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Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers signs Statement Opposing a War on Iran
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Campaign for Minnesota Health Plan
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The World's Largest Open Air Gulag
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Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers Endorses Resolution on Arms Spending
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Count Down to Int'l Day of Peace: CPI Initiative & Global Ceasefire
Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers signs Statement Opposing a War on Iran
The Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers endorsed the following statement yesterday at its April 10, 2012... read more
Campaign for Minnesota Health Plan
Dear Friends of Single Payer Health Care: The campaign for the Minnesota Health Plan is moving into... read more
The World's Largest Open Air Gulag
The link to a powerful article related to our April Forum: At our 4/11/12 Middle East Peace... read more
Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers Endorses Resolution on Arms Spending
The Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers endorsed the MN ASAP (Minnesota Arms Spending Alternatives ... read more
Count Down to Int'l Day of Peace: CPI Initiative & Global Ceasefire
For information about the Culture of Peace Initiative (CPI), its new website features, events... read more
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Anti-NATO events in Chicago May 14 through May 21
The Coalition Against NATO and G8 (CANG8) presented a comprehensive Calendar of anti-NATO events in Chicago compiled at the CANG8 meeting on Sunday May 13:
05/14/2012-Monday
8:00am -
Catholic Worker demonstration at Obama HQ to invite NATO leaders to end war. 130 E. Randolph
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Health and Wellness Care ResourcesGrace PL, 636 S Dearborn, Hotline: 872-216-5306
3:00pm & 4:00pm press conference -
Occupy Chicago Day of Education Dyett High School, 555 E 51st St, CACHE and Occupy Chicago welcome all to join the Chicago Teacher's Union, Kenwood Oakland Community...
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Posted on ICJPE by [Midwest Anti-War Mobilization]
Leah's Trial Ends in Victory for the People's Democracy
Judge Expresses Sympathy With Criticism of Government, Imposes Minimum Sentence
Posted on April 12, 2012
Leah’s Trial Ends in Victory for the People's Democracy
In its press release, Veterans For Peace, announced, "Retired Naval Commander Leah Bolger pled guilty to the charge of Unlawful Conduct -- Disruption of Congress at a hearing before Judge Stuart Nash in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia Thursday, April 12th 2012."
"Though the maximum penalty for this infraction is 6 months in jail and/or a $750 fine, Judge Nash sentenced Bolger to 60 days incarceration...
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Posted on OregonProgressiveNetwork by Veterans For Peace, Linus Pauling Chapter 132
How NATO Dehumanizes Us - OpEd
Written by: Jerica Arents
March 27, 2012
By Jerica Arents
When we finally stepped off the helicopter and greeted the mountains of Bamiyan, Afghanistan, I was exhausted. A full day and a half after our departure, my eyelids were heavy and I was hoping, desperately, for a cup of warm, life-giving tea and a pile of blankets to collapse into.
But the group of Afghans who invited us there — not an elite assembly of men with corporate interests or a bureaucratic non-profit, but a rag-tag group of teenagers who believe in the power of nonviolence — had a different idea in mind.
We dropped...
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Posted on ICJPE by Voices for Creative Nonviolence
An Annan Six Point Peace Plan for Afghanistan
An "Annan Six Point Peace Plan for Afghanistan"
2nd April 2012
Dear Mr. Kofi Annan,
Salams from Afghanistan!
The six point peace plan which you have proposed for Syria has a collected calm that is missing in Afghanistan.
We are a grassroots group of ordinary, multi-ethnic Afghans and we’re tired of our world being like it is. We wish for a life of non-violence, the unity of all people, equality, and self-reliance, and we seek non-military solutions for Afghanistan.
But the profoundly greedy and antagonistic governments of today do not practice these values. The ground...
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Posted on ICJPE by Voices for Creative Nonviolence
Resource of the Month: On Opposing War with Iran
At a recent talk on the possibility of war with Iran, author/activist Danny Postel said the most telling argument against the drumbeat to war with Iran is in the message of its dissidents, intellectuals, trade unionists and campaigners for women's rights. All say "no" in that its affect on civil society would set back the cause of Human rights. Further information on Iran follows.
BACKGROUND/FACTS AND FIGURES
International Campaign for Human rights in Iran: http://www.iranhumanrights.org/ includes "Raising Their Voices, Iranian Civil society Reflections on the Military...
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Posted on ICJPE by ICJPE
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