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  • Solidarity Street Demonstrations to Demand US Keep Hands Off Venezuela and Cuba
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Solidarity Street Demonstrations To Demand US Keep Hands Off Venezuela and Cuba - by Stephen Lendman
    Maybe it’s just a coincidence that just days before an international expression of solidarity demanding the US keep its hands off Venezuela and Cuba, Rep. Dan Burton (a right wing Republican in good standing) introduced an anti-Venezuelan resolution in the US House of Representatives. His resolution on May 11 was just another step along the way in the Bush administration’s fourth attempt (…)

  • A Perfect Mother’s Day Gift: Create a Peace Movement That Ends the Iraq Occupation
    15 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Julia Ward Howe, the author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, became so horrified with the carnage of the Civil War that she began advocating for a Mother’s Day of Peace She published the Mother’s Day Peace Proclamation in 1870. By 1873, 18 cities celebrated Mother’s Day of Peace celebrations - some of these celebrations continued for 30 years. Still today, we have the enduring legacy of Mother’s Day.
    Now we are faced with the modern carnage of the occupation of Iraq, and still there are (…)

  • Code Pink Challenges White House
    15 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Washington, D.C. - On Sunday, May 14, 2006, a colorful protest action, sponsored by “Code Pink: Women for Peace,” was staged directly in front of the White House. It included a mini-parade, a sing along and plenty of roses waving around. The event, a 24-hour vigil, began the day before. Its theme was “Declare Peace on Mother’s Day.” On a warm, but cloudy afternoon, it featured speeches, from 2 to 4 PM, by activists, like: Cindy Sheehan, a leader in the “Gold Star Families for Peace; and (…)

  • Gathering of mothers in front of the White House for peace in Iraq and Iran
    14 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON, May 13 (XINHUA) — Mothers, whose militant pacifist Cindy Sheehan, gathered Saturday in front of the White House to call the day before the Mother’s Day, at the end of the war in Iraq and to be opposed to a possible attack against Iran.
    (Photographs: Xinhua)
    This gathering was organized by the movement “Women for peace” and the mothers and their families gathered in front of the White House starting from 15H00 (19H00 GMT) and planned to remain there all the night until the (…)

  • Sneak Attack on Organic Standards
    10 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    After 35 years of hard work, the US organic community has built a multi-billion dollar alternative to industrial agriculture. Now large corporations, aided and abetted by the USDA and members of Congress, are moving to lower organic standards and seize control. For the sake of the earth and the health of the people we must stop them.
    http://www.democracyinaction.org/di...

  • Ray McGovern & Cindy Sheehan to lead March on the White House
    10 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    World Can’t Wait just announced their next major protest- October. Anyone else think that’s a little funny?
    Last year the Downing Street Memo came out on May 1st, soon after UFPJ announced the big rally for Sept 24th. Why do they always skip over the summer months? Because that’s when the weather is nice, and people might actually have the time to camp and stay.
    The crooks in power don’t care if we schedule another weekend protest- the one thing they don’t want is an extended protest (…)

  • The Roots of May Day: Today’s marchers are liberals’ best hope.
    8 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nelson Lichtenstein
    Today’s May Day marches are putting hundreds of thousands on the street and have politicized more people than anything since the height of the civil rights movement. Like every other massive social protest in American history, the events have generated their share of fear. Democrats and some leaders of D.C.-based immigrant groups worry that the call to boycott work and shut down Latino-dependent businesses will generate a backlash. Republicans and nativists see them (…)

  • Help protect organic foods
    4 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The USDA is proposing to amend the National Organic Program regulations to reflect the legislative changes made in Congress.
    The USDA proposal could allow:
    · Young dairy cows to be treated with antibiotics and fed genetically engineered feed prior to being converted to organic production.
    · Numerous synthetic substances, including over 500 food contact substances, to be used in organic foods without public review and approval by the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB).
    TELL USDA (…)

  • IRAN : Stop the war on Iran before it starts! SIGN THE PETITION !
    2 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Stop the war on Iran before it starts! Sign online : http://www.stopwaroniran.org/statement.shtml
    It is with grave concern that we observe the growing threat of a new U.S. war—this time against the people of Iran.
    The media is filled with reports of an alleged nuclear threat posed by Iran and the assumed need for the U.S. to take military action. These reports recall the "Weapons of Mass Destruction" stories issued in the months leading up to the war on Iraq.
    In the lead up to the (…)

  • HUGE DEMO IN NYC : Protesters Give Bush the Finger By Tom Engelhardt
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Protesters Give Bush the Finger By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com Posted on May 1, 2006, Printed on May 1, 2006 http://www.alternet.org/story/35663/
    It’s the perfect day for a march. Sunny, crisp, clear, spring-like. The sort of day that just gives you hope for no reason at all, though my own hopes are not high for New York’s latest antiwar demonstration. I haven’t received a single email about it. Many people I know hadn’t realized it was happening. I fear the outreach has been minimal (…)