Everybody Knows with Dr. Bob and Dan-o
When the U.S. government announces the commencement of the war against Iraq, go on strike. Take your car and park in the nearest major intersection.
Block our freeways, bridges and subway entrances. Close down our cities. If you have no car, find a group of like-minded people and lie down in an intersection. No more business as usual. Close down our cities and stop the war machine!
Nonviolent civil disobedience is an American tradition 150 years old. First coined by Henry David Thoreau, adopted by Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, it has been credited for the success of Gandhi's independence movement, the U.S. civil rights movement, and the South African campaign against apartheid.
There is nothing to be afraid of. Towing your car might cost between $85 and $110, but with the streets totally jammed they can't tow us. This war will cost you much more than $110. And what's more valuable, your car or human lives? Put your body on the street. Call out to all those who are against this war to join you. Let those who support this war see our power.
Block our freeways, bridges and subway entrances. Close down our cities. If you have no car, find a group of like-minded people and lie down in an intersection. No more business as usual. Close down our cities and stop the war machine!
Nonviolent civil disobedience is an American tradition 150 years old. First coined by Henry David Thoreau, adopted by Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, it has been credited for the success of Gandhi's independence movement, the U.S. civil rights movement, and the South African campaign against apartheid.
There is nothing to be afraid of. Towing your car might cost between $85 and $110, but with the streets totally jammed they can't tow us. This war will cost you much more than $110. And what's more valuable, your car or human lives? Put your body on the street. Call out to all those who are against this war to join you. Let those who support this war see our power.
Today a young woman was killed in Gaza. Young women, but more often young men, get killed in Gaza and the West Bank every day, and the world pays no attention. What was different today is that Rachel Corrie was an American, an activist with the International Solidarity Movement, the group that I’m here with in occupied Palestine. And her death is a particularly horrifying example of the cold blooded dehumanization that characterizes this occupation. Rachel was trying to stop the demolition of a Palestinian home in Rafah, Gaza According to the other activists who were with her, she was in dialogue with the operator in the spirit of nonviolence that is a guiding principle of the ISM, which provides support for Palestinian civilians and for nonviolent efforts to bring about justice for Palestine. She climbed up on the bulldozer, to talk to the soldier in the cockpit. She climbed down. She sat in front of the bulldozer. The soldier in control of the huge machine drove it deliberately over her.
Congress may vote this week on a budget bill for 2004 that includes new provisions to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. And late reports indicate that the U.S. Senate might be just one vote away from voting to open up the Arctic Refuge to oil companies.
This comes despite thousands of e-mails to Congress opposing Arctic Drilling from Environmental Defensemembers, strong public opposition, and a long-awaited new report from the National Academy of Sciences highlighting damage to wildlife and the environment caused by years of oil drilling in areas near the Arctic Refuge.
Send a free fax: actionnetwork.org/campaign/arctic_drilling0303?source=an1
This comes despite thousands of e-mails to Congress opposing Arctic Drilling from Environmental Defensemembers, strong public opposition, and a long-awaited new report from the National Academy of Sciences highlighting damage to wildlife and the environment caused by years of oil drilling in areas near the Arctic Refuge.
Send a free fax: actionnetwork.org/campaign/arctic_drilling0303?source=an1
Products from the
United Kingdom, Spain
and Bulgaria
for supporting
the United States
in their insane attempt
to attack Iraq.
The Coors Lite crowd is busy frothing at the mouth and claiming they "ain't gonna drink no French wine or German beer no more!" Out of tremendous respect for the heroic efforts of the German and French governments to make the world a more secure, safer and more peaceful place, the Free Press is asking all of its readers to drink only German beer and drink only French wine for the next two months. Think of March as an early Oktoberfest. Make sure you buy as many imported German and French products as you can afford. Share them with your friends in the peace movement.
Ohio Call In Day to Senator Voinovich
On Wednesday, March 12th - Friday, March 14th, join a statewide call-in day to Senator Voinovich and demand that he invest in Ohio's Families, Ohio's Future.
The problem: Ohio is facing our worst fiscal crisis since World War II. Many of the social service programs that allow our families to make ends meet, keep our children healthy and put food on our tables are under attack. As the recession continues to take away jobs from families in Ohio, many are left with no where to turn. President's Bush's "answer" to this crisis is to continue to line the pockets of the wealthiest Americans.
The solution: For the most part, talk on the national level has been focused on tax breaks that will be unjustly skewed towards the richest Americans. Leaving the majority of families out in the cold. What families in Ohio need is a plan that restores and expands funding for programs that allow families to survive. We need a plan that puts resources to families that need it the most.
On Wednesday, March 12th - Friday, March 14th, join a statewide call-in day to Senator Voinovich and demand that he invest in Ohio's Families, Ohio's Future.
The problem: Ohio is facing our worst fiscal crisis since World War II. Many of the social service programs that allow our families to make ends meet, keep our children healthy and put food on our tables are under attack. As the recession continues to take away jobs from families in Ohio, many are left with no where to turn. President's Bush's "answer" to this crisis is to continue to line the pockets of the wealthiest Americans.
The solution: For the most part, talk on the national level has been focused on tax breaks that will be unjustly skewed towards the richest Americans. Leaving the majority of families out in the cold. What families in Ohio need is a plan that restores and expands funding for programs that allow families to survive. We need a plan that puts resources to families that need it the most.
Are you outraged that our government is rushing into an unjust war without exhausting all diplomatic measures?
Are you tired of our voices being ignored?
It’s time for Columbus Women to get Outrageous for Peace and Go PINK!!
Thousands of women around the world are responding to the world of Code orange and red that engenders fear and hatred in our daily lives. Let our resistance be seen in a beautiful, strong and outrageous showing of PINK!!
Come to all the vigils and marches in our community dressed in bright pink, the more outrageous the better. Let our hope show!
For more info. on upcoming peace and women’s events, Columbus Code Pink or NOW contact Heather Shaid
madeintheshaid@insight.rr.com
www.codepink4peace.org and www.now.org
Are you tired of our voices being ignored?
It’s time for Columbus Women to get Outrageous for Peace and Go PINK!!
Thousands of women around the world are responding to the world of Code orange and red that engenders fear and hatred in our daily lives. Let our resistance be seen in a beautiful, strong and outrageous showing of PINK!!
Come to all the vigils and marches in our community dressed in bright pink, the more outrageous the better. Let our hope show!
For more info. on upcoming peace and women’s events, Columbus Code Pink or NOW contact Heather Shaid
madeintheshaid@insight.rr.com
www.codepink4peace.org and www.now.org
Sign the petition (text and link below) and please ask your friends, family, colleagues, acquaintances -- anyone you know who shares this concern -- to
sign on today. As the New York Times put it, "there may still
be two superpowers on the planet: the United States and world
public opinion." The Bush Administration's been flexing its
muscles. Now let's flex ours.
www.moveon.org/emergency/
Dear Member of the U.N. Security Council,
We are citizens from countries all over the world. We are speaking together because we will all be affected by a decision in which your country has a major part -- the decision of how to disarm Iraq.
www.moveon.org/emergency/
Dear Member of the U.N. Security Council,
We are citizens from countries all over the world. We are speaking together because we will all be affected by a decision in which your country has a major part -- the decision of how to disarm Iraq.
Up to this moment, the US Government has not formalized a unilateral
ultimatum
to Iraq.
Formal unilateral ultimatum must precede unilateral attack of the US Government against Iraq.
Formal unilateral ultimatum must establish, formally, exactly, and precisely, which measures the Government of Iraq must take, in order to avoid unilateral attack of the US Government against Iraq.
On the other hand, formal unilateral ultimatum must establish, formally, exactly, and precisely, the deadline for the measures that the Government of Iraq must take, in order to avoid unilateral attack of the US Government against Iraq.
If the US Government launches unilateral attacks against Iraq, without any formal unilateral ultimatum, 6 billion people will have very strong reasons to believe that the main objective of the US Government is to control the petroleum of Iraq.
We all must remember that, in the future, our children, our grandchildren, our descendants, will never forget what we all will do in the next days.
Formal unilateral ultimatum must precede unilateral attack of the US Government against Iraq.
Formal unilateral ultimatum must establish, formally, exactly, and precisely, which measures the Government of Iraq must take, in order to avoid unilateral attack of the US Government against Iraq.
On the other hand, formal unilateral ultimatum must establish, formally, exactly, and precisely, the deadline for the measures that the Government of Iraq must take, in order to avoid unilateral attack of the US Government against Iraq.
If the US Government launches unilateral attacks against Iraq, without any formal unilateral ultimatum, 6 billion people will have very strong reasons to believe that the main objective of the US Government is to control the petroleum of Iraq.
We all must remember that, in the future, our children, our grandchildren, our descendants, will never forget what we all will do in the next days.
"First they came for the Communists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't
a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I
wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I
didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they
came for me, but by that time, no one was left to speak up." -Pastor
Martin Niemoeller, Nazi Germany