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IMPORTANT NEW DEVELOPMENTS REGARDING AUG. 29 An Open Letter to Our Supporters
Dear friend of UFPJ:
United for Peace and Justice has been fighting for months to have our Constitutional rights respected. We have been in a contentious process with the Mayor and Police Department of New York City (…)

United for peace & justice
Massive NYC March and Rally on the Eve of the Republican National Convention
On Sunday, August 29th, one of the biggest and most important protests in a generation will take place in New York City: a massive march and rally on the eve of the Republican National Convention, organized by United for Peace and Justice. If you’re alarmed by the direction that the Bush Administration has taken this country, you will want to make your voice heard at this historic (…)

by Jay Shaft
Army Sgt. Sherwood R. Baker, 30, of Plymouth, Pennsylvania, was the first Pennsylvania National Guardsman to have died in the war in Iraq. He was the 720th soldier killed in Iraq, and the first Pennsylvania Guardsman to die since 1945.
Sherwood was killed in Baghdad, Iraq, on April 26th, 2004 by a large explosion while performing site security at a suspected munitions plant. He was assigned to do security for the teams that were still looking for weapons of mass destruction. (…)

High profile Liberal candidate Malcolm Turnbull has publicly criticised the war on Iraq, parliament was told.
Labor backbencher Tanya Plibersek told parliament Mr Turnbull, the endorsed Liberal candidate for the blue-ribbon seat of Wentworth, made the comments at a candidate’s forum at Bondi.
She asked Prime Minister John Howard if he endorsed the comments.
"Is the Prime Minister aware of comments made last night by the endorsed Liberal candidate for Wentworth at a meet the candidates (…)

By Donald Macintyre
The new Iraq was on a knife-edge last night as violence and political instability confronted the regime of Iyad Allawi, the interim Prime Minister.
In Basra, a British soldier was killed and several others were wounded. Army Land Rovers were set on fire in clashes with militia loyal to the Shia cleric Muqtada Sadr, leaving the militia in control of the city’s main road junctions.
The world oil price climbed to a new high of $44.98 a barrel closing later at $44.80 as (…)

By Colin Brown
Labour activists are circulating a resolution of no confidence in Tony Blair for next month’s annual party conference because of a loss of trust in him over the war over Iraq.
The renewed calls for Mr Blair to be replaced threatens to revive the doubts about his leadership and underlines growing dissatisfaction among grass-roots party workers.
Yesterday, Lord Hattersley, the former Labour deputy leader, raised the stakes by calling on John Prescott, the Deputy Prime (…)

PALESTINE FREEDOM MARCH
Freedom March Against the Wall
Hundreds March Against the Wall
Palestinians, Internationals and Israelis and people of Deir Balut, Az Awiya, Qiri and Rafat, together with the International Solidarity Movement and The International Women’s Peace Service joined the Palestine Freedom March in the Salfit region today. They march from Mas’Ha to the land around Az Awiya that has been lost to the construction of the Apartheid Wall.
Over a month ago the Israeli (…)

CARACAS
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called on hundreds of thousands of supporters who marched on the capital of the oil-rich nation to prepare for a "final attack" on the recall referendum his opponents have put up to remove him from office.
Huge crowds gathered on Bolivar Avenue in downtown Caracas, where the left-wing leader called on them to "stay alert" ahead of Sunday’s vote.
"We start today the final attack, a popular offensive from all directions, with much intelligence and (…)

By Gustavo Capdevila
The spread of poliomyelitis could be totally curbed this year worldwide and the disease could be eradicated by 2005, thanks to the removal of the last obstacles in Africa, David Heymann, World Health Organisation (WHO) special representative on polio eradication, said Tuesday.
The polio immunisation campaign resumed over the weekend in the northern Nigerian state of Kano, where it had been suspended a year ago due to rumours about the safety of the vaccines, the WHO (…)

by David Bacon August 09, 2004
LOS ANGELES, CA - On June 22 the national convention of the Service Employees International Union, with 1.7 million members the US’ largest, voted unanimously to oppose the occupation of Iraq. This was followed a few days later by a similar resolution, passed by another of the AFL- CIO’s largest unions, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, and then by a resolution passed by the California Labor Federation, representing one- sixth (…)