“Oil Factor” Explores Motives in Terror War
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

French-born documentary filmmaker Gerard Ungerman brought his latest documentary, The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror, to the Peace and Democracy Task Force of the First Unitarian-Universalist Church in Hillcrest January 11 for a rare pre-theatrical release screening. The film, the latest of five Ungerman and his wife, Audrey Brohy, have produced, is a follow-up to their 2002 film The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm, containing footage (much of it shot by Ungerman and Brohy themselves) of life in Iraq just after the occupation as well as historical scenes and interviews.
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Activists Report from Colombia, Iraq
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Two long-term activists in the San Diego community gave reports on their recent trips to the front lines of the so-called "war on terror" at Activist San Diego's January 10 meeting. Fernando Suárez del Solár, whose son was killed in Iraq in the early days of the war, talked about his second attempt to visit the country with a Global Exchange delegation, the refusal of Jordanian authorities to let his group cross the border, and the atrocities he heard about from Iraqis. Activist San Diego founder Martin Eder discussed the deteriorating situation in Colombia, where activists are killed by U.S.-backed paramilitaries and a Colombian government run by their former general.
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It's Official: My Brother Died in Vain
Dante Zappala ,

Why My Brother Died After two years, the government has called off its fruitless hunt for WMD.

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Stand with F.I.S.T.!
FIST,

FIST - Fight Imperialism, Stand Together - a group of young socialist organizers who fight the racism, sexism, LGBT oppression, and working class exploitation that are the results of imperialism and capitalism.
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A Video Message from the Iraqi Resistance
Yoshie,

Reuters obtained from Iraqi guerrillas "an English-language video urging U.S. troops to lay down their weapons and seek refuge in mosques and homes" (Michael Georgy, "Iraq Rebels in Video Taunt," January 12, 2005), promising protection to soldiers who heed their call.

The Information Clearing House has made the video and a transcript of its content available: "A Message from the 'Iraq Resistance.'"
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Feb. 19th - Challenging White Supremacy in SD
The ORGANIC Collective,

SAVE THE DATE!
February 19th, 2005

Challenging White Supremacy Workshop

Date: February 19th, 2005, 11am-5pm
Location: San Diego, TBA
Cost: TBA, no one turned away for lack of funds
More info at:  http://cwsworkshop.org  http://ORGANICcollective.org

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Camp Pendleton Marine Brings The War Home
yahoo news c/o infoshop.org ,

A veteran police sergeant has been killed in an ambush shooting at a Northern California liquor store, according to authorities. They say the suspect is a Marine who may not have wanted to return to the front lines in Iraq.
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10 Largest War Profiteers of 2004
guerilla news network,

Two of them are in San Diego...
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Ethnic Cleansing: Israeli Zionist Historian
(posted by J Anderson),

Benny Morris says he was always a Zionist. People were mistaken ... when they thought that his historical study on the birth of the Palestinian refugee problem was intended to undercut the Zionist enterprise. Nonsense, Morris says ... So they came to the mistaken conclusion that when Morris describes the cruelest deeds that the Zionist movement perpetrated in 1948 he is actually being condemnatory, that when he describes the large-scale [ethnic] expulsion operations [against the Palestinians by Israel's founders] he is being denunciatory. They did not conceive that the great documenter of the sins of Zionism in fact identifies with those sins.
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SAN CLEMENTE FOOD NOT BOMBS BENEFIT SHOW
San Clemente Food Not Bombs,

Anti-Bush Show
Friday January 28
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J20 Bush Inauguration General Strike Protest
Miss Shimmy,

Many diverse links below...
Collected, reposted, and forwarded everywhere -- the volume of protest information becomes the story (the media becomes the message) and then the protest itself is better understood even if the mainstream corporate "journalists" don't give it the attention it deserves. Cut, paste & please forward in solidarity -- everywhere!


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Tsunami Paradigm Shift Competes With Passion
Larry E. Park,

Tsunami catastrophe is face saving opportunity for American Armed Forces to shift from devastation of doing "right thing" for wrong reason to doing "Right Thing" for heartfelt right reason.
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Contact Information for KOBEHQ, KOBE SBM
The Resistance,

Need to contact KOBEHQ? Need to have your lawyer contact them?
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We are losing the Iraq War militarily: Conclu
Kevin Thomson ,

As illustrated in the previous sections, in the long run, America cannot afford to continue the Iraq War. Thus, by default, an American defeat in Iraq is inevitable. The best result for the U. S. is to find some face-saving excuses to withdraw all forces from Iraq without acknowledging defeat. We have plenty of spin masters and a forever appeasing media that can call the defeat a victory and the vast majority of domestic audiences will believe it, even though the rest of world won't be fooled.
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Redeploying Disabled Gearing Up for Draft
Mike Whitney,

There's only one way the American people will accept the reinstatement of the draft. There would have to be "a massive casualty-producing event" on American soil. That's it. There's simply no other way Bush can get the popular support needed.


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7 Retired Mililtary Leaders Tell What Is Wron
Paul Alexander ,

The nineteen months since the war in Iraq began, some of the most outspoken critics of President Bush's plan of attack have come from a group that should have been the most supportive: retired senior military leaders. We spoke with a group of generals and admirals that included a former supreme Allied commander and a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and they all agreed on one thing: Bush screwed up.

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It’s Vietnam Again
Intervention Magazine,

We are losing in Iraq, and next year we will be losing more. Iraq is our second Vietnam. American political leaders insisted we would wipe out those Iraqi terrorists and criminals in no time, but it didn't happen. Just like in Vietnam. The U.S. media insisted that nearly all Iraqis welcomed U.S. occupation and that Iraqis would love Americans for giving them democracy and freedom. But Iraqi insurgents are killing Americans, and U.S.-trained Iraqi troops refuse to die for the U.S. occupation of their country. In Vietnam, Vietnamization failed. In Iraq, Iraqization is failing.

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LYING KILLS
-Richard Reeves ,

By mission and nature, the military in a democracy exists in an alternate universe. President Richard Nixon, for one, brought as many officers into his White House as he could because they followed orders and kept their mouths shut. Still, he was not surprised in 1972 when he learned that military liaison officers were emptying in-boxes and wastebaskets at night in the White House and taking the contents over to the Pentagon for surreptitious inspection." You have to assume that the military serves itself," Nixon said to his civilians at the time. "They're watching you all the time."
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What Would Martin Luther King Jr. do????
SDCPJ,

We believe that no one should be denied the opportunity to celebrate and
honor Dr. King's legacy. Therefore, we will participate in this year's
parade in the spirit of Dr. King. We invite you to join us.

Saturday, January 15, 2005
Assemble 9:30 a.m. (march 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.)
Assembly location will be in the County Administration parking lot near
Pacific Hwy. and Grape St. Arrive early and park on side streets. The
area will be crowded so look for the peace flags, banners and signs we will be carrying.
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Direct Action Training, Sunday, Jan 16th
The ORGANIC Collective,

Sunday, January 16th
2:00pm - 5:00pm
@ Foundation 4 Change
3758 30th St. , San Diego 92104

This is a follow up to our last Direct Action training.

Topics to include:
Legal Issues around Direct Action and Civil Disobedience
Snake Handling, aka. Working with the Corporate Media
Being the Media
Non-Violence
What is Direct Action?
Creative Urban Interactions
Dealing With Police
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Bring Troops Home Vigil, 01-02-05 Pictures
Miguel,

A Vigil in Memory of the Fallen in Iraq was held Sunday at
the corner of 6th and Laurel in Balboa Park organized by

Military Families Speak Out – San Diego


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Art of War : Iraq
Larmee,

Iraq
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At The Peace Rally
Drew Searing,

A guy at the Peace Rally who didn’t even know I was a writer handed me a four-by-five-inch leaflet and said,

“Write about your experience today and post it on our website. I encourage all writers who have lost their creativity, to begin writing.”

How did he know that my creativity hadn’t been challenged for sometime now?

How did he know that I have not felt the urge to write about anything since the experience in New York left me as empty as the giant hole left by the events of 9/11? With a president not elected by the majority, having destroyed what little faith I had left in this country; with a nation full of couch clones eager to believe the stupidest of lies from an obviously corrupt administration; upon seeing my home state of California – having been the last bastion of democracy in the U.S. – sabotaged by a right-wing-funded, bad acting, Nazi superhero, it has been difficult to muster any creativity to write, compose music, or enjoy any other artistic endeavor I normally peacefully pursue.

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Who Owns The Army?
Clint Clark,

Are you under the assumption that the Army, Navy, Air force, and Marines, own the equipment that they use? Is the soldier who stands guard someplace in the world, under the illusion that the gun he has, belongs to him or to the military branch he is a member of? Unless he paid taxes at sometime, he cannot claim any ownership of that gun. The gun belongs to the taxpayers.
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What do Protest Warriors do for fun?
antifascista,

Here are some photos from Protest Warrior.com's forum. These can be found in the forum, under the "Now That's Entertainment" section.
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$9.11 Iraq Withdrawal...Today, 12/22/04
grassroots,

(a messaged, cash-flow boycott to bring all U.S. soldiers home from Iraq)
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Why They Blame Us
Andy Trimlett,

While the 9/11 Commission Report covers, in excruciating detail, how the horrific acts of that day occurred and how our government failed to prevent them, it falls embarrassingly short in addressing one essential component of any criminal investigation: motive. The most glaring omission is the lack of any explanation of why al-Qaeda would cite U.S. policy toward Israel as a reason for launching attacks against us. The report leaves readers with no idea of the scale of human rights abuses committed by the Israeli government against the Palestinians, nor the extent to which the U.S. favors the Israelis over the Palestinians.
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sit in the dark think about the light
peacestand,

the veil is thin, solstice is upon us bring in the light, bring in the light~ So mote it be
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Bushite Kills Bushite for a Stolen Nickel
Johnny Wizard,

/ / They are enemies of themselves. Bushite will kill
bushite for a stolen nickel. The only reason this
conflict is happening, is so Halliburton can steal this
money from the American tax payer left un-defended by
CNN. \ \

/ / What happens when the "Democracy" says, we are
outlawing torture?\ \
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Time Magazine Names Person of the Year
Truth Teller Man,

Time Magazine Names Person of the Year
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