Bay Area United Against War

Saturday, March 05, 2005

BAUAW NEWSLETTER-SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 2005

GET THE MILITARY OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS!

There are three important meetings coming up:

Sunday, March 6th:

The code pink counter-recruitment
group will be holding a meeting at 3 p.m. at the S.F.
green office, 1028a Howard St. (between 6th and 7th,)
to plan for the March 8th San Francisco
Board of Education meeting, where
the item on the agenda is: Military
Recruitment and JROTC in our Schools.

Tuesday, March 8th:

The Board will entertain
a motion to allow counter-recruitment
at the schools to counteract military presence.
This meeting is at 7:00 p.m. at
555 Franklin St.

Folks are encouraged to speak
at this meeting.

To get on the speakers list call:
415-241-6427, 241-6493 or 241-6000
March 7th from 8-4 p.m. or
March 8th from 8-3 p.m.

Thursday, March 17th:

There will be a "meeting of the whole"
devoted solely to Military Recruitment
and JROTC in our schools.

This meeting is designed to be a very
large meeting where a real dialogue can
take place between the community and
Board members on how best to accomplish
this goal.

Everyone is invited to participate in this
important meeting.

The meeting will take place at:
555 Franklin St.

To get on the speakers list call:
415-241-6427, 241-6493 or 241-6000,
March 16th from 8-4 p.m. and
March 17th from 8-3 p.m.

BAUAW has submitted the following resolution to the board:

Draft Resolution for San Francisco Board of Education
Cut Ties with the Military:

WHEREAS, the United States military is
actively recruiting high school students into
the military to fight in Iraq; and

WHEREAS, many young San Francisco
high school alumni are presently serving in
military units fighting in Iraq; and

WHEREAS, it is San Francisco City policy
by virtue of Proposition N, to bring all U.S.
troops home from Iraq now; and

WHEREAS, over 1,448 U.S. soldiers and
approximately 100,000 Iraqis have been
killed in this war and over 10,000 U.S.
soldiers and unknown thousands of
Iraqis have been wounded; and

WHEREAS, the hundreds of billions of dollars
spent on the war have robbed our children of
resources that should be spent on
education and other human needs; and

WHEREAS, military presence in our schools
legitimizes the message that violence is
acceptable;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT:
It shall be the policy of the San Francisco
Board of Education to support cutting
all ties with the United States military,
including, but not limited to: Ending military
recruitment on campuses; ending the
Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps
(JROTC); and guaranteeing that all students
and parents are informed of their right to
deny military recruiters access to their
names, addresses and telephone numbers.

Bay Area United Against War (BAUAW)
www.bauaw.org
414-824-8730

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Donations are urgently needed to carry
out this important work. We have no
expenses for staff or office space,
but we need money for posters, buttons,
flyers and anti-recruitment informational
material to hand out to students and parents.

Make a tax-deductible donation to:

Bay Area United Against War/NVM
P.O. Box 318021
San Francisco, CA 94131-8021

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Coming Up:

Global Day of Action
March 19, 2005
No to War and Occupation in Iraq, Palestine, Haiti,
Afghanistan, Cuba Everywhere!
Bring the Troops Home Now!
Money for People's Needs, Not War!

San Francisco March Assembles:
11 a.m. Dolores Park
Rally: 1 p.m. Civic Center

THE NEXT BAUAW MEETING WILL TAKE PLACE:
SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 11:30AM
474 VALENCIA STREET, SF
(FIRST FLOOR, TO THE LEFT AND ALL THE WAY BACK
TO THE COMPANEROS DEL BARRIO CHILDREN'S CENTER)

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Resource:
MONEY FOR HUMAN NEEDS NOT WAR!
FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF SOCIAL SERVICES
UNDER THE KNIFE RIGHT NOW GO TO:
http://www.bauaw.org/2005/02/programs-eliminated-or-cut-in-2006.html

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1) WE ALL STAND WITH LYNNE STEWART!
NO JAIL TIME FOR LYNNE!
PLEASE WRITE LETTERS TODAY

2) March 19, 2005 Global Day of Action
No to War Occupation ˆ Iraq, Palestine, Haiti,
Afghanistan, Cuba Everywhere!
Bring the Troops Home Now!
Money for People‚s Needs, Not War!
San Francisco: March Assembles: 11 a.m. Dolores Park
Rally: 1 p.m. Civic Center

3) COMING TO THE BAY AREA SOON-POWERFUL ANTIWAR MOVIES

4) Center for Constitutional Rights
regarding the No Child Left
Behind Act and military recruiting in schools.

5) Upcoming Events: March and April
Upcoming Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA)
Related Events see below for more detailed info

6) From: Alison Weir
Sent: 2/27/05 9:13:24 AM
Victims Were ALL Soldiers

7) Sobriety Tests Are Becoming (link only)
Part of the School Day
By PATRICK O'GILFOIL HEALY
March 3, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/03/nyregion/03breath.html?hp&ex=1109912400&en=1f2a00390ff377a0&ei=5094&partner=homepage

8) Greenspan Says Federal (link only)
Budget Deficits Are 'Unsustainable'
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
March 3, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/03/politics/03deficit.html

9) Audit Describes 8 Years of (link only)
Looting by L.I. School Officials
By BRUCE LAMBERT
March 3, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/03/nyregion/03roslyn.html

10) New Poll Finds Bush Priorities
Are Out of Step With Americans
By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JANET ELDER
March 3, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/03/politics/03poll.html?hp&ex=1109912400&en=1b7c8514d044e85b&ei=5094&partner=homepage

11) U.S. Death Toll in Iraq Reaches 1,500
By Philippe Naughton
Times Online
Thursday 03 March 2005
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030305Z.shtml

12) Students in the Progressive Student Alliance (link only)
here at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville have
inaugurated a short and solemn pledge for young
people to take, asserting that, should a draft be
reinstituted, they will not serve. Signatures have already
started coming in to our website at
http://www.wewontgo.org

13) SAN FRANCISCO ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE
ANTIWAR CONTINGENT
SUNDAY, MARCH 13, ASSEMBLE: 10:45 A.M.
SOUTH OF MARKET ST.

14) Terror Bill: Taking liberties (link only)
Today, the House of Lords debates
the Prevention of Terrorism Bill.
So how have our civil rights been
eroded under Tony Blair?
03 March 2005
http://news.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?story=616332&host=3&dir=60

15) The 8th Annual
*****A N A R C H I S T C A F E*****
Vegan dinner!! Music!! Spoken Word!! Surprises!!
Friday, March 25, 2005, 6pm
"The Kitchen"
225 Potrero Ave., at 16th Street
San Francisco
$5 - $15 donation requested
No one turned away for lack of funds
VIDEO by Video Activist Network
dinner 7 - 8
performers indoors 7-10:30
video 8-9
all ages! kid space!
drug and alcohol free space.
indoor/outdoor
wheelchair accessible.
volunteers needed to help volunteer, email
anarchistcafe2005@yahoo.com
This year's Anarchist Café is a benefit for
The Central Committee for
Conscientious Objectors, which supports
and promotes individual and
collective resistance to war and preparations for war
http://objector.org; and for From Attica to Abu Ghraib:
An Organizing
Conference on Human Rights, Torture,
and Resistance, sponsored by the
International Human Rights Initiative
http://www.attica2abughraib.co

16) The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw
A Documentary Film
3 Days of 9-11 Events in SF Bay Area -
March 9th - 11th, 2005
and a showing in Santa Rosa on
March 12 at "Odd Fellows Hall,"
545 Pacific Ave,
phone 1-707-664-2500

17) Face up to the facts on the ground (link only)
Britain and Europe are funding Israel's
occupation and expansion
Karma Nabulsi
Tuesday March 1, 2005
Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1427711,00.html

18) Historic 24-Hour Emergency Read-In
Please Circulate Widely
[Original Message] From: Mary Prophet
mlprophet@earthlink.net

19) Maximum Pain is Aim of New US Weapon (link only)
by David Hambling
Published on Thursday, March 3, 2005 by the
New Scientist Magazine
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0303-08.htm

20) Job Gains Pick Up But Jobless Rate Rises (link only)
By Tim Ahmann
WASHINGTON (Reuters)
Fri Mar 4, 2005 09:20 AM ET
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7810254&src=eDialog/GetContent

21) Key Iraq Wound: Brain Trauma (link only)
By Gregg Zoroya
USA Today
Friday 04 March 2005
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030405Y.shtml

22) Proposed Law on Bankruptcy Has Loophole (link only)
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
March 2, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/02/business/02bankrupt.html?pagewanted=print&position=-------

23) Idriss Stelley Foundation &
Dokta Cooper Community Network Project
Are proudly hosting the CEDP (Campaign to End the (racist)
Death Penalty)Bayview Chapter, every other Monday
evening at 7 P.M.,at 4921 3rd Street between Palou
and Quesada, SF.

24) Violent New Front in Drug War Opens (link only)
on the Canadian Border
By SARAH KERSHAW
March 5, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/05/national/05bud.html?hp&ex=1110085200&en=65572337829fba47&ei=5094&partner=homepage

25) Disparity in Nation's Schools: (link only)
Race and Poverty Linked to Educational
Inequality and Higher Dropout Rates
http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/news/pressreleases/deseg05.php

27) WHEN JEWS TARGET (link only)
A CANADIAN MUSLIM
By Dr. Mohamed Elmasry
February 25, 2005
http://www.canadianislamiccongress.com/fb/friday_bulletin.php?fbdate=2005-03-04#2

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1) WE ALL STAND WITH LYNNE STEWART!
NO JAIL TIME FOR LYNNE!
PLEASE WRITE LETTERS TODAY:

SUGGESTION AS TO FORMAT OF LETTERS
TO BE WRITTEN ON BEHALF OF LYNNE STEWART

MARGIN: Please leave at least a one-inch left-hand margin to
allow us to bind the letter into the appendix to the sentencing
memorandum that is being filed on
Lynne's behalf.

INSIDE ADDRESS: Honorable John G. Koeltl
United States District Judge
Southern District of New York
United States Courthouse
500 Pearl Street
New York, New York 10007

GREETING: Honorable Sir or Dear Judge Koeltl:

BODY: Briefly introduce yourself and set forth your
relationship to Lynne.
Briefly discuss yourself - your position in work and
in society.
State that you are aware that Lynne is to be sentenced
following a jury verdict of guilty on serious charges: The
remainder of your letter should discuss whatever you believe
to weigh in favor of no jail time. If possible, you should tell
of an incident where she helped you out or engaged
in commendable community service. Do not try to argue
that she is not guilty or was unfairly conviction. Focus
on the unfairness of the government's actions in bringing
the charges; the way in which the government portrayed her, etc.

* Typewritten letters if possible are preferred.
*
WHEN LETTER IS COMPLETED: Please mail the final product
to the following address:
Jill R. Shellow-Lavine, Esq.
2537 Post Road
Southport, CT 06890

Do not send your letters to the judge. We ask that you forward
your letter me so that the lawyers can present it to Judge Koeltl
with the other letters being written for this purpose. This is the
manner in which letters will have the greatest impact. If they
are sent directly to the Judge's chambers, they may have less
of an impact and could cause the judge a substantial
inconvenience (and annoyance).

Thank you for your cooperation. If you have any questions,
please do not hesitate to contact the defense committee at
www.lynnestewart.org.

Sincerely,
Jill R. Shellow-Lavine
Attorney for Lynne Stewart
For more information go to:
www.LynneStewart.org

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2) March 19, 2005 Global Day of Action
No to War Occupation ˆ Iraq, Palestine, Haiti,
Afghanistan, Cuba Everywhere!
Bring the Troops Home Now!
Money for People‚s Needs, Not War!
San Francisco: March Assembles: 11 a.m. Dolores Park
Rally: 1 p.m. Civic Center

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3) COMING TO THE BAY AREA SOON
ARE SOME POWERFUL ANTIWAR MOVIES
"Mission Accomplished" is a a brutally vivid documentary
filmed entirely on the ground in Iraq. The reality of this
war for American troops is contrasted to the
overwhelming reality of the devastation felt and experienced
by the people of Iraq.
"Mission Accomplished" will open March 18th:
4 Star
2200 Clement St.
San Francisco, CA 94121
415.666.3488

"Voices In Wartime" is a compelling portrayal of human
experience with war through poetry, both from the point
of view of those who were in combat and those who are left
behind.
"Voices In Wartime" will play in S.F. on April 15th at:
Landmark Lumiere 3
1572 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94109

[This poem by fourth-grader Cameron Penny was read
by Marie Howe in this very beautiful film
directed by Rick King.

"If you are lucky in this life
A window will appear on a battlefield between two armies
And when the soldiers look into the window
They don't see their enemies
They see themselves as children
And they stop fighting
And go home and go to sleep
When they wake up, the land is well again."
By Cameron Penny]

To learn more about these film visit
Cinema Libre Studio
http://www.cinemalibrestudio.com/

Also: check out, GUNNER PALACE |
Some war stories will never make the nightly news.

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4) Center for Constitutional Rights
regarding the No Child Left
Behind Act and military recruiting in schools.

MEMORANDUM

FROM: JEFFREY E. FOGEL, Legal Director
Center for Constitutional Rights

RE: NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND AND MILITARY RECRUITING
IN SCHOOLS

The No Child Left Behind Act provides, in part,
that each local educational agency receiving
assistance:

Shall provide, on a request made by military
recruiters, access to secondary school students names,
addresses, and telephone listings;

Shall provide military recruiters "the same access to
secondary school students as is provided generally to
post secondary educational institutions or to
prospective employers of those students."

20 U.S.C. § 7908.

Although not stated explicitly in the statute, the
implication of refusing to provide these matter, would
be a loss of assistance.

The provisions of this section are similar to the
provisions of the Solomon Amendment which purports to
deny certain funding to institutions of higher
learning that prohibit ROTC access or equal access for
military recruiting on campus. 10 U.S.C. § 983. The
Solomon Amendment was prompted by the refusal of some
colleges and universities to allow military recruiters
because of the military's policy of discrimination
based on sexual orientation. The law has been declared
unconstitutional in the only two cases which have been
brought.

In FAIR v. Rumsfeld, 390 F.2d 219 (3d Cir. 2004),
the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, ruled that
enforcement of the Solomon Amendment against schools
which have a non-discrimination policy for prospective
employers would violate the First Amendment. The court
agreed with the schools that the Solomon Amendment
significantly affects their ability to express their
viewpoint, reflected in their policies, that
discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is
wrong. The Solomon Amendment compels them to
disseminate the opposite message. By coordinating
interviews and posting and publishing recruiting
notices of an employer who discriminates on the basis
of sexual orientation, the Amendment impairs the
school's ability to teach an inclusive message by
example.

Since the Solomon Amendment significantly affects
the First Amendment rights of the schools, it must be
justified by a compelling governmental interest and
the means used must be narrowly tailored to achieve
that interest. While there is a compelling interest
of the federal government to recruit for the armed
services, the court held that "the military has ample
resources to recruit through alternative means." The
court concluded that "[t]he availability of
alternative, less speech-restrictive means of
effective recruitment is sufficient to render the
Solomon Amendment unconstitutional."

The same result was just reached by the court in
Burt v. Rumsfeld, Civil Action No. 3-03-ev-1777
(JCH)(D. Conn. 2005).

The Solomon Amendment and the above cited
provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act are
virtually identical for the purposes of this issue.
Thus, if the City Council, by virtue of its authority
over the public schools, declares non-discrimination
based on sexual orientation to be the policy of the
Department of Education, it would be unconstitutional,
for the reasons expressed by the FAIR court, to
require, as a condition to receiving funds, that the
schools allow and foster a contrary message.

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5) Upcoming Events: March and April
Upcoming Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA)
Related Events see below for more detailed info

March 13- Benefit for the Made in Palestine art exhibit. Live music,
slide presentation by Exhibition Curator, Gabriel Delgado, and the
George Lammam Ensemble!

March 16- Remembering Rachel Corrie: An Evening of Music,
Poetry and Activism

March 19- Bring the Troops Home Now!

March 30- Film Screening of Arna's Children

April 7- Opening Reception for Made in Palestine Art Exhibit!

April 9- Robert Fisk in Berkeley

May 1- Application Deadline for MECA's July Delegation
to Palestine/Israel

Detailed Descriptions

A Benefit for the Made in Palestine Exhibit

Sunday, March 13 - 7pm - Medjool Bar and Restaurant,
2522 Mission Street - $35 and up

Live music, slide presentation by Exhibition Curator
Gabriel Delgado, Middle Eastern Mazzeh, Cash Bar and
George Lammam Ensemble!

Made In Palestine will be on view at SomArts, San Francisco,
April 7 through April 21, 2005. The exhibition showcases
a collection of contemporary art made by 23 Palestinian
artists and refugees from the occupied territories and the
Diaspora. The works on display cover a wide range of media
and present individual reflections on the Palestinian
contemporary experience and the political situation in
Palestine. The Station Museum, Houston, where the show
originated, described Made In Palestine as "the first exhibit
of contemporary Palestinian art ever displayed in the
United States." For exhibition details visit
www.stationmuseum.com/Made_In_Palestine/Made_In_Palestine.htm

$35 admission -- $50 includes admission and a Made
In Palestine poster LIMITED QUANTITY! -- $100 or more
includes admission, a Made In Palestine poster - plus
a full color Made In Palestine exhibition catalogue!

Proceeds benefit the Bay Area presentation of
Made In Palestine.

Organized by the Justice In Palestine Coalition (JIP)
-- Co-sponsor: KPFA 94.1FM -- Fiscal sponsor:
Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA)

Justice in Palestine Coaltion
KPFA 94.1FM

Middle East Children's Alliance

Remembering Rachel Corrie:
An Evening of Music, Poetry and Activism

Wednesday, March 16th - 7pm - King Middle School,
1781 Rose Street in Berkeley - $20 requested donation
(benefits ISM and the Rachel Corrie Foundation)

Come celebrate the life and activism of International
Solidarity Movement activist Rachel Corrie who was
killed on March 16, 2003 by a D-9 Caterpillar bulldozer.

Featured Speakers: Peter Camejo, Julia Butterfly Hill,
Pratap Chatterjee, Barbara Lubin, Starhawk and more

Featured Musicians: Iron Sheik, Matthew Owens,
Tariq Ghazalah, Brass Liberation Orchestra and more

Reception to precede event at 6pm. Tickets are $50.

No to War and Occupation! March and Rally

Saturday, March 19 - 11am - Dolores Park in San Francisco

March 19th will be an International Day of Protest.
Millinos of Peoples will march in protest onf the second
anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq.

Arna's Children: Film Benefit for MECA

Wednesday, March 30 - 7pm - La Pena Cultural Center,
3105 Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley - $10-20, no one
turned away for lack of funds

Arna Mer Khamis was a legendary activist against the
Israeli Occupation. Born into a Jewish family, she
married a Palestinian and spent her life working for
justice and human rights in her homeland. In the Jenin
refugee camp, Arna taught the children to express
themselves through acting and art. Arna's son, Juliano
Mer Khamis, filmed his mother and the children
rehearsing and performing over a six-year period.
Five years after Arna's death, Juliano returns to the
camp to discover what happened to them. "Arna's
Children" reveals the tragedy and horror of young
lives trapped by the circumstances of occupation.

Opening Reception for the Made in
Palestine Art Exhibit

Thursday, April 7 - 5:30-8:30pm - SomArts,
934 Brannan in San Francisco

for more info email sfmadeinpalestine@yahoo.com

Robert Fisk on Iraq

Saturday, April 9 - 7pm - Martin Luther King Middle
School, 1781 Rose Street in Berkeley - $20, no one
turned away for lack of funds -
Tickets available on MECA's website

World-renowned journalist covering the Middle East for
nearly 30 years, Robert Fisk reports on the Iraq War for
London's Independent. He has received the British
International Journalist of the Year Award seven times
and the Amnesty International UK Press Award twice.

MECA's July Delegation to Palestine/Israel

July 1- July 14, 2005. REMINDER: Applications
due May 1, 2005.

For 16 years, MECA has taken small groups
to the West bank, Gaza and Israel to witness
life under occupation and meet people who
are working for peace and justice. MECA
staff and local guides introduce you to activists,
journalists, health care workers, and
ordinary people trying to save their land
and their culture. We visit our Ibdaa "family"
in Dheisheh refugee camp and other MECA
projects and friends.

For more information contact Uda Olabarria
Walker - uda@mecaforpeace.org or 510-548-0542

email: meca@mecaforpeace.org
phone: 510-548-0542
web: http://www.mecaforpeace.org

To donate to the Middle East Children's Alliance, send
a check to our office or visit https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/ index.php?aid=1171

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6) From: Alison Weir
Sent: 2/27/05 9:13:24 AM
Victims Were ALL Soldiers

1. Those killed in Friday night's suicide bombing were all members
of an Israeli combat unit that had taken part in numerous brutal
invasions into civilian Palestinian neighborhoods.

2. This unit, as part of these invasions, had been responsible for
the deaths and mutilation of numerous Palestinian men, women,
and children.

3. The truce was shattered long before this bombing: 8 Palestinians
had been killed by Israelis -- 2 of them within 24 hours of the truce
being declared. 170 Palestinian men, women, and children had
been killed, and 379 injured, by Israeli forces since the previous
suicide bombing against Israeli civilians (Nov. 1, 2004). This had
taken 3 Israeli lives.

Please call, email, or write your local news outlets and ask them
to report these facts.

This information is widely available in Israel. Americans need to
have these facts as well.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1109387974746

Feb. 26, 2005 18:36 | Updated Feb. 26, 2005 18:58
IDF unit struck hard by Tel Aviv bomber
By JPOST.COM STAFF

Friday night's suicide bombing in Tel Aviv struck an IDF combat
unit especially hard. The unit was all invited to celebrate
a party for one of its soldiers, and stood at the entrance
to the 'Stage' club when the bomber detonated his bomb-belt.

The platoon commander, Eran Cohen, told Army Radio,
"There were 13 of us there. All the fatalities are from our
unit. Many more were wounded."

Eran called the unit's soldiers, "The best of the best.
Israel's elite."

"In the past five years of this war, we have carried out virtually
every single mission in the territories and underwent nearly
every kind of attempted attack. In five years, none of our
troops were wounded. It's ironic that we were hit so hard in
one explosion on a Friday night in Tel Aviv, just before
a party," Eran said.

Alison Weir
Executive Director
If Americans Knew
www.ifamericansknew.org
310.441.8580

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7) Sobriety Tests Are Becoming (link only)
Part of the School Day
By PATRICK O'GILFOIL HEALY
March 3, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/03/nyregion/03breath.html?hp&ex=1109912400&en=1f2a00390ff377a0&ei=5094&partner=homepage

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8) Greenspan Says Federal (link only)
Budget Deficits Are 'Unsustainable'
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
March 3, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/03/politics/03deficit.html

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9) Audit Describes 8 Years of (link only)
Looting by L.I. School Officials
By BRUCE LAMBERT
March 3, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/03/nyregion/03roslyn.html

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10) New Poll Finds Bush Priorities
Are Out of Step With Americans
By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JANET ELDER
March 3, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/03/politics/03poll.html?hp&ex=1109912400&en=1b7c8514d044e85b&ei=5094&partner=homepage

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11) U.S. Death Toll in Iraq Reaches 1,500
By Philippe Naughton
Times Online
Thursday 03 March 2005
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030305Z.shtml

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12) Students in the Progressive Student Alliance (link only)
here at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville have
inaugurated a short and solemn pledge for young
people to take, asserting that, should a draft be
reinstituted, they will not serve. Signatures have already
started coming in to our website at
http://www.wewontgo.org

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13) SAN FRANCISCO ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE ANTIWAR CONTINGENT
SUNDAY, MARCH 13, ASSEMBLE: 10:45 A.M. SOUTH OF MARKET ST.

Comrades and friends,
The Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America's San
Francisco Bay Area chapter will again be participating in the San
Francisco St. Patrick's Day Parade and is once again organising
an Anti-Imperialist Contingent as part of its participation.

The parade is taking place this year
on Sunday, March 13th. While we never
have many details this much before
the actual parade date, the contingent
will undoubtedly assemble between
10:45 and 11:15 a.m., somewhere south of
Market and, of course, details will
be forthcoming once we know them.

The focus of the Anti-Imperialist
Contingent this year will again
be on ending the occupation of
Iraq and of Ireland, and the slogans
we are putting forward are:

British and American Imperialism,
Out of Iraq! Out of Ireland!

No War but the Class War!

These are both slogans of the IRSP,
raised during demonstrations against
the war and occupation during
the past year. As always, the
Anti-Imperialist Contingent
welcome participants to have their own
identifying banners as well, and
accepts any banners or signs addressing
the theme of this years contingent
or in support of the Irish struggle for
national liberation and socialism.

We will extend a special invitation
to ANSWER to participate,
because the date demonstration
against the war and occupation they are
building for is a week after the
St. Patrick's Day parade, making it the
last major opportunity to building
for the demonstration. If any of you
receiving this message who
are participants in the coalitions
engaged in building for that
demonstration in the Bay Area, we
would welcome you giving
voice to this offer in coalition meetings. In
addition to marchers, we
would welcome members of the coalition to
circulate along side our
contingent hand-billing for the demonstration.

Those who have participated with
us in the past know that we generally
also have a van converted into
a mobile bulletin board of sorts, which will
be the case again this year.
The van will be used to also draw attention to
the 30th anniversary of the
Irish Republican Socialist Party and the Irish
National Liberation Army, which
just took place in December and the 21st
anniversary of the Irish Republican
Socialist Committees of North America,
which were founded in St. Paul,
Minnesota in March 1984

We need to know which organisations
we can anticipate joining our
contingent this year, so please let
us know by the 1st of March, if at all
possible. And, individuals planning
on coming for the weekend from out of
town to participate need to let us
know right away, if they want us to
try to supply lodging for them.

Following the parade, we welcome
all those marching with the contingent to
join us at 2057 15th Street, Suite B
(between Church and Market Streets)
for margaritas and a light buffet of
Mexican food--because it is the firm
belief of the IRSCNA (Bay Area chapter,
anyway) that it just isn't St.
Patrick's Day, if you haven't had a margarita!

As veterans of the parade know, we
will march come rain or shine, and that
time of the March in San Francisco,
rain is the more likely forecast--so
dress for what may come, as we
don't want spirits dampened.

This year is again important for us
to have other socialists and anti-
imperialists with us in a display of
solidarity, as we expect to be
the sole unit in the parade
challenging the American occupation of Iraq.

Is mise le meas,
IRSCNA, Bay Area Chapter

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14) Terror Bill: Taking liberties (link only)
Today, the House of Lords debates
the Prevention of Terrorism Bill.
So how have our civil rights been
eroded under Tony Blair?
03 March 2005
http://news.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?story=616332&host=3&dir=60

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15) The 8th Annual
*****A N A R C H I S T C A F E*****
Vegan dinner!! Music!! Spoken Word!! Surprises!!
Friday, March 25, 2005, 6pm
"The Kitchen"
225 Potrero Ave., at 16th Street
San Francisco
$5 - $15 donation requested
No one turned away for lack of funds
VIDEO by Video Activist Network
dinner 7 - 8
performers indoors 7-10:30
video 8-9
all ages! kid space!
drug and alcohol free space.
indoor/outdoor
wheelchair accessible.

volunteers needed to help volunteer, email
anarchistcafe2005@yahoo.com
This year's Anarchist Café is a benefit for
The Central Committee for
Conscientious Objectors, which supports
and promotes individual and
collective resistance to war and preparations for war
http://objector.org; and for From Attica to Abu Ghraib:
An Organizing
Conference on Human Rights, Torture,
and Resistance, sponsored by the
International Human Rights Initiative
http://www.attica2abughraib.co

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16) The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw
A Documentary Film
3 Days of 9-11 Events in SF Bay Area -
March 9th - 11th, 2005
and a showing in Santa Rosa on
March 12 at "Odd Fellows Hall,"
545 Pacific Ave,
phone 1-707-664-2500

Three 9/11 events in March will feature the film,
"The 9-11 News Special You Never Saw - The Great
Conspiracy" and include appearances by Barrie Zwicker,
Webster Tarpley, Michael Kane & Peter Phillips

Premiering will be the documentary-

"The 9-11 News Special You Never Saw - The Great Conspiracy"

Including a dialogue with:
Producer, Barrie Zwicker
Author, Webster Tarpley
Director of Project Censored , Peter Phillips
Investigative Researcher, Michael Kane
The Press & the public

Barrie Zwicker - producer, the first mainstream television
journalist in the to deeply question the official 9/11 story,
director of the Toronto International Citizens' Inquiry into 9/11

Webster Griffin Tarpley - expert on international terrorism,
historian, co-author of George Bush: The Unauthorized
Biography, American Leviathan: Administrative Fascism
Under the Bush Regime, Surviving the Cataclysm, and
9-11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA

Peter Phillips - director of Project Censored that annually
identifies the 'Most Censored' news stories in the US
and produces- "Censored; The News That Didn't Make the News."

Screening begins at 7:30 PM

March 9th
Landmark Guild Theatre, 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park

March 10th
Grand Lakes Theatre, 3200 Grand Ave, Oakland, (510)452-3556

March 11th
Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco
- - - - - - A Benefit for the Northern
California 9/11 Truth Alliance - - - - - -

Current Co-Sponsors:

Veterans for Peace,
911SharetheTruth.com
911truth.org
http://www.deceptiondollar.com
Project Censored
KPFA
Pacifica Radio
Kepler's Bookstore
Black Oaks Bookstore
Cody's Bookstore
City Lights Bookstore
Valencia Street Bookstore...

"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth
is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell

http://www.greatconspiracy.ca/
http://communitycurrency.org/
http://www.deceptiondollar.com/
http://www.911truth.org/
http://911busters.com/
http://wtc7.net/

San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center

Original article is at
http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/02/1720339.php

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17) Face up to the facts on the ground (link only)
Britain and Europe are funding Israel's
occupation and expansion
Karma Nabulsi
Tuesday March 1, 2005
Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1427711,00.html

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18) Historic 24-Hour Emergency Read-In
Please Circulate Widely
[Original Message] From: Mary Prophet
mlprophet@earthlink.net

Join a Historic 24-Hour Emergency Read-In * Save the Salinas
Public Libraries * Celebrate Your Love of Books Saturday,
April 2nd, 1:00p.m. to Sunday, April 3rd, 1:00p.m. at Cesar
Chavez Public Library, Salinas Then at 1:00p.m. Sunday we will
join festive Cesar Chavez Holiday Celebrations

ALL of Salinas's public libraries are scheduled to SHUT DOWN
for lack of funds We MUST not and WILL not allow this to happen
Libraries are the soul of our communities, providing vital services
to all, especially the most low-income members and children.
If we allow the Salinas libraries to close, we will see a wave of
library closings throughout the country.

We NEED YOU to help save our libraries! Join famous authors,
poets, elected officials, community folks and book lovers from
all over the state for a 24-hour celebration of reading and
literacy, starting at 1pm on Saturday, April 2nd and culminating
on Sunday, April 3 with the yearly Cesar Chavez Holiday
march and cultural celebration in Salinas.

Bring your family, your sleeping bag, and your favorite books!!!
We will be calling on Governor Schwarzenegger and other state
elected officials to find equitable solutions to pay for the
operating costs of our libraries in poorer communities.

Can we unite to keep Salinas libraries open? Si, Se Puede!
Yes, we can! Contact us for information on carpools,
overnight accommodations, etc. Let us know you are coming.

Find out how you can help. Email: sam@bayareacodepink.org ,
call 415-575-5555 or in Salinas 831-753-1066, or
visit www.codepinkalert.org

Sponsors (partial list): United Farm Workers of America,
AFL-CIO, Salinas Action League, CodePink: Women for
Peace, Global Exchange, Proyecto Guerrero Azteca,
Bay Area United Against War.

"Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and
nonviolence‹when it helps us to see the enemy's point of
view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of
ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic
weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature,
we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of
the brothers who are called the opposition."
-Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1967

Yahoo! Groups Links <*To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eb-cossi/

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19) Maximum Pain is Aim of New US Weapon (link only)
by David Hambling
Published on Thursday, March 3, 2005 by the
New Scientist Magazine
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0303-08.htm

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20) Job Gains Pick Up But Jobless Rate Rises (link only)
By Tim Ahmann
WASHINGTON (Reuters)
Fri Mar 4, 2005 09:20 AM ET
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7810254&src=eDialog/GetContent

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21) Key Iraq Wound: Brain Trauma (link only)
By Gregg Zoroya
USA Today
Friday 04 March 2005
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030405Y.shtml

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22) Proposed Law on Bankruptcy Has Loophole (link only)
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
March 2, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/02/business/02bankrupt.html?pagewanted=print&position=-------

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23) Idriss Stelley Foundation &
Dokta Cooper Community Network Project
Are proudly hosting the CEDP (Campaign to End the (racist)
Death Penalty)Bayview Chapter, every other Monday
evening at 7 P.M.,at 4921 3rd Street between Palou
and Quesada, SF.

California has the highest rate of Death row inmates in the
country (649), Most death row inmates are poor People of Color,
mostly African Americans and Latinos.

We oppose the death penalty for 5 main reasons:

* It is racist
* It is not a deterrent to violent crime
* It targets the poor
* It is the ultimate part of the growing prison industry (Toyota,
Kmart, Microchips are employing inmates at 11 ct/hr)
* Most executions are modern lynching of innocents (given
inexperienced public defenders).

The current Death Row execution in California is STILL cruel
and unusual punishment: Nothing humane about lethal
injection; too often times the tranquilizer administered
before the drug stopping the heart is ineffective, and the
inmate goes through the long agony of a heart attack, and
the incommensurable emotional pain inflicted through
such cruel and inhumane measure It took 19 minutes
to find a vein to execute Donald Beardsley on
January 2005 in San Quentin !

We have supported our SF District Attorney Kamala
Harris, in spite of the pressure of the POA, for not
pursuing the death penalty against David Hill for
allegedly killing Officer Isaac Espinoza.

In spite of the ongoing refusal from our governor to
spare the lives of Kevin Cooper (with whom we been
actively corresponding), Stan Tookie Williams (5 times
nominee for the Nobel prize for his anti violence
children books) and the memory of Donald Beardsley
(executed on Jan 19 in San Quentin), together we can
abolish the atrocity of the death penalty in California,
following the path of Illinois !

Would you kindly forward this message to your lists ?
This month, we are launching a vast outreach effort
to our community churches in BVHP, and would be
more than happy to facilitate forum discussions
in your organizations as well.

Blessings,
mesha Monge-Irizarry
(415) 595-8251 (24-HR Crisis Line)
Idriss Stelley Foundation

Next meeting:
Monday, March 7, 7 p.m. at 4921 3rd St.,
Tookie Williams' case presentation.
Hope yall can come !

We are also planning a big event
on April 30, 4 to 6 P.M.,
at the at the SF Bayview Opera House
about Tookie.
Barbara Baker, author of "Redemption" about
his life and incarceration, will be a keynote speaker
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24) Violent New Front in Drug War Opens (link only)
on the Canadian Border
By SARAH KERSHAW
March 5, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/05/national/05bud.html?hp&ex=1110085200&en=65572337829fba47&ei=5094&partner=homepage

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25) Disparity in Nation's Schools: (link only)
Race and Poverty Linked to Educational
Inequality and Higher Dropout Rates
http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/news/pressreleases/deseg05.php

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26) Entrepreneurs' unusual tactic: (link only)
Buying up homes by hundreds
James R. Hagerty
TRENTON, N.J.
Wall Street Journal
Mar. 4, 2005 10:49 AM
http://www.azcentral.com/php-bin/clicktrack/print.php?referer=http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/0304househunt04-ON.html

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Wednesday, March 02, 2005

BAUAW NEWSLETTER-WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2005

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8) THE NATION (link only)
Iraq War Lands in the Midst of
Vermont's Town Hall Meetings
The fighting's burden falls particularly hard on the
state, say backers of an antiwar resolution.
By Elizabeth Mehren
Times Staff Writer
BETHEL, Vt.
March 2, 2005
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/complete/la-na-vermont2mar02,1,5892908.story?coll=la-iraq-complete

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9) Mumia Abu-Jamal on the Targeting of Lynne Stewart
From Death Row this is Mumia Abu-Jamal
(c) Mumia Abu-Jamal 2005
Targeting Lynne Stewart

The conviction of civil Rights attorney Lynne Stewart and her
co-defendants translator Mohamed Yousry and paralegal Ahmed
Sattar is a triumph of fear over reason. The three legal workers were
charged and convicted of aiding and abetting terrorism in connection
with their representation of the Blind Egyptian Sheik Omar Abdel-
Rahman. When the former attorney general Ashcroft announced the
arrest of Stewart he did so on the late night David Letterman talk
show. Certainly an unprecedented venue for such an announcement.
And as it began on TV so it was often prosecuted with a fearsome
visage of Osama Bin Laden beamed to jurors via videotape
threatening to attack America on the Sheik's behalf.

Even though the judge dutifully instructed the jury that Osama
Bin Laden had nothing to do with the case. How do you wash
something like that from the mind after it has been admitted
into evidence? Lynne's husband activist Ralph Poynter put the
hammer to the nail when he said of the trial "this prosecution
doesn't have a damn thing to do with terrorism. It has to do
with politics and putting Lynne Stewart away." Stewart was
really targeted because she ignored unconstitutional rules
put in place by the government.

In an interview with Stewart she spoke about what the case
was really about. "The justice department decided that things
that I did as a lawyer are now to be outlawed, are now to be
made into crimes, in order to deter other lawyers from
vigorously defending people. What I basically did was,
I issued a press release on behalf of my client. They said
that this press release was materially aiding a terrorist
organization, thus making it impossible for any first
amendment right to be protected. And to me that is the
real essence of this work, is that we be permitted to defend
people such as yourself in these cases as political people,
not just as defendant 10872."

Recently black political prisoner Albert Woodfox of the Angola
Three talked about the importance of lawyers in destroying
isolation. "I think that this was a pretty strong shot across
the bow as they say, you know if you dare put forth an honest
attempt to uphold the standards of law in this country we will
get you. You know we will destroy you, cause in most cases
they are the only voice to the outside world."

And now the state has prevailed, sending shock waves
through the defense bar that already shies away from the
kind of cases that has been Stewart's staple for a generation.
She has taken on cases involving members of the Black Panther
Party, the Attica Brothers, Puerto Rican Independence fighters
and since at least 1995 the blind Sheik. In order to put into
operation the draconian special measures of the government
the state needs to seed fear into those who are sworn to protect
and provide a full and vigorous defense- lawyers. But the battle
isn't over. Perhaps what has happened has awakened many
people in this country who would have preferred to slumber?
Lynne Stewart, paralegal Ahmed Sattar and professional
translator Mohamed Yousry plan to stage a vigorous appeal
of this outrageous verdict. They will need your support, now
more than ever, it will take work of many to undo John
Ashcroft's revenge.

From Death Row this is Mumia Abu-Jamal. (c) Mumia Abu-Jamal 2005

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10) Innocenti: child poverty (link only)
on the rise in wealthy nations
(c) UNICEF/HQ97-0211/Press
Tiffany, 10, sits with her mother and step-father on a sidewalk
bench in Florida, USA. After months of homelessness, she and
her sister are being sent to live with their grandmother in another state.
http://www.unicef.org/childsurvival/index_25285.html

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11) Canada a Haven Again (link only)
Like Draft Evaders and Deserters of Vietnam Era,
American Soldiers are Heading North to Find Refuge
from What They Say is an Unjust War in Iraq
by Andrew Metz
Published on Wednesday, March 2, 2005 by New York Newsday
/ Long Island
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0302-09.htm

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Tuesday, March 01, 2005

BAUAW NEWSLETTER-TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 2005

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Resource:
MONEY FOR HUMAN NEEDS NOT WAR!
FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF SOCIAL
SERVICES UNDER THE KNIFE RIGHT NOW GO TO:
http://www.bauaw.org/2005/02/programs-eliminated-or-cut-in-2006.html

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1) THE NEXT BAUAW MEETING WILL TAKE PLACE:
SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 11:30AM
474 VALENCIA STREET, SF
(FIRST FLOOR, TO THE LEFT AND ALL THE WAY BACK
TO THE COMPANEROS DEL BARRIO CHILDREN'S CENTER)
There are three important meetings with the Board of Education
coming up:

2) WE ALL STAND WITH LYNNE STEWART!
NO JAIL TIME FOR LYNNE!
PLEASE WRITE LETTERS TODAY

3) March 19, 2005 Global Day of Action
No to War Occupation ˆ Iraq, Palestine, Haiti,
Afghanistan, Cuba Everywhere!
Bring the Troops Home Now!
Money for People‚s Needs, Not War!
San Francisco: March Assembles: 11 a.m. Dolores Park
Rally: 1 p.m. Civic Center

4) COMING TO THE BAY AREA SOON ARE SOME
POWERFUL ANTIWAR MOVIES
"Mission Accomplished" is a a brutally vivid documentary
filmed entirely on the ground in Iraq. The reality of this
war for American troops is contrasted to the
overwhelming reality of the devastation felt and experienced
by the people of Iraq.
"Mission Accomplished" will open March 18th:
4 Star
2200 Clement St.
San Francisco, CA 94121
415.666.3488

"Voices In Wartime" is a compelling portrayal of human
experience with war through poetry, both from the point
of view of those who were in combat and those who are left
behind.
"Voices In Wartime" will play in S.F. on April 15th at:
Landmark Lumiere 3
1572 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94109

[This poem by fourth-grader Cameron Penny was read
by Marie Howe in this very beautiful film
directed by Rick King.

"If you are lucky in this life
A window will appear on a battlefield between two armies
And when the soldiers look into the window
They don't see their enemies
They see themselves as children
And they stop fighting
And go home and go to sleep
When they wake up, the land is well again."
By Cameron Penny]

To learn more about these film visit
Cinema Libre Studio
http://www.cinemalibrestudio.com/

Also: check out, GUNNER PALACE |
Some war stories will never make the nightly news.

Two important counter-recruitment videos (28 and
22 minutes each) will be screened and discussed
this Wednesday, presented by War Resisters League
West as part of our on-going political film and
discussion series.

Time: 7:00 pm
Location: "The Kitchen", 225 Potrero Ave. at 15th
St.

"Military Myths" and "All That I Can Be" the
latter being a west coast premiere, the film made
by high school students in NYC as part of a
program of the Educational Video Center.

For more info, go to http://wrlwest.org

Depending on time and interest, we may be able to
screen one or two others on hand.

-Jim

5) PROTEST the Anniversary of the U.S.-led COUP in HAITI
Monday, Feb. 28, 4:30 p.m. Rally in UN Plaza,
San Francisco (under the Simon Bolivar statue at Hyde Street)
- proceeding at 5 p.m. March stops at sites representing
attempts to destroy democracy in Haiti, including SF Chronicle,
the Chilean, Brazilian and French consulates, and U.S.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office.

6) Military Strikes Back With No Legs to Stand On:
From: "CPT Steven Fetrow"
To: bauaw2003-owner@yahoogroups.com
Subject: SFSU Brochure
[CPT Fetrow refers to the BAUAW flyer for the Feb. 22 Board of
Education Meeting. If anyone has any doubt about the military's
purpose for being on school grounds I refer you to the "School
Recruiting Program Handbook (USAREC Pamphlet 350-13) put
out by United States Army Recruiting Command Headquarters.
"Chapter 1, Introduction 1-1 Purpose" States, "The purpose of
this handbook is:

a. To provide a single-source guidance document, combining
regulatory requirements and successful techniques and ideas
to assist staff and recruiters in building and maintaining an
effective School Recruiting Program (SRP).

b. To provide a school calendar of events and significant activities
and ensure an Army presence in all secondary schools. School
ownership is the goal." ...bw]

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:06:25 -0800

To Whom It May Concern:

7) Number of Homeless in America Has Grown (link only)
By SHARON COHEN
AP National Writer
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022705Y.shtml

8) Private Health Care in Jails (link only)
Can Be a Death Sentence
By PAUL von ZIELBAUER
February 27, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/27/nyregion/27jail.html?

9) Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Stan "Tookie" Williams has
just been denied by the 9th circuit court of appeals.
Please forward to interested individuals or groups
!!URGENT!!

10) THE YEAR'S BEST [ACTUAL]
HEADLINES OF 2004:

11) Questions from David Perez to Bay Area United Against War:
www.bauaw.org

12) Insurgents Land Deadliest Blow Since (link only)
Fall of Hussein's Regime
By MONA MAHMOUD
and TERENCE NEILAN
BAGHDAD, Iraq
February 28, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/28/international/middleeast/28cnd-
iraq.html?hp&ex=1109653200&en=1bac7a6e7f072576&ei=5094&partner=homepag
e

13) It's Called Torture (link only)
By BOB HERBERT
OP-ED COLUMNIST, New York Times
February 28, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/28/opinion/28herbert.html?hp

14) Income Falls, Core Inflation Picks Up (link only)
By Kristin Roberts
WASHINGTON (Reuters)
Mon Feb 28, 2005 09:04 AM ET
http://www.reuters.com/
newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7758666&src=eDialog/GetContent

15) U.S. Cites Array of Rights Abuses
by the Iraqi Government in 2004
By BRIAN KNOWLTON
International Herald Tribune
March 1, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/01/politics/
01rights.html?hp&ex=1109739600&en=6ebac305b8f7d933&ei=5094&partner=hom
epage

16) SOUND FAMILIAR?

"I would like to thank Providence and the Almighty for choosing
me of all people to be allowed to wage this battle for Germany,"
Hitler - Berlin March, 1936

If we pursue this way, if we are decent, industrious, and honest,
if we so loyally and truly fulfill our duty, then it is my conviction
that in the future as in the past the Lord God will always help us:
Adolf Hitler, at the Harvest Thanksgiving Festival on the
Buckeburg held on 3 Oct. 1937

"Never in these long years have we offered any other prayer
but this: Lord, grant to our people peace at home, and grant
and preserve to them peace from the foreign foe!" :
Hitler - Nuremberg Sept. 13, 1936.

17) Campaign to End the Death Penalty
http://www.nodeathpenalty.org/
Public meeting:
Stop the Execution of Stan "Tookie" Williams!
Wednesday, March 2
7pm in C-114 at the Student Center

18) *Week of Campus and
High School Resistance*
Monday, March 14 to Friday, March 18
Students & Youth Mobilize Against War & Racism
Initiated by: The Global Resistance Network,
Youth & Student A.N.S.W.E.R.,
and endorsed by Campus Antiwar Network

19) INJUSTICE AGAINST LEONARD PELTIER:
THE ROLE OF MEDIA MANIPULATION

20) FBI Harassment Charles Post
Feb 27, 2005 16:10 PST
PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY AMONG OTHER SOCIALISTS, RADICALS AND
ANTI-WAR/GLOBAL JUSTICE ACTIVISTS

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1) THE NEXT BAUAW MEETING WILL TAKE PLACE:
SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 11:30AM
474 VALENCIA STREET, SF
(FIRST FLOOR, TO THE LEFT AND ALL THE WAY BACK
TO THE COMPANEROS DEL BARRIO CHILDREN'S CENTER)
There are three important meetings coming up:
(Board of Education Meetings will take place at: 555 Franklin St.)

Sunday, March 6th: The code pink counter-recruitment group will
be holding a meeting at 3 p.m. at the S.F. green office,
1028a Howard St. (between 6th and 7th,) to plan for the
March 8th San Francisco Board of Education meeting, where
this item is on the agenda: Military Recruitment and JROTC
in our Schools.

Tuesday, March 8th: The Board will entertain a motion to allow
counter-recruitment at the schools to counteract military presence.
This meeting is at 7:00 p.m. at 555 Franklin St. Folks are
encouraged to speak at this meeting also.

Call 415-241-6427, 241-6493 or 241-6000 March 7th from 8-4pm
and March 8th from 8-3pm to get on the speakers list.

Thursday, March 17th(revised date): There will be a "meeting of
the whole" devoted solely to the issue of military recruitment at
our schools. This meeting is designed to be a very large meeting
that will address the war and this issue only. Further information
about this meeting will be forthcoming in a day or two. Everyone
should be prepared to mobilize for this meeting. I believe the
March 19th march and rally will also be on the agenda of this meeting.

Board of Education Meetings will take place at: 555 Franklin St.

BAUAW has submitted the following resolution to the board:

Draft Resolution for San Francisco Board of Education
Cut Ties with the Military:

WHEREAS, the United States military is actively recruiting high school
students into the military to fight in Iraq; and
WHEREAS, many young San Francisco high school alumni are
presently serving in military units fighting in Iraq; and
WHEREAS, it is San Francisco City policy by virtue of Proposition N,
to bring all U.S. troops home from Iraq now; and WHEREAS,
over 1,448 U.S. soldiers and approximately 100,000 Iraqis have
been killed in this war and over 10,000 U.S. soldiers and unknown
thousands of Iraqis have been wounded; and WHEREAS, the hundreds
of billions of dollars spent on the war have robbed our children of
resources that should be spent on education and other human
needs; and
WHEREAS, military presence in our schools legitimizes the
message that violence is acceptable; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED
THAT:It shall be the policy of the San Francisco Board of Education
to support cutting all ties with the United States military, including,
but not limited to: Ending military recruitment on campuses;
ending the Junior Reserved Officer Training Corps (JROTC); and
guaranteeing that all students and parents are informed of their
right to deny military recruiters access to their names, addresses
and telephone numbers.

Bay Area United Against War (BAUAW) • www.bauaw.org •
P.O. Box 318021, San Francisco, CA 94131-8021 • 414-824-8730

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2) WE ALL STAND WITH LYNNE STEWART!
NO JAIL TIME FOR LYNNE!
PLEASE WRITE LETTERS TODAY:

SUGGESTION AS TO FORMAT OF LETTERS
TO BE WRITTEN ON BEHALF OF LYNNE STEWART

MARGIN: Please leave at least a one-inch left-hand margin to allow
us to bind the letter into the appendix to the sentencing memorandum
that is being filed on
Lynne's behalf.

INSIDE ADDRESS: Honorable John G. Koeltl
United States District Judge
Southern District of New York
United States Courthouse
500 Pearl Street
New York, New York 10007

GREETING: Honorable Sir or Dear Judge Koeltl:

BODY: Briefly introduce yourself and set forth your relationship
to Lynne.
Briefly discuss yourself - your position in work and in society.
State that you are aware that Lynne is to be sentenced following
a jury verdict of guilty on serious charges: The remainder of your
letter should discuss whatever you believe to weigh in favor of
no jail time. If possible, you should tell of an incident where she
helped you out or engaged in commendable community service.
Do not try to argue that she is not guilty or was unfairly conviction.
Focus on the unfairness of the government's actions in bringing
the charges; the way in which the government portrayed her, etc.

* Typewritten letters if possible are preferred.
*
WHEN LETTER IS COMPLETED: Please mail the final product to the
following address:
Jill R. Shellow-Lavine, Esq.
2537 Post Road
Southport, CT 06890

Do not send your letters to the judge. We ask that you forward
your letter me so that the lawyers can present it to Judge Koeltl
with the other letters being written for this purpose. This is the
manner in which letters will have the greatest impact. If they are
sent directly to the Judge's chambers, they may have less of an
impact and could cause the judge a substantial inconvenience
(and annoyance).

Thank you for your cooperation. If you have any questions, please
do not hesitate to contact the defense committee at
www.lynnestewart.org.

Sincerely,
Jill R. Shellow-Lavine
Attorney for Lynne Stewart
For more information go to:
www.LynneStewart.org

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3) March 19, 2005 Global Day of Action
No to War Occupation ˆ Iraq, Palestine, Haiti,
Afghanistan, Cuba Everywhere!
Bring the Troops Home Now!
Money for People‚s Needs, Not War!
San Francisco: March Assembles: 11 a.m. Dolores Park
Rally: 1 p.m. Civic Center

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4) COMING TO THE BAY AREA SOON ARE SOME POWERFUL
ANTIWAR MOVIES
"Mission Accomplished" is a a brutally vivid documentary
filmed entirely on the ground in Iraq. The reality of this
war for American troops is contrasted to the
overwhelming reality of the devastation felt and experienced
by the people of Iraq.
"Mission Accomplished" will open March 18th:
4 Star
2200 Clement St.
San Francisco, CA 94121
415.666.3488

"Voices In Wartime" is a compelling portrayal of human
experience with war through poetry, both from the point
of view of those who were in combat and those who are left
behind.
"Voices In Wartime" will play in S.F. on April 15th at:
Landmark Lumiere 3
1572 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94109

[This poem by fourth-grader Cameron Penny was read
by Marie Howe in this very beautiful film
directed by Rick King.

"If you are lucky in this life
A window will appear on a battlefield between two armies
And when the soldiers look into the window
They don't see their enemies
They see themselves as children
And they stop fighting
And go home and go to sleep
When they wake up, the land is well again."
By Cameron Penny]

To learn more about these film visit
Cinema Libre Studio
http://www.cinemalibrestudio.com/

Also: check out, GUNNER PALACE |
Some war stories will never make the nightly news.

Two important counter-recruitment videos (28 and
22 minutes each) will be screened and discussed
this Wednesday, presented by War Resisters League
West as part of our on-going political film and
discussion series.

Time: 7:00 pm
Location: "The Kitchen", 225 Potrero Ave. at 15th
St.

"Military Myths" and "All That I Can Be" the
latter being a west coast premiere, the film made
by high school students in NYC as part of a
program of the Educational Video Center.

For more info, go to http://wrlwest.org

Depending on time and interest, we may be able to
screen one or two others on hand.

-Jim

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5) PROTEST the Anniversary of the U.S.-led COUP in HAITI
Monday, Feb. 28, 4:30 p.m. Rally in UN Plaza,
San Francisco (under the Simon Bolivar statue at Hyde Street)
- proceeding at 5 p.m. March stops at sites representing
attempts to destroy democracy in Haiti, including SF Chronicle,
the Chilean, Brazilian and French consulates, and U.S.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office.

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6) Military Strikes Back With No Legs to Stand On:
From: "CPT Steven Fetrow"
To: bauaw2003-owner@yahoogroups.com
Subject: SFSU Brochure
[CPT Fetrow refers to the BAUAW flyer for the Feb. 22 Board of
Education Meeting. If anyone has any doubt about the military's
purpose for being on school grounds I refer you to the "School
Recruiting Program Handbook (USAREC Pamphlet 350-13) put out
by United States Army Recruiting Command Headquarters.
"Chapter 1, Introduction 1-1 Purpose" States, "The purpose of
this handbook is:

a. To provide a single-source guidance document, combining
regulatory requirements and successful techniques and ideas
to assist staff and recruiters in building and maintaining an
effective School Recruiting Program (SRP).

b. To provide a school calendar of events and significant activities
and ensure an Army presence in all secondary schools. School
ownership is the goal." ...bw]

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:06:25 -0800

To Whom It May Concern:

Recently a brochure from SFSU crossed my desk. While I applaud
and support both the right to free speech and political activism,
I was seriously disappointed with some of the misleading and
untrue statements in the brochure.

"Killing and being killed is not a career choice!" - Making the
decision to serve in the military is not a career choice limited to
killing or being killed. This is inflammatory language unnecessary
to support anti-Iraq war views. In the Army, there are career choice
opportunities in Combat Arms, Combat Support and Combat
Service Support. Soldiers serve as postal workers, nurses, finance
officers, human resource specialists, police officers, communication
specialists, computer technicians, veterinarians, personnel officers,
lawyers, truck drivers, chaplains, etc. The TRUTH is that the
majority (85% or higher) serve in either combat support or combat
service support positions. It is true that soldiers have died in
service of this country and it is true that sometimes soldiers
are asked to take lives in service of protecting this nation.
War and death is not fun but to claim that those joining the
nation's military are simply making a career choice to kill or
be killed is a blatant misrepresentation of the truth.

"Junior ROTC advocates the military as a career choice" - JROTC
is NOT a program designed to enlist or recruit military
servicemembers. The thrust of JROTC programs is to assist
young people into developing into men and women of
character... better citizens! The language of this brochure
would lead a reader to believe that JROTC is designed to
recruit for the military and that is a total misrepresentation
of the truth once again.

"We want our children to have an opportunity to learn and
thrive to the best of their potential not to kill and be killed."
- Again, the choice to serve in the military is NOT as simplistic
as to "kill or be killed". That is a ridiculous assertion.
Additionally, the suggestion that those who select military
service as a career choice are not achieving their potential is
equally inaccurate. In my 14 years service with the Army,
I have obtained two graduate degrees, including a Ph.D. and
I am currently pursuing additional schooling that will lead to
licensure as a counselor in the state of CA. Countless
servicemembers attribute their success in life to the lessons
and experiences they gained while serving in the military.
Once again, this suggestion is a gross misrepresentation of
the truth.

I have served in the US Army for 14 years including 14 months
in Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. I respect every
American's right to free speech and have no issues with anyone
objecting to current military operations around the world.
I have my own political views on the war in Iraq . However,
I think it is imperative that we separate the political arena
from the reality of military service. Servicemembers do NOT
choose their wars, they follow the orders of the President of
the United States . While I respect your views on the war in Iraq ,
I find your language regarding the brave men and women who
have served our country for years and years including those in
service today to be both troubling and offensive. Is it not
possible to take a political stance and argue against political
policies without attacking those who choose to serve in
military service? I lost a good friend in Iraq . His memory
ought not be clouded with political propaganda. He served his
country as many before him and many after him will do.
He was brave, intelligent, hard-working and loving. He left
behind a wife, a child and people who love him. Your
objection to JROTC and ROTC is misplaced. Neither program
promotes war. Stick to arguing politics by focusing on
politicians not on the servants of this country who give their
lives to protect the very freedoms you enjoy!

CPT Steven E. Fetrow, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Military Science

University of San Francisco

Phone : (415) 422-2724

"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."

General Douglas MacArthur

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7) Number of Homeless in America Has Grown (link only)
By SHARON COHEN
AP National Writer
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022705Y.shtml

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8) Private Health Care in Jails (link only)
Can Be a Death Sentence
By PAUL von ZIELBAUER
February 27, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/27/nyregion/27jail.html?

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9) Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Stan "Tookie" Williams has
just been denied by the 9th circuit court of appeals.
Please forward to interested individuals or groups
!!URGENT!!

Death Row inmate and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Stan "Tookie" Williams has
Just been denied by the 9th circuit court of appeals. Unless the U.S. Supreme
Court intervenes, he could receive an execution date as early as this summer.

And he is not alone. Other inmates are in a similar situation. The State of
California is trying to ramp up its execution machine, we need to ramp up
the fight to halt it!!

Join the Bay Area Anti-Death Penalty Coalition for our next meeting to
Discuss how to build the fight for Stan and against all executions.

Monday, February 28th
6:30 pm
American Friends Service Committee office
65 9th street
San Francisco
(b/w Mission and Market, take BART to Civic Center)

For more information on the recent developments in S
tan's case, please visit
www.tookie.com

See you there!

Crystal Bybee
West Coast Organizer
Campaign to End the Death Penalty
crystal@nodeathpenalty.org
510-333-7966

http://www.tookie.com
http://www.nodeathpenalty.org
http://www.savekevincooper.org

You fasten the triggers
For others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud

How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's on thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
Even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do

-Bob Dylan "Masters of War"

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10) THE YEAR'S BEST [ACTUAL]
HEADLINES OF 2004:

Something Went Wrong
in Jet Crash, Expert Says
[ no, really?]

Police Begin Campaign
to Run Down Jaywalkers
[now that's taking things a bit far!]

Panda Mating Fails;
Veterinarian Takes Over
[what a guy!]

Miners Refuse
to Work
after Death
[those good-for-nothin' lazy so-and-sos!]

Juvenile Court to
Try Shooting Defendant
[see if that works any better than a fair trial!]

War Dims Hope
for Peace
[I can see where it might have that effect!]
If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly,
It May Last Awhile
[you think?!]

Cold Wave Linked
to Temperatures
[who would have thought!]

Enfield (London) Couple
Slain; Police
Suspect Homicide
[they may be on to something!]

Red Tape Holds
Up New Bridges
[you mean there's something stronger than duct tape?!]

Man Struck By Lightning
Faces Battery Charge
[he probably IS the battery cha rge!]

New Study of Obesity
Looks for Larger
Test Group
[ weren't they fat enough?!]

Astronaut Takes Blame
for Gas in Spacecraft
[That's what he gets for eating those beans!]

Kids Make
Nutritious Snacks
[Taste like chicken!]

Chef Throws His Heart
into Helping Feed Needy
[That was really giving of himself!]

Local High School
Dropouts Cut in Half
[Chainsaw Massacre all over again!]

Hospitals are Sued
by 7 Foot Doctors
[Boy, are they tall!]

And the winner is....

Typhoon Rips Through
Cemetery: Hundreds Dead
[nuff said!]
Makes you wonder what they teach in Journalism schools these days!

May I add my own:

This is not a headline, just an advertisement I saw across
the street from where I used to work:

Guaranteed Used Appliances

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11) Questions from David Perez to Bay Area United Against War:
www.bauaw.org

Hello,

My name is David Perez and I am writing a piece for Metro-Santa
Cruz about the upcoming demonstrations marking the anniversary
of the invasion of Iraq.

Of particular interest to me is how "Bay Area United Against War"
views itself in terms of the anti-war movement and the progressive
movement in general.

I am on a very strict deadline and would appreciate as timely
a response as is possible.

specifc questions include:

1. What are your plans for immediate actions and how do they
serve your long-term strategy?

2. What does "Bay Area United Against War" hope to accomplish
with the March 19th demonstrations?

3. Who is your core membership (youth, minorities, etc.)?

4. What is on your agenda following the March 19th demonstrations?

5. How does your organization respond to the standard criticism
of the "bring the troops home now" slogan (i.e. "bringing the troops
home now would cause total chaos and ultimately
undermine the peace")?

6. How does your organization respond to the perception of
a split within the anti-war movement between pro-Israeli and
pro-Palestinian factions?

7. To what extent do you feel the progressive movement has
been hindered or even sabotaged by such internal conflicts?

Thank you for your time,
David Perez

Answers to David from Bonnie Weinstein, BAUAW:

Dear David,

I will give you short answers to you questions since you are on
a time restraint:

1. Our immediate actions are to protest the presence of military
recruiters on our schools and to build for the March 19th Global
Day of Action against the War on Iraq.

2. The Bay Area United Against War is, along with most groups
and individuals in the Bay Area, are planning this demonstration
in order to put optimal pressure on the U.S. government to Bring
the Troops Home Now!

3. We have a broad membership of people from all walks of life
who are opposed to the war and want immediate withdrawal of
all U.S. troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. We are multi-ethnic
group open to all those opposed to U.S. war policies.

4. After March 19th we will continue to organize against the war
and against military recruitment on the school campuses.

5. We feel it is the U.S. military presence in Iraq itself that is
causing chaos and violence in Iraq. This government is doing
nothing for the people of Iraq but bringing more death and the
complete demolition of their homeland while at the same time,
stealing it's oil. Before this war-even under a ruthless dictator-
the people of Iraq had running water, electricity, hospitals,
museums, schools, places of business and jobs. Now all they
have is rubble. Who has brought the chaos?

It is the U.S. government that has all the weapons of mass
destruction and it is this government that has used them against
innocent Iraqi people. Neither the Iraqi government nor the Iraqi
people have anything to do with the attack on the Twin Towers
yet they have been punished ruthlessly by the U.S. military
machine. The whole war is built upon lies.

Imagine if you will, a full-on attack of your neighbor's home
by a foreign military force because they said there were bombs
inside aimed against them.

Now imagine, that they found no bombs. Would it be the right
of the attackers to continue to the next house? Would it be right
to put your neighbors in jail and torture them to find out if you
had these bombs? Now imagine that this foreign military attack
force invaded and demolished the homes of your entire community,
city, state, and country and found no bombs. Would you support
their continued occupation?

Now, suppose that you found out that there never were any
bombs anywhere and the invading attackers knew it all the time
they were attacking you. Would you hope they would stay and
continue to occupy and destroy your country? Would you feel that
the presence of these attackers were going to end the chaos of
your life or would you feel they should get the hell out and don't
let the door hit their ass on the way out?

6. How is the Zionist Israeli occupation of Palestine any different?
We do not see a big rift within the movement over the issue of
Palestine. Our group has, since it's inception, demanded that the
U.S. government stop sending all aid, financial or otherwise, to
Israel. We view the occupation of Palestine by Zionist Israeli forces
as illegal and immoral.

We support the right of the Palestinian people to return to their
homeland that was stolen from them. This does not, in any way,
make us anti-Jewish. In fact, we don't think this is an issue of
religion. We feel people are free to practice any religion they want
to. And that is the way it should be. But it's the Zionist state of
Israel that says they want those who do not practice their religion
out of their militarily occupied territory, i.e., Palestinian territory.

It's all about U.S. hegemony in the Middle East as planned since
before 1948-since Jews were turned away from our shores as
they fled from fascism.

We realize that some who claim to be opposed to war and
occupation of Iraq view Israel as a separate issue and support
the occupation of Palestine by Israeli forces propped up by the
U.S. dollar. But we view it as part of the bigger picture of the
U.S. government's attempt to have military domination over the
entire Middle East-and Israel plays the biggest role in aiding the
U.S. government to accomplish this goal. Israel has a giant nuclear
arsenal.

7. I don't see disagreement over this issue "hindering or
sabotaging" the movement. The biggest issue that split the
movement (only temporarily) was this past presidential election.
Folks in the antiwar movement were split between the candidates
and their perceived promises.

Many folks put their faith in the Democratic Party and its
presidential candidate John Kerry. Many remembered his protest
of the Vietnam War and assumed his views were the same today.
The problem was, Kerry wasn't against the war. In fact he was for
escalating the war and sending 40,000 more troops over there.
Then he admitted that he didn't really throw all his medals away
during that anti-Vietnam War gesture, and indeed, brought out
even more medals to show how patriotic he really was.

He was not what good-willed people in the antiwar movement
thought he was. The more he campaigned the more in support
of the war he became. Fortunately, for the Iraqi people, our
government can't find 40,000 more troops to send.

That's why we're involved in an anti-recruitment campaign-so that
no more of our kids will be sent to kill innocent people. This puts
them in harms way. And it puts the whole world in danger.

Our group feels taking positions on electoral candidates is a big
mistake for the antiwar movement since we all can't agree on
which candidate to support.

We all do agree, however, that the war has to end and the troops
have to be brought home now.

I think the movement learned a big lesson after this past electoral
mistake-especially since neither candidate was in support of the
immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan or for
withdrawing all funds to Zionist Israel. Kerry was for giving more
funds to Israel.

What is certain is that antiwar sentiment in this country is growing.
And many lessons are being learned as this country spreads its
plunder around the world in our name and with our tax dollars.
This movement will continue to grow as the costs of this war rises
and all our social services-our jobs, schools, hospitals, etc. go on
the chopping block.

The giant U.S. military industrial complex costs taxpayers-poor
and working class taxpayers-over $780 billion a year. Meanwhile
two-thirds of American business-businesses that have earned
record profits and who's CEO are given multi-million-dollar
bonuses -pay no taxes at all and some even get money back!

We want the billions our government spends on war and occupation
to go to creating meaningful jobs that re-build our communities,
better schools with smaller class sizes, healthcare for all, housing
for all; The giant U.S. military budget could fund social services
throughout the world and end hunger and misery for everyone.

The struggle will continue until these basic human needs are met.

I hope this answers your questions.

Peace and solidarity,
Bonnie Weinstein, Bay Area United Against War www.bauaw.org

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12) Insurgents Land Deadliest Blow Since (link only)
Fall of Hussein's Regime
By MONA MAHMOUD
and TERENCE NEILAN
BAGHDAD, Iraq
February 28, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/28/international/middleeast/28cnd-
iraq.html?hp&ex=1109653200&en=1bac7a6e7f072576&ei=5094&
partner=homepage

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13) It's Called Torture (link only)
By BOB HERBERT
OP-ED COLUMNIST, New York Times
February 28, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/28/opinion/28herbert.html?hp

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14) Income Falls, Core Inflation Picks Up (link only)
By Kristin Roberts
WASHINGTON (Reuters)
Mon Feb 28, 2005 09:04 AM ET
http://www.reuters.com/
newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7758666&src=eDialog/GetContent

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15) U.S. Cites Array of Rights Abuses
by the Iraqi Government in 2004
By BRIAN KNOWLTON
International Herald Tribune
March 1, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/01/politics/
01rights.html?hp&ex=1109739600&en=6ebac305b8f7d933&ei=5094&partner=hom
epage

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16) SOUND FAMILIAR?
"I would like to thank Providence and the Almighty for choosing me
of all people to be allowed to wage this battle for Germany," Hitler -
Berlin March, 1936

If we pursue this way, if we are decent, industrious, and honest, if
we so loyally and truly fulfill our duty, then it is my conviction that
in the future as in the past the Lord God will always help us: Adolf
Hitler, at the Harvest Thanksgiving Festival on the Buckeburg held
on 3 Oct. 1937

"Never in these long years have we offered any other prayer but this:
Lord, grant to our people peace at home, and grant and preserve to
them peace from the foreign foe!" : Hitler - Nuremberg Sept. 13, 1936.

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17) Campaign to End the Death Penalty
http://www.nodeathpenalty.org/
Public meeting:
Stop the Execution of Stan "Tookie" Williams!
Wednesday, March 2
7pm in C-114 at the Student Center

The state of California is hoping to ramp up the rate
of executions in the next few months. One of their
first targets will be Stan Williams, a Nobel Prize
nominee and an author of children's books that
encourage youth to avoid gangs. We need to organize
to save his life, to fight the racist death penalty
and the entire criminal justice system.

This meeting will feature a presentation about Stan's
case and a strategy session for launching a campaign
to stop his execution.

-------------------------------
More info on Stan:

This month the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
declined to grant a new hearing based on Stan Tookie
Williams' claim that prosecutors violated his rights
when they dismissed all potential black jurors for his
trial. Stan‚s attorney will appeal to the U.S.
Supreme Court.

Stan grew up in South Central LA, an area like many
others in the country that needs more funding for
schools, hospitals, childcare programs, and recreation
but is instead neglected by the government and left to
decay. Stan unfortunately turned to gang violence to
survive.

He was sentenced to death in 1981 for killing a
convenience store worker in 1979, and also was
convicted of killing three other people.. Stan says
jailhouse informants fabricated a confession that he
never made. After he spent six and a half years in
solitary confinement, he has written a series of
children's books about avoiding gang activity and has
made many efforts to curtail youth gang violence. He
has reformed himself with the help of local and
international anti-death penalty activists seeking to
end the racist institution of the death penalty. He
was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2001 and the
Nobel Prize for Literature.

He has made a positive difference in the lives of
thousands of people, especially kids seeking to stay
away from gang activity. Many of them say they
wouldn‚t be alive if it weren‚t for Stan‚s inspiring
story of personal redemption.

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You fasten the triggers
For others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud

How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's on thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
Even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do

-Bob Dylan "Masters of War"

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18) *Week of Campus and
High School Resistance*
Monday, March 14 to Friday, March 18
Students & Youth Mobilize Against War & Racism
Initiated by: The Global Resistance Network,
Youth & Student A.N.S.W.E.R.,
and endorsed by Campus Antiwar Network

On Saturday, March 19, people in the U.S. and all over the world will march
against the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq and colonial occupation everywhere.
During the week of the second anniversary of the "shock and awe" invasion of
Iraq, our generation will make its presence felt.

Help build the militant and vibrant youth and student movement that has
grown continuously over the past three years. We have opposed the Bush
administration's cynical manipulation of the events of September 11 to carry
out wars and occupations abroad, and attacks on people's rights at home.
Tens of thousands of young people have mobilized for mass antiwar
demonstrations, and have organized walkouts, sit-ins and more at their
schools and on their campuses.

The recent January 20th, CounterInaugural student walkouts were a big step
in the reconsolidation of the Student and Youth Movement. Students walked
out of class in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Tucson,
Boulder, Phi