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September 13th, 2007 3:11 am
Week of Antiwar Events To Start With a 'Die-In'
Protesters Advocate Civil Disobedience
By Michelle Boorstein and Allison Klein / Washington Post
A week of events meant to crank up a national demonstration against the war in Iraq is set to begin Saturday, with a 1,000-person "die-in" at the U.S. Capitol led by current and former American troops and accompanied by taps and a mock 21-gun salute.
The die-in will be the culmination of a march and rally. Organizers hope the event will spur people in the antiwar movement to move from protesting to performing acts of civil disobedience that "get in the way of the war machine," said Brian Becker, national coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition, at a news conference yesterday at the National Press Club.
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September 13th, 2007 3:42 pm
Local protesters near Washington D.C.
Worn out shoes, but not sprits, organizer says
By William Brand / Oakland Tribune
She's marched across America from the Bay Area, worn out four pairs of sandals, slogging through late summer heat and humidity and the war in Iraq rages as intense as ever.
But 19-year-old Ashley Casale, interviewed on her cell phone this morning as she slogged along Route 50 a few miles north Winchester, VA., with a band of seven other marchers and a growing group of supporters, says she believes the cross-country walk is a significant way of standing up for peace.
"I think all these people walking with us now wanted a way to take action and stand out for peace," she said.
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SEPTEMBER 15
Mass March in Washington DC!
Gather at 12 noon at the White House
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Join Iraq Veterans Against the War, Veterans for Peace, Camp Casey Peace Institute, the ANSWER Coalition, Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation, National Council of Arab-Americans, Grassroots America, Hip Hop Caucus, and thousands of others in Washington DC on September 15 for a huge antiwar protest timed to coincide with the report by General Petraeus on the "Surge" in Iraq.
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Sunday, September 16
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Monday, September 17
Counter Recruitment
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People’s March on Congress
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September 15 — Mass March in Washington DC!
We want to thank the thousands of people and many organizations that have responded to ANSWER’s May 31 Proposal to the Anti-War Movement. The essence of the proposal is for all the anti-war coalitions and organizations to come together to mobilize the largest single mass march on Washington DC under the demand End the War Now!...
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Calendar of upcoming anti-war events
Tuesday, September 18
Congressional Occupation Day
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September 14, 2007
Gerald R. Ford Museum
"THE DICK CHENEY, GOP QUAGMIRE TOUR"
Dick Cheney Quagmire Tour Protested in Grand Rapids, MI
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Cheney Making Stop in Michigan
http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=7062569
U.S. Central Command
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Monday, September 17
Marriott Downtown
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Cheney will visit Kansas City to raise funds for Sam Graves
Vice President Dick Cheney will visit Kansas City on Monday to help Rep. Sam Graves raise money for his 2008 re-election race.
The event will be at noon at the Kansas City Marriott Downtown, 200 W. 12th St. General reception tickets are $250. A photo reception with the vice president is $2,000. Call 816-407-1222 for tickets.
Cheney has visited Kansas City at least two other times to raise money for Graves. The last time, in April 2004, generated $340,000.
Graves is expected to face Democrat Kay Barnes, a former Kansas City mayor.
http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/269674.html
September 27, 2007
Sheldon Adelson Home
Vice President Cheney to Visit Las Vegas
The vice president of the United States will be heading to Las Vegas. Dick Cheney will be in Southern Nevada Sept. 27th to raise money for the republican party.
The event reportedly will be at the home of Venetian owner Sheldon Adelson. Tickets are $250. The ticket price covers dinner and a picture with the vice president.
http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7059477
One Sponsor, Nineteen Cosponsors
H.RES.333 Title: Impeaching Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors. Sponsor: Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. [OH-10] (introduced 4/24/2007) Cosponsors (19) Latest Major Action: 5/4/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
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Herdt: Militants in tennis shoes
Nurses Association won't bend on health reform
By Timm Herdt / Ventura County Star
John Graham, a hulking man with sad eyes, wearing a shirt only half buttoned, looked the part Tuesday of a man who had not slept well.
"It was not an easy night," he said.
There have been many such nights over the last six years, but Monday had been particularly bad, knowing dawn would deliver the anniversary of the date that painted the sadness in his eyes.
He had been a volunteer emergency medical technician six years earlier, working at a job site in Manhattan near the World Trade Center.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/article.php?id=10219
September 13th, 2007 4:33 pm
Unionized nurses flex their muscle
Caregivers direct their newfound clout at the political process as well as working conditions.
By Lisa Girion / Los Angeles Times
Nurses aren't just taking orders anymore.
From intensive care wards to the halls of Congress, they're exerting growing influence over hospital practices and patient treatment. With the clout they've gained through unionization, they've raised their incomes and their profession's profile.
Now they're lobbying for a radical change to the country's healthcare system, starting in California.
On Monday, hundreds of members of the California Nurses Assn. marched on the Capitol in Sacramento and pledged to continue to campaign for universal healthcare coverage.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/article.php?id=10220
9/11: Still Killing - Photos by Allan Tannenbaum
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911 Still Killing
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Ten Facts About Guantanamo
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Contact your House of Representative Member asking them to support HR 676
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September 2nd, 2007 2:03 am
Coalition of nuns calls for impeaching Bush and Cheney
Winston-Salem Journal
A progressive group of U.S. nuns has called on Congress to impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney because of their roles in the war in Iraq.
“The National Coalition of American Nuns is impelled by conscience to call you to act promptly to impeach President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for ... high crimes and misdemeanors,” the group wrote in a letter written on behalf of its board members.
The letter says that impeachment is warranted for their “deceiving the public under the false pretense that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction” and “destroying” the reputation of the United States and the good will of other nations.
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H.RES.333
Title: Impeaching Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Sponsor: Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. [OH-10] (introduced 4/24/2007) Cosponsors (19)
Latest Major Action: 5/4/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
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September 2nd, 2007 2:36 am
Protesters want Hinchey to back Cheney impeachment
KINGSTON, N.Y. (AP) - Five people who staged a sit-in this week in Congressman Maurice Hinchey's Hudson Valley office - demanding the congressman support an effort to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney - will meet again with Hurley Democrat to push their position.
They were among more than 50 people who met with Hinchey on Tuesday.
The five staged the sit-in at Hinchey's office later for several hours, refusing to leave until granted a further meeting to ask questions and get answers.
Hinchey agreed to the demand, though a spokesman says the date has not yet been set.
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Hinchey was for it before he was against it
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H.RES.635
Title: Creating a select committee to investigate the Administration's intent to go to war before congressional authorization, manipulation of pre-war intelligence, encouraging and countenancing torture, retaliating against critics, and to make recommendations regarding grounds for possible impeachment.
Sponsor: Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-14] (introduced 12/18/2005) Cosponsors (38)
Latest Major Action: 12/18/2005 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Rules.
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August 29th, 2007 4:27 pm
Hinchey catches flack, from the left
Mid-Hudson News Network
Kingston – “I don’t care if you don’t have the votes”, said one of about 75 impeachment supporters, who had both barrels blazing, not at President Bush, or Dick Cheney, but at liberal Democrat Congressman Maurice Hinchey.
Why? Because Hinchey has not actually introduced, or supported, a resolution to impeach the current administration.
The Tuesday afternoon event, which originally was to have been a meeting between Hinchey and about half a dozen activists, in his small third floor office in uptown Kingston, was moved to the community room at the RUPCO building, a block away. Even there, the crowd overflowed onto the sidewalk.
Professor and author Joel Kovel said it is no wonder Congress has a lower rating than even the President.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10182
Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment?
Yes, between the secret spying, the deceptions leading to war and more, there is plenty to justify putting him on trial.
No, like any president, he has made a few missteps, but nothing approaching "high crimes and misdemeanors."
No, the man has done absolutely nothing wrong. Impeachment would just be a political lynching.
I don't know.
Vote to see results
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September 2nd, 2007 2:13 am
More than 1,800 Iraqis killed in August
By Robert H. Reid / Associated Press
BAGHDAD - Civilian deaths rose in August to their second-highest monthly level this year, according to figures compiled Saturday by The Associated Press. That raises questions about whether U.S. strategy is working days before Congress receives landmark reports that will decide the course of the war.
At least 81 American service members also died in Iraq during August — an increase of two over the previous month but well below the year's monthly high of 126 in May. American deaths surpassed the 80 mark during only two months of 2006.
U.S. military officials have insisted that the security plan launched early this year led to a decrease in attacks on civilians and sectarian killings, especially in the Baghdad area, which was the focus of the new strategy.
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U.S. military deaths in Iraq at 3,738
By The Associated Press Sun Sep 2, 7:12 PM ET
As of Sunday, Sept. 2, 2007, at least 3,738 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 3,061 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/iraq_us_deaths
Ted Voth Jr.: Candidates should stay put in D.C. to impeach Bush, Cheney
A letter to the editor — 9/01/2007 8:28 am
Dear Editor: It just occurred to me that Sens. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Chris Dodd, and Rep. Dennis Kucinich, have pressing business in D.C. All of them need to be censuring and/or impeaching and removing from office the monstrous two-headed President Cheney/Bush, ending Bush's war, and repealing the disgraceful Patriot Act, the disastrous Military Commissions Act, and the unspeakable "wiretap cave-in act" Congress passed before its vacation.
None of them should be out on the campaign trail until they've fulfilled their oaths to uphold, preserve and defend the Constitution of the U.S. -- in this most perilous crisis of our republic, to restore the Constitution.
Frankly, until they do so, all of them are abysmally unworthy to be trusted with the presidency. Frankly, till they carry out their duties to the Constitution, they are complicit in the high crimes and treason of Dick Cheney and George Bush.
http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/letters/209825
Congress Approval Rating Matches Historical Low
Just 18% approve of job Congress is doing
by Jeffrey M. Jones
GALLUP NEWS SERVICE
PRINCETON, NJ -- A new Gallup Poll finds Congress' approval rating the lowest it has been since Gallup first tracked public opinion of Congress with this measure in 1974. Just 18% of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing, while 76% disapprove, according to the August 13-16, 2007, Gallup Poll.
That 18% job approval rating matches the low recorded in March 1992, when a check-bouncing scandal was one of several scandals besetting Congress, leading many states to pass term limits measures for U.S. representatives (which the Supreme Court later declared unconstitutional). Congress had a similarly low 19% approval rating during the energy crisis in the summer of 1979.
http://www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=28456
"You can't pretend the system doesn't exist."
-- Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
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With speech, Clinton lays out goals as president
Democratic says she is willing to work for change from within system
By Patrick Healy / New York Times
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York unveiled a new stump speech on Sunday, outlining the “four big goals” she would have as president and saying she was willing to “work within the system” and make “principled compromises” to achieve them.
Praising the leadership styles of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson, Mrs. Clinton described herself as a pragmatist and an alliance-builder. Without naming names, she said her strategies would yield more results than those of her two chief rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois and former Senator John Edwards of North Carolina.
“From my time in the White House and in the Senate, I learned you bring change by working in the system established by the Constitution,” Mrs. Clinton said at an early afternoon rally in Concord, drawing a pointed contrast to the outsider messages of Mr. Obama and Mr. Edwards. Referring to the Roosevelts and Johnson, she said, “They got big things done because they knew it wasn’t just about the dream, it’s about the results.”
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The Michael Moore Health Care Proposal
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"You're sitting on the 23rd floor of a marble building a thousand miles away and all you're focused on are the numbers and the dollars." -- Dr. Linda Peeno
September 4th, 2007 11:56 am
'Sicko's' Peeno Sees Few Gains in Health Insurance
September 3, 2007 from All Things Considered / NPR
MELISSA BLOCK, host: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I’m Melissa Block.
This summer, Michael Moore’s film “SiCKO” brought one of health care’s most famous whistleblowers back into the spotlight.
Dr. LINDA PEENO: In the spring of 1987, as a physician, I denied a man a necessary operation that would have saved his life and thus caused his death. No person and no group has held me accountable for this because, in fact, what I did was I’ve saved the company a half a million dollars for this.
BLOCK: That’s Linda Peeno, a doctor from Louisville, Kentucky before Congress in 1996. Her testimony came at the height of the national debate over patient’s rights and HMO’s.
NPR’s Julie Rovner recently spent some time with Linda Peeno and has this profile.
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Audio
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
'Vermonter Takes it to Bush Down Under' ...by Dan DeWalt
"President" Bush may not be willing to visit Vermont, but one of Vermont's finest, ex-marine Matt Howard, was in Australia today delivering the message to Bush and the world that we have seen through his lies, calling him and his sycophants out for their criminal Iraq adventure.
The three mile steel barrier that the city erected to keep the Decider from being exposed to the multitudes who disagree with and despise him may have prevented him from hearing the words of Mr. Howard, but listeners to the BBC/WBUR program The World, distributed across the U.S. by Public Radio International were treated to a short but articulate condemnation of the Bush Iraq war policy by Mr. Howard.
It is good and remarkable that we were able to hear this bit of dissension, but it is too bad that we only seem to hear about it when it happens on the other side of the globe.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php?id=909
Captain Mike Across America Michael Moore
Michael Moore has been a ubiquitous presence on talk shows and in YouTube clips this summer, passionately reaffirming the message of his recent documentary, Sicko: America must fix its broken health-care system. It’s hard to remember that for the two years prior, Moore had withdrawn from public life until his re-emergence at last year’s Festival, when he showed the first-ever sneak-preview clips of Sicko. But he was hardly idle in those two years. In addition to Sicko, he was preparing another film – one strategically timed to mobilize voters in anticipation of the 2008 United States presidential election.
Captain Mike Across America takes us back to the 2004 election, when the polling margin between candidates George W. Bush and John Kerry could have tipped either way. Framed like a concert film, it captures Moore’s activities as he set out on a campaign trip almost as rigorous and far-reaching as the candidates’ own. He targeted young people as the demographic that could make the most difference, visiting sixty-two cities in forty-five days, and holding large rallies on college campuses. He dubbed it the Slacker Uprising Tour.
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Toronto International Film Festival '07 - Screening Room, movie trailers
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Thursday, July 26th, 2007
See the Movie, Start the Revolution ...a letter from Michael Moore
Friends,
I am overwhelmed by the response to "Sicko." And I'm not just talking about all the wonderful, heart-felt letters you've sent me and the stories you've shared with me about the abuse you've suffered from our health care system.
No, I'm talking about how thousands of you are taking matters into your own hands and using the movie to do something. From Seattle to New England, each day I learn of numerous groups holding meetings or dinners after the movie to discuss it and to plot a course for action. A church in Plano, TX took its weekly bible study group to see "Sicko." 70 people crammed into a Wisconsin coffee shop's back room. Groups are plotting over pancakes in Illinois and microbrew in Missouri. E-mail addresses are being exchanged in theater lobbies. A Connecticut group is inviting legislators to see "Sicko" and keeping a tally on their website. Local groups have been buying out theaters to have special screenings for their members. Information tables are set up, literature is distributed, action groups are formed.
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The man is compelling
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More support!
While this strike is about much more than 9/11 questions, we are very grateful that one of the most reputable organizations on this issue has solidly endorsed the Strike.
On September 11, 2007, 911Truth.org Supports US Rediscovery of the General Strike
Also, someone on Indybay has written An Open Letter to the Business Community encouraging local businesses to participate in the Strike by shutting down on 9/11.
http://www.strike911.org/
On September 11, 2007, 911
Truth.org
Supports US Rediscovery of the General Strike
In solidarity with a growing number of patriotic grassroots groups on both the right and left, 911truth.org proudly announces its support for the revival of populist direct actions to confront governmental behavior we see as increasingly criminal and intransigent. 911truth.org therefore urges all freedom-loving Americans to spend September 11, 2007, rediscovering the compelling democratic history of people's movements and the general strike.
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