STOPPING A POLICE STATE
Prof.
Francis Boyle, University of Illinois Law School, drafted articles
of impeachment against Bush, Cheney et al. in January, 2003.
Since then, Boyle notes, "it's
gotten much worse." Boyle exposes the role of the Federalist
Society in the Bush administration and their part in
creating a police state through Patriot Act I and Patriot Act II. He
discusses the International Criminal Court (ICC) case being prepared
against Blair and others in the British government for aggressive
war on
Iraq
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Britain
was a signer of
the International Criminal Court. The Bush administration knowingly
repudiated
Clinton
’s signature
as an ICC member, cognizant of its own plans for an unprovoked
attack on a UN member (
Afghanistan
and then,
Iraq
) and didn’t
want the ICC breathing down their necks, Boyle observes. Bush,
Cheney, Rumsfeld et al. will likely be
indicted in the ICC trial as accessories to Blair’s crimes. Prof.
Boyle comments on the Impeach
Bush campaigns. Who
in Congress will bring impeachment charges against this rogue
administration?
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WE'RE IN THE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES
Labor Rally, Olean NY June 21, 2003: IBEW (Intl Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers) Local 1690 refuse to capitulate to AVX's
union-busting contract. 14 other PA and NY unions rally in support .
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AS SICK AS IT GETS:
THE SHOCKING REALITY OF AMERICA’S HEALTHCARE
Rudolph Mueller, MD, a Jamestown New York family doctor, often cites Rev. Martin Luther King, ‘Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.’ Mueller adds, “Universal healthcare is the human rights issue of the 21st century.” In his book (As Sick As It Gets: Healthcare in America), Dr. Mueller exposes the often heinous consequences of an uncontrolled pharmaceutical industry: buying politicians and high-powered ad agencies to push overpriced, sometimes unnecessary, and often under-tested drugs. Mueller challenges the blame-the-victim mentality adopted by much of the medical profession, and calls for a universal health care system. (Hospital photos by
snowshoefilms). www.assickasitgets.com
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JOBS - PEACE - JUSTICE - NOW
Roger Quindel, a Milwaukee County Supervisor and Vietnam Veteran speaks to the 'Not With My Taxes' tax day gathering sponsored by the Milwaukee Coalition for a Just Peace. April 12 2003. 10min 28k realmedia file.
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TO BE SILENT IS TO BE COMPLICIT WITH EVIL
ITSELF(PART3) the arrest of 68 rights leaders March 26, 2003 Lafayette Park, Washington, D.C. Before they are arrested many of the 68 human rights and religious leaders and activists speak and sing, saying non violent civil disobedience is an appropriate and necessary step to stop the US slaughter of the innocents and to stop the continuing war on the poor in the US and worldwide.
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TO BE SILENT IS TO BE COMPLICIT WITH EVIL
ITSELF(PART2)
human rights leaders arrested in DC -PART 2 -Civil disobedience, March 26, 2003, Washington, DC Some of the voices of the 68 religious, human rights and peace group leaders arrested: Fr. Roy Bourgeois: We speak for the many who will be killed; we are here to say Not In Our Name...Bishop Gumbleton to the US military: Do not fight, do not do the killing of an unjust war... Dave Robinson to the corporate press: show the pictures of the Iraqi civilians being killed... Daniel Ellsberg: the war is in violation of international law. The government is lying our young people and the Iraqi people to
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68 ARRESTED IN DC (3/26/03) Religious, human rights, and peace activists commit non-violent civil disobedience at the White House. "Militarism and war is legalized killing...and it is evil..." -- Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire (1976). "Individuals have international duties which transcend national obligations of obedience. Therefore, individual
citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity..." -- Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Jody Williams1997. Other speakers (and lawbreakers) include Daniel Ellsberg, Fr. Roy Bourgeois, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton (Detroit, RC), Bishop C. Joseph Sprague (United Methodist, Chicago); Rabbi Arthur Waskow (Shalom Center, Philadelphia), Patricia Clark (Fellowship of Reconciliation), Dave Robinson
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UNDERSTANDING THE U.S.
WAR STATE (text only)
John McMurtry -printed via Science
For Peace Toronto Emergency Forum on Iraq
Genocide used to be a crime without a name. Although the most
heinous all crimes, the concept was not introduced into
international language until after World War 2. Until then, military
invasion and destruction of other peoples and cultures masqueraded
under such slogans as “progress” and “spreading civilization”.
I was shocked many years ago when I heard Noam Chomsky say
that genocide was America’s “defining political tradition”.
Then I realized that the United States (like Canada to a much lesser
extent) was based on destroying the lives and cultures of the 25
million or so first peoples who had lived in America for millennia.
In the case of the U.S., the story continued with the forcible
seizure of Texas in 1845 from Mexican farmers and indigenous
peoples, and Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, California and other state
territories shortly afterward in 1849. U.S. troops under the
slave-owning General Zachary Taylor unilaterally invaded its
southern neighbor under the false pretext of avenging “American
blood”, and General Taylor soon vaulted into the White House as a
presidential “war hero” - even though a young Congressman,
Abraham Lincoln, exposed the pretext, and connected it to a
Anglo-British business strategy to impose “free trade” on the
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GET UP,
STAND UP, STOP MAD COWBOY DISEASE:
Federal Plaza, Chicago, March 20th. Protestors gather at federal plaza and then take to the streets. Beautiful signs and beautiful people!
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NOT IN OUR NAME:
PLEDGE OF RESISTANCE 3/20/03
“…We pledge to make common cause with the people of the world to bring justice,
freedom and peace. Another world is possible and we pledge to make it real.”
Washington D.C. March 15, 2003
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VIETNAM VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR:
BARRY ROMA Coordinator of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War: “If you love the GI’s, say
No to war. Our government loves their vets so much, they’re cutting their health care.”
Chicago, Daley Plaza, March 16, 2003.
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FRAN
JOHNS: MOTHER OF A MARINE SERGEANT NOW IN IRAQ:
protests for peace Chicago, March 16th, she speaks of the failure of our leadership. A leadership that not only co-opted the White House but will not listen to the people of America or the World.
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CANDLELIGHT VIGIL FOR PEACE: FREDONIA, NY
As one of 6,746 such vigils, in 140 countries, -- called by Bishop Desmond Tutu and Rev. Robert Edgar – 75 Fredonia and Dunkirk residents call for peace, not war.
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FORGETTING FACTS / REMEMBERING MYTHS: Historians Against the War,
HAW organizer and history prof Andor Skotnes (Sage College, Troy NY), notes the use of history in legitimizing power. Facts fade, but myths of democracy and the notion of an innocent America are continually reinforced. Learning history is crucial for challenging power, challenging lies. NYC 2/15/03
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TIME TO PUT THOSE GUNS AWAY: Veterans For Peace (NYC, Feb. 15, 2003) They came from all over the US, veterans of US wars and occupation all over the globe. Some of their voices: Harry Fisher (Lincoln Brigade): We have to start fighting for not war, but for peace. David Cline: They wave the flag when you attack, when you come home, they turn their back. Tony Flaherty: This is an immoral, illegal war; the US is becoming an international disgrace. Michael McPhearson: The US needs to lead the world not with force and coercion but through cooperation. Gene Glazer: When the body bags start coming back, what are they going to tell us?
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HISTORIANS AGAINST WAR: Feb. 15, 2003 pre-march rally, NYC. David
Serlin, history prof at Bard Early College and HAW organizer, answers
the question: why are there (seemingly) so few historians against the
war? The answer, Serlin explains, has to do with the sin of "presentism" -- which is applying professionally lessons from history
to understand the present. Historians busy themselves with the past,
dontcha know? HAW challenges the group think.
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WALK OUT FOR PEACE: Jamestown, New York High School, March 5, 2003
Jamestown High School students walked out to join the weekly peace march through town, chanting "Books Not Bombs," Bring Our Troops Home," "Students say: Let the UN work" and Jamestown says no to Bush War." Vivian Conover, SUNY prof, adds "there are limited resources. If money goes to war and destruction, it can't go to education. This war will be used to cut school funding."
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PEACE WALK: Fredonia, New York: Feb. 23,'03 On a snowy
Sunday, nearly a hundred assembled in the village square to oppose war. Some of the voices: Rev. Rodney Houck: This is a part of the worldwide expression of people opposed to war. Minda Rae Amiran: A war on Iraq is immoral in so many ways, I can't count them. Jim O'Rourke: We don't want this war, Mr. Bush. Cut it out! Emily Workman: I see the US taking an imperialist, bullying stance. I want to see that stopped.
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HONK FOR PRE-EMPTIVE PEACE: JAMESTOWN, NY Feb. 19, 2003 Some voices of dissent from southwestern New York: Chuck Brininger: “We should stand down. We’ve got to bring our soldiers home. It’s what’s patriotic; what’s right for humanity.” Ada Ramsey: “I don’t believe in going in and killing people.” Clyde Burroughs: “American cannot push its way of life down other people’s throats forever.” Steven Polasko: “The Pope says it’s an unjust war and it will be against civilization.” David Leitch: “Oil is not the only reason. Iraq is an important strategic location for them. It’s part of a decade-old plan [Wolfowitz, Pearle et al.] for global hegemony, reconfiguring the Middle East…This poses a problem we’re going to have to deal with for a long time.” James E. Miller: “This is doomed to horrible failure – sending young boys and girls to die for what? I don’t know.”
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CIA ANALYSIS: THE PREDICAMENT MR. BUSH AND THE PENTAGON HAVE GOTTEN US INTO
CIA analyst Stephen Pelletiere (ret. prof at the Army War College) says that after Desert Storm, when Iraq refused to bow to US. pressure, holding out against American dominance, George W. Bush fabricated the present crisis so as to, once and for all, beat the Iraqis into submission - to control oil..." (recorded. Jan. 29, 2003; part 1 of a 2
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Q & A WITH CIA ANALYST STEPHEN PELLETIERE (Part 2)
Retired Army War College prof. and CIA analyst (6 years) answers questions ranging from the gassing of the Kurds in Halabja [Iraq was not responsible, nor was it genocide by the Iranians], to Israel's push for war on Iraq; and the "chief enemy of the peace movement, the media." (part 2 of a 2-part series)
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SUPPORT PROF. SAMI AL-ARIAN
A COUNTRY RUN BY CRIMINALS will ignore international law and silence, if it can, those who oppose its crimes; it will silence, if it can, those who expose its crimes; this is what has happened with the indictment (1/20/03) of Prof. Sami Al-Arian, who calls for peace and international cooperation as opposed to perpetual war. Interview with Prof. Al-Arian, Wash. DC Oct. 26, 2002.
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HEY JUDGE, THAT'S YOUR JOB: Lynne Stewart (NYC Feb. 14, 2003) Federal Judge Barbara Jones capitulated to New York City police demands that no
permit be issued for the Feb. 15 march planned many weeks in advance.
The judge, notes peace movement attorney Lynne Stewart, said she would
"not second-guess the police." Such abdication by the third branch of
government is a judicial stamp of approval for a police state, Stewart
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In an attempt to frighten attorneys from defending individuals
targeted by the Justice Dept., Ashcroft - under the Patriot Act, indicted Atty. Stewart on April 9. She faces 40 years in prison. For
more info: www.lynnestewart.org
Confronting Empire: Arundhati Roy (Jan. 28, 2003 Porto Alegre): http://website.lineone.net/~jon.simmons/roy/confemp2.htm
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| IN REMEMBRANCE AND RESISTANCE:
SOAWatch Voices
" In the face of what seems to be insurmountable odds,
...all across the world, the spirit of hope and liberation is rising
up in the people. We are part of a global movement for justice and
peace that can never be stopped." observes SOAWatch staff member
Jeff Winder at the
13th annual week-end of celebration, teach-ins, protest, and
non-violent civil disobedience at Ft.Benning, Ga. Nov. 16 -17, 2002.
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PAX CHRISTI: How do
you do, my good friends?
Beatrice Parwatikar, Pax
Christi USA, calls for "redemptive non-violence" in response to US war
on Iraq, and sings a liberty-bound slave song: "...we have come to
change this nation...because we must save this nation..."
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| SOMEONE IS ACCOUNTABLE: ADRIANA BARTOW
placed the photos of her nine and ten-year-old daughters on the gates of Ft. Benning -- 21 years after her daughters were taken by Guatemalan military forces. “Nobody 'disappears,'” she says. “Somebody knows what happened to them...someone is accountable…Those who killed my children were trained here, at the School of Americas.”
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PRESENTE! In Remembrance and Resistance - Roy Bourgeois
THIS MUST STOP - Vietnam Veteran, Maryknoll priest, and founder of SOAWatch, speaks to the
thirteenth SOAWatch vigil at the gates of Ft. Benning, Georgia, home of the notorious School of the Americas. "Our movement is rooted in non-violence, expressing hope and joy and peace.".
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AT THE GATES OF FT. BENNING: WE’RE HERE TO SAY NO TO THE GLOBAL BULLY Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer (Nov. 16, 2002) Author of School of Assassins: Guns, Greed and Globalization, as part of a week-end of teach-ins and rallies (culminating with Nov. 17th solemn procession, and music) spoke to thousands at the gates of Ft. Benning, the Columbus, GA-based Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC), formerly SOA. Asst. prof of justice and peace studies (U. of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN)), Nelson-Pallmeyer called for disciplined, active, non-violent civil resistance, and added, “Do not fight in the upcoming unjust wars. Do not fight!”
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| SR.CARYL
HARTJES CROSSES FT BENNING LINE - SOAWATCH |
Sr. Caryl Hartjes, Sister
of St. Agnes, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, was one of 86 who on Nov. 17
walked onto Ft. Benning,GA, home of the notorious training school
for terrorism, SOA/WHISC. With their actions, surrendering their
freedom, the 86 hope to expose the consequences
of the heinous institution and its policies.
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BOOGEYMAN FOREIGN POLICY
- REV. AL SHARPTON, Oct. 26, 2002 Wash. DC --
"Why do we keep running foreign policies based on boogeyman theories? When I was a child, they used to tell kids, ‘watch out for the boogeyman.’ What you [George Bush] are doing to America is playing boogeyman with us: ‘Don’t worry about prescription drugs, the boogey man is coming. Don’t worry about unemployment drugs, the boogeyman is coming. Don’t worry about education, the boogeyman is coming.’ We are not children. We’re grown. We are not running from no boogeyman.”
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BE CRANKY, ROUSE THE PEOPLE: Lynne Stewart
Ashcroft has singled out defense attorney Lynne Stewart as the leader of the opposition to the destruction of the Constitution. "That is also on their agenda. The ‘Unpatriot Act’ is their vehicle. The White House would like it if you are an activist and you need a lawyer, there will be no lawyers to call. I am here to defend the right to defend." Oct. 26, ’02 D.C. peace rally.
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SUSAN SARANDON: We
Are
Here to Take Democracy Back
October 26, Washington DC, spoke before a crowd of 200,000: "I am here as a mother who is frightened for my children.... for your children.... for the children of Iraq...We are here to take democracy back."
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RAMSEY CLARK:
"REGIME CHANGE NEEDS TO BEGIN AT HOME!"
Washington D.C., OCT. 26, 2002: "Billions and billons for killing, mass killing. Who has the weapons of mass destruction? We do...This is not a democracy, it is a plutocracy. The people don't rule here. Wealth rules. Corporations rule. They rule the Congress. They elect the president. They run the Pentagon. They own the media. What's right? We know what's right. We just don't stand up. Let's liberate the USA. Let's make it stand for decency."
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APPOINTMENT IN BAGHDAD:
AMERICA’S WAR ON THE LIFE-WORLD
John McMurtry ( bio
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A crucial fact has been repressed about the “Iraq crisis”. No mainstream medium reports that the Bush-government plans to attack Iraq already constitute a war crime under international law. “Planning, preparation and initiation of a war of aggression” is prohibited by the Nuremberg Charter, the basis of instituted international law after the defeat and trial of the leaders of the last major imperial aggressor, Nazi Germany.
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| SWORDS INTO PLOWSHARES Erie, PA protest rally. Oct 7, 2002 . No War on Iraq / No to one-man rule in America . Thoughts from a prioress, a preacher, priests, Moslems and Jews, steelworkers, teachers, students, Green Party activists - people from Erie: "Debate and negotiate, it's a war for financial profit, a crime against humanity, a violation of the Constitution, no way to morally justify it, the Bush strategy is a bandwagon of death.”
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IRAQIS LOVE THEIR CHILDREN TOO Buffalo, NY October 6, 2002 Peace activists say no to Bush Jr.’s demand for dictatorial powers to wage war on Iraq,
Echoing the views of many present, Rep. John La Falce (D-Tonawanda) said: “I would not want to delegate this much responsibility [to
wage war, in perpetuity] to any president, much less this president…”
The monstrous crimes against the Iraqi people began
with Desert Storm and continued with sanctions and
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The Nazis tried to destroy the evidence of such crimes at the end of the war. Bush Jr. is about to cover up his father’s crimes by committing more.
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GUILTY OF TELLING THE
TRUTH: SOA Watch Prisoners of Conscience: imprisoned Sept 10, 2002 for opposing the teaching of terrorism at the US Army School of the Americas, Ft. Benning, Ga. to Latin American military to be used against civilian
populations.
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ANA AMRIKIYAA WA ANA AASIFA:
I'm an American,
and I'm sorry: Laurel Severns (AFSC,
Chicago) traveled in
Iraq
in late June 2001 with Voices in the Wilderness.
The film’s title is taken from the response of American
activists when observing the remains of a soccer field where days
before an American or British “smart bomb” killed 22 children
and wounded a dozen more: I’m
an American and I’m sorry. Severns’
commentary offers a much-needed primer for opposition to further
genocide in Iraq. www.grassrootsvoices.org/contact.html
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A
note to the peace and justice movement from Fr. Roy Bourgeois
Fr. Roy Bourgeois, founder of the SOAWatch,
talks to the peace and justice movement about destructive anger, the
exploitation of religion, the current window of opportunity to
understand our foreign policy (why others hate us), and the
necessity of holding on to hope and joy - not letting anger consume
us, and so better assist profound change that is occurring from the
bottom up.
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Bush
is installing a government by fiat: Sr. Joan Chittister
Benedictine nun, peace activist and author, Joan
Chittister: "The best things the USA ever stood for are being
sold out by the USA. The Bush Admin. is installing a government by
fiat -- a government by, of, and for itself...to consolidate power
it doesn't have." July 26 the House voted 295 to 132 to
establish the Homeland Security Dept. to bring 22 fed. agencies
under White House/HSD control.
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