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Monthly Archives: January 2007

Moveon action against Iraq escalation

January 31, 2007 – 5:19 pm

Tomorrow, February 1st—just days before the Senate votes on the escalation—we’re letting senators know where their constituents stand by flooding their offices with 1 million messages.
We need your help to make this Virtual March on Washington really big. Can you ask people who read your blog to sign up for a time to call [...]

By John | Posted in Middle East conflicts | Comments (1)

Vancouver: Get on the Bus for Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice Lobby Day!

January 31, 2007 – 3:16 pm

[ February 12, 2007; ] Reproductive Health, Rights & Justice Lobby Day Feb. 12th

Join hundreds of pro-choice & pro-family supporters in Olympia to Lobby for Reproductive Justice on Feb. 12th. With a pro-choice majority in the House & Senate, it is time to pass comprehensive sex education and fully fund reproductive health care in Washington State! Your help [...]

By lellsworth | Posted in Events, Healthcare | Comments (0)

Public Financing of Judicial Elections heats up

January 29, 2007 – 11:47 am

Durbin of the Columbian reports on last Thursday’s meeting of the Senate Committee on Public Finance of Judicial Elections. According to my sources, there were about 40-45 people that showed up for the meeting and only 3 or so were allowed to speak.
Change is difficult. People who were elected with private money are [...]

By John | Posted in Clean elections, Free speech, Local elections | Comments (0)

Photos from 1/27 Streetside Visibility for Peace/Sanity

January 29, 2007 – 12:44 am

VANCOUVER, Wa.– Nearly 50 conscientious objectors braved rather brisk weather–and why not…those for whom we stood in protest are dealing with far worse–to stand in solidarity with the estimated tens of thousands like minded folk in Washington D.C., not to mention thousands more in more than 50 cities across the country, including one in Olympia, [...]

By FOIA Gras | Posted in Bush crime family, Foreign policy, Middle East conflicts | Comments (0)

Profile in Peace - G Vidal

January 28, 2007 – 3:53 pm

An Audio Series: 60-Minute Interview of Gore Vidal by Doreen Key, KPFK 90.7 fm, Los Angeles
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
There are more interviews here.

By John | Posted in Bush crime family, Middle East conflicts | Comments (0)

Feingold - Foreign Relations Committee Meeting on Iraq

January 28, 2007 – 3:37 pm

[Audio clip: view full post to listen]

By John | Posted in Feingold, Sen Russ, Middle East conflicts | Comments (1)

Internet giants bow to human rights protests

January 28, 2007 – 9:53 am

Campaigners for freedom of speech on the internet have hailed a major breakthrough after Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! agreed to join a working group to draw up a code of conduct for protecting human rights
online.
Leading IT companies have been criticised for colluding with governments, such as China, Iran and Vietnam, that censor websites and persecute [...]

By Rich | Posted in Corporate control, Free speech, Media, Privacy | Comments (0)

Nuclear plans in chaos as Iran leader flounders

January 27, 2007 – 6:54 pm

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2000303,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12

Nuclear plans in chaos as Iran leader flounders
Boasts of a nuclear programme are just propaganda, say insiders, but the PR could be enough to provoke Israel into war
Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor
Sunday January 28, 2007
The Observer
Iran’s efforts to produce highly enriched uranium, the material used to make nuclear bombs, are in chaos and the country [...]

By Don | Posted in Middle East conflicts | Comments (0)

WA Rep Mark Miloscia on Al Franken re Public Financing of Elections

January 26, 2007 – 11:47 am

[Audio clip: view full post to listen]

By John | Posted in Clean elections | Comments (0)

Signs at Baird’s Town Hall

January 25, 2007 – 11:41 am

[ January 25, 2007; 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm. ] Tonight, Jan. 25, Rep. Baird has a Town Hall at Ft. Vancouver H.S. auditorium, 5700 E. 18th St, 7 pm. Some of us will be out front at 6:30 pm with signs such as DEFUND THE WAR, OUT OF IRAQ. Show up and join us! gk.

“If I can’t dance, [...]

By g. kortes | Posted in Baird, Brian, Events, Middle East conflicts | Comments (0)