From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org  Wed May  1 16:38:02 2019
From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 11:38:02 -0500
Subject: [Peace] JFP alert: VOTE THURSDAY: Save 30,
 000 Yemenis from the Saudi Regime
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Subject: VOTE THURSDAY: Save 30,000 Yemenis from the Saudi Regime
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*Call your Senators: 202-225-3121 Report your calls in the comments below
my post at Daily Kos, to inspire others to call
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Dear Robert,

The last report Tuesday evening from DC was that a vote was expected in the
Senate *Thursday afternoon *on overriding Trump’s “veto” of the *Bernie
Sanders – Mike Lee – Chris Murphy *Yemen War Powers Resolution to end
unconstitutional U.S. participation in the Saudi war-blockade-famine on
children in Yemen.

If that’s all you needed to know, *please* *call your two Senators now at *
*202-225-3121 *and *urge them to **vote to override the “veto.” *When
you’ve made your calls, *please report them in the comments **below this
post*
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=07ddqp4PLlDuspmQIh7BTFdJyUJMqrC5>,
in part to report what happened, and in part to *inspire other people to
call*. Note that the first comment is from me. I made my two calls. You can
too. I’m not asking you to do anything I didn’t do.

[I put “veto” in quotes because under Article I of the Constitution,
reaffirmed by the War Powers Resolution in 1973, *Congress, not the
President, decides when to use U.S. military force, *so if Congress says
U.S. participation in the war is unconstitutional and should stop, which it
did when it passed the Sanders-Lee-Murphy resolution, that should be the
end of the matter, and Trump’s so-called “veto” was unconstitutional. But
the question on the table right now is the Senate vote to override.]

The distance from our slingshot to the Goliath of the Saudi war in Yemen on
the override vote is not small. In order to win the override vote, we need
all the Democrats to vote again with us, plus the seven Republicans who
voted with us in March, plus a bunch of other Republicans.

Here’s some reasons why we should try to end the war now, although the
distance to Goliath on the override vote is far:

- *If we don’t end this war now, thirty thousand more human beings in Yemen
are likely to be killed by the Saudi war and blockade by the end of the
year. *Congress can cut off funding for the war in the Pentagon
authorization/appropriations bills, which are very hard to veto, since they
“fund the troops.” But those are not likely to become law until the end of
the year. Meanwhile, thirty thousand more Yemenis would die, many of them
from starvation and preventable disease. So we should try to end the war
now. *Isn’t it worth two short phone calls to DC to try to save thirty
thousand lives?*

- We’ve never been at this juncture before, since the War Powers Resolution
was passed in 1973, so nobody can really say exactly how it goes. Senate
Republicans who vote to sustain the “veto” now would be ostentatiously
voting against Article I of the Constitution.

- The fact that seven Senate Republicans voted with us last time proves
that it’s not impossible for a bunch of Senate Republicans to be with us.
The issue of unconstitutional war doesn’t divide neatly along partisan
lines. We have Republican friends on this. We just need a bunch more of
them, and we need them now.

- Phone calls can move Members of Congress, including Republicans, on the
issue of unconstitutional war. It happened in August 2013.

- Most Republicans outside the Beltway don’t like unconstitutional war or
the Saudi regime any more than most Democrats do. So it’s not like there’s
big grassroots Republican punishment for Republicans in store if they vote
for the Constitution and against the Saudi regime now.

- When you call a Senate office, they don’t know if you’re a Democrat or a
Republican. If a Republican Senator gets a bunch of phone calls from their
district on unconstitutional war, they don’t know if they were Democrats
calling. Maybe they were Republicans calling.

*Please call now: 202-225-3121.* *Ask your two Senators to vote to override
the “veto” of the Sanders-Lee-Murphy resolution. And please report your
calls in the comments below this post at Daily Kos
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*

*You can also sign and share our petition to Senate Republicans
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urging
them to override the “veto,” so children in Yemen may live.  *

Thanks for all you do to help make U.S. foreign policy more just,

Robert Reuel Naiman
Just Foreign Policy

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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Wed May  1 16:45:45 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 16:45:45 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Today is International Worker's Day
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A message from Richard Wolfe:
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This May 1, the French people offer the world a strategy.

The stunningly successful “yellow vest” movement building over the past half year decided to join with labor unions and social movements in a massively enlarged Mayday, 2019. Demonstrations will sweep across France with a demand for what the yellow vests call “a new democracy.”

In the US and beyond we need that too: the call, the vast new kind of social movement represented by the yellow vests, the unity of social movements with the labor movement. And like the yellow vests made clearly explicit in their call for these Mayday events, by “new democracy” they mean to confront and move society beyond capitalism.

What is “new” first of all is that democracy belongs inside the workplace. The capitalists who give lip service to democracy have always rigidly excluded it from the workplaces they owned and were determined to control exclusively. The privations, inequalities, money-bought governments, and ecological disasters that plague us today follow directly from how capitalists use their unaccountable power inside capitalist enterprises. To democratize the enterprise solves many social problems caused by and from capitalism’s undemocratic core. A new democracy inside enterprises ends capitalism and begins a better system for the vast majority.

At Democracy at Work we seek to contribute to just such an international movement for a new democracy. Our advocacy for a transition from undemocratic capitalist enterprises to democratic worker cooperatives instead is one way to make such a contribution. We invite and welcome others to join in a process of change already well underway.

In solidarity,

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From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 16:45:45 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Today is International Worker's Day
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A message from Richard Wolfe:
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This May 1, the French people offer the world a strategy.

The stunningly successful “yellow vest” movement building over the past half year decided to join with labor unions and social movements in a massively enlarged Mayday, 2019. Demonstrations will sweep across France with a demand for what the yellow vests call “a new democracy.”

In the US and beyond we need that too: the call, the vast new kind of social movement represented by the yellow vests, the unity of social movements with the labor movement. And like the yellow vests made clearly explicit in their call for these Mayday events, by “new democracy” they mean to confront and move society beyond capitalism.

What is “new” first of all is that democracy belongs inside the workplace. The capitalists who give lip service to democracy have always rigidly excluded it from the workplaces they owned and were determined to control exclusively. The privations, inequalities, money-bought governments, and ecological disasters that plague us today follow directly from how capitalists use their unaccountable power inside capitalist enterprises. To democratize the enterprise solves many social problems caused by and from capitalism’s undemocratic core. A new democracy inside enterprises ends capitalism and begins a better system for the vast majority.

At Democracy at Work we seek to contribute to just such an international movement for a new democracy. Our advocacy for a transition from undemocratic capitalist enterprises to democratic worker cooperatives instead is one way to make such a contribution. We invite and welcome others to join in a process of change already well underway.

In solidarity,

[Richard Wolff]<https://democracyatwork.nationbuilder.com/donate?e=0c7438b9a1b1c59994ee9514deb63174&utm_source=democracyatwork&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20190501_mayday&n=2>
Richard D. Wolff
Founder


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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Wed May  1 23:08:59 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 23:08:59 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: For an international campaign to defend Assange and
 Manning
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Today, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was sentenced to 50 weeks in prison by a British judge for “violating bail conditions.” There will be a hearing on Thursday on an extradition request filed by the United States.

If the US succeeds in getting its hands on him, Assange faces indefinite detention or charges that carry the penalty of death.

Along with Chelsea Manning, who is currently behind bars for refusing to testify against Assange, the WikiLeaks founder is being targeted for revealing the crimes of American imperialism.

The defense of class war prisoners such as Assange and Manning, along with the fight against war, the growth of fascism and authoritarianism, the ever-greater concentration of wealth, and internet censorship  are inextricably bound up with the fight against capitalism and for socialism.

The central question facing millions of workers and young people throughout the world is: What is socialism and how can it be achieved?

On May 4, the ICFI is holding its annual International May Day Online Rally<https://wsws.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=380cabff931cd452085b8d4a5&id=d523d9f474&e=2cb7388bc9> which will feature speakers from around the world who will address these critical questions for a world audience, including reports on the efforts of our sections, in the UK, Australia, and the US in particular, to defend Assange and Manning.

I urge you to register for the event, make a donation to help cover the costs, and share today’s perspective<https://wsws.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=380cabff931cd452085b8d4a5&id=398a2976f5&e=2cb7388bc9> with friends, family, and coworkers to help make this years May Day the most successful yet.

Fraternally,

Joseph Kishore
National Secretary
Socialist Equality Party - US

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was sentenced to 50 weeks imprisonment in a show trial Wednesday at Southwark Crown Court. Assange has been incarcerated in London’s Belmarsh prison, in conditions amounting to solitary confinement and without access to visitors, following his illegal seizure April 3 from the Ecuadorian embassy.

The sentence on bail charges is just two weeks short of the maximum one-year sentence he could have received, despite already being held in arbitrary detention by the British authorities since he was first detained in London in December 2010.

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The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) won working-class support at its rally in the western Sydney suburb of Parramatta last Saturday, demanding the immediate release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and US whistleblower Chelsea Manning.

The rally was addressed by three of the eight SEP candidates contesting the May 18 federal election, as well as longstanding SEP leader Nick Beams, and James McGlone, a friend of Julian Assange’s father.

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From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 23:08:59 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: For an international campaign to defend Assange and
 Manning
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Today, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was sentenced to 50 weeks in prison by a British judge for “violating bail conditions.” There will be a hearing on Thursday on an extradition request filed by the United States.

If the US succeeds in getting its hands on him, Assange faces indefinite detention or charges that carry the penalty of death.

Along with Chelsea Manning, who is currently behind bars for refusing to testify against Assange, the WikiLeaks founder is being targeted for revealing the crimes of American imperialism.

The defense of class war prisoners such as Assange and Manning, along with the fight against war, the growth of fascism and authoritarianism, the ever-greater concentration of wealth, and internet censorship  are inextricably bound up with the fight against capitalism and for socialism.

The central question facing millions of workers and young people throughout the world is: What is socialism and how can it be achieved?

On May 4, the ICFI is holding its annual International May Day Online Rally<https://wsws.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=380cabff931cd452085b8d4a5&id=d523d9f474&e=2cb7388bc9> which will feature speakers from around the world who will address these critical questions for a world audience, including reports on the efforts of our sections, in the UK, Australia, and the US in particular, to defend Assange and Manning.

I urge you to register for the event, make a donation to help cover the costs, and share today’s perspective<https://wsws.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=380cabff931cd452085b8d4a5&id=398a2976f5&e=2cb7388bc9> with friends, family, and coworkers to help make this years May Day the most successful yet.

Fraternally,

Joseph Kishore
National Secretary
Socialist Equality Party - US

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was sentenced to 50 weeks imprisonment in a show trial Wednesday at Southwark Crown Court. Assange has been incarcerated in London’s Belmarsh prison, in conditions amounting to solitary confinement and without access to visitors, following his illegal seizure April 3 from the Ecuadorian embassy.

The sentence on bail charges is just two weeks short of the maximum one-year sentence he could have received, despite already being held in arbitrary detention by the British authorities since he was first detained in London in December 2010.

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The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) won working-class support at its rally in the western Sydney suburb of Parramatta last Saturday, demanding the immediate release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and US whistleblower Chelsea Manning.

The rally was addressed by three of the eight SEP candidates contesting the May 18 federal election, as well as longstanding SEP leader Nick Beams, and James McGlone, a friend of Julian Assange’s father.

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From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
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Subject: [Peace] Fwd: URGENT MESSAGE
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PLEASE SEND LETTER/EMAIL AND MAKE THE PHONE CALLS AS REQUESTED:


Urgent message from the Green Party:
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4 mins<https://www.facebook.com/groups/GreenPartyUS/permalink/10156427292945748/>

Urgent situation unfolding at the Venezuelan embassy in DC. We can all participate from around the country:

Please share this letter to the US State Department widely and call secret service at 202-406-8800 and 202-287-0001.:

Dear Sirs,

At this moment, the violent mob that you have allowed to continually commit acts of violence against persons and property at the Venezuelan embassy is actively working to smash in the doors while your officers give permission to the assault and explicitly refuse to intervene.

As you know, and your officers have witnessed, members of this mob have physically attacked and made death threats to the peace activists who are inside and around the embassy. This presence inside the embassy, as you also know, is lawful, as the peace activists were invited inside the embassy by those lawfully in charge of the premises.

There has been no action that has divested them of the right to be inside the embassy or lawful process that could authorize removal.

Instead you are authorizing a vigilante group to attack the peace activists inside.

You must take action immediately to cease this assault, and ensure that there is no violence against the persons inside. They are in grave danger from the mob you have facilitated and authorized to besiege the embassy.

You are responsible for any acts of violence that will be committed against these peace activists inside the embassy.

Sincerely,

Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, Esq.

on behalf of the Embassy Protection Collective

Partnership for Civil Justice Fund

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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sat May  4 02:17:26 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 02:17:26 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: URGENT MESSAGE
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PLEASE SEND LETTER/EMAIL AND MAKE THE PHONE CALLS AS REQUESTED:


Urgent message from the Green Party:
Andrea Mérida Cuéllar<https://www.facebook.com/andreamerida?fref=gs&__tn__=%2CdC-R-R&eid=ARAgJB_TcRyZpEeOFQIC55_aQ6sYApZkZQR5LGe9M0WgBDiWRlEOmovdLlTiG330fpEUUZRKQefKIRtf&hc_ref=ARQvxCXfM2hYi_WU3NYE5TVKywNaiyTr4H1BDiixGWm9hrOgD0MXj65SHumZ8EsdoR8&dti=2212070747&hc_location=group>
4 mins<https://www.facebook.com/groups/GreenPartyUS/permalink/10156427292945748/>

Urgent situation unfolding at the Venezuelan embassy in DC. We can all participate from around the country:

Please share this letter to the US State Department widely and call secret service at 202-406-8800 and 202-287-0001.:

Dear Sirs,

At this moment, the violent mob that you have allowed to continually commit acts of violence against persons and property at the Venezuelan embassy is actively working to smash in the doors while your officers give permission to the assault and explicitly refuse to intervene.

As you know, and your officers have witnessed, members of this mob have physically attacked and made death threats to the peace activists who are inside and around the embassy. This presence inside the embassy, as you also know, is lawful, as the peace activists were invited inside the embassy by those lawfully in charge of the premises.

There has been no action that has divested them of the right to be inside the embassy or lawful process that could authorize removal.

Instead you are authorizing a vigilante group to attack the peace activists inside.

You must take action immediately to cease this assault, and ensure that there is no violence against the persons inside. They are in grave danger from the mob you have facilitated and authorized to besiege the embassy.

You are responsible for any acts of violence that will be committed against these peace activists inside the embassy.

Sincerely,

Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, Esq.

on behalf of the Embassy Protection Collective

Partnership for Civil Justice Fund

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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sat May  4 15:36:50 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 15:36:50 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: From Code Pink: "I was arrested for sharing bread"
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“and, now charged for throwing missiles.”







As part of the Embassy Protection Collective, I've been staying inside the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington D.C. to protect it from takeover by Trump's coup collaborators. On Thursday, I came out to replenish food supplies, but was arrested as I tried to get the bread, salad greens, and other food back inside. Right-wing pro-Guaidó/Trump supporters blocked the doors. Rather than helping me get food to people legally inside the embassy, the police arrested me. I am charged with "throwing missiles." I am not kidding.

Let me be clear why we are inside the Venezuela Embassy. We are there to protect it from a takeover by an unelected group of Guaidó supporters, a takeover that would dangerously escalate the conflict. If the opposition takes over the DC Embassy, the Venezuelan government will probably take over the US Embassy. The US could consider this an act of war and use it as an excuse to invade. We can’t allow that to happen. That’s why, despite intense harassment and even a cut-off of our food supplies by right-wing thugs, our peaceful presence INSIDE the Embassy continues.

Meanwhile, inside Venezuela, Guaidó’s continued call for a military uprising threatens to plunge the country into a bloody coup that could lead to decades of war. And US economic sanctions are leading to more misery. There needs to be mediation, like the Mexican government and the Vatican are calling for. We need your help to stop this coup attempt. Contact your representatives in Congress now. Tell them to speak out against a coup and US military intervention. Tell them to prohibit an unconstitutional military intervention in Venezuela.<https://www.codepink.org/embassyprotection?e=1afe7b7163b9dda25d4599b2d4f044d6&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=may_3_national_vz_alert&n=2>

The aggressive abuse we are facing at the DC Embassy everyday now, including physical assaults against Medea, Tighe and myself, are a microcosm of the violence being perpetrated by Guaidó followers and a warning of how devastating it will be if Donald Trump, John Bolton, and Elliot Abrams are successful in orchestrating their coup. It's more important than ever that we stop them.

We've seen this before–in Chile, Haiti, Iraq, Afghanistan, Honduras, Libya, and Syria–and we know the process: impose sanctions to devastate the economy, provide financing and weapons to the opposition, sabotage peace processes, exploit human needs, name a “leader,” and install a government that will serve U.S. interests. It never turns about well for the people.

A U.S.-backed coup in Venezuela would only serve the interests of the U.S. and Venezuelan elite who stand to profit by taking over a country with the largest oil reserves in the world. We must prevent unnecessary bloodshed and suffering in Venezuela. Contact your representatives in Congress now. Tell them to vote to prevent a U.S.-backed coup in Venezuela!<https://www.codepink.org/embassyprotection?e=1afe7b7163b9dda25d4599b2d4f044d6&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=may_3_national_vz_alert&n=3>

Towards peace and diplomacy,
Ariel and the entire CODEPINK team: Ann, Carley, Clara, Jodie, Kelly, Kelsey, Kirsten, Lily, Maya, Mark, Medea, Nancy, Paki, Ryan, Sarah, Tighe, Ursula and Zena

P.S. Click here<https://www.codepink.org/in_the_news_codepink_protects_venezuelan_embassy?e=1afe7b7163b9dda25d4599b2d4f044d6&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=may_3_national_vz_alert&n=4> to view all of the press coverage of our recent actions at the Embassy

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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sat May  4 15:36:50 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 15:36:50 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: From Code Pink: "I was arrested for sharing bread"
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“and, now charged for throwing missiles.”







As part of the Embassy Protection Collective, I've been staying inside the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington D.C. to protect it from takeover by Trump's coup collaborators. On Thursday, I came out to replenish food supplies, but was arrested as I tried to get the bread, salad greens, and other food back inside. Right-wing pro-Guaidó/Trump supporters blocked the doors. Rather than helping me get food to people legally inside the embassy, the police arrested me. I am charged with "throwing missiles." I am not kidding.

Let me be clear why we are inside the Venezuela Embassy. We are there to protect it from a takeover by an unelected group of Guaidó supporters, a takeover that would dangerously escalate the conflict. If the opposition takes over the DC Embassy, the Venezuelan government will probably take over the US Embassy. The US could consider this an act of war and use it as an excuse to invade. We can’t allow that to happen. That’s why, despite intense harassment and even a cut-off of our food supplies by right-wing thugs, our peaceful presence INSIDE the Embassy continues.

Meanwhile, inside Venezuela, Guaidó’s continued call for a military uprising threatens to plunge the country into a bloody coup that could lead to decades of war. And US economic sanctions are leading to more misery. There needs to be mediation, like the Mexican government and the Vatican are calling for. We need your help to stop this coup attempt. Contact your representatives in Congress now. Tell them to speak out against a coup and US military intervention. Tell them to prohibit an unconstitutional military intervention in Venezuela.<https://www.codepink.org/embassyprotection?e=1afe7b7163b9dda25d4599b2d4f044d6&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=may_3_national_vz_alert&n=2>

The aggressive abuse we are facing at the DC Embassy everyday now, including physical assaults against Medea, Tighe and myself, are a microcosm of the violence being perpetrated by Guaidó followers and a warning of how devastating it will be if Donald Trump, John Bolton, and Elliot Abrams are successful in orchestrating their coup. It's more important than ever that we stop them.

We've seen this before–in Chile, Haiti, Iraq, Afghanistan, Honduras, Libya, and Syria–and we know the process: impose sanctions to devastate the economy, provide financing and weapons to the opposition, sabotage peace processes, exploit human needs, name a “leader,” and install a government that will serve U.S. interests. It never turns about well for the people.

A U.S.-backed coup in Venezuela would only serve the interests of the U.S. and Venezuelan elite who stand to profit by taking over a country with the largest oil reserves in the world. We must prevent unnecessary bloodshed and suffering in Venezuela. Contact your representatives in Congress now. Tell them to vote to prevent a U.S.-backed coup in Venezuela!<https://www.codepink.org/embassyprotection?e=1afe7b7163b9dda25d4599b2d4f044d6&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=may_3_national_vz_alert&n=3>

Towards peace and diplomacy,
Ariel and the entire CODEPINK team: Ann, Carley, Clara, Jodie, Kelly, Kelsey, Kirsten, Lily, Maya, Mark, Medea, Nancy, Paki, Ryan, Sarah, Tighe, Ursula and Zena

P.S. Click here<https://www.codepink.org/in_the_news_codepink_protects_venezuelan_embassy?e=1afe7b7163b9dda25d4599b2d4f044d6&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=may_3_national_vz_alert&n=4> to view all of the press coverage of our recent actions at the Embassy

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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sat May  4 17:15:19 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 17:15:19 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Live now!
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This is pretty disturbing. Medea and a couple of other women with Code Pink are outside with signs saying “peaceful protestor, please don’t hit.” Medea doesn’t look good.

They have people up close in their faces banging, on metal, loud noises, with chanting in Spanish, and signs saying “we were born in Venezuela and we don’t want Maduro.”

I have always maintained, most immigrants in the US today, are generally coming from the bourgeoise, hate socialism, don’t care about war, and act as USG pawns.

We had some of these trolls at the Gloria La Riva program but this is really bad, and given many in the Embassy haven’t been eating.


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From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 17:15:19 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Live now!
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This is pretty disturbing. Medea and a couple of other women with Code Pink are outside with signs saying “peaceful protestor, please don’t hit.” Medea doesn’t look good.

They have people up close in their faces banging, on metal, loud noises, with chanting in Spanish, and signs saying “we were born in Venezuela and we don’t want Maduro.”

I have always maintained, most immigrants in the US today, are generally coming from the bourgeoise, hate socialism, don’t care about war, and act as USG pawns.

We had some of these trolls at the Gloria La Riva program but this is really bad, and given many in the Embassy haven’t been eating.


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From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org  Sat May  4 19:06:02 2019
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Subject: WaPo attacks Bernie for opposing U.S. war crimes – in 1988
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*No matter who is President, we need to re-establish the primacy of the
Constitution and the War Powers Resolution over war and peace. Urge
Congress to pass a concurrent resolution to end the U.S.-Saudi war in
Yemen.
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Dear Robert,

On Friday, the *Washington Post* – which enthusiastically supported the
Iraq war, among many other crimes – ran an article
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purporting to “expose” a trip that Bernie Sanders and his wife took to the
Soviet Union in 1988, when he was mayor of Burlington, Vermont.

You’ll never guess what the big scandal supposedly was. Reportedly, *Bernie
criticized U.S. foreign policy – **while “standing on foreign soil”*:

[...]
Then, at a banquet attended by about 100 people, *Sanders blasted the way
the United States had intervened in other countries, stunning one of those
who had accompanied him.* “I got really upset and walked out,” said David
F. Kelley, who had helped arrange the trip and was the only Republican in
Sanders’s entourage. “When you are a critic of your country, you can say
anything you want *on home soil*.” [my emphasis]
[…]

Actually, under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, *Americans
can criticize U.S. foreign policy wherever we want, wherever we happen to
be standing at the time*.

In the 1980s, my friends and I worked to end Reagan’s illegal wars in
Central America, with mixed results. We worked to end Reagan’s support for
the apartheid regime in South Africa, which we did. And we worked to end
U.S. support for Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and
East Jerusalem, which we failed to do. In 1986-7, I was a student at
Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank, near Ramallah. It’s a safe
bet that I criticized U.S. foreign policy while I was living among
Palestinian civilians enduring the daily humiliations of the Israeli
military occupation enabled by the U.S. government.

Attempts to isolate and marginalize Americans who want to stop U.S. war
crimes, to effectively take away our free speech rights, affect every
American who wants to end these crimes, whatever we think about Bernie or
the presidential race. For decades, people who insist that the U.S. must
bomb, invade and occupy other people’s countries and starve their civilians
have worked assiduously to isolate and marginalize Americans who want to
stop these crimes, to silence us, to prevent us from having any influence
in U.S. politics, to prevent us from stopping the crimes.

In particular, they’ve had a two-prong strategy for starting and
perpetuating U.S. wars, and for keeping war policies beyond the reach of
the American people. The first prong is to undermine the Constitution and
the War Powers Resolution, so Congress doesn’t vote before the war, so the
American people don’t have an opportunity to weigh in, and to concentrate
the war power in the hands of the President, in violation of the
Constitution. The second prong is to marginalize war critics from
presidential politics, so nobody who opposes these policies can be
President or have any influence on the President.

It’s natural that people who want to end unconstitutional wars are starting
to pay more attention to the second prong. But we also need to maintain
focus on the first prong. *No matter who the President is, we need to
re-establish the supremacy of the Constitution and the War Powers
Resolution over the President on war and peace.*

That’s a key reason – *in addition to the ten million lives in Yemen
hanging in the balance* – that we need to maintain focus on restoring
Congressional control over Yemen war powers.

*Please help us maintain public focus on the Congressional role in ending
unconstitutional war by signing and sharing our petition to Congress,
urging Congress to invoke the War Powers Resolution to pass a concurrent
resolution – not subject to presidential veto – to end unconstitutional
U.S. participation in the Saudi war in Yemen.
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From brussel at illinois.edu  Sat May  4 19:27:11 2019
From: brussel at illinois.edu (Brussel, Morton K)
Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 19:27:11 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Live now!
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Black days we are living through…, those who seek peace and justice.

On May 4, 2019, at 12:15 PM, Karen Aram via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:



This is pretty disturbing. Medea and a couple of other women with Code Pink are outside with signs saying “peaceful protestor, please don’t hit.” Medea doesn’t look good.

They have people up close in their faces banging, on metal, loud noises, with chanting in Spanish, and signs saying “we were born in Venezuela and we don’t want Maduro.”

I have always maintained, most immigrants in the US today, are generally coming from the bourgeoise, hate socialism, don’t care about war, and act as USG pawns.

We had some of these trolls at the Gloria La Riva program but this is really bad, and given many in the Embassy haven’t been eating.


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From brussel at illinois.edu  Sat May  4 19:27:11 2019
From: brussel at illinois.edu (Brussel, Morton K)
Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 19:27:11 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Live now!
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Black days we are living through…, those who seek peace and justice.

On May 4, 2019, at 12:15 PM, Karen Aram via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:



This is pretty disturbing. Medea and a couple of other women with Code Pink are outside with signs saying “peaceful protestor, please don’t hit.” Medea doesn’t look good.

They have people up close in their faces banging, on metal, loud noises, with chanting in Spanish, and signs saying “we were born in Venezuela and we don’t want Maduro.”

I have always maintained, most immigrants in the US today, are generally coming from the bourgeoise, hate socialism, don’t care about war, and act as USG pawns.

We had some of these trolls at the Gloria La Riva program but this is really bad, and given many in the Embassy haven’t been eating.


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From niloofar.peace at gmail.com  Sat May  4 20:51:55 2019
From: niloofar.peace at gmail.com (Niloofar Shambayati)
Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 15:51:55 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Live now!
In-Reply-To: <6F7227D7-8F76-43ED-9D84-D31E413818EB@illinois.edu>
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Once again, pots and pans in the service of reactionary forces and
imperialism.

Many thanks to Ford and also to Karen for sharing.

Niloofar


On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 2:27 PM Brussel, Morton K via Peace <
peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> Black days we are living through…, those who seek peace and justice.
>
> On May 4, 2019, at 12:15 PM, Karen Aram via Peace <
> peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> This is pretty disturbing. Medea and a couple of other women with Code
> Pink are outside with signs saying “peaceful protestor, please don’t hit.”
> Medea doesn’t look good.
>
> They have people up close in their faces banging, on metal, loud noises,
> with chanting in Spanish, and signs saying “we were born in Venezuela and
> we don’t want Maduro.”
>
> I have always maintained, most immigrants in the US today, are generally
> coming from the bourgeoise, hate socialism, don’t care about war, and act
> as USG pawns.
>
>
> We had some of these trolls at the Gloria La Riva program but this is
> really bad, and given many in the Embassy haven’t been eating.
>
>
>
> https://www.facebook.com/N2Sreports/videos/2353231781612828/?notif_id=1556987512617369&notif_t=live_video_share
>
>
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From niloofar.peace at gmail.com  Sat May  4 20:51:55 2019
From: niloofar.peace at gmail.com (Niloofar Shambayati)
Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 15:51:55 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Live now!
In-Reply-To: <6F7227D7-8F76-43ED-9D84-D31E413818EB@illinois.edu>
References: <MWHPR08MB2382CFFFF2D13D6364AA1DC2A3360@MWHPR08MB2382.namprd08.prod.outlook.com>
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Message-ID: <CAFLceawiNLcYgvK13V9+P8gm8sGSpuxksaijCTgm+WJyb75GQg@mail.gmail.com>

Once again, pots and pans in the service of reactionary forces and
imperialism.

Many thanks to Ford and also to Karen for sharing.

Niloofar


On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 2:27 PM Brussel, Morton K via Peace <
peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> Black days we are living through…, those who seek peace and justice.
>
> On May 4, 2019, at 12:15 PM, Karen Aram via Peace <
> peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> This is pretty disturbing. Medea and a couple of other women with Code
> Pink are outside with signs saying “peaceful protestor, please don’t hit.”
> Medea doesn’t look good.
>
> They have people up close in their faces banging, on metal, loud noises,
> with chanting in Spanish, and signs saying “we were born in Venezuela and
> we don’t want Maduro.”
>
> I have always maintained, most immigrants in the US today, are generally
> coming from the bourgeoise, hate socialism, don’t care about war, and act
> as USG pawns.
>
>
> We had some of these trolls at the Gloria La Riva program but this is
> really bad, and given many in the Embassy haven’t been eating.
>
>
>
> https://www.facebook.com/N2Sreports/videos/2353231781612828/?notif_id=1556987512617369&notif_t=live_video_share
>
>
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sat May  4 22:13:22 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 22:13:22 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Live now!
In-Reply-To: <CAFLceawiNLcYgvK13V9+P8gm8sGSpuxksaijCTgm+WJyb75GQg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <MWHPR08MB2382CFFFF2D13D6364AA1DC2A3360@MWHPR08MB2382.namprd08.prod.outlook.com>
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Thanks Niloofar, you aren’t one of those I was referring to as not caring what the US does to their former homeland.

Many immigrants fear getting involved, for good reason, they don’t want to become targets, which they are anyway, with the many “crazy’s” and right wingers, running around with guns.


On May 4, 2019, at 13:51, Niloofar Shambayati <niloofar.peace at gmail.com<mailto:niloofar.peace at gmail.com>> wrote:

Once again, pots and pans in the service of reactionary forces and imperialism.

Many thanks to Ford and also to Karen for sharing.

Niloofar


On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 2:27 PM Brussel, Morton K via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:
Black days we are living through…, those who seek peace and justice.

On May 4, 2019, at 12:15 PM, Karen Aram via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:



This is pretty disturbing. Medea and a couple of other women with Code Pink are outside with signs saying “peaceful protestor, please don’t hit.” Medea doesn’t look good.

They have people up close in their faces banging, on metal, loud noises, with chanting in Spanish, and signs saying “we were born in Venezuela and we don’t want Maduro.”

I have always maintained, most immigrants in the US today, are generally coming from the bourgeoise, hate socialism, don’t care about war, and act as USG pawns.

We had some of these trolls at the Gloria La Riva program but this is really bad, and given many in the Embassy haven’t been eating.


https://www.facebook.com/N2Sreports/videos/2353231781612828/?notif_id=1556987512617369&notif_t=live_video_share

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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sat May  4 22:13:22 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 22:13:22 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Live now!
In-Reply-To: <CAFLceawiNLcYgvK13V9+P8gm8sGSpuxksaijCTgm+WJyb75GQg@mail.gmail.com>
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Thanks Niloofar, you aren’t one of those I was referring to as not caring what the US does to their former homeland.

Many immigrants fear getting involved, for good reason, they don’t want to become targets, which they are anyway, with the many “crazy’s” and right wingers, running around with guns.


On May 4, 2019, at 13:51, Niloofar Shambayati <niloofar.peace at gmail.com<mailto:niloofar.peace at gmail.com>> wrote:

Once again, pots and pans in the service of reactionary forces and imperialism.

Many thanks to Ford and also to Karen for sharing.

Niloofar


On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 2:27 PM Brussel, Morton K via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:
Black days we are living through…, those who seek peace and justice.

On May 4, 2019, at 12:15 PM, Karen Aram via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:



This is pretty disturbing. Medea and a couple of other women with Code Pink are outside with signs saying “peaceful protestor, please don’t hit.” Medea doesn’t look good.

They have people up close in their faces banging, on metal, loud noises, with chanting in Spanish, and signs saying “we were born in Venezuela and we don’t want Maduro.”

I have always maintained, most immigrants in the US today, are generally coming from the bourgeoise, hate socialism, don’t care about war, and act as USG pawns.

We had some of these trolls at the Gloria La Riva program but this is really bad, and given many in the Embassy haven’t been eating.


https://www.facebook.com/N2Sreports/videos/2353231781612828/?notif_id=1556987512617369&notif_t=live_video_share

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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Mon May  6 00:13:41 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Mon, 6 May 2019 00:13:41 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: URGENT! Take action tonight!
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On Saturday, May 4, Tighe Barry, a CODEPINK member of the Venezuela Embassy Protection Collective, was arrested outside the Venezuela Embassy. As he was trying to put up a canopy next to the building (the pro-Guaidó people have 10 canopies along the perimeter of the embassy), he was mobbed by a violent pro-Guaidó crowd, who pushed him into a Secret Service police officer. Barry was then arrested and falsely charged with assaulting the policeman, and he is still in jail. We are certain that this arrest was politically motivated and baseless (as would be evidenced in any video).

Tighe is scheduled to appear in court on Monday morning, May 6. We need you to take action. Please join us in asking Jessica K. Liu, the US Attorney for the District of Columbia, to do the right thing: Dismiss the case (“no paper” the case) and release him immediately.<https://www.codepink.org/nopaper?e=1afe7b7163b9dda25d4599b2d4f044d6&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=vzla_drop_charges&n=2>

The right-wing, pro-Guaidó crowd have illegally and dangerously put the building under siege, keeping us from getting inside and preventing us from bringing food or medicines to our team already inside. Unfortunately, the Secret Service is working with them, as evidenced by Tighe Barry’s false arrest.

Our Embassy Protection Collective has been peacefully and legally living in the embassy since April 15 at the invitation of the Venezuelan government. Our goal is to keep it from being illegally turned over Guaidó forces. We are waiting for some arrangement between the US and Venezuela governments to put both countries’ embassies—the Venezuelan Embassy in DC and the US Embassy in Caracas--under the protectorate of third countries, as in the case of Iran where that embassy is now an “Interest Section” under the protection of Pakistan. This would be a peaceful, conciliatory solution to the present standoff.

In the meantime, we need to get our colleague Tighe Barry out of jail. Please contact US Attorney Jessica K. Liu and ask her to dismiss the case (“no paper” the case) and release him immediately<https://www.codepink.org/nopaper?e=1afe7b7163b9dda25d4599b2d4f044d6&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=vzla_drop_charges&n=3>.

Towards peace,
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Mon May  6 00:13:41 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Mon, 6 May 2019 00:13:41 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: URGENT! Take action tonight!
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On Saturday, May 4, Tighe Barry, a CODEPINK member of the Venezuela Embassy Protection Collective, was arrested outside the Venezuela Embassy. As he was trying to put up a canopy next to the building (the pro-Guaidó people have 10 canopies along the perimeter of the embassy), he was mobbed by a violent pro-Guaidó crowd, who pushed him into a Secret Service police officer. Barry was then arrested and falsely charged with assaulting the policeman, and he is still in jail. We are certain that this arrest was politically motivated and baseless (as would be evidenced in any video).

Tighe is scheduled to appear in court on Monday morning, May 6. We need you to take action. Please join us in asking Jessica K. Liu, the US Attorney for the District of Columbia, to do the right thing: Dismiss the case (“no paper” the case) and release him immediately.<https://www.codepink.org/nopaper?e=1afe7b7163b9dda25d4599b2d4f044d6&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=vzla_drop_charges&n=2>

The right-wing, pro-Guaidó crowd have illegally and dangerously put the building under siege, keeping us from getting inside and preventing us from bringing food or medicines to our team already inside. Unfortunately, the Secret Service is working with them, as evidenced by Tighe Barry’s false arrest.

Our Embassy Protection Collective has been peacefully and legally living in the embassy since April 15 at the invitation of the Venezuelan government. Our goal is to keep it from being illegally turned over Guaidó forces. We are waiting for some arrangement between the US and Venezuela governments to put both countries’ embassies—the Venezuelan Embassy in DC and the US Embassy in Caracas--under the protectorate of third countries, as in the case of Iran where that embassy is now an “Interest Section” under the protection of Pakistan. This would be a peaceful, conciliatory solution to the present standoff.

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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Mon May  6 11:43:20 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Mon, 6 May 2019 11:43:20 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Interview with Kevin Zeese in Venezuelan Embassy DC
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Mon May  6 11:43:20 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Mon, 6 May 2019 11:43:20 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Interview with Kevin Zeese in Venezuelan Embassy DC
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Tue May  7 11:39:36 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Tue, 7 May 2019 11:39:36 +0000
Subject: [Peace] What we can do in reference to the Venezuelan Embassy in DC
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91 Views
Andrea E. Merida: Co-Chair, GPUS Green Party of the United States<https://www.facebook.com/andreaemerida/?__tn__=%2CdkCH-R-R&eid=ARDH_FQaSPBhTT8Sw9xNQnlmdH_lkUTcTz-GRhBsBV9tBnwEN7_DDBGnjcLEsNORnz-eY_bm6b1kWXJw&hc_ref=ARRaXG6kVWHKxvj5eXNjHKbdtH-A4Lp3mKcLIdAhyRcioKoCJmFWJizwfDzbZI8esUA&fref=nf&hc_location=group>Like Page
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I live very far away from D.C., and even if I had the funds to fly there, I would hate to burden folks on the ground by dropping in at the last minute. That doesn't mean we sit by and do nothing. Call your congressional representative! Mine is Diana DeGette, of Colorado CD 1. Visit this website to find yours: https://www.house.gov/representati…/find-your-representative<https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative>

Many of you called the Secret Service over the weekend, and we can tell it's making a difference, because now they have a canned script that they're letting in food and medicines. But we have evidence to the contrary. Our activists in the embassy are now literally *rationing food to get by*. By calling your congressional rep, we can turn up the heat and get some relief for our warriors inside the embassy.

Make sure you have your demand ready when calling, which I suggest is that your rep should insist that the Secret Service stop interfering with unfettered access to food, medicines and personal supplies intended for the activists inside the Venezuelan embassy. Tell your rep that the right-wing opposition is confrontational and is even causing injury to older people trying to deliver food and medicines, and the Secret Service is arresting these peaceful people while leaving the right-wing opposition alone. Keep in mind that an aide is trying to write down everything you're saying, so don't ramble. Speak clearly and succinctly and get to the point.

We need to do everything we can to support the Embassy Protection Collective<https://www.facebook.com/ColectivosporlaPaz/?__tn__=%2CdKH-R-R&eid=ARCw6XDe1uVcbXsdnbQik5FQUiYI4WYDCUv2iphNuULa8pRqFhYVbz3Zd-vp049dgDWh7Y7Hrf-lpi0_&fref=mentions&hc_location=group>, even if we can't be physically present. This took me less than five minutes, including the time to find out my rep's contact info. Join me! Call your member of Congress!

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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Tue May  7 11:39:36 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Tue, 7 May 2019 11:39:36 +0000
Subject: [Peace] What we can do in reference to the Venezuelan Embassy in DC
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91 Views
Andrea E. Merida: Co-Chair, GPUS Green Party of the United States<https://www.facebook.com/andreaemerida/?__tn__=%2CdkCH-R-R&eid=ARDH_FQaSPBhTT8Sw9xNQnlmdH_lkUTcTz-GRhBsBV9tBnwEN7_DDBGnjcLEsNORnz-eY_bm6b1kWXJw&hc_ref=ARRaXG6kVWHKxvj5eXNjHKbdtH-A4Lp3mKcLIdAhyRcioKoCJmFWJizwfDzbZI8esUA&fref=nf&hc_location=group>Like Page
12 hrs<https://www.facebook.com/andreaemerida/videos/287324435480210/>

I live very far away from D.C., and even if I had the funds to fly there, I would hate to burden folks on the ground by dropping in at the last minute. That doesn't mean we sit by and do nothing. Call your congressional representative! Mine is Diana DeGette, of Colorado CD 1. Visit this website to find yours: https://www.house.gov/representati…/find-your-representative<https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative>

Many of you called the Secret Service over the weekend, and we can tell it's making a difference, because now they have a canned script that they're letting in food and medicines. But we have evidence to the contrary. Our activists in the embassy are now literally *rationing food to get by*. By calling your congressional rep, we can turn up the heat and get some relief for our warriors inside the embassy.

Make sure you have your demand ready when calling, which I suggest is that your rep should insist that the Secret Service stop interfering with unfettered access to food, medicines and personal supplies intended for the activists inside the Venezuelan embassy. Tell your rep that the right-wing opposition is confrontational and is even causing injury to older people trying to deliver food and medicines, and the Secret Service is arresting these peaceful people while leaving the right-wing opposition alone. Keep in mind that an aide is trying to write down everything you're saying, so don't ramble. Speak clearly and succinctly and get to the point.

We need to do everything we can to support the Embassy Protection Collective<https://www.facebook.com/ColectivosporlaPaz/?__tn__=%2CdKH-R-R&eid=ARCw6XDe1uVcbXsdnbQik5FQUiYI4WYDCUv2iphNuULa8pRqFhYVbz3Zd-vp049dgDWh7Y7Hrf-lpi0_&fref=mentions&hc_location=group>, even if we can't be physically present. This took me less than five minutes, including the time to find out my rep's contact info. Join me! Call your member of Congress!

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From moboct1 at aim.com  Tue May  7 14:00:13 2019
From: moboct1 at aim.com (Mildred O'brien)
Date: Tue, 7 May 2019 14:00:13 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Peace] Eric Prince--he's baackk!
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I recommend two interviews from yesterday's (5/6/19) DemocracyNow!  

 The interview with Matthew Cole of Intercept talked of Eric Prince reinventing himself since Trump's election.  Prince the dirty war-rior for hire who's activities (aka Blackwater) around the globe and of late in the war on Yemen or wherever there is money to be made from bloody conflicts, has proposed U.S. troop "withdrawal" from the war from/on Afghanistan to be replaced by his private army.  He's teamed up with John Bolton in his latest proposal reported by Reuters to provide 5,000  mercenary soldiers to Venezuela for Guidao.  Prince is no idealist, he follows the money wherever it's available, preferably in nefarious conflicts, finding fresh opportunity in Washington after being banned by Obama.

The other half of the program was about the latest Israeli conflict with Gaza in an interview with Raji Sourani of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights from Gaza where he spoke of Israeli continuous bombing for three days and nights of Gazans, which was begun after two Palestinians were shot dead by IDF in the Great March at the Wall, followed by the wounding of two Israeli soldiers which led to IDF bombing, then rockets fired from Gaza.

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From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org  Tue May  7 23:01:05 2019
From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman)
Date: Tue, 7 May 2019 18:01:05 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Wednesday 7pm: Free Showing of "Seder-Masochism" by Nina
 Paley in Champaign
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On *Wednesday May 8 at 7pm*, there will be a free showing of the anti-war
film “*Seder-Masochism*” by Nina Paley, at the *Virginia Theater *in
downtown Champaign. Doors open at 6.

*Here's a description of the movie*
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from Frank Pieper's "Weekend Faves" in Sunday's *News-Gazette.*

And *here's a column by Jim Dey*
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about Wednesday's screening in today's *News-Gazette.*

After the film, there will be a panel discussion with Nina Paley and Robert
Naiman. The panel will be moderated by Michael Brün. There will also be an
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Wed May  8 00:20:36 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Wed, 8 May 2019 00:20:36 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Pentagon Report on China's Military Expansion:
 'Hypocrisy, ' Says Col. Lawrence Wilkerson
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Wed May  8 13:01:32 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Wed, 8 May 2019 13:01:32 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: [Peaceaction] Sign on now to the Declaration of the
 Embassy Protection Collective
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Dear Friends in the Peace Movement,

See attached links, a Declaration of the Embassy Protection Collective, and a form to sign a statement in support.

Peace,
Rich Whitney

Read it here
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hPLQZX36BlxL7B1PKqVxxKnfu2Cdlus4w3ftBlyNYaY/edit
Sign on here
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Dear Friends in the Peace Movement,

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Peace,
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Thu May  9 11:18:24 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Thu, 9 May 2019 11:18:24 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: [Peaceaction] Gerry Condon was just arrested for
 throwing a cucumber
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The outrages continue. Gerry Condon is president of Veterans for Peace.

From: Peaceaction <peaceaction-bounces at gp.org<mailto:peaceaction-bounces at gp.org>> On Behalf Of Kevin Zeese
Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2019 6:09 PM
To: vfp-all at yahoogroups <vfp-all at yahoogroups.com<mailto:vfp-all at yahoogroups.com>>; <wbw-discussion at googlegroups.com<mailto:wbw-discussion at googlegroups.com>> <wbw-discussion at googlegroups.com<mailto:wbw-discussion at googlegroups.com>>; UNAC Discussion <unac-discussion at googlegroups.com<mailto:unac-discussion at googlegroups.com>>; GPAX Mailing List <Peaceaction at gp.org<mailto:Peaceaction at gp.org>>; peacecongress at googlegroups.com<mailto:peacecongress at googlegroups.com>; comehomeamericastco at googlegroups.com<mailto:comehomeamericastco at googlegroups.com>; moving-beyond-capitalism-discussion-group at googlegroups.com<mailto:moving-beyond-capitalism-discussion-group at googlegroups.com>; Two Shoes <twoshoes at afgj.xyz<mailto:twoshoes at afgj.xyz>>
Subject: [Peaceaction] Gerry Condon was just arrested for throwing a cucumber

Gerry Condon was joining with other members of the Embassy Protection Collective outside the Venezuelan embassy trying to deliver food to us inside the embassy. When they were blocked by the violent opposition Gerry attempted to throw a cucumber to me in the window.

He was immediately surrounded by Secret Service police. He was thrown to the ground. His face was bloodied by three police who sat on him.

He was recently taken away in a police wagon with someone who attempted
to throw an orange.

https://twittercom/anyaparampil/status/1126256876566581248?s=12<https://twitter.com/anyaparampil/status/1126256876566581248?s=12>

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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Thu May  9 11:18:24 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Thu, 9 May 2019 11:18:24 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: [Peaceaction] Gerry Condon was just arrested for
 throwing a cucumber
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The outrages continue. Gerry Condon is president of Veterans for Peace.

From: Peaceaction <peaceaction-bounces at gp.org<mailto:peaceaction-bounces at gp.org>> On Behalf Of Kevin Zeese
Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2019 6:09 PM
To: vfp-all at yahoogroups <vfp-all at yahoogroups.com<mailto:vfp-all at yahoogroups.com>>; <wbw-discussion at googlegroups.com<mailto:wbw-discussion at googlegroups.com>> <wbw-discussion at googlegroups.com<mailto:wbw-discussion at googlegroups.com>>; UNAC Discussion <unac-discussion at googlegroups.com<mailto:unac-discussion at googlegroups.com>>; GPAX Mailing List <Peaceaction at gp.org<mailto:Peaceaction at gp.org>>; peacecongress at googlegroups.com<mailto:peacecongress at googlegroups.com>; comehomeamericastco at googlegroups.com<mailto:comehomeamericastco at googlegroups.com>; moving-beyond-capitalism-discussion-group at googlegroups.com<mailto:moving-beyond-capitalism-discussion-group at googlegroups.com>; Two Shoes <twoshoes at afgj.xyz<mailto:twoshoes at afgj.xyz>>
Subject: [Peaceaction] Gerry Condon was just arrested for throwing a cucumber

Gerry Condon was joining with other members of the Embassy Protection Collective outside the Venezuelan embassy trying to deliver food to us inside the embassy. When they were blocked by the violent opposition Gerry attempted to throw a cucumber to me in the window.

He was immediately surrounded by Secret Service police. He was thrown to the ground. His face was bloodied by three police who sat on him.

He was recently taken away in a police wagon with someone who attempted
to throw an orange.

https://twittercom/anyaparampil/status/1126256876566581248?s=12<https://twitter.com/anyaparampil/status/1126256876566581248?s=12>

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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Thu May  9 12:19:17 2019
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Subject: [Peace] Brian Becker/ANSWER: Police have cut the electricity
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Breaking: The police have cut the electricity to the Venezuelan Embassy. Appear to be planning to raid the Embassy. Complete violation of international law, Vienna Convention and DC laws. Solidarity with our movement against imperial empire and the people of Venezuela!!
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Thu May  9 18:20:17 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Thu, 9 May 2019 18:20:17 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Live from the Venezuelan Embassy in DC
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Brian Becker of ANSWER is speaking, then the Quaido folks show up, plus…….
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Fri May 10 12:50:42 2019
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Subject: [Peace] Transcript of TRNN interview with Col. Wilkerson,
 on Venezuela
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SHARMINI PERIES It’s The Real News Network. I’m Sharmini Peries, coming to you from Baltimore.

Last week, when Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido tried to call on the Venezuelan military to abandon President Maduro in what many called a coup attempt, the Trump administration accused Russia of helping Maduro thwart the plan. Then, last Friday, President Trump had an extensive phone call with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin where they discussed Venezuela, amongst several other issues. Meanwhile, Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza visited Moscow to meet with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Following the meeting, Lavrov said very clearly that U.S. sanctions on Venezuela violate international law and are aimed at toppling the legitimate government of Venezuela. Finally, on the sidelines of an international meeting in Helsinki, Finland, on Monday to discuss an agreement on how to deal with the climate change crisis in the Arctic, Lavrov met with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to address the issue of Venezuela.

Joining me now to take a closer look at U.S.-Russia relations over Venezuela is Col. Larry Wilkerson. He is the former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell. Now he’s a distinguished adjunct professor of government and public policy at the College of William and Mary. Thanks for joining us, Larry.

LARRY WILKERSON Good to hear your voice, Sharmini.

SHARMINI PERIES All right, Larry, you had a very interesting meeting last week, and that was with the foreign minister of Venezuela, Jorge Arreaza. Now, I know Arreaza had also met with Foreign Minister Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia. And I am sure, given the current situation in Venezuela, you discussed the escalating situation that Venezuela is facing. And I know in the past you’ve had quite a bit of experience with the Venezuelan military. So give us a sense of your takeaways from that meeting with Jorge Arreaza.

LARRY WILKERSON Sharmini, their foreign minister, as you well know, I think you’ve met with him, is a young man who is very impressive. He is on top of his brief. He’s on top of Venezuela’s history and its remarkable devotion to democracy over the years. Its military is more or less [in] support of, always, the constitution. One of the things that troubled me so much about Elliott Abrams, Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, and the administration’s approach to Venezuela, is how they treat them as if they were Panama or they were Honduras. They are not. I’ve worked with the Venezuelan military. They’re very professional. I would place them at the top of the list for South America. That puts them above Argentina, above Chile, whose militaries are quite competent, too. And I would say that Mr. Trump ought to be very, very careful about saying he’s going to send Marines or soldiers to Venezuela because the Venezuelan military will be unified immediately. It will take to the hills and it will fight us as the Vietnamese did during the Vietnam War, and as the Taliban are in Afghanistan right now: To the last Marine, to the last soldier. And we’ll be going home, and we will not be very successful there.

So I hope that’s what Vladimir Putin talked about with Trump. Putin is a smart man, probably told Trump you don’t want to get involved in those jungles. You don’t want to get involved in those mountains. You don’t want to get involved with that military. Nothing could solidify them around a president, around the constitution, around their country and their defense thereof, more than a gringo invasion. It’s that simple. So invading Venezuela, under whatever pretext, would be terrible.

And let me just say something about the incompetence of Gina Haspel and the CIA. And I know about the incompetence of the CIA; I’ve been up close and personal with it for over half a century. This was probably the most incompetent bunch of people trying to pull off a coup against Nicolas Maduro in Caracas that I’ve ever seen. In the last week, they have demonstrated that they can walk into the White House and tell the president everything is fine, Juan Guaido will be the winner, Leopoldo Lopez will be the winner. Everything is gonna be fine. We are now positioned to pull off the coup and put Guaido in the leadership role he should be in, so blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it completely failed. It completely collapsed. I’d have fired Gina Haspel, I’d have fired half the CIA, and I probably would have taken some action against some other people too, including the National Security Adviser, maybe Elliott Abrams, maybe some others, and I’d have certainly backed off some of the people who are leading my policy with respect to Latin America right now, like Rick Scott and Marco Rubio. This was a display of American incompetence in its own hemisphere, unparalleled.

SHARMINI PERIES Now, that’s really interesting, Larry, that Putin and Trump spoke with each other, and Venezuela was one of the key issues. Do you think the conversation actually diffused tensions that existed between Venezuela and the United States, and now Russia getting involved? Or do you think this might have escalated the tensions?

LARRY WILKERSON Well, you have President Trump actually contradicting Secretary of State Pompeo and his National Security Adviser, and that’s good. Anytime he contradicts them, that’s good. I think Putin probably gave him some advice. Putin is probably one of the–no matter how draconian, mafioso-like, or whatever we may think he is, he’s probably one of the most strategically-oriented, strategic thinking leaders in the world. And if he got Trump aside and he said something like I just said to you, you don’t want to do this. This would be very stupid. You’ll solidify the military. They’ll be opposed to you and you alone. It won’t matter who’s the president down here because they’ll just be taking you on. And Trump listened to it. I think Trump seems to have, for whatever reason, great respect for Vladimir Putin. And as far as I’m concerned, more power to him, because if Putin gave him advice like that, it was very sound and very good advice.

SHARMINI PERIES All right, Larry. I will let you get back to your garden, and looking forward to having you here next week.

LARRY WILKERSON Thanks. Appreciate it.
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SHARMINI PERIES It’s The Real News Network. I’m Sharmini Peries, coming to you from Baltimore.

Last week, when Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido tried to call on the Venezuelan military to abandon President Maduro in what many called a coup attempt, the Trump administration accused Russia of helping Maduro thwart the plan. Then, last Friday, President Trump had an extensive phone call with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin where they discussed Venezuela, amongst several other issues. Meanwhile, Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza visited Moscow to meet with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Following the meeting, Lavrov said very clearly that U.S. sanctions on Venezuela violate international law and are aimed at toppling the legitimate government of Venezuela. Finally, on the sidelines of an international meeting in Helsinki, Finland, on Monday to discuss an agreement on how to deal with the climate change crisis in the Arctic, Lavrov met with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to address the issue of Venezuela.

Joining me now to take a closer look at U.S.-Russia relations over Venezuela is Col. Larry Wilkerson. He is the former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell. Now he’s a distinguished adjunct professor of government and public policy at the College of William and Mary. Thanks for joining us, Larry.

LARRY WILKERSON Good to hear your voice, Sharmini.

SHARMINI PERIES All right, Larry, you had a very interesting meeting last week, and that was with the foreign minister of Venezuela, Jorge Arreaza. Now, I know Arreaza had also met with Foreign Minister Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia. And I am sure, given the current situation in Venezuela, you discussed the escalating situation that Venezuela is facing. And I know in the past you’ve had quite a bit of experience with the Venezuelan military. So give us a sense of your takeaways from that meeting with Jorge Arreaza.

LARRY WILKERSON Sharmini, their foreign minister, as you well know, I think you’ve met with him, is a young man who is very impressive. He is on top of his brief. He’s on top of Venezuela’s history and its remarkable devotion to democracy over the years. Its military is more or less [in] support of, always, the constitution. One of the things that troubled me so much about Elliott Abrams, Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, and the administration’s approach to Venezuela, is how they treat them as if they were Panama or they were Honduras. They are not. I’ve worked with the Venezuelan military. They’re very professional. I would place them at the top of the list for South America. That puts them above Argentina, above Chile, whose militaries are quite competent, too. And I would say that Mr. Trump ought to be very, very careful about saying he’s going to send Marines or soldiers to Venezuela because the Venezuelan military will be unified immediately. It will take to the hills and it will fight us as the Vietnamese did during the Vietnam War, and as the Taliban are in Afghanistan right now: To the last Marine, to the last soldier. And we’ll be going home, and we will not be very successful there.

So I hope that’s what Vladimir Putin talked about with Trump. Putin is a smart man, probably told Trump you don’t want to get involved in those jungles. You don’t want to get involved in those mountains. You don’t want to get involved with that military. Nothing could solidify them around a president, around the constitution, around their country and their defense thereof, more than a gringo invasion. It’s that simple. So invading Venezuela, under whatever pretext, would be terrible.

And let me just say something about the incompetence of Gina Haspel and the CIA. And I know about the incompetence of the CIA; I’ve been up close and personal with it for over half a century. This was probably the most incompetent bunch of people trying to pull off a coup against Nicolas Maduro in Caracas that I’ve ever seen. In the last week, they have demonstrated that they can walk into the White House and tell the president everything is fine, Juan Guaido will be the winner, Leopoldo Lopez will be the winner. Everything is gonna be fine. We are now positioned to pull off the coup and put Guaido in the leadership role he should be in, so blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it completely failed. It completely collapsed. I’d have fired Gina Haspel, I’d have fired half the CIA, and I probably would have taken some action against some other people too, including the National Security Adviser, maybe Elliott Abrams, maybe some others, and I’d have certainly backed off some of the people who are leading my policy with respect to Latin America right now, like Rick Scott and Marco Rubio. This was a display of American incompetence in its own hemisphere, unparalleled.

SHARMINI PERIES Now, that’s really interesting, Larry, that Putin and Trump spoke with each other, and Venezuela was one of the key issues. Do you think the conversation actually diffused tensions that existed between Venezuela and the United States, and now Russia getting involved? Or do you think this might have escalated the tensions?

LARRY WILKERSON Well, you have President Trump actually contradicting Secretary of State Pompeo and his National Security Adviser, and that’s good. Anytime he contradicts them, that’s good. I think Putin probably gave him some advice. Putin is probably one of the–no matter how draconian, mafioso-like, or whatever we may think he is, he’s probably one of the most strategically-oriented, strategic thinking leaders in the world. And if he got Trump aside and he said something like I just said to you, you don’t want to do this. This would be very stupid. You’ll solidify the military. They’ll be opposed to you and you alone. It won’t matter who’s the president down here because they’ll just be taking you on. And Trump listened to it. I think Trump seems to have, for whatever reason, great respect for Vladimir Putin. And as far as I’m concerned, more power to him, because if Putin gave him advice like that, it was very sound and very good advice.

SHARMINI PERIES All right, Larry. I will let you get back to your garden, and looking forward to having you here next week.

LARRY WILKERSON Thanks. Appreciate it.
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SHARMINI PERIES It’s The Real News Network. I’m Sharmini Peries, coming to you from Baltimore. The United States is sending the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln into the Persian Gulf, according to a statement that the National Security Adviser John Bolton released on Monday. Bolton’s statement says that the purpose of the deployment is in response to a number of the troubling and escalatory indications and warnings and to send a clear and unmistakable message to the Iranian regime that any attack on the United States’ interests or on those of our allies will be met with unrelenting force. Now, neither the White House nor the Pentagon officials clarified what kind of escalatory warnings had been received by the Trump administration. Now the previous week on Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace, the Iranian Foreign Minister gave an interview in which he accused Bolton of having vested interests in fomenting a war against Iran. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the following.

MOHAMMAD JAVAD ZARIF Mr. Bolton has said publicly before he became National Security Adviser in a rally that was organized by an Iranian terrorist organization that was on the list of terror groups by the United States State Department and Mr. Bolton was on the payroll, that he would celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Tehran with that terrorist organization. He is on the record, after receiving $50,000 to say that. He has said it again as National Security Adviser.

SHARMINI PERIES And when Chris Wallace asked Bolton in a later interview about these allegations, here’s what Bolton said.

JOHN BOLTON It’s completely ridiculous. I think what that interview showed was a carefully prepared propaganda script by the Iranians. This is their effort to try and sow disinformation in the American body politic. The fact is, the president’s policy on Iran has been clear well before I arrived in the administration. It is to put maximum pressure on the regime to get it to change its behavior and I think it’s working and I think that’s what they’re worried about.

CHRIS WALLACE Well, Zarif is right about one thing. In 2017, as he said, you did give a speech to MEK, an opposition group which at one point, not now, but at one point was listed as a terrorist group, in which you talked about regime change in Iran and celebrating in Tehran with MEK

JOHN BOLTON Let me just say, on the MEK, you know who took the MEK off the US list of foreign terrorist organizations? Hillary Clinton, that well-known right-wing Republican.

SHARMINI PERIES Joining me now to discuss all of this is Larry Wilkerson. He is the former Chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell and he’s a Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Government and Public Policy at the College of William and Mary. Good to have you back, Larry.

LARRY WILKERSON Good to hear your voice, Sharmini.

SHARMINI PERIES All right, Larry. Let’s start with the most recent development here about the aircraft USS Abraham Lincoln going to the Persian Gulf. And of course, also tell us about this exchange between the Foreign Minister and John Bolton about the MEK starting with, what is the MEK?

LARRY WILKERSON I think John Bolton, Rudy Giuliani, and a host of other Americans, have been using the MEK as a cash cow since we very stupidly took them off the terrorism list. The MEK is a cult; it is a terrorist cult. There’s no doubt about it, but we seem to have this uncanny knack of calling people terrorists when we don’t like them, and calling them freedom fighters when they are terrorists when we like them. And John Bolton has taken money from these people. I heard it was $30,000 a whack and several whacks, but he’s in a crowd of people who’ve done that. The interview was interesting that he did with Chris Wallace and that Zarif did. Both were performing, as you would expect, diplomats for various states to perform, in this case, John for us and Zarif for Iran. In other words, John’s comment that Zarif was a carefully prepared propaganda script, was absolute nonsense.

If you want to say that, you want to say that as much about John Bolton as you do Zarif. What it was, was two diplomats dueling with one another, one of them with a fairly full deck, and the other one with a deck missing of two cards. And that’s John Bolton because Bolton has said so many things in the past, as you’ve pointed out from time to time, celebrating on the 40th anniversary of the Iran revolution in Tehran with the MEK, for example. That’s what he claimed he would do. Well John, I’m sorry that anniversary has passed, and I haven’t seen you in Tehran. So this is two diplomats dealing with each other and they’re dealing with each other on the script I presuppose that Donald Trump has put out there for him, that Trump wants negotiations. He wants to sit down with Rouhani, Zarif, both of them, whatever, and he wants to resume negotiations so he can leap up from the chair and say, look I got a better deal than President Obama. He wants to do a Kim Jong-un moment with Rouhani and Zarif. He wants to do it really close to the election too because it would be a real kick for him electorally. So Bolton is operating, I think, under that script guidance, if you will, but at the same time, John wants more than that.

John wants regime change. And so, what worries me here, and your talk about the deployment of forces and so forth, and what might be going on with Saudi Arabia and with the UAE and with Israel, really worries me because Trump’s attention to detail is almost nonexistentant. And underneath that inattention, John Bolton—and with regard to Venezuela, for example Marco Rubio, Rick Scott from Florida, Elliott Abrams, and a host of people, are making mischief. While John Bolton and his crew are making mischief with regard to Iran, and that crew might include some of these military forces that are deploying there, if we’re looking for an incident, it’s not going to be hard to manufacture one. If we’re looking for a Tonkin Gulf, if we’re looking for a smoking gun and a mushroom cloud, you know, those kinds of propagandistic things, those kinds of made up things that lead to war, then this is a perfect scenario in which to find something like that. And that worries me. If Bolton’s operating under this inattention of the president and trying to do what he wants to do, that’s of deep concern to me.

SHARMINI PERIES All right. Now, John Bolton in his statement, Larry, indicated that this move of sending the carrier to the Gulf was so that it could protect US interests and US allies. What did he mean by that?

LARRY WILKERSON He’s looking for something. He’s trying to provoke something. He’s looking for an incident. That’s all I can see in it because Iran does not threaten a country to whom we are by Donald Trump’s own proud admission, selling a $100 billion worth of arms to. Iran does not threaten a country that has more of the United States military power arrayed around it, than any other place on the face of the earth— Al Udeid in Qatar, Khalifa in Saudi Arabia, Military City in Saudi Arabia, Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain. How can Iran possibly—Americans need to get off the pot and think for a minute. How can this country threaten anything the United States has in the Strait, in the Gulf, or in the region, when we have so much superiority? And Saudi Arabia and other countries allied with us have so much superiority. Israel has so much superiority. It’s all make believe. It’s John Bolton make believe. It’s Mike Pompeo make believe. And the fact that Donald Trump goes along with it, makes him an idiot.

SHARMINI PERIES All right. And finally, Larry, the ongoing sanctions against Iran has caused a situation where people suffering, Iranian people suffering under floods and horrible natural conditions, aren’t able to receive aid at this point through international organizations like the Red Cross because of the economic sanctions. What do you make of that and what’s the precedent for this kind of behavior? Is there a possibility of lifting sanctions at a time of crises like this?

LARRY WILKERSON The precedent, Sharmini, is that this is the most brutal administration in the history of this country. I remember in 2003 when the earthquake hit—bam. You remember that thousands, thousands of casualties. People buried in the rubble. It was horrible. And I remember going into Secretary Powell and I just started to say, we need to send aid. We need to send out help, immediately. And Powell kind of smiled at me and I said, what are you smiling at? And he said, don’t worry about it, Larry; the president’s already on it. This was George W. Bush. We were already on it. We sent firemen. We sent search dogs. We sent search teams. We sent ambulances. We sent food. We sent water. We sent all manner of humanitarian support and we extended it over months in order to help the Iranians recover from that tragic earthquake.

This administration is looking at a country, Sharmini, that has received 70 percent of its annual rainfall in 13 days. Over 1,300 villages and communities have been devastated, flooded. People are in trouble. The government can’t possibly—we’ve been talking about this all along, Bolton talks about this all along, Pompeo talks about it. The government is not competent. It is not competent. That is true. It is not responding. The RGC is not responding. They’re not doing what they should be doing for their people, partly because, if not largely because, they’re incompetent. We should be helping. I have a friend in Salt Lake City, a billionaire, who’s been trying to send a ship full of humanitarian supplies. He can’t even get it through OFAC to send this ship. This is brutal. This is uncharacteristic of America, uncharacteristic of Americans, and we should be ashamed of ourselves for it.

SHARMINI PERIES All right. Larry, thank you very much for that. Looking forward to having you back. And please join me. I’m not going to let Larry go back to his garden until he answers some questions on the Venezuela crises, so bear with me. And Larry, hang in there. We’ll be right back.
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SHARMINI PERIES It’s The Real News Network. I’m Sharmini Peries, coming to you from Baltimore. The United States is sending the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln into the Persian Gulf, according to a statement that the National Security Adviser John Bolton released on Monday. Bolton’s statement says that the purpose of the deployment is in response to a number of the troubling and escalatory indications and warnings and to send a clear and unmistakable message to the Iranian regime that any attack on the United States’ interests or on those of our allies will be met with unrelenting force. Now, neither the White House nor the Pentagon officials clarified what kind of escalatory warnings had been received by the Trump administration. Now the previous week on Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace, the Iranian Foreign Minister gave an interview in which he accused Bolton of having vested interests in fomenting a war against Iran. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the following.

MOHAMMAD JAVAD ZARIF Mr. Bolton has said publicly before he became National Security Adviser in a rally that was organized by an Iranian terrorist organization that was on the list of terror groups by the United States State Department and Mr. Bolton was on the payroll, that he would celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Tehran with that terrorist organization. He is on the record, after receiving $50,000 to say that. He has said it again as National Security Adviser.

SHARMINI PERIES And when Chris Wallace asked Bolton in a later interview about these allegations, here’s what Bolton said.

JOHN BOLTON It’s completely ridiculous. I think what that interview showed was a carefully prepared propaganda script by the Iranians. This is their effort to try and sow disinformation in the American body politic. The fact is, the president’s policy on Iran has been clear well before I arrived in the administration. It is to put maximum pressure on the regime to get it to change its behavior and I think it’s working and I think that’s what they’re worried about.

CHRIS WALLACE Well, Zarif is right about one thing. In 2017, as he said, you did give a speech to MEK, an opposition group which at one point, not now, but at one point was listed as a terrorist group, in which you talked about regime change in Iran and celebrating in Tehran with MEK

JOHN BOLTON Let me just say, on the MEK, you know who took the MEK off the US list of foreign terrorist organizations? Hillary Clinton, that well-known right-wing Republican.

SHARMINI PERIES Joining me now to discuss all of this is Larry Wilkerson. He is the former Chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell and he’s a Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Government and Public Policy at the College of William and Mary. Good to have you back, Larry.

LARRY WILKERSON Good to hear your voice, Sharmini.

SHARMINI PERIES All right, Larry. Let’s start with the most recent development here about the aircraft USS Abraham Lincoln going to the Persian Gulf. And of course, also tell us about this exchange between the Foreign Minister and John Bolton about the MEK starting with, what is the MEK?

LARRY WILKERSON I think John Bolton, Rudy Giuliani, and a host of other Americans, have been using the MEK as a cash cow since we very stupidly took them off the terrorism list. The MEK is a cult; it is a terrorist cult. There’s no doubt about it, but we seem to have this uncanny knack of calling people terrorists when we don’t like them, and calling them freedom fighters when they are terrorists when we like them. And John Bolton has taken money from these people. I heard it was $30,000 a whack and several whacks, but he’s in a crowd of people who’ve done that. The interview was interesting that he did with Chris Wallace and that Zarif did. Both were performing, as you would expect, diplomats for various states to perform, in this case, John for us and Zarif for Iran. In other words, John’s comment that Zarif was a carefully prepared propaganda script, was absolute nonsense.

If you want to say that, you want to say that as much about John Bolton as you do Zarif. What it was, was two diplomats dueling with one another, one of them with a fairly full deck, and the other one with a deck missing of two cards. And that’s John Bolton because Bolton has said so many things in the past, as you’ve pointed out from time to time, celebrating on the 40th anniversary of the Iran revolution in Tehran with the MEK, for example. That’s what he claimed he would do. Well John, I’m sorry that anniversary has passed, and I haven’t seen you in Tehran. So this is two diplomats dealing with each other and they’re dealing with each other on the script I presuppose that Donald Trump has put out there for him, that Trump wants negotiations. He wants to sit down with Rouhani, Zarif, both of them, whatever, and he wants to resume negotiations so he can leap up from the chair and say, look I got a better deal than President Obama. He wants to do a Kim Jong-un moment with Rouhani and Zarif. He wants to do it really close to the election too because it would be a real kick for him electorally. So Bolton is operating, I think, under that script guidance, if you will, but at the same time, John wants more than that.

John wants regime change. And so, what worries me here, and your talk about the deployment of forces and so forth, and what might be going on with Saudi Arabia and with the UAE and with Israel, really worries me because Trump’s attention to detail is almost nonexistentant. And underneath that inattention, John Bolton—and with regard to Venezuela, for example Marco Rubio, Rick Scott from Florida, Elliott Abrams, and a host of people, are making mischief. While John Bolton and his crew are making mischief with regard to Iran, and that crew might include some of these military forces that are deploying there, if we’re looking for an incident, it’s not going to be hard to manufacture one. If we’re looking for a Tonkin Gulf, if we’re looking for a smoking gun and a mushroom cloud, you know, those kinds of propagandistic things, those kinds of made up things that lead to war, then this is a perfect scenario in which to find something like that. And that worries me. If Bolton’s operating under this inattention of the president and trying to do what he wants to do, that’s of deep concern to me.

SHARMINI PERIES All right. Now, John Bolton in his statement, Larry, indicated that this move of sending the carrier to the Gulf was so that it could protect US interests and US allies. What did he mean by that?

LARRY WILKERSON He’s looking for something. He’s trying to provoke something. He’s looking for an incident. That’s all I can see in it because Iran does not threaten a country to whom we are by Donald Trump’s own proud admission, selling a $100 billion worth of arms to. Iran does not threaten a country that has more of the United States military power arrayed around it, than any other place on the face of the earth— Al Udeid in Qatar, Khalifa in Saudi Arabia, Military City in Saudi Arabia, Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain. How can Iran possibly—Americans need to get off the pot and think for a minute. How can this country threaten anything the United States has in the Strait, in the Gulf, or in the region, when we have so much superiority? And Saudi Arabia and other countries allied with us have so much superiority. Israel has so much superiority. It’s all make believe. It’s John Bolton make believe. It’s Mike Pompeo make believe. And the fact that Donald Trump goes along with it, makes him an idiot.

SHARMINI PERIES All right. And finally, Larry, the ongoing sanctions against Iran has caused a situation where people suffering, Iranian people suffering under floods and horrible natural conditions, aren’t able to receive aid at this point through international organizations like the Red Cross because of the economic sanctions. What do you make of that and what’s the precedent for this kind of behavior? Is there a possibility of lifting sanctions at a time of crises like this?

LARRY WILKERSON The precedent, Sharmini, is that this is the most brutal administration in the history of this country. I remember in 2003 when the earthquake hit—bam. You remember that thousands, thousands of casualties. People buried in the rubble. It was horrible. And I remember going into Secretary Powell and I just started to say, we need to send aid. We need to send out help, immediately. And Powell kind of smiled at me and I said, what are you smiling at? And he said, don’t worry about it, Larry; the president’s already on it. This was George W. Bush. We were already on it. We sent firemen. We sent search dogs. We sent search teams. We sent ambulances. We sent food. We sent water. We sent all manner of humanitarian support and we extended it over months in order to help the Iranians recover from that tragic earthquake.

This administration is looking at a country, Sharmini, that has received 70 percent of its annual rainfall in 13 days. Over 1,300 villages and communities have been devastated, flooded. People are in trouble. The government can’t possibly—we’ve been talking about this all along, Bolton talks about this all along, Pompeo talks about it. The government is not competent. It is not competent. That is true. It is not responding. The RGC is not responding. They’re not doing what they should be doing for their people, partly because, if not largely because, they’re incompetent. We should be helping. I have a friend in Salt Lake City, a billionaire, who’s been trying to send a ship full of humanitarian supplies. He can’t even get it through OFAC to send this ship. This is brutal. This is uncharacteristic of America, uncharacteristic of Americans, and we should be ashamed of ourselves for it.

SHARMINI PERIES All right. Larry, thank you very much for that. Looking forward to having you back. And please join me. I’m not going to let Larry go back to his garden until he answers some questions on the Venezuela crises, so bear with me. And Larry, hang in there. We’ll be right back.
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sat May 11 02:09:16 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 02:09:16 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Urgent: Activists converging from across the country
 tomorrow at 12:00pm: Support the Embassy Protection Collective!
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Emergency at Venezuelan Embassy in D.C.: Turn on the electricity! Stop the pro-coup mob's violence!
Mass Mobilization — Saturday, 12:00 p.m.
Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, D.C.
1099 30th St. NW

[banner.jpg]The Embassy Protection Collective, which includes activists from Popular Resistance, Code Pink, ANSWER Coalition, Veterans for Peace and others, are calling for an urgent mass mobilization of support on Saturday at 12:00 p.m. to demand an immediate end to all efforts to illegally seize the Embassy on behalf of the U.S.-backed, right-wing coup leaders.

Emergency transportation hubs have been set up in New York City, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Lancaster, Baltimore and even as far away as Atlanta, Georgia! We need everyone who believes in justice, peace and international solidarity to come to the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, D.C. and stand with the embassy protectors, who are facing violence and bigoted abuse at the hands of the police-assisted right-wing mob that's stationed 24/7 outside the building.

On Wednesday night, the Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO), assisted by the U.S. Secret Service and Metropolitan Police Department, cut off electricity to the activists lawfully residing inside the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, D.C., creating a dangerous emergency situation. The Secret Service was undoubtedly carrying out an order from Trump's State Department. This was done despite utility bills being fully paid by the owners of the building, which is the legitimate government of Venezuela, and despite the fact that the activists inside are invited guests of the Venezuelan government.

Activists have been residing inside the Venezuelan Embassy since mid-April to protect it from takeover by opposition forces as part of the U.S. orchestrated coup.

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Subject: [Peace] Urgent: Activists converging from across the country
 tomorrow at 12:00pm: Support the Embassy Protection Collective!
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Emergency at Venezuelan Embassy in D.C.: Turn on the electricity! Stop the pro-coup mob's violence!
Mass Mobilization — Saturday, 12:00 p.m.
Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, D.C.
1099 30th St. NW

[banner.jpg]The Embassy Protection Collective, which includes activists from Popular Resistance, Code Pink, ANSWER Coalition, Veterans for Peace and others, are calling for an urgent mass mobilization of support on Saturday at 12:00 p.m. to demand an immediate end to all efforts to illegally seize the Embassy on behalf of the U.S.-backed, right-wing coup leaders.

Emergency transportation hubs have been set up in New York City, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Lancaster, Baltimore and even as far away as Atlanta, Georgia! We need everyone who believes in justice, peace and international solidarity to come to the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, D.C. and stand with the embassy protectors, who are facing violence and bigoted abuse at the hands of the police-assisted right-wing mob that's stationed 24/7 outside the building.

On Wednesday night, the Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO), assisted by the U.S. Secret Service and Metropolitan Police Department, cut off electricity to the activists lawfully residing inside the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, D.C., creating a dangerous emergency situation. The Secret Service was undoubtedly carrying out an order from Trump's State Department. This was done despite utility bills being fully paid by the owners of the building, which is the legitimate government of Venezuela, and despite the fact that the activists inside are invited guests of the Venezuelan government.

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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sat May 11 13:25:53 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 13:25:53 +0000
Subject: [Peace] One of the best in relation to Venezuela,
 here and there with Max Blumenthal
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https://youtu.be/J4nQc2HyOVo

From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sat May 11 13:25:53 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 13:25:53 +0000
Subject: [Peace] One of the best in relation to Venezuela,
 here and there with Max Blumenthal
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https://youtu.be/J4nQc2HyOVo

From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sat May 11 15:40:33 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 15:40:33 +0000
Subject: [Peace] NFN Friday
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Carl and David

Good show, unfortunately I couldn’t see it, could only listen, whether my system, or UPTV’s I know not. 

David: I like your assessment of “class,” does effect all things,” my words, not yours. 

Carl: Interesting info. from Greg Palast, related to the Koch Bros. interest in Venezuelan oil. 

I loved your assessment of the Public I, as I have been planning to write to them given my analysis is almost exactly the same as yours.

I loved Al Kagan’s article related to Vietnam, having also been involved in the anti-war movement in DC, then in 1993 while residing in Bangkok, Thailand, I organized an event on behalf of the US Democrats Abroad Thailand, with international businessmen, urging the US to drop its sanctions against doing business with Vietnam. Though I have never been there, I have been to Cambodia and Laos, and other nations in Asia, and everything Al Kagan reveals about recent events in Vietnam, compares with that of others I know who have been there. His analysis is one I share. When one looks at interventions and war today one see’s a pattern of military losses, resulting in the US acquiring the goal, not of military victory, but simply the creation of chaos and destruction, which places the victim nation in a position of weakness, struggling to survive, and rebuild and often a dependence upon outside nations. 

I also liked Richard Esbenshades’ article on the Yellow Vest movement in France, which I had been informed by Beldon Fields when I asked if he would be writing, and was informed he would be advising. Important, given the lack of coverage of the Y V movement, by even alternative media. It appeared to be a fair and unbiased analysis.

Unfortunately Pat Simpson’s article is good and important, it is a bit out of date, given AOC abandoned the Green New Deal, leaving it to the same folks, who never supported anything related to global warming, saying when asked, she wanted to focus on more important issues, as her reason for not sitting on the committee. This was much to the disappointent of the young Sunrise Movement folks, who depended upon AOC to promote the original Green Party’s, Green New Deal, even without a reasonable phase out of fossil fuels.   

Sheri Daily’s article related to BDS wasn’t mentioned, but it was good to see it in the Public I.



From davidgreen50 at gmail.com  Sat May 11 16:29:47 2019
From: davidgreen50 at gmail.com (David Green)
Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 11:29:47 -0500
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] News from Neptune #420 notes
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Thank you Jeff.

My apologies for confusing Ernie Terrell with Sonny Liston regarding "Say
my name."

Here is a link to Saez Zucman article on wealth:
https://www.nber.org/papers/w20625

Here is the letter that I read yesterday, which will be published in a few
days:

In 2014, Berkeley economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman published,
through the National Bureau of Economic Research, “Wealth Inequality in the
United States since 1913: Evidence from Capitalized Income Tax Data,”
available online with easily readable charts. With sound data and
transparent methodology, they argue that since 1979 “the rise of wealth
inequality is almost entirely due to the rise of the top 0.1% (1/1,000)
wealth share, from 7% to 22% in 2012—a level almost as high as 1929.”

In 2012 dollars, between 1986 and 2012 the wealth growth rate of the bottom
90% of families averaged .1% per year, resulting in average wealth of
$84,000, 22% of total wealth, down from 36%. Meanwhile, the growth rate of
the top 1% (1.6 million families) averaged 3.9% per year, resulting in
average family wealth of $14 million and a 42% share.

Of this 1%, the top 0.1% (160,000 families) accounted for over half, a 22%
share (equal to the bottom 90%, 144 million families), with an average of
$73 million. Moreover, the top 0.01% (16,000) of families (1/10,000)
possessed 11% ($6 trillion) of private wealth, having increased its share
from 2% in 1979.

Globalization, financialization, tax “reform,” out-sourcing, union-busting
and austerity have enforced this trend. Private equity, as in Larry Gies
and Madison Industries, is one piece of this neoliberal puzzle. When the
university celebrates his donation of appropriated wealth, it celebrates
the relentless financial warfare he and the capitalist class wage against
the vast majority of workers and families.

On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 5:00 PM J.B. Nicholson via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> News from Neptune #420 notes
> An "Oil and Poisoned Water" edition.
> Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsJR0bKCyHw
>
> Links to items referenced on the show.
>
>
>
> Jimmy Dore interviews Greg Palast
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeNCbXVHrR8 -- quote comes from this
> segment
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs-FiLFFDnk
>
> Previous letter to the editor by David Green
>
> http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-the-editor/2019-04-20/letter-the-editor-life-good-those-1-percent-households.html
>
> This is Hell! interview of Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt
> https://thisishell.com/interviews/1053-rosemary-batt-eileen-appelbaum
> Show file: https://thisishell-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/mp3/20190427D.mp3
> Show RSS feed: https://thisishell.com/rss.xml
>
> Taxing wealth instead of taxing income
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_tax
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/opinion/to-reduce-inequality-tax-wealth-not-income.html
> -- Daniel Altman op-ed for the New York Times
>
> https://equitablegrowth.org/wealth-taxation-an-introduction-to-net-worth-taxes-and-how-one-might-work-in-the-u-s/
>
> https://americansfortaxfairness.org/tax-fairness-briefing-booklet/fact-sheet-taxing-wealthy-americans/
>
>
>
> Al Kagan on "Vietnam Today: Did Anyone “Win” the Vietnam War?"
>
> http://publici.ucimc.org/2019/04/vietnam-today-did-anyone-win-the-vietnam-war/
>
> Richard Esbenshade on "What Can We Learn from the Yellow Vests?"
> http://publici.ucimc.org/2019/04/what-can-we-learn-from-the-yellow-vests/
>
> Patricia Simpson on "No Time to Wait: Let’s Make a Green New Deal!"
>
> http://publici.ucimc.org/2019/04/no-time-to-wait-lets-make-a-green-new-deal/
>
> News-Gazette Editorial Board on "Barr's battle"
>
> http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/2019-05-10/editorial-barrs-battle.html
>
>
>
> Craig Murray on "The Real Muellergate Scandal"
>
> https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/05/the-real-muellergate-scandal/
>
> More on Craig Murray: Alex Salmond interviews Craig Murray published
> 2019-05-10 in an episode called "Ambassador of Controversy" starts at
> 5m04s
> talking mainly about torture and being smeared for exposing torture.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3dx3x05gYg -- Part of the Alex Salmond
> show on RT.
>
>
>
> Doug Henwood's Left Business Observer news
> https://lbo-news.com/
>
> "Behind the News" show
> RSS feed: http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed.php
>
> Doug Henwood's critique
> https://lbo-news.com/2019/05/06/misreading-the-latest-jobs-numbers/
>
> Jack Rasmus's response to Doug Henwood
>
> https://jackrasmus.com/2019/05/06/why-government-job-stats-are-inaccurate-a-reply-to-doug-henwoods-apology-defense-of-government-reports/
>
> Doug Henwood on "Responding to Rasmus’s response"
> https://lbo-news.com/2019/05/07/responding-to-rasmuss-response/
>
> Doug Henwood "Uber Is a Scam"
> https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/05/uber-ipo-profitability-value-labor-costs
>
> F. Scott Fitzgerald quote
>
> https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10367-let-me-tell-you-about-the-very-rich-they-are
>
> Ernest Hemingway on the difference of the wealthy
>
> https://www.inspirationalstories.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway-the-rich-were-dull-and-they-drank/
>
> Related:
>
> http://www.quotecounterquote.com/2009/11/rich-are-different-famous-quote.html
> -- on the source of the quotes
>
>
>
> Venezuelan embassy in Washington D.C. under siege
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc2bmR6ACT0 -- RT report on current
> situation
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apCKhc3NON8 -- earlier GrayZone report
>
> Noam Chomsky on "History of US Rule in Latin America: Resistance to the
> Coup in Honduras"
> Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKwJI9axblQ
> Edited partial transcript:
>
> https://mronline.org/2009/12/26/history-of-us-rule-in-latin-america-resistance-to-the-coup-in-honduras/
>
> This is Hell! with Chuck Mertz interviews Andrew Cockburn
> https://thisishell.com/interviews/1054-andrew-cockburn
> Show file: https://thisishell-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/mp3/20190504D.mp3
>
> Andrew Cockburn on "No Joe! Joe Biden’s disastrous legislative legacy"
> https://harpers.org/archive/2019/03/joe-biden-record/
>
>
> "What's My Name?" HBO program
> https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/whats-my-name-muhammad-ali
>
> Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston fight
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali-liston#The_fight -- which contains no
> reference to the quote but describes the reaction to the name 'Muhammad
> Ali'.
>
> "What's my name?" quote
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_vs._Ernie_Terrell
>
> https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/05/cassius-clay-became-muhammad-ali_n_4903050.html
>
>
>
> Paul Krugman on "Trump Is Terrible for Rural America"
> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/opinion/trump-rural-america.html
>
> -J
> _______________________________________________
> Peace-discuss mailing list
> Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss
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From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org  Sat May 11 19:54:01 2019
From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman)
Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 14:54:01 -0500
Subject: [Peace] JFP alert: Pelosi, Hoyer,
 Smith: Let the House vote on Venezuela War Powers
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Dear Robert,

Trump has threatened to attack Venezuela without Congressional
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Powers Resolution of 1973.

So far, under Nancy Pelosi’s leadership, the “Democratic-controlled” House
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Trump can’t attack Venezuela without getting *specific* Congressional
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Mon May 13 11:23:46 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 11:23:46 +0000
Subject: [Peace] ILLINOIS PASSES BILL CRIMINALIZING INFRASTRUCTURE-RELATED
 PROTESTS
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Illinois passes bill criminalizing infrastructure-related protests
By Benjamin Mateus and Kristina Betinis
13 May 2019

On May 2, the 101st Illinois General Assembly passed House Bill 1633, entitled “New Penalties for Protests Near Critical Infrastructure.”

A draft version of the bill was produced by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in the aftermath of the 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protests. It was introduced to the Illinois legislature by Republican Representative Joe Sosnowski, a registered member of ALEC.

The coordinated effort in passing this type of legislation all over the US means Illinois H.B. 1633 bill is nearly identical to similar bills being pushed through numerous state legislatures, including Oklahoma, North and South Dakota, West Virginia, Tennessee and more.

In the last two years, 15 such bills<http://www.icnl.org/usprotestlawtracker/> have been enacted nationally while 26 are pending further review and votes. These are driven in large part by oil and energy corporations through the pro-business think-tank ALEC.

ALEC has for decades produced model bills on a broad range of issues, including deregulation and individual and corporate taxation, immigration, loosening restrictions on environmental regulations, tighter voter identification rules, weakening labor organizing and opposition to gun control. The essential element of the current infrastructure bills is to provide the states with the judicial authority to suppress strikes, demonstrations and protests on the pretext of protecting property and the right to free speech.

The text of the Illinois bill expands and modifies the criminal penalties for damage to any infrastructure, private property and workplaces, as one critic notes, “elevat[ing] a patchwork of locations and equipment to the same level of protection currently and exclusively afforded to nuclear power plants.” (Indivisible Chicago)

The text of the bill also expands the offense of criminal trespass, creating new categories of misdemeanor and felonies that would hold accountable any business, corporation or organization deemed involved with the individual or group: “The industry protection list includes everything from telephone poles, cell towers, TV stations, railroad tracks, and ports to steel plants, coal mines and pipelines.”

The legislation also provides a legal excuse for pursuing harsh penalties for superficial offenses as well as criminalizing the exercise of one’s right to protest.

It is notable that “conspiracy” appears numerous times in the legislation, indicating the aim of the bill is to deter and harshly punish organized and coordinated protest, strike and demonstration activity. One representative clause reads: “[I]f a business, corporation or organization is convicted of conspiracy to commit any of the offenses the entity shall, in addition to any other applicable penalty, be sentenced to a fine of not less than 10 times the minimum fine authorized for the offense.”

The bill passed the Democrat-controlled Illinois House by a vote of 77 yes to 28 no. Pending a May 14 hearing by a compliance subcommittee, it is expected to proceed to the Senate and then to Democratic governor and multibillionaire J.B. Pritzker for his signature.

The prototype legislation for the anti-protest bills is Oklahoma’s House Bill 1123, entitled “New Penalties for Protests Near Critical Infrastructure,” introduced by Republican Scott Biggs and passed in 2017. According to NPR, “Trespassing is already illegal in Oklahoma. In its current form, HB 1123 creates three new classes of the crime and assigns minimum penalties for people trespassing on a dozen types of critical infrastructure. The classes range from a misdemeanor to felonies for people who damage or inhibit operations, or intend to. The minimum fines range from $100 to $100,000. The bill also adds steeper penalties for groups found to have conspired with trespassers that damage or tamper with critical infrastructure, though the state has anti-conspiracy laws on the books … Minimum fines levied on critical infrastructure conspirators could be as high as $1 million.”

Though the seemingly narrower intent of these bills is to prevent protesters from resisting the expansion of oil and energy infrastructure, as in the case of the Dakota Access pipeline, the general wording and broad categories used are intended to create legal avenues for the prosecution of demonstrators more widely, including those that take place near manufacturing plants or state capitol protests by teachers or other groups of workers.

The claims about “national security” in the bill are entirely fraudulent and being employed here to excuse a violent crackdown on political activity in anticipation of major social struggles.

In an ACLU report published in March of 2018, Vera Eidelman writes that the “bills are written so broadly that they could impose criminal penalties and devastating fines simply for offering food or housing to protesters. For instance, a bill currently being considered in Wyoming would impose a $1 million penalty on any person or organization that ‘encourages’ certain forms of environmental protest. Legislation introduced in Tennessee, Florida, North Carolina, and North Dakota would have allowed drivers to hit protesters with cars without criminal repercussions.”

Many environmental organizations, including Greenpeace, are facing near billion-dollar lawsuits by Energy Transfer Partners alleging that a criminal enterprise was “put in place to stop the [Dakota Access] Pipeline project.” By burdening these organizations with astronomical costs for legal defense and penalties, it will force them to abandon their operations and with it their opposition and criticism.

Governor Jim Justice of West Virginia signed into law in March of 2018 HB 4618, “Eliminating Police Liability for Deaths While Dispersing Riots and Unlawful Assemblies.” The law strengthens West Virginia’s already restrictive rioting laws, to further empower the police. Authorities are not to be held liable for the deaths and wounding that occur in the course of dispersing “riots” and unlawful assemblies. Under prior West Virginia law, if a bystander was asked to leave a protest or assembly and failed to do so, he or she would “be deemed a rioter.” The new law eliminates police liability if anyone present, “as a spectator or otherwise, be killed or wounded,” while the authorities may use “any means” to disperse unlawful assemblies or arrest those involved.

That law was passed during a statewide teachers’ strike when tens of thousands protested at the state capitol in February 2018.

The US Congress sent a bipartisan letter to the Department of Justice signed by 84 members asking officials to prosecute pipeline activists as “terrorists” under the USA PATRIOT Act.

Reuters noted in October 2017, “A terrorism expert said it was ironic the lawmakers referred to the law, which defines ‘domestic terrorism’ as acts dangerous to human life intended to intimidate civilians but does not offer a way to prosecute anyone under it.” This oversight is being redressed with the passage of these bills.

Campus protests

Capitalist politicians in Illinois have mounted another effort this year to tamp down and control protests, this time on college campuses, under the cover of “free speech.” House Bill 2280 would seem to be anything but a defense of that.

The bill is entitled, “Mandatory Sanctions for Campus Protesters,” providing disciplinary sanctions applied to peaceful protesters on university campuses and requiring “public universities and community colleges to adopt a policy prohibiting and subjecting to sanction any ‘protests or demonstrations that infringe upon the rights of others to engage in or listen to expressive activity’ on campus.”

Violators would be suspended for at least one year and expelled for a second offense if “found responsible for infringing on the expressive rights of others.”

The essence of the bill is that individuals or groups who choose to invoke their First Amendment Rights to free speech could be found to be violating otherindividuals or groups’ rights, thereby creating a Catch-22, the intent of which is to curb protest and demonstrations on campuses in the face of the overt promotion of extreme-right politics at the highest levels (see: “Beloit College students protest speech by Blackwater founder<https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/02/bepr-a02.html>”).

The objective of all these laws and penalties are to put in place further legal means to criminalize dissent and protest. The bourgeoisie is seeking to respond to opposition, strikes and protests with unrestrained force. The ruling class, lurching from crisis to crisis and riven internally, is not willing to countenance dissent.

The author also recommends:

America’s industrial slaughterhouse
<https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/09/25/pers-s25.html>[25 September 2018]
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Mon May 13 11:23:46 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 11:23:46 +0000
Subject: [Peace] ILLINOIS PASSES BILL CRIMINALIZING INFRASTRUCTURE-RELATED
 PROTESTS
Message-ID: <MWHPR08MB238292FB4ACE2F94E7611C0BA30F0@MWHPR08MB2382.namprd08.prod.outlook.com>

Illinois passes bill criminalizing infrastructure-related protests
By Benjamin Mateus and Kristina Betinis
13 May 2019

On May 2, the 101st Illinois General Assembly passed House Bill 1633, entitled “New Penalties for Protests Near Critical Infrastructure.”

A draft version of the bill was produced by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in the aftermath of the 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protests. It was introduced to the Illinois legislature by Republican Representative Joe Sosnowski, a registered member of ALEC.

The coordinated effort in passing this type of legislation all over the US means Illinois H.B. 1633 bill is nearly identical to similar bills being pushed through numerous state legislatures, including Oklahoma, North and South Dakota, West Virginia, Tennessee and more.

In the last two years, 15 such bills<http://www.icnl.org/usprotestlawtracker/> have been enacted nationally while 26 are pending further review and votes. These are driven in large part by oil and energy corporations through the pro-business think-tank ALEC.

ALEC has for decades produced model bills on a broad range of issues, including deregulation and individual and corporate taxation, immigration, loosening restrictions on environmental regulations, tighter voter identification rules, weakening labor organizing and opposition to gun control. The essential element of the current infrastructure bills is to provide the states with the judicial authority to suppress strikes, demonstrations and protests on the pretext of protecting property and the right to free speech.

The text of the Illinois bill expands and modifies the criminal penalties for damage to any infrastructure, private property and workplaces, as one critic notes, “elevat[ing] a patchwork of locations and equipment to the same level of protection currently and exclusively afforded to nuclear power plants.” (Indivisible Chicago)

The text of the bill also expands the offense of criminal trespass, creating new categories of misdemeanor and felonies that would hold accountable any business, corporation or organization deemed involved with the individual or group: “The industry protection list includes everything from telephone poles, cell towers, TV stations, railroad tracks, and ports to steel plants, coal mines and pipelines.”

The legislation also provides a legal excuse for pursuing harsh penalties for superficial offenses as well as criminalizing the exercise of one’s right to protest.

It is notable that “conspiracy” appears numerous times in the legislation, indicating the aim of the bill is to deter and harshly punish organized and coordinated protest, strike and demonstration activity. One representative clause reads: “[I]f a business, corporation or organization is convicted of conspiracy to commit any of the offenses the entity shall, in addition to any other applicable penalty, be sentenced to a fine of not less than 10 times the minimum fine authorized for the offense.”

The bill passed the Democrat-controlled Illinois House by a vote of 77 yes to 28 no. Pending a May 14 hearing by a compliance subcommittee, it is expected to proceed to the Senate and then to Democratic governor and multibillionaire J.B. Pritzker for his signature.

The prototype legislation for the anti-protest bills is Oklahoma’s House Bill 1123, entitled “New Penalties for Protests Near Critical Infrastructure,” introduced by Republican Scott Biggs and passed in 2017. According to NPR, “Trespassing is already illegal in Oklahoma. In its current form, HB 1123 creates three new classes of the crime and assigns minimum penalties for people trespassing on a dozen types of critical infrastructure. The classes range from a misdemeanor to felonies for people who damage or inhibit operations, or intend to. The minimum fines range from $100 to $100,000. The bill also adds steeper penalties for groups found to have conspired with trespassers that damage or tamper with critical infrastructure, though the state has anti-conspiracy laws on the books … Minimum fines levied on critical infrastructure conspirators could be as high as $1 million.”

Though the seemingly narrower intent of these bills is to prevent protesters from resisting the expansion of oil and energy infrastructure, as in the case of the Dakota Access pipeline, the general wording and broad categories used are intended to create legal avenues for the prosecution of demonstrators more widely, including those that take place near manufacturing plants or state capitol protests by teachers or other groups of workers.

The claims about “national security” in the bill are entirely fraudulent and being employed here to excuse a violent crackdown on political activity in anticipation of major social struggles.

In an ACLU report published in March of 2018, Vera Eidelman writes that the “bills are written so broadly that they could impose criminal penalties and devastating fines simply for offering food or housing to protesters. For instance, a bill currently being considered in Wyoming would impose a $1 million penalty on any person or organization that ‘encourages’ certain forms of environmental protest. Legislation introduced in Tennessee, Florida, North Carolina, and North Dakota would have allowed drivers to hit protesters with cars without criminal repercussions.”

Many environmental organizations, including Greenpeace, are facing near billion-dollar lawsuits by Energy Transfer Partners alleging that a criminal enterprise was “put in place to stop the [Dakota Access] Pipeline project.” By burdening these organizations with astronomical costs for legal defense and penalties, it will force them to abandon their operations and with it their opposition and criticism.

Governor Jim Justice of West Virginia signed into law in March of 2018 HB 4618, “Eliminating Police Liability for Deaths While Dispersing Riots and Unlawful Assemblies.” The law strengthens West Virginia’s already restrictive rioting laws, to further empower the police. Authorities are not to be held liable for the deaths and wounding that occur in the course of dispersing “riots” and unlawful assemblies. Under prior West Virginia law, if a bystander was asked to leave a protest or assembly and failed to do so, he or she would “be deemed a rioter.” The new law eliminates police liability if anyone present, “as a spectator or otherwise, be killed or wounded,” while the authorities may use “any means” to disperse unlawful assemblies or arrest those involved.

That law was passed during a statewide teachers’ strike when tens of thousands protested at the state capitol in February 2018.

The US Congress sent a bipartisan letter to the Department of Justice signed by 84 members asking officials to prosecute pipeline activists as “terrorists” under the USA PATRIOT Act.

Reuters noted in October 2017, “A terrorism expert said it was ironic the lawmakers referred to the law, which defines ‘domestic terrorism’ as acts dangerous to human life intended to intimidate civilians but does not offer a way to prosecute anyone under it.” This oversight is being redressed with the passage of these bills.

Campus protests

Capitalist politicians in Illinois have mounted another effort this year to tamp down and control protests, this time on college campuses, under the cover of “free speech.” House Bill 2280 would seem to be anything but a defense of that.

The bill is entitled, “Mandatory Sanctions for Campus Protesters,” providing disciplinary sanctions applied to peaceful protesters on university campuses and requiring “public universities and community colleges to adopt a policy prohibiting and subjecting to sanction any ‘protests or demonstrations that infringe upon the rights of others to engage in or listen to expressive activity’ on campus.”

Violators would be suspended for at least one year and expelled for a second offense if “found responsible for infringing on the expressive rights of others.”

The essence of the bill is that individuals or groups who choose to invoke their First Amendment Rights to free speech could be found to be violating otherindividuals or groups’ rights, thereby creating a Catch-22, the intent of which is to curb protest and demonstrations on campuses in the face of the overt promotion of extreme-right politics at the highest levels (see: “Beloit College students protest speech by Blackwater founder<https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/02/bepr-a02.html>”).

The objective of all these laws and penalties are to put in place further legal means to criminalize dissent and protest. The bourgeoisie is seeking to respond to opposition, strikes and protests with unrestrained force. The ruling class, lurching from crisis to crisis and riven internally, is not willing to countenance dissent.

The author also recommends:

America’s industrial slaughterhouse
<https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/09/25/pers-s25.html>[25 September 2018]
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From deb.pdamerica at gmail.com  Mon May 13 12:26:12 2019
From: deb.pdamerica at gmail.com (Debra Schrishuhn)
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 07:26:12 -0500
Subject: [Peace] ILLINOIS PASSES BILL CRIMINALIZING
 INFRASTRUCTURE-RELATED PROTESTS
In-Reply-To: <MWHPR08MB238292FB4ACE2F94E7611C0BA30F0@MWHPR08MB2382.namprd08.prod.outlook.com>
References: <MWHPR08MB238292FB4ACE2F94E7611C0BA30F0@MWHPR08MB2382.namprd08.prod.outlook.com>
Message-ID: <CANDTtd=A3M30yewrjxOU9+3DqsTYZ+CDJZRmBHRw2cjgyZx7GQ@mail.gmail.com>

The good news is that Rep Ammons voted against this bill. It has not come
up for a vote in the State Senate, so I urge people to encourage St Sen
Scott Bennett to vote against it:

*Springfield Office:*

311C Capitol Building
Springfield, IL   62706
(217) 782-2507


*District Office:*
45 E. University Ave.
Suite 206
Champaign, IL  61820
(217) 355-5252

The following are co-sponsors of this bill:

House Sponsors
Rep. Jay Hoffman <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2643> - Marcus
C. Evans, Jr. <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2604> - Tony
McCombie <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2688> - Lawrence
Walsh, Jr. <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2605> - Michael D.
Unes <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2589>, Jeff Keicher
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2706>, Chris Miller
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2758>, Darren Bailey
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2757>, Dan Caulkins
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2759>, Kelly M. Burke
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2590>, Frances Ann Hurley
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2629>, Joe Sosnowski
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2594>, André Thapedi
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2574>, Deanne M. Mazzochi
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2705>, Mike Murphy
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2756>, Blaine Wilhour
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2761>, Grant Wehrli
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2659>, Dan Brady
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2522>, Andrew S. Chesney
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2762>, Michael T. Marron
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2710>, Ryan Spain
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2693>, Anthony DeLuca
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2581>, Patrick Windhorst
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2760>, Tim Butler
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2667>, Dan Ugaste
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2753>, Keith R. Wheeler
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2660> and Mark Batinick
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2653>

Senate Sponsors
(Sen. Michael E. Hastings
<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2616> - Jennifer
Bertino-Tarrant <http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2610> - Linda
Holmes <http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2564> - Pat McGuire
<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2603> - Sue Rezin
<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2588>, Bill Cunningham
<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2614>, Paul Schimpf
<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2679>, Neil Anderson
<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2664> and Jason Plummer
<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2730>)

Note that the main sponsor, Rep Hoffman, is a Democrat who tried to run for
Congress in IL-13 in 2012, and there are a few other conservadems among the
sponsors (Evans, Walsh, Burke, Hurley, Thapedi, DeLuca) and in the Senate
(Hastings, Bertino-Tarrant, Holmes, Maguire, Cunningham). Remember these
names if/when they try to run for higher office.

HB 2280 has no co-sponsors to date, and appears to be stuck in the Rules
Committee.

Deb
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From deb.pdamerica at gmail.com  Mon May 13 12:26:12 2019
From: deb.pdamerica at gmail.com (Debra Schrishuhn)
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 07:26:12 -0500
Subject: [Peace] ILLINOIS PASSES BILL CRIMINALIZING
 INFRASTRUCTURE-RELATED PROTESTS
In-Reply-To: <MWHPR08MB238292FB4ACE2F94E7611C0BA30F0@MWHPR08MB2382.namprd08.prod.outlook.com>
References: <MWHPR08MB238292FB4ACE2F94E7611C0BA30F0@MWHPR08MB2382.namprd08.prod.outlook.com>
Message-ID: <CANDTtd=A3M30yewrjxOU9+3DqsTYZ+CDJZRmBHRw2cjgyZx7GQ@mail.gmail.com>

The good news is that Rep Ammons voted against this bill. It has not come
up for a vote in the State Senate, so I urge people to encourage St Sen
Scott Bennett to vote against it:

*Springfield Office:*

311C Capitol Building
Springfield, IL   62706
(217) 782-2507


*District Office:*
45 E. University Ave.
Suite 206
Champaign, IL  61820
(217) 355-5252

The following are co-sponsors of this bill:

House Sponsors
Rep. Jay Hoffman <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2643> - Marcus
C. Evans, Jr. <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2604> - Tony
McCombie <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2688> - Lawrence
Walsh, Jr. <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2605> - Michael D.
Unes <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2589>, Jeff Keicher
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2706>, Chris Miller
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2758>, Darren Bailey
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2757>, Dan Caulkins
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2759>, Kelly M. Burke
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2590>, Frances Ann Hurley
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2629>, Joe Sosnowski
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2594>, André Thapedi
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2574>, Deanne M. Mazzochi
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2705>, Mike Murphy
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2756>, Blaine Wilhour
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2761>, Grant Wehrli
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2659>, Dan Brady
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2522>, Andrew S. Chesney
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2762>, Michael T. Marron
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2710>, Ryan Spain
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2693>, Anthony DeLuca
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2581>, Patrick Windhorst
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2760>, Tim Butler
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2667>, Dan Ugaste
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2753>, Keith R. Wheeler
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2660> and Mark Batinick
<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2653>

Senate Sponsors
(Sen. Michael E. Hastings
<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2616> - Jennifer
Bertino-Tarrant <http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2610> - Linda
Holmes <http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2564> - Pat McGuire
<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2603> - Sue Rezin
<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2588>, Bill Cunningham
<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2614>, Paul Schimpf
<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2679>, Neil Anderson
<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2664> and Jason Plummer
<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2730>)

Note that the main sponsor, Rep Hoffman, is a Democrat who tried to run for
Congress in IL-13 in 2012, and there are a few other conservadems among the
sponsors (Evans, Walsh, Burke, Hurley, Thapedi, DeLuca) and in the Senate
(Hastings, Bertino-Tarrant, Holmes, Maguire, Cunningham). Remember these
names if/when they try to run for higher office.

HB 2280 has no co-sponsors to date, and appears to be stuck in the Rules
Committee.

Deb
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From prichart at ecojusticecollaborative.org  Mon May 13 13:20:52 2019
From: prichart at ecojusticecollaborative.org (Pam Richart)
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 08:20:52 -0500
Subject: [Peace] ILLINOIS PASSES BILL CRIMINALIZING
 INFRASTRUCTURE-RELATED PROTESTS
In-Reply-To: <CANDTtd=A3M30yewrjxOU9+3DqsTYZ+CDJZRmBHRw2cjgyZx7GQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Message-ID: <4281896A-A3EE-4775-A19C-4084BC771A22@ecojusticecollaborative.org>

You can also submit witness slips in opposition to HB1633 before 5pm on Tuesday. If you've never filled one out before, put NA in Firm/Business, or Agency and Title, unless you are authorized to represent your organization; ”Self" in SECTION II, REPRESENTATION; and check "record of appearance only" in SECTION IV, TESTIMONY. Make sure you check Opponent (vs. Proponent).
SLIP 1:  bit.ly/2JxRPtf <https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2JxRPtf%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0cy229MifofV6NzncGmBxhcML05byrIxB_ILaqSDxz4l-4KwnNcrEVxbk&h=AT1C9-jngbp1i_m3Yg5PLMgZtkWkZl2lFfFaB2Vc1vmZeorI8Z7YXVG1z1NxohKhZ6J7TA23b7OdHJVZzf1NkLcoFpIOMjKnYJUlbFdCv8laEDah9axkErC_XdoxIzJGlZPIKOfHd77x-oHC0zY_LBDB9tzhFUjOh_r7EsiMD4CuCgkRS6p1jIMrixOxbaioHcZklP0yDikCZ8_t2vHeGmdgADGLzMDWnvC733sJ5852HXwVhzHO6bfup0MhOsyDSggr72Fh2IW4lgQ0z42xo1UVzYP2e9d5ix5qFkt4FyOIoHU5-dQqnEyXMR4buw0EmrLfmvVW9kD5JkOWMlsNsY5m50HH8phvcFw4NjS492ShCWOEKJjZaz32Rz7dX1IMzfm5_1FVi1-2rETud57Qf-rygw7ebZrBJM1zGdEKQPeTzTdQRjq7bIHH3N36e1iJ37-F9mofA8MuXvbMVjEiV7yfPdrqI54l8ouxlvp5ldbsU7mETHCo-XhvG6cAa8ppRzFuweZ0z8umD4uUACBNOIk_J_rsFvXYyHPLCoBUCxzlwXjmigEQM5h1RUiJoNFCJbLujEh5dYXDXqOI6yz506tj3QP8pYvFKtd_Mkkoaeni5_gQlM1c17RrQLBPUGljUv1jpLy2YV8dFgqI>
SLIP 2: bit.ly/2LE5Lo9 <https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2LE5Lo9%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2ic0-uKK50GqZPWujVVZsfBty2U9g-1psxqRUoSA1ZuSw580KybYNsAS8&h=AT1ZNCdrKo3pL0gxqTXXMDy0yf0Z9CTaM6AcDLteBAllcaKZ9Vj3lfqLofE0rZIXWxuSdUVX39Ui3fWaIfPpP5jYgEV4RjZjFh5kjFmevbMUEk2u7f30HvcQ4_baX8huoSiKZhe0-OGDuKOWxaXAlOEc_-_YBqcUmbhDn2qgx3mBKULdUtVX7dHhsxiqnup6yzqr8K2OFgJlh5Du5KNQgovFw5xXQAfK9iAgqrys7nZ65nMSVIeg-kn94IJrtz7WrcopBT3C1EQwuUX98Rw9BJ8g-SsSB1lsFoqCHEtFZTrGkXTBkSM82kWxApymTjv6PZ1Q7fvdavcnpHpUeeLguBHQMgg7PgSr8vG3abaGEm0uZCsEUFfCZoQd-1eOZsNpxA1lx0oOT-DIfYqihqS5z9xKblvNGCRsM9rw2L4WTIWLP3d372Ox_hxA9p_gCB6GaHpLcHucr4fRmg3_WaYiw74DehVxAKLcsH79fwfqNshsRxheK4TaWw6yaBNS10TqUhwSr3yXOAWTVgLWXz2lrLGRcbxgg4Or-xpffZ6KdI2ndBERrn3ZxMzQPlBYOplJpcmnW5jKN-HJ0s4IEfB0HGCu3M-PU-MXUDmeDP3L9AQ4K2EBOu_SNA3U4EEfzTQKRUe_b6ajKLsaCS3o>

It makes a difference.

Pam

> On May 13, 2019, at 7:26 AM, Debra Schrishuhn via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> The good news is that Rep Ammons voted against this bill. It has not come up for a vote in the State Senate, so I urge people to encourage St Sen Scott Bennett to vote against it:
> 
> Springfield Office:
> 
> 311C Capitol Building
> Springfield, IL   62706
> (217) 782-2507
>  
> 
> District Office:
> 45 E. University Ave.
> Suite 206
> Champaign, IL  61820
> (217) 355-5252
> 
> The following are co-sponsors of this bill:
> 
> House Sponsors
> Rep. Jay Hoffman <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2643> - Marcus C. Evans, Jr. <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2604> - Tony McCombie <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2688> - Lawrence Walsh, Jr. <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2605> - Michael D. Unes <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2589>, Jeff Keicher <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2706>, Chris Miller <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2758>, Darren Bailey <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2757>, Dan Caulkins <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2759>, Kelly M. Burke <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2590>, Frances Ann Hurley <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2629>, Joe Sosnowski <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2594>, André Thapedi <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2574>, Deanne M. Mazzochi <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2705>, Mike Murphy <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2756>, Blaine Wilhour <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2761>, Grant Wehrli <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2659>, Dan Brady <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2522>, Andrew S. Chesney <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2762>, Michael T. Marron <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2710>, Ryan Spain <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2693>, Anthony DeLuca <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2581>, Patrick Windhorst <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2760>, Tim Butler <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2667>, Dan Ugaste <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2753>, Keith R. Wheeler <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2660> and Mark Batinick <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2653>
> 
> Senate Sponsors
> (Sen. Michael E. Hastings <http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2616> - Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant <http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2610> - Linda Holmes <http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2564> - Pat McGuire <http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2603> - Sue Rezin <http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2588>, Bill Cunningham <http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2614>, Paul Schimpf <http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2679>, Neil Anderson <http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2664> and Jason Plummer <http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2730>) 
> 
> Note that the main sponsor, Rep Hoffman, is a Democrat who tried to run for Congress in IL-13 in 2012, and there are a few other conservadems among the sponsors (Evans, Walsh, Burke, Hurley, Thapedi, DeLuca) and in the Senate (Hastings, Bertino-Tarrant, Holmes, Maguire, Cunningham). Remember these names if/when they try to run for higher office.
> 
> HB 2280 has no co-sponsors to date, and appears to be stuck in the Rules Committee.
> 
> Deb
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Peace mailing list
> Peace at lists.chambana.net
> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace

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From prichart at ecojusticecollaborative.org  Mon May 13 13:20:52 2019
From: prichart at ecojusticecollaborative.org (Pam Richart)
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 08:20:52 -0500
Subject: [Peace] ILLINOIS PASSES BILL CRIMINALIZING
 INFRASTRUCTURE-RELATED PROTESTS
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You can also submit witness slips in opposition to HB1633 before 5pm on Tuesday. If you've never filled one out before, put NA in Firm/Business, or Agency and Title, unless you are authorized to represent your organization; ”Self" in SECTION II, REPRESENTATION; and check "record of appearance only" in SECTION IV, TESTIMONY. Make sure you check Opponent (vs. Proponent).
SLIP 1:  bit.ly/2JxRPtf <https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2JxRPtf%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0cy229MifofV6NzncGmBxhcML05byrIxB_ILaqSDxz4l-4KwnNcrEVxbk&h=AT1C9-jngbp1i_m3Yg5PLMgZtkWkZl2lFfFaB2Vc1vmZeorI8Z7YXVG1z1NxohKhZ6J7TA23b7OdHJVZzf1NkLcoFpIOMjKnYJUlbFdCv8laEDah9axkErC_XdoxIzJGlZPIKOfHd77x-oHC0zY_LBDB9tzhFUjOh_r7EsiMD4CuCgkRS6p1jIMrixOxbaioHcZklP0yDikCZ8_t2vHeGmdgADGLzMDWnvC733sJ5852HXwVhzHO6bfup0MhOsyDSggr72Fh2IW4lgQ0z42xo1UVzYP2e9d5ix5qFkt4FyOIoHU5-dQqnEyXMR4buw0EmrLfmvVW9kD5JkOWMlsNsY5m50HH8phvcFw4NjS492ShCWOEKJjZaz32Rz7dX1IMzfm5_1FVi1-2rETud57Qf-rygw7ebZrBJM1zGdEKQPeTzTdQRjq7bIHH3N36e1iJ37-F9mofA8MuXvbMVjEiV7yfPdrqI54l8ouxlvp5ldbsU7mETHCo-XhvG6cAa8ppRzFuweZ0z8umD4uUACBNOIk_J_rsFvXYyHPLCoBUCxzlwXjmigEQM5h1RUiJoNFCJbLujEh5dYXDXqOI6yz506tj3QP8pYvFKtd_Mkkoaeni5_gQlM1c17RrQLBPUGljUv1jpLy2YV8dFgqI>
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It makes a difference.

Pam

> On May 13, 2019, at 7:26 AM, Debra Schrishuhn via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> The good news is that Rep Ammons voted against this bill. It has not come up for a vote in the State Senate, so I urge people to encourage St Sen Scott Bennett to vote against it:
> 
> Springfield Office:
> 
> 311C Capitol Building
> Springfield, IL   62706
> (217) 782-2507
>  
> 
> District Office:
> 45 E. University Ave.
> Suite 206
> Champaign, IL  61820
> (217) 355-5252
> 
> The following are co-sponsors of this bill:
> 
> House Sponsors
> Rep. Jay Hoffman <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2643> - Marcus C. Evans, Jr. <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2604> - Tony McCombie <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2688> - Lawrence Walsh, Jr. <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2605> - Michael D. Unes <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2589>, Jeff Keicher <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2706>, Chris Miller <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2758>, Darren Bailey <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2757>, Dan Caulkins <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2759>, Kelly M. Burke <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2590>, Frances Ann Hurley <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2629>, Joe Sosnowski <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2594>, André Thapedi <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2574>, Deanne M. Mazzochi <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2705>, Mike Murphy <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2756>, Blaine Wilhour <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2761>, Grant Wehrli <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2659>, Dan Brady <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2522>, Andrew S. Chesney <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2762>, Michael T. Marron <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2710>, Ryan Spain <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2693>, Anthony DeLuca <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2581>, Patrick Windhorst <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2760>, Tim Butler <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2667>, Dan Ugaste <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2753>, Keith R. Wheeler <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2660> and Mark Batinick <http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2653>
> 
> Senate Sponsors
> (Sen. Michael E. Hastings <http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2616> - Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant <http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2610> - Linda Holmes <http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2564> - Pat McGuire <http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2603> - Sue Rezin <http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2588>, Bill Cunningham <http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2614>, Paul Schimpf <http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2679>, Neil Anderson <http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2664> and Jason Plummer <http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2730>) 
> 
> Note that the main sponsor, Rep Hoffman, is a Democrat who tried to run for Congress in IL-13 in 2012, and there are a few other conservadems among the sponsors (Evans, Walsh, Burke, Hurley, Thapedi, DeLuca) and in the Senate (Hastings, Bertino-Tarrant, Holmes, Maguire, Cunningham). Remember these names if/when they try to run for higher office.
> 
> HB 2280 has no co-sponsors to date, and appears to be stuck in the Rules Committee.
> 
> Deb
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Peace mailing list
> Peace at lists.chambana.net
> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace

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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Mon May 13 13:35:41 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 13:35:41 +0000
Subject: [Peace] ILLINOIS PASSES BILL CRIMINALIZING
 INFRASTRUCTURE-RELATED PROTESTS
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Thank you Pam and Deb.

It was amazingly simple to submit, thanks to your instructions.

I did have to delete NA, and replace it with Self, in the Firm/Business section, which was then accepted.

I highly suggest others fill in and submit, if this bill passes we will have to accept we live in a fascist nation, penalizing and preventing all manner of protest.

On May 13, 2019, at 06:20, Pam Richart <prichart at ecojusticecollaborative.org<mailto:prichart at ecojusticecollaborative.org>> wrote:

You can also submit witness slips in opposition to HB1633 before 5pm on Tuesday. If you've never filled one out before, put NA in Firm/Business, or Agency and Title, unless you are authorized to represent your organization; ”Self" in SECTION II, REPRESENTATION; and check "record of appearance only" in SECTION IV, TESTIMONY. Make sure you check Opponent (vs. Proponent).

SLIP 1:  bit.ly/2JxRPtf<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2JxRPtf%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0cy229MifofV6NzncGmBxhcML05byrIxB_ILaqSDxz4l-4KwnNcrEVxbk&h=AT1C9-jngbp1i_m3Yg5PLMgZtkWkZl2lFfFaB2Vc1vmZeorI8Z7YXVG1z1NxohKhZ6J7TA23b7OdHJVZzf1NkLcoFpIOMjKnYJUlbFdCv8laEDah9axkErC_XdoxIzJGlZPIKOfHd77x-oHC0zY_LBDB9tzhFUjOh_r7EsiMD4CuCgkRS6p1jIMrixOxbaioHcZklP0yDikCZ8_t2vHeGmdgADGLzMDWnvC733sJ5852HXwVhzHO6bfup0MhOsyDSggr72Fh2IW4lgQ0z42xo1UVzYP2e9d5ix5qFkt4FyOIoHU5-dQqnEyXMR4buw0EmrLfmvVW9kD5JkOWMlsNsY5m50HH8phvcFw4NjS492ShCWOEKJjZaz32Rz7dX1IMzfm5_1FVi1-2rETud57Qf-rygw7ebZrBJM1zGdEKQPeTzTdQRjq7bIHH3N36e1iJ37-F9mofA8MuXvbMVjEiV7yfPdrqI54l8ouxlvp5ldbsU7mETHCo-XhvG6cAa8ppRzFuweZ0z8umD4uUACBNOIk_J_rsFvXYyHPLCoBUCxzlwXjmigEQM5h1RUiJoNFCJbLujEh5dYXDXqOI6yz506tj3QP8pYvFKtd_Mkkoaeni5_gQlM1c17RrQLBPUGljUv1jpLy2YV8dFgqI>
SLIP 2: bit.ly/2LE5Lo9<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2LE5Lo9%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2ic0-uKK50GqZPWujVVZsfBty2U9g-1psxqRUoSA1ZuSw580KybYNsAS8&h=AT1ZNCdrKo3pL0gxqTXXMDy0yf0Z9CTaM6AcDLteBAllcaKZ9Vj3lfqLofE0rZIXWxuSdUVX39Ui3fWaIfPpP5jYgEV4RjZjFh5kjFmevbMUEk2u7f30HvcQ4_baX8huoSiKZhe0-OGDuKOWxaXAlOEc_-_YBqcUmbhDn2qgx3mBKULdUtVX7dHhsxiqnup6yzqr8K2OFgJlh5Du5KNQgovFw5xXQAfK9iAgqrys7nZ65nMSVIeg-kn94IJrtz7WrcopBT3C1EQwuUX98Rw9BJ8g-SsSB1lsFoqCHEtFZTrGkXTBkSM82kWxApymTjv6PZ1Q7fvdavcnpHpUeeLguBHQMgg7PgSr8vG3abaGEm0uZCsEUFfCZoQd-1eOZsNpxA1lx0oOT-DIfYqihqS5z9xKblvNGCRsM9rw2L4WTIWLP3d372Ox_hxA9p_gCB6GaHpLcHucr4fRmg3_WaYiw74DehVxAKLcsH79fwfqNshsRxheK4TaWw6yaBNS10TqUhwSr3yXOAWTVgLWXz2lrLGRcbxgg4Or-xpffZ6KdI2ndBERrn3ZxMzQPlBYOplJpcmnW5jKN-HJ0s4IEfB0HGCu3M-PU-MXUDmeDP3L9AQ4K2EBOu_SNA3U4EEfzTQKRUe_b6ajKLsaCS3o>

It makes a difference.

Pam

On May 13, 2019, at 7:26 AM, Debra Schrishuhn via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

The good news is that Rep Ammons voted against this bill. It has not come up for a vote in the State Senate, so I urge people to encourage St Sen Scott Bennett to vote against it:

Springfield Office:


311C Capitol Building
Springfield, IL   62706
(217) 782-2507



District Office:
45 E. University Ave.
Suite 206
Champaign, IL  61820
(217) 355-5252

The following are co-sponsors of this bill:

House Sponsors
Rep. Jay Hoffman<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2643> - Marcus C. Evans, Jr.<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2604> - Tony McCombie<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2688> - Lawrence Walsh, Jr.<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2605> - Michael D. Unes<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2589>, Jeff Keicher<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2706>, Chris Miller<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2758>, Darren Bailey<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2757>, Dan Caulkins<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2759>, Kelly M. Burke<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2590>, Frances Ann Hurley<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2629>, Joe Sosnowski<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2594>, André Thapedi<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2574>, Deanne M. Mazzochi<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2705>, Mike Murphy<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2756>, Blaine Wilhour<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2761>, Grant Wehrli<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2659>, Dan Brady<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2522>, Andrew S. Chesney<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2762>, Michael T. Marron<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2710>, Ryan Spain<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2693>, Anthony DeLuca<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2581>, Patrick Windhorst<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2760>, Tim Butler<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2667>, Dan Ugaste<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2753>, Keith R. Wheeler<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2660> and Mark Batinick<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2653>

Senate Sponsors
(Sen. Michael E. Hastings<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2616> - Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2610> - Linda Holmes<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2564> - Pat McGuire<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2603> - Sue Rezin<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2588>, Bill Cunningham<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2614>, Paul Schimpf<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2679>, Neil Anderson<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2664> and Jason Plummer<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2730>)

Note that the main sponsor, Rep Hoffman, is a Democrat who tried to run for Congress in IL-13 in 2012, and there are a few other conservadems among the sponsors (Evans, Walsh, Burke, Hurley, Thapedi, DeLuca) and in the Senate (Hastings, Bertino-Tarrant, Holmes, Maguire, Cunningham). Remember these names if/when they try to run for higher office.

HB 2280 has no co-sponsors to date, and appears to be stuck in the Rules Committee.

Deb



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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Mon May 13 13:35:41 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 13:35:41 +0000
Subject: [Peace] ILLINOIS PASSES BILL CRIMINALIZING
 INFRASTRUCTURE-RELATED PROTESTS
In-Reply-To: <4281896A-A3EE-4775-A19C-4084BC771A22@ecojusticecollaborative.org>
References: <MWHPR08MB238292FB4ACE2F94E7611C0BA30F0@MWHPR08MB2382.namprd08.prod.outlook.com>
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Thank you Pam and Deb.

It was amazingly simple to submit, thanks to your instructions.

I did have to delete NA, and replace it with Self, in the Firm/Business section, which was then accepted.

I highly suggest others fill in and submit, if this bill passes we will have to accept we live in a fascist nation, penalizing and preventing all manner of protest.

On May 13, 2019, at 06:20, Pam Richart <prichart at ecojusticecollaborative.org<mailto:prichart at ecojusticecollaborative.org>> wrote:

You can also submit witness slips in opposition to HB1633 before 5pm on Tuesday. If you've never filled one out before, put NA in Firm/Business, or Agency and Title, unless you are authorized to represent your organization; ”Self" in SECTION II, REPRESENTATION; and check "record of appearance only" in SECTION IV, TESTIMONY. Make sure you check Opponent (vs. Proponent).

SLIP 1:  bit.ly/2JxRPtf<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2JxRPtf%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0cy229MifofV6NzncGmBxhcML05byrIxB_ILaqSDxz4l-4KwnNcrEVxbk&h=AT1C9-jngbp1i_m3Yg5PLMgZtkWkZl2lFfFaB2Vc1vmZeorI8Z7YXVG1z1NxohKhZ6J7TA23b7OdHJVZzf1NkLcoFpIOMjKnYJUlbFdCv8laEDah9axkErC_XdoxIzJGlZPIKOfHd77x-oHC0zY_LBDB9tzhFUjOh_r7EsiMD4CuCgkRS6p1jIMrixOxbaioHcZklP0yDikCZ8_t2vHeGmdgADGLzMDWnvC733sJ5852HXwVhzHO6bfup0MhOsyDSggr72Fh2IW4lgQ0z42xo1UVzYP2e9d5ix5qFkt4FyOIoHU5-dQqnEyXMR4buw0EmrLfmvVW9kD5JkOWMlsNsY5m50HH8phvcFw4NjS492ShCWOEKJjZaz32Rz7dX1IMzfm5_1FVi1-2rETud57Qf-rygw7ebZrBJM1zGdEKQPeTzTdQRjq7bIHH3N36e1iJ37-F9mofA8MuXvbMVjEiV7yfPdrqI54l8ouxlvp5ldbsU7mETHCo-XhvG6cAa8ppRzFuweZ0z8umD4uUACBNOIk_J_rsFvXYyHPLCoBUCxzlwXjmigEQM5h1RUiJoNFCJbLujEh5dYXDXqOI6yz506tj3QP8pYvFKtd_Mkkoaeni5_gQlM1c17RrQLBPUGljUv1jpLy2YV8dFgqI>
SLIP 2: bit.ly/2LE5Lo9<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2LE5Lo9%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2ic0-uKK50GqZPWujVVZsfBty2U9g-1psxqRUoSA1ZuSw580KybYNsAS8&h=AT1ZNCdrKo3pL0gxqTXXMDy0yf0Z9CTaM6AcDLteBAllcaKZ9Vj3lfqLofE0rZIXWxuSdUVX39Ui3fWaIfPpP5jYgEV4RjZjFh5kjFmevbMUEk2u7f30HvcQ4_baX8huoSiKZhe0-OGDuKOWxaXAlOEc_-_YBqcUmbhDn2qgx3mBKULdUtVX7dHhsxiqnup6yzqr8K2OFgJlh5Du5KNQgovFw5xXQAfK9iAgqrys7nZ65nMSVIeg-kn94IJrtz7WrcopBT3C1EQwuUX98Rw9BJ8g-SsSB1lsFoqCHEtFZTrGkXTBkSM82kWxApymTjv6PZ1Q7fvdavcnpHpUeeLguBHQMgg7PgSr8vG3abaGEm0uZCsEUFfCZoQd-1eOZsNpxA1lx0oOT-DIfYqihqS5z9xKblvNGCRsM9rw2L4WTIWLP3d372Ox_hxA9p_gCB6GaHpLcHucr4fRmg3_WaYiw74DehVxAKLcsH79fwfqNshsRxheK4TaWw6yaBNS10TqUhwSr3yXOAWTVgLWXz2lrLGRcbxgg4Or-xpffZ6KdI2ndBERrn3ZxMzQPlBYOplJpcmnW5jKN-HJ0s4IEfB0HGCu3M-PU-MXUDmeDP3L9AQ4K2EBOu_SNA3U4EEfzTQKRUe_b6ajKLsaCS3o>

It makes a difference.

Pam

On May 13, 2019, at 7:26 AM, Debra Schrishuhn via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

The good news is that Rep Ammons voted against this bill. It has not come up for a vote in the State Senate, so I urge people to encourage St Sen Scott Bennett to vote against it:

Springfield Office:


311C Capitol Building
Springfield, IL   62706
(217) 782-2507



District Office:
45 E. University Ave.
Suite 206
Champaign, IL  61820
(217) 355-5252

The following are co-sponsors of this bill:

House Sponsors
Rep. Jay Hoffman<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2643> - Marcus C. Evans, Jr.<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2604> - Tony McCombie<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2688> - Lawrence Walsh, Jr.<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2605> - Michael D. Unes<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2589>, Jeff Keicher<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2706>, Chris Miller<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2758>, Darren Bailey<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2757>, Dan Caulkins<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2759>, Kelly M. Burke<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2590>, Frances Ann Hurley<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2629>, Joe Sosnowski<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2594>, André Thapedi<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2574>, Deanne M. Mazzochi<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2705>, Mike Murphy<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2756>, Blaine Wilhour<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2761>, Grant Wehrli<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2659>, Dan Brady<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2522>, Andrew S. Chesney<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2762>, Michael T. Marron<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2710>, Ryan Spain<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2693>, Anthony DeLuca<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2581>, Patrick Windhorst<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2760>, Tim Butler<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2667>, Dan Ugaste<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2753>, Keith R. Wheeler<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2660> and Mark Batinick<http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=2653>

Senate Sponsors
(Sen. Michael E. Hastings<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2616> - Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2610> - Linda Holmes<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2564> - Pat McGuire<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2603> - Sue Rezin<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2588>, Bill Cunningham<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2614>, Paul Schimpf<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2679>, Neil Anderson<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2664> and Jason Plummer<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=2730>)

Note that the main sponsor, Rep Hoffman, is a Democrat who tried to run for Congress in IL-13 in 2012, and there are a few other conservadems among the sponsors (Evans, Walsh, Burke, Hurley, Thapedi, DeLuca) and in the Senate (Hastings, Bertino-Tarrant, Holmes, Maguire, Cunningham). Remember these names if/when they try to run for higher office.

HB 2280 has no co-sponsors to date, and appears to be stuck in the Rules Committee.

Deb



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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Mon May 13 22:59:33 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 22:59:33 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Happening now,
 take over of the Venezuelan Embassy in DC by USG
Message-ID: <MWHPR08MB238247473FA7E54CDE8634A7A30F0@MWHPR08MB2382.namprd08.prod.outlook.com>

The cheers you hear if you access the below VDO, are the elite Venezuelans working for the IMF, CitiBank in the US, etc. Many are paid to be here, if they were merely misguided genuine haters of Maduro, would they be so rude abusing the Embassy Protectors?

This is breaking International law, according to the terms of the Vienna Convention and it has long term consequences for all nations including the US.


https://www.facebook.com/N2Sreports/videos/328339267846541/?notif_id=1557787904494927&notif_t=live_video_share
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Mon May 13 22:59:33 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 22:59:33 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Happening now,
 take over of the Venezuelan Embassy in DC by USG
Message-ID: <MWHPR08MB238247473FA7E54CDE8634A7A30F0@MWHPR08MB2382.namprd08.prod.outlook.com>

The cheers you hear if you access the below VDO, are the elite Venezuelans working for the IMF, CitiBank in the US, etc. Many are paid to be here, if they were merely misguided genuine haters of Maduro, would they be so rude abusing the Embassy Protectors?

This is breaking International law, according to the terms of the Vienna Convention and it has long term consequences for all nations including the US.


https://www.facebook.com/N2Sreports/videos/328339267846541/?notif_id=1557787904494927&notif_t=live_video_share
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Tue May 14 11:37:19 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 11:37:19 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Good News from ANSWER Coalition
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Brian Becker<https://www.facebook.com/brian.becker.14224?__tn__=C-y.g&eid=ARBFIvg5uqUTjEc4PFm4weZHp6KEGuBM3P9UAua0SETOrCmnTfj9tdZikPcvLJ9eLHUMBBFOvI9eeCAs&hc_ref=ARTNxFaU7Yj-NXm0TRLPO3Qi0M0-2DQqIaF6QjfLFpOWM5qa37fk8B3VsuvUf6x5drQ&fref=nf&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCrGtyTE-kok1fpE9ztXZFARJ1eWSxmaWZaxFSgb0_CMyqIEoX3X1hpTTsRd3YamleHKdPoYlts7DB9LevQkDqLKJfy65_gQcRSLXACAcR5t-4AWwwiefhoJuWMDVrARqkG2hQYjdKqQPocZC4LdBsQF5PLmy7nK06_E7yVBbde1lAnCH1Oyh9l8y0rJjCnsLyPBOc3OVuXWDm-bVXHK4iSwAKIo0L4_UgKbeR9-dFaIOtG9yRawDVR5scCqkjeEfaoqyLSxaa3Ac7IOlo2K7tU1pSR3gbVUANVS2VfIHSffsz63l2Loa1KPvtEwDtIC1LoemMnbMUcn9l52h05GonURtCCwt22R7W-bpU>
8 hrs<https://www.facebook.com/brian.becker.14224/posts/1168559679995302?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCrGtyTE-kok1fpE9ztXZFARJ1eWSxmaWZaxFSgb0_CMyqIEoX3X1hpTTsRd3YamleHKdPoYlts7DB9LevQkDqLKJfy65_gQcRSLXACAcR5t-4AWwwiefhoJuWMDVrARqkG2hQYjdKqQPocZC4LdBsQF5PLmy7nK06_E7yVBbde1lAnCH1Oyh9l8y0rJjCnsLyPBOc3OVuXWDm-bVXHK4iSwAKIo0L4_UgKbeR9-dFaIOtG9yRawDVR5scCqkjeEfaoqyLSxaa3Ac7IOlo2K7tU1pSR3gbVUANVS2VfIHSffsz63l2Loa1KPvtEwDtIC1LoemMnbMUcn9l52h05GonURtCCwt22R7W-bpU&__tn__=-y.g>
Breaking: Victory! The Embassy Protection Collective stayed strong and True to their principles. The police were there to arrest them after breaking the lock on the front door. The activists told the police officers present that if they crossed into the embassy they would be the ones who would be violating the law. The Vienna convention is crystal clear. Any officer stepping foot into a diplomatic compound Under these circumstances would be engaging in illegal activity. The police huddled together and Decided to back down. At least for tonight. The right wing thugs outside were crestfallen. Still here - still strong!
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Tue May 14 11:37:19 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 11:37:19 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Good News from ANSWER Coalition
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Brian Becker<https://www.facebook.com/brian.becker.14224?__tn__=C-y.g&eid=ARBFIvg5uqUTjEc4PFm4weZHp6KEGuBM3P9UAua0SETOrCmnTfj9tdZikPcvLJ9eLHUMBBFOvI9eeCAs&hc_ref=ARTNxFaU7Yj-NXm0TRLPO3Qi0M0-2DQqIaF6QjfLFpOWM5qa37fk8B3VsuvUf6x5drQ&fref=nf&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCrGtyTE-kok1fpE9ztXZFARJ1eWSxmaWZaxFSgb0_CMyqIEoX3X1hpTTsRd3YamleHKdPoYlts7DB9LevQkDqLKJfy65_gQcRSLXACAcR5t-4AWwwiefhoJuWMDVrARqkG2hQYjdKqQPocZC4LdBsQF5PLmy7nK06_E7yVBbde1lAnCH1Oyh9l8y0rJjCnsLyPBOc3OVuXWDm-bVXHK4iSwAKIo0L4_UgKbeR9-dFaIOtG9yRawDVR5scCqkjeEfaoqyLSxaa3Ac7IOlo2K7tU1pSR3gbVUANVS2VfIHSffsz63l2Loa1KPvtEwDtIC1LoemMnbMUcn9l52h05GonURtCCwt22R7W-bpU>
8 hrs<https://www.facebook.com/brian.becker.14224/posts/1168559679995302?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCrGtyTE-kok1fpE9ztXZFARJ1eWSxmaWZaxFSgb0_CMyqIEoX3X1hpTTsRd3YamleHKdPoYlts7DB9LevQkDqLKJfy65_gQcRSLXACAcR5t-4AWwwiefhoJuWMDVrARqkG2hQYjdKqQPocZC4LdBsQF5PLmy7nK06_E7yVBbde1lAnCH1Oyh9l8y0rJjCnsLyPBOc3OVuXWDm-bVXHK4iSwAKIo0L4_UgKbeR9-dFaIOtG9yRawDVR5scCqkjeEfaoqyLSxaa3Ac7IOlo2K7tU1pSR3gbVUANVS2VfIHSffsz63l2Loa1KPvtEwDtIC1LoemMnbMUcn9l52h05GonURtCCwt22R7W-bpU&__tn__=-y.g>
Breaking: Victory! The Embassy Protection Collective stayed strong and True to their principles. The police were there to arrest them after breaking the lock on the front door. The activists told the police officers present that if they crossed into the embassy they would be the ones who would be violating the law. The Vienna convention is crystal clear. Any officer stepping foot into a diplomatic compound Under these circumstances would be engaging in illegal activity. The police huddled together and Decided to back down. At least for tonight. The right wing thugs outside were crestfallen. Still here - still strong!
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Tue May 14 14:27:14 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 14:27:14 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Attorney Stops Federal Raid Attempt on Venezuelan Embassy
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Attorney Stops Federal Raid Attempt on Venezuelan Embassy
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Washington, DC–On Monday night Secret Service, DC Police, and State Department agents attempted a coordinated raid on the Embassy of Venezuela to arrest activists that have been inside for a month. Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, an attorney representing the activists’ interests at the Embassy, intervened on their behalf as federal agents entered the building. She notified them that they had no legal authority to enter the Embassy when they did not present a signed warrant authorizing them to arrest the activists.

Beginning about 7pm, Metropolitan Police several times read an order to the activists over a loudspeaker outside the Embassy that the U.S. Government had recognized Juan Guaidó as the President of Venezuela and Carlos Vecchio as the Venezuelan Ambassador to the United States, and they were no longer welcome in the Embassy. Agents then ordered them to cease trespassing on Embassy grounds and that failure to immediately leave would result in their arrest. The activists did not appear at windows or acknowledge the order.

The activists, who call themselves the Embassy Protection Collective, are there at the invitation of the Venezuelan government. On Saturday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro tweeted his support for them. U.S.-supported coup attempts led by Juan Guaido have failed, but the U.S. government persists in recognizing Guaido as the self-proclaimed president of Venezuela and expelled its diplomats. The U.N. recognizes President Maduro, who won reelection in May 2018 with 68% of the vote.

The activists held up signs last night reading: “Criminals break in. We have the keys.”

Secret Service Agents cut chains on the doors which had been placed there by diplomats before they left the country on April 24, then entered the Embassy with flashlights. They asked the activists to voluntarily leave, but they declined unless certain conditions were met under international law.

It turned out the order posted and read by police was produced on nondescript paper and not authenticated with either a signature or stamp by any federal agency or authority. The agents left the Embassy after some consultation with Verheyden-Hilliard and did not arrest any of the activists remaining inside.

Earlier in the day, however, in anticipation of the coming raid, The Grayzone Project reporter Anya Parammpil and Mintpress News journalist Alex Rubinstein voluntarily left the Embassy. This left only four activists inside the Embassy. Others had left on Sunday or before.

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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Tue May 14 14:27:14 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 14:27:14 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Attorney Stops Federal Raid Attempt on Venezuelan Embassy
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Attorney Stops Federal Raid Attempt on Venezuelan Embassy
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Washington, DC–On Monday night Secret Service, DC Police, and State Department agents attempted a coordinated raid on the Embassy of Venezuela to arrest activists that have been inside for a month. Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, an attorney representing the activists’ interests at the Embassy, intervened on their behalf as federal agents entered the building. She notified them that they had no legal authority to enter the Embassy when they did not present a signed warrant authorizing them to arrest the activists.

Beginning about 7pm, Metropolitan Police several times read an order to the activists over a loudspeaker outside the Embassy that the U.S. Government had recognized Juan Guaidó as the President of Venezuela and Carlos Vecchio as the Venezuelan Ambassador to the United States, and they were no longer welcome in the Embassy. Agents then ordered them to cease trespassing on Embassy grounds and that failure to immediately leave would result in their arrest. The activists did not appear at windows or acknowledge the order.

The activists, who call themselves the Embassy Protection Collective, are there at the invitation of the Venezuelan government. On Saturday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro tweeted his support for them. U.S.-supported coup attempts led by Juan Guaido have failed, but the U.S. government persists in recognizing Guaido as the self-proclaimed president of Venezuela and expelled its diplomats. The U.N. recognizes President Maduro, who won reelection in May 2018 with 68% of the vote.

The activists held up signs last night reading: “Criminals break in. We have the keys.”

Secret Service Agents cut chains on the doors which had been placed there by diplomats before they left the country on April 24, then entered the Embassy with flashlights. They asked the activists to voluntarily leave, but they declined unless certain conditions were met under international law.

It turned out the order posted and read by police was produced on nondescript paper and not authenticated with either a signature or stamp by any federal agency or authority. The agents left the Embassy after some consultation with Verheyden-Hilliard and did not arrest any of the activists remaining inside.

Earlier in the day, however, in anticipation of the coming raid, The Grayzone Project reporter Anya Parammpil and Mintpress News journalist Alex Rubinstein voluntarily left the Embassy. This left only four activists inside the Embassy. Others had left on Sunday or before.

[https://i2.wp.com/www.dcmediagroup.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/46931353165_2893f11895_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480&ssl=1]<https://i2.wp.com/www.dcmediagroup.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/46931353165_2893f11895_z.jpg?ssl=1>The four members of the Embassy Protection Collective still remaining inside the embassy

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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Tue May 14 16:12:27 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 16:12:27 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Lies and nonsense coming from the US
 Administration....during the Sochi Press Conference.
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https://www.rt.com/news/459329-lavrov-pompeo-meeting-conference/
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Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 16:12:27 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Lies and nonsense coming from the US
 Administration....during the Sochi Press Conference.
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https://www.rt.com/news/459329-lavrov-pompeo-meeting-conference/
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Wed May 15 22:50:04 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 22:50:04 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Rev. Jesse Jackson helps successfully deliver food to
 Venezuelan embassy protectors/see the VDO
References: <5cdc8e9bc5265_62a0edcf6010132d@asgworker-qmb3-3.nbuild.prd.useast1.3dna.io.mail>
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Ajamu Baraka grabs the Guaido supporter from behind, as he attempts to steal the food.
[ANSWER Coalition]<http://www.answercoalition.org/?e=34e47c8f266e39ec7d3a5d2b76038f9f&utm_source=answercoalition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=embassy_demo_jesse_jackson&n=1>

National demonstration in D.C. this Saturday
U.S. hands off the Venezuelan embassy! No to the coup!
Saturday, May 18
12:00 p.m.
Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, D.C. (1099 30th St. NW)
[jesse_jackson.jpg]
Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks to reporters across the street from the Venezuelan embassy

Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson and others lead a bold and successful effort today to deliver food and supplies to the besieged anti-war activists who have been living inside the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, D.C. for over a month to prevent the seizure of the building by supporters of the U.S.-orchestrated coup. Showing they have truly no shame, right-wing supporters of the coup attacked Rev. Jackson as he was delivering the supplies. But their efforts failed and the food made it inside to the embassy protectors.

View the dramatic video here!<https://www.answercoalition.org/r?u=YqgukYA3Mrlri-dqG7I8TgiI_4AS2OU8QJ00e90XXYwd_YdrIAPAppPEBsqo0hSQNYHjnjNDVUbFDbT7D1_4SA&e=34e47c8f266e39ec7d3a5d2b76038f9f&utm_source=answercoalition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=embassy_demo_jesse_jackson&n=2>

The Embassy Protection Collective is calling on all peace and social justice organizations and people from all over the United States to join together next Saturday, May 18, for a massive mobilization in Washington D.C. at the Venezuelan Embassy.

A pro-coup mob has laid siege to the Venezuelan Embassy. The electricity has been cut off. The water has been cut off and people attempting to bring food have been violently attacked and arrested. The Secret Service and the D.C. Police Department, under orders of the Trump Administration, have created a humanitarian crisis in the heart of Washington D.C. at a diplomatic compound that is protected by the Vienna Convention.

Watch the new video on the struggle to protect the Venezuelan embassy<https://www.answercoalition.org/r?u=GQ96LxW7tJscudkL8mlwNzVEKXk7dMDJzwJlfbbiiRYYr4z2NF7PdXr2yjvF7gEVtP45fTFoReRxvobhx4Dzvg&e=34e47c8f266e39ec7d3a5d2b76038f9f&utm_source=answercoalition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=embassy_demo_jesse_jackson&n=3>

Momentum is building all over the country in defense of the Embassy Protection Collective and in opposition to the Trump Administration's lawless attempt to seize Venezuela's Embassy.

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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Wed May 15 22:50:04 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 22:50:04 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Rev. Jesse Jackson helps successfully deliver food to
 Venezuelan embassy protectors/see the VDO
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Ajamu Baraka grabs the Guaido supporter from behind, as he attempts to steal the food.
[ANSWER Coalition]<http://www.answercoalition.org/?e=34e47c8f266e39ec7d3a5d2b76038f9f&utm_source=answercoalition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=embassy_demo_jesse_jackson&n=1>

National demonstration in D.C. this Saturday
U.S. hands off the Venezuelan embassy! No to the coup!
Saturday, May 18
12:00 p.m.
Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, D.C. (1099 30th St. NW)
[jesse_jackson.jpg]
Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks to reporters across the street from the Venezuelan embassy

Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson and others lead a bold and successful effort today to deliver food and supplies to the besieged anti-war activists who have been living inside the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, D.C. for over a month to prevent the seizure of the building by supporters of the U.S.-orchestrated coup. Showing they have truly no shame, right-wing supporters of the coup attacked Rev. Jackson as he was delivering the supplies. But their efforts failed and the food made it inside to the embassy protectors.

View the dramatic video here!<https://www.answercoalition.org/r?u=YqgukYA3Mrlri-dqG7I8TgiI_4AS2OU8QJ00e90XXYwd_YdrIAPAppPEBsqo0hSQNYHjnjNDVUbFDbT7D1_4SA&e=34e47c8f266e39ec7d3a5d2b76038f9f&utm_source=answercoalition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=embassy_demo_jesse_jackson&n=2>

The Embassy Protection Collective is calling on all peace and social justice organizations and people from all over the United States to join together next Saturday, May 18, for a massive mobilization in Washington D.C. at the Venezuelan Embassy.

A pro-coup mob has laid siege to the Venezuelan Embassy. The electricity has been cut off. The water has been cut off and people attempting to bring food have been violently attacked and arrested. The Secret Service and the D.C. Police Department, under orders of the Trump Administration, have created a humanitarian crisis in the heart of Washington D.C. at a diplomatic compound that is protected by the Vienna Convention.

Watch the new video on the struggle to protect the Venezuelan embassy<https://www.answercoalition.org/r?u=GQ96LxW7tJscudkL8mlwNzVEKXk7dMDJzwJlfbbiiRYYr4z2NF7PdXr2yjvF7gEVtP45fTFoReRxvobhx4Dzvg&e=34e47c8f266e39ec7d3a5d2b76038f9f&utm_source=answercoalition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=embassy_demo_jesse_jackson&n=3>

Momentum is building all over the country in defense of the Embassy Protection Collective and in opposition to the Trump Administration's lawless attempt to seize Venezuela's Embassy.

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From susanroseparenti at gmail.com  Wed May 15 23:34:33 2019
From: susanroseparenti at gmail.com (Susan Parenti)
Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 18:34:33 -0500
Subject: [Peace] SDaS in W Virginia--July 7-27--come drive there with me!
Message-ID: <CAKfUjSGRpr_OD1Mdz10R9S6-C5-h7tpCOi572i3=C=5Q4AFV=g@mail.gmail.com>

Hi friends--School for Designing a Society has a 3 week program on our land
in the Blue Ridge Mountains in West Virginia, called: *Desire &
Design--Construct Your Humanism. *


*Compassion & empathy are often thwarted by the systems we live in. Let's
strategize, brain-and-heart-storm how to act from a base of humanism. *

*Open to people in all the caring professions (health, education, small
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From kmedina67 at gmail.com  Thu May 16 02:34:33 2019
From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (kmedina67)
Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 21:34:33 -0500
Subject: [Peace] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_Teach_In=3A_No_Detention_Center_In_Centr?=
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I hope you are all having a good night! I am emailing you to invite you to a Teach-In regarding the detention center being built in Dwight, IL. The event is on Thursday May 16th from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm at the Independent Media Center (IMC) located at 202 S Broadway Ave, Urbana, IL 61801. As many of you may have heard there is currently a bill in the senate called HB 2040: Private Detention Facility Moratorium Act, which would prohibit state and local governments from contracting with private prisons. 

But while HB 2040 is being heard in the senate, it will likely NOT stop the detention center from being built in Dwight. To learn more about why that is and how to get involved please come to the Teach-In on Thursday. If you can’t make it to the event, please help by spreading the word to people and organizations that you know. I am also attaching the flyer for the event and here is the Facebook event for more information.

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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Thu May 16 13:54:36 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 13:54:36 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Embassy Protection Collective reportedly arrested after
 police raid.
Message-ID: <MWHPR08MB238204AD01C39F953A9C7DD7A30A0@MWHPR08MB2382.namprd08.prod.outlook.com>

 Police have reportedly raided the Venezuelan Embassy and arrested all four remaining Embassy Protection Collective<https://www.facebook.com/ColectivosporlaPaz/?__tn__=%2CdKH-R-R&eid=ARBr_4VDI9H1SXXADwroKylZKSlrV3bmAmTn4UjZ_tDnNEmRuFpzgF8-VXScaE6mTBwQtIGdqWTL29Gu&fref=mentions> activists who had been inside for 37 days. Being investigated now. Some folks are outside intending to protect the building, from the Quaido supporters breaking in and taking over.
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Thu May 16 13:54:36 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 13:54:36 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Embassy Protection Collective reportedly arrested after
 police raid.
Message-ID: <MWHPR08MB238204AD01C39F953A9C7DD7A30A0@MWHPR08MB2382.namprd08.prod.outlook.com>

 Police have reportedly raided the Venezuelan Embassy and arrested all four remaining Embassy Protection Collective<https://www.facebook.com/ColectivosporlaPaz/?__tn__=%2CdKH-R-R&eid=ARBr_4VDI9H1SXXADwroKylZKSlrV3bmAmTn4UjZ_tDnNEmRuFpzgF8-VXScaE6mTBwQtIGdqWTL29Gu&fref=mentions> activists who had been inside for 37 days. Being investigated now. Some folks are outside intending to protect the building, from the Quaido supporters breaking in and taking over.
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Thu May 16 13:57:20 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 13:57:20 +0000
Subject: [Peace] VDO related to Embassy Protectors Arrest
Message-ID: <MWHPR08MB23827486C5F036E70E885BD3A30A0@MWHPR08MB2382.namprd08.prod.outlook.com>

https://www.facebook.com/N2Sreports/videos/884829698525063/?notif_id=1558014565390967&notif_t=live_video_share<https://www.facebook.com/N2Sreports/videos/884829698525063/?fref=gs&dti=305897426305&hc_location=group>
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Thu May 16 13:57:20 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 13:57:20 +0000
Subject: [Peace] VDO related to Embassy Protectors Arrest
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https://www.facebook.com/N2Sreports/videos/884829698525063/?notif_id=1558014565390967&notif_t=live_video_share<https://www.facebook.com/N2Sreports/videos/884829698525063/?fref=gs&dti=305897426305&hc_location=group>
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From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org  Thu May 16 15:59:21 2019
From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman)
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 10:59:21 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Tammy Duckworth, not a co-sponsor of S.1039,
 professes concern about war with Iran
In-Reply-To: <CALMNhNSj+LzeF7X4vtaVP5F5pcSPgrENa3s2h=5aExfe5HeV5Q@mail.gmail.com>
References: <d216298ab0aa4ffcb03e64c68ae4a802@P-ESS-SEN-EX12.senate.ussenate.us>
 <CALMNhNSj+LzeF7X4vtaVP5F5pcSPgrENa3s2h=5aExfe5HeV5Q@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CALMNhNTXJ36rJc32ewv1iO5zFrVguynRLCQp_jBspBRSus39wQ@mail.gmail.com>

Here's an interesting development. Tammy Duckworth is concerned about the
possibility of military conflict with Iran, according to her press
operation.

17 Senators have signed this bill, including Rand Paul, an original
co-sponsor, on April 4.

Why isn't Tammy Duckworth's name on this list, if she is so concerned about
the possibility of war with Iran?

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/1039/cosponsors

S.1039 - Prevention of Unconstitutional War with Iran Act of 2019

Sponsor: Sen. Udall, Tom [D-NM] (Introduced 04/04/2019)

CosponsorDate Cosponsored
Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY]* <https://www.congress.gov/member/rand-paul/P000603>
04/04/2019
Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]*
<https://www.congress.gov/member/richard-durbin/D000563> 04/04/2019
Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]*
<https://www.congress.gov/member/patrick-leahy/L000174> 04/04/2019
Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]*
<https://www.congress.gov/member/dianne-feinstein/F000062> 04/04/2019
Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]*
<https://www.congress.gov/member/bernard-sanders/S000033> 04/04/2019
Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]*
<https://www.congress.gov/member/jeff-merkley/M001176> 04/04/2019
Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM]*
<https://www.congress.gov/member/martin-heinrich/H001046> 04/04/2019
Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT]*
<https://www.congress.gov/member/christopher-murphy/M001169> 04/04/2019
Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]*
<https://www.congress.gov/member/edward-markey/M000133> 04/04/2019
Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]*
<https://www.congress.gov/member/brian-schatz/S001194> 04/04/2019
Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI]*
<https://www.congress.gov/member/mazie-hirono/H001042> 04/04/2019
Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE]
<https://www.congress.gov/member/thomas-carper/C000174> 05/07/2019
Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
<https://www.congress.gov/member/sherrod-brown/B000944> 05/13/2019
Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
<https://www.congress.gov/member/elizabeth-warren/W000817> 05/14/2019
Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD]
<https://www.congress.gov/member/chris-van-hollen/V000128> 05/15/2019
Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
<https://www.congress.gov/member/benjamin-cardin/C000141> 05/15/2019

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Press (Duckworth) <Press_Team at duckworth.senate.gov>
Date: Thu, May 16, 2019 at 10:22 AM
Subject: VIDEO: Tammy Duckworth Questions Why President Trump is Empowering
John Bolton to Push U.S. into Conflict with Iran
To: Press (Duckworth) <Press_Team at duckworth.senate.gov>


[image: cid:image001.jpg at 01D50BD0.560AF740]

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*

May 16, 2019

Contact: Sean Savett, sean_savett at duckworth.senate.gov



*VIDEO: Tammy Duckworth Questions Why President Trump is Empowering John
Bolton to Push Our Nation into Conflict with Iran*



[WASHINGTON, D.C.] — As the Trump Administration seeks to escalate tensions
between the U.S. and Iran, combat Veteran and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth
(D-IL) raised questions about why the Trump Administration has failed to
share the latest intelligence assessment involving Iran with the U.S.
Senate as well as American allies. During interviews with CNN’s Anderson
Cooper
<https://app.frame.io/presentations/655d4511-8295-48c8-9713-2b2668ad25a4>
and MSNBC’s Chris Hayes
<https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/u-s-escalation-on-iran-59701317766?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ai>,
Duckworth called for a classified intelligence briefing to be offered to
all 100 Senators as soon as possible. Duckworth also questioned whether
President Trump is really involved in the latest provocative actions and
whether it is his staff, such as National Security Advisor John Bolton, who
are “driving the train” towards a war with Iran to achieve regime change.
Duckworth emphasized that only Congress has the constitutional authority to
declare war or authorize use of military force, neither of which Congress
has done regarding Iran.



*Key Quotes:*



*“It's very hard to square when I've not received any type of an
intelligence analysis or briefing from the administration. You know I was
just in Iraq less than three weeks ago and certainly I did not get any
briefings on the ground there that indicated that there was any type of
increase**d risk from Iran.*

*...*

*“Unfortunately, I don’t trust a lot of what’s coming out of the White
House, which is why I am asking for a briefing. Listen, Congress is the
only branch that has the ability to declare war. We deserve to get this
information and it really is troubling to me that they say, ‘well this
information exists. We’re pulling out our U.S. personnel from our
embassies’ but our allies are not! So are you telling me that we’re not
sharing this important information with our allies and we’re leaving them
in the lurch?*

*...*

*“If such intelligence exists, then they need to brief the Members of
Congress ... I know the President is not very keen on listening to
intelligence briefings, but I am. I take my job very seriously. So come on,
give me this briefing. In a bipartisan way, the members here in the Senate
have called for such a briefing and yet we still have not received one.*

*...*

*“I don’t trust Mr. Bolton. I think he’s driving the train on this, I don’t
think Mr. Trump is. It’s sad because that’s our commander-in-chief. I think
Mr. Bolton is the one who is driving this escalation and it frankly is
terrifying and deeply concerning to me that someone who is not elected by
the American people is making these key decisions and pushing us towards
greater and greater escalation. Again, if this truly exists, then share the
information with the Senate. Let me see those estimates. And if they truly
exist and there’s a real threat, then why are you not sharing this with our
allies who are in the region?”*



Videos of the full interviews are available here
<https://app.frame.io/presentations/655d4511-8295-48c8-9713-2b2668ad25a4>
and here
<https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/u-s-escalation-on-iran-59701317766?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ai>
.

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Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 17:22:33 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Press briefing by Embassy Protection Collective lawyer
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Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 17:22:33 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Press briefing by Embassy Protection Collective lawyer
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The Venezuelan Embassy Protection Collective has been evicted and arrested by State Department law enforcement. They are charged with interfering with a protective order. Their counsel, constitutional lawyer Mara Verheyden-Hilliard of the Partnership for Civil Justice Find, briefed the press

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From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org  Thu May 16 21:34:13 2019
From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman)
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 16:34:13 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Chicago Area Peace Action letter to Durbin,
 Duckworth on Venezuela War Powers
Message-ID: <CALMNhNRNAEM5QhzYz-+hVLutfPwLo3TjW9bfFqqSokGbyoux_w@mail.gmail.com>

To sign your org onto this letter, use this link
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfwZq7HW5vJIRXmlWMHb-8O_BuwzYSVU4GaC2C-AxaKNJRH_Q/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1p>
.

Please pass this along to other peace-oriented groups in central and
southern Illinois.

====

Request to Sign: SJRes11 VZ Coalition Letter to sign (closes May 27th)
Hello,

Chicago Area Peace Action is seeking organizational co-signers on this
letter to Senators urging they support SJRes11 - Prohibiting Unauthorized
Military Action in Venezuela Resolution of 2019.

Support for this legislation could not be more critical for Venezuela and
the US constitution. Secretary Pompeo explicitly endorsed U.S. military
action this week, stating: “Military action is possible. If that’s what’s
required, that’s what the United States will do” in Venezuela.

Thanks for your consideration of this urgent matter. Make sure to fill in
the form below before May 27th if you want your org to sign. Feel free to
email me if you have questions or comments.

Thank you,

Grace Siegelman
Chicago Area Peace Action Summer Fellow
siegelmang at gmail.com

* Required
Dear Senator Durbin and Duckworth:

We write to request your support for S.J.Res.11 – the Prohibiting
Unauthorized Military
Action in Venezuela Resolution of 2019 – introduced by Senator Jeff Merkley
of
Oregon. We also respectfully ask that any floor consideration of
legislation addressing
the crisis in Venezuela include S.J.Res.11, a critical safeguard against
unconstitutional
U.S. military action.

Senate adoption of S.JRes.11 could not come at a more urgent time. U.S.
officials in
charge of policy toward Venezuela, such as Elliott Abrams, have pursued a
strategy of
provocation and confrontation. In violation of the Charter of the
Organization of the
American States, and the Charter of the United Nations, and therefore
treaty obligations
of the United States, President Trump has publicly declared that all
options, including
U.S. military force, are on the table. Former acting FBI Director Andrew
McCabe
recounted that in 2017 President Trump privately argued that Venezuela is
the “country
we should be going to war with. They have all that oil and they’re right on
our back
door.”

National Security Advisor John Bolton has publicly stated that “in this
administration,
we’re not afraid to use the word Monroe Doctrine,” has clutched documents
referring to
a proposal to deploy “5,000 troops to Colombia,” and has argued that “it
will make a big
difference to the United States economically if we could have American oil
companies
really invest in and produce the oil capabilities in Venezuela.” Meanwhile,
Secretary
Pompeo explicitly endorsed U.S. military action recently stating: “Military
action is possible.
If that’s what’s required, that’s what the United States will do” in
Venezuela.

We applaud you for voting to reassert Congress’s sole authority over war
and peace
under Article I of the Constitution and working to bring an end to the
unauthorized U.S.-
Saudi military campaign in Yemen with the historic passage of the Yemen War
Powers
Resolution. Senator Merkley’s bill S.J.Res.11, also invokes the War Powers
Resolution
of 1973.

We call on you to again ensure that Congressional war powers be exercised
in the case
of Venezuela through Senate adoption of S.J.Res.11. Administration
officials and
members of Congress who seek to involve the United States military in a
regime
change effort in Venezuela have a constitutional obligation to present
their case to both
chambers of Congress and have the people’s duly elected representatives
carefully
debate and vote on whether to authorize any such proposal.

Sincerely,

Chicago Area Peace Action
===

Robert Reuel Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
(202) 448-2898 x1
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From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 17:35:43 +0000
Subject: [Peace] US security forces storm Venezuelan embassy in Washington,
 D.C.
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US security forces storm Venezuelan embassy in Washington, D.C.
By Nick Barrickman
17 May 2019

On Thursday at noon, United States law enforcement officials, some of them helmeted and wearing flak jackets and carrying battering rams, forced their way into the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, D.C., detaining four anti-war activists who had been residing there.

The activists, Kevin Zeese, Margaret Flowers, Adrienne Pine and David Paul, part of a group calling themselves the Embassy Protection Collective (EPC), had been invited to stay inside the Venezuelan embassy over a month ago by the elected and internationally recognized government of President Nicolas Maduro.

The raid against the embassy was carried out in flagrant violation of international laws governing diplomatic relations between states and is of a piece with the reckless and illegal actions taken by the Trump administration in an effort to force a regime change in Venezuela, home to the largest proven oil reserves on the planet.

According to the Washington Post, “Federal law enforcement officers, including several in fatigues wearing tactical gear, entered the building through a back door and conducted a sweep with police dogs. After more than an hour, police brought the activists into a driveway hidden from the view of protesters and the news media…”

Hundreds of armed security forces were involved in the operation, including elements of the US Secret Service, the Metropolitan Police and the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service.

The Post noted that ambulances and personnel with stretchers had been assembled at the embassy in the lead-up to the raid. As of this writing it is unclear if any of the detained activists were injured. The four are due to face charges in U.S. federal court Friday relating to their occupation, including the supposed interference with the diplomatic mission of officials representing U.S. puppet and self-appointed “interim president” Juan Guaidó. Trespassing charges have not been brought, apparently because the lease for the building is in the name of the Maduro government.

As of Friday, representatives of the US puppet Guaidó are due to take possession of the embassy. In a statement dripping with cynicism, Guaidó-appointed ambassador Carlos Vecchio, a U.S. State Department asset, declared “The usurpation has ended… It has taken time and effort, but we have complied with the Venezuelan people. Infinite thanks to the Venezuelan diaspora for their sacrifice. Next liberation: Venezuela.”

Speaking to the press, the Collective’s legal counsel, constitutional lawyer Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, stated of the raid and arrests: “This is an extraordinary step by the Trump administration and frankly, one that has been supported by every politician that has remained silent. They don’t have to take a position on the government of Venezuela, they do have to take a position in defense of diplomacy, of the Vienna Convention, of international law. That is what is at issue with this seizure and this entrance today.”

The lawyer stated that the embassy raid had been “a State Department operation” that had been “carried out by State Department personnel.” Verheyden-Hilliard declared: “This is sending a message to embassies and diplomatic missions all over the world that any host country can make the decision that if it disagrees or does not like the leadership of another country it can simply appoint someone else, say that they are recognizing another person as the leader, and then seize and enter an embassy.”

Pseudo-left representatives of U.S. imperialism, such as Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and House Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, declined to issue so much as a tweet in opposition to the seizure of the embassy by U.S. security forces. This is in line with their defense of the Trump administration’s drive for regime change in Venezuela. In February, Sanders solidarized<https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/26/sand-f26.html> himself with the phony “opposition” of Guaidó and his supporters, who have sought to promote a military coup against the bourgeois nationalist government of Nicolás Maduro.

For her part, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez pledged in an interview two weeks ago with the National Review to toe the line of the Democratic Party, declaring “I defer to caucus leadership on how we navigate this.” In February, Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced she had decided “to recognize Juan Guaidó, president of the National Assembly, as the interim president until full, fair and free elections can be held” and that “Nicolás Maduro’s regime of repression … must be condemned swiftly by the full international community.”

Prior to the raid, EPC activists had faced a police-backed siege<https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/16/vene-m16.html> of the property, with right-wing Guaidó supporters blocking, physically attacking and harassing activists delivering supplies. Last week, in a move demonstrating the U.S. government’s disregard for international law, electrical power to the embassy was cut along with the building’s water supply.

On Tuesday, an eviction notice was delivered to EPC members which bore no markings indicating its authenticity. According to Consortium News, the document “appeared to have been written by the Guaidó faction but was posted and read by D.C. police as if it were a document from the U.S. government.” On Wednesday, the U.S. government issued warrants for the detainment of the EPC members, presaging Thursday’s events.

The treatment of the collective by the Trump administration has been denounced internationally. On Sunday, the National Lawyers Guild issued a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, the United Nations and others, which states, “the United States government, through various law enforcement agencies, has condoned and protected violent opponents in support of an attempted siege of the Embassy. In so doing, the U.S. government is creating a dangerous precedent for diplomatic relations with all nations.”

Verheyden-Hilliard, the legal counsel for the activists, spoke on the Trump administration’s fears of the potential for a broader movement of the population: “This is a direct response to a growing view in the United States that more and more people were standing in support of diplomacy, more and more people were standing in support of peace. People don’t want to see another war; they don’t need to see the United States government waging another illegal war.”

The lawyer noted this to be the case “despite a lot of the press coverage [of the embassy occupation, which] has not been forthright. Much of it has been extremely biased and... not accurate. The people who have been here inside of the embassy have been peaceful. The people who have supported them inside of the embassy have been peaceful. The assaults that we have [seen], the violence … the noise from the sirens, the flashing lights and the use of strobes ... these are all nonlethal weapons that were being authorized for use … No action was taken by American law enforcement to stop the illegal actions.”

Vecchio has no standing as a Venezuelan diplomat and represents a government that exists only in the regime-change propaganda of US imperialism. Rather, he a leader of Guaidó’s far-right Voluntad Popular (Popular Will) wanted in Venezuela for inciting violence.

He is scheduled to meet early next week with officers of the US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), which overseas US military operations in Latin America. Earlier this week, he said that he would discuss with the US military brass plans “to advance in strategic and operational planning with the priority goal of stopping our people's suffering and restoring democracy.”

This direct turn to the US military follows Guaidó’s abortive April 30 coup attempt, which failed to produce any significant fissures in Venezuela’s armed forces or elicit any significant popular support. Since then, backing for the self-proclaimed and US-backed “interim president” has visibly waned, with barely a few hundred people turning out for a demonstration he called last Saturday.

Absent popular support or backing from any major faction of the Venezuelan military, Guaidó appears to be banking on a direct US military intervention. The assault on the Venezuela’s embassy in Washington may well be a warning that a violent assault is being prepared on the country itself.
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Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 17:35:43 +0000
Subject: [Peace] US security forces storm Venezuelan embassy in Washington,
 D.C.
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US security forces storm Venezuelan embassy in Washington, D.C.
By Nick Barrickman
17 May 2019

On Thursday at noon, United States law enforcement officials, some of them helmeted and wearing flak jackets and carrying battering rams, forced their way into the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, D.C., detaining four anti-war activists who had been residing there.

The activists, Kevin Zeese, Margaret Flowers, Adrienne Pine and David Paul, part of a group calling themselves the Embassy Protection Collective (EPC), had been invited to stay inside the Venezuelan embassy over a month ago by the elected and internationally recognized government of President Nicolas Maduro.

The raid against the embassy was carried out in flagrant violation of international laws governing diplomatic relations between states and is of a piece with the reckless and illegal actions taken by the Trump administration in an effort to force a regime change in Venezuela, home to the largest proven oil reserves on the planet.

According to the Washington Post, “Federal law enforcement officers, including several in fatigues wearing tactical gear, entered the building through a back door and conducted a sweep with police dogs. After more than an hour, police brought the activists into a driveway hidden from the view of protesters and the news media…”

Hundreds of armed security forces were involved in the operation, including elements of the US Secret Service, the Metropolitan Police and the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service.

The Post noted that ambulances and personnel with stretchers had been assembled at the embassy in the lead-up to the raid. As of this writing it is unclear if any of the detained activists were injured. The four are due to face charges in U.S. federal court Friday relating to their occupation, including the supposed interference with the diplomatic mission of officials representing U.S. puppet and self-appointed “interim president” Juan Guaidó. Trespassing charges have not been brought, apparently because the lease for the building is in the name of the Maduro government.

As of Friday, representatives of the US puppet Guaidó are due to take possession of the embassy. In a statement dripping with cynicism, Guaidó-appointed ambassador Carlos Vecchio, a U.S. State Department asset, declared “The usurpation has ended… It has taken time and effort, but we have complied with the Venezuelan people. Infinite thanks to the Venezuelan diaspora for their sacrifice. Next liberation: Venezuela.”

Speaking to the press, the Collective’s legal counsel, constitutional lawyer Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, stated of the raid and arrests: “This is an extraordinary step by the Trump administration and frankly, one that has been supported by every politician that has remained silent. They don’t have to take a position on the government of Venezuela, they do have to take a position in defense of diplomacy, of the Vienna Convention, of international law. That is what is at issue with this seizure and this entrance today.”

The lawyer stated that the embassy raid had been “a State Department operation” that had been “carried out by State Department personnel.” Verheyden-Hilliard declared: “This is sending a message to embassies and diplomatic missions all over the world that any host country can make the decision that if it disagrees or does not like the leadership of another country it can simply appoint someone else, say that they are recognizing another person as the leader, and then seize and enter an embassy.”

Pseudo-left representatives of U.S. imperialism, such as Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and House Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, declined to issue so much as a tweet in opposition to the seizure of the embassy by U.S. security forces. This is in line with their defense of the Trump administration’s drive for regime change in Venezuela. In February, Sanders solidarized<https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/26/sand-f26.html> himself with the phony “opposition” of Guaidó and his supporters, who have sought to promote a military coup against the bourgeois nationalist government of Nicolás Maduro.

For her part, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez pledged in an interview two weeks ago with the National Review to toe the line of the Democratic Party, declaring “I defer to caucus leadership on how we navigate this.” In February, Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced she had decided “to recognize Juan Guaidó, president of the National Assembly, as the interim president until full, fair and free elections can be held” and that “Nicolás Maduro’s regime of repression … must be condemned swiftly by the full international community.”

Prior to the raid, EPC activists had faced a police-backed siege<https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/16/vene-m16.html> of the property, with right-wing Guaidó supporters blocking, physically attacking and harassing activists delivering supplies. Last week, in a move demonstrating the U.S. government’s disregard for international law, electrical power to the embassy was cut along with the building’s water supply.

On Tuesday, an eviction notice was delivered to EPC members which bore no markings indicating its authenticity. According to Consortium News, the document “appeared to have been written by the Guaidó faction but was posted and read by D.C. police as if it were a document from the U.S. government.” On Wednesday, the U.S. government issued warrants for the detainment of the EPC members, presaging Thursday’s events.

The treatment of the collective by the Trump administration has been denounced internationally. On Sunday, the National Lawyers Guild issued a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, the United Nations and others, which states, “the United States government, through various law enforcement agencies, has condoned and protected violent opponents in support of an attempted siege of the Embassy. In so doing, the U.S. government is creating a dangerous precedent for diplomatic relations with all nations.”

Verheyden-Hilliard, the legal counsel for the activists, spoke on the Trump administration’s fears of the potential for a broader movement of the population: “This is a direct response to a growing view in the United States that more and more people were standing in support of diplomacy, more and more people were standing in support of peace. People don’t want to see another war; they don’t need to see the United States government waging another illegal war.”

The lawyer noted this to be the case “despite a lot of the press coverage [of the embassy occupation, which] has not been forthright. Much of it has been extremely biased and... not accurate. The people who have been here inside of the embassy have been peaceful. The people who have supported them inside of the embassy have been peaceful. The assaults that we have [seen], the violence … the noise from the sirens, the flashing lights and the use of strobes ... these are all nonlethal weapons that were being authorized for use … No action was taken by American law enforcement to stop the illegal actions.”

Vecchio has no standing as a Venezuelan diplomat and represents a government that exists only in the regime-change propaganda of US imperialism. Rather, he a leader of Guaidó’s far-right Voluntad Popular (Popular Will) wanted in Venezuela for inciting violence.

He is scheduled to meet early next week with officers of the US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), which overseas US military operations in Latin America. Earlier this week, he said that he would discuss with the US military brass plans “to advance in strategic and operational planning with the priority goal of stopping our people's suffering and restoring democracy.”

This direct turn to the US military follows Guaidó’s abortive April 30 coup attempt, which failed to produce any significant fissures in Venezuela’s armed forces or elicit any significant popular support. Since then, backing for the self-proclaimed and US-backed “interim president” has visibly waned, with barely a few hundred people turning out for a demonstration he called last Saturday.

Absent popular support or backing from any major faction of the Venezuelan military, Guaidó appears to be banking on a direct US military intervention. The assault on the Venezuela’s embassy in Washington may well be a warning that a violent assault is being prepared on the country itself.
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From bjornsona at ameritech.net  Fri May 17 20:10:35 2019
From: bjornsona at ameritech.net (Anne Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 20:10:35 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Peace] 5G Info at Common Ground Sat, May 18,
 1:00 pm (tomorrow) right after Farmer's Market
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Dear All:
Twelve 5G transmitter antennas are in process to be installed on light and electric poles this summer in C-U.
One is outside Urbana Middle School at Vine & Michigan. Another is outside Central High School at 635 W. University.

Come to a quick meeting tomorrow, Sat. May 18, at 1:00 pm at Common Ground co-op classrooom to pick up info on how to make up your own mind on whether or not 5G is a good idea.

Bring your own information or insights to share. 

Anne Bjornson Parkinsonbjornsona at ameritech.net
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sat May 18 01:30:49 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 01:30:49 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Tomorrow! Saturday,
 May 18: March Against Illegal Seizure of the Venezuelan Embassy and
 Escalation Against Iran
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The Embassy Protection Collective is calling on all peace and social justice organizations and people from all over the United States to join together tomorrow Saturday, May 18, for a massive mobilization in Washington D.C. at the Venezuelan Embassy followed by a march to the White House.

On Thursday, May 16, federal agents invaded the Venezuelan Embassy and arrested the peaceful anti-war activists who were caring for the building as invited guests of the building's owner, the Venezuelan government. Despite violent attacks from anti-Venezuelan government opposition, the ANSWER Coalition, Popular Resistance, and CODEPINK held regular rallies for months at the Embassy in support of international law and protecting the building from an illegal seizure by the Trump Administration.

Trump, Pompeo, and Bolton have succeeded at long last at carrying out the illegal seizure of the diplomatic embassy that belongs to the government of Venezuela. Nothing that self-proclaimed leader Juan Guaidó or pretend-ambassador Carlos Vecchio say can change the reality that they are not the government of Venezuela. This is nothing more than a fiction designed to provide a fig leaf for an imperialist regime change operation against a sovereign government in Latin America.

The national mobilization will focus on the growing war danger that targets both Venezuela and Iran. John Bolton and Mike Pompeo are pursuing a reckless, hyper-aggressive policy toward both Iran and Venezuela, and the danger of a military conflict grows with each passing day.

Join the ANSWER Coalition, Popular Resistance, and CODEPINK at the Venezuelan Embassy at 1099 30th St. NW in Georgetown to demand an end to U.S. aggression against Venezuela and Iran!

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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sat May 18 01:30:49 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 01:30:49 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Tomorrow! Saturday,
 May 18: March Against Illegal Seizure of the Venezuelan Embassy and
 Escalation Against Iran
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The Embassy Protection Collective is calling on all peace and social justice organizations and people from all over the United States to join together tomorrow Saturday, May 18, for a massive mobilization in Washington D.C. at the Venezuelan Embassy followed by a march to the White House.

On Thursday, May 16, federal agents invaded the Venezuelan Embassy and arrested the peaceful anti-war activists who were caring for the building as invited guests of the building's owner, the Venezuelan government. Despite violent attacks from anti-Venezuelan government opposition, the ANSWER Coalition, Popular Resistance, and CODEPINK held regular rallies for months at the Embassy in support of international law and protecting the building from an illegal seizure by the Trump Administration.

Trump, Pompeo, and Bolton have succeeded at long last at carrying out the illegal seizure of the diplomatic embassy that belongs to the government of Venezuela. Nothing that self-proclaimed leader Juan Guaidó or pretend-ambassador Carlos Vecchio say can change the reality that they are not the government of Venezuela. This is nothing more than a fiction designed to provide a fig leaf for an imperialist regime change operation against a sovereign government in Latin America.

The national mobilization will focus on the growing war danger that targets both Venezuela and Iran. John Bolton and Mike Pompeo are pursuing a reckless, hyper-aggressive policy toward both Iran and Venezuela, and the danger of a military conflict grows with each passing day.

Join the ANSWER Coalition, Popular Resistance, and CODEPINK at the Venezuelan Embassy at 1099 30th St. NW in Georgetown to demand an end to U.S. aggression against Venezuela and Iran!

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From kmedina67 at gmail.com  Sat May 18 05:26:44 2019
From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (kmedina67)
Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 00:26:44 -0500
Subject: [Peace] If immigration justice is your issue,
 Fwd: Fw CU FAIR Dinner Gala
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Dear peace, 
Immigration issues and peace are closely tied together. If you are interested in learning about a local group that is doing great things on immigration justice, you should check out CU FAIR (Friends and Allies of Immigrants and Refugees). 
See the forwarded email below about an upcoming opportunity to get to know more. 
- Karen Medina"The really great make you feel that you, too, can become great" - Mark Twain

-------- Original message --------From: marci adelston-schafer <madelston_schafer at hotmail.com> Date: 5/17/19  19:04  (GMT-06:00) To: central-illinois-poor-peoples-campaign at googlegroups.com Subject: Fw CU FAIR Dinner Gala 



 



Hi all!

     CU FAIR is having a fundraising dinner gala next Saturday night 5/25 at the Cityview Banquet and Meeting Center.





For those of you who are not familiar with CU FAIR (Friends and Allies of Immigrants and Refugees). They sponsor immigrant families in the community. They do everything from providing ESL classes, to locating housing, to providing furniture and clothing to
 assisting with transportation. This is just the tip of the iceberg. They do so much more for the immigrant community in CU.





Marci







https://www.facebook.com/events/371575536780742/?acontext=%7B%22source%22%3A4%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D&source=4&action_history=null&ref=4












CU FAIR’s 1st Annual Dinner
 Gala

Causes event in Champaign, IL by CU FAIR: Champaign Urbana Friends & Allies of Immigrants & Refugees on Saturday, May 25 2019

www.facebook.com








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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sat May 18 14:11:15 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 14:11:15 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Who's behind the pro-guaido crowd besieging the Venezuelan
 Embassy in DC
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From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 14:11:15 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Who's behind the pro-guaido crowd besieging the Venezuelan
 Embassy in DC
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sun May 19 16:31:15 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 16:31:15 +0000
Subject: [Peace] "Where Have All the Anti-War Warriors Gone?"
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Where Have All the Anti-War Warriors Gone?<https://blackagendareport.com/where-have-all-anti-war-warriors-gone>
Dr. Kweli Nzito<https://blackagendareport.com/author/%20Dr.%20Kweli%20Nzito>

15 May 2019
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Where Have All the Anti-War Warriors Gone?

Has the US public become desensitized to the horrendous suffering inflicted by their government, or are they blissful co-imperialists?

“What has produced this unprecedented state of brain demise, amorality and bizarre insensitivity to the suffering and pain of others?”

The ratcheting up of tensions has placed two culturally and geographically dissimilar countries --- Iran and Venezuela, firmly in the cross hairs of yet more illegal American wars, based on lies.  But lies have now become commonplace and staple in the Empire’s pursuit of her habitual acts of lawlessness and unprovoked aggression.  The push for an indisputable American hegemony and control of natural resources from weak countries first, for the economic windfall of corporate robber barons; second, for providing a military front on behalf of Israel.  Both phenomena have ceased to raise eyebrows.  No more pretenses after the infamous Pompeo declaration, “We lie, we cheat, we steal,” <http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1149003.shtml> inadvertently but accurately summarizing the history and essence of the United States since its nascent stages.  Trump once smugly called it “taming” the country, implying in his typically overt racist fashion, that before being tamed, the American land mass was an unforgiving wilderness inhabited by savages.

“Pompeo ‘s declaration, ‘We lie, we cheat, we steal,’ accurately summarizes the history and essence of the United States.”

Beyond the impetus for merciless hegemonic quests, Franz Fanon’s wretched of the earth have been given a stark choice:  surrender to the will of the Empire, or follow your independent path at your own assured peril--- economic devastation first, then the final blow delivered by a merciless military hammer, if you eschew nuclear arms, that is.  Many of these countries have effectively surrendered their sovereignty, as they get ever more deeply mired in neoliberal economic muddles prescribed by Washington, the IMF and the World Bank against the interests of their own impoverished and disenfranchised citizens.  Equal numbers had participated in comprehensive armed struggles against English, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, Belgian, Zionist and German colonial rule.  They are now being systematically and seriously sapped of the energy and political will to stand up to neo-colonialism, a phenomenon decidedly grimmer and infinitely deadlier than its classic counterpart.

Israel’s partnership in this imperial adventure is becoming less masked and increasingly barefaced.  The Israelis are sending 1,000 special IDF forces to Honduras --- a US puppet regime, in quiet preparation for the coming war against Venezuela. Other more vociferous accomplices on the margins -- Saudis, Egyptians, Emiratis and Bahrainis -- are gleefully rubbing their hands at the prospect of their sworn religious nemesis, Iran, being wiped off the map or being turned into yet another failed state.

“Surrender to the will of the Empire, or follow your independent path at your own assured peril.”

What of Venezuela? What possible grounds have led to their rebuke from the newly evolved god, the USA. Whatever the answer, it cannot be on religious grounds.  The fact that Venezuela is an overwhelmingly Christian (88%) country does not shield them from the secular god’s wrath who alone can offer salvation with all its earthly rewards, or damnation with the accompanying indiscriminate terrestrial hell.  Rewards of worldly heaven for the sycophants and living hell for the audacious and assertive. This is a posture much resembling a prescription from the scriptures. But then designated apostates (only god can designate nations as terrorist, target them for sanctions or embrace them as allies) like Venezuela do not deserve to sit on the world’s largest reserves of oil and natural gas. That is the natural right of Uncle Sam, via the auspices of his installed puppets.

True to gangster tradition of making offers that dare not be refused, the US singles out countries as renegades, pushes them against the wall in the hopes they will react, then blames the victims desperately groping for survival. The sanctions being expanded now force countries once exempted and allowed to buy Iranian oil to look elsewhere for fuel.  Among them is the second most populated country in the world, India.  But who gives a damn? If the US did in fact give a hoot about inferior peoples, they would not have acquired their empire by means mostly foul, cruel and unscrupulous.  The frontier cowboy bushwhacking mentality lives on and thrives.  Naturally, the US is chief among potential beneficiaries of this criminal embargo with higher prices likely to turn it into an exporter of oil, its petroleum magnates and corporate masters raking in the profits borne out of the abject misery visited on millions of targeted victims.

“The frontier cowboy bushwhacking mentality lives on and thrives.”

Lest we forget about the 500,000 children murdered by American sanctions against Iraq, denying them essential medicines, prompting Madeline Albright to soberly reflect that that macabre criminal measure was “worth it.”  Mike Pompeo recently declared without an atom of remorse or shame, "The Iranian leadership has to make a decision that they want their people to eat," abandoning all pretense of caring about Iranian innocents while flaunting the latest overpowering sanctions.  So, the U.S. doctrine, evolving in plain sight, is “to make their economy scream” in the words of the late American President and thug, Richard Nixon, followed by orchestrated starvation of Iranians, a la Pompeo and then wipe them out with all the military might at America’s disposal.  Famished and ailing children included.

But here we posit morally searching questions to ponder: in the face of America’s brazen acts of war before even the first bullet is fired, is this not the time for the anti-war warriors to embark on serious preventive, deterrent anti-war stands, take to the streets in the tradition of the Yellow vests, implement civil unrest and make it clear that the crimes of their leaders will not be given a free pass?  They are not visible yet, save for the buried voices from the much maligned Ilhan Omar, Ro Khanna, Walter Jones and Barbara Lee, the latter’s prescient stand against the Afghanistan war led to death threats against her. Where is the Black Caucus when you need it?  Where on earth can they possibly be? Or have the American government and the Israel Firstlobby so effectively neutralized the movement as to make it irreversibly inoperable, useless?

“Where is the Black Caucus when you need it?”

Indeed, has the public become so desensitized to the horrendous suffering of fellow humans beyond their frontiers so callously wrought by their government that they have taken refuge in silence as the easier, gutless exit out of their inescapable burden of guilt --- if they have any left?  Or have they been rendered totally ignorant by a servile, cheerleading corporate media that knowingly conceal the criminal acts of their government abroad that the public’s fenagled ignorance has become a source of virtual bliss and inaction? Have the lessons of the lies of Gulf of Tonkin, the WMD, lies about saving Libyans from Gaddafi, Cubans from Castro, Nicaraguans from Ortega, Haiti from Aristide and Venezuelans from Maduro; about Mandela being a terrorist, about Hamas being designated a terrorist organization been entirely lost on the public?  What of the hitherto essentially abandoned, redundant falsehoods of spreading democracy and human rights, the rule of law and order by a country that clearly ranks as the worst offender of these once lofty principles, running roughshod over civilized norms and international law.

“Has the public become so desensitized to the horrendous suffering of fellow humans beyond their frontiers?”

Are these not the same warriors who truncated that other brutal, criminal (Vietnam) war by their leaders by protesting courageously until their leaders could no longer continue to play deaf? Or was it simply for nepotistic reasons of not bearing the prospects of more body bags wrapping their relatives who have wasted their lives fighting a criminal and unjust war for an elite that never visits the frontlines?  Can the American public be credibly oblivious to their country’s unsavory distinction of having launched more unprovoked and criminal wars of aggression post-WWII, killing more innocents than the rest of humanity combined?  What exactly are they teaching these young men and women, boys and girls in schools, colleges, universities and temples of worship where salvation is ostensibly at hand and the honorable pursuit of divine justice a matter of moral duty? Marx once asserted that religion is the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions … the opium of the people.  It is doubtful that the sheer magnitude of befuddlement and pacifying of the American public produced with such lethal efficacy by the corporate media could have been foreseen by Marx. Or is it a newly found potent mix of propaganda, employing religion as a mass pacifier instead of agitator, along with runaway consumerism that has produced this unprecedented state of brain demise, amorality and bizarre insensitivity to the suffering and pain of others? Why this inexplicable, thunderous silence and moral turpitude from what should instead be the conscience of the nation and voices of reason?  Why?

“It is doubtful that the sheer magnitude of befuddlement and pacifying of the American public produced by the corporate media could have been foreseen by Marx.”

Identical questions could be asked of European anti-war warriors.  No ready answers seem to be forthcoming from there, either.  Did their leaders not commit to stand by Iran to circumvent the evil American sanctions so Iranian civilians can enjoy a reasonably normal life in the face of so much adversity after their government had complied with the letter and spirit of the original JPCOA that Trump had trashed? Have any of their commitments borne fruit yet?  Not one. Nada.  Zilch. Yet they have the gall to reject Iran’s ultimatum to remove the cap on enriching uranium, something that Iran perhaps should have done well before the ill-fated agreement was to be signed and unceremoniously discarded.  That posture may well have put Iran on a par with North Korea who at least is allowed the luxury of occasional fake negotiations and bogus dialogs -- albeit mostly on Washington’s terms -- but still a NK resolute enough not to yield to the machinations of certified, compulsive liars. All the impassioned discussions from the White House and the MSM about evil Iran’s nuclear program make no mention, not a word on Israel’s estimated 400 nuclear warheads.

The real heartbreak comes not from the lack of sensible and satisfactory answers to the many questions posed here. It comes from a sense of impotence both inside and outside the US.  It is one occasioned by the one-way orders and edicts issuing from the modern secular deific entities, collectively constituted by the leadership of the US of A.  They are deities with barely any modicum of demonstrable compassion. It is reminiscent of the god of the Old Testament -- vindictive, cruel, merciless, racist and bloodthirsty. Such traits and the aversion to peace have become the defining qualities of these deities, their disciples and the secular lumpen spiritariat.  And to such a deity, his creatures have been left with no choice but total and unconditional submission.  Freedom as a dream, as aspiration, as a catalyst for hope is now being consigned to the trash bins of revisionist history because the new gods thus ordain it. Fukuyama’s erroneous title of “The End of History” fell flat on its face because it was myopic and deceitfully triumphalist.  It should have read, “The End of Resistance.”

Kweli Nzito, PhD., is a retired scientist now living in Thailand.
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sun May 19 16:31:15 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 16:31:15 +0000
Subject: [Peace] "Where Have All the Anti-War Warriors Gone?"
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Where Have All the Anti-War Warriors Gone?<https://blackagendareport.com/where-have-all-anti-war-warriors-gone>
Dr. Kweli Nzito<https://blackagendareport.com/author/%20Dr.%20Kweli%20Nzito>

15 May 2019
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Where Have All the Anti-War Warriors Gone?

Has the US public become desensitized to the horrendous suffering inflicted by their government, or are they blissful co-imperialists?

“What has produced this unprecedented state of brain demise, amorality and bizarre insensitivity to the suffering and pain of others?”

The ratcheting up of tensions has placed two culturally and geographically dissimilar countries --- Iran and Venezuela, firmly in the cross hairs of yet more illegal American wars, based on lies.  But lies have now become commonplace and staple in the Empire’s pursuit of her habitual acts of lawlessness and unprovoked aggression.  The push for an indisputable American hegemony and control of natural resources from weak countries first, for the economic windfall of corporate robber barons; second, for providing a military front on behalf of Israel.  Both phenomena have ceased to raise eyebrows.  No more pretenses after the infamous Pompeo declaration, “We lie, we cheat, we steal,” <http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1149003.shtml> inadvertently but accurately summarizing the history and essence of the United States since its nascent stages.  Trump once smugly called it “taming” the country, implying in his typically overt racist fashion, that before being tamed, the American land mass was an unforgiving wilderness inhabited by savages.

“Pompeo ‘s declaration, ‘We lie, we cheat, we steal,’ accurately summarizes the history and essence of the United States.”

Beyond the impetus for merciless hegemonic quests, Franz Fanon’s wretched of the earth have been given a stark choice:  surrender to the will of the Empire, or follow your independent path at your own assured peril--- economic devastation first, then the final blow delivered by a merciless military hammer, if you eschew nuclear arms, that is.  Many of these countries have effectively surrendered their sovereignty, as they get ever more deeply mired in neoliberal economic muddles prescribed by Washington, the IMF and the World Bank against the interests of their own impoverished and disenfranchised citizens.  Equal numbers had participated in comprehensive armed struggles against English, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, Belgian, Zionist and German colonial rule.  They are now being systematically and seriously sapped of the energy and political will to stand up to neo-colonialism, a phenomenon decidedly grimmer and infinitely deadlier than its classic counterpart.

Israel’s partnership in this imperial adventure is becoming less masked and increasingly barefaced.  The Israelis are sending 1,000 special IDF forces to Honduras --- a US puppet regime, in quiet preparation for the coming war against Venezuela. Other more vociferous accomplices on the margins -- Saudis, Egyptians, Emiratis and Bahrainis -- are gleefully rubbing their hands at the prospect of their sworn religious nemesis, Iran, being wiped off the map or being turned into yet another failed state.

“Surrender to the will of the Empire, or follow your independent path at your own assured peril.”

What of Venezuela? What possible grounds have led to their rebuke from the newly evolved god, the USA. Whatever the answer, it cannot be on religious grounds.  The fact that Venezuela is an overwhelmingly Christian (88%) country does not shield them from the secular god’s wrath who alone can offer salvation with all its earthly rewards, or damnation with the accompanying indiscriminate terrestrial hell.  Rewards of worldly heaven for the sycophants and living hell for the audacious and assertive. This is a posture much resembling a prescription from the scriptures. But then designated apostates (only god can designate nations as terrorist, target them for sanctions or embrace them as allies) like Venezuela do not deserve to sit on the world’s largest reserves of oil and natural gas. That is the natural right of Uncle Sam, via the auspices of his installed puppets.

True to gangster tradition of making offers that dare not be refused, the US singles out countries as renegades, pushes them against the wall in the hopes they will react, then blames the victims desperately groping for survival. The sanctions being expanded now force countries once exempted and allowed to buy Iranian oil to look elsewhere for fuel.  Among them is the second most populated country in the world, India.  But who gives a damn? If the US did in fact give a hoot about inferior peoples, they would not have acquired their empire by means mostly foul, cruel and unscrupulous.  The frontier cowboy bushwhacking mentality lives on and thrives.  Naturally, the US is chief among potential beneficiaries of this criminal embargo with higher prices likely to turn it into an exporter of oil, its petroleum magnates and corporate masters raking in the profits borne out of the abject misery visited on millions of targeted victims.

“The frontier cowboy bushwhacking mentality lives on and thrives.”

Lest we forget about the 500,000 children murdered by American sanctions against Iraq, denying them essential medicines, prompting Madeline Albright to soberly reflect that that macabre criminal measure was “worth it.”  Mike Pompeo recently declared without an atom of remorse or shame, "The Iranian leadership has to make a decision that they want their people to eat," abandoning all pretense of caring about Iranian innocents while flaunting the latest overpowering sanctions.  So, the U.S. doctrine, evolving in plain sight, is “to make their economy scream” in the words of the late American President and thug, Richard Nixon, followed by orchestrated starvation of Iranians, a la Pompeo and then wipe them out with all the military might at America’s disposal.  Famished and ailing children included.

But here we posit morally searching questions to ponder: in the face of America’s brazen acts of war before even the first bullet is fired, is this not the time for the anti-war warriors to embark on serious preventive, deterrent anti-war stands, take to the streets in the tradition of the Yellow vests, implement civil unrest and make it clear that the crimes of their leaders will not be given a free pass?  They are not visible yet, save for the buried voices from the much maligned Ilhan Omar, Ro Khanna, Walter Jones and Barbara Lee, the latter’s prescient stand against the Afghanistan war led to death threats against her. Where is the Black Caucus when you need it?  Where on earth can they possibly be? Or have the American government and the Israel Firstlobby so effectively neutralized the movement as to make it irreversibly inoperable, useless?

“Where is the Black Caucus when you need it?”

Indeed, has the public become so desensitized to the horrendous suffering of fellow humans beyond their frontiers so callously wrought by their government that they have taken refuge in silence as the easier, gutless exit out of their inescapable burden of guilt --- if they have any left?  Or have they been rendered totally ignorant by a servile, cheerleading corporate media that knowingly conceal the criminal acts of their government abroad that the public’s fenagled ignorance has become a source of virtual bliss and inaction? Have the lessons of the lies of Gulf of Tonkin, the WMD, lies about saving Libyans from Gaddafi, Cubans from Castro, Nicaraguans from Ortega, Haiti from Aristide and Venezuelans from Maduro; about Mandela being a terrorist, about Hamas being designated a terrorist organization been entirely lost on the public?  What of the hitherto essentially abandoned, redundant falsehoods of spreading democracy and human rights, the rule of law and order by a country that clearly ranks as the worst offender of these once lofty principles, running roughshod over civilized norms and international law.

“Has the public become so desensitized to the horrendous suffering of fellow humans beyond their frontiers?”

Are these not the same warriors who truncated that other brutal, criminal (Vietnam) war by their leaders by protesting courageously until their leaders could no longer continue to play deaf? Or was it simply for nepotistic reasons of not bearing the prospects of more body bags wrapping their relatives who have wasted their lives fighting a criminal and unjust war for an elite that never visits the frontlines?  Can the American public be credibly oblivious to their country’s unsavory distinction of having launched more unprovoked and criminal wars of aggression post-WWII, killing more innocents than the rest of humanity combined?  What exactly are they teaching these young men and women, boys and girls in schools, colleges, universities and temples of worship where salvation is ostensibly at hand and the honorable pursuit of divine justice a matter of moral duty? Marx once asserted that religion is the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions … the opium of the people.  It is doubtful that the sheer magnitude of befuddlement and pacifying of the American public produced with such lethal efficacy by the corporate media could have been foreseen by Marx. Or is it a newly found potent mix of propaganda, employing religion as a mass pacifier instead of agitator, along with runaway consumerism that has produced this unprecedented state of brain demise, amorality and bizarre insensitivity to the suffering and pain of others? Why this inexplicable, thunderous silence and moral turpitude from what should instead be the conscience of the nation and voices of reason?  Why?

“It is doubtful that the sheer magnitude of befuddlement and pacifying of the American public produced by the corporate media could have been foreseen by Marx.”

Identical questions could be asked of European anti-war warriors.  No ready answers seem to be forthcoming from there, either.  Did their leaders not commit to stand by Iran to circumvent the evil American sanctions so Iranian civilians can enjoy a reasonably normal life in the face of so much adversity after their government had complied with the letter and spirit of the original JPCOA that Trump had trashed? Have any of their commitments borne fruit yet?  Not one. Nada.  Zilch. Yet they have the gall to reject Iran’s ultimatum to remove the cap on enriching uranium, something that Iran perhaps should have done well before the ill-fated agreement was to be signed and unceremoniously discarded.  That posture may well have put Iran on a par with North Korea who at least is allowed the luxury of occasional fake negotiations and bogus dialogs -- albeit mostly on Washington’s terms -- but still a NK resolute enough not to yield to the machinations of certified, compulsive liars. All the impassioned discussions from the White House and the MSM about evil Iran’s nuclear program make no mention, not a word on Israel’s estimated 400 nuclear warheads.

The real heartbreak comes not from the lack of sensible and satisfactory answers to the many questions posed here. It comes from a sense of impotence both inside and outside the US.  It is one occasioned by the one-way orders and edicts issuing from the modern secular deific entities, collectively constituted by the leadership of the US of A.  They are deities with barely any modicum of demonstrable compassion. It is reminiscent of the god of the Old Testament -- vindictive, cruel, merciless, racist and bloodthirsty. Such traits and the aversion to peace have become the defining qualities of these deities, their disciples and the secular lumpen spiritariat.  And to such a deity, his creatures have been left with no choice but total and unconditional submission.  Freedom as a dream, as aspiration, as a catalyst for hope is now being consigned to the trash bins of revisionist history because the new gods thus ordain it. Fukuyama’s erroneous title of “The End of History” fell flat on its face because it was myopic and deceitfully triumphalist.  It should have read, “The End of Resistance.”

Kweli Nzito, PhD., is a retired scientist now living in Thailand.
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From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org  Mon May 20 20:43:21 2019
From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman)
Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 15:43:21 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Chicago Area Peace Action letter to Duckworth - no war with
 Iran
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfDBaY6lP8rchiFA1ijSiVAp8FNSWeQZ36mM0LKFcPMMp7wUg/viewform?ts=5ce22eec

Request to Sign: Letter to the Illinois Congressional Delegation Urging
they Support S.1039/H.R.2354 to Prevent War with Iran
Hello,

Chicago Area Peace Action is seeking organizational co-signers on this
letter to the Illinois Congressional Delegation urging they support
S1039/HR2354 - The Prevention of Unconstitutional War with Iran Act.

Support for this legislation by our Illinois delegation could not come at a
more urgent time. National Security Advisor John Bolton and Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo are endorsing war plans to send 120,000 troops and 120
war ships to the Middle East to ratchet up tensions and provoke a war with
Iran. This has been there plan from the beginning. We can't let that
happen. Members of Congress must preemptively assert their constitutional
war authority and support these bill to send a clear signal to the Trump
Administration that war against Iran will not be allowed. The American
people do not want another war in the Middle East.

Thank you for your consideration of this urgent matter. Sign the form below
and pass it on to other groups in Illinois that might be interested in
joining. Feel free to email me if you have questions or comments.

Thank you,

Rabia Farishta
Chicago Area Peace Action Fellow
rabiafarishta at gmail.com

Dear Members of the Illinois Congressional Delegation,

We write to request your support for S.1039/H.R.2354, the Prevention of
Unconstitutional War with Iran Act of 2019, introduced by Senator Udall and
Representative Eshoo. These resolutions would prevent funding from being
appropriated in the event of an unauthorized U.S. military intervention in
Iran.

Congressional opposition to U.S. military intervention in Iran could not
come at a more urgent time. The Trump administration has moved the U.S.
into a war posture with Iran through increased hostile rhetoric, crippling
economic sanctions, and by using the routine deployment of a battleship in
the region to threaten “unrelenting force”. Recently, National Security
Advisor John Bolton was reported to be overseeing the revision of war plans
to send upwards of 120,000 troops and 120 additional warships to the Middle
East with the intention of provoking war with Iran.

Congress must not be idle witnesses in a repetition of the playbook for the
2003 invasion of Iraq. The Trump Administration must be reminded that it is
constrained by a lack of Congressional authorization for war, and the fact
that the 2001 AUMF can’t be twisted  to give a green light for launching
military action against Iran.

As tensions continue to rise, it is vital that Congress preemptively assert
its constitutional war authority and stop the Administration from launching
a disastrous war against Iran. We urge you to cosponsor S.1039 and H.R.2354
before it’s too late.

Sincerely,

Chicago Area Peace Action

===

Robert Reuel Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
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From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org  Tue May 21 13:23:28 2019
From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman)
Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 08:23:28 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Defending Rights & Dissent: slip now to stop Illinois
 anti-protest bill
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The fact that this bill is a going proposition in the Democratic-controlled
Illinois legislature is pretty disturbing. Is this why we have a
Democratic-controlled Illinois government? So they can vote to take away
our right to protest the fossil fuel industry that's destroying our planet?

Please slip against the bill, and ask Rep. Ammons to lead the fight to
block this assault on our right to protest.

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From: Sue at Defending Rights & Dissent <info at rightsanddissent.org>
Date: Mon, May 20, 2019 at 5:03 PM
Subject: The vote is tomorrow: take action to stop Illinois anti-protest
bill
To: Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>

Robert,

I guess you might be tired of hearing from me about this terrible bill
winding its way through the Illinois legislature... but here we go again.

HB1633
<https://default.salsalabs.org/Tbafc3727-fefb-4e51-9adf-0b9e6bdea52b/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>
would create draconian new penalties for protests at pipelines, refineries,
and other sites deemed "critical infrastructure." The bill also includes a
"guilty by association" provision that would impose catastrophic fines on
organizations that support these grassroots protests. *Please see below for
more details about the bill.*

*Can you take two minutes to file 2 witness slips against the bill?* It's
not as easy as signing a petition, especially because I need to ask you to
file two witness slips, one for the subcommittee, one for the committee.
But this is the best way to convey your opposition.

*Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in  Subcommittee.*
<https://default.salsalabs.org/T6a31c7fb-568b-4365-9e7f-fd471b8bab06/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>

Then come back to this email and...

*Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in Committee*
<https://default.salsalabs.org/T43f80b4c-ab9a-4d0f-9c8f-22d23fed3185/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>

I agree the forms ask for too much information and are not very clear...
but it is easier than driving to Springfield for most. *The key is to
remember to check yourself as an Opponent to the bill, *and check "record
of appearance only"

HB1633 is backed by ALEC, the extractive industry and other corporate
interests, and has bi-partisan support. It is scheduled for a hearing in
the Senate Criminal Law Committee on Tuesday, May 21 at 5 p.m.

Let's show that people power can overcome corporate greed, and we won't
give up our right to dissent without a fight.
Please take action against this anti-protest bill now:

*Click here
<https://default.salsalabs.org/Tf2a6fb76-65b0-43f5-8867-ea98212a5e74/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>...
and then return to this email and click here
<https://default.salsalabs.org/Taacf8218-43e5-4ead-9734-82b4dce2512d/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>.....
to
submit OPPOSITION witness slips to HB1633 for the subcommittee and
committee*. The process takes a minute and is important, it allows you to
"testify" against a bill without being present in Springfield. The links
above will take you to the Illinois general assembly website where you'll
be able to fill out the witness slips against HB1633. Fill out all your
info, mark yourself as an OPPONENT to the bill, and check "record of
appearance only"

*The hearing for the bill is TOMORROW, Tuesday, May 21 so please fill out
your witness slips today!*

Stay Loud, Stay Strong,

Sue
More about HB1633:

Fifty Illinois and national organizations signed the following letter (also
available here
<https://default.salsalabs.org/T0ce9aaca-8499-4dc0-bec0-1555ac0c0aa9/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>).


To Members of the Illinois Senate:

The undersigned racial justice, criminal justice reform, and other civil
society groups and individuals urge you to oppose Illinois House Bill 1633.
The bill undermines the promising reform efforts in Illinois and nationally
designed to remedy the harm caused by mass incarceration, and it threatens
to silence already marginalized voices. HB 1633 is an unnecessary proposal
that creates new draconian penalties for conduct already covered by
existing criminal statutes and could have dire unintended consequences,
including for youth. HB 1633 is part of a national trend of so-called
“critical infrastructure” legislation promoted by the American Legislative
Exchange Council (ALEC) that is intended to neutralize climate justice
activism. We urge you to oppose HB 1633.

Critical infrastructure bills disproportionately affect some of the most
underrepresented communities, criminalizing their right to protest. These
bills target many already marginalized voices, in reaction to some of the
most high-profile protests in recent history. Native Americans—women, in
particular—are playing an important role as “water protectors” in protests
against pipelines; low-income communities of color are most affected by
unchecked environmental pollution; family farms have the most to lose by
unfair land-grabs for large infrastructure projects. These communities have
a right to peacefully resist environmentally unsafe and unjust policies,
and unchecked corporate abuse.

HB 1633 is purportedly designed to protect critical infrastructure, but the
definition of “critical infrastructure” is overly broad and would cover
large swaths of the state in urban, suburban, and rural areas, creating the
unintended consequence of ensnaring many in Illinois’ already overburdened
criminal justice system. For example, someone trespassing in rail yards or
on el-tracks without intent to damage or destroy could be charged with a
class 4 felony punishable by a fine of $1,000, one to three years
imprisonment, or both. Currently, criminal trespass to property is
punishable as a Class B or Class A misdemeanor, depending upon the nature
of the offense (720 ILCS 5/21-3).

Additionally, the bill does not distinguish between criminal damages of one
dollar or a million dollars. Each would be eligible for the same penalty of
ten years in prison and a $100,000 fine. At a time when many people,
including lawmakers, have recognized the deleterious effects that mass
incarceration has had on society and have attempted to rectify laws that
have criminalized certain conduct or imposed unreasonable penalties, HB
1633, is a giant step backwards. By creating a whole new class of
nonviolent offenders who could serve serious prison time, it is
antithetical to criminal justice reform.

Environmental advocacy, including civil disobedience, does not threaten
physical infrastructure or safety, it threatens corporations that put
profits and pollution ahead of justice and the environment. Critical
infrastructure bills are based on model legislation crafted by corporate
interests to establish special protections for some private industries
engaged in controversial practices that attract opposition and protest.
These bills, including HB 1633, are rooted in animus against environmental
justice advocacy because it threatens the profits of these corporations.
Whenever states enact legislation based on animus towards particular
political speech it has a chilling effect that will be felt widely.

We urge you to oppose HB 1633. From a criminal justice reform perspective,
this bill is damaging, as it creates new steep penalties for conduct that
is already covered under existing criminal law. These new steep penalties
and special protections for so-called critical infrastructure are rooted in
animus towards anti-pipeline protesters. It is inappropriate for states to
seek to legislation in order to penalize individuals for their First
Amendment-protected points of view.

Please direct questions to Sue Udry, Defending Rights & Dissent, at
202.552.7408 or sue at rightsanddissent.org.



Sincerely,

350 Chicago

350 Kishwaukee (IL)

American Friends Service Committee - Chicago

Area Consortium of Educational Service For Our Youth  (DBA:A.C.E.S. 4
Youth)

Chicago Area Peace Action

Chicago Food Policy Action Council

Chicago SE Side Coalition to Ban Petcoke (SSCBP)

Clean Power Lake County

Climate Defense Project

Color Of Change

Crossroads Fund

Defending Rights & Dissent

Earth Defense Coalition

Eco-Justice Collaborative

Extinction Rebellion Chicago

Faith In Place Action Fund

Food & Water Watch

Fox Valley Citizens for Peace & Justice

Frack Free Illinois

Friends of Bell Smith Springs

Grassroots Collaborative

Greater Highland Area Concerned Citizens

Greenpeace USA

Indivisible Chicago

Indivisible South Suburban Chicago

Illinois Green Party

Illinois People's Action

Lifted Voices

Little Village Environmental Justice Organization

Moms Demand Action

National Lawyers Guild

National Lawyers Guild – Chicago Chapter

National Lawyers Guild - St. Louis Chapter

Native Organizers Alliance

Northern Illinois Jobs with Justice

Nuclear Energy Information Service -NEIS-

Occupy Rockford

Palestine Legal

Reform for Illinois

Save Our Illinois Land

Shawnee Forest Defense!

Sierra Club, Illinois Chapter

Southern Illinois DSA

Southern Illinoisans Against Fracturing Our Environment

The People's Lobby

Vinyard Indian Settlement

Water Protector Legal Collective

Will County Progressives

WindSolarUSA, Inc.

X-Lab

*Read more about "Critical Infrastructure" bills in our toolkit for
activists here
<https://default.salsalabs.org/Tbd6072d7-b107-4930-97e0-78e8044732e2/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>.*


To take action against this anti-protest bill:

Today I am asking you to submit 2 witness slips:

*Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in  Subcommittee.*
<https://default.salsalabs.org/T6aecc2f8-1180-4eb5-8386-aac64cf0a00e/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>

*Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in Committee*
<https://default.salsalabs.org/Tf3458f02-ca8b-42a7-9995-864e8739375c/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>

The process takes just a minute and is important, it allows you to
"testify" against a bill without being present in Springfield. The links
above will take you to the Illinois general assembly website where you'll
be able to fill out  witness slips in OPPOSITION to HB1633.

The form is not the easiest to understand, but you can do it! Fill out your
info and mark yourself as an OPPONENT to the bill and "record of appearance
only".



*The  vote will be Tuesday, May 21 at 5 pm  So Please Take Action Now!*



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From davidgreen50 at gmail.com  Tue May 21 15:09:42 2019
From: davidgreen50 at gmail.com (David Green)
Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 10:09:42 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Defending Rights & Dissent: slip now to stop Illinois
 anti-protest bill
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I have submitted my witness slip, and contacted both state rep.offices.

I doubt that Carol Ammons will step up and make a fuss about this bill. She
has little or no history of challenging Madigan. I will be happy to be
proved wrong.

Scott Bennett is a prosecutor who like to opportunistically grandstand
about sexual predators and to attend police-supportive functions. His
appointment as state senator was a matter of cronyism. I also doubt that he
will oppose this bill; I will be happy to be proved wrong.

DG

On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 8:23 AM Robert Naiman via Peace <
peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

>
> The fact that this bill is a going proposition in the
> Democratic-controlled Illinois legislature is pretty disturbing. Is this
> why we have a Democratic-controlled Illinois government? So they can vote
> to take away our right to protest the fossil fuel industry that's
> destroying our planet?
>
> Please slip against the bill, and ask Rep. Ammons to lead the fight to
> block this assault on our right to protest.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Sue at Defending Rights & Dissent <info at rightsanddissent.org>
> Date: Mon, May 20, 2019 at 5:03 PM
> Subject: The vote is tomorrow: take action to stop Illinois anti-protest
> bill
> To: Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>
>
> Robert,
>
> I guess you might be tired of hearing from me about this terrible bill
> winding its way through the Illinois legislature... but here we go again.
>
> HB1633
> <https://default.salsalabs.org/Tbafc3727-fefb-4e51-9adf-0b9e6bdea52b/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>
> would create draconian new penalties for protests at pipelines, refineries,
> and other sites deemed "critical infrastructure." The bill also includes a
> "guilty by association" provision that would impose catastrophic fines on
> organizations that support these grassroots protests. *Please see below
> for more details about the bill.*
>
> *Can you take two minutes to file 2 witness slips against the bill?* It's
> not as easy as signing a petition, especially because I need to ask you to
> file two witness slips, one for the subcommittee, one for the committee.
> But this is the best way to convey your opposition.
>
> *Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in  Subcommittee.*
> <https://default.salsalabs.org/T6a31c7fb-568b-4365-9e7f-fd471b8bab06/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>
>
> Then come back to this email and...
>
> *Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in Committee*
> <https://default.salsalabs.org/T43f80b4c-ab9a-4d0f-9c8f-22d23fed3185/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>
>
> I agree the forms ask for too much information and are not very clear...
> but it is easier than driving to Springfield for most. *The key is to
> remember to check yourself as an Opponent to the bill, *and check "record
> of appearance only"
>
> HB1633 is backed by ALEC, the extractive industry and other corporate
> interests, and has bi-partisan support. It is scheduled for a hearing in
> the Senate Criminal Law Committee on Tuesday, May 21 at 5 p.m.
>
> Let's show that people power can overcome corporate greed, and we won't
> give up our right to dissent without a fight.
> Please take action against this anti-protest bill now:
>
> *Click here
> <https://default.salsalabs.org/Tf2a6fb76-65b0-43f5-8867-ea98212a5e74/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>...
> and then return to this email and click here
> <https://default.salsalabs.org/Taacf8218-43e5-4ead-9734-82b4dce2512d/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>..... to
> submit OPPOSITION witness slips to HB1633 for the subcommittee and
> committee*. The process takes a minute and is important, it allows you to
> "testify" against a bill without being present in Springfield. The links
> above will take you to the Illinois general assembly website where you'll
> be able to fill out the witness slips against HB1633. Fill out all your
> info, mark yourself as an OPPONENT to the bill, and check "record of
> appearance only"
>
> *The hearing for the bill is TOMORROW, Tuesday, May 21 so please fill out
> your witness slips today!*
>
> Stay Loud, Stay Strong,
>
> Sue
> More about HB1633:
>
> Fifty Illinois and national organizations signed the following letter (also
> available here
> <https://default.salsalabs.org/T0ce9aaca-8499-4dc0-bec0-1555ac0c0aa9/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>).
>
>
> To Members of the Illinois Senate:
>
> The undersigned racial justice, criminal justice reform, and other civil
> society groups and individuals urge you to oppose Illinois House Bill 1633.
> The bill undermines the promising reform efforts in Illinois and nationally
> designed to remedy the harm caused by mass incarceration, and it threatens
> to silence already marginalized voices. HB 1633 is an unnecessary proposal
> that creates new draconian penalties for conduct already covered by
> existing criminal statutes and could have dire unintended consequences,
> including for youth. HB 1633 is part of a national trend of so-called
> “critical infrastructure” legislation promoted by the American Legislative
> Exchange Council (ALEC) that is intended to neutralize climate justice
> activism. We urge you to oppose HB 1633.
>
> Critical infrastructure bills disproportionately affect some of the most
> underrepresented communities, criminalizing their right to protest. These
> bills target many already marginalized voices, in reaction to some of the
> most high-profile protests in recent history. Native Americans—women, in
> particular—are playing an important role as “water protectors” in protests
> against pipelines; low-income communities of color are most affected by
> unchecked environmental pollution; family farms have the most to lose by
> unfair land-grabs for large infrastructure projects. These communities have
> a right to peacefully resist environmentally unsafe and unjust policies,
> and unchecked corporate abuse.
>
> HB 1633 is purportedly designed to protect critical infrastructure, but
> the definition of “critical infrastructure” is overly broad and would cover
> large swaths of the state in urban, suburban, and rural areas, creating the
> unintended consequence of ensnaring many in Illinois’ already overburdened
> criminal justice system. For example, someone trespassing in rail yards or
> on el-tracks without intent to damage or destroy could be charged with a
> class 4 felony punishable by a fine of $1,000, one to three years
> imprisonment, or both. Currently, criminal trespass to property is
> punishable as a Class B or Class A misdemeanor, depending upon the nature
> of the offense (720 ILCS 5/21-3).
>
> Additionally, the bill does not distinguish between criminal damages of
> one dollar or a million dollars. Each would be eligible for the same
> penalty of ten years in prison and a $100,000 fine. At a time when many
> people, including lawmakers, have recognized the deleterious effects that
> mass incarceration has had on society and have attempted to rectify laws
> that have criminalized certain conduct or imposed unreasonable penalties,
> HB 1633, is a giant step backwards. By creating a whole new class of
> nonviolent offenders who could serve serious prison time, it is
> antithetical to criminal justice reform.
>
> Environmental advocacy, including civil disobedience, does not threaten
> physical infrastructure or safety, it threatens corporations that put
> profits and pollution ahead of justice and the environment. Critical
> infrastructure bills are based on model legislation crafted by corporate
> interests to establish special protections for some private industries
> engaged in controversial practices that attract opposition and protest.
> These bills, including HB 1633, are rooted in animus against environmental
> justice advocacy because it threatens the profits of these corporations.
> Whenever states enact legislation based on animus towards particular
> political speech it has a chilling effect that will be felt widely.
>
> We urge you to oppose HB 1633. From a criminal justice reform perspective,
> this bill is damaging, as it creates new steep penalties for conduct that
> is already covered under existing criminal law. These new steep penalties
> and special protections for so-called critical infrastructure are rooted in
> animus towards anti-pipeline protesters. It is inappropriate for states to
> seek to legislation in order to penalize individuals for their First
> Amendment-protected points of view.
>
> Please direct questions to Sue Udry, Defending Rights & Dissent, at
> 202.552.7408 or sue at rightsanddissent.org.
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> 350 Chicago
>
> 350 Kishwaukee (IL)
>
> American Friends Service Committee - Chicago
>
> Area Consortium of Educational Service For Our Youth  (DBA:A.C.E.S. 4
> Youth)
>
> Chicago Area Peace Action
>
> Chicago Food Policy Action Council
>
> Chicago SE Side Coalition to Ban Petcoke (SSCBP)
>
> Clean Power Lake County
>
> Climate Defense Project
>
> Color Of Change
>
> Crossroads Fund
>
> Defending Rights & Dissent
>
> Earth Defense Coalition
>
> Eco-Justice Collaborative
>
> Extinction Rebellion Chicago
>
> Faith In Place Action Fund
>
> Food & Water Watch
>
> Fox Valley Citizens for Peace & Justice
>
> Frack Free Illinois
>
> Friends of Bell Smith Springs
>
> Grassroots Collaborative
>
> Greater Highland Area Concerned Citizens
>
> Greenpeace USA
>
> Indivisible Chicago
>
> Indivisible South Suburban Chicago
>
> Illinois Green Party
>
> Illinois People's Action
>
> Lifted Voices
>
> Little Village Environmental Justice Organization
>
> Moms Demand Action
>
> National Lawyers Guild
>
> National Lawyers Guild – Chicago Chapter
>
> National Lawyers Guild - St. Louis Chapter
>
> Native Organizers Alliance
>
> Northern Illinois Jobs with Justice
>
> Nuclear Energy Information Service -NEIS-
>
> Occupy Rockford
>
> Palestine Legal
>
> Reform for Illinois
>
> Save Our Illinois Land
>
> Shawnee Forest Defense!
>
> Sierra Club, Illinois Chapter
>
> Southern Illinois DSA
>
> Southern Illinoisans Against Fracturing Our Environment
>
> The People's Lobby
>
> Vinyard Indian Settlement
>
> Water Protector Legal Collective
>
> Will County Progressives
>
> WindSolarUSA, Inc.
>
> X-Lab
>
> *Read more about "Critical Infrastructure" bills in our toolkit for
> activists here
> <https://default.salsalabs.org/Tbd6072d7-b107-4930-97e0-78e8044732e2/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>.*
>
>
> To take action against this anti-protest bill:
>
> Today I am asking you to submit 2 witness slips:
>
> *Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in  Subcommittee.*
> <https://default.salsalabs.org/T6aecc2f8-1180-4eb5-8386-aac64cf0a00e/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>
>
> *Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in Committee*
> <https://default.salsalabs.org/Tf3458f02-ca8b-42a7-9995-864e8739375c/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>
>
> The process takes just a minute and is important, it allows you to
> "testify" against a bill without being present in Springfield. The links
> above will take you to the Illinois general assembly website where you'll
> be able to fill out  witness slips in OPPOSITION to HB1633.
>
> The form is not the easiest to understand, but you can do it! Fill out
> your info and mark yourself as an OPPONENT to the bill and "record of
> appearance only".
>
>
>
> *The  vote will be Tuesday, May 21 at 5 pm  So Please Take Action Now!*
>
>
>
> Photo Credits:
>
> People over pipelines by Fibonacci Blue
> <https://default.salsalabs.org/T9d63a693-3646-41d8-8b95-c7273e3eab91/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>
>
>
> Eat Pray Protest by David Geitgey Sierralupe
> <https://default.salsalabs.org/T35b7d08d-fe59-4c6c-b38c-1f06918fe2ab/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>
>
> Repeal the Patriot Act by DRAD staff
> Donate
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>
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>
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Tue May 21 15:19:28 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 15:19:28 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Defending Rights & Dissent: slip now to stop Illinois
 anti-protest bill
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I too submitted my witness slip, and contacted both state rep. offices. As did AWARE, and others. I have confidence that if enough people do this form, that Carol Ammons will stand up and make a fuss about this bill. Hope I’m proven right.


On May 21, 2019, at 08:09, David Green via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

I have submitted my witness slip, and contacted both state rep.offices.

I doubt that Carol Ammons will step up and make a fuss about this bill. She has little or no history of challenging Madigan. I will be happy to be proved wrong.

Scott Bennett is a prosecutor who like to opportunistically grandstand about sexual predators and to attend police-supportive functions. His appointment as state senator was a matter of cronyism. I also doubt that he will oppose this bill; I will be happy to be proved wrong.

DG

On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 8:23 AM Robert Naiman via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

The fact that this bill is a going proposition in the Democratic-controlled Illinois legislature is pretty disturbing. Is this why we have a Democratic-controlled Illinois government? So they can vote to take away our right to protest the fossil fuel industry that's destroying our planet?

Please slip against the bill, and ask Rep. Ammons to lead the fight to block this assault on our right to protest.

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Sue at Defending Rights & Dissent <info at rightsanddissent.org<mailto:info at rightsanddissent.org>>
Date: Mon, May 20, 2019 at 5:03 PM
Subject: The vote is tomorrow: take action to stop Illinois anti-protest bill
To: Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org<mailto:naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>>

[https://default.salsalabs.org/4ce1780e-3b0d-483e-9c4c-395a5f1f1fcb/7f3f8589-8447-4571-b3b1-58213f7c69f1.png]

Robert,

I guess you might be tired of hearing from me about this terrible bill winding its way through the Illinois legislature... but here we go again.

HB1633<https://default.salsalabs.org/Tbafc3727-fefb-4e51-9adf-0b9e6bdea52b/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427> would create draconian new penalties for protests at pipelines, refineries, and other sites deemed "critical infrastructure." The bill also includes a "guilty by association" provision that would impose catastrophic fines on organizations that support these grassroots protests. Please see below for more details about the bill.

Can you take two minutes to file 2 witness slips against the bill? It's not as easy as signing a petition, especially because I need to ask you to file two witness slips, one for the subcommittee, one for the committee. But this is the best way to convey your opposition.

Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in  Subcommittee.<https://default.salsalabs.org/T6a31c7fb-568b-4365-9e7f-fd471b8bab06/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>

Then come back to this email and...

Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in Committee<https://default.salsalabs.org/T43f80b4c-ab9a-4d0f-9c8f-22d23fed3185/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>

I agree the forms ask for too much information and are not very clear... but it is easier than driving to Springfield for most. The key is to remember to check yourself as an Opponent to the bill, and check "record of appearance only"

HB1633 is backed by ALEC, the extractive industry and other corporate interests, and has bi-partisan support. It is scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Criminal Law Committee on Tuesday, May 21 at 5 p.m.

Let's show that people power can overcome corporate greed, and we won't give up our right to dissent without a fight.

Please take action against this anti-protest bill now:

Click here<https://default.salsalabs.org/Tf2a6fb76-65b0-43f5-8867-ea98212a5e74/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>... and then return to this email and click here<https://default.salsalabs.org/Taacf8218-43e5-4ead-9734-82b4dce2512d/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>..... to submit OPPOSITION witness slips to HB1633 for the subcommittee and committee. The process takes a minute and is important, it allows you to "testify" against a bill without being present in Springfield. The links above will take you to the Illinois general assembly website where you'll be able to fill out the witness slips against HB1633. Fill out all your info, mark yourself as an OPPONENT to the bill, and check "record of appearance only"

The hearing for the bill is TOMORROW, Tuesday, May 21 so please fill out your witness slips today!

Stay Loud, Stay Strong,

Sue

More about HB1633:

Fifty Illinois and national organizations signed the following letter (also available here<https://default.salsalabs.org/T0ce9aaca-8499-4dc0-bec0-1555ac0c0aa9/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>).

To Members of the Illinois Senate:

The undersigned racial justice, criminal justice reform, and other civil society groups and individuals urge you to oppose Illinois House Bill 1633. The bill undermines the promising reform efforts in Illinois and nationally designed to remedy the harm caused by mass incarceration, and it threatens to silence already marginalized voices. HB 1633 is an unnecessary proposal that creates new draconian penalties for conduct already covered by existing criminal statutes and could have dire unintended consequences, including for youth. HB 1633 is part of a national trend of so-called “critical infrastructure” legislation promoted by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) that is intended to neutralize climate justice activism. We urge you to oppose HB 1633.

Critical infrastructure bills disproportionately affect some of the most underrepresented communities, criminalizing their right to protest. These bills target many already marginalized voices, in reaction to some of the most high-profile protests in recent history. Native Americans—women, in particular—are playing an important role as “water protectors” in protests against pipelines; low-income communities of color are most affected by unchecked environmental pollution; family farms have the most to lose by unfair land-grabs for large infrastructure projects. These communities have a right to peacefully resist environmentally unsafe and unjust policies, and unchecked corporate abuse.

HB 1633 is purportedly designed to protect critical infrastructure, but the definition of “critical infrastructure” is overly broad and would cover large swaths of the state in urban, suburban, and rural areas, creating the unintended consequence of ensnaring many in Illinois’ already overburdened criminal justice system. For example, someone trespassing in rail yards or on el-tracks without intent to damage or destroy could be charged with a class 4 felony punishable by a fine of $1,000, one to three years imprisonment, or both. Currently, criminal trespass to property is punishable as a Class B or Class A misdemeanor, depending upon the nature of the offense (720 ILCS 5/21-3).

Additionally, the bill does not distinguish between criminal damages of one dollar or a million dollars. Each would be eligible for the same penalty of ten years in prison and a $100,000 fine. At a time when many people, including lawmakers, have recognized the deleterious effects that mass incarceration has had on society and have attempted to rectify laws that have criminalized certain conduct or imposed unreasonable penalties, HB 1633, is a giant step backwards. By creating a whole new class of nonviolent offenders who could serve serious prison time, it is antithetical to criminal justice reform.

Environmental advocacy, including civil disobedience, does not threaten physical infrastructure or safety, it threatens corporations that put profits and pollution ahead of justice and the environment. Critical infrastructure bills are based on model legislation crafted by corporate interests to establish special protections for some private industries engaged in controversial practices that attract opposition and protest. These bills, including HB 1633, are rooted in animus against environmental justice advocacy because it threatens the profits of these corporations.  Whenever states enact legislation based on animus towards particular political speech it has a chilling effect that will be felt widely.

We urge you to oppose HB 1633. From a criminal justice reform perspective, this bill is damaging, as it creates new steep penalties for conduct that is already covered under existing criminal law. These new steep penalties and special protections for so-called critical infrastructure are rooted in animus towards anti-pipeline protesters. It is inappropriate for states to seek to legislation in order to penalize individuals for their First Amendment-protected points of view.

Please direct questions to Sue Udry, Defending Rights & Dissent, at 202.552.7408 or sue at rightsanddissent.org<mailto:sue at rightsanddissent.org>.



Sincerely,

350 Chicago

350 Kishwaukee (IL)

American Friends Service Committee - Chicago

Area Consortium of Educational Service For Our Youth  (DBA:A.C.E.S. 4 Youth)

Chicago Area Peace Action

Chicago Food Policy Action Council

Chicago SE Side Coalition to Ban Petcoke (SSCBP)

Clean Power Lake County

Climate Defense Project

Color Of Change

Crossroads Fund

Defending Rights & Dissent

Earth Defense Coalition

Eco-Justice Collaborative

Extinction Rebellion Chicago

Faith In Place Action Fund

Food & Water Watch

Fox Valley Citizens for Peace & Justice

Frack Free Illinois

Friends of Bell Smith Springs

Grassroots Collaborative

Greater Highland Area Concerned Citizens

Greenpeace USA

Indivisible Chicago

Indivisible South Suburban Chicago

Illinois Green Party

Illinois People's Action

Lifted Voices

Little Village Environmental Justice Organization

Moms Demand Action

National Lawyers Guild

National Lawyers Guild – Chicago Chapter

National Lawyers Guild - St. Louis Chapter

Native Organizers Alliance

Northern Illinois Jobs with Justice

Nuclear Energy Information Service -NEIS-

Occupy Rockford

Palestine Legal

Reform for Illinois

Save Our Illinois Land

Shawnee Forest Defense!

Sierra Club, Illinois Chapter

Southern Illinois DSA

Southern Illinoisans Against Fracturing Our Environment

The People's Lobby

Vinyard Indian Settlement

Water Protector Legal Collective

Will County Progressives

WindSolarUSA, Inc.

X-Lab

Read more about "Critical Infrastructure" bills in our toolkit for activists here<https://default.salsalabs.org/Tbd6072d7-b107-4930-97e0-78e8044732e2/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>.

[https://default.salsalabs.org/4ce1780e-3b0d-483e-9c4c-395a5f1f1fcb/d7cfe193-f753-4b40-bb0b-e6a88f737963.jpg]

To take action against this anti-protest bill:

Today I am asking you to submit 2 witness slips:

Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in  Subcommittee.<https://default.salsalabs.org/T6aecc2f8-1180-4eb5-8386-aac64cf0a00e/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>

Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in Committee<https://default.salsalabs.org/Tf3458f02-ca8b-42a7-9995-864e8739375c/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>

The process takes just a minute and is important, it allows you to "testify" against a bill without being present in Springfield. The links above will take you to the Illinois general assembly website where you'll be able to fill out  witness slips in OPPOSITION to HB1633.

The form is not the easiest to understand, but you can do it! Fill out your info and mark yourself as an OPPONENT to the bill and "record of appearance only".

The  vote will be
Tuesday, May 21 at 5 pm
So Please Take Action Now!


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Eat Pray Protest by David Geitgey Sierralupe<https://default.salsalabs.org/T35b7d08d-fe59-4c6c-b38c-1f06918fe2ab/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>

Repeal the Patriot Act by DRAD staff

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From deb.pdamerica at gmail.com  Tue May 21 15:25:56 2019
From: deb.pdamerica at gmail.com (Debra Schrishuhn)
Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 10:25:56 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Defending Rights & Dissent: slip now to stop Illinois
 anti-protest bill
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St Rep Ammons urged attendees at the Democratic Luncheon Sunday to file witness slips on both HB 1633 and SB 9. 
Deb

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> On May 21, 2019, at 10:09 AM, David Green via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> I have submitted my witness slip, and contacted both state rep.offices.
> 
> I doubt that Carol Ammons will step up and make a fuss about this bill. She has little or no history of challenging Madigan. I will be happy to be proved wrong.
> 
> Scott Bennett is a prosecutor who like to opportunistically grandstand about sexual predators and to attend police-supportive functions. His appointment as state senator was a matter of cronyism. I also doubt that he will oppose this bill; I will be happy to be proved wrong.
> 
> DG
> 
>> On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 8:23 AM Robert Naiman via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>> 
>> The fact that this bill is a going proposition in the Democratic-controlled Illinois legislature is pretty disturbing. Is this why we have a Democratic-controlled Illinois government? So they can vote to take away our right to protest the fossil fuel industry that's destroying our planet? 
>> 
>> Please slip against the bill, and ask Rep. Ammons to lead the fight to block this assault on our right to protest. 
>> 
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: Sue at Defending Rights & Dissent <info at rightsanddissent.org>
>> Date: Mon, May 20, 2019 at 5:03 PM
>> Subject: The vote is tomorrow: take action to stop Illinois anti-protest bill
>> To: Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>
>> 
>>  
>> Robert,
>> 
>> I guess you might be tired of hearing from me about this terrible bill winding its way through the Illinois legislature... but here we go again. 
>> 
>> HB1633 would create draconian new penalties for protests at pipelines, refineries, and other sites deemed "critical infrastructure." The bill also includes a "guilty by association" provision that would impose catastrophic fines on organizations that support these grassroots protests. Please see below for more details about the bill.
>> 
>> Can you take two minutes to file 2 witness slips against the bill? It's not as easy as signing a petition, especially because I need to ask you to file two witness slips, one for the subcommittee, one for the committee. But this is the best way to convey your opposition.
>> 
>> Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in  Subcommittee.
>> 
>> Then come back to this email and...
>> 
>> Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in Committee
>> 
>> I agree the forms ask for too much information and are not very clear... but it is easier than driving to Springfield for most. The key is to remember to check yourself as an Opponent to the bill, and check "record of appearance only" 
>> 
>> HB1633 is backed by ALEC, the extractive industry and other corporate interests, and has bi-partisan support. It is scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Criminal Law Committee on Tuesday, May 21 at 5 p.m.
>> 
>> Let's show that people power can overcome corporate greed, and we won't give up our right to dissent without a fight.
>> 
>> Please take action against this anti-protest bill now:
>> Click here... and then return to this email and click here..... to submit OPPOSITION witness slips to HB1633 for the subcommittee and committee. The process takes a minute and is important, it allows you to "testify" against a bill without being present in Springfield. The links above will take you to the Illinois general assembly website where you'll be able to fill out the witness slips against HB1633. Fill out all your info, mark yourself as an OPPONENT to the bill, and check "record of appearance only"
>> 
>> The hearing for the bill is TOMORROW, Tuesday, May 21 so please fill out your witness slips today!
>> 
>> Stay Loud, Stay Strong,
>> 
>> Sue
>> 
>> More about HB1633:
>> 
>> Fifty Illinois and national organizations signed the following letter (also available here).
>> 
>> To Members of the Illinois Senate:
>> 
>> The undersigned racial justice, criminal justice reform, and other civil society groups and individuals urge you to oppose Illinois House Bill 1633. The bill undermines the promising reform efforts in Illinois and nationally designed to remedy the harm caused by mass incarceration, and it threatens to silence already marginalized voices. HB 1633 is an unnecessary proposal that creates new draconian penalties for conduct already covered by existing criminal statutes and could have dire unintended consequences, including for youth. HB 1633 is part of a national trend of so-called “critical infrastructure” legislation promoted by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) that is intended to neutralize climate justice activism. We urge you to oppose HB 1633.
>> 
>> Critical infrastructure bills disproportionately affect some of the most underrepresented communities, criminalizing their right to protest. These bills target many already marginalized voices, in reaction to some of the most high-profile protests in recent history. Native Americans—women, in particular—are playing an important role as “water protectors” in protests against pipelines; low-income communities of color are most affected by unchecked environmental pollution; family farms have the most to lose by unfair land-grabs for large infrastructure projects. These communities have a right to peacefully resist environmentally unsafe and unjust policies, and unchecked corporate abuse.
>> 
>> HB 1633 is purportedly designed to protect critical infrastructure, but the definition of “critical infrastructure” is overly broad and would cover large swaths of the state in urban, suburban, and rural areas, creating the unintended consequence of ensnaring many in Illinois’ already overburdened criminal justice system. For example, someone trespassing in rail yards or on el-tracks without intent to damage or destroy could be charged with a class 4 felony punishable by a fine of $1,000, one to three years imprisonment, or both. Currently, criminal trespass to property is punishable as a Class B or Class A misdemeanor, depending upon the nature of the offense (720 ILCS 5/21-3).
>> 
>> Additionally, the bill does not distinguish between criminal damages of one dollar or a million dollars. Each would be eligible for the same penalty of ten years in prison and a $100,000 fine. At a time when many people, including lawmakers, have recognized the deleterious effects that mass incarceration has had on society and have attempted to rectify laws that have criminalized certain conduct or imposed unreasonable penalties, HB 1633, is a giant step backwards. By creating a whole new class of nonviolent offenders who could serve serious prison time, it is antithetical to criminal justice reform.
>> 
>> Environmental advocacy, including civil disobedience, does not threaten physical infrastructure or safety, it threatens corporations that put profits and pollution ahead of justice and the environment. Critical infrastructure bills are based on model legislation crafted by corporate interests to establish special protections for some private industries engaged in controversial practices that attract opposition and protest. These bills, including HB 1633, are rooted in animus against environmental justice advocacy because it threatens the profits of these corporations.  Whenever states enact legislation based on animus towards particular political speech it has a chilling effect that will be felt widely.
>> 
>> We urge you to oppose HB 1633. From a criminal justice reform perspective, this bill is damaging, as it creates new steep penalties for conduct that is already covered under existing criminal law. These new steep penalties and special protections for so-called critical infrastructure are rooted in animus towards anti-pipeline protesters. It is inappropriate for states to seek to legislation in order to penalize individuals for their First Amendment-protected points of view.
>> 
>> Please direct questions to Sue Udry, Defending Rights & Dissent, at 202.552.7408 or sue at rightsanddissent.org.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Sincerely,
>> 
>> 350 Chicago
>> 
>> 350 Kishwaukee (IL)
>> 
>> American Friends Service Committee - Chicago
>> 
>> Area Consortium of Educational Service For Our Youth  (DBA:A.C.E.S. 4 Youth)
>> 
>> Chicago Area Peace Action
>> 
>> Chicago Food Policy Action Council
>> 
>> Chicago SE Side Coalition to Ban Petcoke (SSCBP) 
>> 
>> Clean Power Lake County
>> 
>> Climate Defense Project
>> 
>> Color Of Change
>> 
>> Crossroads Fund
>> 
>> Defending Rights & Dissent
>> 
>> Earth Defense Coalition
>> 
>> Eco-Justice Collaborative
>> 
>> Extinction Rebellion Chicago
>> 
>> Faith In Place Action Fund
>> 
>> Food & Water Watch
>> 
>> Fox Valley Citizens for Peace & Justice
>> 
>> Frack Free Illinois
>> 
>> Friends of Bell Smith Springs
>> 
>> Grassroots Collaborative
>> 
>> Greater Highland Area Concerned Citizens
>> 
>> Greenpeace USA
>> 
>> Indivisible Chicago
>> 
>> Indivisible South Suburban Chicago
>> 
>> Illinois Green Party
>> 
>> Illinois People's Action
>> 
>> Lifted Voices
>> 
>> Little Village Environmental Justice Organization
>> 
>> Moms Demand Action
>> 
>> National Lawyers Guild
>> 
>> National Lawyers Guild – Chicago Chapter
>> 
>> National Lawyers Guild - St. Louis Chapter
>> 
>> Native Organizers Alliance
>> 
>> Northern Illinois Jobs with Justice
>> 
>> Nuclear Energy Information Service -NEIS-
>> 
>> Occupy Rockford
>> 
>> Palestine Legal
>> 
>> Reform for Illinois
>> 
>> Save Our Illinois Land
>> 
>> Shawnee Forest Defense!
>> 
>> Sierra Club, Illinois Chapter
>> 
>> Southern Illinois DSA
>> 
>> Southern Illinoisans Against Fracturing Our Environment
>> 
>> The People's Lobby 
>> 
>> Vinyard Indian Settlement
>> 
>> Water Protector Legal Collective
>> 
>> Will County Progressives
>> 
>> WindSolarUSA, Inc. 
>> 
>> X-Lab
>> 
>> Read more about "Critical Infrastructure" bills in our toolkit for activists here.
>> 
>> 
>>  
>> To take action against this anti-protest bill:
>> Today I am asking you to submit 2 witness slips:
>> 
>> Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in  Subcommittee.
>> 
>> Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in Committee
>> 
>> The process takes just a minute and is important, it allows you to "testify" against a bill without being present in Springfield. The links above will take you to the Illinois general assembly website where you'll be able to fill out  witness slips in OPPOSITION to HB1633.
>> 
>> The form is not the easiest to understand, but you can do it! Fill out your info and mark yourself as an OPPONENT to the bill and "record of appearance only".
>> 
>> The  vote will be
>> Tuesday, May 21 at 5 pm 
>> So Please Take Action Now!
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>  
>> 
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>> 
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>> 
>> Eat Pray Protest by David Geitgey Sierralupe
>> 
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From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman)
Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 11:19:31 -0500
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Defending Rights & Dissent: slip now to
 stop Illinois anti-protest bill
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Here's a link to slip for SB 9.

https://ecojusticecollaborative.org/support-sb9-illinois-house/

*Illinois Has A Major Coal Ash Problem*
*Slip to Support SB9, Coal Ash Pollution Prevention Act*

*SLIP HERE*
<http://my.ilga.gov/WitnessSlip/Create/113581?committeeHearingId=17211&LegislationId=113581&LegislationDocumentId=145299>*
before
2pm, Thursday, May 16*
SB9 Factsheet
<https://ecojusticecollaborative.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Updated-SB9-Factsheet.pdf>

Does it seem like we just asked you to do this?  Yes.  In fact, we did!
And, with your support, under the leadership of Senator Scott Bennett
<http://www.senatorbennett.com/>, SB9 The Coal Ash Pollution Prevention Act
passed
<https://ecojusticecollaborative.org/major-coal-ash-bill-passes-il-senate/> the
Senate Energy & Environment Committee and then the floor of the Senate. The
Senate Committee Hearing began by acknowledging the number of proponents
and opponents for the bill, setting the stage for testimony and discussion.

[image: State Representative Carol Ammons] <https://www.carolammons.com/>

State Representative  <https://www.carolammons.com/>Carol Ammons
<https://www.carolammons.com/>, 103rd District, Illinois

State Representative Carol Ammons <https://www.carolammons.com/> is taking
the SB9 through the Illinois House.  It will be heard by the House Energy &
Environment Committee on Thursday, May 16, at 2pm.

*We Need Your Help to Pass this Bill!*
Take two minutes to fill out a witness slip
<http://my.ilga.gov/WitnessSlip/Create/113581?committeeHearingId=17211&LegislationId=113581&LegislationDocumentId=145299>
in
support of SB9, The Coal Ash Pollution Prevention Act (see directions,
below). This bill provides direction for a rule-making process that
will ensure safe closure of Illinois' coal ash impoundments; a meaningful
public involvement process; and financial guarantees that require the
polluter to pay for closure and cleanup.

Industry and supporters have indicated that this bill will cost them a lot
of money.  And while that is true, it really is a USEPA rule that is
requiring closure of unlined, leaking coal ash impoundments in Illinois.
Over 50 impoundments will need to close in Illinois because of this rule.
SB 9 simply gives the tools the Illinois EPA needs to run a
state-administered coal ash program, while providing protections for
Illinois communities impacted by this deadly waste.
SLIP HERE
<http://my.ilga.gov/WitnessSlip/Create/113581?committeeHearingId=17211&LegislationId=113581&LegislationDocumentId=145299>
as
a *PROPONENT* of this bill. Anyone can submit a slip to show their support.

   - Section I: *Enter your name, address, phone, zip, etc.*  Enter "Self"
   unless you represent an organization in a official capacity.
   - Section II:  *Enter "Self"* unless you represent an organization in a
   official capacity.
   - Section III:  *Click the button for “Proponent”*.  The description
   will say "Original Bill" as the only option.
   - Section IV:  *Click “Record of Appearance Only”*.

At the bottom:  Click that you *agree to the ILGA Terms of Agreement.*

*Click “Create (Slip)”.*  You will be sent a confirmation notice by email.
[...]

===

Robert Reuel Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
(202) 448-2898 x1

On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 10:26 AM Debra Schrishuhn via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> St Rep Ammons urged attendees at the Democratic Luncheon Sunday to file
> witness slips on both HB 1633 and SB 9.
> Deb
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 21, 2019, at 10:09 AM, David Green via Peace <
> peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>
> I have submitted my witness slip, and contacted both state rep.offices.
>
> I doubt that Carol Ammons will step up and make a fuss about this bill.
> She has little or no history of challenging Madigan. I will be happy to be
> proved wrong.
>
> Scott Bennett is a prosecutor who like to opportunistically grandstand
> about sexual predators and to attend police-supportive functions. His
> appointment as state senator was a matter of cronyism. I also doubt that he
> will oppose this bill; I will be happy to be proved wrong.
>
> DG
>
> On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 8:23 AM Robert Naiman via Peace <
> peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> The fact that this bill is a going proposition in the
>> Democratic-controlled Illinois legislature is pretty disturbing. Is this
>> why we have a Democratic-controlled Illinois government? So they can vote
>> to take away our right to protest the fossil fuel industry that's
>> destroying our planet?
>>
>> Please slip against the bill, and ask Rep. Ammons to lead the fight to
>> block this assault on our right to protest.
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: Sue at Defending Rights & Dissent <info at rightsanddissent.org>
>> Date: Mon, May 20, 2019 at 5:03 PM
>> Subject: The vote is tomorrow: take action to stop Illinois anti-protest
>> bill
>> To: Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>
>>
>> Robert,
>>
>> I guess you might be tired of hearing from me about this terrible bill
>> winding its way through the Illinois legislature... but here we go again.
>>
>> HB1633
>> <https://default.salsalabs.org/Tbafc3727-fefb-4e51-9adf-0b9e6bdea52b/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>
>> would create draconian new penalties for protests at pipelines, refineries,
>> and other sites deemed "critical infrastructure." The bill also includes a
>> "guilty by association" provision that would impose catastrophic fines on
>> organizations that support these grassroots protests. *Please see below
>> for more details about the bill.*
>>
>> *Can you take two minutes to file 2 witness slips against the bill?*
>> It's not as easy as signing a petition, especially because I need to ask
>> you to file two witness slips, one for the subcommittee, one for the
>> committee. But this is the best way to convey your opposition.
>>
>> *Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in  Subcommittee.*
>> <https://default.salsalabs.org/T6a31c7fb-568b-4365-9e7f-fd471b8bab06/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>
>>
>> Then come back to this email and...
>>
>> *Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in Committee*
>> <https://default.salsalabs.org/T43f80b4c-ab9a-4d0f-9c8f-22d23fed3185/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>
>>
>> I agree the forms ask for too much information and are not very clear...
>> but it is easier than driving to Springfield for most. *The key is to
>> remember to check yourself as an Opponent to the bill, *and check
>> "record of appearance only"
>>
>> HB1633 is backed by ALEC, the extractive industry and other corporate
>> interests, and has bi-partisan support. It is scheduled for a hearing in
>> the Senate Criminal Law Committee on Tuesday, May 21 at 5 p.m.
>>
>> Let's show that people power can overcome corporate greed, and we won't
>> give up our right to dissent without a fight.
>> Please take action against this anti-protest bill now:
>>
>> *Click here
>> <https://default.salsalabs.org/Tf2a6fb76-65b0-43f5-8867-ea98212a5e74/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>...
>> and then return to this email and click here
>> <https://default.salsalabs.org/Taacf8218-43e5-4ead-9734-82b4dce2512d/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>..... to
>> submit OPPOSITION witness slips to HB1633 for the subcommittee and
>> committee*. The process takes a minute and is important, it allows you
>> to "testify" against a bill without being present in Springfield. The links
>> above will take you to the Illinois general assembly website where you'll
>> be able to fill out the witness slips against HB1633. Fill out all your
>> info, mark yourself as an OPPONENT to the bill, and check "record of
>> appearance only"
>>
>> *The hearing for the bill is TOMORROW, Tuesday, May 21 so please fill out
>> your witness slips today!*
>>
>> Stay Loud, Stay Strong,
>>
>> Sue
>> More about HB1633:
>>
>> Fifty Illinois and national organizations signed the following letter (also
>> available here
>> <https://default.salsalabs.org/T0ce9aaca-8499-4dc0-bec0-1555ac0c0aa9/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>).
>>
>>
>> To Members of the Illinois Senate:
>>
>> The undersigned racial justice, criminal justice reform, and other civil
>> society groups and individuals urge you to oppose Illinois House Bill 1633.
>> The bill undermines the promising reform efforts in Illinois and nationally
>> designed to remedy the harm caused by mass incarceration, and it threatens
>> to silence already marginalized voices. HB 1633 is an unnecessary proposal
>> that creates new draconian penalties for conduct already covered by
>> existing criminal statutes and could have dire unintended consequences,
>> including for youth. HB 1633 is part of a national trend of so-called
>> “critical infrastructure” legislation promoted by the American Legislative
>> Exchange Council (ALEC) that is intended to neutralize climate justice
>> activism. We urge you to oppose HB 1633.
>>
>> Critical infrastructure bills disproportionately affect some of the most
>> underrepresented communities, criminalizing their right to protest. These
>> bills target many already marginalized voices, in reaction to some of the
>> most high-profile protests in recent history. Native Americans—women, in
>> particular—are playing an important role as “water protectors” in protests
>> against pipelines; low-income communities of color are most affected by
>> unchecked environmental pollution; family farms have the most to lose by
>> unfair land-grabs for large infrastructure projects. These communities have
>> a right to peacefully resist environmentally unsafe and unjust policies,
>> and unchecked corporate abuse.
>>
>> HB 1633 is purportedly designed to protect critical infrastructure, but
>> the definition of “critical infrastructure” is overly broad and would cover
>> large swaths of the state in urban, suburban, and rural areas, creating the
>> unintended consequence of ensnaring many in Illinois’ already overburdened
>> criminal justice system. For example, someone trespassing in rail yards or
>> on el-tracks without intent to damage or destroy could be charged with a
>> class 4 felony punishable by a fine of $1,000, one to three years
>> imprisonment, or both. Currently, criminal trespass to property is
>> punishable as a Class B or Class A misdemeanor, depending upon the nature
>> of the offense (720 ILCS 5/21-3).
>>
>> Additionally, the bill does not distinguish between criminal damages of
>> one dollar or a million dollars. Each would be eligible for the same
>> penalty of ten years in prison and a $100,000 fine. At a time when many
>> people, including lawmakers, have recognized the deleterious effects that
>> mass incarceration has had on society and have attempted to rectify laws
>> that have criminalized certain conduct or imposed unreasonable penalties,
>> HB 1633, is a giant step backwards. By creating a whole new class of
>> nonviolent offenders who could serve serious prison time, it is
>> antithetical to criminal justice reform.
>>
>> Environmental advocacy, including civil disobedience, does not threaten
>> physical infrastructure or safety, it threatens corporations that put
>> profits and pollution ahead of justice and the environment. Critical
>> infrastructure bills are based on model legislation crafted by corporate
>> interests to establish special protections for some private industries
>> engaged in controversial practices that attract opposition and protest.
>> These bills, including HB 1633, are rooted in animus against environmental
>> justice advocacy because it threatens the profits of these corporations.
>> Whenever states enact legislation based on animus towards particular
>> political speech it has a chilling effect that will be felt widely.
>>
>> We urge you to oppose HB 1633. From a criminal justice reform
>> perspective, this bill is damaging, as it creates new steep penalties for
>> conduct that is already covered under existing criminal law. These new
>> steep penalties and special protections for so-called critical
>> infrastructure are rooted in animus towards anti-pipeline protesters. It is
>> inappropriate for states to seek to legislation in order to penalize
>> individuals for their First Amendment-protected points of view.
>>
>> Please direct questions to Sue Udry, Defending Rights & Dissent, at
>> 202.552.7408 or sue at rightsanddissent.org.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> 350 Chicago
>>
>> 350 Kishwaukee (IL)
>>
>> American Friends Service Committee - Chicago
>>
>> Area Consortium of Educational Service For Our Youth  (DBA:A.C.E.S. 4
>> Youth)
>>
>> Chicago Area Peace Action
>>
>> Chicago Food Policy Action Council
>>
>> Chicago SE Side Coalition to Ban Petcoke (SSCBP)
>>
>> Clean Power Lake County
>>
>> Climate Defense Project
>>
>> Color Of Change
>>
>> Crossroads Fund
>>
>> Defending Rights & Dissent
>>
>> Earth Defense Coalition
>>
>> Eco-Justice Collaborative
>>
>> Extinction Rebellion Chicago
>>
>> Faith In Place Action Fund
>>
>> Food & Water Watch
>>
>> Fox Valley Citizens for Peace & Justice
>>
>> Frack Free Illinois
>>
>> Friends of Bell Smith Springs
>>
>> Grassroots Collaborative
>>
>> Greater Highland Area Concerned Citizens
>>
>> Greenpeace USA
>>
>> Indivisible Chicago
>>
>> Indivisible South Suburban Chicago
>>
>> Illinois Green Party
>>
>> Illinois People's Action
>>
>> Lifted Voices
>>
>> Little Village Environmental Justice Organization
>>
>> Moms Demand Action
>>
>> National Lawyers Guild
>>
>> National Lawyers Guild – Chicago Chapter
>>
>> National Lawyers Guild - St. Louis Chapter
>>
>> Native Organizers Alliance
>>
>> Northern Illinois Jobs with Justice
>>
>> Nuclear Energy Information Service -NEIS-
>>
>> Occupy Rockford
>>
>> Palestine Legal
>>
>> Reform for Illinois
>>
>> Save Our Illinois Land
>>
>> Shawnee Forest Defense!
>>
>> Sierra Club, Illinois Chapter
>>
>> Southern Illinois DSA
>>
>> Southern Illinoisans Against Fracturing Our Environment
>>
>> The People's Lobby
>>
>> Vinyard Indian Settlement
>>
>> Water Protector Legal Collective
>>
>> Will County Progressives
>>
>> WindSolarUSA, Inc.
>>
>> X-Lab
>>
>> *Read more about "Critical Infrastructure" bills in our toolkit for
>> activists here
>> <https://default.salsalabs.org/Tbd6072d7-b107-4930-97e0-78e8044732e2/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>.*
>>
>>
>> To take action against this anti-protest bill:
>>
>> Today I am asking you to submit 2 witness slips:
>>
>> *Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in  Subcommittee.*
>> <https://default.salsalabs.org/T6aecc2f8-1180-4eb5-8386-aac64cf0a00e/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>
>>
>> *Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in Committee*
>> <https://default.salsalabs.org/Tf3458f02-ca8b-42a7-9995-864e8739375c/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>
>>
>> The process takes just a minute and is important, it allows you to
>> "testify" against a bill without being present in Springfield. The links
>> above will take you to the Illinois general assembly website where you'll
>> be able to fill out  witness slips in OPPOSITION to HB1633.
>>
>> The form is not the easiest to understand, but you can do it! Fill out
>> your info and mark yourself as an OPPONENT to the bill and "record of
>> appearance only".
>>
>>
>>
>> *The  vote will be Tuesday, May 21 at 5 pm  So Please Take Action Now!*
>>
>>
>>
>> Photo Credits:
>>
>> People over pipelines by Fibonacci Blue
>> <https://default.salsalabs.org/T9d63a693-3646-41d8-8b95-c7273e3eab91/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>
>>
>>
>> Eat Pray Protest by David Geitgey Sierralupe
>> <https://default.salsalabs.org/T35b7d08d-fe59-4c6c-b38c-1f06918fe2ab/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>
>>
>> Repeal the Patriot Act by DRAD staff
>> Donate
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From deb.pdamerica at gmail.com  Tue May 21 17:17:56 2019
From: deb.pdamerica at gmail.com (Debra Schrishuhn)
Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 12:17:56 -0500
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Defending Rights & Dissent: slip now to
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Um, St. Rep. is the proper abbreviation for State Representative. I assume
you were attempting to make a funny.

On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 12:08 PM C G Estabrook <cgestabrook at gmail.com>
wrote:

> You may approve what Carol’s done, but “St.” is a bit much….
>
>
> > On May 21, 2019, at 10:25 AM, Debra Schrishuhn via Peace-discuss <
> peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> >
> > St Rep Ammons urged attendees at the Democratic Luncheon Sunday to file
> witness slips on both HB 1633 and SB 9.
> > Deb
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On May 21, 2019, at 10:09 AM, David Green via Peace <
> peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> >
> >> I have submitted my witness slip, and contacted both state rep.offices.
> >>
> >> I doubt that Carol Ammons will step up and make a fuss about this bill.
> She has little or no history of challenging Madigan. I will be happy to be
> proved wrong.
> >>
> >> Scott Bennett is a prosecutor who like to opportunistically grandstand
> about sexual predators and to attend police-supportive functions. His
> appointment as state senator was a matter of cronyism. I also doubt that he
> will oppose this bill; I will be happy to be proved wrong.
> >>
> >> DG
> >>
> >> On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 8:23 AM Robert Naiman via Peace <
> peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> The fact that this bill is a going proposition in the
> Democratic-controlled Illinois legislature is pretty disturbing. Is this
> why we have a Democratic-controlled Illinois government? So they can vote
> to take away our right to protest the fossil fuel industry that's
> destroying our planet?
> >>
> >> Please slip against the bill, and ask Rep. Ammons to lead the fight to
> block this assault on our right to protest.
> >>
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> >> From: Sue at Defending Rights & Dissent <info at rightsanddissent.org>
> >> Date: Mon, May 20, 2019 at 5:03 PM
> >> Subject: The vote is tomorrow: take action to stop Illinois
> anti-protest bill
> >> To: Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>
> >>
> >>
> >> Robert,
> >>
> >> I guess you might be tired of hearing from me about this terrible bill
> winding its way through the Illinois legislature... but here we go again.
> >>
> >> HB1633 would create draconian new penalties for protests at pipelines,
> refineries, and other sites deemed "critical infrastructure." The bill also
> includes a "guilty by association" provision that would impose catastrophic
> fines on organizations that support these grassroots protests. Please see
> below for more details about the bill.
> >>
> >> Can you take two minutes to file 2 witness slips against the bill? It's
> not as easy as signing a petition, especially because I need to ask you to
> file two witness slips, one for the subcommittee, one for the committee.
> But this is the best way to convey your opposition.
> >>
> >> Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in  Subcommittee.
> >>
> >> Then come back to this email and...
> >>
> >> Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in Committee
> >>
> >> I agree the forms ask for too much information and are not very
> clear... but it is easier than driving to Springfield for most. The key is
> to remember to check yourself as an Opponent to the bill, and check "record
> of appearance only"
> >>
> >> HB1633 is backed by ALEC, the extractive industry and other corporate
> interests, and has bi-partisan support. It is scheduled for a hearing in
> the Senate Criminal Law Committee on Tuesday, May 21 at 5 p.m.
> >>
> >> Let's show that people power can overcome corporate greed, and we won't
> give up our right to dissent without a fight.
> >>
> >> Please take action against this anti-protest bill now:
> >> Click here... and then return to this email and click here..... to
> submit OPPOSITION witness slips to HB1633 for the subcommittee and
> committee. The process takes a minute and is important, it allows you to
> "testify" against a bill without being present in Springfield. The links
> above will take you to the Illinois general assembly website where you'll
> be able to fill out the witness slips against HB1633. Fill out all your
> info, mark yourself as an OPPONENT to the bill, and check "record of
> appearance only"
> >>
> >> The hearing for the bill is TOMORROW, Tuesday, May 21 so please fill
> out your witness slips today!
> >>
> >> Stay Loud, Stay Strong,
> >>
> >> Sue
> >>
> >> More about HB1633:
> >>
> >> Fifty Illinois and national organizations signed the following letter
> (also available here).
> >>
> >> To Members of the Illinois Senate:
> >>
> >> The undersigned racial justice, criminal justice reform, and other
> civil society groups and individuals urge you to oppose Illinois House Bill
> 1633. The bill undermines the promising reform efforts in Illinois and
> nationally designed to remedy the harm caused by mass incarceration, and it
> threatens to silence already marginalized voices. HB 1633 is an unnecessary
> proposal that creates new draconian penalties for conduct already covered
> by existing criminal statutes and could have dire unintended consequences,
> including for youth. HB 1633 is part of a national trend of so-called
> “critical infrastructure” legislation promoted by the American Legislative
> Exchange Council (ALEC) that is intended to neutralize climate justice
> activism. We urge you to oppose HB 1633.
> >>
> >> Critical infrastructure bills disproportionately affect some of the
> most underrepresented communities, criminalizing their right to protest.
> These bills target many already marginalized voices, in reaction to some of
> the most high-profile protests in recent history. Native Americans—women,
> in particular—are playing an important role as “water protectors” in
> protests against pipelines; low-income communities of color are most
> affected by unchecked environmental pollution; family farms have the most
> to lose by unfair land-grabs for large infrastructure projects. These
> communities have a right to peacefully resist environmentally unsafe and
> unjust policies, and unchecked corporate abuse.
> >>
> >> HB 1633 is purportedly designed to protect critical infrastructure, but
> the definition of “critical infrastructure” is overly broad and would cover
> large swaths of the state in urban, suburban, and rural areas, creating the
> unintended consequence of ensnaring many in Illinois’ already overburdened
> criminal justice system. For example, someone trespassing in rail yards or
> on el-tracks without intent to damage or destroy could be charged with a
> class 4 felony punishable by a fine of $1,000, one to three years
> imprisonment, or both. Currently, criminal trespass to property is
> punishable as a Class B or Class A misdemeanor, depending upon the nature
> of the offense (720 ILCS 5/21-3).
> >>
> >> Additionally, the bill does not distinguish between criminal damages of
> one dollar or a million dollars. Each would be eligible for the same
> penalty of ten years in prison and a $100,000 fine. At a time when many
> people, including lawmakers, have recognized the deleterious effects that
> mass incarceration has had on society and have attempted to rectify laws
> that have criminalized certain conduct or imposed unreasonable penalties,
> HB 1633, is a giant step backwards. By creating a whole new class of
> nonviolent offenders who could serve serious prison time, it is
> antithetical to criminal justice reform.
> >>
> >> Environmental advocacy, including civil disobedience, does not threaten
> physical infrastructure or safety, it threatens corporations that put
> profits and pollution ahead of justice and the environment. Critical
> infrastructure bills are based on model legislation crafted by corporate
> interests to establish special protections for some private industries
> engaged in controversial practices that attract opposition and protest.
> These bills, including HB 1633, are rooted in animus against environmental
> justice advocacy because it threatens the profits of these corporations.
> Whenever states enact legislation based on animus towards particular
> political speech it has a chilling effect that will be felt widely.
> >>
> >> We urge you to oppose HB 1633. From a criminal justice reform
> perspective, this bill is damaging, as it creates new steep penalties for
> conduct that is already covered under existing criminal law. These new
> steep penalties and special protections for so-called critical
> infrastructure are rooted in animus towards anti-pipeline protesters. It is
> inappropriate for states to seek to legislation in order to penalize
> individuals for their First Amendment-protected points of view.
> >>
> >> Please direct questions to Sue Udry, Defending Rights & Dissent, at
> 202.552.7408 or sue at rightsanddissent.org.
> >>
> >>
> >> Sincerely,
> >>
> >> 350 Chicago
> >>
> >> 350 Kishwaukee (IL)
> >>
> >> American Friends Service Committee - Chicago
> >>
> >> Area Consortium of Educational Service For Our Youth  (DBA:A.C.E.S. 4
> Youth)
> >>
> >> Chicago Area Peace Action
> >>
> >> Chicago Food Policy Action Council
> >>
> >> Chicago SE Side Coalition to Ban Petcoke (SSCBP)
> >>
> >> Clean Power Lake County
> >>
> >> Climate Defense Project
> >>
> >> Color Of Change
> >>
> >> Crossroads Fund
> >>
> >> Defending Rights & Dissent
> >>
> >> Earth Defense Coalition
> >>
> >> Eco-Justice Collaborative
> >>
> >> Extinction Rebellion Chicago
> >>
> >> Faith In Place Action Fund
> >>
> >> Food & Water Watch
> >>
> >> Fox Valley Citizens for Peace & Justice
> >>
> >> Frack Free Illinois
> >>
> >> Friends of Bell Smith Springs
> >>
> >> Grassroots Collaborative
> >>
> >> Greater Highland Area Concerned Citizens
> >>
> >> Greenpeace USA
> >>
> >> Indivisible Chicago
> >>
> >> Indivisible South Suburban Chicago
> >>
> >> Illinois Green Party
> >>
> >> Illinois People's Action
> >>
> >> Lifted Voices
> >>
> >> Little Village Environmental Justice Organization
> >>
> >> Moms Demand Action
> >>
> >> National Lawyers Guild
> >>
> >> National Lawyers Guild – Chicago Chapter
> >>
> >> National Lawyers Guild - St. Louis Chapter
> >>
> >> Native Organizers Alliance
> >>
> >> Northern Illinois Jobs with Justice
> >>
> >> Nuclear Energy Information Service -NEIS-
> >>
> >> Occupy Rockford
> >>
> >> Palestine Legal
> >>
> >> Reform for Illinois
> >>
> >> Save Our Illinois Land
> >>
> >> Shawnee Forest Defense!
> >>
> >> Sierra Club, Illinois Chapter
> >>
> >> Southern Illinois DSA
> >>
> >> Southern Illinoisans Against Fracturing Our Environment
> >>
> >> The People's Lobby
> >>
> >> Vinyard Indian Settlement
> >>
> >> Water Protector Legal Collective
> >>
> >> Will County Progressives
> >>
> >> WindSolarUSA, Inc.
> >>
> >> X-Lab
> >>
> >> Read more about "Critical Infrastructure" bills in our toolkit for
> activists here.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> To take action against this anti-protest bill:
> >> Today I am asking you to submit 2 witness slips:
> >>
> >> Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in  Subcommittee.
> >>
> >> Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in Committee
> >>
> >> The process takes just a minute and is important, it allows you to
> "testify" against a bill without being present in Springfield. The links
> above will take you to the Illinois general assembly website where you'll
> be able to fill out  witness slips in OPPOSITION to HB1633.
> >>
> >> The form is not the easiest to understand, but you can do it! Fill out
> your info and mark yourself as an OPPONENT to the bill and "record of
> appearance only".
> >>
> >> The  vote will be
> >> Tuesday, May 21 at 5 pm
> >> So Please Take Action Now!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Photo Credits:
> >>
> >> People over pipelines by Fibonacci Blue
> >>
> >> Eat Pray Protest by David Geitgey Sierralupe
> >>
> >> Repeal the Patriot Act by DRAD staff
> >>
> >> Donate
> >> Get in Touch: hello at rightsanddissent.org | 202.552.7408
> >>
> >> Donations to DRAD are tax-deductible. Our EIN is 27-0042821
> >>
> >> We will never, ever share your info with anyone. NEVER.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Peace mailing list
> >> Peace at lists.chambana.net
> >> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace
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> >> Peace at lists.chambana.net
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From moboct1 at aim.com  Wed May 22 11:24:01 2019
From: moboct1 at aim.com (Mildred O'brien)
Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 11:24:01 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Defending Rights & Dissent: slip now to
 stop Illinois anti-protest bill
References: <1646684428.3306978.1558524241437.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
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Me too to all of this said below (including submitting witness slip).  Too bad there wasn't one when the legislature rubber stamped the AIPAC bill 2 years ago (as if dissent would have made a difference).

Midge


-----Original Message-----
From: David Green via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
To: Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>; Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Cc: peace <peace at lists.chambana.net>
Sent: Tue, May 21, 2019 10:10 am
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] Defending Rights & Dissent: slip now to stop Illinois anti-protest bill

I have submitted my witness slip, and contacted both state rep.offices.
I doubt that Carol Ammons will step up and make a fuss about this bill. She has little or no history of challenging Madigan. I will be happy to be proved wrong.
Scott Bennett is a prosecutor who like to opportunistically grandstand about sexual predators and to attend police-supportive functions. His appointment as state senator was a matter of cronyism. I also doubt that he will oppose this bill; I will be happy to be proved wrong.
DG
On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 8:23 AM Robert Naiman via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:


The fact that this bill is a going proposition in the Democratic-controlled Illinois legislature is pretty disturbing. Is this why we have a Democratic-controlled Illinois government? So they can vote to take away our right to protest the fossil fuel industry that's destroying our planet? 
Please slip against the bill, and ask Rep. Ammons to lead the fight to block this assault on our right to protest. 
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Sue at Defending Rights & Dissent <info at rightsanddissent.org>
Date: Mon, May 20, 2019 at 5:03 PM
Subject: The vote is tomorrow: take action to stop Illinois anti-protest bill
To: Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>

   
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 I guess you might be tired of hearing from me about this terrible bill winding its way through the Illinois legislature... but here we go again.  
 
 HB1633 would create draconian new penalties for protests at pipelines, refineries, and other sites deemed "critical infrastructure." The bill also includes a "guilty by association" provision that would impose catastrophic fines on organizations that support these grassroots protests. Please see below for more details about the bill. 
 
 Can you take two minutes to file 2 witness slips against the bill? It's not as easy as signing a petition, especially because I need to ask you to file two witness slips, one for the subcommittee, one for the committee. But this is the best way to convey your opposition. 
 
 Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in  Subcommittee. 
 
 Then come back to this email and... 
 
 Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in Committee 
 
 I agree the forms ask for too much information and are not very clear... but it is easier than driving to Springfield for most. The key is to remember to check yourself as an Opponent to the bill, and check "record of appearance only" 
 
 HB1633 is backed by ALEC, the extractive industry and other corporate interests, and has bi-partisan support. It is scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Criminal Law Committee on Tuesday, May 21 at 5 p.m. 
 
 Let's show that people power can overcome corporate greed, and we won't give up our right to dissent without a fight. 
 
 Please take action against this anti-protest bill now: 
 
 Click here... and then return to this email and click here..... to submit OPPOSITION witness slips to HB1633 for the subcommittee and committee. The process takes a minute and is important, it allows you to "testify" against a bill without being present in Springfield. The links above will take you to the Illinois general assembly website where you'll be able to fill out the witness slips against HB1633. Fill out all your info, mark yourself as an OPPONENT to the bill, and check "record of appearance only" 
 
 The hearing for the bill is TOMORROW, Tuesday, May 21 so please fill out your witness slips today! 
 
 Stay Loud, Stay Strong, 
 
 Sue 
 
 More about HB1633: 
 
 Fifty Illinois and national organizations signed the following letter (also available here). 
 
 To Members of the Illinois Senate: 
 
 The undersigned racial justice, criminal justice reform, and other civil society groups and individuals urge you to oppose Illinois House Bill 1633. The bill undermines the promising reform efforts in Illinois and nationally designed to remedy the harm caused by mass incarceration, and it threatens to silence already marginalized voices. HB 1633 is an unnecessary proposal that creates new draconian penalties for conduct already covered by existing criminal statutes and could have dire unintended consequences, including for youth. HB 1633 is part of a national trend of so-called “critical infrastructure” legislation promoted by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) that is intended to neutralize climate justice activism. We urge you to oppose HB 1633. 
 
 Critical infrastructure bills disproportionately affect some of the most underrepresented communities, criminalizing their right to protest. These bills target many already marginalized voices, in reaction to some of the most high-profile protests in recent history. Native Americans—women, in particular—are playing an important role as “water protectors” in protests against pipelines; low-income communities of color are most affected by unchecked environmental pollution; family farms have the most to lose by unfair land-grabs for large infrastructure projects. These communities have a right to peacefully resist environmentally unsafe and unjust policies, and unchecked corporate abuse. 
 
 HB 1633 is purportedly designed to protect critical infrastructure, but the definition of “critical infrastructure” is overly broad and would cover large swaths of the state in urban, suburban, and rural areas, creating the unintended consequence of ensnaring many in Illinois’ already overburdened criminal justice system. For example, someone trespassing in rail yards or on el-tracks without intent to damage or destroy could be charged with a class 4 felony punishable by a fine of $1,000, one to three years imprisonment, or both. Currently, criminal trespass to property is punishable as a Class B or Class A misdemeanor, depending upon the nature of the offense (720 ILCS 5/21-3). 
 
 Additionally, the bill does not distinguish between criminal damages of one dollar or a million dollars. Each would be eligible for the same penalty of ten years in prison and a $100,000 fine. At a time when many people, including lawmakers, have recognized the deleterious effects that mass incarceration has had on society and have attempted to rectify laws that have criminalized certain conduct or imposed unreasonable penalties, HB 1633, is a giant step backwards. By creating a whole new class of nonviolent offenders who could serve serious prison time, it is antithetical to criminal justice reform. 
 
 Environmental advocacy, including civil disobedience, does not threaten physical infrastructure or safety, it threatens corporations that put profits and pollution ahead of justice and the environment. Critical infrastructure bills are based on model legislation crafted by corporate interests to establish special protections for some private industries engaged in controversial practices that attract opposition and protest. These bills, including HB 1633, are rooted in animus against environmental justice advocacy because it threatens the profits of these corporations.  Whenever states enact legislation based on animus towards particular political speech it has a chilling effect that will be felt widely. 
 
 We urge you to oppose HB 1633. From a criminal justice reform perspective, this bill is damaging, as it creates new steep penalties for conduct that is already covered under existing criminal law. These new steep penalties and special protections for so-called critical infrastructure are rooted in animus towards anti-pipeline protesters. It is inappropriate for states to seek to legislation in order to penalize individuals for their First Amendment-protected points of view. 
 
 Please direct questions to Sue Udry, Defending Rights & Dissent, at 202.552.7408 or sue at rightsanddissent.org. 
 
   
 
 Sincerely, 
 
 350 Chicago 
 
 350 Kishwaukee (IL) 
 
 American Friends Service Committee - Chicago 
 
 Area Consortium of Educational Service For Our Youth  (DBA:A.C.E.S. 4 Youth) 
 
 Chicago Area Peace Action 
 
 Chicago Food Policy Action Council 
 
 Chicago SE Side Coalition to Ban Petcoke (SSCBP)  
 
 Clean Power Lake County 
 
 Climate Defense Project 
 
 Color Of Change 
 
 Crossroads Fund 
 
 Defending Rights & Dissent 
 
 Earth Defense Coalition 
 
 Eco-Justice Collaborative 
 
 Extinction Rebellion Chicago 
 
 Faith In Place Action Fund 
 
 Food & Water Watch 
 
 Fox Valley Citizens for Peace & Justice 
 
 Frack Free Illinois 
 
 Friends of Bell Smith Springs 
 
 Grassroots Collaborative 
 
 Greater Highland Area Concerned Citizens 
 
 Greenpeace USA 
 
 Indivisible Chicago 
 
 Indivisible South Suburban Chicago 
 
 Illinois Green Party 
 
 Illinois People's Action 
 
 Lifted Voices 
 
 Little Village Environmental Justice Organization 
 
 Moms Demand Action 
 
 National Lawyers Guild 
 
 National Lawyers Guild – Chicago Chapter 
 
 National Lawyers Guild - St. Louis Chapter 
 
 Native Organizers Alliance 
 
 Northern Illinois Jobs with Justice 
 
 Nuclear Energy Information Service -NEIS- 
 
 Occupy Rockford 
 
 Palestine Legal 
 
 Reform for Illinois 
 
 Save Our Illinois Land 
 
 Shawnee Forest Defense! 
 
 Sierra Club, Illinois Chapter 
 
 Southern Illinois DSA 
 
 Southern Illinoisans Against Fracturing Our Environment 
 
 The People's Lobby 
 
 Vinyard Indian Settlement 
 
 Water Protector Legal Collective 
 
 Will County Progressives 
 
 WindSolarUSA, Inc. 
 
 X-Lab 
 
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 Today I am asking you to submit 2 witness slips: 
 
 Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in  Subcommittee. 
 
 Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in Committee 
 
 The process takes just a minute and is important, it allows you to "testify" against a bill without being present in Springfield. The links above will take you to the Illinois general assembly website where you'll be able to fill out  witness slips in OPPOSITION to HB1633. 
 
 The form is not the easiest to understand, but you can do it! Fill out your info and mark yourself as an OPPONENT to the bill and "record of appearance only". 
 
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Wed May 22 22:21:40 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 22:21:40 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: DC Venezuelan embassy might be finally safe! Please
 sign the petition
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Rev Jesse Jackson expressing support at the Venezuelan Embassy.


We have huge, exciting news about the Venezuelan Embassy! The governments of Venezuela and Turkey have just agreed to sign a Protecting Power Agreement to sustain the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, DC under the charge of the Turkish government. But in order for this to happen, the State Department must give its stamp of approval. Add your name now to our petition urging the State Department to approve the Turkish Government to operate as the Protecting Power for the Venezuelan embassy in DC.<https://www.codepink.org/protectingpower?e=1afe7b7163b9dda25d4599b2d4f044d6&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=venezuelan_embassy_safe&n=3>

We spent 37 days inside the embassy paving the way for an agreement like this and now it looks like it might happen. It is in the United States’ interest to approve this agreement because then the Venezuelan government will approve a similar Protecting Power Agreement for the U.S. Embassy in Venezuela reached between the United States and Switzerland. If both agreements are signed, the US Embassy in Caracas would operate under the Swiss government and the Venezuelan Embassy in DC would operate under the Turkish government. That would mean that critical functions for citizens of both embassies such as renewing visas and issuing passports will remain.

The State Department must accept the Protecting Power Agreement. Add your name to the petition.<https://www.codepink.org/protectingpower?e=1afe7b7163b9dda25d4599b2d4f044d6&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=venezuelan_embassy_safe&n=4>

It was a long and gruelling process — arrests, physical assaults, having electricity turned off — to protect the embassy, but it looks like our work has paid off. Not only has Venezuela found a government to sign a Protecting Power agreement with them, but it has been over six weeks that Juan Guaidó has not been able to move into the embassy building. Not only has the coup attempt in Venezuela, orchestrated by Trump, Bolton, and Guiado, failed but their concurrent mini-coup attempt at the Venezuelan Embassy in DC failed as well. It’s thanks to all of our hard work that this has been achieved. Now we need one last push: tell the State Department to accept the Protecting Powers agreement!<https://www.codepink.org/protectingpower?e=1afe7b7163b9dda25d4599b2d4f044d6&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=venezuelan_embassy_safe&n=5>

In celebration of all we have achieved,
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Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 22:21:40 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: DC Venezuelan embassy might be finally safe! Please
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Rev Jesse Jackson expressing support at the Venezuelan Embassy.


We have huge, exciting news about the Venezuelan Embassy! The governments of Venezuela and Turkey have just agreed to sign a Protecting Power Agreement to sustain the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, DC under the charge of the Turkish government. But in order for this to happen, the State Department must give its stamp of approval. Add your name now to our petition urging the State Department to approve the Turkish Government to operate as the Protecting Power for the Venezuelan embassy in DC.<https://www.codepink.org/protectingpower?e=1afe7b7163b9dda25d4599b2d4f044d6&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=venezuelan_embassy_safe&n=3>

We spent 37 days inside the embassy paving the way for an agreement like this and now it looks like it might happen. It is in the United States’ interest to approve this agreement because then the Venezuelan government will approve a similar Protecting Power Agreement for the U.S. Embassy in Venezuela reached between the United States and Switzerland. If both agreements are signed, the US Embassy in Caracas would operate under the Swiss government and the Venezuelan Embassy in DC would operate under the Turkish government. That would mean that critical functions for citizens of both embassies such as renewing visas and issuing passports will remain.

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It was a long and gruelling process — arrests, physical assaults, having electricity turned off — to protect the embassy, but it looks like our work has paid off. Not only has Venezuela found a government to sign a Protecting Power agreement with them, but it has been over six weeks that Juan Guaidó has not been able to move into the embassy building. Not only has the coup attempt in Venezuela, orchestrated by Trump, Bolton, and Guiado, failed but their concurrent mini-coup attempt at the Venezuelan Embassy in DC failed as well. It’s thanks to all of our hard work that this has been achieved. Now we need one last push: tell the State Department to accept the Protecting Powers agreement!<https://www.codepink.org/protectingpower?e=1afe7b7163b9dda25d4599b2d4f044d6&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=venezuelan_embassy_safe&n=5>

In celebration of all we have achieved,
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Thu May 23 13:39:57 2019
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Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 13:39:57 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Transcript of Part 4/7 discussion related to Medical
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PAUL JAY: Welcome back to Reality Asserts Itself. I’m Paul Jay on The Real News Network.

We’re continuing our discussion with Wendell Potter, who’s the author of Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Healthcare and Deceiving Americans, and the book Nation on the Take: How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy and What We Can Do About It, which he did with Nick Penniman. And he now joins me in the studio. Thanks.

WENDELL POTTER: Thank you, Paul.

PAUL JAY: So we’re going to pick up from our story. If you haven’t watched part one and part two, you really should, because part two we started the biographical story, and we’re going to pick it up. But in part one we got to Wendell had joined the private insurance industry, where he worked for about 20 years, rising to a big position. So we didn’t quite get the rise, but I assume you did really well.

WENDELL POTTER: I did well. A lot of promotions.

PAUL JAY: And your job was, essentially, helping the private insurance companies create a layer of bullshit to cover up for how they were making money out of people’s illness, and disease, and death.

WENDELL POTTER: And I did a pretty good job. I lasted 20 years. And yeah, I absolutely was a master of spin and helping to obscure a reality.

PAUL JAY: Hence the title of the–Deadly Spin.

WENDELL POTTER: Exactly. And it absolutely is deadly spin. It continues to this day.

PAUL JAY: Let’s talk about being inside that culture. You and I once talked off camera, and I said to you, this feels to me like it would have been something similar to kind of naively joining a tobacco company. And once you’re there long enough, not only do you learn about the tobacco company knowing that smoking causes cancer, but you so internalize the culture of the success of the tobacco company you even let your children smoke.

WENDELL POTTER: Yeah.

PAUL JAY: Is it like that in the private-

WENDELL POTTER: It is like that. And it probably is in most corporate cultures. You are made to want to be a part of the team. In fact, if you are showing signs that you’re not a team player, you’ll be winnowed out. So it’s important to to be a team player, and to buy into what the company is doing, and not to rock the boat. People have asked me a number of times why didn’t I try to effect change from the inside? You really can’t, because if you start to do that, if you start to question the company’s strategy and suggest that there is something unethical going on here, you’ll be out the door. It just doesn’t work that way.

PAUL JAY: And part of the job of the insurance company is to make money, and part of the spin you need to do is to decide when some people actually get expensive treatment or not. Insurance companies, in fact, are making life and death decisions.

WENDELL POTTER: No, they are. And while I was still in the industry and in my jobs, they controlled the health care system in many ways–even more than they do now, although they still pretty much had complete control of the health care system. But back then, before the Affordable Care Act was passed, they could declare you uninsurable. They could refuse to sell you a policy because of a preexisting condition. Or if you had one and they were willing to sell you a policy, they would charge you a lot more for it than they would someone who was exactly your same age who had not been sick in the past or had that preexisting condition.

And you’re right. They truly are set up to have death panels within these companies. And that was certainly a term, also, that was used during the debate that led to the Affordable Care Act by Sarah Palin and others who were saying that Obama and Democrats wanted to establish death panels within the government. There was no truth to that, but the reality was that they do indeed exist, and still do, because in this country, if you have private insurance, there is someone at the company, your insurance company, who will be making decisions as to whether or not you’ll get coverage for a procedure, or medication, or whatever it is your doctor says you need.

PAUL JAY: And some people are deciding so-and-so, who’s most likely to be poor, isn’t worth treating because they won’t live long enough anyway.

WENDELL POTTER: It happens that way. In fact, the case that contributed to or made–I just couldn’t do it any more–involved a 17-year-old girl who was in a health plan that my company had, and it covered transplants. But a medical director at CIGNA said, in his opinion, he didn’t think the transplant was medically appropriate for this girl.

PAUL JAY: But the doctors did.

WENDELL POTTER: The doctors did. The doctors, her treating physicians, certainly did. And they appealed that decision, and to no avail.

PAUL JAY: This is exactly, as you are saying with Palin and others, this is what the right claims happens in Canada and other places with government health insurance, which, in fact, it doesn’t. Like, in Canada the doctors decide. The plan doesn’t get to decide. But here the insurance companies can.

WENDELL POTTER: They do. And they still do. The Affordable Care Act did nothing to change that. In fact, I think it’s gotten even worse, because it did–the Affordable Care Act did do some good things. But I knew as soon as it was passed that the insurance companies would do other things to make sure that they met Wall Street’s profit expectations. That is the most important thing to these companies. And I can assure you that it’s the case. I, for 10 years, was responsible for handling financial communications to the media. And I know that what is most important is meeting Wall Street’s financial expectations every three months when you announce your earnings. And if you miss it by a penny, earnings per share, then you’ll see the value of your stock more than likely take a hit.

PAUL JAY: And a lot of these executives own a lot of stock.

WENDELL POTTER: Exactly. And I did, too. And I saw exactly what happened. There were a time or two when we did miss the consensus estimates.

PAUL JAY: Which I guess is one of the reasons they want executives to own stock, because they have such a self interest in maintaining the stock price.

WENDELL POTTER: Oh, it’s true. In fact, one of the days I dreaded most was when we released our proxy statement that list the salaries, the total compensation, of the five most highly compensated executives. I dreaded that, because I knew I’d probably get some calls from reporters asking how I would–how I could justify the CEO’s salary. But one of the things I used to justify it was that, look, 90 percent of his compensation is what we referred to ‘at risk,’ which meant that his salary was–it was significant. But he got most of his salary in stock grants and stock options. And so he had great incentive to make sure that he was meeting Wall Street’s profit expectations because of that.

PAUL JAY: Which means you want to say no to expensive procedures more than otherwise because of the self-interest you have in the stock price.

WENDELL POTTER: Exactly.

PAUL JAY: So you’re seeing this, you realize this. In the earlier segment of our interview you talked about pushing this Wendell who is kind of more conscious about all this stuff down. But I’m guessing that Wendell is yelling at you, and striving to break out. Over the course of years you’re wrestling with this.

WENDELL POTTER: I was. I was, indeed, wrestling with that. And then over the last year that I was there, it was intense. And there were some things that I was asked to do that made it increasingly more difficult for me to stay in that job.

PAUL JAY: Well, talk more about the case of the 17-year-old girl, because that was one of the breaking points for you.

WENDELL POTTER: It was. And I’d handle a lot of these cases that we referred to as ‘high profile cases.’ Sometimes we would call them horror stories, because they were horrible. And they almost always involved a case in which someone who was enrolled in a CIGNA health plan was going to the media to complain about a decision that they were not getting coverage for something that they felt they were entitled to. And in many cases, their lives depended on this.

PAUL JAY: So this girl needed the transplant.

WENDELL POTTER: She did.

PAUL JAY: Doctors say they needed it. Insurance overseer says it ain’t worth it, because she’s going to die anyway.

WENDELL POTTER: Right. She was–she was in Los Angeles, UCLA Medical Center. The guy who made that call, who said no, we’re not going to cover it, was 2,500 miles away in Pittsburgh. He had never treated her, never laid eyes on her. And he was just as much of a corporate executive as I was, or a corporate employee.

PAUL JAY: So the person making life and death decisions owns stock.

WENDELL POTTER: Yes, absolutely. There is incentive for those employees if–when you reach a certain level within these big companies you become eligible for stocks, stock options and stock grants. And so you have an incentive. The other thing, too, you don’t have to have a memo that says you will deny X number of transplants this quarter. You know, though, that if you are out of line, if you become an outlier, then your job is going to be in jeopardy. So you don’t have to send a memo out.

PAUL JAY: And you get pressure from all the other stock-owning executives, hey, you’re screwing all of us.

WENDELL POTTER: Right. Exactly.

PAUL JAY: So this girl died.

WENDELL POTTER: She died. Now, it became a very highly publicized case. And I thought that I was playing a role in her getting the transplant that she needed. I started getting calls from reporters all across Los Angeles, and then it became a national, even an international, story.

PAUL JAY: What year is this in?

WENDELL POTTER: This was in 2007. And … Yeah, it’s 2007. It was December of 2007. And these calls started coming in. I had to tell our executives, our CEO and a few others, that this was going on, and that this was becoming a real PR problem for the company. A real PR … disaster.

PAUL JAY: So how did you spin this?

WENDELL POTTER: Initially it was pretty easy. We would spin these initially–Look, this is, I can’t even acknowledge that she is someone who is enrolled in a CIGNA health plan because of HIPAA, federal laws pertaining to privacy. So I thought that would chill this, and it had–it had done the trick many times before. But the reporters were unrelenting. They wanted to know more than my little statement would–we were trying to handfeed them.

And the family began to get a lot of support from activists. The California Nurses Association took up the fight, and they were beginning to stage a protest in front of CIGNA’s regional offices in Glendale, California. CNN was there. And when I learned that, that’s when the decision was made, very quickly after that. After I told the CEO and others that this was happening on live TV, they very quickly reversed that denial. And one of the jobs I had was to try, then, to make sure that the family, as they were on TV, got the word that CIGNA had changed that, and it was reversing that denial, and was going to allow the transplant to go forward.

And I saw that happening. I got someone to go and tell Mrs. Sarkisyan–the family name was Sarkisyan. And I could see someone whispering in Mrs. Sarkisyan’s ear something that clearly made her happy. So I knew I’d gotten the word to the family. And I felt pretty good about that. I thought, well, maybe this girl is going to get that transplant. She’ll probably live. She died five hours after that.

PAUL JAY: Because it was too late.

WENDELL POTTER: It was too late. Enough time had passed since the original request was made, you know, she got sicker. And initially there was a liver waiting for her. A perfect match had been found. That was not the case when the decision had been reversed, that denial. So she died.

PAUL JAY: And, in fact, the outcome of similar cases that did get transplants, on the whole, was actually pretty good.

WENDELL POTTER: Yeah. In fact, her doctors believed that there was at least an 80 percent chance that she would live–you know, I think five years was what they said they felt pretty certain, that she would live at least that long, and probably longer. So they were confident that this would–this would save her life.

PAUL JAY: So where are you when you hear she died? What were you sitting-

WENDELL POTTER: I had gone home. I had gone home thinking that, wow, you know, I’m a father, and I could just imagine what this family was going through. And I felt pretty good. I felt that, you know, this family was rejoicing. They thought their daughter was going to get this transplant. I got a call that evening from someone who told me within the company that you better get ready with another statement, because Nataline Sarkisyan had just passed away. Just died.

It was so devastating to me. I could not–I had gotten emotionally involved in this case, more than most. And I just couldn’t do another one. I just didn’t have it in me to handle another high profile case. So soon after that I went into my boss’s office and turned in my resignation.

PAUL JAY: There was another experience you had I read about where you went South, and saw people lining up for free health care because they couldn’t afford insurance.

WENDELL POTTER: That was–Exactly. That was just a few months. That was in the same year as 2007. And I went there–I was back home visiting visiting family in Tennessee. And I picked up a newspaper and saw something called the health care expedition was being held just a very few miles from where I grew up. And I went there out of curiosity. I think that was something that was, you know, this Wendell that had been submerged, there was something that was happening to me.

And I went there out of curiosity. I had been–I was kind of frustrated, because at this time I was having to write a whitepaper for my company and for the industry on the problem of the uninsured, which this whitepaper was seeking to diminish that as a problem, to try to make people think that the people who are uninsured were that way by choice. And I would write it, and the drafts would come back I wasn’t making the case strong enough. So I guess I might have been compelled to go to this outdoor clinic at a county fairgrounds. And, Paul, that road between Kingsport, Tennessee and Wise County, Virginia, which is just on the other side of the state line, that was the road to Damascus for me. It truly was. And when I got to those fairground gates and I walked through them, it was like I had somehow left this country and walked into a third world country.

PAUL JAY: Describe what you saw.

WENDELL POTTER: Well, there were people who were–people were lined up by the hundreds in lines that stretched completely out of view.

PAUL JAY: So these are–This is like a free clinic that some doctors are giving for people that can’t afford health insurance.

WENDELL POTTER: Right. And at a county fairgrounds. And there were tents that had been set up. It looked sort of like a MASH unit that–I’ve never seen one, except on TV. And it was raining, and those folks were wet. They were soaking wet, but they were not about to lose their place in line. And I noticed that a lot of those lines were leading to barns, and animal stalls. This was the county fairgrounds, and people were being treated in animal stalls. Volunteers, I found out later, would go in days ahead of this thing and scrub them as much as they could, and put up sheets on the stalls to give some privacy.

PAUL JAY: And where did the people come from?

WENDELL POTTER: They would drive for hundreds–from hundreds of miles around. This little bitty town in the middle of Southwest Virginia in the coal mining section, the mountains of Virginia. And people to this day, they still do this every July. People drive from–hundreds–from Ohio, and Michigan, and Florida.

PAUL JAY: And some of these are pregnant women.

WENDELL POTTER: Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And people of all ages. And I found out later that some of those people had insurance, but they are in high deductible plans. They were in high deductible plans. They didn’t have enough money to meet the deductible so they could use their insurance. And I was actually told about some of the volunteers that people had called them up and were telling them that when they had called their insurance companies to see if there might be some way they could get the care that they needed before they met the deductible, they were told no, but you might see if Remote Area Medical is going to have one of these free clinics in your area. Insurance companies were telling people to go to these charity events to get care. It was stunning.

PAUL JAY: And these are kinds of people you grew up with.

WENDELL POTTER: There were people–I realized that moment, when I said it was kind of a road to Damascus, I knew immediately it was an epiphany for me. I knew immediately that had I not been lucky, had mom and dad not saved money so I could go to college and get a good job, I could have been one of those people in those long lines. And I also knew that, at that very moment, that I had to take some responsibility for that. Because my job was to get people to believe things that just simply were not true about the U.S. health care system. And that was–That, truly, was the beginning of my change.

PAUL JAY: It’s not long after that this young woman dies on your watch.

WENDELL POTTER: Yeah. Yeah. And I’ve sometimes said this has been kind of a spiritual journey for me. I don’t know why these things happened so close together, but they were impactful to me. And I knew that I couldn’t keep doing what I was doing. I didn’t know what I was going to be–what I would do next. I didn’t have another job lined up. I just knew I couldn’t keep doing that.

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PAUL JAY: Welcome back to Reality Asserts Itself. I’m Paul Jay on The Real News Network.

We’re continuing our discussion with Wendell Potter, who’s the author of Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Healthcare and Deceiving Americans, and the book Nation on the Take: How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy and What We Can Do About It, which he did with Nick Penniman. And he now joins me in the studio. Thanks.

WENDELL POTTER: Thank you, Paul.

PAUL JAY: So we’re going to pick up from our story. If you haven’t watched part one and part two, you really should, because part two we started the biographical story, and we’re going to pick it up. But in part one we got to Wendell had joined the private insurance industry, where he worked for about 20 years, rising to a big position. So we didn’t quite get the rise, but I assume you did really well.

WENDELL POTTER: I did well. A lot of promotions.

PAUL JAY: And your job was, essentially, helping the private insurance companies create a layer of bullshit to cover up for how they were making money out of people’s illness, and disease, and death.

WENDELL POTTER: And I did a pretty good job. I lasted 20 years. And yeah, I absolutely was a master of spin and helping to obscure a reality.

PAUL JAY: Hence the title of the–Deadly Spin.

WENDELL POTTER: Exactly. And it absolutely is deadly spin. It continues to this day.

PAUL JAY: Let’s talk about being inside that culture. You and I once talked off camera, and I said to you, this feels to me like it would have been something similar to kind of naively joining a tobacco company. And once you’re there long enough, not only do you learn about the tobacco company knowing that smoking causes cancer, but you so internalize the culture of the success of the tobacco company you even let your children smoke.

WENDELL POTTER: Yeah.

PAUL JAY: Is it like that in the private-

WENDELL POTTER: It is like that. And it probably is in most corporate cultures. You are made to want to be a part of the team. In fact, if you are showing signs that you’re not a team player, you’ll be winnowed out. So it’s important to to be a team player, and to buy into what the company is doing, and not to rock the boat. People have asked me a number of times why didn’t I try to effect change from the inside? You really can’t, because if you start to do that, if you start to question the company’s strategy and suggest that there is something unethical going on here, you’ll be out the door. It just doesn’t work that way.

PAUL JAY: And part of the job of the insurance company is to make money, and part of the spin you need to do is to decide when some people actually get expensive treatment or not. Insurance companies, in fact, are making life and death decisions.

WENDELL POTTER: No, they are. And while I was still in the industry and in my jobs, they controlled the health care system in many ways–even more than they do now, although they still pretty much had complete control of the health care system. But back then, before the Affordable Care Act was passed, they could declare you uninsurable. They could refuse to sell you a policy because of a preexisting condition. Or if you had one and they were willing to sell you a policy, they would charge you a lot more for it than they would someone who was exactly your same age who had not been sick in the past or had that preexisting condition.

And you’re right. They truly are set up to have death panels within these companies. And that was certainly a term, also, that was used during the debate that led to the Affordable Care Act by Sarah Palin and others who were saying that Obama and Democrats wanted to establish death panels within the government. There was no truth to that, but the reality was that they do indeed exist, and still do, because in this country, if you have private insurance, there is someone at the company, your insurance company, who will be making decisions as to whether or not you’ll get coverage for a procedure, or medication, or whatever it is your doctor says you need.

PAUL JAY: And some people are deciding so-and-so, who’s most likely to be poor, isn’t worth treating because they won’t live long enough anyway.

WENDELL POTTER: It happens that way. In fact, the case that contributed to or made–I just couldn’t do it any more–involved a 17-year-old girl who was in a health plan that my company had, and it covered transplants. But a medical director at CIGNA said, in his opinion, he didn’t think the transplant was medically appropriate for this girl.

PAUL JAY: But the doctors did.

WENDELL POTTER: The doctors did. The doctors, her treating physicians, certainly did. And they appealed that decision, and to no avail.

PAUL JAY: This is exactly, as you are saying with Palin and others, this is what the right claims happens in Canada and other places with government health insurance, which, in fact, it doesn’t. Like, in Canada the doctors decide. The plan doesn’t get to decide. But here the insurance companies can.

WENDELL POTTER: They do. And they still do. The Affordable Care Act did nothing to change that. In fact, I think it’s gotten even worse, because it did–the Affordable Care Act did do some good things. But I knew as soon as it was passed that the insurance companies would do other things to make sure that they met Wall Street’s profit expectations. That is the most important thing to these companies. And I can assure you that it’s the case. I, for 10 years, was responsible for handling financial communications to the media. And I know that what is most important is meeting Wall Street’s financial expectations every three months when you announce your earnings. And if you miss it by a penny, earnings per share, then you’ll see the value of your stock more than likely take a hit.

PAUL JAY: And a lot of these executives own a lot of stock.

WENDELL POTTER: Exactly. And I did, too. And I saw exactly what happened. There were a time or two when we did miss the consensus estimates.

PAUL JAY: Which I guess is one of the reasons they want executives to own stock, because they have such a self interest in maintaining the stock price.

WENDELL POTTER: Oh, it’s true. In fact, one of the days I dreaded most was when we released our proxy statement that list the salaries, the total compensation, of the five most highly compensated executives. I dreaded that, because I knew I’d probably get some calls from reporters asking how I would–how I could justify the CEO’s salary. But one of the things I used to justify it was that, look, 90 percent of his compensation is what we referred to ‘at risk,’ which meant that his salary was–it was significant. But he got most of his salary in stock grants and stock options. And so he had great incentive to make sure that he was meeting Wall Street’s profit expectations because of that.

PAUL JAY: Which means you want to say no to expensive procedures more than otherwise because of the self-interest you have in the stock price.

WENDELL POTTER: Exactly.

PAUL JAY: So you’re seeing this, you realize this. In the earlier segment of our interview you talked about pushing this Wendell who is kind of more conscious about all this stuff down. But I’m guessing that Wendell is yelling at you, and striving to break out. Over the course of years you’re wrestling with this.

WENDELL POTTER: I was. I was, indeed, wrestling with that. And then over the last year that I was there, it was intense. And there were some things that I was asked to do that made it increasingly more difficult for me to stay in that job.

PAUL JAY: Well, talk more about the case of the 17-year-old girl, because that was one of the breaking points for you.

WENDELL POTTER: It was. And I’d handle a lot of these cases that we referred to as ‘high profile cases.’ Sometimes we would call them horror stories, because they were horrible. And they almost always involved a case in which someone who was enrolled in a CIGNA health plan was going to the media to complain about a decision that they were not getting coverage for something that they felt they were entitled to. And in many cases, their lives depended on this.

PAUL JAY: So this girl needed the transplant.

WENDELL POTTER: She did.

PAUL JAY: Doctors say they needed it. Insurance overseer says it ain’t worth it, because she’s going to die anyway.

WENDELL POTTER: Right. She was–she was in Los Angeles, UCLA Medical Center. The guy who made that call, who said no, we’re not going to cover it, was 2,500 miles away in Pittsburgh. He had never treated her, never laid eyes on her. And he was just as much of a corporate executive as I was, or a corporate employee.

PAUL JAY: So the person making life and death decisions owns stock.

WENDELL POTTER: Yes, absolutely. There is incentive for those employees if–when you reach a certain level within these big companies you become eligible for stocks, stock options and stock grants. And so you have an incentive. The other thing, too, you don’t have to have a memo that says you will deny X number of transplants this quarter. You know, though, that if you are out of line, if you become an outlier, then your job is going to be in jeopardy. So you don’t have to send a memo out.

PAUL JAY: And you get pressure from all the other stock-owning executives, hey, you’re screwing all of us.

WENDELL POTTER: Right. Exactly.

PAUL JAY: So this girl died.

WENDELL POTTER: She died. Now, it became a very highly publicized case. And I thought that I was playing a role in her getting the transplant that she needed. I started getting calls from reporters all across Los Angeles, and then it became a national, even an international, story.

PAUL JAY: What year is this in?

WENDELL POTTER: This was in 2007. And … Yeah, it’s 2007. It was December of 2007. And these calls started coming in. I had to tell our executives, our CEO and a few others, that this was going on, and that this was becoming a real PR problem for the company. A real PR … disaster.

PAUL JAY: So how did you spin this?

WENDELL POTTER: Initially it was pretty easy. We would spin these initially–Look, this is, I can’t even acknowledge that she is someone who is enrolled in a CIGNA health plan because of HIPAA, federal laws pertaining to privacy. So I thought that would chill this, and it had–it had done the trick many times before. But the reporters were unrelenting. They wanted to know more than my little statement would–we were trying to handfeed them.

And the family began to get a lot of support from activists. The California Nurses Association took up the fight, and they were beginning to stage a protest in front of CIGNA’s regional offices in Glendale, California. CNN was there. And when I learned that, that’s when the decision was made, very quickly after that. After I told the CEO and others that this was happening on live TV, they very quickly reversed that denial. And one of the jobs I had was to try, then, to make sure that the family, as they were on TV, got the word that CIGNA had changed that, and it was reversing that denial, and was going to allow the transplant to go forward.

And I saw that happening. I got someone to go and tell Mrs. Sarkisyan–the family name was Sarkisyan. And I could see someone whispering in Mrs. Sarkisyan’s ear something that clearly made her happy. So I knew I’d gotten the word to the family. And I felt pretty good about that. I thought, well, maybe this girl is going to get that transplant. She’ll probably live. She died five hours after that.

PAUL JAY: Because it was too late.

WENDELL POTTER: It was too late. Enough time had passed since the original request was made, you know, she got sicker. And initially there was a liver waiting for her. A perfect match had been found. That was not the case when the decision had been reversed, that denial. So she died.

PAUL JAY: And, in fact, the outcome of similar cases that did get transplants, on the whole, was actually pretty good.

WENDELL POTTER: Yeah. In fact, her doctors believed that there was at least an 80 percent chance that she would live–you know, I think five years was what they said they felt pretty certain, that she would live at least that long, and probably longer. So they were confident that this would–this would save her life.

PAUL JAY: So where are you when you hear she died? What were you sitting-

WENDELL POTTER: I had gone home. I had gone home thinking that, wow, you know, I’m a father, and I could just imagine what this family was going through. And I felt pretty good. I felt that, you know, this family was rejoicing. They thought their daughter was going to get this transplant. I got a call that evening from someone who told me within the company that you better get ready with another statement, because Nataline Sarkisyan had just passed away. Just died.

It was so devastating to me. I could not–I had gotten emotionally involved in this case, more than most. And I just couldn’t do another one. I just didn’t have it in me to handle another high profile case. So soon after that I went into my boss’s office and turned in my resignation.

PAUL JAY: There was another experience you had I read about where you went South, and saw people lining up for free health care because they couldn’t afford insurance.

WENDELL POTTER: That was–Exactly. That was just a few months. That was in the same year as 2007. And I went there–I was back home visiting visiting family in Tennessee. And I picked up a newspaper and saw something called the health care expedition was being held just a very few miles from where I grew up. And I went there out of curiosity. I think that was something that was, you know, this Wendell that had been submerged, there was something that was happening to me.

And I went there out of curiosity. I had been–I was kind of frustrated, because at this time I was having to write a whitepaper for my company and for the industry on the problem of the uninsured, which this whitepaper was seeking to diminish that as a problem, to try to make people think that the people who are uninsured were that way by choice. And I would write it, and the drafts would come back I wasn’t making the case strong enough. So I guess I might have been compelled to go to this outdoor clinic at a county fairgrounds. And, Paul, that road between Kingsport, Tennessee and Wise County, Virginia, which is just on the other side of the state line, that was the road to Damascus for me. It truly was. And when I got to those fairground gates and I walked through them, it was like I had somehow left this country and walked into a third world country.

PAUL JAY: Describe what you saw.

WENDELL POTTER: Well, there were people who were–people were lined up by the hundreds in lines that stretched completely out of view.

PAUL JAY: So these are–This is like a free clinic that some doctors are giving for people that can’t afford health insurance.

WENDELL POTTER: Right. And at a county fairgrounds. And there were tents that had been set up. It looked sort of like a MASH unit that–I’ve never seen one, except on TV. And it was raining, and those folks were wet. They were soaking wet, but they were not about to lose their place in line. And I noticed that a lot of those lines were leading to barns, and animal stalls. This was the county fairgrounds, and people were being treated in animal stalls. Volunteers, I found out later, would go in days ahead of this thing and scrub them as much as they could, and put up sheets on the stalls to give some privacy.

PAUL JAY: And where did the people come from?

WENDELL POTTER: They would drive for hundreds–from hundreds of miles around. This little bitty town in the middle of Southwest Virginia in the coal mining section, the mountains of Virginia. And people to this day, they still do this every July. People drive from–hundreds–from Ohio, and Michigan, and Florida.

PAUL JAY: And some of these are pregnant women.

WENDELL POTTER: Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And people of all ages. And I found out later that some of those people had insurance, but they are in high deductible plans. They were in high deductible plans. They didn’t have enough money to meet the deductible so they could use their insurance. And I was actually told about some of the volunteers that people had called them up and were telling them that when they had called their insurance companies to see if there might be some way they could get the care that they needed before they met the deductible, they were told no, but you might see if Remote Area Medical is going to have one of these free clinics in your area. Insurance companies were telling people to go to these charity events to get care. It was stunning.

PAUL JAY: And these are kinds of people you grew up with.

WENDELL POTTER: There were people–I realized that moment, when I said it was kind of a road to Damascus, I knew immediately it was an epiphany for me. I knew immediately that had I not been lucky, had mom and dad not saved money so I could go to college and get a good job, I could have been one of those people in those long lines. And I also knew that, at that very moment, that I had to take some responsibility for that. Because my job was to get people to believe things that just simply were not true about the U.S. health care system. And that was–That, truly, was the beginning of my change.

PAUL JAY: It’s not long after that this young woman dies on your watch.

WENDELL POTTER: Yeah. Yeah. And I’ve sometimes said this has been kind of a spiritual journey for me. I don’t know why these things happened so close together, but they were impactful to me. And I knew that I couldn’t keep doing what I was doing. I didn’t know what I was going to be–what I would do next. I didn’t have another job lined up. I just knew I couldn’t keep doing that.

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Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 09:37:36 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Chi Area Peace Action: Request to Sign: Ltr to IL reps on
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Hello,

Chicago Area Peace Action is seeking organizational co-signers on this
letter to the Illinois Congressional Delegation urging they support
S1039/HR2354 - The Prevention of Unconstitutional War with Iran Act.
Support for this legislation by our Illinois delegation could not come at a
more urgent time. National Security Advisor John Bolton and Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo are endorsing war plans to send 120,000 troops and 120
war ships to the Middle East to ratchet up tensions and provoke a war with
Iran. This has been there plan from the beginning. We can't let that
happen. Members of Congress must preemptively assert their constitutional
war authority and support these bill to send a clear signal to the Trump
Administration that war against Iran will not be allowed. The American
people do not want another war in the Middle East.

Thank you for your consideration of this urgent matter. Sign the form below
and pass it on to other groups in Illinois that might be interested in
joining. Feel free to email me if you have questions or comments.

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Dear Members of the Illinois Congressional Delegation,

We write to request your support for S.1039/H.R.2354, the Prevention of
Unconstitutional War with Iran Act of 2019, introduced by Senator Udall and
Representative Eshoo. These resolutions would prevent funding from being
appropriated in the event of an unauthorized U.S. military intervention in
Iran.

Congressional opposition to U.S. military intervention in Iran could not
come at a more urgent time. The Trump administration has moved the U.S.
into a war posture with Iran through increased hostile rhetoric, crippling
economic sanctions, and by using the routine deployment of a battleship in
the region to threaten “unrelenting force”. Recently, National Security
Advisor John Bolton was reported to be overseeing the revision of war plans
to send upwards of 120,000 troops and 120 additional warships to the Middle
East with the intention of provoking war with Iran.

Congress must not be idle witnesses in a repetition of the playbook for the
2003 invasion of Iraq. The Trump Administration must be reminded that it is
constrained by a lack of Congressional authorization for war, and the fact
that the 2001 AUMF can’t be twisted  to give a green light for launching
military action against Iran.

As tensions continue to rise, it is vital that Congress preemptively assert
its constitutional war authority and stop the Administration from launching
a disastrous war against Iran. We urge you to cosponsor S.1039 and H.R.2354
before it’s too late.

Sincerely,

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        [THOMAS SANKARA: THE UPRIGHT MAN]

        [THOMAS SANKARA: THE UPRIGHT MAN]
DVD,DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal
52 minutes, 2006, France
Director: Robin Shuffield
In French with English subtitles


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Now available for 48 hour digital rental to individuals on Vimeo<https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thomassankara>. ($2.99)

As Africa looks desperately for leaders of integrity and vision, the life and ideals of the late Thomas Sankara seem more and more relevant and exemplary with the passage of time. This new film should go a long way towards explaining why, though largely forgotten in this country, Sankara is still venerated on his own continent as the ‘African Che,’ a legendary martyr like Patrice Lumumba or Amilcar Cabral. The film recovers for the present a detailed history of Sankara’s brief four-year rule and his revolutionary program for African self-reliance as a defiant alternative to the neo-liberal development strategies imposed on Africa by the West, both then and today.

Sankara, a charismatic army captain, came to power in Burkina Faso, in 1983, in a popularly supported coup. He immediately launched the most ambitious program for social and economic change ever attempted on the African continent. To symbolize this rebirth, he even renamed his country from the French colonial Upper Volta to Burkina Faso, ‘Land of Upright Men.’ As soon as he took office, he reduced the salaries of all public servants, including his own, and forbade the use of chauffeur-driven Mercedes and 1st class airline tickets. Like many revolutionary leaders, he banned unions, a free press, anything which might stand in the way of his plans for the immediate and radical transformation of society.

He was one of the first to recognize that key to the development of Burkina Faso and Africa was improving the status of women. He was the first African leader to appoint women to major cabinet positions and to recruit them actively for the military. He outlawed forced marriages and encouraged women to work outside the home and stay in school even if pregnant. He launched a nation-wide public health campaign vaccinating over 2 ½ million people in a week, a world record. He was also one of the first African environmentalists, planting over 10 million trees to retain soil and halt the growing desertification of the Sahel. He promoted local cotton production and even required public servants to wear a traditional tunic, woven from Burkinabe cotton and sewn by Burkinabe craftsmen. He redistributed land from the feudal landlords and gave it directly to the peasants. Wheat production rose in just three years from 1700 kg per hectare to 3800 kg per hectare, making the country food self-sufficient. He started an ambitious road and rail building program to tie the nation together, eschewing any foreign aid by relying on his country’s greatest resource, the energy and commitment of its own people.

Sankara’s experiment attracted intense interest far beyond Burkina Faso, posing a serious threat to the status quo, especially to France’s continued dominance of its former West African colonies and to the corrupt regimes ruling these client states. Sankara spoke eloquently and unflinching in forums like the Organization of African Unity against continued neo-colonialist penetration of Africa through Western trade and finance. He opposed foreign aid, saying that ‘he who feeds you, controls you.’ Decades before talk of cancellation of Africa’s debt became acceptable in world banking circles, Sankara called for a united front of African nations to repudiate their foreign debt. He argued that the poor and exploited did not have an obligation to repay money to the rich and exploiting.

While celebrating Sankara’s achievements, this film does not ignore his tragic flaws. By 1986 Sankara’s rapid, sometimes authoritarian changes had begun to alienate larger sectors of the Burkinabe population, leaving him more isolated, even from elements in his own ruling circle. Like revolutionaries as far back as the French Revolution, Sankara was so committed to achieving his ideals, he was unwilling to give them enough time to ripen in his people. As one close friend observes, ‘Sankara was an impatient man,’ driven by the desperation of his people. As opposition mounted, Sankara attempted to repress it. He established Peoples Revolutionary Tribunals in towns and workplaces around the country where people were tried without counsel for being corrupt officials, counter-revolutionaries or just lazy workers, based not on credible evidence just private grudges. He also encouraged the formation of Revolutionary Defense Committees, gangs of armed youth who terrorized ordinary citizens. When the nation’s school teachers went on strike, Sankara dismissed all of them, leaving the education system, his country’s greatest hope for progress, a shambles.

By the beginning of 1987, Sankara’s position had become more precarious. He was warned to take action but fatalistically refused on the grounds that he needed to remain true to the ideals of his revolution. He noted prophetically that Che Guevara had been executed when he was 39 as well. Clandestinely, elements in the Burkinabe leadership forged relationships with Côte d’Ivoire president Félix Houphoet-Boigny, France’s staunchest ally and an outspoken opponent of Sankara’s increasingly influential attacks on neo-colonialism. On October 15th during a staff meeting, a gang of armed military, either led or ordered by Blaise Compaoré, Sankara’s closest friend and most trusted comrade throughout the revolution, assassinated him. His body was dismembered, buried in a make-shift grave and any mention of him was erased from public view. Twenty years later, Blaise Compaoré remains dictator of Burkina Faso; he has become immensely wealthy and is France’s most reliable proxy in the region.

During the current, almost unopposed wave of globalization, Sankara’s brief revolution offers an alternative or at least the possibility of another route for African development based on autonomy and local self-reliance. Despite his excesses, Sankara’s unimpeachable personal integrity, his clear, innovative ideas and tireless dedication to his people set a standard for the leadership Africa deserves and craves. This film is the perfect vehicle for passing on Sankara’s legacy, both as one of the most exceptional figures in the history of African liberation and a true visionary for Africa’s future..






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Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 17:44:39 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Tonight at the IMC/ 6:00PM film covering Thomas Sankara,
 hosted by the PSL Party for Socialism & Liberation
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        [THOMAS SANKARA: THE UPRIGHT MAN]
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52 minutes, 2006, France
Director: Robin Shuffield
In French with English subtitles


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Now available for 48 hour digital rental to individuals on Vimeo<https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thomassankara>. ($2.99)

As Africa looks desperately for leaders of integrity and vision, the life and ideals of the late Thomas Sankara seem more and more relevant and exemplary with the passage of time. This new film should go a long way towards explaining why, though largely forgotten in this country, Sankara is still venerated on his own continent as the ‘African Che,’ a legendary martyr like Patrice Lumumba or Amilcar Cabral. The film recovers for the present a detailed history of Sankara’s brief four-year rule and his revolutionary program for African self-reliance as a defiant alternative to the neo-liberal development strategies imposed on Africa by the West, both then and today.

Sankara, a charismatic army captain, came to power in Burkina Faso, in 1983, in a popularly supported coup. He immediately launched the most ambitious program for social and economic change ever attempted on the African continent. To symbolize this rebirth, he even renamed his country from the French colonial Upper Volta to Burkina Faso, ‘Land of Upright Men.’ As soon as he took office, he reduced the salaries of all public servants, including his own, and forbade the use of chauffeur-driven Mercedes and 1st class airline tickets. Like many revolutionary leaders, he banned unions, a free press, anything which might stand in the way of his plans for the immediate and radical transformation of society.

He was one of the first to recognize that key to the development of Burkina Faso and Africa was improving the status of women. He was the first African leader to appoint women to major cabinet positions and to recruit them actively for the military. He outlawed forced marriages and encouraged women to work outside the home and stay in school even if pregnant. He launched a nation-wide public health campaign vaccinating over 2 ½ million people in a week, a world record. He was also one of the first African environmentalists, planting over 10 million trees to retain soil and halt the growing desertification of the Sahel. He promoted local cotton production and even required public servants to wear a traditional tunic, woven from Burkinabe cotton and sewn by Burkinabe craftsmen. He redistributed land from the feudal landlords and gave it directly to the peasants. Wheat production rose in just three years from 1700 kg per hectare to 3800 kg per hectare, making the country food self-sufficient. He started an ambitious road and rail building program to tie the nation together, eschewing any foreign aid by relying on his country’s greatest resource, the energy and commitment of its own people.

Sankara’s experiment attracted intense interest far beyond Burkina Faso, posing a serious threat to the status quo, especially to France’s continued dominance of its former West African colonies and to the corrupt regimes ruling these client states. Sankara spoke eloquently and unflinching in forums like the Organization of African Unity against continued neo-colonialist penetration of Africa through Western trade and finance. He opposed foreign aid, saying that ‘he who feeds you, controls you.’ Decades before talk of cancellation of Africa’s debt became acceptable in world banking circles, Sankara called for a united front of African nations to repudiate their foreign debt. He argued that the poor and exploited did not have an obligation to repay money to the rich and exploiting.

While celebrating Sankara’s achievements, this film does not ignore his tragic flaws. By 1986 Sankara’s rapid, sometimes authoritarian changes had begun to alienate larger sectors of the Burkinabe population, leaving him more isolated, even from elements in his own ruling circle. Like revolutionaries as far back as the French Revolution, Sankara was so committed to achieving his ideals, he was unwilling to give them enough time to ripen in his people. As one close friend observes, ‘Sankara was an impatient man,’ driven by the desperation of his people. As opposition mounted, Sankara attempted to repress it. He established Peoples Revolutionary Tribunals in towns and workplaces around the country where people were tried without counsel for being corrupt officials, counter-revolutionaries or just lazy workers, based not on credible evidence just private grudges. He also encouraged the formation of Revolutionary Defense Committees, gangs of armed youth who terrorized ordinary citizens. When the nation’s school teachers went on strike, Sankara dismissed all of them, leaving the education system, his country’s greatest hope for progress, a shambles.

By the beginning of 1987, Sankara’s position had become more precarious. He was warned to take action but fatalistically refused on the grounds that he needed to remain true to the ideals of his revolution. He noted prophetically that Che Guevara had been executed when he was 39 as well. Clandestinely, elements in the Burkinabe leadership forged relationships with Côte d’Ivoire president Félix Houphoet-Boigny, France’s staunchest ally and an outspoken opponent of Sankara’s increasingly influential attacks on neo-colonialism. On October 15th during a staff meeting, a gang of armed military, either led or ordered by Blaise Compaoré, Sankara’s closest friend and most trusted comrade throughout the revolution, assassinated him. His body was dismembered, buried in a make-shift grave and any mention of him was erased from public view. Twenty years later, Blaise Compaoré remains dictator of Burkina Faso; he has become immensely wealthy and is France’s most reliable proxy in the region.

During the current, almost unopposed wave of globalization, Sankara’s brief revolution offers an alternative or at least the possibility of another route for African development based on autonomy and local self-reliance. Despite his excesses, Sankara’s unimpeachable personal integrity, his clear, innovative ideas and tireless dedication to his people set a standard for the leadership Africa deserves and craves. This film is the perfect vehicle for passing on Sankara’s legacy, both as one of the most exceptional figures in the history of African liberation and a true visionary for Africa’s future..






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                Johnetta Richards, San Francisco State University
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                "Thomas Sankara was stalwart in his uphill fight against neo-colonialism and white supremacy from his post as leader of the small West African nation of Burkina Faso. Yet in a story with Shakespearean overtones of intrigue and betrayal, he is overthrown--and murdered--at the behest of one of his closest comrades. Mixing extensive research in archival footage with a taut and gripping narrative, this documentary is an instant classic-in short: a masterpiece."

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From stuartnlevy at gmail.com  Sun May 26 18:30:17 2019
From: stuartnlevy at gmail.com (stuartnlevy)
Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 13:30:17 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Should AWARE meet at Cafeteria&Company this afternoon re
 no-war-on-Iran letter?
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Though very late, I'll suggest:  should AWARE meet this afternoon at Cafeteria and Company (downtown Urbana, 208 W Main) to consider approving the  letter to Durbin and Duckworth against war on Iran?(I'm not suggesting hammerhead this time,  as Carl and I found last week that they were closed. It may be too wet today to sit outside.) -- Stuart
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sun May 26 22:35:44 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 22:35:44 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Should AWARE meet at Cafeteria&Company this afternoon
 re no-war-on-Iran letter?
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Stuart

Please consider my vote “yes” do send the letter as AWARE, as it’s likely too late for me to attend a meeting. I have already signed a letter to this effect to both Durbin and Duckworth, as just me, and received a response from Tammy saying she will do what she can  to prevent war with Iran.

On May 26, 2019, at 11:30, stuartnlevy via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:


Though very late, I'll suggest:  should AWARE meet this afternoon at Cafeteria and Company (downtown Urbana, 208 W Main) to consider approving the  letter to Durbin and Duckworth against war on Iran?

(I'm not suggesting hammerhead this time,  as Carl and I found last week that they were closed. It may be too wet today to sit outside.)


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From galliher at illinois.edu  Sun May 26 23:21:39 2019
From: galliher at illinois.edu (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 18:21:39 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Should AWARE meet at Cafeteria&Company this afternoon
 re no-war-on-Iran letter?
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Sorry I couldn't make it. 

Perhaps we should establish this as a regular meeting time & place.


> On May 26, 2019, at 1:30 PM, stuartnlevy via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Though very late, I'll suggest:  should AWARE meet this afternoon at Cafeteria and Company (downtown Urbana, 208 W Main) to consider approving the  letter to Durbin and Duckworth against war on Iran?
> 
> (I'm not suggesting hammerhead this time,  as Carl and I found last week that they were closed. It may be too wet today to sit outside.)
> 
> 
> -- Stuart
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Wed May 29 01:41:11 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 01:41:11 +0000
Subject: [Peace] One of Chris Hedges best,
 Death of the Liberal Class pre 2011. Listen to the end......
Message-ID: <SN6PR08MB607783C39E26AC6648976B4AA31F0@SN6PR08MB6077.namprd08.prod.outlook.com>

https://youtu.be/NNrDej7aXMs

From karenaram at hotmail.com  Wed May 29 01:41:11 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 01:41:11 +0000
Subject: [Peace] One of Chris Hedges best,
 Death of the Liberal Class pre 2011. Listen to the end......
Message-ID: <SN6PR08MB607783C39E26AC6648976B4AA31F0@SN6PR08MB6077.namprd08.prod.outlook.com>

https://youtu.be/NNrDej7aXMs

From niloofar.peace at gmail.com  Wed May 29 04:57:25 2019
From: niloofar.peace at gmail.com (Niloofar Shambayati)
Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 23:57:25 -0500
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Defending Rights & Dissent: slip now to
 stop Illinois anti-protest bill
In-Reply-To: <1646684428.3306978.1558524241437@mail.yahoo.com>
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Thanks, Midge, for reminder. I encourage everyone to contact Ammons and
Bennett directly about this and tell them what we expect from them. Carol
was awful last time around. She needs to be pushed.

Niloofar

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 6:24 AM Mildred O'brien via Peace <
peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> Me too to all of this said below (including submitting witness slip).  Too
> bad there wasn't one when the legislature rubber stamped the AIPAC bill 2
> years ago (as if dissent would have made a difference).
>
> Midge
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Green via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> To: Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>; Peace-discuss <
> peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> Cc: peace <peace at lists.chambana.net>
> Sent: Tue, May 21, 2019 10:10 am
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] Defending Rights & Dissent: slip now
> to stop Illinois anti-protest bill
>
> I have submitted my witness slip, and contacted both state rep.offices.
>
> I doubt that Carol Ammons will step up and make a fuss about this bill.
> She has little or no history of challenging Madigan. I will be happy to be
> proved wrong.
>
> Scott Bennett is a prosecutor who like to opportunistically grandstand
> about sexual predators and to attend police-supportive functions. His
> appointment as state senator was a matter of cronyism. I also doubt that he
> will oppose this bill; I will be happy to be proved wrong.
>
> DG
>
> On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 8:23 AM Robert Naiman via Peace <
> peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>
>
> The fact that this bill is a going proposition in the
> Democratic-controlled Illinois legislature is pretty disturbing. Is this
> why we have a Democratic-controlled Illinois government? So they can vote
> to take away our right to protest the fossil fuel industry that's
> destroying our planet?
>
> Please slip against the bill, and ask Rep. Ammons to lead the fight to
> block this assault on our right to protest.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: *Sue at Defending Rights & Dissent* <info at rightsanddissent.org>
> Date: Mon, May 20, 2019 at 5:03 PM
> Subject: The vote is tomorrow: take action to stop Illinois anti-protest
> bill
> To: Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>
>
> Robert,
>
> I guess you might be tired of hearing from me about this terrible bill
> winding its way through the Illinois legislature... but here we go again.
>
> HB1633
> <https://default.salsalabs.org/Tbafc3727-fefb-4e51-9adf-0b9e6bdea52b/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>
> would create draconian new penalties for protests at pipelines, refineries,
> and other sites deemed "critical infrastructure." The bill also includes a
> "guilty by association" provision that would impose catastrophic fines on
> organizations that support these grassroots protests. *Please see below
> for more details about the bill.*
>
> *Can you take two minutes to file 2 witness slips against the bill?* It's
> not as easy as signing a petition, especially because I need to ask you to
> file two witness slips, one for the subcommittee, one for the committee.
> But this is the best way to convey your opposition.
>
> *Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in  Subcommittee.*
> <https://default.salsalabs.org/T6a31c7fb-568b-4365-9e7f-fd471b8bab06/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>
>
> Then come back to this email and...
>
> *Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in Committee*
> <https://default.salsalabs.org/T43f80b4c-ab9a-4d0f-9c8f-22d23fed3185/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>
>
> I agree the forms ask for too much information and are not very clear...
> but it is easier than driving to Springfield for most. *The key is to
> remember to check yourself as an Opponent to the bill, *and check "record
> of appearance only"
>
> HB1633 is backed by ALEC, the extractive industry and other corporate
> interests, and has bi-partisan support. It is scheduled for a hearing in
> the Senate Criminal Law Committee on Tuesday, May 21 at 5 p.m.
>
> Let's show that people power can overcome corporate greed, and we won't
> give up our right to dissent without a fight.
> Please take action against this anti-protest bill now:
>
> *Click here
> <https://default.salsalabs.org/Tf2a6fb76-65b0-43f5-8867-ea98212a5e74/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>...
> and then return to this email and click here
> <https://default.salsalabs.org/Taacf8218-43e5-4ead-9734-82b4dce2512d/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>..... to
> submit OPPOSITION witness slips to HB1633 for the subcommittee and
> committee*. The process takes a minute and is important, it allows you to
> "testify" against a bill without being present in Springfield. The links
> above will take you to the Illinois general assembly website where you'll
> be able to fill out the witness slips against HB1633. Fill out all your
> info, mark yourself as an OPPONENT to the bill, and check "record of
> appearance only"
>
> *The hearing for the bill is TOMORROW, Tuesday, May 21 so please fill out
> your witness slips today!*
>
> Stay Loud, Stay Strong,
>
> Sue
> More about HB1633:
>
> Fifty Illinois and national organizations signed the following letter (also
> available here
> <https://default.salsalabs.org/T0ce9aaca-8499-4dc0-bec0-1555ac0c0aa9/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>).
>
>
> To Members of the Illinois Senate:
>
> The undersigned racial justice, criminal justice reform, and other civil
> society groups and individuals urge you to oppose Illinois House Bill 1633.
> The bill undermines the promising reform efforts in Illinois and nationally
> designed to remedy the harm caused by mass incarceration, and it threatens
> to silence already marginalized voices. HB 1633 is an unnecessary proposal
> that creates new draconian penalties for conduct already covered by
> existing criminal statutes and could have dire unintended consequences,
> including for youth. HB 1633 is part of a national trend of so-called
> “critical infrastructure” legislation promoted by the American Legislative
> Exchange Council (ALEC) that is intended to neutralize climate justice
> activism. We urge you to oppose HB 1633.
>
> Critical infrastructure bills disproportionately affect some of the most
> underrepresented communities, criminalizing their right to protest. These
> bills target many already marginalized voices, in reaction to some of the
> most high-profile protests in recent history. Native Americans—women, in
> particular—are playing an important role as “water protectors” in protests
> against pipelines; low-income communities of color are most affected by
> unchecked environmental pollution; family farms have the most to lose by
> unfair land-grabs for large infrastructure projects. These communities have
> a right to peacefully resist environmentally unsafe and unjust policies,
> and unchecked corporate abuse.
>
> HB 1633 is purportedly designed to protect critical infrastructure, but
> the definition of “critical infrastructure” is overly broad and would cover
> large swaths of the state in urban, suburban, and rural areas, creating the
> unintended consequence of ensnaring many in Illinois’ already overburdened
> criminal justice system. For example, someone trespassing in rail yards or
> on el-tracks without intent to damage or destroy could be charged with a
> class 4 felony punishable by a fine of $1,000, one to three years
> imprisonment, or both. Currently, criminal trespass to property is
> punishable as a Class B or Class A misdemeanor, depending upon the nature
> of the offense (720 ILCS 5/21-3).
>
> Additionally, the bill does not distinguish between criminal damages of
> one dollar or a million dollars. Each would be eligible for the same
> penalty of ten years in prison and a $100,000 fine. At a time when many
> people, including lawmakers, have recognized the deleterious effects that
> mass incarceration has had on society and have attempted to rectify laws
> that have criminalized certain conduct or imposed unreasonable penalties,
> HB 1633, is a giant step backwards. By creating a whole new class of
> nonviolent offenders who could serve serious prison time, it is
> antithetical to criminal justice reform.
>
> Environmental advocacy, including civil disobedience, does not threaten
> physical infrastructure or safety, it threatens corporations that put
> profits and pollution ahead of justice and the environment. Critical
> infrastructure bills are based on model legislation crafted by corporate
> interests to establish special protections for some private industries
> engaged in controversial practices that attract opposition and protest.
> These bills, including HB 1633, are rooted in animus against environmental
> justice advocacy because it threatens the profits of these corporations.
> Whenever states enact legislation based on animus towards particular
> political speech it has a chilling effect that will be felt widely.
>
> We urge you to oppose HB 1633. From a criminal justice reform perspective,
> this bill is damaging, as it creates new steep penalties for conduct that
> is already covered under existing criminal law. These new steep penalties
> and special protections for so-called critical infrastructure are rooted in
> animus towards anti-pipeline protesters. It is inappropriate for states to
> seek to legislation in order to penalize individuals for their First
> Amendment-protected points of view.
>
> Please direct questions to Sue Udry, Defending Rights & Dissent, at
> 202.552.7408 or sue at rightsanddissent.org.
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> 350 Chicago
>
> 350 Kishwaukee (IL)
>
> American Friends Service Committee - Chicago
>
> Area Consortium of Educational Service For Our Youth  (DBA:A.C.E.S. 4
> Youth)
>
> Chicago Area Peace Action
>
> Chicago Food Policy Action Council
>
> Chicago SE Side Coalition to Ban Petcoke (SSCBP)
>
> Clean Power Lake County
>
> Climate Defense Project
>
> Color Of Change
>
> Crossroads Fund
>
> Defending Rights & Dissent
>
> Earth Defense Coalition
>
> Eco-Justice Collaborative
>
> Extinction Rebellion Chicago
>
> Faith In Place Action Fund
>
> Food & Water Watch
>
> Fox Valley Citizens for Peace & Justice
>
> Frack Free Illinois
>
> Friends of Bell Smith Springs
>
> Grassroots Collaborative
>
> Greater Highland Area Concerned Citizens
>
> Greenpeace USA
>
> Indivisible Chicago
>
> Indivisible South Suburban Chicago
>
> Illinois Green Party
>
> Illinois People's Action
>
> Lifted Voices
>
> Little Village Environmental Justice Organization
>
> Moms Demand Action
>
> National Lawyers Guild
>
> National Lawyers Guild – Chicago Chapter
>
> National Lawyers Guild - St. Louis Chapter
>
> Native Organizers Alliance
>
> Northern Illinois Jobs with Justice
>
> Nuclear Energy Information Service -NEIS-
>
> Occupy Rockford
>
> Palestine Legal
>
> Reform for Illinois
>
> Save Our Illinois Land
>
> Shawnee Forest Defense!
>
> Sierra Club, Illinois Chapter
>
> Southern Illinois DSA
>
> Southern Illinoisans Against Fracturing Our Environment
>
> The People's Lobby
>
> Vinyard Indian Settlement
>
> Water Protector Legal Collective
>
> Will County Progressives
>
> WindSolarUSA, Inc.
>
> X-Lab
>
> *Read more about "Critical Infrastructure" bills in our toolkit for
> activists here
> <https://default.salsalabs.org/Tbd6072d7-b107-4930-97e0-78e8044732e2/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>.*
>
>
> To take action against this anti-protest bill:
>
> Today I am asking you to submit 2 witness slips:
>
> *Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in  Subcommittee.*
> <https://default.salsalabs.org/T6aecc2f8-1180-4eb5-8386-aac64cf0a00e/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>
>
> *Click here to file a witness slip to OPPOSE the bill in Committee*
> <https://default.salsalabs.org/Tf3458f02-ca8b-42a7-9995-864e8739375c/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>
>
> The process takes just a minute and is important, it allows you to
> "testify" against a bill without being present in Springfield. The links
> above will take you to the Illinois general assembly website where you'll
> be able to fill out  witness slips in OPPOSITION to HB1633.
>
> The form is not the easiest to understand, but you can do it! Fill out
> your info and mark yourself as an OPPONENT to the bill and "record of
> appearance only".
>
>
>
> *The  vote will be Tuesday, May 21 at 5 pm  So Please Take Action Now!*
>
>
>
> Photo Credits:
>
> People over pipelines by Fibonacci Blue
> <https://default.salsalabs.org/T9d63a693-3646-41d8-8b95-c7273e3eab91/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>
>
>
> Eat Pray Protest by David Geitgey Sierralupe
> <https://default.salsalabs.org/T35b7d08d-fe59-4c6c-b38c-1f06918fe2ab/a73233ab-83f8-4f98-ba57-2cebd3646427>
>
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From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
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Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 21:20:27 +0000
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