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Following is an alert written by the Nicaragua Network and endorsed by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition. Please call your Senators before the vote on Thursday and demand that they vote no.
JOHN NEGROPONTE’S IRAQ NOMINATION BEING RUSHED THROUGH SENATE COMMITTEE Call Senators Now to Demand They Vote No
Career diplomat John Negroponte has been nominated by President Bush to be U.S. Ambassador to Iraq. He would head the largest U.S. embassy after what is now admitted to be "limited (…)

has to stop angling for position and confront Bush directly on the war.
by Robert Scheer
Commentary Column Los Angeles Times — April 27, 2004 http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-scheer27apr27,1,4639564.column
"How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"
That was the crucial question Vietnam combat veteran John Kerry put to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee 33 years ago, and it is the question that should be at the center of his presidential (…)

Halfway through Tim Russert’s hourlong interview with Demo- cratic presidential nominee Senator John Kerry on April 18, there was an exchange that revealed in microcosm some of the fundamental unspoken rules of American politics in our day. Russert played a clip from Kerry’s 1971 appearance on Meet the Press following his testimony as a leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. A long-haired Kerry, in uniform, was seen saying that he stood by (…)

Dear Prime Minister,
We the undersigned former British ambassadors, high commissioners, governors and senior international officials, including some who have long experience of the Middle East and others whose experience is elsewhere, have watched with deepening concern the policies which you have followed on the Arab-Israel problem and Iraq, in close cooperation with the United States. Following the press conference in Washington at which you and President Bush restated these policies, we (…)

Labor Research Association
http://www.laborresearch.org/story2.php/353
U.S. corporate executives are the primary force behind the funding of President Bush’s $180 million 2004 election campaign war chest. By early April, Bush had raised so much money that he suspended all further fund-raising. He now has the largest campaign fund of any candidate in U.S. history - almost double the amount he raised for the 2000 election.
Bush ran his 2000 campaign with money still linked to his Texas (…)

By Alan Brinkley, Jesse Lemisch, Staughton Lynd, David Montgomery
History News Network
http://www.hnn.us/articles/4820.html
This week graduate students at Columbia staged a strike to protest the university’s refusal to negotiate with GSEU (Graduate Student Employees United). An election was held two years ago to decide whether to join the union. Columbia immediately referred the matter to the National Labor Relations Board before the votes were counted. Historian Alan Brinkley, now (…)

* Nelson Lichtenstein and Joshua B. Freeman email to faculty seeking support for Columbia University graduate teaching assistants
From:"Nelson N. Lichtenstein"
Dear Friends:
As many of you may know, the graduate teaching assistants at Columbia University have been on strike since April 18. They are demanding that Columbia drop its appeal of an NLRB-recognition election held two years ago. While the appeal awaits resolution, the ballots remain uncounted and the union unrecognized. We (…)

Art students at Prosser High School were told to keep a notebook of drawings depicting the war in Iraq. One 15-year-old turned in a sketch showing President Bush, dressed as a devil, launching a missile. Another of his drawings was of a Middle Eastern-looking guy holding a rifle in one hand, while in the other hand was a pole with an oversized head of President Bush stuck on it.
The art teacher found the drawings troubling. Maybe it was the caption that said: "End the War." Anyway, the (…)

As numerous people from nonprofit organizations working in Iraq evacuated the country during the past week, an independent emergency delegation of U.S. civilians was preparing to enter the conflict-torn nation, traveling to the tense stand-off around Najaf, where the U.S. military recently deployed almost 3,000 troops for a looming assault to crush Shiite rebels there.
The Najaf Emergency Peace Team, "Peace Between Peoples", a handful of determined volunteers from several well-established (…)

Here is the letter sent by more than 50 former British ambassadors to Tony Blair, urging him either to influence US policy in the Middle East or to stop backing it:
We the undersigned former British ambassadors, high commissioners, governors and senior international officials, including some who have long experience of the Middle East and others whose experience is elsewhere, have watched with deepening concern the policies which you have followed on the Arab-Israel problem and Iraq, in (…)