupiers leave. A democratic society will never be built on the foundation of a military occupation.
The prosecutors of this illegal war have hijacked our nation and robbed every citizen of this country of funds that are needed for health care, education, transportation infrastructure, and development of renewable energy technologies. Instead, our tax dollars are being funneled to arms merchants and war profiteers. The rich receive massive tax breaks while budget deficits mount and an astronomical debt is accumulated for future generations to pay.
The Green Party supports an immediate end to the war and occupation in Iraq, and an investigation and impeachment of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for high crimes and misdemeanors.
U.S. OUT OF IRAQ! BRING THE TROOPS HOME! INVESTIGATION AND IMPEACHMENT NOW!
For more information: Green Party of the U.S.: www.gp.org Green Party Peace Action Committee: www.gp.org/committees/peace Green Party of Florida: www. floridagreens.org United for Peace and Justice: www.http://www.unitedforpeace.org * Veterans for Peace: www.veteransforpeace.org * Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW): www.ivaw.org * *listed for informational purposes only, does not imply endorsement of the Green Party or this press release
We have 56 people signed onto this yahoo group but only two people volunteered to help out last Saturday Jan. 27 for a letter-writing campaign and tables.
CodePINK has an opportunity to set up a table at the Vagina Monologues coming up Feb 18, 23, 24, 25. See below. I need to hear from you this week if you are able to volunteer to help -- sit at a table for a couple of hours. Is anyone out there reading this? Does anyone want to volunteer? Please respond and let me know this week because I am ready to cancel if I don't get some help. - Jacque 468-2101 jacque@... or jacquebetz@...
Katie - I'll let you know by Friday, February 2 if anyone actually volunteers to help. Honestly, I doubt anyone steps up from my list of 56 women -- I am so very tired of begging women to give a couple hours of their time once in a while and no one stepping up. We have a lot of pretenders -- they eat the "right" whole foods, wear the "cool" clothes and think they are "activists" because they maybe attend the yearly Solstice Concert. It is disheartening. I am the national coordinator of the Peace Ribbon Project and work on a national level with that (the Ribbon is currently in Hawaii). But, locally, women say they support CodePINK but I still haven't figured out just how they support it -- they never show up for anything. I'll let you know if anyone volunteers by Friday Feb 2.
Sorry I dropped the ball on the Iquana thing, I was out of town for work from Jan 9 - 19 =( .
Our concert lineup has changed slightly... we have Hamhock and Slide, Flash Silvermoon, Marce and redboy. Show will begin at 6:30 on Feb 18 at The Side Bar. Tickets are $10 at the door and include a coupon for $2.00 off a ticket to see The Vagina Monologues!
The Vagina Monologues are Feb 23, 24, 25 at the Facilties of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. Box office opens at 7, doors at 7:30, show starts at 8. Tickets are $10 at the door.
CodePINK represenatives that will be "working" each evening need not pay admission.
I've copied Melissa Koerner on this e-mail, she is handling our PR and Marketing. Could you send her a logo and some verbage to include on the promo material?
I'm confused - I do not want to take codepink's
money!?!?!
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