SPECIAL: March 19 in DC: Yeah! Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 22:34:13 -0600 (CST) [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of nowar_index_banner_01.gif] [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of nowar_index_banner_02.gif] [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of nowar_index_banner_03.gif] [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of nowar_index_banner_04.gif] [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of nowar_index_banner_05.gif] [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of nowar_index_banner_06.gif] http://nowarnowarming.org/ ABOUT US TAKE ACTION DC INTERVENTION LOCAL ACTIONS ORGANIZER HQ PRESS ROOM BLOG FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE, NOT WARS FOR OIL! March 19, 2008, join a global movement rising up against war and global warming by participating in a massive intervention in Washington DC or your own community. We need to take immediate action to: STOP the war in Iraq and future resource wars by ending our addiction to fossil fuels. SHIFT government funding to rebuild New Orleans and all communities suffering from racism and corporate greed. GO green and promote environmental justice with new jobs in a clean energy economy. TELL A FRIEND >> READ MORE >> [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of nowar_body_03.gif] CALL TO ACTION: MARCH 19, 2008 RESISTANCE IS FORMING -- NO WAR, NO WARMING! -- DISRUPT GOVERNMENT AS USUAL -- On the 5th Anniversary of the Launch of the Iraq War for Oil, Reclaim the K Street Corridor. Help Build a Green Zone Dedicated to a Green Energy Future! Its time for us to create a Green Zone for the Clean, Just, Green Energy Future we must bring into being. Join with No War, No Warming and other groups on March 19th as we engage in creative and dramatic actions, including nonviolent direct action, in downtown D.C. We will manifest our demands for an end to the war and an end to the U.S. fossil fuel addiction. The profits of the oil companies are at an all-time high while hundreds of thousands die in Iraq and gas prices keep going up. Its time to separate oil and state and demand that our government represent us, not the oil companies! Read more... CALLING ALL STUDENTS: Spring Break in Washington DC! Millions of you will be on break-- imagine the power of all of you converging in DC together to demand a change in war and warming! Not sure you can make it?.. * Use your sick days! If you are sick of the war, greed, lies and lack of strong action on global warming then take sick days off to come to DC! * Vacation to the Capitol. If you need a break from it all, take some vacation days if you have them and come to the nation's capitol. Direct action is good for the spirit! * Organize a class trip or alternative spring break. We can't think of a better way to learn about policy, society, organizing or social change! *See you in the hallways, on the steps and in the streets!* [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/jpeg which had a name of NWNW 021.jpg] October 22 won't be a day soon forgotten. Whether you were one of the 68 people arrested for expressing your First Amendment rights or you were supporting those willing to put their bodies on the line, it was an inspiring expression of hope and urgency. OCT22 MEDIA GALLERY [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/jpeg which had a name of NWNW 029.jpg] ======================================================================== =============================================================== Future Hope column, March 7, 2008 March 19th: Winter Into Spring By Ted Glick What is the role of a popular movement when, on the one hand, it represents the aspirations and beliefs of a majority of the people in a country but, at the same time, it is operating within the confines of a political system which makes it extremely difficult to elect its champions to office in enough numbers to make the changes needed and desired? This is, of course, our reality. Solid majorities want the war to end and U.S. troops to be brought home, major changes to our health care system, strong action on global warming, economic policies that benefit working-class people, and more. But between Republican hard-lineism and Democratic spinelessness, the iron fist and the velvet glove, both toeing the pro-corporate line, we continue to be frustrated. I spent literally 30 years, from 1975 to 2005, personally prioritizing the building of a third party alternative to the Democrats and Republicans. Ive come to believe, however, that although I continue to support and work for that objective, we need to prioritize more creative and urgent tactics if were to stand a chance of seriously changing this country. We need actions that will inspire the kind of independent, grassroots political uprising that the country and the world desperately need. Thats why, over the last year and a half, Ive been arrested four times at nonviolent civil disobedience climate actions. Thats why I climbed up onto and sat for four hours on a foot and a half wide ledge 25 feet up in the air just before the 2006 national elections. Thats why I fasted for 107 days last fall. And thats why I am really psyched to see the positive energy that is building for the 5 Years Too Many anti-war actions in Washington, D.C. on March 19th (www.5yearstoomany.org). March 19th in D.C., in combination with the powerful Winter Soldier hearings by Iraq Vets Against the War just before it and the hundreds of local actions around the country at the same time, has the potential to inject a badly-needed, genuine peace, justice and clean energy agenda into the national political debate. What is happening with the month-after-month-after-month, mind-numbing Presidential political game? On one side is 100 Years of War John McCain. On the other is Hillary Clinton, using fear-mongering campaign tactics right out of the Republican playbook, and Barack Obama, under pressure to bow to this pressure and respond in kind. There is little basic difference, in any case, between Clinton and Obama as far as their policy on Iraq, their non-support for single-payer, and half-measures or inconsistent positions, at best, on most other issues. Obama supports non-existent clean coal and nukes, for example, as does Clinton, while both also advocate for $150 billion over 10 years for green jobs and a transition to a green economy. There is no question but that whoever gets the Democratic nomination, if they win the Presidency, massive pressure will have to be brought to get at least some of the kinds of changes we need. And forget it if you think theres going to be significant media coverage of either independent Ralph Nader or likely Green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney. What were up against is much more than a military-industrial complex, as President Dwight D. Eisenhower called it almost 50 years ago. What were up against is a military/industrial/corporate/electoral/national security/prison/media complex. There are lots of good people within it, its not monolithic, and the economic crisis were entering will expose its real character even more, but it is a definite and dominant fact of life in this first decade of the 21st century. If there was ever a time when we needed a movement that organizes creative, nonviolent, intelligently disruptive, we-wont-take-it-anymore actions, this is it. What we need is an updated version of the African American freedom movement of the 60s, the one spearheaded by the risk-taking and base-building actions of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a 00s movement adjusted to the interconnected multi-issueness of the present day. The March 19th day of action in D.C. could well be a critical building block in the unfolding of this movement. The mix of actions being planned, and the positive coordination among them, is wonderful to be part of. There is a palpable sense of an action that is continuing to build. People are coming, as of now, from 40 states around the country. There will be thousands of people taking part in this action on this Wednesday work day, and business-as-usual in the corporate downtown of the Seat of Government will without question be disrupted, creatively, nonviolently and with positive energy. Theres still time to make plans to attend. Lets announce to the country and the world that the movement for positive social change is alive, well and stepping it up here in the belly of the beast. For more information on the March 19th D.C. actions, as well as the Winter Soldier hearings and local actions around the country, go to www.5yearstoomany.org. Ted Glick is active with several climate groups and is a leader of No War, No Warming (www.nowarnowarming.org), which is organizing an action at the American Petroleum Institute on the morning of March 19th. He can be reached at indpol@igc.org. ======================================================================== ================================================================= http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3020.shtml [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of OJ-Logo.gif] Commentary Last Updated: Mar 4th, 2008 - 00:36:52 Obama, McCain, March 19 . . . yawn By Mickey Z. Online Journal Contributing Writer Mar 4, 2008, 00:33 The state of global affairs has long passed the proverbial tipping point and is more likely flirting with the dreaded point of no return. Yet most folks, it seems, have confused the occasional weekend parade, I mean, protest with a full-blown movement. News Flash #1: Anti-Bush bumper stickers and a heartfelt commitment to recycled toilet paper donbt constitute a movement. Neither do candlelight vigils, vegan diets, petitions, voting drives, letters to Congress, monthly donations to Greenpeace, yellow ribbons, red ribbons, pink ribbons, or becoming the change you wish to see in the world. All you need is love? Yeah . . . that and a million dollars a minute (what America spends on war). Americans wield more influence and power than any people on the planet but, while an obscene number of humans in this world live in abject poverty, we live our lives in such a manner as to threaten every living thing on Earth. For example: A primary component in your beloved cell phone is bColtanb (Columbite-tantalite), a metallic ore found mainly in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The mining and sale of Coltan is not only funding both sides of that nationbs brutal civil war, it has directly contributed to a 90 percent decline in the local Mountain Gorilla population. News Flash #2: In America, there are no innocent bystanders. How much more are we willing to tolerate before we act? Here is some of what webre already enduring without any serious fuss: b" Epidemics of preventable diseases: cancer, heart disease, diabetes, etc. b" Poisoning of our air, water, & food (including motherbs breast milk) b" Global warming, climate change, animal & plant extinctions, disappearing honeybees, destruction of the rain forest, topsoil depletion, etc. b" One-third of Americans uninsured or underinsured when it comes to health care b" More than half of the worldbs top 100 economies are corporations, not nations b" A rising income gap b" Presidential lies, electoral fraud, limited debates, etc. b" The largest prison population on the planet b" Corporate control of public land, public airwaves, and public pensions b" Overt infringement of our civil liberties b" Bloated defense budget, unilateral military interventions, war crimes committed in our name, legalization of torture, blah, blah, blah . . . Before you know it, the government might start spying on American citizens and detaining prisoners without charges while corporations ravage the earth in pursuit of profit, wiping out entire eco-systems in the process. Oops, sorry . . . theybre already doing all that without being stopped. Take a look at your watch. Since yesterday at this hour, 13 million tons of toxic chemicals were released across the globe; 200 thousand acres of rainforest were destroyed; more than 100 plant or animal species went extinct; and 45,000 human beings died of starvation (most of them children). What will we say in 20-30 years when webre asked why we didnbt do more to challenge all this? What will we say when webre asked why we focused on imaginary evildoers instead of the corporate pirates seeking to rape the planet and control our minds? Ask yourself this: Which do you prefer, a consumer culture or an ozone layer? SUVs or Redwoods? Cell phones or Mountain Gorillas? Would you give up the ability to text your BFF in order to save a species from going extinct? The humans (and all living things) that come after us wonbt care if we religiously read websites like this or we marched in parades (I mean, protests) or we held open doors for little old ladies . . . if they have no clean air. They wonbt care if we voted for Obama or McCain . . . if they have no clean water. It wonbt matter to them if we ate organic or drove a hybrid or switched to an energy efficient light bulb . . . if they end up stuck on a toxic, inhabitable planet. If anything, theybd probably just want to ask us this: What in the world did you have against your planet and yourself? After all, theybd assume, if we didnbt despise our planet -- and ourselves -- why would we stand by and let everything be consumed or poisoned or destroyed. But before that question is asked of us, we still have time to ask this: Will we ever disrupt our comfortable lives and dedicate ourselves to stopping -- by any means necessary -- global warming, US military interventionism, economic exploitation, factory farming, environmental devastation, etc., or will we continue defending bour way of lifeb? The US constitutes 5 percent of the earthbs population but consumes more than 25 percent of the earthbs resources. News Flash #3: Our way of life is the problem. Mickey Z. is the author of the forthcoming novel, CPR for Dummies (Raw Dog Screaming Press). He can be found on the Web at http://www.mickeyz.net. Copyright B) 1998-2007 Online Journal ======================================================================== ======================== GOVERNMENT OF THE USA IN EXILE Free Americans Reaching Out to Amerika's Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free Via March 8, 2008 NOTE: At the link directly below there's a list of 180 blogs opposed to the Iraq War--should you care to reach any or all of them about anything relevant to this topic. Together they form a coalition encouraging for its breadth. -- kl, pp http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/02/full-listing-of-blogs-in- march-19.html Saturday, February 16, 2008 March 19 Iraq War Blogswarm Stop the killing. Stop the maiming. Stop the economic and environmental devastation. Bring the troops home. Full Listing of Blogs in the March 19 Blogswarm Against the Iraq War Participate/Learn More This listing will be updated on a regular basis as more blogs join. 1 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera 2 42 3 c$c)c/f&d: c>co