[Peace-discuss] News notes, Feb. 10 (Part 2 of 2)

[C. G. Estabrook]

[continued from part 1]

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2002

According to just-released government figures, the number of Americans
with million-dollar incomes more than doubled during the second half of
the '90s. Only 87,000 people made a million bucks in 1995; five years
later, this figure rose to more than 205,000. And we're not talking just a
lousy million; we're talking about an average of $3.2 million. This tiny
group captured a quarter of the nation's total personal income growth from
1995 through 1999. Remember this all took place during a Democratic
administration. According to New York University economist Edward N.
Wolff, wealth is more concentrated at the top in the United States than at
any time since the Great Depression. Yet while the super-rich have been
raking it in as never before, the contribution these people made to the
federal tax pie fell by 11 percent. Because of the run-up in the stock
market coupled with a cut in the capital-gains tax rate, normal people
making average salaries paid a higher percentage of federal taxes ...
Clinton's DNC chair Terry McAuliffe pocketed a cool $18 million from
Global Crossing on an investment of just $100,000 while that company's
honest shareholders got fleeced, Enron style, when the company went
baknrupt (4th largest in US history) [NATION]

The Weekly Standard reports on Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee's curious
commuting habits -- being chauffered the one block from home to office.
Lee was number two on the list of House members receiving Enron money.
Complete list from opensecrets.org: "This table may take several minutes
to load."

When Bush was in the oil business, his failing company Spectrum 7 was
bought by Harken Energy. Bush and his two partners got $2 million in stock
in exchange for a company that had lost $400,000 in the six months prior
to the sale. Bush himself got stock worth about $500,000 and an annual
consulting fee of $120,000, later reduced to $50,000. In June 1990, Bush
sold two-thirds of the Harken stock he had acquired in the Spectrum 7 deal
at $4 a share - $318,430 more than it was worth when he got it. A month
before Bush sold his stock. . . Smith, Barney, Harris, Upham & Co., the
financial consultants hired by Harken, told Bush... only drastic action
could save the company. So Bush sold his stock before the news became
public. According to U.S. News & World Report, there was 'substantial
evidence to suggest that Bush knew Harken was in dire straits.'" [MOLLY
IVINS]

The there's this small paragraph buried deep in a multi-page story in The
Washington Post: "The president said he didn't want other countries
dictating terms or conditions for the war on terrorism. 'At some point,'
the president said, 'we may be the only ones left. That's okay with me. We
are America.'"

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 09, 2002

Chris Patten, the EU commissioner in charge of Europe's international
relations, has launched a scathing attack on American foreign policy -
accusing the Bush administration of a dangerously "absolutist and
simplistic" stance towards the rest of the world.  As EU officials warned
of a rift opening up between Europe and the US wider than at any time for
half a century, Mr Patten tells the Guardian it is time European
governments spoke up and stopped Washington before it goes into
"unilateralist overdrive".  "Gulliver can't go it alone, and I don't think
it's helpful if we regard ourselves as so Lilliputian that we can't speak
up and say it," he says in today's interview.  Mr Patten's broadside came
as the French prime minister, Lionel Jospin, warned the US yesterday not
to give in to "the strong temptation of unilateralism".  Like France, Mr
Patten singled out Mr Bush's branding of Iraq, Iran and North Korea as "an
axis of evil".  "I find it hard to believe that's a thought-through
policy," he says, adding that the phrase was deeply "unhelpful".  EU
officials concede that the US and Europe could now be on a collision
course over Iran, with the EU determined to forge a trade and cooperation
agreement with Tehran just as Washington has deemed it an "evil" sponsor
of terror.  Mr Patten insists that the European policy of "constructive
engagement" with Iranian moderates and North Korea is much more likely to
bring results than a US policy which so far consists of "more rhetoric
than substance".  The commissioner's remarks represent the most public
statement yet of what has become a growing sense of alarm in Europe's
capitals at the increasingly belligerent tone adopted by Washington.  One
senior EU official said: "It is humiliating and demeaning if we feel we
have to go and get our homework marked by Dick Cheney and Condi Rice.
We've got to stop thinking that the only policy we can have is one that
doesn't get vetoed by the United States."  Publicly, the British
government continues to stand "shoulder to shoulder" with Mr Bush. But
senior Labour figures admit they are deeply troubled by the newly
aggressive thrust of US thinking - especially the hints that America could
widen the war against terrorism to a clutch of new countries. They are
likely to seize on Mr Patten's remarks as they press their case with Tony
Blair.  In the interview the former Conservative party chairman delivers a
devastatingly comprehensive critique of US strategy. He upbraids
Washington for showing much more interest in stamping out terrorism than
in tackling terror's root causes.  "When you're addressing that agenda,
frankly, smart bombs have their place but smart development assistance
seems to me even more significant," he said ...  Mr Bush's "axis of evil"
speech appears to have been the last straw for EU policymakers. In today's
interview, Mr Patten offers withering condemnation of the phrase.  
Besides balking at the word "evil", he disputes whether the three
countries named are an axis at all, insisting there is no evidence that
they are working together on weapons of mass destruction. But Mr Patten
also expresses great irritation with Washington for undermining
long-established EU efforts to reach out to Tehran and Pyongyang.  "There
is more to be said for trying to engage and to draw these societies into
the international community than to cut them off," he says.  But Mr
Patten's greatest ire is reserved for America's go-it-alone approach to
international relations. "However mighty you are, even if you're the
greatest superpower in the world, you cannot do it all on your own."  He
calls on Europe's 15 member states to put aside their traditional wariness
of angering the US and to speak up, forging an international stance of
their own on issues ranging from the Middle East to global warming.

BOWEN SMITH: Beginning on Monday, December 8th, 1941, just hours after the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the US into the Second World
War, military recruiting offices were inundated by long lines of American
men eager to take up arms against the Japs. These regular GI Joes were
augmented by the enlistment of prominent actors, musicians and the sons of
many of the elite families of the American political and business
establishments. Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, Ronald Reagan, Glenn Miller,
Teddy Roosevelt Jr. and a very young George Herbert Walker Bush come to
mind. (With the exception of Reagan, all saw actual combat or served in
theaters where their lives were at risk.)  But since the 9/11 attacks that
killed approximately 3,000 Americans within our own borders, we have
witnessed not a single high-profile enlistment from the ranks of our
political, industrial, media, or entertainment elites. Not one.
[ANTIWAR.COM]

For years, Enron (along with Unocal, BP Amoco, Exxon, Mobil, Pennzoil,
Atlantic Richfield, Chevron, Texaco, and other oil companies) has been
involved in a multi-billion dollar frenzy to extract the reserves of the
three former Soviet republics, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan. .  
. According to Alexander's Oil & Gas Connections, Enron signed a contract
in 1996, giving it rights to explore 11 gas fields in Uzbekistan, a
project costing $1.3 billion. The goal was to sell gas to the Russian
markets, and link to Unocal's southern export pipeline crossing
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. . . Enron recently conducted
feasibility studies for a $2.5 billion trans-Caspian gas pipeline to be
built jointly with General Electric and Bechtel. Enron's goal was to link
this pipeline to another line through Afghanistan. [LARRY CHIN ONLINE
JOURNAL]

On December 14, Bush invoked executive privilege in refusing to comply
with two subpoenas from [Rep. Dan] Burton's panel, the House Committee on
Government Reform, seeking information from the Justice Department. One, a
continuation of Burton's late-1990s anti-Clinton crusade, requested
internal prosecutorial memos outlining Janet Reno's decision not to
appoint an independent counsel to investigate impropriety in Clinton/Gore
fundraising. The second concerned an FBI investigation in Boston more than
twenty-five years ago. When Burton's committee requested internal
prosecutorial memos from the case, the Administration balked, saying that
such a release would have a chilling effect on confidential advice offered
within the executive branch. [NATION]

What was Neil Bush doing in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, last week? Officially,
the president's youngest brother was a keynote speaker at an international
business forum. . . Newsweek has learned the presidential sibling also had
another agenda: recruiting Middle East investors for an
educational-software firm that, industry sources say, may benefit
enormously from the new $26.5 billion education bill signed by President
George W. Bush. Neil Bush's Austin-based firm, called Ignite, has raised
about $18 million since last year, mostly from foreign investors in Japan,
Taiwan and the Middle East, said Ignite exec Kenneth Leonard. The company
is exploring joint ventures with computer software firms in Dubai and is
seeking contracts with the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Education and
other foreign governments, said Leonard, who has accompanied Bush on three
trips to the Mideast since George W became president. [NEWSWEEK]

During former defense secretary Richard Cheney's five-year tenure as chief
executive of Halliburton, Inc., his oil services firm raked in big bucks
from dubious commercial dealings with Iraq. Cheney left Halliburton with a
$34 million retirement package last July when he became the GOP's
vice-presidential candidate. Of course, U.S. firms aren't generally
supposed to do business with Saddam Hussein. But thanks to legal loopholes
large enough to steer an oil tanker through, Halliburton profited big-time
from deals with the Iraqi dictatorship. Conducted discreetly through
several Halliburton subsidiaries in Europe, these greasy transactions
helped Saddam Hussein retain his grip on power while lining the pockets of
Cheney and company. According to the Financial Times of London, between
September 1988 and last winter, Cheney, as CEO of Halliburton, oversaw
$23.8 million of business contracts for the sale of oil-industry equipment
and services to Iraq through two of its subsidiaries, Dresser Rand and
Ingersoll-Dresser Pump, which helped rebuild Iraq's war-damaged
petroleum-production infrastructure. The combined value of these contracts
exceeded those of any other U.S. company doing business with Baghdad. . .
With Cheney at the helm since 1995, Halliburton quickly grew into
America's number-one oil-services company, the fifth-largest military
contractor, and the biggest nonunion employer in the nation. Although
Cheney claimed that the U.S. government "had absolutely nothing to do"
with his firm's meteoric financial success, State Department documents
obtained by the Los Angeles Times indicate that U.S. officials helped
Halliburton secure major contracts in Asia and Africa. Halliburton now
does business in 130 countries and employs more than 100,000 workers
worldwide. [MARTIN A. LEE SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN November 13, 2000]

Colombia has the dubious distinction of having the highest number of trade
union leaders and activists assassinated in the world (180 in the first 11
months of 2001). Almost all these murders are committed by paramilitary
forces closely associated with the Colombian Armed Forces. Over 30,000
people mostly workers, peasant, human rights advocates, leftist political
leaders, teachers and health workers have been killed by the Armed Forces
and their backers among paramilitary allies over the past decade. Brutal
state terrorism is supported by two identical parties, the Liberals and
Conservatives, who in turn, purchase protection for their narco
trafficking bankers, landlords and industrialists. The oligarchical
dictatorial regime, passed off as a democracy in the Western media, is
responsible for the emergence of the two guerrilla groups, the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia Peoples Army (FARC-EP) and the
National Liberation Army (ELN). . . The greatest repression - kidnapping,
torture and murder of trade unionists takes place where the government
troops predominate, and the death squads have a free hand. In the regions
and municipalities where the FARC is strong, the trade unions are free to
successfully carry on their struggles. In the demilitarized zone - the
size of Switzerland - where the FARC rules, not a single trade unionist
has been assaulted. In adjoining regions scores have been killed, with
impunity. In Army controlled zones, assassinations and kidnapping of trade
unionists take place in broad daylight on major roads a few meters from
military headquarters. No one is ever arrested nor prosecuted. [JAMES
PETRAS]

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2002

NY Times frontpage headline: "Uncertain Toll in the Fog of War: Civilian
Deaths in Afghanistan." Former army intelligence analyst William Arkin
says that the subject ties the military in knots: "It's an irritant, and
they avoid it."

"Voices of caution fall silent" reads the subhead on the LAT's Iraq lead.
Apparently there is agreement within the administration that some kind of
action is due, be it with words or weapons, against Saddam, who has too
much (in the LAT's words) "wiggle room," which might enable him to "pull
off devastating surprises" in the future. Dick Cheney goes on a
nine-country tour of the Middle East next month in an effort to engender
support for the campaign. The LAT doesn't name those "voices of caution,"
but makes it plain that usual suspect Colin Powell is not among them.
"After the president, Powell now looks like the hardest-line person in the
administration," says a source at State. [SLATE]

The Shays-Meehan bill, up for a vote in the House this week, would ban
unlimited "soft money" from unions, individuals, and big companies (like
Enron), according to the WP lead. Were it not for Enron's ties to his
administration, George W. would probably be pressuring moderate
Republicans to vote against the bill-but, in the absence of that, it has a
decent chance. "I'm voting for Shays," Frank Wolf, R-Va., says. "I don't
think there will be any punishment of anybody." Shays-Meehan is a version
of McCain-Feingold, which already passed the Senate.  An NYT editorial
calls Shay-Meehan the "most important vote on cleaning up the nation's
scandalous and corrupt political fund-raising system in more than 25
years." And while the White House may be holding back, Republican leaders
in the House are "resorting to every legislative and political tactic to
kill reform," an aspect of the story omitted by the Post. The Times goes
so far as to publish the phone number at the Capitol ("We rarely take this
step
"), so that its readers can call their reps. "Let the voices of
Americans speak louder than the sound of cash registers once and for all."
]SLATE]

Gun advocates argued unsuccessfully for lock boxes at Olympic venues,
leaving no place for them to store their concealed weapons. "Leaving your
weapon at home makes you defenseless during the many hours that you will
spend traveling to and from each Olympic event," opines Gun Owners of
Utah. A similar controversy is brewing at the University of Utah, whose
president has banned guns from campus. "It's a two-edged sword," says a U
of U student. "From his [the university president] perspective, he thinks
if professors or students knew there were students who were concealing
firearms, they might not be at liberty to speak freely. But the Catch-22
is, those students who carry may feel like they can't speak freely if you
take away the power to defend themselves." [LA TIMES]

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ALTERNATIVE RESOURCES ON THE U.S. "WAR AGAINST TERRORISM"
	Contents
	Alternative News, Analysis, and Commentary
	Sites with Additional Links
	Petitions and Call-in, E-mail, and Letter Writing Campaigns
	Demonstrations and Other Antiwar Activities
	
ALTERNATIVE NEWS, ANALYSIS, AND COMMENTARY
	9-11peace.org "We believe that a non-military response is the best
strategy for a permanent end to terror."
	The Alternative Information Center "The AIC is a
Palestinian-Israeli organization which disseminates information, research
and political analysis on Palestinian and Israeli societies as well as the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict . . . ."
	AlterNet.org "AlterNet.org is a project of the Independent Media
Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and
supporting independent and alternative journalism."
	American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee "The American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is a civil rights organization
committed to defending the rights or people of Arab descent and promoting
their rich cultural heritage."
	American Friends Service Committee "The American Friends Service
Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization that includes people of various
faiths who are committed to social justice, peace, and humanitarian
service."
	Antiwar.com "This site is devoted to the cause of
noninterventionism, . . . . our own politics are libertarian . . . ."
	Centre for Research on Globalisation ". . .an independent research
and media group of progressive writers, scholars and activists committed
to curbing the tide of "globalisation" and "disarming" the New World
Order."
	Common Dreams News Center "Common Dreams is a national non-profit
citizens' organization working to bring progressive Americans together to
promote progressive visions for America's future."
	Counterpunch.org "CounterPunch is the bi-weekly muckraking
newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair. . . . Ours
is muckraking with a radical attitude . . . ."
	The Daily Diatribe Web site of "the Rational Radical," providing
"a radical alternative view of American politics and culture."
	Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting "FAIR, the national media watch
group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and
censorship since 1986."
	Flashpoints News Radio "Your Daily Investigative Radio Magazine"
	Foreign Policy in Focus "A think tank without walls. . . .
.Working to make the U.S.a more responsible global leader and partner."
	The Future of Freedom Foundation: The War on Terrorism "The
mission of The . . . Foundation is to advance the libertarian philosophy
by providing an uncompromising moral and economic case for individual
liberty, free markets, private property, and limited government."
	The Global Site "Critical gateway to world politics, society, and
culture."
	In These Times ". . . a national, biweekly magazine of news and
opinion" providing "groundbreaking coverage of the labor movement,
environment, feminism, grassroots politics, minority communities and the
media."
	Independent Media Center "Indymedia is a collective of independent
and alternative media activists and organizations offering grassroots,
non-corporate coverage of important social and political issues."
	The InterActivist Info Exchange "The Info Exchange provides
original content and links to important or interesting stories on the
net."
	MichaelMoore.com From the creator of the film Roger and Me and the
television show The Awful Truth.
	Media Education Foundation: Beyond the Frame "Alternative views on
the September 11th atrocities" with "streaming video featuring America's
leading dissident thinkers and activists."
	Mid-East Realities "News, Views, and Anaylsis that Governments,
Lobbies, and Associated Interest Groups Don't Want You to Know"
	Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) "MERIP
provides news and perspectives about the Middle East not available from
mainstream news sources."
	Monthly Review: Terror Crisis in Context "MR speaks to workers and
labor organizers no less than to academics, and against class
exploitation, no less than against racial and sexual oppression." This is
a special issue devoted to September 11 and the war.
	Mother Jones "Mother Jones is an independent, non-profit magazine
that focuses on issues of social justice, the environment, politics,and
popular culture."
	The Nation: September 11, 2001 "The Nation website will offer
continuing reporting, analysis, commentary and investigation on the terror
attacks and their aftermath on this special page."
	News for Change "WorkingForChange is a comprehensive Web site made
up of resources for people with progressive values."
	NY Transfer: Middle East Page "All the news that doesn't fit."
	OMB Watch: The Post-September 11 Environment: Access to Government
Information ". . . provides an inventory of government information that
has been withheld since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks."
	Online Journal "Building a new news media of, by and for the
people."
	Open Democracy ". . . a global network for debate and invention.
It will be guided by ideals of independence, participation and quality,
and will tackle the major issues of our time."
	PAX Christi USA Responds to Terrorism "Pax Christi USA strives to
create a world that reflects the Peace of Christ by exploring,
articulating, and witnessing to the call of Christian nonviolence."
	Peace Response ". . . is maintained by the American Friends
Service Committee in cooperation with the National Coalition for Peace and
Justice."
	The Progressive "The mission of The Progressive is to be a
journalistic voice for peace and social justice at home and abroad."
	Project on Defense Alternatives "Since its inception . . . [the
PDA] has sought to adapt security policy to the challenges and
opportunities of the post-Cold War era. Toward this end it promotes
consideration of the broadest range of defense options."
	ReliefWeb ". . a project of the United Nations Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)."
	Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan ". . . an
independent political/social organization of Afghan women fighting for
human rights and for social justice in Afghanistan."
	Stop the War "Anarchists deplore the attack on the World Trade
Centre which killed over 6,000 people but it must not become the excuse
for another imperialist war in which tens or hundreds of thousands more
innocent people may die."
	U.S. Committee for Refugees "Since1958, the U.S.Committee for
Refugees has identified those at greatest risk and given them a voice. Our
work helps refugees get the protection and assistance they need to
survive."
	War Resisters League ". . . we believe, to quote the late A.J.
Muste, 'There is no way to peace--peace is the way.'"
	Women Living Under Muslim Laws International Solidarity Network ".
. . an international Network that provides information, solidarity and
support for all women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by
laws and customs said to derive from Islam.."
	Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs ". . . published by
the American Educational Trust (AET) . . . by retired U.S. foreign service
officers to provide the American public with balanced and accurate
information concerning U.S. relations with Middle Eastern states."
	World Press Review: After September 11: A New Worldview "World
Press Review provides readers with a succinct view of the political and
economic climate outside of the U.S., as well as how the rest of the world
perceives the role the U.S. plays in the global community."
	ZNet: Emergency, Terrorism and War Includes "ZNet's Original
Essays and Selected Links Regarding the Sept. 11, 2001 Calamity and
preparations for war"
	
SITES WITH ADDITIONAL LINKS TO NEWS, ANALYSIS, AND COMMENTARY
	Alternative Press Center: Alternative Viewpoints on the Internet
"Links to other alternative Internet resources compiled by the Alternative
Press Center." The APC is "a non-profit collective dedicated to providing
access to and increasing public awareness of the alternative press."
	Another View "A collection of links to sites with war-related news
stories and documents that aren't showing up in the mainstream American
press."
	Argot Library of Educational Resources: Opposition to the War in
Afghanistan Links to antiwar sites. Argot Library is "a resource database
for K-6 teachers, administrators and parents."
	Documents Analyzing the World Trade Center/ Pentagon Terrorist
Attack Produced by Grover Furr, English Dept., Montclair State University.
	Holt Labor Library's 9-11 Antiwar Resources "The mission of the
Holt Labor Library is to make available to working people, activists, and
scholars the theoretical, historical, and experiential dimensions of the
class struggle in the advanced industrialized world in the 19th and
especially 20th centuries."
	Independent Media Center's Terrorism Page "Indymedia is a
collective of independent and alternative media activists and
organizations offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage of important
social and political issues." The list is separated into three categories:
links to pages of links, links to news and commentary, and links to
specific articles.
	Jay's Leftist and 'Progressive' Internet Resources Directory "A
Web Portal for all Good People around Planet Earth who are anti-War,
anti-Imperialist, anti-Racist, anti-Sexist, and anti-Homophobic and who
want to Resist Oppression and build together a Better World"
	Newsplace.org Includes links to news & opinion, sources, and tools
related to the events of September 11 and the war.
	No War: Stop "Operation Infinite Justice" "This site supports
anti-authoritarian responses to "Operation Infinite Justice", with a focus
on anti-war organizing in Canada and the west coast." Includes links to
articles and to additional anti-war sites.
	PeaceNet's September 11, 2001 Links Page "The Mission of IGC is to
advance the work of progressive organizations and individuals for peace,
justice, economic opportunity, human rights, democracy and environmental
sustainability through strategic use of online technologies. " Includes
links to news sources and anti-war sites.
	Reconciliation, not Retribution: Responses to the 9/11 Attack Page
includes links to editorials, letters to Washington and the editor,
statements from peace groups, information about peace activities and
relief efforts, and essays on the war.
	The University of Chicago Library: Alternative News Sources Links
to web sites with alternative news.
	War on Terrorism Web Sites "Links to outstanding web sites rich
with information and, especially, opinions about the September 11
terrorist attack."
	Wider War Watch "This Website [of the Project on Defense
Alternatives] provides an online diary of key articles, news reports, and
commentaries reflecting the inclinations of influential officials, policy
analysts, and political actors to widen the war."
	
PETITIONS AND CALL-IN, E-MAIL, AND LETTER WRITING CAMPAIGNS
	Call for Peace and Justice Petition to President Bush for peace
and justice.
	Denounce Jerry Falwell "We, the undersigned, denounce and condemn
Jerry Falwell for using the tragedy of September 11th to further his own
extremist agenda."
	Do not invade Iraq Tell the Bush Administration not to expand the
"war on terrorism."
	Email the United Nations to Protect the Delivery of Aid "It is
important that the security forces be deployed NOW, before hundreds of
thousands of people starve."
	Emergency Declaration to Halt Preparations for Bombing
Afghanistan: Librarians Speak Out! "We . . . librarians . . . implore the
United States government and its allies to halt the preparations for
all-out war against the nation of Afghanistan . . . ."
	Foreign Policy In Focus:Response to Terrorism "We stand opposed to
the massive, widespread, and prolonged military response . . . ."
	International A.N.S.W.E.R. Call to Join a New Anti-War Coalition:
International A.N.S.W.E.R.(Act Now to Stop War & End Racism)
	No More Violence! " We believe that military retaliation in
response to this mass murder will only accelerate the cycle of fear, anger
and violence."
	Peace Response: Sign the Campaign of Conscience Peace Pledge to
Stop the Spread of the War to Iraq "I grant permission to use my name and
city publicly as an opponent of the ongoing economic and bombing war on
Iraq, and of any escalation of that war. "

DEMONSTRATIONS AND OTHER ANTIWAR ACTIVITIES
	April 20 March on Washington "It's time for all those who believe
in and still cherish democracy, freedom and equality to demand
accountability from government officials and STOP THE WAR, AT HOME AND
ABROAD!" (National Coalition for Peace and Justice)
	Fellowship of Reconciliation Includes "FOR Action
Alerts!"http://www.iacenter.org/
	International Action Center "Information, activism, and resistance
to U.S. militarism, war, and corporate greed, linking with struggles
against racism and oppression within the United States."
	Peace.protest.net "A global calendar of pro-peace and anti-racism
protests, meetings, benefits, and conferences. "
	Protest.Net ". . . a collective of activists who are working
together to create our own media. By publishing a public record of our
political activities on the web we are taking a stand against the
established media."
	War Resisters League: Demonstrations for Peace ". . . the WRL has
set up this page to post events from around the country that have
happened, will happen, or are happening on a continuous basis."

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