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12/2/08 Justin Raimondo goes looking for the war hawks who are always the target of his shooting:. He finds them now comfortably nested down in the Obama presidency-to-be. Remember Brent Scowcroft? Probably not, but he was the national security advisor to Bush I who "gave" us the Gulf War, the warm-up to the Afghan and Iraqi ones. Though Scowcroft wasn't on the announced "national security team" for Obama, his influence is well-discussed in the D.C. cocktail circuit and Raimondo looks for a continued happy hunting season with this nesting of the anti-anti-war movement in the newly re-cycled liberal establishment of the Democratic Party. http://anti-war.com/justin/?articleid=13838
Websites: Anti-war.com Information Clearing House: /www.informationclearinghouse.info/ Randolph Bourne Institute: Campus Anti-War Network: http://campusantiwar.net/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=141&Itemid=34 Trapock Peace Center: Oneworld.net, working for world peace: http://www.oneworld.net/section/current Peace Action: Promoting Enduring Peace: Nonviolence International: http://www.nonviolenceinternational.net/ Writing about peace: a passion for peace: http://www.apassionforpeace.com/web_sites/index.html Feminist Peace Network http://www.feministpeacenetwork.org/
Analysis & views: 12/2/08 Justin Raimondo goes looking for the war hawks who are always the target of his shooting:. He finds them now comfortably nested down in the Obama presidency-to-be. Remember Brent Scowcroft? Probably not, but he was the national security advisor to Bush I who "gave" us the Gulf War, the warm-up to the Afghan and Iraqi ones. Though Scowcroft wasn't on the announced "national security team" for Obama, his influence is well-discussed in the D.C. cocktail circuit and Raimondo looks for a continued happy hunting season with this nesting of the anti-anti-war movement in the newly re-cycled liberal establishment of the Democratic Party. http://anti-war.com/justin/?articleid=13838 10/21/08 Winter soldiers land in Portland, Oregon:. Group of veterans, reprising an event of last March in Silver Spring MD, hold a meeting at a Unitarian Church in Portland in which they provide personal accounts of the horrors of the Iraqi occupation, and give audiences an opportunity to "share the pain" of those who are suffering from that continuing occupation. http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=44359 8/11/08 Tired of the saber-rattling and actual warfare occurring on the international stage? Go with Dan Brown of the New York Times to the Upper Pensinsula of Michigan and the Marquette County Fair where you can witness some old-fashioned domestic cut-throat competition over who can bake the tastiest blueberry muffin. The experience might inspire you to believe that human beings are able to duke it out on important (to them) issues without resorting to cheating and violence. 7/24/08 Justin Raimondo's advice to anti-war voters who support Obama: Caveat emptor. Obama's "out of Iraq" and "into Afghanistan" agenda is a recipe, Raimondo thinks, for an endless "war against terror." In abandoning the Iraqi operation, the U.S. would be moving from a supposedly "doable" operation (Paul Wolfowitz' term) to a profoundly "undoable" project to bring western-style government to an area which has escaped just such efforts from generations of foreign powers to create a "democratic" Afghanistan. 6/24/08 A group of photographers launch a program called the Aftermath Project, designed to focus public attention on the "other half" of war: the stories of people who are refugees, permanently wounded, deprived of their families and otherwise suffering war's aftermath. One of these photographers pens a description for the Womens International Perspective. http://thewip.net/contributors/2008/06/the_aftermath_project_war_is_o.html 6/15/08 John McCain at the National War College: : "Seeds" of a candidate's views on foreign policy and domestic dissent. During the mining of data about a candidate's "biography" that goes on during a campaign season, a New York Times reporter gets hold of a "thesis" submitted to the War College by McCain in 1973 and notes the former prisoner of war as largely blaming the "anti-war movement" in the U.S. for the de-moralization of some prisoners who collaborated with the enemy by their anti-American statements 6/13/08 GOP's Bluewash project doesn't work against an anti-war Democrat in Maine: . Chellie Pingree easily defeats, in Maine's Democratic primary for congressional district 1, an opponent who recently changed his registration from Republican to Democrat and ran against her with heavy Republican campaign support to try to derail an anti-war candidate in favor of a "moderate" one http://bangornews.com/news/t/campaign2008.aspx?articleid=165512&zoneid=611 6/6/08 Groundbreaking for Peace Institute in D.C. brings out talk of preventetive war and spreading democracy: . President Bush and former Secretary of State George Schultz are among those participating in the event, Bush touting his agenda of encouraging democracy around the world, Schultz praises as a "great idea" that of engaging in military actions that address the threat of larger conflicts. 6/1/08 "WAR INC." movie opens in NYC and LA:. Anti-War Radio from Austin TX conducts a wide-ranging interview with star and co-writer John Cusack about the film, the motives of its production and the varied reactions to it. http://www.antiwar.com/orig/horton.php?articleid=12921 5/26/08 Fof this Memorial Day, a "voluntarist" recommends some revisionist history. Start with viewing "The Americanization of Emily" and then pick up any one of a number of recommended books whose authors re-examine the nation's conflicts in the kind of light cast by Jeremiah Wright in his notorious "God Damn America" out-burst. http://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2008/05/happy-revisionist-history-day.html 5/25/08 For Memorial Day, Veterans for Peace in Gainesville lines up 4,500 replica tombstones with names of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq in a display along NW 8th Avenue. 5/20/08 Iraq: Whose war is it anyway? Cindy Sheenan says that, like it or not, it's the war of all of "us:" of Congress which is about to approve still another supplementary war appropriation, "anti-war" groups like MoveOn which are actually pro-Democrat because they are merely "frustrated" by Democrats' action while they were "outraged" at the Republican ones; and by all voters who feel that they have to support as a "lesser evil" one or another of the pro-war presidential candidates thrown up by the electoral process. http://www.counterpunch.org/sheehan05192008.html 5/2/08 "Longshore workers are standing down on the job and standing up for America." President of the longshoreman's union so describes the action of Pacific Coast cargo handlers in their effort to "shut down" all seaports by refusing to unload cargo in protest of continuation of the Iraqi occupation. Effectiveness of the job action is in some contention, as prior notice of the action allowed management time to prepare to deal with the shut-down; and said management claims that the action was actually less a matter of anti-war protest than an attempt to "leverage" the union position in an upcoming contract negotiation http://www.reuters.com/article/wtMostRead/idUSN0144367220080501 4/2/08 What is a peace voter to do in the current U.S. presidential election? Kevin Zeese, co-founder of Voters for Peace, advocates a strategy of transcending partisan alignments with one candidate or another, at least at early stages of the campaign. Rather, he thinks "peace voters" should scan the records and statements of all candidates, from all parties and independents, very closely and try to hold candidates to an understanding that "if you want my vote," you will need to make meaningful and not simply rhetorical pledges to withdraw from Iraq and stop imperialist interventions. Voters for Peace will operate to facilitate these comparisons. http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/04/what-is-a-peace-voter-to-do/ 3/20/08 "Stop paying to kill." Anti-war protesters in Washington D.C. try to shut down IRS with their demonstration, with 32 of them being arrested. These were a few of the some 160 arrests across the United States of demonstrators against the Iraqi war that began 5 years ago. http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=93784 3/19/08 On 5th anniversary of beginning of war in Iraq, an act of civil disobediance in Atlanta:. 10 members of "Grandmothers for Peace," aged 57 to 80, are arrested as they attempt to enlist in the U.S. Army. http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/18/7744/ 2/14/08 "Opposition to empire has been out at the heart of politics as never before." This assessment by Andrew Murray, chair of Stop the War Coalition, of the effects of massive UK street demonstrations before and shortly after beginning of Iraqi War. While the the actions obviously did not stop that war, Murray suggests, they may well have helped to stop the next one. Link contains an informative string of "comments" with useful dialogue on how the anti-war movement should proceed. http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/13/7028/ 2/8/08 Tom Hayden: Peace advocats need to get off the sidelines and into the remaining Democratic primaries: Hayden's idea is that Clinton and Obama need to be forced to "compete" for support from anti-war activists, many of whom prefer "sidelines" demonstrations to electoral involvement. His own analysis of "differences" in war policy of the candidates amounts almost to an endorsement of Obama. Critics (numerous ones of whom are represented on the usual "Comments" that accompany Common Dreams postings) suggest the futility of trying to move the Democratic Party toward any kind of consistent opposition to the imperialist motives that move U.S. foreign parties in the notorious "Washington Consensus." http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/07/6908/ 1/29/08 Is antiwar sentiment getting any play at all in the Florida presidential primaries? An Anti-War.com blogger notes the bellicose nature of ads for Republican candidates and doubts that the "non-campaigning" Democrats would show much more sympathy for the majority view of the American people. His brief post opens a flood-gate of expressions by some of those Americans (and at least one Canadian) of an allegedly myopic character of public life in Florida and elsewhere in the country. http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/01/28/antiwar-in-fla-primary/ 1/18/07 What a difference a year makes. Coalition of anti-war groups, encouraged a year ago from a Democratic assumption of congressional control, were speaking confidently of ending the Iraqi war by withholding funding. After a year of frustration in this agenda, and with Iraqi and U.S. government officials as well as most presidential candidates speaking resignedly about a decade or more of further occupation, they are shifting "strategy" to opposing escalation of the war or, more exactly, seeking congressional consultation before any further escalation or long-term commitments are made. http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=858318B5-3048-5C12-00D519023F28D90F 1/7/08 Peace activists arrested during Iowa caucuses as part of "presidential occupation project." Democracy Now interview. http://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/4/peace_activists_take_action_to_keep 11/9/07 "Can't we all just get along?" was Rodney King's plaintive appeal for racial harmony after his savage beating by white policemen. In an echo of this sentiment, efforts are made to heal Jewish and Palestinian enmities by "peace camps" in which people from both faiths are brought together to engage in sympathetic dialogue; and a Jewish-Arab school in Jerusalem creates an oasis of integration in a segregated city. Kathleen and Bill Christison give such programs credit for good intentions, but question whether they are really helpful to solving the inequity of a Jewish occupation, since Palestinians typically bear the brunt of understanding the "Jewish" point of view. They liken such programs to a hypothetical "slave and master" camp in which, after a love-fest interval of "getting along," slave and master return to the system of slavery from which they came. http://www.counterpunch.org/christison11082007.html 10/24/07 United for Peace and Justice is planning eleven anti-war rallies across the U.S. on October 27: There is "something new" in this year's rallies. The UFPJ has been widely criticized by others in the anti-war community for their close ties to the liberal Democratic political establishment and their reluctance to offend the Israel lobby with strong pro-Palestinian stances. This year, the rallies are disdaining the "double speak" of Democrats who give lip service to anti-war causes and substituting as speakers Palestinian and other activists. http://www.counterpunch.org/heller10232007.html 10/19/07 "We are living co-existence here, not just dreaming or talking about it." says a Jewish Israeli man whose son attends a Jewish-Arab school in Jerusalem, the only one in the city. The school has co-principals from the two faiths and instruction varies between use of Hebrew and Arabic languages. The children relish their associations with those of the other faith, and the school seems to be a genuine laboratory of what could happen in a unified Israeli state. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article3070617.ece 10/5/07 'We don't want Desmond Tutu. He said things "hurtful" to the Jewish people' :St. Thomas College in Minnesota withdraws speaking invitation to the Novel Peace Prize laureate after officials were told by some local Jews that Tutu had said things "critical" of Israeli policy. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/10/04/tutu 10/4/07 Go figure: In 2003, when only 23% of Americans opposed the Iraq war, there were massive street demonstrations against the invasion. Now, with the war opposed by 58%, the size of demonstrations has significantly diminished: One factor seems to be the rivalry and bickering among different anti-war groups, who are now holding their separate demonstrations. It reminds one of an observation about the behavior of people at early meetings of the Methodist Church in England; it was said that the delegates "came in one cab, left in two." http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071003/ts_nm/usa_iraq_protests_dc 10/2/07 Today is the first-ever International Day of Non-violence in memory of Mahatama Ghandi: Two Canadian activists reflect on the prominence of cyper-net activism as opposed to people turning out for large street demonstrations. Despite the limitations of campaigning by computer with the loss of the moral effects of massed solidarity and confrontation with one's opponents, these activists see hopes of the internet becoming a galvanizing force for protest movements today. With the image of Buddhist protesters in Myanamar fresh in their minds, some of those making first comments on the article beg to differ. http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/01/4244/ 9/14/07 Nicholas von Hoffman, self-described "Pulitzer prize losing author of 13 books," says that war protesters the likes of Code Pink, Cindy Sheehan and MoveOn.org, who engage in heckling activities that raise the hackles of politicians are engaged an almost lost art of heckling once considered part of the public forum of issue discussion. Those whom they offend have lost the corresponding art of those like Lincoln, Churchill and Disraeli who found ways to neutralize their political effects. http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/13/3813/ 9/10/07 Six antiwar protestors, including a Jesuit priest,found guilty of attempting to "shut down" a Federal building in Albuquerque:. The group faces possible 30-day jail sentences for having attempted to visit Senator Pete Domenici's office to deliver a "Declaration of Peace" containing the names of all U.S. and many Iraqis persons killed in Iraq. The actual "shut down" of the building occurred when security officials closed the elevator on which they were riding and left them in the elevator for 6 hours. http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/09/3711/ 8/22/07 Pentagon shuts down its database on protestors against the Iraq war, citing little use following "negative publicity": ACLU applauds the move, even though the information is transferred to the FBI, where it will remain until military intelligence can devise a "better" program. http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/21/talon.aclu/index.html?section=cnn_latest 8/21/07 Anti-war protesters not giving members of Congress any break as they go home after a congressional recess. http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082007S.shtml 8/11/07 University of Washington psychology professor notes that Bedouins have a hundred words for "camel" and that we have innumerable words for war and names for many specific wars and conflicts...but only one word for peace, reflecting maybe our subsconscious obsession with war and lack of attraction to the "boring" condition of peace. Only when this linguistic situation changes can we really begin to "give peace a chance." http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2003829269_barash10.html 8/3/07 Police stop 3 teenagers from chalking the names of U.S. war dead in downtown Fort Myers, Florida. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_news/story/191543.html 7/27/07 Korey Rowe, producer of 9/11 documentary "Loose Change", a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq operations, is arrested as a military deserter: The arrest occurred July 23 at his home near Oneonta NY. Rowe was an outspoken anti-war critic who refused re-deployment to Iraq in 2005. Although over 3000 soldiers have "deserted" during the Iraqi war, only a handful have been apprehended and nearly all those have been released after administrative discharges. http://www.thedailystar.com/news/stories/2007/07/25/jprowearrest0722.html 7/25/07 Cindy Sheehan's busy day: Gets arrested and announces candidacy for Congress on same day: Arrested at the office of Congressman John Conyers, as she appeared to demand the impeachment of President Bush earlier promoted by Conyers, the anti-war activist announces plans to contest Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her seat in Congress. http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2337983820070723?pageNumber=1 5/31/07 "Texture of peace" is coarse indeed in the United States. A Global Peace Index has measured this "texture" among 121 nations and assigned a score to each, based on military involvements and casualities as well as domestic violence indicators like incarceration rates; and ranks U.S. as #96. Most of the higher ratings are earned by countries in western Europe ("old" Europe that is). http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/30/1553/ 5/29/07 Cindy Sheehan quits the Democratic Party. In an "open letter" to the Democratic congress, she condemns their action in approving another spending bill for Iraq and calls on anti-war activists to united in opposition to a "two party system" that is in fact a corporate-dominated one party system. http://www.counterpunch.org/sheehan05282007.html 5/29/07 Tampa Bay's own Jeeni Criscenzko tells what it's like to be a "Dick-head" for a day at Tampa's zoo. In an exercise in Political Theatre 101, Jeeni dons a Cheney mask along with other masked people representing Administration figures, and learns that it's hard to see in the mask because you can't see out of its left side and hard to talk because its mouth is stuffed full of dollar bills. http://www.counterpunch.org/criscenzo05282007.html 5/15/07 The hushing season arrives in America. It begins the day after Mother's Day, with its obligatory nods to the maternal pacifism of the day's founder, Julia Ward Howe, and this year extends until September. This is when General Petraeus will give his report on progress of the Iraqi War and, until that time, peace activists will be urged to keep quiet and wait for those results. When September comes, and the Iraqi situation is still impossible, President Bush will extend the hushing season through next year's presidential election, as any dissent will be put down as opportunistic "politicking." http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/14/1182/ 5/13/07 "Flabby, confused and belated " is Gideon Levy's description of a protest in Israel's peace movement. Demands for "Elections Now" and for "Olmert Go Home" are about as muscular and articulate slogans as the protesters can muster. http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=12799 2/17/07 Protests planned in northern Italy against U.S. decision to expand the facilities of its military base in Vicenza, preparatory to re-assigning U.S. infantry soldiers from a German base. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6370671.stm 2/12/07 Dixie Chicks, largely ostracized in the country music scene since an anti-Bush comment in 2003, received numerous Grammy awards in last night's ceremonies. http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/16679087.htm 2/11/07 Civil disobedience project begins in America: Voices for Creative Non-Violence is organizing an Occupation Project to put people in congressional offices throughout the country to lobby members of Congress to vote to withhold funding from the Iraqi War, using demonstration tactics like reading the names of dead soldiers and Iraqi civilians, with climax of activities expected in early March as House Appropriations Committee votes on funding. http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0210-20.htm 1/23/07 Religion professor Ira Chernus reflects on rhetorical images in support and opposition to the Iraqi war. While Cheney and others articulate a "real man" image with appeals to have the hard stomach or guts to "stick it out," those in the anti-war movement call for hardness in another body part, the spine, the courage to face down the arrogance of the war-makers. Chernus suggests that the militarists will always win the battle of the body parts unless peace advocates extoll as well the value of another body part, the heart, which is noted for its softness and flexibility in producing a free flow of blood physically and of love symbolically. http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0122-20.htm 1/22/07 Indiana colleges are described as "hot beds of ambivalence" over support or opposition to the war in Iraq. http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070122/LOCAL/701220376 1/18/07 New book by British General says it all: after sweeping analysis of the evolution of modern warfare, he concludes that wars of the future (and presumably the future is now) must be waged in a different way. "Only carefully defined and tightly intertwined political, diplomatic and military missions can hope to be effective, if only temporarily. That’s another feature of the new paradigm: No war, but no peace either, only conflict without end" (quote from reviewer). Editor's note: seems the "paradigm" of endless conflict would have to be disrupted by more intelligent efforts at "conflict resolution" (Department of Peace?) http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/18/books/18grim.html?_r=1&oref=slogin 1/4/07 Who in the hell let her in here? As Rahm Emanuel, who orchestrated the election of "pro-war" Democrats in 2006, tries to hold a press conference on the party's plans for lobby reform, Cindy Sheehan and other protesters break up the meeting with a raucous chorus of "de-escalate, de-escalate!" http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2007/01/01/daily13.html?from_rss=1 1/3/07 Grandmothers Against the War hold a vigil for the Iraqi war dead in midtown Manhattan. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0102-52.htm 1/1/07 Creating a peaceful new year: message from Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich. 1/1/07 Coincidence of 3000th U.S. military death in Iraq and the New Year as a time of re-assessing individual and collective resolutions may be producing a moment of possibility for renewed resolve and effort to end U.S. involvement in Iraq. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/01/us/01deaths.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin 12/31/06 Anti-war protesters plan big demonstration when the 3000th U.S. troop is killed in Iraq. http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/123006E.shtml 12/20/06 Long row to hoe for Department of Peace in public opinion: Gainesville Florida City Commission's approval of DOP is mocked out by the Gainesville Sun as news is released of rise in violent crime in the city and across the country. (Cartoon) http://gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=editorials 12/19/06 Lesson from history: how the Anti-Imperialism League grew as people who had supported U.S. aggression in the Spanish-American War became disillusioned with the imperialism of U.S. policy. http://www.mises.org/story/2408 12/11/06 Cindy Sheehan and three others are convicted of trespassing at UN when they attempted to deliver a peace petition; given $95 fine and "conditional discharge" that could subject them to harsh punishment for future "infractions." http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PEACE_MOM_TRIAL?SITE=DEFAULT 11/28/06 War protestor's self-immolation in Chicago was virtually ignored by the media, frustrating his resolve to have his death move public opinion against the war. http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112706T.shtml 11/27/06 Christmas wreath with a peace sign inside the circle is banned by a southwestern Colorado neighborhood association, considering it an anti-war protest symbol; woman vows to keep it up through Christmas in the face of $25 per day fine. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061127/ap_on_re_us/anti_peace_sign 11/21/06 Pentagon admits that, until "earlier this year," military intelligence maintained an "anti-terrorist database" that included information on anti-war activists whose protests at military bases was incorrectly treated as "threats" to military installations. http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/sf/nyt11_21_6_3.htm 11/21/06 University of Texas professor is denied speaking opportunities at churches and schools because of his anti-war activism, and he laments that such actions are denying people a "space for engagement," an opportunity to seek the truth about civic affairs by deep and honest conversation. http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1120-32.htm 9/1/06 Mayor of St. Lake City makes a ringing denunciation of the war in Iraq. Complete translation here. http://www.sltrib.com/ci_4263654 8/14/06 John Dear describes the peace meeting at Los Alamos on the August 6 anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, in the face of the government scientists who are developing the next generation of destructive nuclear weapons. http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0814-29.htm 6/30/06 25-member coalition of Democratic lawmakers is formed in Maine to protest the Iraqi war in terms of its effects on Maine's veterans and its economy. http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=136688 6/29/06 Brian Moore, independent candidate for U.S. Senate in Florida, blasts Sen. Bill Nelson for his support of Bush agenda for the Iraqi war. http://www.votebrianmoore.com/ 4/30/06 Cindy Sheehan, Sarah Sarandon, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are among leaders of mass anti-war demonstration in New York City: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/29/AR2006042900497.html 4/8/06 Weakness of anti-war protests in America is contrasted with the strength of those protesting immigration legislation proposals in the U.S. and employment practices in France, noting that,. with no draft, there is little sense of personal stake in the outcome of the anti-war issue: http://counterpunch.org/cockburn04072006.html 3/21/06 Florida groups gather to protest third anniversary of Iraq war http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060318/APN/603180800&cachetime=5 3/21/06 Look Ma! SSA's editor and publisher (the good looking guy with bald head and sun glasses standing in the center background) at peace vigil in Gainesville: http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060320/LOCAL/203200329/1078 3/18/06 Hundreds of thousands around the world join in protests against the war in Iraq on the 3rd anniversary of its start: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/Cs_ap_060318/20060318?hub=World 3/18/06 A weekend of anti-war events on 3rd anniversary of invasion of Iraq: an event locator: http://www.afsc.org/3years/ 3/15/06 Newly released FBI documents reveal extensive surveillance of peaceful anti-war groups: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0315-03.htm 3/7/06 Rebuffed by U.S. mission to UN when they tried to present a petition to end the Iraq war with 60,000 signatures, Cindy Sheehan and other protestors are arrested outside UN headquarters in NYC: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0306-09.htm 2/23/06 Cities and towns across the U.S. are calling for end to Iraqi combat operations: http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0222-20.htm 2/17/06 Call for revitalization of peace movement: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20060210&articleId=1946 2/13/06 "Confession" of a peace activist: http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0213-34.htm 2/2/06 The new face of the campus left: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/grahamfelsen 1/31/06 World Social Forum plans worldwide protests against Iraqi occupation in March: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0130-06.htm
1/28/06 Peace activist Cindy Sheehan may run against Senator Feinstein: http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060128/API/601280801 1/28/06 Progressive students on campus struggle to match intensity and organization of conservative colleagues: http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0127-27.htm
1/22/06 Zinn: need to think and talk about an end to war, not just an end to "this war": http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2006-01/03zinn.cfm
1/22/06 Palm Beach peace group spied on: http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/politics/13675006.htm
1/12/06 William Thomas, Renouncing War: http://www.willthomas.net/Convergence/Weekly/No-War.htm
1/11/06 Pledge of Resistance anti-war group and NSA spying: http://democracyrising.us/content/view/402/164/
1/11/06 Moveon.org and anti-war movement: http://brickburner.blogs.com/my_weblog/2006/01/moveonorg_surre.html
1/3/06 World movement to criminalise war: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20051223&articleId=1594
Books
Books on peace: The Peace Company: http://www.thepeacecompany.com/store/cat_books.php
Peace education books: http://www.thepeacecompany.com/store/cat_books_education.php Todd Parr, The Peace Book (children): http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316835315/102-0925705-0083331?v=glance&n=283155
Children's Peace Corner (books for child education): http://www.thepeacecompany.com/peacecorner/
J.N. Dixit, India Pakistan: War and Peace: http://www.kashmirherald.com/bookreviews/IndiaPakistaninWarPeace.html
Upcoming 2006 books on war and peace, especially fiction: http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/arts/books/documents/05172140.asp
Video/Films
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