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  • Video: David Swanson: Obama is a War President!
    13 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Sat., Dec. 12, 2009, David Swanson, activist/author, was one of the speakers at the emergency “End-the-U.S.-Wars” rally. See, for background: http://www.enduswars.org/ The event was held in Lafayette Park, opposite the White House. Swanson is the cofounder of the popular AfterDowningStreet Web Site, go to: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/ His best selling book, “Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency,” is both timely and well written. Check out: (…)

  • Video: Attack on Pearl Harbor Remembered at Baltimore Ceremony
    8 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The US Coast Guard Cutter “Taney,” (WPG37), sits in Baltimore harbor, as a museum/memorial, and is known as “The Last Survivor of Pearl Harbor,” according to the program notes prepared by the “Historic Ships in Baltimore.”
    See,
    http://www.historicships.org/
    On Dec. 7, 2009, the “68th Anniversary” of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a moving noontime ceremony was held on the “Taney”; it included the dropping of a memorial wreath into the harbor.
    For background on the attack on (…)

  • Video: Fred Goldstein: “Obama Started Two Wars Yesterday!”
    4 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Thursday afternoon, Dec. 3, 2009, advocates for social justice held a “Speak Out” rally in front of the White House. They are demanding that the federal government bail out the people and not the Wall Street banks. The bail out of the “Banksters” may have exceeded $12.8 trillion. Check out: http://www.truthout.org/051309J Meanwhile, the Middle Class in America is fast disappearing. Go to:
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-warren/america-without-a-middle_b_377829.html
    The White (…)

  • Video: “Speak Out Rally for the People” Held at the White House
    4 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Thursday afternoon, Dec. 3, 2009, advocates for social justice held a “Speak Out” rally in front of the White House. They are demanding that the federal government bail out the people and not the Wall Street banks. The bail out of the “Banksters” may have exceeded $12.8 trillion. Check out: http://www.truthout.org/051309J The White House event was sponsored by the “Bail Out the People Movement,” a national organization, see: http://www.bailoutpeople.org/ Speakers included Larry Holmes, (…)

  • Video: Rev. Graylan Hagler on the Need to Bail Out the People
    4 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Thursday afternoon, Dec. 3, 2009, advocates for social justice held a rally in front of the White House. The event was sponsored by the “Bail Out the People Movement,” a national organization, see: http://www.bailoutpeople.org/ One of the speakers was the Rev. Graylan Hagler, a longtime fighter for peace and justice. He said: “Let’s build a world filled with justice...We need to push and shove to make people do what is right...If we can reward the banks, then we can surely reward the (…)

  • Video: War Vet Jim Baldridge Speaks Out Against Obama’s Afghan Surge
    3 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On the evening of Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009, antiwar activists gathered in a light rain, at the War Memorial Building, in Baltimore, MD, just opposite the City Hall Plaza. The purpose of the demonstration was to protest President Barack Obama’s LBJ-Vietnam-War-like decision to escalate the conflict in Afghanistan. He has ordered 30,000 more U.S. troops to that country, which is well known as a “graveyard of imperial powers.” I talked with Jim Baldridge, who is with the “Veterans for Peace” and (…)

  • Video: Max Obuszewski: Obama Is Worse Than Dubya!
    3 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On the evening of Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009, antiwar activists gathered in a light rain, at the War Memorial Building, in Baltimore, MD, just opposite the City Hall Plaza. The purpose of the demonstration was to protest President Barack Obama’s LBJ-Vietnam-War-like decision to escalate the conflict in Afghanistan. He has ordered 30,000 more U.S. troops to that country, which is well known as a “graveyard of imperial powers.” I talked with the long time Peace and Justice activist—Max (…)

  • Video: Baltimore Activists Oppose Obama’s Afghan Surge
    3 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On the evening of Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009, antiwar activists gathered in a light rain, at the War Memorial Building, in Baltimore, MD, just opposite the City Hall Plaza. The purpose of the demonstration was to protest President Barack Obama’s LBJ-Vietnam-War-like decision to escalate the conflict in Afghanistan. He has ordered 30,000 more U.S. troops to that country, which is well known as a “graveyard of imperial powers.” I talked with Peace and Justice activists Maria Allwine, Ellen (…)

  • Video: Obama’s Afghan Surge Protested at White House Rally
    2 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Tuesday evening, Dec. 1, 2009, a spirited antiwar rally was held in front of the White House, led by activists from the ANSWER Coalition, Code Pink, and other Peace and Justice groups. Its purpose was to object to President Barack Obama’s reckless decision, (shades of LBJ’s disastrous Vietnam fiasco), to “expand the war in Afghanistan.” For some historical perspective on how the “unwarranted influence” of the powerful Military-Industrial Complex continues to dominate American society, (…)

  • Boycott Switzerland
    29 November 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    sign petition here:
    http://www.petitiononline.com/amp11...
    The Swiss People’s Party (SVP) of Switzerland has created an atmosphere of fear and hatred of Islam and Muslims by launching an initiative to prohibit building of minarets on mosques in Switzerland. The campaign leading up to the voting has been Islamophobic and hateful.
    Some of the Swiss Media such as Tagesanzeiger, a Swiss German newspaper has been extremely anti-Muslim and published scare stories to swing people’s votes (…)