Facts every war supporter should know
tom joad,

useful information for anti-war activists from informationclearinghouse.info
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May Day Versus Loyalty Day
Mary La Rosa,

May Day versus McCarthy era like "Loyalty Day" opened a UN Conference against Nuclear Weapons that seemed doomed by ambiguities and lack of reportage from its very start… including vagueUS intentions towards peace contrasted by recent trends and “nuclearised” weapons that support pre emptive strikes. Meanwhile, Israel still vague about possessing nuclear weapons adds to its crimes against humanity in the Occupied Territories by dumping its waste on someone else’s homeland.
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DEPARTMENT OF PEACE
Philip Racuel,

I came across this the other day as I was posted my daily blog entry. I immediately liked the concept- A United States Department of Peace.
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The Summer '05 Issue of the Free Press is here!
San Diego Indymedia,

It's here, the Summer 2005 issue of the Free Press! Click "Read More" below to download the pdf and see it online. Expect to see it in your favorite independent coffee shops in a few days!

One important thing to note is that this is the last issue of the Free Press. That's right, this summer we will be changing the name of the paper! Send your name ideas to sdfp at lists.mutualaid.org .

Thank you very much to all of our contributors and supporters, and we're sorry for shortening the amazing articles we had to cut down. You'll notice that the Free Press is now in English and en Español, because we are dedicated to to breaking down the borders that separate us and respecting the cultural diversity of our community.

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Very Diverse Demonstrations in May
D. Burbeck,

Again last month, many people protested against military recruitment centers
on and off of college campuses.

There was a large march in Houston against Halliburton during it's annual
stock holder's meeting. There was a large cow with the map of Iraq on it's side
that a figure of Cheney was milking.

The First Lady Laura Bush was met with protesters in the Middle East.

A group of 823 people associated with Michigan's Calvin College took out a
full-page newspaper ad protesting President Bush's planned commencement
speech.

A protest was held to tell CACI "You're Not Welcome in San Francisco" On Monday, May 16th. A protest was held to launch a campaign to get CACI International to leave San Francisco. Campaign organizers say that CACI employees were involved in the torture scandal, and that the company provided many interrogators who worked at the Abu-Ghraib prison.

A war resister was convicted by the Navy but given a light sentence.

A "Tom Delay Carnival" was held in Wash. DC.

Mike Oden intends to walk from San Bernadino, California, where he began a journey last September that he hopes will culminate in New York City in front of the Statue of Liberty on August 14, 2005.

New Hampshire's Senator Judd Greg's Concord office saw demonstrators.

Activists at the University of Hawaii held the administration building, to demand the University cease all work on a secret Navy research project, UARC. This secret research is for the development of space-based laser systems, surveillance technologies, and sea-based mines.
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Around the world, dozens of cities saw large protests after the Newsweek article citing two year old
news of abuse of the Koran at Guantanamo Bay.

And the most unusual - Steve and Lana Jacobs, members of the St. Francis Catholic Worker community that shelters the homeless and runs a local soup kitchen were arrested today by University of MIssouri police for digging graves on the lawn of the university's ROTC building.

The entire month's protests can be accessed here:

 http://www.angelfire.com/nb2/www.dissentam.org


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Populist #4
Franklin,

The Subject of National Security, continued
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US Soldier: Dead heroes can’t pay the bills!
Jay Shaft,

Interview with a soldier deploying to Iraq for the second time.
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Free Radicals mp3: Eyebrows
Free Radicals,

Gloria Edwards - vocals, Nelson Mills III - scat, Ian Varley - electric piano, Marcos Melchor - sax, Chris Anderson - guitar, Theo Bijarro - bass, Nick Cooper - drums
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Nader Mulls Bush Impeachment
Messenger,

"The I Word"

author: Nader/Zeese

THE IMPEACHMENT of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, under Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution, should be part of mainstream political discourse.
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War Resister Delgado's San Diego Speech 5/20
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

War resister Aidan Delgado, who successfully got out of the Army as a conscientious objector but only after serving a full term of duty in Iraq, spoke in San Diego at the First Unitarian-Universalist Church in Hillcrest May 20. He showed slides of his war experiences — including some documenting war crimes at Abu Ghraib besides the ones exposed in the mainstream media — and explained his differences with fellow resister Pablo Paredes, whom he came to San Diego to support but with whom he disagrees on whether the U.S. should withdraw immediately from Iraq.
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Transcript of Anti-War Press Conf., 5/20/05
transcribed by Mark Gabrish Conlan,

Before Aidan Delgado, Iraq War veteran and conscientious objector, spoke at the First Unitarian-Universalist Church in Hillcrest May 20, he, law professor Marjorie Cohn and Fernando Suárez del Solár, who lost his son in the early days of the war, gave a press conference. Only two reporters attended. Cohn explained her case against the legality of the war and the astonishing statement the judge in Pablo Paredes' court-martial made after she testified: “I think that the government has successfully proved that any servicemember has reasonable cause to believe that the wars in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq are illegal.” Delgado defended his refusal to join most of the peace movement's call for immediate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.
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Filibuster Wars
RosaRL,

Filibuster Wars
Power Grab at the Height of the Empire
 http://rwor.org/a/004/filibuster-wars.htm

The Senate was heading for a major showdown, as the Republican majority and Vice President Cheney conspired to strip the Democrat minority of their ability to even filibuster the most extreme judicial nominees.

Then, after playing chicken for two weeks, a "Gang of 14" Senators suddenly announced they had reached a "historic compromise based on mutual trust" -- and they announced that they had saved the Senate from destruction. And the media oohed-and-aaaahed over the last minute development.

But it quickly became pretty obvious, that nothing here was an obstacle to the most dangerous plans for remaking the courts.

And did the compromise "safe the filibuster" as the media said? In fact, the compromise said "If you don't take the filibuster, we promise not to use it." Which, if you think about it, gives the top reactionaries what they want.

Part of this "compromise" is that the Democrats immediately stopped their opposition to Precilla Owen and several other of Bush's judicial nominees -- these are people who are literally monsters of an extreme kind, who had been stalled in the Senate (in some cases for years.) So this "compromise" meant that these vultures are headed for powerful courts.

And, it is also clear that huge new showdowns lie just ahead -- as the White House and Senate brace for a struggle over putting extreme rightwing judges on the supreme court.

The following article (written just before the "compromise" was announced) lays bare the stakes and dynamics of this whole crisis.

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Which side are you on?
Archie Kennedy,

We are on the edge of a precipice. We're not sure if we've been pushed into the abyss. It really depends on who is in control.
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no mas violencia entre los jovenes
the peaceful warrior,el guerrillero pacifico,

DEBEMOS DE CUIDAR LO QUE ESCUCHAMOS A DIARIO, NOSOTROS APRENDEMOS DE LO QUE ESCUCHAMOS,TODA LA VIOLENCIA QUE HAY ENTRE LOS JOVENES QUE VIVEN EN U.S.A. (E.U.A.)VIENE DE ALGO, ALGO QUE HASTA LOS NIñOS BUENOS EMPIEZAN A AGARRAR QUEDANDO COMO TODOS LOS DEMAS, CHOLO, VIOLENTO Y CALLEGERO.ES LA VERDAD!!! LEELO!!!!!!!!!
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A BREATH OF FRESH AIR SWEEPS INTO HELL
GEORGE GALLOWAY OBSERVER,

BUT THERE'S STILL NO WAY OUT...
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May 27 Screening: Conscience and the Constitu
Rebecca Romani,

We're screening Conscience and the Constitution at Voz Alta Friday, May 27, to mark Asian Pacific MOnth and to honor both the Japanese/Japanese American Internees and the Heart Mountain Resisters/The Nisei Regiment.
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IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY
BUSH OBSERVER,

IN THE BUSH FAMILY, THAT IS...
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Recruitment ad.
Gi Joe,

New recruitment ad for the military.
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Avakian on Mandates and liars
duko,

by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary
Communist Party, USA

Revolution #3, May 22, 2005,
posted at revcom.us

Bush has no legitimate mandate. The will of the people was
not expressed in the 2004 election—not only because of
voter intimidation and fraud, which there definitely was some of,
but beyond all that, and most essentially, because the people
were not given a real choice. They were not given a real avenue
in which they could express their opposition to what is
represented by Bush. The real story of what is happening and the
alternative to it was never presented in the election—certainly
it was not presented by Kerry and the Democrats.


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Pro-Democracy, Anti-Bush Film Night Wed. May 25th 7pm Voz Alta
Circo,

SD IMC Film Night

When: Wednesday May 25th 7pm

Where: Voz Alta Gallery 1544 Broadway San Diego 92101

We are showing TWO Indymedia produced films, one made by our very own San Diego Indymedia!

Remember the Dead, Fight for the Living a film about the Reclaim the
Streets in SD on j20 After the SDCPJ rally and the Ground Zero Players Cacelorazo in downtown San Diego, hundreds of people stepped off the sidewalk at Broadway to begin the Reclaim the Streets party. San Diego Indymedia Production

Mandate? a half-hour documentary by Indymedia Video and the Glass Bead Collective, shows resistance at the January 20th inauguration of George W. Bush. The film shows the issues behind the re-election of Bush and the reaction from protestors to the most expensive inauguration in US history. NYC Indymedia Production
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Freeway Blog "WARNING: DICTATORSHIP AHEAD"
Karl Marksalot,

A banner reading "WARNING: DICTATORSHIP AHEAD" was placed on the University Ave. bridge over Highway 163 during rush-hour on Friday, May 20th, 2005.
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Bagram, Snapshot of an Imperialist Army
Sunsara Taylor,

They say that an army is a concentration of the type of society it is fighing for. So, does anyone want to live in a society created by the U.S. military which brought us Abu Ghraib, and now Bagram?
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Populist #3
Franklin,

The Subject of National Security, continued

 http://www.populistamerica.com/the_populist_papers
(read previous papers here)
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UCLA's Anti-Jewish Moonbette
FPM,

Yael Korin wants Jihad Genocide
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Please ask your Uncle Sam
pp Some Iraqi Kid,

A nursery rhyme
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The Quagmire: As the Iraq War Drags On...
by Robert Dreyfuss via Rolling Stone,

The news from Iraq is bad and getting worse with each passing day. Iraqi insurgents are stepping up the pace of their attacks, unleashing eleven deadly bombings on April 29th alone. Many of the 150,000 Iraqi police and soldiers hastily trained by U.S. troops have deserted or joined the insurgents. The cost of the war now tops $192 billion, rising by $1 billion a week, and the corpses are piling up: Nearly 1,600 American soldiers and up to 100,000 Iraqi civilians are dead, as well as 177 allied troops and 229 private contractors.
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Protest Tells CACI "You're Not Welcome in SF"
indybay.org,

On Monday, May 16th, a protest was held to launch a campaign to get CACI International to leave San Francisco. Campaign organizers say that CACI employees were involved in the Iraq torture scandals, and that the company provided many interrogators who worked at the Abu-Ghraib prison. CACI's vice president and other top executives were in San Francisco to make a presentation at an investors' conference at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in Union Square. Several people from the campaign to shut down CACI's San Francisco office attempted to meet with the CACI officials, but they were removed from the hotel.

Photos | Background Info About CACI | Previous Protest At CACI | Indybay's Anti-War Page | SD IMC's Anti-War Page
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Defending Pablo and Protesting War Photos
Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name,

Photos from the week of actions to defend anti-war sailor Pablo Paredes who refused to ship out in support of the illegal Iraq War and occupation.
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Socialism 2005: Build the Left Alternative
ISO San Diego,

A weekend of political discussion, debate and entertainment
 http://www.socialismconference.org
July 1-4 in Chicago at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare
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The Bush-Bolton Plan to Bomb Bushehr for Isra
Truthseeker,

The Bush-Bolton Plan to Bomb Bushehr for Israel


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