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    Saturday, July 16, 2005
     

    BAUAW NEWSLETTER-SATURDAY, JULY 16, 2005

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    1) Bay Area United Against War has a new meeting schedule:
    We will meet every third Tuesday of the month
    at 7:00 p.m. beginning:
    Tuesday, July 19, 2005,7:00 p.m.
    474 Valencia Street, near 16th Stree
    Agenda will include Board of Education picketing update,
    September 24, Marx in Soho performances,
    Campus Not Combat petition update and publicity
    campaign, and new business.
    All are welcome. Bring your ideas and help
    Organize against this war!

    2) SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE
    PRESENTS: "DOING GOOD"
    A play based loosely on the book, "Confessions
    of an Economic Hit Man", by John Perkins.
    JULY 16, PRECITA PARK
    MUSIC: 1:30 P.M.
    SHOW: 2:00 P.M.
    (This play is fresh, new, brilliantly performed,
    insightful, full of content, and the music is the
    icing on the cake!...BW)
    SPONSORED BY BAY AREA UNITED AGAINST WAR
    Help get the word out about the ballot proposition
    and upcoming antiwar events. Free antiwar posters!
    FREE!

    3) BAUAW Benefit Presentation of Howard Zinn's
    one man show, MARX IN SOHO
    Starring Jerry Levy as Karl Marx
    Directed by Michael Fox Kennedy.
    Thursday, August 4, 7:00 p.m.
    Friday, August 5, 7:00 p.m.
    Saturday, August 6, 2:00 p.m.
    Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts
    1519 Mission Street between 11th Street
    and South Van Ness*
    Advance tickets: $10
    Door: $20.00
    Call:415-824-8730 or email: giobon@sbcglobal.net for
    Advance tickets.

    4) Cut all Public School Ties to the Military!
    Speak up and Picket the S.F. Board of Education
    the Fourth Tuesday of Each Month.
    Next picket line: Tuesday, July 27, 6:30 P.M.-7:30 P.M.
    (The July Board of Ed. meetings have been cancelled. But we
    will still hold a picket July 27 at 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
    in front of the Board of Education building.)
    The next picket line after July 27 is August 23, 6:30 P.M.
    -7:30 P.M. (just before school starts back.)
    August 23, 6:30 p.m.-7:30 P.M.
    555 Franklin St., S.F,
    To get on the speakers list call:
    415-241-6427, 241-6493 or 241-6000
    (For more info call: 415-824-8730)

    5) Convicted, Executed, Not Guilty
    By BOB HERBERT
    Published: July 14, 2005
    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/14/opinion/14herbert.html?hp

    6) Lawmakers Agree to Renew
    Patriot Act
    By ERIC LICHTBLAU and CARL HULSE
    Published: July 14, 2005
    WASHINGTON, July 13 - Lawmakers on three separate
    Congressional committees moved Wednesday to impose
    restrictions on some of the more controversial elements
    of the law known as the USA Patriot Act, suggesting
    continued resistance in Congress to the idea of giving
    the government unchecked authority to fight terrorism.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/14/politics/14patriot.html

    7) Homeland Security Chief
    Announces Overhaul
    By ERIC LIPTON
    Published: July 14, 2005
    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/14/politics/14homeland.html

    8) Yasser Salihee is dead.
    from the black commentator - 7/14/05-
    www.blackcommentator.com

    9) Karl Marx-Winner of the Greatest Philosopher Vote
    BBC RADIO 4 - UK RADIO STATION OF THE YEAR
    "Workers of the World Unite! You have nothing to lose but
    your chains", "Religion is the opium of the people", and
    "From each according to his abilities, to each according
    to his needs". That should be enough for most of you to work
    out whom Radio 4 listeners have voted as their favorite
    philosopher: the winner of the In Our Time Greatest
    Philosopher Vote, chosen from 20 philosophers nominated
    by listeners and carried through on an electoral tidal wave
    of 28% of our 'first-past-the-post' vote is the communist
    theoretician, Karl Marx.
    So, when you strip away the Marxist-Leninism, the Soviet
    era and later Marxist theory, who was Karl Marx? Where does
    he stand in the history of philosophy? He wrote in his
    Theses on Feuerbach, "Philosophers have only interpreted
    the world in various ways, the point, however, is to
    change it"-which begs the question, is he really
    a philosopher at all?
    Contributors
    Anthony Grayling, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck
    College, University of London
    Francis Wheen, journalist and author of
    a biography of Karl Marx
    Gareth Stedman Jones, Professor of Political
    Science at Cambridge University
    July 14, 2005
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime.shtml

    10) The Battle after the Battle
    By Les Blumenthal
    The News Tribune
    Sunday 10 July 2005
    Soldiers say military pushes them to discharge
    before medical needs are met
    http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/071105X.shtml

    11) Defend a Woman's Right to Choose! Stop the anti-abortion "Crusade for Life"
    Saturday, July 16th and Friday, July 23rd
    8am- noon
    815 Eddy St. (at Franklin), SF
    "Crusade for Life" will be in
    San Francisco from July 15-24, protesting
    against reproductive rights.
    Planned Parenthood is collecting names and
    phone numbers of anyone interested
    in being on an "on-call" list in the
    event of problems or harrassment
    by protesters. We are invited to join
    Planned Parenthood, Radical Women,
    Code Pink, and various others to defend a
    woman's right to choose.
    The "Crusade for Life" plans to
    disrupt our community by harassing women at
    health clinics from July 15-27.
    We need your help to defend our clinics and
    to send the message that the Bay
    Area is pro-choice and stands up for
    reproductive rights!
    Saturday, July 16 and 23: Meet at
    Planned Parenthood to be a visible
    pro-choice force.

    12) G.E. Profit Increases 24 Percent
    in 2d Quarter
    By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Published: July 15, 2005
    http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Earns-General-Electric.html?

    13) UFPJ MEMO TO EXPLAIN THE DISUNITY ON SEPT. 24 IN D.C.
    www.unitedforpeace.org | 212-868-5545 | Click to subscribe

    14) American Soldiers Charged
    With Abuse
    By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Published: July 16, 2005
    http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-
    Iraq.html?hp&ex=1121572800&en=163cdddfd9b064f4&ei=5094&partner=homepag
    e

    15) Ruling Lets U.S. Restart Trials
    at Guantánamo
    By NEIL A. LEWIS
    Published: July 16, 2005
    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/16/politics/
    16gitmo.html?hp&ex=1121572800&en=63f317612f1e5198&ei=5094&partner=hom
    epage

    16) San Francisco State Sued For Violating
    Students' Rights
    From: Katrina Yeaw
    Date: July 15, 2005 1:32:39 PM EDT
    Reply-To: CampusAntiwarNetwork@yahoogroups.com

    17) Hello all,
    This is not good news, it shows how we have to unite together
    and stand strong against this evil system.
    Please read the entire article. Below is a call to
    participate in a rally
    Wednesday 20th July from 5:00pm -6:00pm
    in support of Sheila Detoy and Cammerin Boyd.
    Please spread the word and
    attend the rally if you can.
    in solidarity,
    Donna (more below)

    18) Venezuela Discovers More Oil - Bush Plans Invasion
    Clif Ross
    07/11/05 /Epicenter News Service/
    http://www.eastbaynews.org/stages/word_stage1.php?EBN= 0711_1_word

    19) George Galloway - Battle cry for radical change
    What do sweatshop workers in Bangladesh have in common with
    the people who work in your local supermarket? More than you
    might think, writes George Galloway, Respect MP
    The only way to make poverty history is to make the G8
    history. I don't mean simply the annual jamboree for the
    leaders of the world's richest and most powerful states.
    I mean the whole nexus of exploitation and privilege that
    the G8 and its attendant institutions represent.
    http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=6889

    20) ANSWER UPCOMING EVENTS:
    In this message:
    * Postering for Sept. 24 Anti-War March in SF
    * Statement on Racism in the LGBT Community
    * Weekly Badlands Boycott Picket
    * ANSWER Activist Meeting - Get Involved!
    * ANSWER Speaker and Venezuela Film Screening in San Bruno
    * ANSWER ANTI-WAR TEACH-IN:
    The U.S. War Drive & the Anti-War Movement
    For more info on the following events, call 415-821-6545.

    21) Army Guard Misses Recruiting Goal Again
    By JOHN J. LUMPKIN, Associated Press Writer
    Tuesday, July 12, 2005
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/07/12/national/
    w053441D69.DTL

    22) Army study:
    U.S. facing hard choices
    Lack of GIs may force cut in mission goals
    By Michael Kilian
    Washington Bureau
    Published July 12, 2005
    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-
    0507120251jul12,1,6312103.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

    23) President and Prime Minister Sharon
    Discuss Economy, Middle East
    Prairie Chapel Ranch
    Crawford, Texas
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/04/20050411-2.html

    24) Defend a Woman‚s Right to Choose!
    Stop the anti-abortion „Crusade for Life‰

    25) Peace and Justice News from FPIF
    http://www.fpif.org/
    July 15, 2005
    Introducing the latest policy analysis from
    Foreign Policy In Focus
    A Strategy for Ending the Iraq War
    By Tom Hayden

    26) FREE HIP HOP SHOW AND RALLY TO CLOSE CYA YOUTH PRISONS
    Join us as we bring the community together with amazing Bay Area
    talent to speak out against the California Youth Authority and the
    prison industrial complex!
    WHAT: 4th Annual "Not Down with the Lockdown" Hip Hop Show and Rally
    to Close the CYA Youth Prisons
    WHERE: Frank Ogawa Plaza, 14th St. and Broadway (Downtown Oakland)
    WHEN: Saturday, July 16, noon-2pm
    FREE! All ages!
    WITH SPECIAL GUEST PERFORMERS:
    -Mista F.A.B.
    -Boogie Shack
    -Company of Prophets
    -Fiyawata
    -Dream Dance Company
    and many more
    Sponsored by Books Not Bars and Let's Get Free
    ( http://www.booksnotbars.org ) and The Beat Within.
    Contact Books Not Bars:
    e-mail: bnb@ellabakercenter.org
    phone: 510.428.3939
    Get more information about the Books Not Bars
    "Alternatives for Youth" Campaign:
    http://ellabakercenter.org/bnb/campaign
    We can't survive without the support of individuals like you.
    Please take a moment to support us today. Donate here:
    http://www.ellabakercenter.org/donate
    * Not on our list-serve yet? (Maybe this message was
    forwarded to you.) Sign up to get e-mail updates
    directly by going this web page:
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    27) Please forward widely Please forward widely
    JUSTICE FOR Sheila detoy and cammerin boyd
    COMMUNITY RALLY
    5:00-6:00 PM
    WEDNESDAY JULY 20, 2005
    SAN FRANCISCO CITY PLAZA
    DR. GOODLETT DR. ( ACROSS FROM S.F. CITY HALL)
    For ten years San Francisco Police Offices have
    killed with impunity.

    We say no more

    We call on the San Francisco Police
    Commission to end this reign of terror.
    Sheila Detoy: On May 13, 1998 san
    Francisco Police Officers Shot Up
    A Car full
    of Unarmed Teenagers and killed 17 year
    Old Sheila Detoy. SFPD then tried
    to blame her friends for her death.
    Cammerin Boyd: On Wednesday, May 5, 2004,
    San Francisco police officers
    shot and killed 29 year-old Cammerin
    Boyd in front of dozens of witnesses. Cammerin,
    who was disabled, was clearly and vocally
    surrendering. He had his hands above his
    head. But the police shot him anyway.

    In the coming weeks the San Francisco
    Police Commission will begin holding hearings
    on both of these cases, come out and let
    them know we will accept nothing less than justice.
    For more information call (510)428-3939 x, 242 or e-mail
    malaika@ellabakercenter.org

    28) CUBA-A REVOLUTION IN MOTION
    MARIN INTERFAITH TASK FORCE ON THE AMERICAS
    PRESS RELEASE
    Contact: Marin Interfaith Task Force on the Americas

    29) Recruiters OUT of our schools!
    From: "No Draft No Way!"
    Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:27:35 -0400
    To: swosfo@pacbell.net
    Cc: action.news@organizerweb.com
    Subject: "College Not Combat" - Recruiters OUT of our schools

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    1) Bay Area United Against War has a new meeting schedule:
    We will meet every third Tuesday of the month
    at 7:00 p.m. beginning:
    Tuesday, July 19, 2005,7:00 p.m.
    474 Valencia Street, near 16th Street

    Agenda will include Board of Education picketing update,
    September 24, Marx in Soho performances,
    Campus Not Combat petition update and publicity
    campaign, and new business.
    All are welcome. Bring your ideas and help
    Organize against this war!

    ---------*---------*---------*---------*---------*--------

    2) SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE
    PRESENTS: "DOING GOOD"
    A play based loosely on the book, "Confessions
    of an Economic Hit Man", by John Perkins.
    JULY 16, PRECITA PARK
    MUSIC: 1:30 P.M.
    SHOW: 2:00 P.M.
    (This play is fresh, new, brilliantly performed,
    insightful, full of content, and the music is the
    icing on the cake!...BW)
    SPONSORED BY BAY AREA UNITED AGAINST WAR
    Help get the word out about the ballot proposition
    and upcoming antiwar events. Free antiwar posters!

    FREE!

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    3) BAUAW Benefit Presentation of Howard Zinn's
    one man show, MARX IN SOHO
    Starring Jerry Levy as Karl Marx
    Directed by Michael Fox Kennedy.
    Thursday, August 4, 7:00 p.m.
    Friday, August 5, 7:00 p.m.
    Saturday, August 6, 2:00 p.m.
    Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts
    1519 Mission Street between 11th Street
    and South Van Ness*

    Advance tickets: $10
    Door: $20.00
    Call:415-824-8730 or email: giobon@sbcglobal.net for
    Advance tickets.

    The premise of the play is that Marx dies yet he is
    able to see what's happening on earth for 100 years
    since his death in 1883. He is supposed to go back to
    Soho in London but, by mistake, is sent to Soho
    in New York and finds himself on stage before an
    audience. Imagine all Karl Marx would have to say
    after one hundred years of just being able to watch...

    The single actor in this one-man play is Jerry Levy,
    who has been teaching sociology at Marlboro College
    and been acting with the Actors' Theater of Brattleboro
    since he moved there from Chicago in 1975. Originally
    directed by Michael Fox Kennedy of the Actors' Theater,
    Levy has been on the road with Zinn's version of Karl
    Marx for a year, performing at benefits, colleges, small
    theaters and other venues around the state. At Middle
    Earth he was sponsored by the Bradford-based Coos Peace
    and Justice Alliance and performed free of charge but
    charged with mighty talent and a bottomless love of the play.

    WWW.BAUAW.ORG
    Contact person: Bonnie Weinstein 415-824-8730-office/home
    415-990-4237-cell

    *The Jon Sims Center is located at 1519 Mission Street
    (between 11th Street and South Van Ness), South of Market,
    San Francisco, CA 94103
    BY CAR:
    From the East Bay: Take 80 North then 101 North to the
    Mission Street exit. Stay on the right hand side of the exit.
    Turn right off the exit, and stay on Mission Street. The Jon
    Sims Center is two blocks past Van Ness, next to Firestone.

    From the South Bay: Take 101 North to the Mission Street
    Exit. Stay on the right hand side of the exit. Turn right off
    the exit, and stay on Mission Street. The Jon Sims Center
    is two blocks past Van Ness, next to Firestone.

    From the North Bay: Take 101 South to Lombard, make
    a right on Van Ness and then a left onto Mission. Jon Sims
    Center is two blocks past Van Ness, next to Firestone.

    Parking: Daytime parking is very difficult. We encourage
    day users to take public transportation. In the evening,
    street parking along Mission Street, Minna Street and
    11th Street is not horrible (in San Francisco terms) after
    6:00 PM, but the closer you are to 6:00 PM, the better
    your chances of finding parking. There is no parking
    along Mission between 4-6 PM, and you will be
    promptly towed.

    VIA BART/MUNI/SAMTRANS:
    Go to http://www.transitinfo.org for more information
    about Bay Area public transportation.

    BART: Take BART to the Civic Center station, then transfer
    to the outbound Muni J,K,L,M or N train. Exit at the next
    stop (Van Ness Station). Walk 1 block south, cross Mission,
    and the Jon Sims Center is next to Firestone.

    MUNI: The Jon Sims Center is 1 block south of the Van
    Ness Muni underground station, accessible from any Muni
    streetcar. Additionally, the 14 Mission, 42 Loop 49 and
    47 Van Ness bus stop at Mission and 11th Street, only
    1/2 block from the Jon Sims Center. Current Muni fare is $1.25.

    SamTrans: The SamTrans DX, KX, MX, NX, PX, RX and
    TX buses stops at Mission and 9th Streets. Walk three
    blocks west (towards Sutro tower) to reach the Jon Sims
    Center. Current SamTrans fare is $1.10. Please note that
    SamTrans buses to the City only run during rush hours.

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    4) Cut all Public School Ties to the Military!
    Speak up and Picket the S.F. Board of Education
    the Fourth Tuesday of Each Month.
    Next picket line: Tuesday, July 27, 6:30 P.M.-7:30 P.M.
    (The July Board of Ed. meetings have been cancelled. But we
    will still hold a picket July 27 at 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
    in front of the Board of Education building.)
    The next picket line after July 27 is August 23, 6:30 P.M.
    -7:30 P.M. (just before school starts back.)
    August 23, 6:30 p.m.-7:30 P.M.
    555 Franklin St., S.F,
    To get on the speakers list call:
    415-241-6427, 241-6493 or 241-6000
    (For more info call: 415-824-8730)


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    5) Convicted, Executed, Not Guilty
    By BOB HERBERT
    Published: July 14, 2005
    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/14/opinion/14herbert.html?hp

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    6) Lawmakers Agree to Renew
    Patriot Act
    By ERIC LICHTBLAU and CARL HULSE
    Published: July 14, 2005
    WASHINGTON, July 13 - Lawmakers on three separate
    Congressional committees moved Wednesday to impose
    restrictions on some of the more controversial elements
    of the law known as the USA Patriot Act, suggesting
    continued resistance in Congress to the idea of giving
    the government unchecked authority to fight terrorism.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/14/politics/14patriot.html

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    7) Homeland Security Chief
    Announces Overhaul
    By ERIC LIPTON
    Published: July 14, 2005
    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/14/politics/14homeland.html

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    8) Yasser Salihee is dead.
    from the black commentator - 7/14/05-
    www.blackcommentator.com

    He was on his way to drive his family to a swimming pool in
    western Baghdad when he was struck by a single bullet to head
    - he died instantly.

    Some say he was an unintentional casualty of war. Some whisper
    "the wolves got him."

    You see, since May, Dr. Salihee, had been reporting on the
    similarities between the death squads used in El Salvador
    to obliterate their "insurgency" and the US military's
    creation of the "Wolf Brigade" that has been unleashed to
    eliminate the Iraqi "insurgency." Our government calls it
    Operation Lightening.

    To be clear, there is no shame in the game of the US military
    - they make no secret that the Wolf Brigade is modeled after
    the death squads in El Salvador. In fact, up until April 2005,
    the main advisor to the Wolf Brigade was a man named
    James Steele.

    According to New York Times Magazine, Jim Steele was in charge
    of a team of 55 Special Forces advisers in El Salvador who
    "trained front-line battalions that were accused of significant
    human rights abuses." In fact while Jim Steele was in charge,
    "whole villages were targeted by the armed forces and their
    inhabitants massacred.''

    When battered and methodically beaten dead bodies started
    showing up in Iraq, Dr Salihee started reporting. Dr Salihee
    wrote about bodies in the morgue with their hands tied or
    handcuffed behind their backs. Bodies with their eyes
    blindfolded appearing to have been tortured, whipped with
    cords and subjected to electric shocks. Bodies beaten with
    blunt objects and shot to death, often with a single bullet.
    Bodies found in mass graves and bodies floating in rivers.

    Dr Salihee also reported that many of the members of the
    Wolf Brigade came from Saddam Hussein's Special Forces and
    Republican Guards. Indeed, these men were decorated
    veterans of homicide, genocide and torture.

    On June 28th 2005, the Philadelphia Inquirer ran Dr Salihee's
    last article. The very first sentence read: "Days after
    Iraq's new Shiite-led government was announced on April 28,
    the director of Baghdad's central morgue began noticing
    that the bodies of Sunni Muslim men were turning up after
    the men had been detained by people wearing Iraqi police
    uniforms."

    Dr Salihee, along with reporter Tom Lasseter, went on to
    state: "further evidence that a police force created,
    trained and funded by the United States has been abusing
    human rights ...would complicate the Bush administration's
    efforts to muster greater domestic support for its Iraq policy."

    The most chilling words however, were the words from
    the mouth of a young man who was abducted by men in police
    uniforms. "The commandos told me to keep the body outside
    of the refrigerator so that the dogs could eat it because
    he's a terrorist and he deserves it."

    Yasser Salihee, translator, physician, special correspondent,
    husband, father to two-year-old Danya, was killed 4 days
    before his story ran.

    The Wolf Brigade says that they are patriots. They utilize
    television to depict the insurgency's humiliation. In fact,
    "Terrorist in the Grip of Justice" is the most watched TV
    program in the country. They wear snappy red berets and ride
    around in white $55,000 vehicles. When children get too out
    of hand their parents threaten them with "calling the wolves."
    One young man was quoted as saying "when I see them I feel
    safe. I feel we have a country with a government."

    It appears Operation Lightning has quite a fan base.

    I remember a time in the United States when bodies with their
    hands tied behind their backs were found floating in rivers.
    Bodies never identified by loved ones. Bodies buried in mass
    graves.

    The organization that put them there has quite a fan base too.

    A few weeks ago, during the trial of the Klansman that helped
    kill and then bury the bodies of three young men, former
    Mayor Harlan Majure, testified that Klansman Edgar Ray Killen
    was a good man and the Klan "did a lot of good up here".

    Three young men, civil rights workers, were shot and killed
    forty years ago because "the law" in the land of Mississippi
    branded them trouble makers.

    In 1892, Fredrick Douglas said "Crime has a power to reproduce
    itself and create conditions favorable to its own existence."

    Yasser Salihee is dead. Lizz Brown is host of the Morning
    Wake Up Call, WGNU Radio, St. Louis. She can be reached
    through her website: http://www.lizzbrown.com/
    Marxism mailing list
    Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu
    http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism

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    9) Karl Marx-Winner of the Greatest Philosopher Vote
    BBC RADIO 4 - UK RADIO STATION OF THE YEAR
    "Workers of the World Unite! You have nothing to lose but
    your chains", "Religion is the opium of the people", and
    "From each according to his abilities, to each according
    to his needs". That should be enough for most of you to work
    out whom Radio 4 listeners have voted as their favorite
    philosopher: the winner of the In Our Time Greatest
    Philosopher Vote, chosen from 20 philosophers nominated
    by listeners and carried through on an electoral tidal wave
    of 28% of our 'first-past-the-post' vote is the communist
    theoretician, Karl Marx.
    So, when you strip away the Marxist-Leninism, the Soviet
    era and later Marxist theory, who was Karl Marx? Where does
    he stand in the history of philosophy? He wrote in his
    Theses on Feuerbach, "Philosophers have only interpreted
    the world in various ways, the point, however, is to
    change it"-which begs the question, is he really
    a philosopher at all?
    Contributors
    Anthony Grayling, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck
    College, University of London
    Francis Wheen, journalist and author of
    a biography of Karl Marx
    Gareth Stedman Jones, Professor of Political
    Science at Cambridge University
    July 14, 2005
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime.shtml

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    10) The Battle after the Battle
    By Les Blumenthal
    The News Tribune
    Sunday 10 July 2005
    Soldiers say military pushes them to discharge
    before medical needs are met
    http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/071105X.shtml

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    11) Defend a Woman's Right to Choose! Stop the anti-abortion "Crusade for Life"
    Saturday, July 16th and Friday, July 23rd
    8am- noon
    815 Eddy St. (at Franklin), SF
    "Crusade for Life" will be in
    San Francisco from July 15-24, protesting
    against reproductive rights.
    Planned Parenthood is collecting names and
    phone numbers of anyone interested
    in being on an "on-call" list in the
    event of problems or harrassment
    by protesters. We are invited to join
    Planned Parenthood, Radical Women,
    Code Pink, and various others to defend a
    woman's right to choose.
    The "Crusade for Life" plans to
    disrupt our community by harassing women at
    health clinics from July 15-27.
    We need your help to defend our clinics and
    to send the message that the Bay
    Area is pro-choice and stands up for
    reproductive rights!
    Saturday, July 16 and 23: Meet at
    Planned Parenthood to be a visible
    pro-choice force.

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    12) G.E. Profit Increases 24 Percent
    in 2d Quarter
    By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Published: July 15, 2005
    http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Earns-General-Electric.html?

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    13) UFPJ MEMO TO EXPLAIN THE DISUNITY ON SEPT. 24 IN D.C.
    www.unitedforpeace.org | 212-868-5545 | Click to subscribe

    United for Peace and Justice is circulating this memo to
    explain the political reasoning behind our organizing
    approach for the September 24-26 mobilization , and to
    respond to concerns about our decision not to merge our
    September 24 demonstration with a separate anti-war event
    being organized that same day.
    We have reached a real turning point in the Iraq War. The
    Bush Administration is experiencing incredible pressure
    to change course as a result of declining U.S. popular
    support, growing calls within Congress and the media for
    military withdrawal, and continued chaos and bloodshed
    within Iraq.

    UFPJ is organizing our three-day mobilization in
    Washington, D.C. from September 24-26 to increase the
    pressure at this strategic time. This mobilization is
    different from the large anti-war demonstrations we have
    organized in the past in several key respects, and these
    differences have shaped the organizing decisions that
    UFPJ's leadership -- a national steering committee
    elected by our member groups -- has made about the
    mobilization.

    END THE WAR ON IRAQ!
    Visit the
    Fall Mobilization Section
    of the UFPJ website
    to download leaflets,
    endorse the Sept. 24-26 events,
    and/or make a much-needed financial contribution
    to our work.


    The September mobilization comes as anti-war sentiment
    is dramatically growing throughout the United States.
    New polls indicate that up to 60% of people in this
    country oppose the war and believe some or all U.S.
    troops should be withdrawn from Iraq. If we organize
    in an inclusive way, with broad demands, accessible
    language, and an inviting style, we have the potential
    to organize the largest and most diverse demonstration
    against the war to date , with people from all walks
    of life coming together in a clear call to bring our
    troops home now. If we are willing to go outside our
    comfort zones and speak to people our movements don't
    typically reach, we have the potential to mobilize
    large numbers of people from outside the usual activist
    circles, people from a wide range of communities who
    are fed up with the carnage in Iraq and ready to stand
    up publicly for peace and justice. A truly massive
    turn-out for our September 24 march against the war
    rep color and ethnicity, every economic status, and
    resenting communities large and small, of every religious
    creed -- will dramatize to the Bush administration
    and Congress how unpopular and
    politically untenable this war has become.

    The September mobilization also comes as years of
    intense anti-war organizing are beginning to pay off
    in the legislative realm , with movement in both
    houses of Congress to call for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.
    To build on this crucial new political momentum, our
    three-day September mobilization against the war will
    focus not just on the White House but also on Congress;
    it will include not just the major protest march on
    Saturday, September 24, but also, on Monday, September 26,
    large-scale grassroots lobbying and a mass nonviolent civil
    disobedience action.

    Finally, the September mobilization comes as the anti-war
    movement is organizing more strategically than ever ,
    pursuing a series of grassroots campaigns that target the
    most vulnerable aspects of the Bush administration's war
    drive. These include the increasingly effective nationwide
    efforts to counter military recruitment, a rapidly growing
    campaign of anti-war organizing in faith-based communities,
    and the multi-state campaign against the use of the National
    Guard in Iraq. As part of our three-day mobilization, we
    will be providing a range of ways for people to plug into
    these campaigns, including an interfaith religious service,
    grassroots training sessions, and "interactive stations"
    at the anti-war festival following our Saturday march.

    As part of our effort to build the most inclusive and
    diverse possible mobilization, UFPJ has chosen two simple,
    broad demands for the weekend: End the War on Iraq, Bring
    the Troops Home Now! These main slogans are accompanied
    by five additional demands that link to specific campaigns:
    Leave no military bases behind; End the looting of Iraq;
    Stop bankrupting our communities; Stop the torture;
    No military recruitment in our schools.

    We have chosen these overarching demands for the mobilization
    because we believe it is politically imperative to bring the
    largest number of people together right now in opposition
    to the war on Iraq. This September, we are seeking to
    mobilize all opponents of the war, no matter what their
    positions are on other political matters, and so we have
    kept our demands broad and simple. At the same time,
    United for Peace and Justice, as a coalition, has taken
    strong stances on an array of issues related to the Iraq
    War: opposing the Israeli occupation of Palestinian
    territories and U.S. support for that occupation; stopping
    torture and illegal detentions; preventing future
    "pre-emptive" wars against Iran, North Korea, Syria,
    Venezuela, Cuba or other countries; supporting the
    democratic struggles of the Haitian people; and
    challenging U.S. nuclear hegemony by demanding the
    elimination of nuclear weapons worldwide.

    For the September mobilization, UFPJ warmly welcomes
    our allies in the wide array of peace and justice
    movements to participate in the mobilization in ways
    that highlight the links between their struggles and
    issues and the absolute necessity to end the war on
    Iraq. We invite all those struggling for peace and
    justice abroad or at home to organize contingents in
    our march or feeder marches to the demonstration.
    The September 24 march is a powerful opportunity for
    labor, women, communities of color, lesbian/gay/
    bisexual/transgender people, immigrants, youth
    and students, and many other communities to stand
    together and say, "We cannot make headway on any
    of our issues without ending the war and bringing
    the troops home."

    Some people have urged UFPJ to consider a joint
    demonstration with the Sept. 24 National Coalition,
    initiated by A.N.S.W.E.R., which is also organizing
    an anti-war protest on September 24. We take seriously
    the concerns from local organizers about the potential
    for confusion if there are two separate marches on
    September 24. Therefore, we have agreed to US Labor
    Against the War's proposal to convene a meeting with
    A.N.S.W.E.R. to work through logistical issues about
    the day, including the possibility of bringing the marches
    together. We are committed to working in good faith on
    this process. But because of our different approaches to
    organizing and how demands are articulated, we are not
    proposing a "unified" program that day. (See our May 23
    memo to our member groups for a more detailed explanation.)

    We urge all those who seek to bring this war to an end
    -- from national groups to local organizations to
    concerned individuals -- to put maximum effort into
    bringing new people and organizations into the nation's
    capital for September 24-26. The streets of Washington,
    D.C. are big enough to contain all of our events and movements
    that weekend. The important thing is that the streets
    be filled with as many people as possible, all holding
    the Bush Administration and Congress accountable for
    the continuing devastation of this illegal and
    unjustified war.

    END THE WAR ON IRAQ! BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!

    Massive 3-day mobilization in Washington, D.C.

    September 24-26, 2005

    Visit our website today to download leaflets, endorse
    the mobilization, and learn more about the plans for
    this powerful weekend of action

    http://www.unitedforpeace.org/fallmobe

    ACTION ALERT * UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
    http://www.unitedforpeace.org | 212-868-5545
    To subscribe, visit http://www.unitedforpeace.org/email

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    14) American Soldiers Charged
    With Abuse
    By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Published: July 16, 2005
    http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-
    Iraq.html?hp&ex=1121572800&en=163cdddfd9b064f4&ei=5094&partner=homepag
    e

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    15) Ruling Lets U.S. Restart Trials
    at Guantánamo
    By NEIL A. LEWIS
    Published: July 16, 2005
    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/16/politics/
    16gitmo.html?hp&ex=1121572800&en=63f317612f1e5198&ei=5094&partner=hom
    epage

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    16) San Francisco State Sued For Violating
    Students' Rights
    From: Katrina Yeaw
    Date: July 15, 2005 1:32:39 PM EDT
    Reply-To: CampusAntiwarNetwork@yahoogroups.com

    For Immediate Release

    Friday, July 15, 2005

    San Francisco State Sued For Violating Students' Rights
    Free Speech, Military Recruiting, Discrimination Against Gays At Issue

    Contact Sharon Adams at 925.906.9026, Kent Klaudt at 415.652.9254
    or Carlos Villarreal at 512.507.7700

    San Francisco - Attorneys filed suit Friday against San Francisco
    State University (SFSU) in the name of the National Lawyers Guild
    (NLG) and on behalf of two student groups, Students Against War (SAW)
    and the International Socialist Organization (ISO). The suit arises
    from a protest against military recruiters on March 9th of this year
    that took place on the SFSU campus. The NLG accuses SFSU
    administrators of violating their own policies against discrimination
    based on sexual orientation by allowing recruiters on campus, and of
    violating the due process rights of the student organizations by
    punishing them at the end of an unfair disciplinary process.

    "It was clear from the evidence we've collected that certain
    individuals at SFSU were bent on punishing these student groups and
    didn't seem to care about ensuring the student groups had a fair
    hearing," said Sharon Adams, an attorney member of the NLG who filed
    the papers in the Superior Court for the City and County of San
    Francisco . "It is appalling that the University would choose to
    punish students for basic free speech activity, while allowing
    military recruiters on their campus in violation of their own
    anti-discrimination policy."

    The SFSU policy on nondiscrimination states in part: "No person shall,
    on the grounds of race, color, national origin, sexual orientation,
    religion, or age be excluded from participation in, be denied the
    benefits of, or be otherwise subjected to discrimination, including
    harassment, in any program of the California State University."

    "In this case, SFSU decided it wouldn't or couldn't honor its own
    policy and allowed the military, which discriminates against gays and
    lesbians, to practice their homophobic policy on campus," said Carlos
    Villarreal, Executive Director of the NLG San Francisco. "These
    student groups were both opposing the war in Iraq and enforcing SFSU's
    own policies, and now they are being punished through a sloppy and
    biased process that again has SFSU administrators violating their own
    processes."

    Recruiters eventually left the March 9th job fair when they realized
    they would not be able to recruit students - an enormous victory for
    these student groups.

    The National Lawyers Guild was founded in 1937 and includes thousands
    of members across the country, including hundreds of lawyers, law
    students and legal workers in the Bay Area.

    # # #

    Students Against War (SAW) is a member of the Campus Antiwar Network
    http://www.campusantiwar.net

    Charlie Jenks
    Website Manager; Chair of Advisory Board
    Traprock Peace Center
    http://www.traprockpeace.org

    UNITED FOR PEACE & JUSTICE | 212-868-5545

    <*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ufpj-news/

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    17) Hello all,
    This is not good news, it shows how we have to unite together
    and stand strong against this evil system.
    Please read the entire article. Below is a call to
    participate in a rally
    Wednesday 20th July from 5:00pm -6:00pm
    in support of Sheila Detoy and Cammerin Boyd.
    Please spread the word and
    attend the rally if you can.
    in solidarity,
    Donna

    Forwarded from PRISONACT email list:

    From: mcleod9@gmail.com
    Subject: [PRISONACT] Justice delayed yet again in Sheila
    Detoy case (San Francisco)
    Date: July 14, 2005 5:02:06 PM PDT

    7/13/05: Tonight, I received a call from Sgt. Reilly, the secretary of
    the San Francisco Police Commission. He informed me that late this
    afternoon Superior Court Judge, James L. Warren, granted a stay in my
    friend Sheila Detoy's Case. The motion for a stay was filed by the
    attorneys for Sgt. Greg Breslin, the cop who killed my 17 year old
    friend, Sheila Detoy.

    Full article:
    http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2005/07/1717168.php

    Judge delays hearing to discipline killer cop
    by Shannon Altamirano, special to SFIMC
    Thursday, Jul. 14, 2005 at 9:24 AM

    Stay ordered, which stalls disciplinary action against cop who
    killed Sheila Detoy over seven years ago.

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    18) Venezuela Discovers More Oil - Bush Plans Invasion
    Clif Ross
    07/11/05 /Epicenter News Service/
    http://www.eastbaynews.org/stages/word_stage1.php?EBN= 0711_1_word

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    19) George Galloway - Battle cry for radical change
    What do sweatshop workers in Bangladesh have in common with
    the people who work in your local supermarket? More than you
    might think, writes George Galloway, Respect MP
    The only way to make poverty history is to make the G8
    history. I don't mean simply the annual jamboree for the
    leaders of the world's richest and most powerful states.
    I mean the whole nexus of exploitation and privilege that
    the G8 and its attendant institutions represent.
    http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=6889

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    20) ANSWER UPCOMING EVENTS:
    In this message:
    * Postering for Sept. 24 Anti-War March in SF
    * Statement on Racism in the LGBT Community
    * Weekly Badlands Boycott Picket
    * ANSWER Activist Meeting - Get Involved!
    * ANSWER Speaker and Venezuela Film Screening in San Bruno
    * ANSWER ANTI-WAR TEACH-IN:
    The U.S. War Drive & the Anti-War Movement
    For more info on the following events, call 415-821-6545.


    Postering for the Sept. 24 Anti-War March in San Francisco

    This weekend, we will be doing neighborhood postering in SF
    and the East Bay. Get involved! Help spread the word about
    the next mass action against the war September 24.

    POSTERING
    * Friday, July 15, Postering in SF, meet at Polk and Turk, 6pm
    * Saturday, July 16, Postering in the East Bay, meet at
    Telegraph and Alcatraz, 2pm
    * Saturday, July 16, Postering in SF, meet at
    24th and Dolores, 2pm

    Call if you would like to be paired up with someone in
    your neighborhood to do postering at another time. Speak
    to Nati or Silvio, 415-821-6545.

    New posters and bilingual flyers are available to download at http://
    www.actionsf.org/ or pick some up anytime at the
    ANSWER office, 2489 Mission St. Room 24 (at 21st St.)
    San Francisco.
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    Racism in the LGBT Community
    The Fight in San Francisco Continues!!!

    A statement from Lesbians and Gays of African Descent
    for Democratic Action (LGADDA) and LGBT Black Rap: Standing
    for Civil Rights & Social Justice for Black LGBT & Allies,
    on behalf of a coalition of African American LGBT leaders
    and organizations.

    Click here to view the statement on Racism in the LGBT
    Community
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    Saturday, July 16, 10pm-12 midnight
    Weekly Boycott Picket at SF Badlands
    In front of S.F. Badlands on 18th Street between Castro
    and Collingwood

    Stand against racism and demand accountability for
    widespread racial discrimination and create inclusion
    in the Castro. Join the ANSWER Coalition and other
    community and labor groups on the picket line.

    For more info, visit http://www.andcastroforall.org/

    Tuesday, July 19, 7pm
    Weekly ANSWER Activist Meeting
    2489 Mission St. Room 30 at 21st St., San Francisco

    Join us for a political update and discussion by Mario
    Santos from Alliance for Just and Lasting Peace in the
    Philippines. Also, a report on the union struggle at the
    SF Chronicle for a fair contract. Get involved - join
    in our weekly outreach planning for the Sept. 24 Anti-War March.

    Wed. July 20, 6:30pm-9pm
    Film Showing and ANSWER Speaker:
    "Chavez, Venezuela and the New Latin America"
    Panaderia Eduardo, 617 San Mateo Ave., San Bruno
    (2blks west of Huntington)
    6:30pm - Pastries/coffee 50 cents and up
    7pm-8pm - Video screening
    8pm-9pm - Discussion with Gloria La Riva of the
    ANSWER Coalition. Gloria has participated in several
    delegations to Venezuela.
    This groundbreaking new documentary by
    Aleida Guevara (Che Guevara's daughter),
    "Chávez, Venezuela and the New Latin America,"
    explores Venezuela's explosive revolutionary terrain
    post-April 2002-when Hugo Chávez survived a coup
    attempt instigated by the United States. Featuring
    interviews with Hugo Chávez, President of the
    Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and Jorge García
    Carneiro, newly appointed head of the Venezuelan
    Armed Forces, along with others who are involved in
    the country's many social programs. This film affords
    a rare opportunity to glimpse through the blockade of
    information imposed by the United States into
    a country rich with hope, dreams and... oil. 2004,
    55min. Spanish with English subtitles.
    This is a bilingual event co-sponsored by the San
    Bruno Greens and ANSWER.
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    SAVE THE DATE:
    Saturday, July 30, 2-5pm
    San Francisco Women's Building
    3543 18th St. (btwn Valencia & Guerrero)

    ANSWER ANTI-WAR TEACH-IN:
    The U.S. War Drive & the Anti-War Movement

    A discussion on the war and how we can continue to build
    a powerful anti-war movement here.

    Join us for a unique discussion assessing the state of
    the U.S. war, including the crisis in the Middle East,
    the expansion to other parts of the globe, and the turning
    tide of U.S. public opinion against the war.

    We will discuss: what are the points of unity and
    controversy within the anti-war movement? What are
    the implications of different political tactics and
    demands? Find out more about the next major national
    anti-war mobilization on September 24 and what you can
    do to get involved.

    $3-10 donation (no one turned away for lack of funds).
    Wheelchair accessible.
    Call 415-821-6545 to reserve free childcare.

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    21) Army Guard Misses Recruiting Goal Again
    By JOHN J. LUMPKIN, Associated Press Writer
    Tuesday, July 12, 2005
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/07/12/national/
    w053441D69.DTL

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    22) Army study:
    U.S. facing hard choices
    Lack of GIs may force cut in mission goals
    By Michael Kilian
    Washington Bureau
    Published July 12, 2005
    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-
    0507120251jul12,1,6312103.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

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    23) President and Prime Minister Sharon
    Discuss Economy, Middle East
    Prairie Chapel Ranch
    Crawford, Texas
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/04/20050411-2.html

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    24) Defend a Woman‚s Right to Choose!
    Stop the anti-abortion „Crusade for Life‰

    The „Crusade for Life‰ plans to disrupt our community
    by harassing women at health clinics from July 15-27.
    We need your help to defend our clinics and to send
    the message that the Bay Area is pro-choice and stands
    up for reproductive rights!

    Please join Radical Women at the following actions:

    Saturday, July 16 and 23: Meet at Planned Parenthood
    to be a visible pro-choice force. 8am-noon, 815 Eddy
    Street (at Franklin), San Francisco

    Monday, July 25: Clinic Defense and pro-choice
    presence at Women‚s Choice Clinic, 570 14th St.,
    Oakland starting at 8am. Wear reproductive rights
    t-shirts. Call 510-836-5676 for more information.

    What Else You Can Do
     Call your local Bay Area clinic and let them know
    you are willing to help. Sign up for escort or clinic
    defense training. The anti-abortionists will be in
    San Francisco from July 15-24. They are planning to
    be in Oakland on July 25, Berkeley on July 26, and
    Richmond on July 27.

     Drive by local reproductive health centers on a
    regular basis (especially at night) to ensure the
    safety of the facility.

     Support the Abortion Rights and Reproductive Justice
    Network by sending tax-deductible donations payable to
    Women‚s Choice Clinic, 570 14th St. #3 Oakland, CA
    94612. Call 415-864-1278 for information on Network
    meetings.

    Issued by Radical Women
    415.864.1278  rwbayarea@yahoo.com 
    www.radicalwomen.org

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    25) Peace and Justice News from FPIF
    http://www.fpif.org/
    July 15, 2005
    Introducing the latest policy analysis from
    Foreign Policy In Focus
    A Strategy for Ending the Iraq War
    By Tom Hayden

    In January 2005, a group of fifty peace activists
    from the Vietnam and Iraq eras issued a global appeal
    to end the war (online at
    http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/20996/). The appeal
    proposed undermining the pillars of war (public opinion,
    funding, troop recruitment, international allies) and
    building the pillars of peace and justice (an independent
    anti-war movement linked to justice issues, a progressive
    Democratic opposition, soldiers and families against the war,
    a global network to stop the US empire). This is an update
    on implementation of the strategy.

    Among friends and local activists, practice discussion
    of these multiple scenarios with plans for responding to each:
    1. Status Quo/Quagmire. How do we expand local anti-war
    coalitions, and double membership of local groups, going into
    the 2006 elections?
    2. Bush escalates (e.g. sends more troops, invades Syrian border,
    bombs Iran, resumes draft). In any of these cases, is more radical
    action called for? How will it impose a cost on Bush, how will
    it expand the movement?
    3. Bush mimics Nixon, promises peace, withdraws 10,000 troops
    as Iraq adopts constitution and elects new government. Would
    this defuse the anti-war movement going into 2006? Or will we
    be in a mode to keep on the offense? How will we argue that
    the strategy will not bring peace?
    4. What do you need to respond? In each scenario, what
    resources or adaptations does your local group need to respond?

    Tom Hayden was a leader of the student, civil rights, peace
    and environmental movements of the 1960s. He served 18 years
    in the California legislature, where he chaired labor, higher
    education and natural resources committees. He is a professor
    at Occidental College, Los Angeles and a contributor to
    Foreign Policy In Focus (http://www.fpif.org).

    See new FPIF paper online at:
    http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/155

    With printer-friendly pdf version at:
    http://www.fpif.org./pdf/papers/0507endwar.pdf

    The Left and the Iraq War
    By Clive Hamilton

    The left has been snookered by the U.S. invasion of Iraq, for
    it is deeply opposed to the war yet supports the spread of
    democracy and civil freedoms. It is in the interests of the
    world that democracy should succeed in Iraq but that the U.S.
    has its nose bloodied in the process.

    For anyone with an appreciation of the history of U.S. foreign
    policy, the Bush administration's dewy-eyed homilies in praise
    of democracy in the Middle East are nauseating. If he were
    serious he would act against regimes in those countries that
    could most easily be converted to democracy; those where
    autocrats rule only by dint of U.S. support. He could begin
    with the U.S. client regime in Saudi Arabia.

    The decision to go to war in Iraq was wrong, not because
    Saddam was not a monstrous tyrant, but because it violated
    the first principle of international relations: respect for
    sovereignty. Without respect for sovereignty, international
    relations are reduced to the will of the powerful.

    Dr. Clive Hamilton is Executive Director of The Australia
    Institute, a public interest think tank and a contributor
    to Foreign Policy In Focus (http://www.fpif.org).

    See new FPIF commentary online at:
    http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/154

    With printer-friendly pdf version at
    http://www.fpif.org/pdf/gac/0507left.pdf

    General Abizaid, I'm Glad You Asked
    By Col. Daniel Smith (Ret.)

    In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee
    on June 23, General John Abizaid, head of Central Command,
    told the committee: "Maybe it's something we're not doing
    right in the field. But I can tell you that when my soldiers
    ... ask me the question whether or not they've got support
    from the American people or not, that worries me. And they're
    starting to do that. So I would say we better have a frank
    discussion with ourselves. I am not against the debate."

    Combined with Abizaid's acknowledgement that the insurgent
    and resistance fighters in Iraq are as strong as they were
    six months ago, this statement is a remarkably candid warning
    to U.S. politicians that the present course of U.S. policy
    in Iraq is in trouble.

    I would expect nothing less than absolute candor from
    Abizaid - and the public should accept nothing less from
    everyone in the Bush administration.

    Dan Smith is a military affairs analyst for Foreign Policy
    In Focus (online at http://www.fpif.org), a retired U.S.
    Army colonel, and a senior fellow on military affairs at
    the Friends Committee on National Legislation.

    See new FPIF report online at:
    http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/158

    With printer-friendly pdf version at
    http://www.fpif.org/pdf/reports/PR0507abizaid.pdf

    For Related Analysis from Foreign Policy In Focus

    How the World Can Help Americans Halt Bush Administration
    War Crimes
    By Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith (June 2005)
    http://www.fpif.org/papers/0506haltbush.html

    Ending the U.S. War in Iraq: How to Bring the Troops Home
    and Internationalize the Peace
    By Phyllis Bennis and Erik Leaver (January 2005)
    http://www.fpif.org/papers/0501occupation.html

    An "Affirmative Measure" to Help Prevent the Commission of
    War Crimes by the Bush Administration
    By Jeremy Brecher (December 2004)
    http://www.fpif.org/papers/0412affmeasure.html

    The Peace Movement One Year Later
    By Mark Engler (March 2004)
    http://www.fpif.org/papers/2004peace.html

    Produced and distributed by FPIF:"A Think Tank Without
    Walls," a joint program of International Relations Center
    (IRC) and Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).

    For more information, visit http://www.fpif.org. If you
    would like to add a name to the "What's New At FPIF"
    specific region or topic list, please email:
    communications@irc-online.org with "subscribe" and
    giving your area of interest.

    To manage your subscription to the Peace & Justice
    listserv: http://www.irc-online.org/lists/

    You can join the IRC and make a secure donation by
    visiting http://www.irc-online.org/donate.php Thank. you
    International Relations Center (IRC)
    http://www.irc-online.org/
    Siri D. Khalsa
    Outreach Coordinator
    Email: communications@irc-online.org
    P.O. Box 2178
    Silver City, NM 88062

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    26) FREE HIP HOP SHOW AND RALLY TO CLOSE CYA YOUTH PRISONS
    Join us as we bring the community together with amazing Bay Area
    talent to speak out against the California Youth Authority and the
    prison industrial complex!
    WHAT: 4th Annual "Not Down with the Lockdown" Hip Hop Show and Rally
    to Close the CYA Youth Prisons
    WHERE: Frank Ogawa Plaza, 14th St. and Broadway (Downtown Oakland)
    WHEN: Saturday, July 16, noon-2pm
    FREE! All ages!
    WITH SPECIAL GUEST PERFORMERS:
    -Mista F.A.B.
    -Boogie Shack
    -Company of Prophets
    -Fiyawata
    -Dream Dance Company
    and many more
    Sponsored by Books Not Bars and Let's Get Free
    ( http://www.booksnotbars.org ) and The Beat Within.
    Contact Books Not Bars:
    e-mail: bnb@ellabakercenter.org
    phone: 510.428.3939
    Get more information about the Books Not Bars
    "Alternatives for Youth" Campaign:
    http://ellabakercenter.org/bnb/campaign
    We can't survive without the support of individuals like you.
    Please take a moment to support us today. Donate here:
    http://www.ellabakercenter.org/donate
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    forwarded to you.) Sign up to get e-mail updates
    directly by going this web page:
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    27) Please forward widely Please forward widely
    JUSTICE FOR Sheila detoy and cammerin boyd
    COMMUNITY RALLY
    5:00-6:00 PM
    WEDNESDAY JULY 20, 2005
    SAN FRANCISCO CITY PLAZA
    DR. GOODLETT DR. ( ACROSS FROM S.F. CITY HALL)
    For ten years San Francisco Police Offices have
    killed with impunity.

    We say no more

    We call on the San Francisco Police
    Commission to end this reign of terror.
    Sheila Detoy: On May 13, 1998 san
    Francisco Police Officers Shot Up
    A Car full
    of Unarmed Teenagers and killed 17 year
    Old Sheila Detoy. SFPD then tried
    to blame her friends for her death.
    Cammerin Boyd: On Wednesday, May 5, 2004,
    San Francisco police officers
    shot and killed 29 year-old Cammerin
    Boyd in front of dozens of witnesses. Cammerin,
    who was disabled, was clearly and vocally
    surrendering. He had his hands above his
    head. But the police shot him anyway.

    In the coming weeks the San Francisco
    Police Commission will begin holding hearings
    on both of these cases, come out and let
    them know we will accept nothing less than justice.
    For more information call (510)428-3939 x, 242 or e-mail
    malaika@ellabakercenter.org

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    28) CUBA-A REVOLUTION IN MOTION
    MARIN INTERFAITH TASK FORCE ON THE AMERICAS
    PRESS RELEASE
    Contact: Marin Interfaith Task Force on the Americas

    Colleen Rose ∆ 415/924-3227 ∆ mitf@igc.org

    CUBA-A REVOLUTION IN MOTION
    Author discusses new book

    Marin Interfaith Task Force on
    the Americas presents author Isaac Saney
    on Sunday, April 24, 3:00 PM at
    the Mill Valley Community Center, Forest
    Room, 180 Camino Alto, Mill Valley.

    In his book Saney writes, "The central
    contention of this book is that the
    Cuban experience offers significant
    insights into not only a different paradigm,
    but a paradigm that has been largely
    successful-especially given the objective
    limitations of a small, poor, underdeveloped
    island nation-in utilizing the
    country‚s resources and wealth for the
    public good. This book, intended
    as an introduction for students and the
    general reader, explores Cuba
    as it enters the twenty-first century,
    a lone island of anti-imperialism,
    anti-capitalism and socialism in the
    so-called Œage of globalization.‚
    This work seeks to explain what some
    have called the Œmiracle‚ of
    the Cuban Revolution‚s survival in
    the face of an unprecedented
    economic contraction."

    Isaac Saney is a member of the faculty
    at Dalhousie University in
    Halifax, Nova Scotia and regularly
    lectures on, writes about and
    conducts research in Cuba.

    For more information, please contact
    415/924-3227, mitf@igc.org,
    or www.mitfamericas.org.

    A $5-10 donation is requested. No one
    turned away for lack of funds.
    Refreshments. Wheelchair accessible.
    Proceeds to benefit Pastors
    for Peace Cuba Caravan, July 2005.
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    29) Recruiters OUT of our schools!
    From: "No Draft No Way!"
    Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:27:35 -0400
    To: swosfo@pacbell.net
    Cc: action.news@organizerweb.com
    Subject: "College Not Combat" - Recruiters OUT of our schools

    Recruiters OUT of our schools!
    Donate
    to help build a national movement against military
    recruiting and the draft.

    Across the country, parents, teachers, and activists are
    taking action to protect students from the lies, manipulation,
    and abusive tactics of military recruiters.

    In School Board meetings, Parent Teacher Associations,
    Student Governments, and other meetings across the U.S.,
    parents and students are taking action--concerned parents
    have become such an obstacle that recruiters have identified
    them as the biggest obstacle to meeting their quotas. We
    need to continue to build on our success and drive military
    recruiters out of our schools.

    Recruiters have no place in public schools--they are
    predators, who lie to young people and manipulate their
    economic situation in order to drag them away to fight wars
    of occupation. We have a right and an obligation to demand
    that they not be allowed to use schools to recruit cannon
    fodder for their illegal wars.

    San Francisco - "College Not Combat!"

    In San Franciso, parents and antiwar activists submitted
    a local ballot measure on Monday, July 11, that will, if
    passed, put the city on record opposing the presence of
    military recruiters in public high schools and colleges.

    Organizers are working to gather enough signatures to
    place the initiative, called "College Not Combat," on
    the November ballot. It would encourage school officials
    to deny access to recruiters, even if that means the loss
    of Federal money. The initiative also encourages the
    creation of scholarships and training programs to challenge
    the military's appeal to disadvantaged youth.

    One of the organizers, Ragina Johnson said, "We do not see
    George Bush's daughters signing up. It is poor and
    working-class people who need a job and education at the
    same time billions are being spent on this war."

    Seattle - "School is no place for recruiters!"

    The Parent Teacher Student Association of Garfield High
    School took a decisive step in May, voting 25 to 5 to adopt
    a resolution that says "public schools are not a place for
    military recruiters."

    "The mission of the PTA is to protect and defend kids,"
    said Amy Hagopian, a mother of three whose son is a Garfield
    senior. "It's not just limited to education issues - which
    explains why the PTA takes positions on kids' health,
    violence, and other serious issues."

    She added, ""They're spending $4 billion a month in Iraq,
    but we have to cut our race relations class, which costs
    $12,500. That's an important class for our kids."

    Steve Ludwig, whose son is a senior at Garfield, made
    a point shared by many in the PTSA: Garfield does not allow
    organizations that promote illegal activities to recruit
    students to perform those activities, nor does it allow
    organizations that discriminate on the basis of race,
    gender, national origin, or sexual orientation to recruit
    on campus.

    Ludwig told the Christian Science Monitor, "Planned
    Parenthood, as far as I know, does not advocate or perform
    illegal acts. The US military does. He said he would not
    object if Army representatives came to Garfield to debate
    their ideas on torture or aggressive war. "What I object
    to is their coming here to recruit students to perform
    those acts," he said. "It's not about free speech."

    Help Remove Military Recruiters from your schools!

    The Army Recruiting Handbook for High Schools (available
    on the No Draft, No Way
    website) says that their goal is "school ownership." Our
    goal is to deny them that ownership. The schools belong
    to the people, not to the Pentagon.

    Join the national movement against military recruiting.
    No Draft No Way is calling on parents, students, and local
    activists to work with your PTA, union, school board,
    city council, or student government to pass a resolution
    barring recruiters from your local schools. We are
    currently compiling a list of all such local initiatives
    -- if you are organizing a local initiative, you can list
    it here .
    Or contact us http://nodraftnoway.org/ndnwcomments.shtml
    for information and help to organize a local campaign.

    Help Equip Local Counter-Recruiting Activists!

    Activists across the country are joining the struggle to
    shut down military recruiting. No Draft No Way now has
    hundreds of local activists in all 50 states mobilizing
    to challenge recruiters and organize against the draft.
    It is imperative that we provide information and tools to
    these local organizers.

    We Won't Go - A Guide to Counter-Recruiting and Draft
    Resistance will be an important contribution to this effort.
    This pocket-sized, 120-page book will be full of useful
    information and organizing tools for local activists.

    This bood will include chapters on:

    Military Recruiters' Lies - the truth behind the promises
    of easy college money and high-tech job training.
    Invasion of the Body Snatchers - the No Child Left Behind
    Act, JROTC, and the new Pentagon Database
    Challenging Recruiters on Campus - including a section on
    students rights on campus, leaflets, petitions
    Opting Out - how to organize a Opt Out campaign in your
    school so that students' personal information is not
    released to military recruiters
    Information about organizing a local resolution opposing
    military recruiting.
    and much more

    The book will be released with an accompanying CD which
    will contain:

    Recrutiers Lies - leaflets and posters exposing the
    recruiting sales pitch point by point with space for local
    contact information.
    Petitions against ROTC and JROTC
    Opt Out forms with an explanation of the No Child
    Left Behind Act

    We are rushing to get We Won't Go - A Guide to
    Counter-Recruiting and Draft Resistance to publication
    so that thousands of activists can use this material
    a part of a national campaign to educate and mobilize
    youth against militarism and the war. This book must be
    at the printers by July 31 in order for us to have it
    ready for the start of the new school year.

    Can you help us with this urgent effort to publish We
    Won't Go - A Guide to Counter-Recruiting and Draft Resistance?
    We will include a special acknowledgement section in the book,
    showing appreciation for those who make a contribution to
    this effort. Your name can be listed there, or you can donate
    anonymously. (You can donate online at
    http://nodraftnoway.org/donate-new.shtml )

    Please join us in this national campaign by helping to
    organize, do outreach, distribute educational materials,
    and donate to help with all aspects of organizing, especially
    the immediate publication of this book, which will be an
    invaluable resource for young people all over the country
    who want to oppose the very real dangers of militarization and war.

    Donate
    to help build a national movement against military recruiting
    and the draft.

    Organize
    a local No Draft No Way chapter.

    Sign up for Updates.

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    Send an email request to
    Action.News-subscribe@organizerweb.com

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    Wednesday, July 13, 2005
     

    BAUAW NEWSLETTER-WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 2005

    Manish Vaidya
    wrote: folks from the NLG asked that the following
    be passed on to activist listservs and organizations:

    KNOW YOUR RIGHTS - DONT TALK - GET LEGAL ADVICE!
    If you are contacted by the FBI
    or other law enforcement officers, or
    subpoenaed to a grand jury,
    or if you are not a citizen and
    have a question about the impact
    of your political activity on your
    immigration status, call the
    National Lawyers Guild Post-9/11 Hotline, 415 285-1041.

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    BAUAW Benefit Presentation of Howard Zinn's
    one man show, MARX IN SOHO
    Starring Jerry Levy as Karl Marx
    Directed by Michael Fox Kennedy.
    Thursday, August 4, 7:00 p.m.
    Friday, August 5, 7:00 p.m.
    Saturday,August 6, 2:00 p.m.
    Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts
    1519 Mission Street between 11th Street
    and South Van Ness*

    Advance tickets: $10
    Door: $20.00
    Call:415-824-8730 or email: giobon@sbcglobal.net for
    Advance tickets.

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    CONGRATULATIONS TO COLLEGE NOT COMBAT!
    CAN’T WAIT FOR THE CAMPAIGN TO BEGIN!
    Press Conference to Submit College Not Combat Petitions for
    November Election Took Place Monday, July 11th; noon
    East steps of City Hall, San Francisco

    CONTACT: Ragina Johnson at 415-412-4540 or
    college_not_combat@yahoo.com http://us.f335.mail.yahoo.com/ym/
    Compose?To=college_not_combat@yahoo.com&YY=45579&order=down&a
    mp;sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b

    On July 11th 2005, College Not Combat activists delivered a
    remarkable 15,000 signatures to the Department of Elections at San
    Francisco's City Hall. These signatures, gathered by volunteers
    in just six weeks, represent public disapproval of military
    recruitment in the facilities of San Francisco's public
    high schools, colleges, and universities.

    With the death toll of American soldiers in Iraq almost 1800, the US
    military is struggling to meet its recruitment goals. Consistently
    falling well below its monthly quotas, military recruiters are using
    a number of tactics to persuade young people to join their ranks.
    Among these tactics is the presentation of economic incentives, used
    to make military service an appealing prospect to low-income youth.

    Acknowledging the passing of last November's Proposition N, in which
    the people of San Francisco voted by 63% to "bring the troops safely
    home now", the College Not Combat petition also represents opposition
    to the policy that is driving the war in Iraq.

    Speakers included:
    Aimee Allison - Green party member who is running for Oakland City
    Council.

    Cindy Sheehan, lost her son Casey, a soldier in Iraq, in April of 2004
    and is the founder of Gold Star Families for Peace.

    Supervisor Chris Daly

    Ragina Johnson, campaign director of the College Not Combat campaign

    And Others.

    For more info, call 415-248-1701, or go to
    www.CollegeNotCombat.org

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    1) HANDS OFF VENEZUELA SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA FILM
    SHOWING: 7:00 PM, FRIDAY JULY 15
    Center for Political Education
    522 Valencia, Third Floor,
    Near 16th Street, SF
    (not wheelchair accessible)
    Close the 16th Street BART
    $5/$3 Students, Seniors, Unemployed

    2) SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE
    PRESENTS: "DOING GOOD"
    A play based loosely on the book, "Confessions
    of an Economic Hit Man", by John Perkins.
    JULY 16, PRECITA PARK
    MUSIC: 1:30 P.M.
    SHOW: 2:00 P.M.
    (This play is fresh, new, brilliantly performed,
    insightful, full of content, and the music is the
    icing on the cake!...BW)
    SPONSORED BY BAY AREA UNITED AGAINST WAR
    Help get the word out about the ballot proposition
    and upcoming antiwar events. Free antiwar posters!
    FREE!

    3) BAUAW Benefit Presentation of Howard Zinn's
    one man show, MARX IN SOHO
    Starring Jerry Levy as Karl Marx
    Directed by Michael Fox Kennedy.
    Thursday, August 4, 7:00 p.m.
    Friday, August 5, 7:00 p.m.
    Saturday, August 6, 2:00 p.m.
    Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts
    1519 Mission Street between 11th Street
    and South Van Ness*
    Advance tickets: $10
    Door: $20.00
    Call:415-824-8730 or email: giobon@sbcglobal.net for
    Advance tickets.

    4) Cut all Public School Ties to the Military!
    Speak up and Picket the S.F. Board of Education
    the Fourth Tuesday of Each Month.
    Next picket line: Tuesday, July 27, 6:30 P.M.-7:30 P.M.
    (The July Board of Ed. meetings have been cancelled. But we
    will still hold a picket July 27 at 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
    in front of the Board of Education building.)
    The next picket line after July 27 is August 23, 6:30 P.M.
    -7:30 P.M. (just before school starts back.)
    August 23, 6:30 p.m.-7:30 P.M.
    555 Franklin St., S.F,
    To get on the speakers list call:
    415-241-6427, 241-6493 or 241-6000
    (For more info call: 415-824-8730)

    5) Op-Ed Columnist
    It Just Gets Worse
    By BOB HERBERT
    Published: July 11, 2005
    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/11/opinion/11herbert.html?hp

    6) Part-Time Forces on Active Duty Decline Steeply
    By ERIC SCHMITT and DAVID S. CLOUD
    Published: July 11, 2005
    "Eventually, the Pentagon could be forced to remobilize units
    that have already been deployed especially if recruiting
    problems persist, General Libby and other Guard officials
    said. That would require changing the 24-month limit, something
    the Pentagon says now it has no need to do. Military personnel
    experts say such a move would only worsen recruiting for the
    Guard and Reserve, which are both lagging behind their quotas
    for the year, although strong re-enlistments have offset some
    of the recruiting slump....For Pentagon planners, the main
    focus of concern is the Army National Guard and Reserve, which
    currently have 115,645 troops mobilized, or about 84 percent
    of all reserve forces activated worldwide."
    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/11/politics/
    11reserves.html?ei=5094&en=bdef14b7f08346e6&hp=&ex=1121140800&adxnnl=1
    &partner=homepage&adxnnlx=1121100417-4gI5MgdvJcxq7ckIztz9mw

    7) Israeli Barrier in Jerusalem Will Cut Off 55,000 Arabs
    By GREG MYRE
    Published: July 11, 2005
    "JERUSALEM, July 10 - Israel's separation barrier in Jerusalem
    will cut off 55,000 Palestinian residents from the rest of the
    city, Israeli officials acknowledged Sunday. Palestinians
    responded sharply, saying they will face daily complications
    in reaching jobs, schools and hospitals."
    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/11/international/middleeast/11mideast.html

    8) Cancer Drugs Offer Hope,
    but at a Huge Expense
    By ALEX BERENSON
    Published: July 12, 2005
    "Ten thousand dollars once seemed a lot to pay for
    a few months' supply of a drug... But they are all highly expensive,
    up to $100,000 for a course of treatment that lasts a few months.
    That is hundreds of times the cost of older, more toxic cancer drugs,
    and several times the annual cost of AIDS drugs, whose prices
    caused widespread anger during the 1990's."
    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/12/business/
    12cancer.html?hp&ex=1121227200&en=7c40d71f337a6617&ei=5094&partner=ho
    mepage

    9) Man and Young Daughter Die
    in Shootout With Police
    By JOHN M. BRODER
    Published: July 12, 2005
    The child's mother, Lorena Lopez,
    said she had no doubt who fired the fatal shots.
    "The police killed my daughter,"
    Ms. Lopez said, tearfully and in Spanish,
    in the driveway of her green frame house
    on the corner of Avalon Boulevard and 104th Street.
    She said she had told the police during the crisis
    that Mr. Pena, from whom she is separated, was
    depressed about his failing business. "I told them
    he needed to be helped," she said.
    Ms. Lopez said that no one from the
    police department had contacted her to
    explain how her daughter died. "I want
    the police to pay for this," she said.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/12/national/12shooting.html

    10) From No Man's Land to Displacement
    Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches
    http://dahrjamailiraq.com
    by Dahr Jamail
    from Left Turn Magazine

    11) The Battle after the Battle
    By Les Blumenthal
    The News Tribune
    Sunday 10 July 2005
    Soldiers say military pushes them
    to discharge before medical needs are met.
    The day before his 22nd birthday,
    a bomb hanging from a tree along a road near
    Fallujah exploded above Rory Dunn's Humvee.
    Dunn's forehead was crushed from ear
    to ear, leaving his brain exposed.
    His right eye was destroyed by shrapnel;
    the left eye nearly so. His hearing
    was severely damaged.
    http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/071105X.shtml

    12) WHEN THEY SAY "AID", THEY MEAN "RAID"
    [Col. Writ. 6/13/05] Copyright 2005 Mumia Abu-Jamal

    13) UN Occupation Forces Carry Out Massacre
    of Poor in Port-au-Prince
    On Wednesday morning, July 6th, at approximately 3:00 AM, UN occupation
    forces in Haiti carried out a major military operation in the
    working-class neighborhood of Cite Soleil, one of the poorest in
    Port-au-Prince and also a stronghold of support for Haiti's majority
    political party Lavalas and President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Presumably,
    the purpose of the operation was to crack down on illegal "gang activity",
    in particular on "gang" leader Dread Wilme. In actuality, a US trade union
    and human rights delegation in Port-au-Prince discovered evidence of a
    massacre conducted by the UN forces, targeting the larger community
    itself.

    14) Indiana Hunger Strike Alert

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    1) HANDS OFF VENEZUELA SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA FILM
    SHOWING: 7:00 PM, FRIDAY JULY 15
    Center for Political Education
    522 Valencia, Third Floor,
    Near 16th Street, SF
    (not wheelchair accessible)
    Close the 16th Street BART
    $5/$3 Students, Seniors, Unemployed

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    2) SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE
    PRESENTS: "DOING GOOD"
    A play based loosely on the book, "Confessions
    of an Economic Hit Man", by John Perkins.
    JULY 16, PRECITA PARK
    MUSIC: 1:30 P.M.
    SHOW: 2:00 P.M.
    (This play is fresh, new, brilliantly performed,
    insightful, full of content, and the music is the
    icing on the cake!...BW)
    SPONSORED BY BAY AREA UNITED AGAINST WAR
    Help get the word out about the ballot proposition
    and upcoming antiwar events. Free antiwar posters!

    FREE!

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    3) BAUAW Benefit Presentation of Howard Zinn's
    one man show, MARX IN SOHO
    Starring Jerry Levy as Karl Marx
    Directed by Michael Fox Kennedy.
    Thursday, August 4, 7:00 p.m.
    Friday, August 5, 7:00 p.m.
    Saturday, August 6, 2:00 p.m.
    Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts
    1519 Mission Street between 11th Street
    and South Van Ness*

    Advance tickets: $10
    Door: $20.00
    Call:415-824-8730 or email: giobon@sbcglobal.net for
    Advance tickets.

    The premise of the play is that Marx dies yet he is
    able to see what's happening on earth for 100 years
    since his death in 1883. He is supposed to go back to
    Soho in London but, by mistake, is sent to Soho
    in New York and finds himself on stage before an
    audience. Imagine all Karl Marx would have to say
    after one hundred years of just being able to watch...

    The single actor in this one-man play is Jerry Levy,
    who has been teaching sociology at Marlboro College
    and been acting with the Actors' Theater of Brattleboro
    since he moved there from Chicago in 1975. Originally
    directed by Michael Fox Kennedy of the Actors' Theater,
    Levy has been on the road with Zinn's version of Karl
    Marx for a year, performing at benefits, colleges, small
    theaters and other venues around the state. At Middle
    Earth he was sponsored by the Bradford-based Coos Peace
    and Justice Alliance and performed free of charge but
    charged with mighty talent and a bottomless love of the play.

    WWW.BAUAW.ORG
    Contact person: Bonnie Weinstein 415-824-8730-office/home
    415-990-4237-cell

    *The Jon Sims Center is located at 1519 Mission Street
    (between 11th Street and South Van Ness), South of Market,
    San Francisco, CA 94103
    BY CAR:
    From the East Bay: Take 80 North then 101 North to the
    Mission Street exit. Stay on the right hand side of the exit.
    Turn right off the exit, and stay on Mission Street. The Jon
    Sims Center is two blocks past Van Ness, next to Firestone.

    From the South Bay: Take 101 North to the Mission Street
    Exit. Stay on the right hand side of the exit. Turn right off
    the exit, and stay on Mission Street. The Jon Sims Center
    is two blocks past Van Ness, next to Firestone.

    From the North Bay: Take 101 South to Lombard, make
    a right on Van Ness and then a left onto Mission. Jon Sims
    Center is two blocks past Van Ness, next to Firestone.

    Parking: Daytime parking is very difficult. We encourage
    day users to take public transportation. In the evening,
    street parking along Mission Street, Minna Street and
    11th Street is not horrible (in San Francisco terms) after
    6:00 PM, but the closer you are to 6:00 PM, the better
    your chances of finding parking. There is no parking
    along Mission between 4-6 PM, and you will be
    promptly towed.

    VIA BART/MUNI/SAMTRANS:
    Go to http://www.transitinfo.org for more information
    about Bay Area public transportation.

    BART: Take BART to the Civic Center station, then transfer
    to the outbound Muni J,K,L,M or N train. Exit at the next
    stop (Van Ness Station). Walk 1 block south, cross Mission,
    and the Jon Sims Center is next to Firestone.

    MUNI: The Jon Sims Center is 1 block south of the Van
    Ness Muni underground station, accessible from any Muni
    streetcar. Additionally, the 14 Mission, 42 Loop 49 and
    47 Van Ness bus stop at Mission and 11th Street, only
    1/2 block from the Jon Sims Center. Current Muni fare is $1.25.

    SamTrans: The SamTrans DX, KX, MX, NX, PX, RX and
    TX buses stops at Mission and 9th Streets. Walk three
    blocks west (towards Sutro tower) to reach the Jon Sims
    Center. Current SamTrans fare is $1.10. Please note that
    SamTrans buses to the City only run during rush hours.

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    4) Cut all Public School Ties to the Military!
    Speak up and Picket the S.F. Board of Education
    the Fourth Tuesday of Each Month.
    Next picket line: Tuesday, July 27, 6:30 P.M.-7:30 P.M.
    (The July Board of Ed. meetings have been cancelled. But we
    will still hold a picket July 27 at 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
    in front of the Board of Education building.)
    The next picket line after July 27 is August 23, 6:30 P.M.
    -7:30 P.M. (just before school starts back.)
    August 23, 6:30 p.m.-7:30 P.M.
    555 Franklin St., S.F,
    To get on the speakers list call:
    415-241-6427, 241-6493 or 241-6000
    (For more info call: 415-824-8730)

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    5) Op-Ed Columnist
    It Just Gets Worse
    By BOB HERBERT
    Published: July 11, 2005
    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/11/opinion/11herbert.html?hp

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    6) Part-Time Forces on Active Duty Decline Steeply
    By ERIC SCHMITT and DAVID S. CLOUD
    Published: July 11, 2005
    "Eventually, the Pentagon could be forced to remobilize units
    that have already been deployed especially if recruiting
    problems persist, General Libby and other Guard officials
    said. That would require changing the 24-month limit, something
    the Pentagon says now it has no need to do. Military personnel
    experts say such a move would only worsen recruiting for the
    Guard and Reserve, which are both lagging behind their quotas
    for the year, although strong re-enlistments have offset some
    of the recruiting slump....For Pentagon planners, the main
    focus of concern is the Army National Guard and Reserve, which
    currently have 115,645 troops mobilized, or about 84 percent
    of all reserve forces activated worldwide."
    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/11/politics/
    11reserves.html?ei=5094&en=bdef14b7f08346e6&hp=&ex=1121140800&adxnnl=1
    &partner=homepage&adxnnlx=1121100417-4gI5MgdvJcxq7ckIztz9mw

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    7) Israeli Barrier in Jerusalem Will Cut Off 55,000 Arabs
    By GREG MYRE
    Published: July 11, 2005
    "JERUSALEM, July 10 - Israel's separation barrier in Jerusalem
    will cut off 55,000 Palestinian residents from the rest of the
    city, Israeli officials acknowledged Sunday. Palestinians
    responded sharply, saying they will face daily complications
    in reaching jobs, schools and hospitals."
    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/11/international/middleeast/11mideast.html

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    8) Cancer Drugs Offer Hope,
    but at a Huge Expense
    By ALEX BERENSON
    Published: July 12, 2005
    "Ten thousand dollars once seemed a lot to pay for
    a few months' supply of a drug... But they are all highly expensive,
    up to $100,000 for a course of treatment that lasts a few months.
    That is hundreds of times the cost of older, more toxic cancer drugs,
    and several times the annual cost of AIDS drugs, whose prices
    caused widespread anger during the 1990's."
    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/12/business/
    12cancer.html?hp&ex=1121227200&en=7c40d71f337a6617&ei=5094&partner=ho
    mepage

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    9) Man and Young Daughter Die
    in Shootout With Police
    By JOHN M. BRODER
    Published: July 12, 2005
    The child's mother, Lorena Lopez,
    said she had no doubt who fired the fatal shots.
    "The police killed my daughter,"
    Ms. Lopez said, tearfully and in Spanish,
    in the driveway of her green frame house
    on the corner of Avalon Boulevard and 104th Street.
    She said she had told the police during the crisis
    that Mr. Pena, from whom she is separated, was
    depressed about his failing business. "I told them
    he needed to be helped," she said.
    Ms. Lopez said that no one from the
    police department had contacted her to
    explain how her daughter died. "I want
    the police to pay for this," she said.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/12/national/12shooting.html

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    10) From No Man's Land to Displacement
    Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches
    http://dahrjamailiraq.com
    by Dahr Jamail
    from Left Turn Magazine

    The Iraqi/Jordanian border is a land of desolation. Coils of razor wire
    stretch into the desert whilst sun-grayed plastic bags caught in their
    sharpness flap in the hot, dry winds. In No Man's Land, Jamail exposes
    yet another face of the human consequences of the US occupation of Iraq
    - the suffering and resistance of displaced Kurdish-Iranian and
    Palestinian refugees.

    Long columns of trucks wait at the Jordanian border to carry their loads
    of supplies into war-torn Iraq. When Iraqi drivers wish to enter Jordan,
    they now wait up to 18 days to be allowed in. The al-Karama border is a
    land of waiting, but not just for the truck drivers. There have been
    others waiting to enter Jordan for far longer. The refugee camp situated
    in this bleak area is called No Man's Land camp because it literally is
    just that: an area of land caught between the borders of two countries
    with nowhere else to go.

    "If you leave me here I will die," said the elderly Merza Shahawaz as he
    was groaning from the pain in his kidneys, "Please help me." In his tent
    covered with plastic sheeting inside the camp, his wife was helping him
    sit up. He cannot sit without her holding him up.

    "I ask you to help me. I plead for humanitarian people to help us now,"
    mumbled the 66 year-old man in dire need of dialysis. His family sitting
    nearby shed tears as they brushed flies away from their faces.

    His 42 year-old son pleaded, "We are all dying slowly here. You see us
    with your eyes, I ask for help. He is dying in front of his family's
    eyes but nobody is doing anything for him. We don't want our children's
    fate to be this. Death is better than this life. If our children grow up
    like this it means they are dead."

    It is one example of the suffering of so many in the camp of over 700
    people.

    *Hunger strike*

    Kurdish-Iranian refugees have a long history of suffering. Initially
    having left Iran under persecution from the government over 20 years
    ago, some of them were members of the Kurdish peshmerga militia who
    fought against fundamentalist Islamic rule and were lucky enough to
    escape with their lives. Many of them fled to Iraq, where the regime of
    Saddam Hussein placed them in the al-Tash refugee camp, located 80 miles
    west of Baghdad, which held over 12,000 Iranian Kurds.

    Many of these refugees, after the US-led invasion of Iraq in spring of
    2003, said they were threatened by armed groups and told they had to
    leave. Several refugees I interviewed in No Man's Land camp said they
    were instructed to leave Al-Tash by the US-backed Iraqi government.
    Palestinians, Iraqis, Jordanians and Syrian refugees were also in the mix.

    At the time of the invasion the Jordanian government agreed to provide
    temporary protection for Iraqis fleeing the fighting and chaos in their
    country. But when the Iranian-Kurds from Al-Tash camp reached the
    Jordanian border, they were denied access. Others were denied access
    because they lacked valid passports. Already burgeoning with refugees
    from Palestine and Iraq, the government of Jordan felt it had reached
    its limits and denied access to future refugees.

    While the local Jordanian Hashemite Charity Organization - with help
    from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), CARE
    International and other organizations - has been working to assist the
    refugees, it appears as though it is not enough.

    A tattered sheet tied to a chain-link fence which surrounds No Man's
    Land camp flittered in the wind. It read: "We Iranian Kurd refugees have
    gone on hunger strike because we have been paid no attention from UNHCR
    and they use demagogy policy towards our just issue and have not tended
    to our demand which is resettlement in third countries. Dying once is
    better than daily death."

    On the other side of the fence a tarp provides shade for 21 men who were
    on hunger strike, demanding more assistance from UNHCR.

    Omar Abdul Aziz, is 39 years old. He was living in Al-Anbar at Al-Tash
    camp near Ramadi before he came here. "We used to live 23 years at
    Al-Tash camp," he explained, "After the war the horrible security came.
    Due to the fact that the occupation forces didn't control the borders,
    Iranian intelligence came into Iraq and began raiding Al-Tash, so we had
    to leave."

    The soft spoken man, weak with hunger nine days into the strike, sat on
    a mat while he talked. "I am on hunger strike because UNHCR didn't do
    anything for us. This is not the right place for women and kids to live
    in, and we have an unknown future. We have no solution here, only moving
    from camp to camp, from desert to desert."

    Flies buzzed languidly about the faces of the downtrodden men in the
    tent as Aziz continued. "We don't want to go to Iraq because it is
    unstable and it is not our country. What has happened to us is due to
    the illegal American invasion of Iraq. We ask the American people,
    appealing to their humanity, to evacuate us from this horrible
    situation. We are the orphans of the international community. The
    international community has kept their mouths closed about us, and
    especially the Americans."

    Others spoke of spending over two years in the horrible conditions of
    the camp where snakes, sandstorms and scorpions are a daily reality as
    they languish in tents seeking shelter from the scorching desert sun.

    "We are depressed and we are dying here," Zaman Shakary told me. The
    frustration of the 45 year-old man was vented in anger towards UNHCR.
    "Condoleeza Rice goes and shakes hands with Barzani, but does nothing
    for us here. I have given an order that if I lose consciousness 10 times
    I will continue my hunger strike if UNHCR does not respond and help us.
    Humans cannot live this way."

    Most of the refugees were asking for resettlement, but not necessarily
    to another refugee camp. "We are asking for resettlement in another
    country. I have been on hunger strike for 9 days, and my demands are
    that if I die it is for life, I do not live for death," said Suwady
    Rashat. The 43 year-old added, "I want to tell the American people that
    the Iraqi government deprived us of what we need, and it is because of
    the invasion which has not truly benefited Iraqis."

    Nearby sat a 6 year-old boy with a lost, sad look on his face,
    antagonized by flies. "I am here because my father is on hunger strike
    for 9 days now," he told me, "Please, someone needs to help us here."

    Another man in the camp, Hassan Sadiq, lived in the US for a year before
    the recent invasion. He returned to Iraq just before the invasion, then
    fled to No Man's Land Camp as chaos engulfed Iraq. Prior to his time in
    America, Sadiq had fled Iran because of his Human Rights advocacy
    against the regime there. He had initially spent time in the nearby
    Ruwaished camp - another refugee camp an hours drive into Jordan - where
    he went on hunger strike for 36 days in protest of UNHCR, who according
    to him, were not doing enough to assist him from being extradited back
    to Iran.

    "Now UNHCR wants to close this camp and put us back in Ruwaished. When I
    was there I was under constant threat of being extradited back to Iraq.
    Now I'm concerned they will transfer us back to Ruwaished, which is
    nothing but a jail in the desert." His situation is reflective of many
    others in the camp. "I would like to say to the American government that
    I remember George Bush says he is fighting for freedom. But by God, here
    I need freedom and they have forgotten us. The US has been ignoring us
    since 1974. The American government is responsible for us being here,
    because we are displaced because of the war."

    The camp was fraught with health problems - without enough clean water
    or medical care, diarrhea, minor respiratory problems, sore eyes, and
    dehydration abound. Many people tell me they have trouble breathing when
    sandstorms hit, which is several times each week.

    In another tent a man told me his 13 year old son was killed on the road
    by a passing truck. His wife aborted her fetus when fighting broke out
    near the Iraqi border several months ago. There have been problems in
    the camp, aside from the aforementioned health and depression symptoms.
    The hunger strike was aimed at UNHCR for not doing enough to help them;
    however, UNHCR recently managed to move the entire camp into Jordan.
    *
    Dismal Place*

    On May 29, with the assistance of the Jordanian Hashemite Charity
    Organization and CARE International, UNHCR moved the 743 residents of No
    Man's Land camp to the Ruwaished refugee camp. The long struggle to
    obtain permission from the Jordanian government ended with the agreement
    that UNHCR would vigorously pursue further solutions for the refugees,
    who were moved in three convoys.

    Jaqueline Parleviet is the Senior Protections Officer for UNHCR in
    Amman, Jordan. "The hunger strike ended because of the move," Parleviet
    noted. "All of the refugees I spoke with were happy to be moved. The
    problems and resistance we encountered inside the camp went away when we
    moved them."

    UNHCR is now pursuing the solutions of either voluntary return or
    resettlement to another country for each refugee in the Ruwaished camp,
    which is now filled with about 880 refugees. Yet Ruwaished camp, while
    at least sitting inside a country, still remains a dismal place. There
    are no trees in sight of the wire fence enclosed spot in the middle of
    the desert.

    While there are some improvements - residents can leave for short
    shopping trips in nearby Ruwaished, CARE international is providing some
    vocational training and schooling, and the Jordanian Hashemite Charity
    Organization is providing food, stoves, water and other necessities -
    the mood remains quite bleak.

    Rahma Shaban left Palestine in 1948. Under the intense midday sun, she
    told me of having to leave Iraq because of the horrible security
    situation after the invasion. "Baghdad is a great place," she added,
    "But I must have security for my children." Other refugees blame the new
    Iraqi government for there difficulties. "I can't blame Iraqis for our
    problems," said Donia Baltergy, "I blame these Iraqis who came with the
    invaders."

    She began to cry as she continued to discuss her situation in the camp.
    "It's difficult for us to live in this harsh place," she said while
    holding her hands out while she pleads, "We've been sitting here for two
    years. They don't let us go out, they don't like for us to talk to the
    press, they don't give us rights to do anything."

    Like the former No Man's Land camp, the Ruwaished camp is plagued with
    sandstorms and scorpions, and the residents continue to endure health
    problems and cope with ongoing depression. There was little hope for
    change when I visited, and many refugees expressed discontent towards
    UNHCR and other organizations for not doing more to assist them.

    According to Parleviet, some of the Somali and Sundanese refugees were
    resettled in the US and Australia, along with 387 Iranian Kurds
    previously moved to Sweden. "We have cases pending now for the UK and
    Ireland," she added. Yet despite small instances of success, the
    refugees recently relocated from No Man's Land are now united with 133
    other displaced people in the middle of the desert, close to one of the
    worst conflict zones on the planet today.

    Discontent towards what has become of Iraq, the country most of these
    people love and had to leave, continues to be vented at the US. Standing
    in front of a small brown tent used to teach women health classes, Rahma
    Shaban exclaimed through tears, "The Americans said they were coming to
    help Iraqis. Now we see their lies, proven by the fact that they have
    done nothing but cause us pain, suffering, and erased our future and the
    futures of our children."

    And until their situation is changed, these feelings will most likely
    persist.

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    11) The Battle after the Battle
    By Les Blumenthal
    The News Tribune
    Sunday 10 July 2005
    Soldiers say military pushes them to discharge before medical needs are met.
    The day before his 22nd birthday, a bomb hanging from a tree along a road near
    Fallujah exploded above Rory Dunn's Humvee.
    Dunn's forehead was crushed from ear to ear, leaving his brain exposed.
    His right eye was destroyed by shrapnel; the left eye nearly so. His hearing
    was severely damaged.
    http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/071105X.shtml

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    12) WHEN THEY SAY "AID", THEY MEAN "RAID"
    [Col. Writ. 6/13/05] Copyright 2005 Mumia Abu-Jamal

    Recently, the news columns were full of a supposed dispute
    between the Americans and the British about foreign aid relief
    to Africa. If the news reports are to be believed, the British
    wish to push the Americans further, to provide more debt relief
    for countries staggering under their economic burdens.

    The media image that arises is one of the rich, Western, White
    nations caring about the lives and conditions of starving Black
    Africa. And like many media images, it simply isn't true.

    What is often lost in this angelic imagery is the truth behind
    the so-called aid. That 'aid' that was given years ago, was given
    to military dictatorships, and it was often military aid meant
    to strengthen dictatorships, against, not foreign attacks, but
    popular resistance, from their own people!

    Indeed, in a 1960 meeting of the U.S. National Security Council,
    American spies and diplomats spoke rather openly about U.S.
    support for military regimes. The minutes of the meeting
    record them saying:

    We must recognize, although we cannot say it publicly, that
    we need the strong men of Africa on our side. It is important
    to understand that most of Africa will soon be independent and
    that it would be naive of the U.S. to hope that Africa will
    be democratic ... Since we must have the strong men of Africa
    on our side, perhaps we should in some cases develop military
    strong men as an offset to Communist development of the labor
    unions. The President agreed that it might be desirable for
    us to try to 'reach' the strong men of Africa ...
    [Fr. NSA mtg., 1/14/60 as published in *Foreign Relations,
    1958-1960, Vol. XIV*, pp. 73-78.]

    From meetings such as this, came US 'aid' to such dictators
    as Zaire's late Mobutu, who was among one of the wealthiest
    men in Africa, if not the world. Through 'African strong men'
    such as he, the U.S. ran many countries as neocolonies, through
    which they could further exploit the people of the continent.

    The late U.S. President, Richard Nixon, spoke a powerful
    political truth when he said: "Let us remember that the main
    purpose of aid is *not to help other nations* but to help
    ourselves." [Fr. Graham Hancock, *Lords of Poverty*
    (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989, p. 71].

    Think about it this way: when millions of dollars in military
    aid is given to a dictatorship, where does the money go? To
    the receiving country, or to the arms dealers and defense
    contractors which makes the weapons? So, how is this 'aid'?

    It's aid to ourselves to arm forces that keep their own people
    in line. Also, since at least the 1970s, U.S. food aid has
    been tied to the myth of population control. In order to receive
    'aid' from the nice, White, West -- African, Latin American and
    Asian countries have had to pledge they would reduce their
    populations.

    Why would countries that are agricultural gardens of Eden
    even need food aid? That's because, after formal colonialism,
    Western powers often installed military dictators who spent
    the nation's resources on weapons used to break and destroy
    labor unions! A 1986 study by the National Academy of Sciences
    found that the single country of Zaire, alone, could feed it's
    own population -- 62 times over! Indeed, that one country,
    with high agricultural outputs, could feed the entire
    continent of Africa!

    But, under the rapacious U.S. -supported military dictatorship
    of Mobutu, much of that agricultural potential, and it's vast
    wealth of resources, was squandered, and sent into Belgian
    and European banks.

    The late, great Kwame Nkrumah said 'political independence,
    without economic independence, is but a mirage.'

    The sweet words of 'aid' muttered by British and American
    officials to Africa is to lull the people asleep with promises.

    It is, in truth, yet another plan to exploit people who have
    been exploited by outsiders for millennia.

    True 'aid' is reparations, for the crimes of colonialism.

    Real 'aid' would be an end to the support of military regimes.

    Real 'aid' would be an end to political, economic, and social
    interference in the social, cultural and familial affairs of
    African people.

    Real 'aid' would be an end to imperialism!

    Copyright 2005 Mumia Abu-Jamal

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    13) UN Occupation Forces Carry Out Massacre
    of Poor in Port-au-Prince
    On Wednesday morning, July 6th, at approximately 3:00 AM, UN occupation
    forces in Haiti carried out a major military operation in the
    working-class neighborhood of Cite Soleil, one of the poorest in
    Port-au-Prince and also a stronghold of support for Haiti's majority
    political party Lavalas and President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Presumably,
    the purpose of the operation was to crack down on illegal "gang activity",
    in particular on "gang" leader Dread Wilme. In actuality, a US trade union
    and human rights delegation in Port-au-Prince discovered evidence of a
    massacre conducted by the UN forces, targeting the larger community
    itself.

    According to accounts from many different members of the community, many
    of whom chose to remain anonymous, as well as from journalists who were on
    the scene during the operation, UN forces surrounded two neighborhoods
    within Cite Soleil, Boisneuf and Project Drouillard, sealing off the
    alleys with tanks and troops.

    Two helicopters flew overhead. At 4:30 AM, UN forces launched the
    offensive, shooting into houses, shacks, a church, and a school with
    machine guns, tank fire, and tear gas. Eyewitnesses reported that when
    people fled to escape the tear gas, UN troops gunned them down from the
    back.

    UN forces shot out electric transformers in the neighborhood. People were
    killed in their homes and also just outside of their homes, on the way to
    work. According to journalists and eyewitnesses, one man named Leon
    Cherry, age 46, was shot and killed on his way to work for a flower
    company. Another man, Mones Belizaire, was shot as he got ready to go work
    in a local sweatshop and subsequently died from a stomach infection. A
    woman who was a street vendor was shot in the head and killed instantly.

    One man was shot in his ribs while he was trying to brush his teeth.
    Another man was shot in the jaw as he left his house to try and get some
    money for his wife's medical costs; he endured a slow death.Yet another
    man named Mira was shot and killed while urinating in his home.

    A mother, Sena Romelus, and her two young children were killed in their
    home, either by bullets or by a 83-CC grenade UN forces threw. Film
    footage of many of these deaths was shared with the US human rights
    delegation. Eyewitnesses claimed that the offensive overwhelmed the
    community and that there was not a "firefight", but rather a slaughter.
    The operation was primarily conducted by UN forces, with the Haitian
    National Police this time taking a back seat.

    Seth Donnelly, a member of the US human rights delegation in
    Port-au-Prince, visited Cite Soleil with Haitian human rights workers on
    Thursday afternoon, July 7th. The team gathered testimony from many
    members of the community, young and old, men, women, and youth. All
    verified the previous statements we had received from journalists and
    other eyewitness accounts.

    These community members spoke of how they had been surrounded by tanks and
    troops that sealed off exits from the neighborhoods and then proceeded to
    assault the civilian population. The community allowed the team to film
    the evidence of the massacre, showing the homes -- in some cases made of
    tin and cardboard -- that had been riddled by bullets, tank fire and
    helicopter ammunition, as well as showing the team some of the corpses
    still there, including a mother and her two children.

    The team also filmed a church and a school that had been riddled by
    ammunition. Reportedly, a preacher was among the victims killed. Some
    community members allowed the team to interview them, but not to film
    their faces for fear of their lives. People were traumutized and, in the
    cases of loved ones of victims, hysterical.

    Many community members -- again young and old, men and women -- spoke
    highly of Dread Wilme, referring to him as their "protector" or "father",
    and expressed fear for the future. One member said that he heard that
    another UN operation against the community was planned for later Thursday
    night or early Friday morning.

    Multiple community people indicated that they had counted at least 23
    bodies of people killed by the UN forces. Community members claimed that
    UN forces had taken away some of the bodies. Published estimates indicate
    that upwards of 50 may have been killed and an indeterminate number
    wounded, and that more than 300 heavily armed UN troops took part in the
    assault on this densely populated residential neighborhood.

    "There was systematic firing on civilians," said one eyewitness to the
    killing. "All exits were cut off. The community was choked off,
    surrounded -- facing tanks coming from different angles, and overhead,
    helicopters with machine guns fired down on the people. The citizens were
    under attack from all sides and from the air. It was war on a community."

    The Labor/Human Rights Delegation from the United States, initiated by the
    San Francisco Labor Council, had been in Haiti since late last month to
    attend the Congress of the Confederation of Haitian Workers (CTH), the
    country's largest labor organization, and met with hundreds of Haitian
    workers, farmers and professionals about the current labor and human
    rights situation in Haiti.

    For more info and updates, visit http://www.haitiaction.net/

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    14) Indiana Hunger Strike Alert

    On July 1, 2005 the Indiana Department of Corrections partnered with a
    private food provider called Aramark Food Services. This company
    originates from Kentucky and they are completely violating the rights of
    prisoners. Aramark immediately dropped all religious diets for Muslim
    prisoners and prisoners who are vegetarian according to their respective
    religions. The meals are disproportionately lacking, and the trays have
    been reduced to 90 cent servings. They would insult an infant child.

    In the spirit of exposing what is occurring by this new food provider,
    several prisoners are forced to participate in a collective hunger
    strike. Indiana Political Prisoner Brotha Khalfani Malik Khaldun is one of
    those prisoners who has stepped up to make this sacrifice for other
    prisoners who lack such discipline to endure a hunger strike. Your help is
    needed, they need your help to bring attention to this food problem that is
    affecting the entire prison population at the Secured Housing Unit in
    Indiana. We are calling on you who read this message to protest these
    conditions and express your concerns about the health of the
    prisoners. Khalfani needs our help. The following people can be called,
    e-mailed or written on behalf of the hungerstrikers.

    State officials:

    J. David Donahue (Commissioner)

    Indiana Department of Corrections I.G.C. South

    302 W. Washington St.

    Indianapolis, Indiana 46204-2738

    Phone: (317) 232-5111 or fax (317) 232-6798

    e-mail junderwood@coa.doc.state.in.us

    United States Senator

    Evan Bayh

    1650 Market Tower

    10 W. Market St.

    Indianapolis, Indiana 46204

    (317) 554-0750

    Indiana Ombudsman Bureau

    Charlene A. Navarro

    Indiana Gov. Center South

    402 W. Washington St. Rm. W479

    Indianapolis, Indiana 46204

    (317) 234-3190

    e-mail ombud@idoa.in.gov

    Governor of Indiana

    Mitchell Daniels

    Office of the Governor

    State House Rm. 206

    200 W. Washington St.

    Indianapolis, Indiana 46204-2797

    Phone: (317) 232-4567

    Fax: (317) 232-3443

    Pam Pattison

    Prison Spokeswoman

    Ind. Dept. of Corrections I.G.C. South

    302 W. Washington St.

    Indianapolis, Indiana 46204-2738

    Phone: (317) 232-5111

    Fax: (317) 232-6798

    e-mail ppattison@coa.doc.state.in.us

    These officials must be pressured to do what
    is right. Demand that
    Khalfani be transferred to another
    facility. We thank you all for your
    help and comradely support.
    Letters can be sent to Khalfani Malik Khaldun at:

    Brotha Khalfani Malik Khaldun

    (Leonard McQuay) #874304 B-302

    P.O. Box 1111

    Carlisle, In. 47838

    The names of those on the strike are:

    1- Khalfani Malik Khaldun #874304

    2- Billy M. Russell #998136

    3- Andre Kirby #112879

    4- William Rose #885833

    5- Chris Davis #951914

    6- Micheal Estep #861345

    7- Micheal Woods #911570

    Announce mailing list
    Announce@onepalestine.org
    http://mail.onepalestine.org/mailman/listinfo/announce_onepalestine.org

    Letter in response from Bonnie Weinstein:

    Dear Commissioner Donahue and all concerned,

    The State has no right to starve prisoners. Feeding pork
    to a Muslim or a Jew is disregarding the right to worship
    according to one's own beliefs-that is denying freedom of
    religion. Everyone in this country has that right whether
    you are a prisoner or not.

    Vegetarians also have the right to not eat meat. Even
    prisoners have the right to remain healthy and alive.

    It is not as if these food issues are difficult to deal
    with. These food requirements are simple and inexpensive.
    So the only real explanation for not abiding by them is
    because of prejudice against these beliefs by you who
    are in control. These are not animals in a cage. These
    prisoners are human beings. Some of them are even innocent
    of the crimes they have been convicted of. Surely you
    realize this statistical probability?

    Allow each prisoner these basic human rights.

    Yours truly,

    Bonnie Weinstein, Bay Area United Against War (www.bauaw.org)
    San Francisco, California


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    Sunday, July 10, 2005
     

    BAUAW NEWSLETTER-SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2005

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    BAUAW Benefit Presentation of Howard Zinn's
    one man show, MARX IN SOHO
    Starring Jerry Levy as Karl Marx
    Directed by Michael Fox Kennedy.
    Thursday, August 4, 7:00 p.m.
    Friday, August 5, 7:00 p.m.
    Saturday,August 6, 2:00 p.m.
    Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts
    1519 Mission Street between 11th Street
    and South Van Ness*

    Advance tickets: $10
    Door: $20.00
    Call:415-824-8730 or email: giobon@sbcglobal.net for
    Advance tickets.

    The premise of the play is that Marx dies yet he is
    able to see what's happening on earth for 100 years
    since his death in 1883. He is supposed to go back to
    Soho in London but, by mistake, is sent to Soho
    in New York and finds himself on stage before an
    audience. Imagine all Karl Marx would have to say
    after one hundred years of just being able to watch...

    The single actor in this one-man play is Jerry Levy,
    who has been teaching sociology at Marlboro College
    and been acting with the Actors' Theater of Brattleboro
    since he moved there from Chicago in 1975. Originally
    directed by Michael Fox Kennedy of the Actors' Theater,
    Levy has been on the road with Zinn's version of Karl
    Marx for a year, performing at benefits, colleges, small
    theaters and other venues around the state. At Middle
    Earth he was sponsored by the Bradford-based Coos Peace
    and Justice Alliance and performed free of charge but
    charged with mighty talent and a bottomless love of the play.

    WWW.BAUAW.ORG
    (FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL: 415-824-8730)

    *The Jon Sims Center is located at 1519 Mission Street
    (between 11th Street and South Van Ness), South of Market,
    San Francisco, CA 94103

    BY CAR:
    From the East Bay: Take 80 North then 101 North to the
    Mission Street exit. Stay on the right hand side of the exit.
    Turn right off the exit, and stay on Mission Street. The Jon
    Sims Center is two blocks past Van Ness, next to Firestone.

    From the South Bay: Take 101 North to the Mission Street
    Exit. Stay on the right hand side of the exit. Turn right off
    the exit, and stay on Mission Street. The Jon Sims Center
    is two blocks past Van Ness, next to Firestone.

    From the North Bay: Take 101 South to Lombard, make
    a right on Van Ness and then a left onto Mission. Jon Sims
    Center is two blocks past Van Ness, next to Firestone.

    Parking: Daytime parking is very difficult. We encourage
    day users to take public transportation. In the evening,
    street parking along Mission Street, Minna Street and
    11th Street is not horrible (in San Francisco terms) after
    6:00 PM, but the closer you are to 6:00 PM, the better
    your chances of finding parking. There is no parking
    along Mission between 4-6 PM, and you will be
    promptly towed.

    VIA BART/MUNI/SAMTRANS:
    Go to http://www.transitinfo.org for more information
    about Bay Area public transportation.

    BART: Take BART to the Civic Center station, then transfer
    to the outbound Muni J,K,L,M or N train. Exit at the next
    stop (Van Ness Station). Walk 1 block south, cross Mission,
    and the Jon Sims Center is next to Firestone.

    MUNI: The Jon Sims Center is 1 block south of the Van
    Ness Muni underground station, accessible from any Muni
    streetcar. Additionally, the 14 Mission, 42 Loop 49 and
    47 Van Ness bus stop at Mission and 11th Street, only
    1/2 block from the Jon Sims Center. Current Muni fare is $1.25.

    SamTrans: The SamTrans DX, KX, MX, NX, PX, RX and
    TX buses stops at Mission and 9th Streets. Walk three
    blocks west (towards Sutro tower) to reach the Jon Sims
    Center. Current SamTrans fare is $1.10. Please note that
    SamTrans buses to the City only run during rush hours.

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    Check out these anti-recruitment websites:
    www.draftresistance.org
    www.mothersagainstthedraft.org
    Check out this Doonesbury:
    http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/

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    Cut all Public School Ties to the Military!
    Speak up and Picket the S.F. Board of Education
    the Fourth Tuesday of Each Month.
    Next picket line: Tuesday, July 27, 6:30 P.M.-7:30 P.M.
    (The July Board of Ed. meetings have been cancelled. But we
    will still hold a picket July 27 at 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
    in front of the Board of Education building.)
    The next picket line after July 27 is August 23, 6:30 P.M.
    -7:30 P.M. (just before school starts back.)
    August 23, 6:30 p.m.-7:30 P.M.
    555 Franklin St., S.F,
    To get on the speakers list call:
    415-241-6427, 241-6493 or 241-6000
    (For more info call: 415-824-8730)

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    1) HANDS OFF VENEZUELA SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA FILM
    SHOWING: 7:00 PM, FRIDAY JULY 15
    Center for Political Education
    522 Valencia, Third Floor,
    Near 16th Street, SF
    (not wheelchair accessible)
    Close the 16th Street BART
    $5/$3 Students, Seniors, Unemployed

    2) SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE
    PRESENTS: "DOING GOOD"
    A play based loosely on the book, "Confessions
    of an Economic Hit Man", by John Perkins.
    JULY 16, PRECITA PARK
    MUSIC: 1:30 P.M.
    SHOW: 2:00 P.M.
    (This play is fresh, new, brilliantly performed,
    insightful, full of content, and the music is the
    icing on the cake!...BW)
    SPONSORED BY BAY AREA UNITED AGAINST WAR
    Help get the word out about the ballot proposition
    and upcoming antiwar events. Free antiwar posters!

    FREE!

    3) BAUAW Benefit Presentation of Howard Zinn's
    one man show, MARX IN SOHO
    Starring Jerry Levy as Karl Marx
    Directed by Michael Fox Kennedy.
    Thursday, August 4, 7:00 p.m.
    Friday, August 5, 7:00 p.m.
    Saturday, August 6, 2:00 p.m.
    Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts
    1519 Mission Street between 11th Street
    and South Van Ness*
    Advance tickets: $10
    Door: $20.00
    Call:415-824-8730 or email: giobon@sbcglobal.net for
    Advance tickets.

    4) Editorial
    Judith Miller Goes to Jail
    Published: July 7, 2005
    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/07/opinion/07thu1.html?hp

    5) Iranian-born LA filmmaker detained in Iraq by U.S. military
    JEREMIAH MARQUEZ
    Associated Press
    http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/12069728.htm

    6) Action Alert: Organize July 23 "Downing Street Memo"
    Anniversary Events

    7) Reflections on the London bombs
    Tony Hartin t.hartin@qmul.ac

    8) US military reprisal in Afghanistan
    kills 17 civilians
    By Peter Symonds
    8 July 2005
    http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/afgh-j08.shtml

    9) A CALL FOR A COUNTER-RECRUITMENT CONTINGENT IN THE
    SEPTEMBER 24th PROTESTS IN WASHINGTON D.C. AND SAN FRANCISCO
    MILITARY RECRUITERS OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS!
    U.S . TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ!

    10) Israelis unleash Scream at protest
    New weapon knocks crowds off feet
    Sound blast triggers nausea, dizziness
    MITCH POTTER
    MIDDLE EAST BUREAU
    "JERUSALEM-The knees buckle, the brain aches, the stomach
    turns. And suddenly, nobody feels like protesting anymore."
    Jun. 6, 2005. 07:15 AM
    http://www.torstarreports.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/
    Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1118009416402&call_pageid=970599119419

    11) Permits obtained for September 24!

    12) A Call for a Unity from the Virginia Anti-War Network

    13)Call For A United Antiwar Movement - We Must All March
    Together on September 24!
    [For individuals and organizations wishing to sign this
    statement, please see below.]

    14) The Price of Occupation
    By Tariq Ali
    Friday July 8, 2005
    The Guardian
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1523821,00.html?gusrc=rss

    15) Lest We Forget; These Were Blair's Bombs
    By John Pilger
    t r u t h o u t | Perspective
    Sunday 10 July 2005
    http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/071005X.shtml

    16) JROTC EXPANSION 2001
    There are currently 716 schools waiting for approval
    of JROTC programs.
    Why Question the Military's JROTC Program?
    http://awol.objector.org/jrotc.html

    17) SSP Research, Policy & Media Unit
    SSP statement on London bombings
    07/07/05

    18) London Hit as Skepticism Grows on 'Terror War'
    by Jim Lobe
    Published on Friday, July 8, 2005 by Inter Press Service
    http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0708-04.htm

    19) Join the Farm workers march against Gallo... Sunday July 17:
    United Farm Workers Rally and March. Come show your support
    for the UFW struggle against Gallo and our appreciation for UFW's
    support for queers over the years. How well I remember Cesar
    Chavez speaking at the 1987 National March on Washington,
    I was on the press flatbed and got some pics of him for the
    Philly Gay News, even got to shake his hand...now our shared
    history of supporting each other (my GLF group in the early 70s
    supported the grape boycott) is being raised to another level...
    queers are making a special effort to be visible in Sunday's
    march...please let me know if you can join us. I am trying to
    recruit 25 people...
    The March assembles at 11:30 in Dolores Park.
    nos vemos Domingo!
    Si se puede!
    tommi
    Mecca44@aol.com

    20) THE CONSTITUTION & "DEEP THROAT"
    [Col. Writ. 6/4/05] Copyright 2005 Mumia Abu-Jamal

    21) Terrorism, "The War on Terror" and the Message of Carnage
    By Norman Solomon
    t r u t h o u t | Perspective
    Saturday 09 July 2005
    http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/070905X.shtml

    22) Are You a Survivor of Police Brutality?
    Come to a Free Workshop & Legal Clinic
    WHEN: Thursday July 28, 2005 5:30-7:30pm
    WHERE: Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
    344 40th Street (at Broadway) Oakland, CA 94609
    (6 blocks from MacArthur BART)

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    1) HANDS OFF VENEZUELA SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA FILM
    SHOWING: 7:00 PM, FRIDAY JULY 15
    Center for Political Education
    522 Valencia, Third Floor,
    Near 16th Street, SF
    (not wheelchair accessible)
    Close the 16th Street BART
    $5/$3 Students, Seniors, Unemployed

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    2) SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE
    PRESENTS: "DOING GOOD"
    A play based loosely on the book, "Confessions
    of an Economic Hit Man", by John Perkins.
    JULY 16, PRECITA PARK
    MUSIC: 1:30 P.M.
    SHOW: 2:00 P.M.
    (This play is fresh, new, brilliantly performed,
    insightful, full of content, and the music is the
    icing on the cake!...BW)
    SPONSORED BY BAY AREA UNITED AGAINST WAR
    Help get the word out about the ballot proposition
    and upcoming antiwar events. Free antiwar posters!

    FREE!

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    3) BAUAW Benefit Presentation of Howard Zinn's
    one man show, MARX IN SOHO
    Starring Jerry Levy as Karl Marx
    Directed by Michael Fox Kennedy.
    Thursday, August 4, 7:00 p.m.
    Friday, August 5, 7:00 p.m.
    Saturday, August 6, 2:00 p.m.
    Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts
    1519 Mission Street between 11th Street
    and South Van Ness*

    Advance tickets: $10
    Door: $20.00
    Call:415-824-8730 or email: giobon@sbcglobal.net for
    Advance tickets.

    The premise of the play is that Marx dies yet he is
    able to see what's happening on earth for 100 years
    since his death in 1883. He is supposed to go back to
    Soho in London but, by mistake, is sent to Soho
    in New York and finds himself on stage before an
    audience. Imagine all Karl Marx would have to say
    after one hundred years of just being able to watch...

    The single actor in this one-man play is Jerry Levy,
    who has been teaching sociology at Marlboro College
    and been acting with the Actors' Theater of Brattleboro
    since he moved there from Chicago in 1975. Originally
    directed by Michael Fox Kennedy of the Actors' Theater,
    Levy has been on the road with Zinn's version of Karl
    Marx for a year, performing at benefits, colleges, small
    theaters and other venues around the state. At Middle
    Earth he was sponsored by the Bradford-based Coos Peace
    and Justice Alliance and performed free of charge but
    charged with mighty talent and a bottomless love of the play.

    WWW.BAUAW.ORG
    Contact person: Bonnie Weinstein 415-824-8730-office/home
    415-990-4237-cell

    *The Jon Sims Center is located at 1519 Mission Street
    (between 11th Street and South Van Ness), South of Market,
    San Francisco, CA 94103

    BY CAR:
    From the East Bay: Take 80 North then 101 North to the
    Mission Street exit. Stay on the right hand side of the exit.
    Turn right off the exit, and stay on Mission Street. The Jon
    Sims Center is two blocks past Van Ness, next to Firestone.

    From the South Bay: Take 101 North to the Mission Street
    Exit. Stay on the right hand side of the exit. Turn right off
    the exit, and stay on Mission Street. The Jon Sims Center
    is two blocks past Van Ness, next to Firestone.

    From the North Bay: Take 101 South to Lombard, make
    a right on Van Ness and then a left onto Mission. Jon Sims
    Center is two blocks past Van Ness, next to Firestone.

    Parking: Daytime parking is very difficult. We encourage
    day users to take public transportation. In the evening,
    street parking along Mission Street, Minna Street and
    11th Street is not horrible (in San Francisco terms) after
    6:00 PM, but the closer you are to 6:00 PM, the better
    your chances of finding parking. There is no parking
    along Mission between 4-6 PM, and you will be
    promptly towed.

    VIA BART/MUNI/SAMTRANS:
    Go to http://www.transitinfo.org for more information
    about Bay Area public transportation.

    BART: Take BART to the Civic Center station, then transfer
    to the outbound Muni J,K,L,M or N train. Exit at the next
    stop (Van Ness Station). Walk 1 block south, cross Mission,
    and the Jon Sims Center is next to Firestone.

    MUNI: The Jon Sims Center is 1 block south of the Van
    Ness Muni underground station, accessible from any Muni
    streetcar. Additionally, the 14 Mission, 42 Loop 49 and
    47 Van Ness bus stop at Mission and 11th Street, only
    1/2 block from the Jon Sims Center. Current Muni fare is $1.25.

    SamTrans: The SamTrans DX, KX, MX, NX, PX, RX and
    TX buses stops at Mission and 9th Streets. Walk three
    blocks west (towards Sutro tower) to reach the Jon Sims
    Center. Current SamTrans fare is $1.10. Please note that
    SamTrans buses to the City only run during rush hours.

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    4) Editorial
    Judith Miller Goes to Jail
    Published: July 7, 2005
    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/07/opinion/07thu1.html?hp

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    5) Iranian-born LA filmmaker detained in Iraq by U.S. military
    JEREMIAH MARQUEZ
    Associated Press
    http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/12069728.htm

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    6) Action Alert: Organize July 23 "Downing Street Memo"
    Anniversary Events

    Millions of people in the United States still don't know about
    the Downing Street Memo, a secret British government document
    that provides new and compelling evidence that the Bush
    Administration deceived and misled the U.S. Congress and
    the American people about the basis for going to war against
    Iraq. If true, this conduct constitutes a High Crime under the
    U.S. Constitution and could provide grounds for the impeachment
    of the president.

    We must insist that our Congressional representatives and the
    U.S. media investigate and report the truth about the Downing
    Street Memo and hold the Bush administration accountable for
    its actions.

    Saturday, July 23 is the three-year anniversary of the meeting
    between high-level U.S. and British officials that the Downing
    Street Memo summarizes. According to the memo, "Military
    action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam,
    through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism
    and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed
    around the policy."

    Is the U.S. public is ever to learn about the existence of
    the Downing Street Memo, it will be because we-the people who
    opposed the war from the very beginning-shine a spotlight on
    it through our actions and persistence. Please join United
    for Peace and Justice by taking action on July 23.

    TAKE ACTION - ORGANIZE TOWN HALL MEETINGS AND HOUSE PARTIES
    ON SATURDAY, JULY 23

    Several Congress Members have agreed to host events in their
    home districts on July 23, the third anniversary of the famous
    meeting on Downing Street. On that day, all over the country,
    there will be town hall meetings, dramatic readings of the
    Downing Street Minutes, study circles, and house parties.
    Congressman John Conyers and others will be on a conference
    call that people at house parties can call into from their
    events.

    Please join UFPJ, the After Downing Street Coalition
    (which includes many UFPJ member groups), and others
    in hosting and attending events on July 23.

    We hope you and your organization will work with other
    organizations to form a coalition and hold one large event
    in your area. Resources and tips for holding an effective
    town hall meeting are available at
    http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/526.
    Be sure to invite your Congress Member and Senators, but
    there's no reason to make the event dependent on their
    coming. You should certainly hold it, even without them.

    Where you cannot organize a large event, organize some
    friends and hold a house party. Please list your events at http://
    www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/526.

    We also encourage you to join the After Downing Street
    coalition, which is dedicated to pushing for a Congressional
    resolution of inquiry-the first step in the impeachment
    process-into the Downing Street Memo and related documents.
    According to a recent Zogby poll, 42 percent of voters
    polled said they would support impeaching President Bush
    if it were established that he lied about his reasons
    for the Iraq war. Let's push for the inquiry that would
    get to the bottom of this issue once and for all.

    United for Peace and Justice •
    http://www.unitedforpeace.org
    212-868-5545

    Post: UFPJ@lists.mayfirst.org
    List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/ufpj

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    7) Reflections on the London bombs
    Tony Hartin t.hartin@qmul.ac.uk

    Yesterday was tragedy followed by farce as our brave politicians,
    partying in Gleneagles and Singapore, bravely leapt to our verbal
    defence. "The security response plan was performing perfectly!" - at
    least the bit that involves mopping up body parts was. Actually for an
    hour after the first bomb the "authorities" persisted in the fable that
    it was a "power surge" and loaded everyone onto buses. Fortunately only
    one of those exploded.

    Never mind, we were "defiantly going about our business".. I felt many
    thing yesterday, as I suppose did others, but defiance wasn't one of
    them. Shock, nausea, relief (at still being alive) - but no surprise.
    Noone was left in terror wondering who might have done it for what crazy
    reason. Everyone knew it was because of the barbarism Britain was
    helping to visit on Afghanistan and Iraq. I suppose people were more
    resigned yesterday - its been expected for 2 years. The Chickens coming
    home to Roost was a sensible explanation for what happened yesterday -
    not a mad, agitational slogan

    I didn't feel particularly free yesterday either, as the mayor
    emotionally informed the world's media. The bombs didn't stop the boss
    from expecting me at work, while other businesses made a tidy profit
    from the captive and suddenly needy audience trapped in the city. "In
    light of todays events staff should feel free to leave at 4pm - as long
    as they notify their line managers first" writes the Principal. Thanks
    very much. I wonder what has to happen to get the afternoon off?

    "Muslims should stay indoors in case of reprisals" the BBC helpfully
    notified us (and the BNP) yesterday. That wont happen in London - it is
    simply too multicultural and too mindful of recent mass anti-war demos.
    I don't think most people will feel the urge to "revive the spirit of
    the blitz" or "teach them a lesson" either - the list of countries to
    bomb or threaten is already unwieldy. When peoples emotions turn to
    anger I expect there will be an obvious target in Blair and the
    government's eternal warmongering.

    The day before yesterday was the "victory" of the Olympic bid decision,
    and I was in the city. A posse of jets with red white and blue contrails
    roared over so quickly that it wasn't possible to take more than a
    couple of steps before they had come and gone. Today I can't stop
    imagining what it would be like to have those jets dropping bombs on you
    if you were caught in the open. And I can't stop thinking about Fallujah
    last November - when British troops threw up a cordon around that city
    while Marines went in to slaughter its people

    Tony Hartin
    London
    8/7/05

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    Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu
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    8) US military reprisal in Afghanistan
    kills 17 civilians
    By Peter Symonds
    8 July 2005
    http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/afgh-j08.shtml

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    9) A CALL FOR A COUNTER-RECRUITMENT CONTINGENT IN THE
    SEPTEMBER 24th PROTESTS IN WASHINGTON D.C. AND SAN FRANCISCO
    MILITARY RECRUITERS OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS!
    U.S . TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ!

    Sponsored by the Campus Antiwar Network, College Not Combat,
    Educators to Stop the War, Left Hook, Prospect-Lefferts Voices
    for Peace, Suffolk Peace Network's Counter Military Recruiting
    Committee, Traprock Peace Center, United Federation of Teachers
    to Stop the War

    Endorsed by: ANSWER - New Hampshire; Bronx Greens; Central
    Committee for Conscientious Objectors; Chapter 60 Veterans
    for Peace; Coney Island Avenue Project; International Socialist
    Organization; Louisiana Activist Network; National Lawyers
    Guild - San Francisco/Bay Area; People Against the Draft;
    Vets Speak Out NYC; Carl Webb, military resister; Victor
    Paredes, brother of war resister Pablo Paredes; Cindy Sheehan,
    founding member of Gold Star Families for Peace; David Mitchell,
    Vietnam draft resister active in Rockland Coalition for Peace
    and Justice; Gloria Mattera, Green Party candidate for Brooklyn
    Borough President; Justino Rodriguez, Hadas Thier and Nick
    Bergreen of the City College 4 - who were arrested for opposing
    the military at their school; Katrina Yeaw, Michael Hoffman,
    and Pardis Esmaeili - the SFSU 3, who were targeted by the
    school administration for opposing recruiters

    The sponsor/endorsement list is in formation.
    ALL are welcome to co-sponsor or endorse to form an inclusive,
    strong and diverse contingent.
    To sponsor, endorse, or for more info, email:
    recruitersout@yahoo.com


    For info on the Military Out of Our Schools buses from
    New York to D.C. on 9/24:
    Email: recruitersout@yahoo.com
    For info on the Peace Train going to D.C. from across
    the South, contact the Louisiana Activist Network: http://
    www.newdemocracyrising.com/

    Exact time & location for buses and rally point in
    Washington D.C./San Francisco is t.b.a.

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    10) Israelis unleash Scream at protest
    New weapon knocks crowds off feet
    Sound blast triggers nausea, dizziness
    MITCH POTTER
    MIDDLE EAST BUREAU
    "JERUSALEM-The knees buckle, the brain aches, the stomach
    turns. And suddenly, nobody feels like protesting anymore."
    Jun. 6, 2005. 07:15 AM
    http://www.torstarreports.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/
    Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1118009416402&call_pageid=970599119419

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    11) Permits obtained for September 24!

    The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, on behalf of the September 24
    National Coalition, has obtained permits for the September 24
    March on Washington at the White House. We have obtained the
    permits for both Lafayette Park on the North Side of the
    White House and the Ellipse on the South Side. We expect
    a sea of protestors to surround the White House in a vivid
    demonstration of the growing opposition to the criminal war
    and occupation of Iraq. Marching under the banner "Stop the
    War Against Iraq, Bring the Troops Home Now, End Colonial
    Occupation from Iraq to Palestine to Haiti and Everywhere,"
    communities from throughout the United States will converge
    in a unified display of what now represents majority sentiment:
    opposition to the U.S. government's war drive.

    Obtaining the permits at the White House will allow the
    largest number of people to participate, exercise their
    First Amendment rights, and speak out against the Bush
    administration and its war for Empire.

    Please make a donation today

    We urgently need your help to bring this war to an end.
    The Bush administration has billions of dollars that they
    have taken from us to fund their war and line the pockets
    of war profiteers. It is up to us to fund the fight for
    true justice and peace. Please take a moment to make
    a donation through our secure server, where you can
    also obtain information to write a check.

    For more information on the formation of the September 24th
    National Coalition, click here.

    Get Involved
    * Read the Call to Action
    * Demands of the demonstration
    * Endorse
    * View Endorsers
    * List Transportation
    * NEW Buses, vans and car caravans from across the U.S.
    * Spread the word - Downloadable flyers
    * Donate
    * More information

    A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
    Act Now to Stop War & End Racism
    http://www.ANSWERcoalition.org
    info@internationalanswer.org
    National Office in Washington DC: 202-544-3389
    New York City: 212-533-0417
    Los Angeles: 323-464-1636
    San Francisco: 415-821-6545
    For media inquiries, call 202-544-3389.

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    12) A Call for a Unity from the Virginia Anti-War Network

    The steering committee of the Virginia Anti-War Network met
    June 5 in Blacksburg. Among other issues, we discussed our
    participation in national actions being called for this fall
    in Washington, D.C. We would like to communicate the conclusions
    of our discussion to the national anti-war coalitions.

    U.S. activists from across the political spectrum have made it
    plain that they can all agree on one fundamental demand: The
    U.S. must immediately and unconditionally withdraw all its
    forces from Iraq. Whatever differences exist on other issues,
    there is no disagreement here. This is the one overriding
    demand that must be brought home as forcefully as possible
    to the seats of power.

    VAWN is committed to mobilizing as many people as possible
    to attend national actions called for this September. But
    we have decided, for now, to postpone endorsing any single
    action.

    VAWN has no organizational affiliation with any of the national
    anti-war coalitions. However, that doesn't mean we view our
    network as a movement unto itself. A number of our founding
    organizations mobilized for last October's Million Worker
    March. Less than two weeks after our founding conference,
    we attended the counter-inaugural protests in Washington,
    marching with the D.C. Anti-War Network and standing with
    International A.N.S.W.E.R along Pennsylvania Avenue. And we
    were a contingent in the March 19 march in Fayetteville, N.C.,
    which was strongly endorsed by United for Peace and Justice.

    However, we are deeply disturbed that two separate mobilizations
    have been called for Sept. 24 in Washington, D.C. Both protests
    will demand "Bring the troops home now!" So why two competing
    mobilizations? This is a severe disservice not only to the
    anti-war movement as a whole but more importantly to the
    struggling people of Iraq and to the U.S. troops who
    increasingly are questioning this criminal war.

    A.N.S.W.E.R., in our view, without making a serious effort
    to achieve tactical unity, staked out a date for a national
    mobilization and then proceeded to collect a list of
    endorsers in order to present a fait accompli to the rest
    of the movement. This action was taken in complete disregard
    to the call for unity put forward by the U.S. Labor Coalition
    Against the War.

    Then, UFPJ not only called a competing mobilization but
    announced its decision to refuse to negotiate a unified
    action with either A.N.S.W.E.R. or the Troops Out Now Coalition.
    In our view, this is not a position that advances the strength
    and efficacy of the anti-war movement.

    To its credit, TONC recently put out a statement urging a unified
    action, but crafted the statement in a way that seemed almost
    designed to ensure it would not be accepted by significant
    sections of the movement.

    We agree with TONC that there can be no tactical unity based on
    abandoning the struggle of the Palestinian people, or any other
    struggle of oppressed peoples for self-determination. However,
    there is no reason why there can't be one general unity demand –
    "Bring the troops home now!" - along with a diverse range of
    progressive co-chairs, speakers, banners, signs, contingents
    and issues, allowing each organization to raise the struggles
    to which it is committed.

    The TONC statement contains this sentence: "The grassroots of
    the movement are looking to those of us who make decisions to
    put our differences aside in the interests of the struggle to
    get the U.S. the hell out of Iraq."

    Actually, some of us in the "grassroots" have also been making
    decisions. We have decided to dig in and build the movement to
    end this war and all other wars of U.S. intervention. We have
    decided to build a movement based on respect for the right of
    oppressed nations to self-determination, based on bringing
    together anti-war activists with those fighting for social
    justice here at home, based on a commitment to leaving no
    struggle behind, no matter how "controversial" to the right wing.

    And we are building that movement here in Virginia, a so-called
    "red state" that boosts the highest per capita military spending
    of any state in the country, a state that is home to the Pentagon,
    the CIA and the world's largest U.S. Navy base. If we can
    achieve tactical unity here, there is no excuse for not
    achieving it on a national level.

    We are calling on A.N.S.W.E.R., UFPJ, TONC and the MWMM
    to put aside their organizational differences and agree
    on one, unified fall mobilization.

    The struggling peoples of the world do not have the luxury
    of accommodating our disunity.

    TO BE SENT TO: International A.N.S.W.E.R.; Million Worker
    March Movement; Troops Out Now Coalition; United for Peace
    and Justice

    cc: Black Workers for Justice; Black Voices for Peace; D.C.
    Anti-War Network (DAWN); D.C. Labor Against the War; North
    Carolina Coalition for Peace and Justice; South Carolina
    Progressive Network; U.S. Labor Against the War; Democracy
    Now!; Mother Jones; National Newspaper Publishers Association;
    In These Times; The Progressive; Z Magazine

    The Virginia Anti-War Network was founded on Jan. 8, 2005,
    at a conference in Richmond, Va. VAWN is composed of 11
    affiliated organizations as well as many individual activists
    in Aylett, Blacksburg, Charlottesville, Chesterfield County,
    Fredericksburg, Louisa County, Norfolk, Richmond, Staunton,
    Waynesboro, Williamsburg and Yorktown. The organization's
    principles of unity can be found at
    http://defendersfje.tripod.com/id29.html

    VAWN affiliates: Augusta Coalition for Peace and Justice;
    Coalition for Justice (Blacksburg); Defenders for Freedom,
    Justice & Equality (Richmond); New River Independent Business
    Association (Blacksburg); Pax Christi - Richmond; Prosser-
    Truth Division #456 UNIA-ACL (Richmond); Richmond Food Not
    Bombs; Richmond Independent Media Center; Richmond Reproductive
    Freedom Project; United Electrical Workers Union Local 160
    (statewide); United Parents Against Lead National, Inc.
    (Richmond based)

    c/o Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality, PO Box 23202,
    Richmond, VA 23223. (804) 644-5834. E-mail:
    DefendersFJE@hotmail.com


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    13) Call For A United Antiwar Movement - We Must All March
    Together on September 24!
    [For individuals and organizations wishing to sign this
    statement, please see below.]

    September 24, 2005 has been set as the date for national
    demonstrations by the U.S. antiwar movement. We will return
    to the streets of the nation's capital, and elsewhere, with
    a force determined to challenge the continuation of a brutal
    and immoral war and occupation. That the Iraqi War is the
    central issue in world politics today is not in dispute.
    Neither is the fact that there is a rapidly growing opposition
    to this war in the United States and across the globe.
    The potential for a truly massive turnout that can open the
    door wider than ever to our movement's expressing the will
    of tens of millions is within reach.

    But we have been asked to divide our energies on September 24
    between two competing antiwar coalitions, UFPJ and ANSWER.
    Both have announced mass mobilizations in Washington, D.C.
    on that date, but in different locations.

    There can be no justification for such a division. It is
    unthinkable that we can most effectively confront the warmakers
    by marching separately in what will inevitably be portrayed
    as two rival protests. People who want to end the war and
    occupation will never understand.

    Is the destruction of Iraq and its people to rage on while
    our movement divides its energies? While billions are spent
    daily to make Iraq a virtual colony? While the same billions
    are looted from social programs at home? While U.S. soldiers
    die for corporate profits and while the American people are
    rapidly learning that the war was a lie from start to finish?

    We cannot offer those who oppose the war and occupation
    a divided house. The divisions in our movement must give
    way to united action. There is still time!

    We the undersigned propose that both coalitions join in
    support of these unifying demands: Bring the Troops Home Now!
    Money for Jobs, Education, Health Care and Housing, Not for
    War and Occupations!

    This appears to be a sound basis for unity, in accord with
    what both coalitions have always championed.

    The ANSWER coalition has called for a number of additional
    demands going beyond Iraq including: End Colonial Occupation
    from Iraq to Palestine to Haiti; Support the Palestinian
    People's Right of Return; Stop the Threats Against Venezuela,
    Cuba, Iran, and North Korea; and U.S. Out of the Philippines.
    The unifying demands in bold above provide the framework
    for advancing these demands, which can be reinforced by
    speakers, banners, contingents, signs and leaflets. It is
    understood that both ANSWER and UFPJ, through their own
    coalitions, would be free to express their demands as they
    see fit.

    We are convinced that new forms must be employed to ensure
    that we do not constantly repeat the present divisive
    scenario so that the democratic expression of the ranks
    of the antiwar movement, which urgently call for unity,
    can be brought to bear.

    Our differences pale before the power we can marshal with
    a united, independent and massive movement that visibly
    expresses our strength and unity.

    We offer our good will and experience to help resolve the
    differences now and move forward united and stronger.

    We propose to meet as soon as possible with representatives
    of the national antiwar coalitions to resolve all
    outstanding issues. There is no time to waste.

    Issued by the Emergency Ad Hoc Committee For A United
    Demonstration in Washington, D.C. on September 24, 2005.

    Initiators

    [Titles and organizations for purpose of identification only]

    Kevin Akin - State Chair, California Peace and Freedom Party
    Mike Alewitz - Labor Art and Mural Project
    Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma'at - Foundations for Our Nu
    Alkebulan/Afrikan Millennium (FONAMI)
    Khalil Barhoum - Palestinian Scholar
    Patricia Behrend - Co-Chair, National Network on Cuba
    Alan Benjamin - Member, Office and Professional Employees
    International Union Local 3; Member, Executive Board, San Francisco
    Labor Council AFL-CIO; Member, Steering Committee, United States Labor
    Against the War
    Dennis Bernstein - Producer, Flashpoints, KPFA, Berkeley, CA
    Peter Camejo - Green Party
    Dr. Colia Clark - Longtime civil rights activist,
    co-organizer with Medgar Evers of Mississippi NAACP Voter
    Project in early 1960s; Fighter for reparations and against war
    Greg Coleridge - Program Director, Northeast Ohio American Friends
    Service Committee; Coordinator, Northeast Ohio Anti-War Coalition
    Alan Dale - Member, Iraq Peace Action Coalition (Minneapolis/St. Paul)
    Chris Farrand - President, Graphic Communications Union Local 546M
    Mike Ferner - Member, Veterans for Peace; Former Member, Toledo City
    Council
    Conny Ford - Secretary-Treasurer, Office and Professional Employees
    International Union Local 3
    Christine Gauvreau - Organizing Committee, Connecticut United for Peace
    Kathleen Geathers - Coordinator, Women for Racial and Economic Equality
    Paul George - Director, Peninsula Peace and Justice Center, Palo Alto, CA
    Jerry Gordon - Former International Representative, United Food and
    Commercial Workers Union; Member, Steering Committee, United States
    Labor Against the War
    Andy Griggs - Board of Directors, United Teachers Los Angeles; Member,
    Steering Committee, United States Labor Against the War
    Milly Guzman - Latinos Contra La Guerra
    Jeremy Haiken - Organizer, UNITE HERE Local 217
    Fred Hirsch - Vice President, Plumbers and Fitters Local 393
    Abdeen Jabara - Past President, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination
    Committee
    Walter Johnson - Secretary-Treasurer Emeritus, San Francisco Labor
    Council AFL-CIO
    Vicki Knight - Convenor, Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice
    Tom Lacey - Northern State Chair, California Peace and Freedom Party
    Jeff Mackler - Founder, Mobilization for Peace, Jobs and Justice; West
    Coast Coordinator, Lynne Stewart Defense Committee
    Mel Mason - President, Monterey Peninsula Branch-NAACP, CA
    Justine McCabe - International Committee of the Green Party, US
    Robert Meeropol - Executive Director, Rosenberg Fund for Children
    Saladin Muhammad - Black Workers for Justice
    Hasan Newash - Director, Palestine Office, Michigan
    Bill Onasch - Retired Vice President, Amalgamated Transit Union Local
    287; Chair, Kansas City Labor Against the War
    Carolyn Park - Member, American Federation of State, County and
    Municipal Employees Local 1938; Delegate to the Cincinnati AFL-CIO
    Jan Pierce - Retired International Vice President, Communications Workers
    of America
    Ralph Poynter - New York Community Activist
    Jack Rasmus - Chair, National Writers Union, San Francisco Bay Area
    Chapter
    Don Rojas - Journalist; Past General Manager, Station WBAI
    Ed Rosario - Business Agent, Amalgamated Lithographers of America Local
    #1; Member, United States Labor Against the War
    Meg Scata - Organizing Committee, Connecticut United for Peace
    Dallas Sells - Director, Ohio State Council UNITE HERE Union
    Chris Silvera - Secretary-Treasurer and Chairman, Teamsters National Black
    Caucus
    Michael Smith - New York Chapter, National Lawyers Guild
    Lynne Stewart - Attorney
    Clarence Thomas - Co-Chair, Million Worker March Movement
    Jerry Tucker - Former International Executive Board Member, United Auto
    Workers Union
    Nalda Vigezzi - Co-Chair, National Network on Cuba
    Barbara Walden - Vice Chair, Ohio State Labor Party
    Leonard Weinglass - Civil Liberties Attorney
    Kevin Zeese - Director, Democracy Rising
    Howard Zinn - Professor, Radical Historian, Progressive Political Theorist,
    Social Activist and Author

    Signers

    [Organizations and individuals wishing to subscribe to the above
    statement are urged to write no later
    than July 31 asking that your name be added to the list. Please
    be sure to include city and state, phone number and e-mail address.]

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    14) The Price of Occupation
    By Tariq Ali
    Friday July 8, 2005
    The Guardian
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1523821,00.html?gusrc=rss

    During the last phase of the Troubles, the IRA targeted mainland
    Britain: it came close to blowing up Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet
    in Brighton. Some years later a missile was fired at No 10. London's
    financial quarter was also targeted. There was no secret as to the
    identity of the organisation that carried out the hits or its demands.
    And all this happened despite the various Prevention of Terrorism Acts
    passed by the Commons.

    The bombers who targeted London yesterday are anonymous. It is assumed
    that those who carried out these attacks are linked to al-Qaida. We
    simply do not know. Al-Qaida is not the only terrorist group in
    existence. It has rivals within the Muslim diaspora. But it is safe to
    assume that the cause of these bombs is the unstinting support given by
    New Labour and its prime minister to the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

    One of the arguments deployed by Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London,
    when he appealed to Tony Blair not to support the war in Iraq was
    prescient: "An assault on Iraq will inflame world opinion and jeopardise
    security and peace everywhere. London, as one of the major world cities,
    has a great deal to lose from war and a lot to gain from peace,
    international cooperation and global stability."

    Most Londoners (as the rest of the country) were opposed to the Iraq
    war. Tragically, they have suffered the blow and paid the price for the
    re-election of Blair and a continuation of the war.

    Ever since 9/11, I have been arguing that the "war against terror" is
    immoral and counterproductive. It sanctions the use of state terror -
    bombing raids, torture, countless civilian deaths in Afghanistan and
    Iraq - against Islamo-anarchists whose numbers are small, but whose
    reach is deadly. The solution then, as now, is political, not military.
    The British ruling elite understood this perfectly well in the case of
    Ireland. Security measures, anti-terror laws rushed through parliament,
    identity cards, a curtailment of civil liberties, will not solve the
    problem. If anything, they will push young Muslims in the direction of
    mindless violence.

    The real solution lies in immediately ending the occupation of Iraq,
    Afghanistan and Palestine. Just because these three wars are reported
    sporadically and mean little to the everyday lives of most Europeans
    does not mean the anger and bitterness they arouse in the Muslim world
    and its diaspora is insignificant. As long as western politicians wage
    their wars and their colleagues in the Muslim world watch in silence,
    young people will be attracted to the groups who carry out random acts
    of revenge.

    At the beginning of the G8, Blair suggested that "poverty was the cause
    of terrorism". It is not so. The principal cause of this violence is the
    violence being inflicted on the people of the Muslim world. And unless
    this is recognised, the horrors will continue.

    . Tariq Ali's latest book is Speaking of Empire and Resistance.

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    15) Lest We Forget; These Were Blair's Bombs
    By John Pilger
    t r u t h o u t | Perspective
    Sunday 10 July 2005
    http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/071005X.shtml

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    16) JROTC EXPANSION 2001
    There are currently 716 schools waiting for approval
    of JROTC programs.
    Why Question the Military's JROTC Program?
    http://awol.objector.org/jrotc.html

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    17) SSP Research, Policy & Media Unit
    SSP statement on London bombings
    07/07/05

    The Scottish Socialist Party today sends it's condolences to the
    families of those killed and injured in today's bombings in London.
    The SSP condemns outright the bombings which were targeted at working
    class Londoners going about their daily lives. Many of those dead and
    injured would have participated in anti-war protests and would have
    taken part in the Make Poverty History protests over the past week.
    Meanwhile, the men responsible for the war on Iraq and the massacre
    of 100,000 civilians were safely cocooned behind fortified walls 500
    miles away, protected by thousands of police and armed forces.

    Today's horrific events further expose the falsity of the claims by
    Tony Blair and George Bush that the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq have
    turned the world into a safer place. Exactly the opposite: the world
    is now darker and more dangerous than ever before.

    Today's wave of destruction also underlines the futility of trying to
    defeat terror by ever more repressive legislation. As the escalating
    violence in Iraq and Afghanistan illustrates, even the most ferocious
    repression cannot quell violence and terror.

    The most effective action Tony Blair could now take to make the UK a
    safer place is to pull all British troops out of Iraq.

    We note that neo-Nazi extremists are already trying to exploit
    today's tragedy to whip up fear and hatred towards the Muslim
    population, the vast majority of whom completely reject acts of
    violence carried out against innocent civilians.

    The SSP pledges to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Muslim
    community against all forms of racism and Islamosphobia.
    Today's horrific events are a further indictment of the world that
    the G8 leaders have created.

    Until the swamps of poverty, war and injustice are drained, countless
    thousands more innocent people will die needlessly in the months and
    years to come.
    [ends]

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    18) London Hit as Skepticism Grows on 'Terror War'
    by Jim Lobe
    Published on Friday, July 8, 2005 by Inter Press Service
    http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0708-04.htm

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    19) Join the Farm workers march against Gallo... Sunday July 17:
    United Farm Workers Rally and March. Come show your support
    for the UFW struggle against Gallo and our appreciation for UFW's
    support for queers over the years. How well I remember Cesar
    Chavez speaking at the 1987 National March on Washington,
    I was on the press flatbed and got some pics of him for the
    Philly Gay News, even got to shake his hand...now our shared
    history of supporting each other (my GLF group in the early 70s
    supported the grape boycott) is being raised to another level...
    queers are making a special effort to be visible in Sunday's
    march...please let me know if you can join us. I am trying to
    recruit 25 people...
    The March assembles at 11:30 in Dolores Park.
    nos vemos Domingo!
    Si se puede!
    tommi
    Mecca44@aol.com


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    20) THE CONSTITUTION & "DEEP THROAT"
    [Col. Writ. 6/4/05] Copyright 2005 Mumia Abu-Jamal

    If the media is to be believed, the Age of Watergate has been reborn in the revelation
    of the identity of the figure known as "Deep Throat", the high government source who
    divulged the criminal acts of the Nixon White House, leading to the fall of a President.
    W. Mark Felt, his hair a brilliant white, his mind and apparently his memory dimmed
    by over 90 winters, has announced that it was indeed he who was that important
    historical figure. He gave data to reporters of *The Washington Post* that uncovered
    the role of the White House in the break-in at the Watergate Hotel, the site of the
    offices of the Democratic National Committee, and the subsequent cover-up.

    There are those who say that this man, in betraying the Nixon White House, and his
    boss, the Attorney General, was practicing a higher fidelity to the Constitution.

    Those who say that apparently know little of whom they speak.

    They hear or read that he headed the FBI's counterintelligence division, and their
    mind conjures up shadowy images of undercover KGB spies, or spies of yet another
    foreign power. They do not know that his job was to use the powers of the federal
    government, through the FBI, to punish, and indeed destroy that which is allegedly
    protected under the First Amendment -- the right to dissent.

    W. Mark Felt, as Deputy Director of the FBI, led the ill-fated FBI program known as
    COINTELPRO (for *C*ounter*intel*igence *Pro*gram), which targeted American
    citizens for opposing the Vietnam War, for advocating changes in Central American
    policies such as supporting brutal dictators, for supporting Civil Rights, Black
    Liberation, Women's Rights, or socialism. His unit spied on law-abiding Americans,
    broke into homes, ripped open and read mail, tapped phones, harassed, isolated,
    threatened, and destroyed the lives of thousands of Americans, who merely opposed
    the U.S. government's policies.

    This guy cared about the Constitution so much that he was convicted of committing
    crimes in violation of the Constitution, and other laws, like authorizing burglaries,
    and authorizing break-ins of homes of dissidents.

    In my book, *WE WANT FREEDOM: A Life in the Black Panther Party* (Cambridge, Ma.:
    South End Press, 2004), I dedicate an entire chapter to the many and sordid crimes of
    government, against American citizens, from Martin Luther King, Jr., to Fred
    Hampton, to school teachers, and even actors who got on the FBI's bad side for
    daring to support positions they didn't like. They hounded people, ran them out of
    jobs, set them up, and sometimes, killed them. I have documented them, and W. Mark
    Felt commanded many of those crimes. In November, 1980, two FBI officials were
    convicted in federal court, of authorizing break-ins into the homes of people, who
    were relatives, or friends of members of the radical Weather Underground. Those 2
    FBI officials were Edward S. Miller, and W. Mark Felt. They were convicted of these
    crimes because they ordered agents to enter people's homes without search warrants
    or probable cause.

    On April 15, 1981, then-President Ronald Reagan pardoned the two men, saying they
    acted on "high principle." (This is the same actor-politician who called the contras of
    Nicaragua, "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers.")

    Months before the pardon, the U.S. government paid some $10,000 each to five
    persons whose homes were burglarized by the FBI, or whose phones were illegally
    wiretapped.

    The federal convictions came years after Watergate, which proves that fidelity to the
    Constitution wasn't the motivating factor in betraying the Nixon White House. In so
    doing, he was instead protecting the agency uber alles, not the Constitution, nor any
    other political entity. The agency committed crimes before Watergate, and certainly
    after Watergate, and perhaps during it.

    They were the Praetorian Guard, a power unto themselves, more powerful than the
    Emperors. They still are.

    Copyright 2005 Mumia Abu-Jamal

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    21) Terrorism, "The War on Terror" and the Message of Carnage
    By Norman Solomon
    t r u t h o u t | Perspective
    Saturday 09 July 2005
    http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/070905X.shtml

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    22) Are You a Survivor of Police Brutality?
    Come to a Free Workshop & Legal Clinic
    WHEN: Thursday July 28, 2005 5:30-7:30pm
    WHERE: Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
    344 40th Street (at Broadway) Oakland, CA 94609
    (6 blocks from MacArthur BART)

    Find out:

    * Remedies to Police Misconduct
    * Your rights when it comes to the police
    * How to report incidents of police misconduct
    PLEASE RSVP: 510.428.3939 ext 224 or e-mail:
    malaika@ellabakercenter.org


    Join a growing community-based network fighting for police
    Accountability organized by Bay Area PoliceWatch

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