Click here to sign up for this action. Walk your neighborhood door-to-door spreading the message to end the illegal war and occupation of Iraq. The coalition organizing Million Doors for Peace includes: Catholics United, Cities for Peace, MoveOn.org, Pax Christi USA, Peace Action, Progressive Accountability, Progressive Democrats of America, United for Peace & Justice, USAction & TrueMajority.org, Voters for Peace and Win Without [...]
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 | As a person who works in the maritime industry, which is pretty conservative, this is cool*: THE ILWU West Coast longshore workers have voted to “stop work to protest the US war and occupation on Iraq and Afghanistan on May Day 2008,” the ILWU said. All 29 ports on the U.S. West Coast are to be shut down for eight hours. The longshore workers [...] Good article over at OpEd News about the state of our country. An analogy of our current state of affairs comes to mind of the spouse (i.e. we Americans) who refuses to acknowledge that his/her mate is unfaithful (i.e. our government’s illegal and immoral Iraq occupation and the lies supporting the occupation). The cuckolded spouse makes up all kinds of excuses and rationalizations about [...] Sometimes to find hope for the future we have to look to the past. In the excellent book Jewish Travellers, you can read the travelogue of Rabbi Benjamin ben Jonah of Tudela in Navarre, the most famous of Jewish travellers in the late Middle Ages. He finished the travels he describes in 1173: [The Caliph of Baghdad] built, on the other side of the [...] This year, I’m most grateful for the successful treatment of my father-in-law’s prostate cancer, which caught us all by surprise back in February when an x-ray to diagnose L.’s hip pain revealed what his annual PSA tests had not. (Some of the rarer and more aggressive forms of prostate cancer do not raise the PSA above the normal range until they have metastasized.) [...] Thanks to Marion Ward for pointing this video out about some veterans being prevented from marching in the Boston parade and their subsequent arrest: Marion also just pointed out this video of Olympia port protesters stopping another military cargo truck this morning. These videos make me proud to be an American. swfobject.embedSWF(“http://www.youtube.com/v/-YnwXHBxD9s&color1=0x5D1719&color2=0xCD311B&border=1&rel=1&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=0″, “vvq-1042-youtube-1″, “370″, “299″, “10″, vvqexpressinstall, vvqflashvars, vvqparams, vvqattributes); swfobject.embedSWF(“http://www.youtube.com/v/dM2tNL_roBY&color1=0x5D1719&color2=0xCD311B&border=1&rel=1&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=0″, “vvq-1042-youtube-2″, “370″, “299″, “10″, vvqexpressinstall, vvqflashvars, vvqparams, vvqattributes); |      | ||||
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