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Earlier today Dennis Kucinich’s House Concurrent Resolution 28 passed a voice vote. This resolution directs the President to remove the United States Armed Forces from Afghanistan. According to the House Clerk, POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS – At the conclusion of debate on H.Con.Res. 28, the Chair put the question on adoption of the concurrent resolution and by [...] Rep. Dennis Kucinich submitted House Concurrent Resolution 28 directing the President to remove the United States Armed Forces from Afghanistan. This Thursday (March 17) the resolution will be debated and voted on. Click here for the full text of the resolution (it’s an easy read). Five Bay Area representatives are cosponsoring the bill. More are [...] Here’s a March 3, 2011 letter from Michael Mariotte, Executive Director of Nuclear Information and Resource Service. Dear Friends, In this era of Congressional budget-slashing, with programs that actually benefit real people on the chopping block, we think it’s time to step up our demands: Tell Congress not only must it oppose new taxpayer subsidies [...] As peace and justice activists, we have something important to say about the Federal budget crisis: MOVE THE MONEY! The budget crisis could be easily solved if we stopped tax breaks for the rich and corporations and if we ended the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. 48 Members of the House have joined Barbara Lee in [...] Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) calls on all U.S. military service members to refuse and resist any mobilization against workers organizing to protect their basic rights. IVAW stands in solidarity with the multitude gathered in Madison, Wisconsin and many other cities to defend their unions. Iraq Veterans Against the War to Troops: “We Are [...] Read, endorse and publicize the SF Bay Area Campaign for New Priorities. Click here to sign the Declaration of Principles. Our New Priorities End the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq Major systematic reductions in the Pentagon budget Immediate and significant increases in domestic investment in jobs, infrastructure, new technologies, education, health care, environmental [...] For up-to-date information on the Egyptian Revolution after Mubarak’s resignation, check out the following sites. Al Jazeera English: Live Broadcast Mosaic: World News From The Middle East | Link TV The Egyptian Revolution: A Democracy Now! Special on Mubarak’s Resignation Democracy Now!’s coverage of the uprising in Egypt Link TV Middle East Uprising – Live [...] The people of Egypt have called last Friday the Day of Departure. They have been clear: President Mubarak must go. The orchestrated attacks on peaceful protestors, journalists, and international observers have exposed the true brutality of the Mubarak dictatorship. Mubarak has no credibility as a leader or as an ally. Mubarak must leave immediately or [...] 60 Years of Disaster by Jim Haber, Coordinator of Nevada Desert Experience January 27 marks 60 years since the first atomic bomb test in Nevada. Codenamed “Able” it was tiny for a nuclear weapon: the equivalent of 1,000 tons of TNT, about 1/15 the size of the bomb that killed upwards of 130,000 people in [...] The Egyptian dissident Mohamed ElBaradei in an interview with The Guardian of London said, “The international community must understand we are being denied every human right day by day. Egypt today is one big prison. If the international community does not speak out it will have a lot of implications. We are fighting for universal [...] |
   
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