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Return the United Nations Flag to Government Center Plaza
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MN Peacemakers Endorse Occupy HomesMN Foreclosure Free Zone Project
The Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers resolved to endorse the Occupy Homes MN project entitled the "... read more
Return the United Nations Flag to Government Center Plaza
The Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers adopted the following Resolution at its Delegate Council meeting... read more
Ellison Statement in Anticipation of U.N. Vote on Palestinian Statehood
From Americans for Peace Now Legislative Round-Up 11.30.12: The only member of the House of Representatives... read more
Occupy Live: Building a World that Works for All (VIDEO)
Too many people who got hope from the Occupy spirit are afraid that Occupy has died. To keep hope alive... read more
Fund a Pentagon Spending Billboard: MN ASAP
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Transform Now Plowshares: Let the trial begin!
From: Disarm Now Plowshares Outreach
Subject: Transform Now Plowshares: Let the trial begin!
Sent: May 7, 2013
Dear Friends,
As I write this our dear friends Megan Rice, Michael Walli and Greg Boertje-Obed of the Transform Now Plowshares are in the thick of the second day of their trial in Federal District Court in Knoxville, Tennessee. Yesterday was jury selection. Today they get down to the real business at hand.
Bix travelled back to Knoxville to be with them, and based on the photo I saw of him whooping it up with Sr. Megan during yesterday's street celebration, it should be quite...
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Posted on WAnet by Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action
Report on Transform Now Plowshares Hearing
your link here...Apr 23, 2013
HE WALKS AROUND WITH IT BY HIS SIDE
The judge interrupted the questioning of former Attorney General Ramsey Clark as he testified at a hearing in federal court in Knoxville, Tennessee in preparation for the Transform Now Plowshares trial in May.
Bill Quigley, counsel for the defense, had just asked Clark if the threat of the use of nuclear weapons was imminent.
“It’s omnipresent,” said Clark.
“Excuse me,” the Judge said. “Are you saying the President intends to use nuclear weapons? Are you in a position to know that? Are you tied in with the President?”
Clark...
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Posted on MichiganPeaceNetwork by Michigan Stop the Nuclear Bombs Campaign
Former Attorney General Says Y-12 nuclear weapons unlawful
Former U.S. Attorney General says production of nuclear weapons could be considered illegal; cites Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark testified Tuesday that continued production of nuclear weapons at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge could be considered unlawful, if not illegal, because it violates the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty signed in 1968 during his tenure at the Justice Department.
The 85-year-old Clark testified on behalf of three Plowshares protesters who are facing multiple felony counts -- including a sabotage charge -- ...
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Posted on MichiganPeaceNetwork by Michigan Stop the Nuclear Bombs Campaign
So, what did we gain by going to war?
Published in the Cheboygan Tribune on March 15th. This is the eighth consecutive year that Karen Martin's opinions have been published in remembrance of the anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. New column by paper is called "MY VIEW", which allows a longer opinion.
Tenth Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq
So: What did we gain?
So here we are, ten years after the invasion of Iraq. What did we gain and what did we learn from this disastrous undertaking?
For starters I see month after month of one economic tsunami after another. These include repeated “debt ceiling” crisis...
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Posted on MichiganPeaceNetwork by Straits Area Concerned Citizens for Peace & Justice
'Not In My Name': Know Drones Action Weekend - April 5-7, 2013
"Not In My Name": Know Drones Action Weekend - April 5-7, 2013
"Not in My Name" April 5-7: Why Dayton, OH? Dayton, Ohio sits at the crossroads of two major interstate highways, I75 & I70, in the heartland of America. It is home to Wright Patterson Air Force Base (the logistics center for the Air Force) with the greater Dayton region having a population of approximately 840,000 people. With the decline of rust belt industries the area lost thousands of jobs when GM, Delco and other general manufacturing companies pulled out. Since then political leaders and corporate...
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Posted on OhioPeaceNetwork by Columbus Campaign for Arms Control (CCAC)
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