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  • Mike Ferner, Veteran For Peace: Remarks at the Ohio Statehouse March 19, 2005
    22 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mike Ferner served as a corpsman at a navy hospital and aboard an aircraft carrier. He was discharged as a conscientious objector. He spoke to us at the Peace Rally as a member of Veterans for Peace, and challenged us as American citizens to a higher level of morality that I’ve heard from anywhere in the current administration. I’ll say no more. Today you want to spend time with Mike’s words. - Pat Denino
    As we gather here this afternoon, our colleagues in Toledo are debuting “Arlington at (…)

  • War crime claims- Marine recruiter turned peacenik
    21 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    When the U.S. went to war in Iraq, Jimmy Massey was a staff sergeant with a marine unit that had the job of setting up checkpoints to protect american forces. In a short period of time, Massey claims, he and his men had killed 30 Iraqi civilians. He says he and the others are guilty of war crimes.
    “I brought these series of events up through the chain of command. Each time I was told they were terrorists, or they were insurgents. My question to the marine corps at that point became, how (…)

  • March 19th 2005: Anti-war actions in two places in Iceland
    21 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    There were 50-60 people on a meeting in the small town of Akureyri in the
    northern part of Iceland.
    In Reykjavik, the capital, some 800 people were in the demonstration. First
    there was a meeting were the people got a peace of paper with the name of a
    victim of the war, in all 730 names, one for each day since the invasion,
    and then they nailed it on a black banner that was brought to the government
    building (Iceland is one of the willing states) were some young people had
    an (…)

  • ...for peace, not war!
    21 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Yesterday I spent some quality time with a group of beautiful people, right in the middle of downtown Columbus Ohio. It was the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. About 400 people gathered to protest the war and rally instead for peace. It was a friendly and diverse crowd spanning several age groups, languages and cultures, as evidenced by their attire. Nevertheless, they were united in their desire to bring about peace. I could feel the energy which coaxed the tears right out of my (…)

  • Hundreds of thousands demonstrate in U.S. & around the world
    21 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hundreds of Thousands Demonstrate in Cities Across the Country and Around the World on 2nd Anniversary of Iraq Invasion
    More than 25,000 March in San Francisco, 20,000 in Los Angeles, tens of thousands more in 700 cities from New York to Fayetteville, NC to Seattle
    Send in a report on the demonstration in your area
    In more than 1000 cities across the country and around the world, demonstrations today protested on the second anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. In San Francisco, (…)

  • Protesters reiterate opposition to Iraq war
    21 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Australians across the country have held rallies to demonstrate their continued opposition to the Iraq war, which began two years ago.
    Protesters called for all Australian troops serving in the US-led coalition in Iraq to be brought home immediately.
    But Prime Minister John Howard says he remains proud of Australia’s involvement in Iraq over the past couple of years.
    Mr Howard says he is pleased to see Australia has played a part in helping Iraqis embrace democracy.
    "The rallies (…)

  • Depleted uranium: A death sentence here and abroad
    20 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Leuren Moret
    “Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” - Henry Kissinger, quoted in “Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW’s in Vietnam”
    Vietnam was a chemical war for oil, permanently contaminating large regions and countries downriver with Agent Orange, and environmentally the most devastating war in world history. But since 1991, the U.S. has staged four nuclear wars using depleted uranium weaponry, which, like (…)

  • Peaceful Revolution- Solidarity from Venezuela
    20 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Greetings to all the peace marchers and US citizens from the people of Venezuela on this important day!
    We congratulate you on your commitment to stopping the war in Iraq and the occupation of Afghanistan. The great majority of the Venezuelan people are also in complete disagreement with the use of US military force to dominate the peoples of the Middle East and other countries, classified arbitrarily as the "Axis of Evil". This march is vital to pressure the current Administration from (…)

  • Washington’s criminal war against Iraq enters its third year
    20 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Today begins year three of the US intervention in Iraq, with its tragic consequences for both the Iraqi and American people continuing to multiply.
    The Iraqi dead-incinerated by US air strikes, shot to death at roadblocks, or killed in merciless sieges like the one mounted last November against Fallujah-number in the many tens of thousands.
    US casualties have risen to over 1,520 dead, with more than 11,200 troops wounded and as many as 100,000 in need of mental health care as a result of (…)

  • Worldwide Protest Pictures/ Empires fall when the people rise up
    20 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In this treacherous system the media manipulates Spreadin misinformation, through all 50 states
    Innovate past hate, kick back contemplate metal minds manufacture a fractured debate see my enemies’ enemy Is still my enemy But fools blunt their own vision television Hennessey can’t see what’s comin, too lost in the spectacle But a child is more then a bullets receptacle
    While we’re “nonviolent” in the streets screaming peace Bush is bombing babies throughout the middle east Soon as Sadaam (…)