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Cindy Sheehan on the ballot

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:41:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Go Cindy! Good for you.

By John Wildermuth / San Francisco Chronicle

SAN FRANCISCO -- Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan qualified Friday for a November showdown with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, collecting the signatures needed to get on the ballot as an independent candidate for Congress.

Republican Dana Walsh and Libertarian Philip Berg will join Pelosi and Sheehan on the Nov. 4 ballot.

With her ballot spot guaranteed, Sheehan can focus on the fall campaign, where she will challenge Pelosi from the left, slamming the speaker for refusing to start impeachment proceedings against President Bush and not taking a stronger stance against the war in Iraq.

Sheehan will be the longest of longshots in her attempt to oust Pelosi, one of the nation's best-known and most powerful Democrats

Sheehan

became involved in the anti-war movement in 2004, after her son Casey was killed while serving in Iraq.

A year later she founded Gold Star Families for Peace and spoke out against the war in Iraq.

Tags: sheehan, pelosi, election

Kucinich pursues impeachment

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:03:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks:

This separation of powers was expressly intended to prevent a President from unilaterally summoning troops to war in the manner of a king.

Are we willing to respect our institution, our Constitution and ourselves? Will this President, at last, be held accountable for lying to Congress to gain authorization for the use of force against Iraq? Will we allow future Presidents to take office knowing they can commit the same acts with impunity?

Tomorrow I will bring forth a single article of impeachment which reviews the factual misrepresentations the President made to Congress to induce a favorable vote for the authorization for war.

The only question that remains is - - will we do anything about it?"

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Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), who attempted to introduce 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush last month, is back at again

text of the letter that Kucinoch sent

Dear Colleague:

At President Bush’s request, Congress passed an authorization for the use of military force against Iraq on October 16, 2002. At least a dozen key material representations made to Congress by the President in that authorization, in furtherance of Congressional action, were false at the time they were made. The breadth and depth of the President’s misrepresentations do not argue for incompetency as a defense, but for deceit as an impeachable

We have arrived at a teachable moment in our Constitutional history. Congress must insist on accountability. We must regain our rightful role as a co-equal branch of government charged with providing a check and balance to Executive abuse of power. In Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, our Founders placed the war power in the hands of the House of Rep

Tags: kucinich, impeach

Women in Pink lobby against war.

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:41:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A wonderful group of women.

Clip Source: www.michaelmoore.com

About 35 peace activists from around the nation had converged to impress on Rice that the Bush Administration should bring America's soldiers home from Iraq. The protesters wore pink and were highly visible, carrying flags and banners, some dressed as ``Pink Police,'

With Rice expected any moment, the chants grew louder, and the crowd around them was mostly hostile to the ones in pink

The group these women are with, CODEPINK, ``is a women-initiated. grassroots peace and social justice movement, working to end the war in Iraq, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into health care, education and other life-affirming activities,'' according to its website, www.codepink4peace.org.

the rest of the week will hold more of the same kinds of activity, lobbying the public, making a scene, working to galvanize representatives to stop funding the war and occupation

Tags: anti-war, code pink

Veterans Agsainst the War unite on Memorial Day

Tue, 27 May 2008 21:54:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: 1,2,3,4 We don't want your oil war.

Clip Source: www.google.com

CHICAGO (CBS) â€• In addition to honoring those who have died defending our nation, a group of citizens and veterans also took time Monday to call for an end to the war in Iraq.

As CBS 2's Mai Martinez reports, their banners clearly proclaimed their opposition to the war, but members of the group and others attending a ceremony at Chicago's Vietnam Veterans War Memorial said their thoughts and prayers are with the troops serving overseas.

"What we want is the public to understand that the veterans are united in supporting the GI's coming back, these young veterans, no matter what we think of the war," said veteran Ray Parrish.

We support the warrior, but we do not support the war,

Redden, along with other veterans, citizens and loved ones of fallen soldiers, joined together Monday to call for an end to the war in Iraq.

As Iraq Veterans Against the War, we do not believe that this war is serving the best interests of the people of the United States of America," he said.

Tags: veterans, anti-war, memorial day

John Crusak Goes To War

Fri, 23 May 2008 16:01:22 GMT

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Clip Source: www.latimes.com

John Cusack is angry. And he thinks you should be too.

He's angry enough to take what might be a suicidal cinematic chance: making a stylized satire of a war in progress.

STORY: Review: 'War, Inc.'

"Everything is outsourced; everything is for profit," the 42-year-old actor-writer-director said recently in an interview at his Venice production office. "I don't think people really understand that. Corporations have privatized the war to the point where the war itself is the cost-plus business. They are hollowing out the very core function of what it means to be a government. They're using the State Department as an ATM."

He scoffs: "They should be sent to prison. They should be convicted. Their ideology should be shamed. We should revolt against them. We should mock them."

Anti-war protesters disrupt McCain in Chicago

Wed, 21 May 2008 22:22:03 GMT

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As they were escorted out of McCormick Place, McCain said, "The important thing in America is we have the right to free speech

Does he even realize what he is saying?

Clip Source: www.michaelmoore.com

CHICAGO, IL — Apron-wearing anti-war protesters disrupted Republican presidential candidate John McCain's speech to the National Restaurant Association Monday.

To the tune of "I've been working on the railroad," they sang, "McCain's in the kitchen with George Bush, cooking up another war" and unfurled red banners.

As they were escorted out of McCormick Place, McCain said, "The important thing in America is we have the right to free speech

McCain had just finished slamming Democratic rival Barack Obama for his willingness to meet face-to-face with world leaders hostile to America such as Iran's.

Iran provides some of the deadliest explosive devices used in Iraq to kill our soldiers

Reacting in Billings Mont., Obama said, "When the world was on the brink of nuclear holocaust, Kennedy talked to [Soviet leader Nikita] Khrushchev and he got those missiles out of Cuba. Why shouldn't we have the same courage and the confidence to talk to our enemies?"

Tags: mccain, protests, obama

Soldier refuses to serve in illegal war

Sun, 18 May 2008 20:02:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Former army sergeant Kristofer Goldsmith told the landmark hearing of "lawless murders, looting and the abuse of countless Iraqis."

He spoke of the psychologically fragile men and women who return from Iraq to find little help or treatment offered from official circles.

Goldsmith said he had "self-medicated" for several months to treat the wounds of the war.

Another soldier told AFP he had to boost his medication to treat anxiety and social agoraphobia -- two of many lingering mental wounds he carries since his deployments in Iraq -- before testifying.

Some 300,000 of the 1.6 million US soldiers who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, depression or both, an independent study showed last month.

A group of veterans in the packed hearing room gazed blankly as their comrades' testimonies shattered the official version that the US effort in Iraq is succeeding.

Almost to a man, the testifiers denounced serious flaws in the chain o

Clip Source: www.michaelmoore.com

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Matthis Chiroux is the kind of young American US military recruiters love

from a poor, white family from the south, and I did badly in school

"I was 'filet mignon' for recruiters. They started phoning me when I was in 10th grade," or around 16 years old

I stand before you today with the strength and clarity and resolve to declare to the military, my government and the world that this soldier will not be deploying to Iraq,

My decision is based on my desire to no longer continue violating my core values to support an illegal and unconstitutional occupation... I refuse to participate in the Iraq occupation

Chiroux had cried openly as he listened to former comrades-in-arms testify before members of Congress about the failings of the Iraq war.

I cannot deploy to Iraq, carry a weapon and not be part of the problem

thousands of US soldiers who have deserted since the Iraq war began in 2003

Many deserters

seek refuge in Canada.

Tags: war, congress, soldiers

Anti-war veterans group banned from Bremerton parade

Thu, 15 May 2008 23:23:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Why is it people who served in wars are looked down upon by many when they advocate for peace?

Clip Source: www.michaelmoore.com

REMERTON, Wash. - They're expecting good weather and big crowds in Bremerton this weekend for the annual Armed Forces Day Parade.

This year organizers expect two dozen bands, 165 entries and nearly 6,000 people on parade.

If the weather heats up, it could draw 40,000 spectators

But one veterans group says they're not invited. The North Olympic Peninsula Veterans for Peace say they're being kept out of the parade this year because of their anti-war stance.

The anti-war group marched last year. This year the Chamber of Commerce sent them a rejection letter.

"We believe sincerely that we need to find peaceful solutions to all international problems, national problems, local problems," Jenkins said.

But organizers say the group is too political and that's not what the parade is about.

Jenkins says his group will be there and be visible Saturday even if they don't march.

Larsen says he'd be glad to sit down and talk and see if they can work out some kind of compromise.

Tags: parade, excluded, anti-war vets

Bush stopped playing golf in honor of War Dead

Wed, 14 May 2008 23:40:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This nauseates me. Does anyone still believe this lunatic?
I think the Moms would've been happier if he gave their children vests and better equipment and just stayed on the golf course.

Clip Source: www.google.com

Minneapolis Star Tribune

President Bush said Tuesday that he stopped playing golf in 2003 out of respect for U.S. soldiers killed in the Iraq war

"I didn't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf," he said in an online interview with Politico magazine and the Internet portal Yahoo. "I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them."

Bush said he made his decision after the August 2003 bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad.

Tags: war, golf, bush

Local anti-war marchers step off for Ft. Drum

Sat, 10 May 2008 22:16:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Best of luck to them.

Clip Source: www.google.com

By James Hawver / Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

ROCHESTER, NY and mdash; As they set off on their nine-day, 118-mile march, two dozen local veterans and activists carried peace flags, anti-war banners and what they hope is a small share of the burden placed on the American soldiers sent to Iraq and Afghanistan over the past five years.

"We believe the best way to support the troops is to bring them home and take care of them when they get here," Marilyn Lambert-Fisher of Brighton said Thursday morning

Similar groups set off from Ithaca and Utica on Thursday as part of New York State Marches for Peace, sleeping in living rooms, church halls, grocery stores and campgrounds until they arrive May 18 at Fort Drum, home to 17,000 soldiers.

When I began to research all of the fraud and the decision that let us into this war I really felt betrayed," Castania said. "It felt that by not doing something to stop this I was helping to support it.

Tags: march, anti-war, fort drum

Anti-war march across upstate NY 10days

Fri, 09 May 2008 21:16:20 GMT

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The longer this war continues, the more harm is done to our men and women in service, their families, our communities, the people of Iraq, and the world. It must stop. New York wants it to stop," said Lena Posner, another organizer.

Clip Source: www.michaelmoore.com

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Opponents of the war in Iraq will join together from across upstate New York beginning this week for a 10-day march to the U.S. Army's Fort Drum in northern New York.

will include peace activists, soldiers and veterans from a coalition of groups

The peace walk will begin Thursday from Utica, Rochester and Ithaca

protesters will rally on May 17 — Armed Forces Day — in a daylong event.

The march will unfold over several routes

picking up people along the way. People can join the march for one hour, one day, one week or ten days

"The time has come that the American public knows what is really happening to our soldiers and to the people of Iraq in their name. We can no longer rely on the politicians and generals to accurately report," said Mike Totten, a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. Totten served as a military policeman in Iraq from April 2003 through April 2004.

Tags: ny, anti-war, march

Pelosi's wake-up call

Thu, 08 May 2008 23:01:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Just gotta love Code Pink

Clip Source: www.google.com

By James Gordon Meek / New York Daily News

The erstwhile ladies (and men in drag) of antiwar group Code Pink have been saving House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) the trouble of setting her alarm clock this week.

At 7 a.m. each morning beginning Tuesday, they have been showing up outside her luxury Georgetown apartment building with megaphones and dance routines to roust the lefty lawmaker from San Francisco and pressure her into forcing an end to the Iraq war.

â€œWeâ€™ve been trying to give her a wakeup call in the morning,â€ Code Pink spokeswoman Gael Murphy tells The Mouth. â€œNancy, wake up and bring the troops home!â€

The ladies in pink brought a banner reading â€œDonâ€™t Buy Bushâ€™s War,â€ and even had a cup of coffee ready for Pelosi. But, alas, she refused to accept the steaming cup of joe this morning, Murphy says.

Theyâ€™re also camping out on Capitol Hill and outside Pelosiâ€™s San Francisco home

Tags: anti-war, pelosi

4 arrested at Kent State anti-war march

Mon, 05 May 2008 23:10:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: [qoute]"I'm pleasantly astounded by these kids today," said Arthrell, a teacher in the Cleveland City Schools. "They're really making a stand for a better world ... This is democracy's finest moment, when people take the initiative to change something on their own." There is an eerie similarity between 1970 and 2008. While I searched for yesterdays clip, I found articles about Viet Nam casualties, civilian deaths, Nixon's crimes. Substitute Iraq for Viet Nam and it all seems the same.

Clip Source: www.michaelmoore.com

May 5th, 2008 4:49 pm
May 4 commemoration ends with arrests War protesters refuse to leave bridge in Kent

By Matt Fredmonsky and Dave O'Brien / Record-Courier

KENT, OH — An anti-war march and protest in downtown Kent following Sunday's commemoration of the 38th anniversary of the May 4, 1970 shootings at Kent State University resulted in four arrests.

protesters who sat down in the middle of Kent's West Main Street bridge

The march, organized by the Kent State Anti-War Committee and the Portage Peace Coalition, began on campus and proceeded west along East Main Street, stopping at the KSU U.S. Air Force ROTC building in the Terrace Annex to post paper peace signs on the doors

Police clad in riot helmets and armed with pepper-ball guns attempted to re-open the bridge to vehicle traffic

early on officers stood by and allowed the protesters to chant, dance, play music and hang signs from the bridge

Tags: anti-war, arrests, kent state

Anti-war rally in St. Paul on State Capitol steps

Fri, 02 May 2008 23:09:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Oh Happy Day. Protest and protest some more.

Clip Source: www.michaelmoore.com

ST. PAUL, MN — Anti-war protestors rallied on the State Capitol steps Thursday to show their opposition to the Republican National Convention coming to St. Paul in September.

They chanted and demanded the city grant permits for protestors to march in front of the Xcel Center where the RNC will be held.

Deb Konechne, St. Paul, was one of the organizers of the March on the RNC and Stop the War event.

She said her group has a constitutional right to protest and will be marching in front of the Xcel Center on September 1, with or without a city permit.

Konechne's group has filed a lawsuit against the city of St. Paul because so far the city has not issued them or any organization a permit to protest.

Tom Walsh, St. Paul Police public information officer, said this group has nothing to worry about.

"Everyone who has applied for a permit has been promised they would have a permit in their hand by May 31", said Walsh.

Tags: rnc, protests, permit, st.paul

West Coast Array of Protests on May Day

Fri, 02 May 2008 23:02:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks:

Operations in Oakland and other West Coast ports ground to a halt Thursday after ILWU workers stayed off the job, said Steve Getzug, spokesman for the Pacific Maritime Association, which represents companies that move cargo through the ports.

"There is no activity," he said. "The ILWU struck West Coast ports and brought cargo operations to a virtual standstill."

Music to my ears.

Clip Source: www.michaelmoore.com

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — The Bay Area celebrated May Day in traditional fashion Thursday - with an array of protests around the region: for an end to the war in Iraq, against education budget cuts and in favor of legalization for undocumented immigrants.

Dockworkers with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union walked off the job at ports up and down the West Coast, including Oakland and San Francisco, calling for an end to the war. Union officials estimated the number of workers at 25,000 while maritime officials placed the number closer to 10,000.

Anti-war protesters, joining dockworkers and other labor leaders, marched down the Embarcadero from Fisherman's Wharf to Justin Herman Plaza, where a rally drew several hundred protesters and onlookers.

Students at San Francisco State University, UC Berkeley and other college campuses staged walkouts and teach-ins over the state's proposed cuts to education spending.

Tags: anti-war, protests, ilwu

Clipmarks | kkcapricorn's 'war' clips

Cindy Sheehan on the ballot

Kucinich pursues impeachment

Women in Pink lobby against war.

Veterans Agsainst the War unite on Memorial Day

John Crusak Goes To War

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Anti-war protesters disrupt McCain in Chicago

Soldier refuses to serve in illegal war

Anti-war veterans group banned from Bremerton parade

Bush stopped playing golf in honor of War Dead

Local anti-war marchers step off for Ft. Drum

Anti-war march across upstate NY 10days

Pelosi's wake-up call

4 arrested at Kent State anti-war march

Anti-war rally in St. Paul on State Capitol steps

West Coast Array of Protests on May Day