[Peace-discuss] Today's Voice: Ground Laid for Historic Presidential Powers Push
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patton paul
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Thu Mar 27 09:45:47 CST 2003
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Subject: Today's Voice: Ground Laid for Historic Presidential Powers Push
Voice4Change
Changing Hearts and Minds
http://www.voice4change.org
March 27, 2003
Dear ppatton at uiuc.edu,
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first 8 months. While increased site traffic is great, I would give up ever=
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Ground Laid for Historic Presidential Powers Push
Bracing for Bush's War at Home
by Chisun Lee
Village Voice
March 26 - April 1, 2003
An ugly theory popped up in the nation's capital several weeks ago. The Bus=
h administration would wait until war began, and worry gripped the homeland=
, to ram a staggering package of domestic security measures through a Congr=
ess silenced by fears of seeming unpatriotic. Such measures would radically=
expand the executive branch powers already inflated by the 2001 USA Patrio=
t Act.
On Friday=97as the U.S. began suffering combat fatalities, and the terror a=
lert on whitehouse.gov glared orange for "high"=97Justice Department spokes=
person Mark Corallo confirmed to the Voice that such measures were coming s=
oon. Exact details are confined to "internal deliberations," he said, but t=
he proposals "will be filling in the holes" of the Patriot Act, "refining t=
hings that will enable us to do our job."
But a new, comprehensive review of Bush's growing presidential power hardly=
reveals any "holes." Rather=97using court positions, internal policy chang=
es, and secret decisions as bricks=97the administration has built the execu=
tive branch into a fortress, nearly invulnerable to the checks of the judic=
iary and Congress. Most alarming, according to the watchdog authors of the =
96-page report, "Imbalance of Powers," the complexity of this historic expa=
nsion continues to mask its true proportions.
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MEDIA CHALLENGE !
Three Week Action Plan : March 24, 2003 =96 April 11, 2003
One Call a Day to Democratize Media - an action from Peace Coalitions
It is time to take on the television companies! PLEASE READ BELOW AND ACT A=
ND ALSO EMAIL TO YOUR CONTACTS.
Support for a war and for police state actions by tens of millions of Ameri=
cans can be directly traced to the misinformation, lack of information and =
wildly unbalanced commentary they get from General Electric (NBC), News Cor=
p. (Fox), Disney (ABC), AOL-Time Warner (CNN) and Viacom (CBS). PBS is litt=
le better. Fifty-eight percent of the public gets its information solely fr=
om these sources; 85% are influenced by them. No wonder we are at war.
If democracy is to have any true meaning, it must be based on a well-infor=
med public. These companies must be compelled to
provide real journalism and commentary balance. Their roles as propaganda a=
rms of the Administration must end.
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Reckless Wartime Budget Will Hurt Kids For Decades to Come
Tell Senate We Can t Afford to Enrich the Rich
While Paying for War in Iraq
Click this link to send your free faxes:
http://www.truemajority.com/index.asp?action=3D2495&ms=3Dreck3
Shock and awe have taken on a whole new meaning as we watch the carnage in =
Iraq. The images can be overwhelming. And it is exactly that fog of war t=
hat the folks in Washington are using for cover to further their destructiv=
e agenda. This week the Senate will face President Bush s first request fo=
r money to pay for his war. Early media reports tell us that the figure wi=
ll top $75 billion. At the same time the Senate is being asked to approve =
enormous tax cuts, mainly for the millionaire class. Because the cost of g=
uns is so great, the United States government has never cut taxes during wa=
rtime fearing too great a sacrifice of butter. But that is just what the S=
enate is poised to do quickly and with little public debate because they ca=
n t defend it in the light of day
Two years ago when America enjoyed record surpluses the folks in Washington=
told us that even then we didn t have enough money to give every kid healt=
h insurance, fully fund Head Start or get serious about the poverty of chil=
dren around the world. Now, as we face record deficits and a huge war bill=
they are telling us we still don t have money for those things, but they h=
ave found more than twice that sum to use for tax cuts for millionaires. W=
ell, I know a whole bunch of millionaires and trust me, they don t need the=
money half as badly as a kid who can t afford to see a doctor when he s si=
ck.
Millions of us came together in historic opposition to this war, now let s =
stay together to limit the damage it will cause. Click Reply and we'll sen=
d a fax to your Senators asking them not to pass the first budget in Americ=
an history to cut taxes during wartime. If you want to customize the fax, =
or if a friend forwarded this email to you, just click this link to send yo=
ur free fax:
http://www.truemajority.com/index.asp?action=3D2495&ms=3Dreck3
Sincerely,
Ben Cohen
President, TrueMajority
Co-Founder, Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream
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Angry, Very Angry
by Kathy Kelly
Wednesday 26 March 2003
BAGHDAD -- I'm surrounded by some of the most kindly and gentle people in t=
he world, coming from many walks of life. Members of our Iraq Peace Team ha=
ve 'checked in' on most days of our five month stay here, some having been =
here for the full five months, and continually give expression to sentiment=
s that are sacred in their affirmation of simplicity, sharing, and commitme=
nt to nonviolence. But in the last several days, feelings of intense anger =
surface. "I'm angry," confided Sang Jin Han, of South Korea, a peace activi=
st who has led South Korea's campaign to ban land mines and who works close=
ly with the Asian Peace Alliance. "I think this war will kill thousands of =
people."
Likewise, Zefira Hourfani, an Algerian woman, says she is very angry, so mu=
ch so that she no longer considers herself a Canadian. "Now I am an Arab," =
she says, "and I am angry at the western countries." Lisa Ndjeru, a Rwandan=
woman, also a Canadian citizen, took particular umbrage over President Bus=
h's request that Americans help the US troops by assisting them with home r=
epair and child care. "What lunacy!" said Lisa. "Young Americans whose chil=
dren need care and whose homes are falling apart should loan themselves to =
destroy homes and maim children in this country in order to finally get som=
e help?"
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Peace Delegates Visit Wounded Civilians in Baghdad Hospital
SEATTLE, WA. - March 26 - Wade Hudson, co-coordinator of the war crimes mon=
itoring aspect of the Iraq Peace Team, sent a report via email from Baghdad=
earlier today describing some of what he and his fellow delegates witnesse=
d while visiting wounded civilians at the Alyarmouk hospital in Baghdad on =
March 23rd.
The Alyarmouk hospital is a university teaching hospital and one of the lar=
gest and most modern hospitals in Iraq. It is one of three medical centers =
prepared by the authorities to receive victims of the attack by the US. Man=
y foreign doctors and surgeons, Americans included, are in Baghdad to offer=
their services to these hospitals during the war.
One of the patients the Peace Team delegates met with was Rahab Wedad Moham=
mad, age 25, who had just come out of surgery under general anesthesia. She=
was the moved to the women's section of the hospital where some of the Ira=
q Peace Team delegates were able to visit with her.
Her right cheek was swollen and her right forearm was heavily bandaged. Acc=
ording to a female doctor on staff, Mohammad's tendons had been severed by =
shrapnel. Surgeons had sewn the tendons back together, along with nerves an=
d blood vessels. In conversations with Mohammad, the delegates learned that=
she was in her home in the residential district of Hayy Jamiya on Saturday=
night (the 3rd straight night of US bombs raining down on her home city) w=
hen a bomb detonated nearby.
Zaha Seheil lay quietly on a bed opposite Mohammad's. Zaha is six years old=
=2E The doctor informed the Peace Team members that Zaha was wounded in her=
back, suffering a spinal injury which has made her paraplegic.
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On-going Campaigns Get Involved!!
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No More Victims!
Voice4change and www.NoMoreVictims.org have launched an exciting campaign t=
o make sure that George Bush see's the faces of the victims in Iraq. We wil=
l not allow him to see only the face of Saddam, he must see the innocent ch=
ildren and people of Iraq who are suffering and will suffer more if he esci=
lates the war that is already taking place in Iraq.
1. Download the poster: http://www.voice4change.org/redir.asp?url=3Dhttp://=
www.nomorevictims.org/PosterDownloads.html and post it all over your Commun=
ity.
2. Call the White House to tell them what you think (202) 456-1111
3. E-Mail the White House to Demand answers: http://www.voice4change.org/st=
ories/mailpresident.asp
4. Download Post Card: http://www.voice4change.org/redir.asp?url=3Dhttp://w=
ww.voice4change.org/alert/poster021101.asp send to the White House, your el=
ected officials etc...
5. Use our send to friend script to get more people involved.
Educate Yourself and friends at www.NoMoreVictims.org
Flood the White House with e-mails, phone calls, post Cards. We must stop t=
his war! for the children of Iraq!
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Calendar of Demonstrations for Peace
Many peace activists feel isolated because peace activities are not reporte=
d in mainstream media. In one effort to help to correct this, the WRL has s=
et up this page to post events from around the country that have happened, =
will happen, or are happening on a continuous basis. If you know of such an=
event, please submit the form at the bottom of this page, or call (212-228=
-0450), fax (212-228-6193), e-mail (nowar at warresisters.org) us.
Note, these events are listed as a public service and are not necessarily e=
ndorsed by the War Resisters League.
http://www.voice4change.org/stories/showstory.asp?file=3D021022~wrl.asp
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Take The Pledge to Oppose War with Iraq
"A time has come when silence is betrayal. That time is now." Martin Luther=
King Jr.
To take the pledge: http://www.voice4change.org/stories/showstory.asp?file=
=3D020624~for.asp
Warm Regards,
Voice4Change.org
http://www.voice4change.org
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