Civil Resistance at the White House
I got to the White House around noon and found hundreds of people gathered awaiting the arrival of marchers who planned to get themselves arrested protesting the war...
Photos from the Left Coast
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - 24SEPTEMBER05 - 20,000 people march and demonstrate in San Francisco to oppose the war in Iraq.
The Speech Everyone Is Talking About: Etan Thomas Electrifies Anti-War Washington
Every generation the wide world of corporate sports produces an athlete with the iron resolve and moral urgency to step off their pedestal and join the fight for social justice. A century ago, it was boxer Jack Johnson, flaunting, as WEB DuBois put it, 'his unforgivable blackness '...Today we may just have a figure to join their ranks in the NBA’s Etan Thomas.
Troop Withdrawal: not a matter of 'if,' but 'when'
With rising pressure from many sectors in the U.S. for troop withdrawal from Iraq, Bush's rhetoric of stubbornness is raising comparisons in some quarters to President Lyndon Johnson's own regarding the war against Vietnam. 'We shall stay they course,' they have both said.
Introduction of Cindy Sheehan, Recipient of Pacifica Radio's Unvarnished Truth Award
I came to know Cindy Sheehan in May, and – like most people – I immediately loved her. She is a very friendly and loving person, and you cannot work on a project with her without being constantly reminded of what it is all about, how important it is, how right it is.
Peace Activists Charged With Contempt for Defending Themselves
On St. Patrick's Day in 2003, just days before President Bush launched his war on Iraq, four members of the Catholic Worker Community in Ithaca, New York staged a peaceful protest by entering a local military recruitment station, prayed, read a statement, and poured their own blood near the entrance of the facility to signify the violence of war.Their trial ... ended in a hung jury with most of the jurors voting to acquit.
End the War on Iraq! September 24-26 Washington, DC
Sat., 9/24 : Massive March & Rally,Peace and Justice Festival,
Operation Ceasefire Concert
Sun., 9/25: Interfaith Service,Training for Grassroots Lobby Day,Training for Nonviolent Civil Resistance, National Meeting for Counter Recruitment,Other Activities
Mon., 9/26: Grassroots Lobby Day, Mass Nonviolent Civil Resistance
IRAQ: Displaced families return to devastated Talafar
Nearly 1,500 displaced Iraqi families have returned to the northern city of Talafar after Coalition forces ended an operation to rout insurgents hiding there, but the returnees said dozens of their homes had been totally destroyed...Surkassi Ahmed, a doctor at the local hospital, said there had been civilian casualties. 'We have received cases of deaths of women, children and the elderly in our hospital,' he noted.
Pre-9/11 CIA Report Said Iraq Posed No Threat
CIA Director George Tenet testified before Congress in February 2001 that Iraq posed no immediate threat to the United States or to other countries in the Middle East. But immediately after the terrorist attacks on 9-11, which the Bush administration has said Iraq is partially responsible for, the President and his advisers were already making a case for war.
Take Action: We Need the Truth
Take action by demanding the truth about Bush's drive to the Iraq war, protect civil liberties by joining the struggle against the Patriot Act, protect women's reproductive rights, and demand that the Senate block John Roberts.
