Michael Moore Today
"It's a good feeling to know that you're respected..." -- Gun shop manager Chuck Lock
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American Military Casualties in Iraq
Date
Total
In Combat
American Deaths
Since war began (3/19/03):
3886
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03) (the list)
3747
Since Capture of Saddam (12/13/03):
3426
Since Handover (6/29/04):
3027
Since Election (1/31/05):
2449
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/
Documented civilian deaths from violence
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/
Cheney makes shopping stop in Stuttgart
Associated Press
STUTTGART, AR — Vice President Cheney stopped by a Stuttgart hunting supply store Tuesday to pick up supplies while hunting in the heart of Arkansas’ duck country.
Television footage showed Cheney looking over a box of rounds as other shoppers walked past the vice president in Mack’s Prairie Wings. Store employees said it was Cheney’s third visit to the store in Stuttgart, a rural town that bills itself as the “duck capital of the world.”
“Mack’s is one of the great places in America for this sort of thing. I’m on their mailing list,” Cheney told Little Rock television state KATV. “I get the catalog all the time, so we had a little extra time today and thought we’d stop by.”
Mack’s manager Chuck Lock said it was business as usual during Cheney’s visit. Staffers said the vice president bought a pair of suspenders and some ammunition.
“It’s a good feeling to know that you’re respected that much from somebody of that sort,” Lock said.
Cheney spent about a half an hour at the store.
“Arkansas is one of the great hunting states in the country, especially for waterfowl and ducks, and so I get invited down here periodically,” Cheney said. “I can’t come all the time, but every once in a while, when I can, I do.”
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Curtains Rise Again
By Keith Schneider / New York Times
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — When the director Michael Moore moved to northern Michigan from New York City in 2002, the marquee of the State Theater on Front Street here had been dark since 1978. It was a sullen space in this Great Lake city’s central business district.
Last month, the marquee woke up with a splendid billboard of blinking lights and a triumphant message. The message said “Mission Accomplished!” as Mr. Moore and hundreds of residents celebrated the opening of the nearly 11,000-square-foot State Theater as a year-round art-house movie theater.
The $850,000 renovation of the State Theater, which dates to 1916, when it opened as the Lyric, was led by Mr. Moore. He coaxed an army of volunteers and professional electricians, carpet installers, carpenters and other craftsman to execute the project in just six weeks.
Though it was a highly impressive endeavor by an Academy Award-winning director in his adopted community, it was not unique. The State is one of some two dozen historic movie and performing arts theater restorations occurring this year in small cities around the nation, according to the League of Historic American Theaters in Baltimore.
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December 5th, 2007 1:40 am
Bush probe remains on Ulster agenda
By Robert M. Miraldi / Kingston Daily Freeman
KINGSTON, NY - A special session of the Ulster County Legislature on Wednesday will include a proposed resolution urging Congress to create a committee to investigate the Bush administration on charges it violated the Constitution.
Offered by the Legislature's Efficiency, Reform and Governmental Affairs Committee, the resolution says President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have "violated laws of the United States by numerous acts, including misleading Congress and the public by alleging threats from the nation of Iraq to justify war, the countenance of torture of prisoners, the surveillance of American citizens beyond the reach of judicial review," and arbitrarily detaining citizens without charge and without allowing them their right to legal counsel.
"I think it's important to weigh in, because there have been serious constitutional abuses and the Bush administration has to be not only held accountable, future administrations need to know people are watching," said committee Chairman Gary Bischoff, D-Saugerties.
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December 5th, 2007 1:23 am
U.S. Finds Iran Halted Its Nuclear Arms Effort in 2003
By Mark Mazzetti / New York Times
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 — A new assessment by American intelligence agencies released Monday concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains frozen, contradicting a judgment two years ago that Tehran was working relentlessly toward building a nuclear bomb.
The conclusions of the new assessment are likely to reshape the final year of the Bush administration, which has made halting Iran’s nuclear program a cornerstone of its foreign policy.
The assessment, a National Intelligence Estimate that represents the consensus view of all 16 American spy agencies, states that Tehran is likely to keep its options open with respect to building a weapon, but that intelligence agencies “do not know whether it currently intends to develop nuclear weapons.”
Iran is continuing to produce enriched uranium, a program that the Tehran government has said is intended for civilian purposes. The new estimate says that the enrichment program could still provide Iran with enough raw material to produce a nuclear weapon sometime by the middle of next decade, a timetable essentially unchanged from previous estimates.
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December 5th, 2007 12:43 pm
Filmmaker puts Traverse City in spotlight
By Louis Aguilar / The Detroit News
TRAVERSE CITY, MI -- Filmmaker and liberal activist Michael Moore has found one place where he's not creating controversy -- this scenic upper Michigan Republican bastion.
The Oscar-winning local resident spearheaded the $850,000 renovation of a old downtown movie theater that is feeding this town's aspirations of becoming the "Ann Arbor of the north."
Many here hope that Moore and the newly reopened State Theater will tap into the affluent, educated empty-nesters who are turning this once-seasonal tourist town into an upscale village of culinary and cultural delights.
"This isn't about politics for me," Moore said. "It's about celebrating this beautiful state of ours, sharing the power of great film and really using a great old movie palace as both an economic power and a community gathering place."
Many businesses here say it's a critical moment for Traverse City, which, city officials say, now boasts a waiting list of more than 60 businesses looking to set up shop downtown.
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December 3rd, 2007 1:23 am
Impeachment walk: Vermonter hikes to DC to seek ouster of Bush, Cheney
By John Curran / Associated Press
BRATTLEBORO, VT — He's got waterproof, size-11EEEE New Balance sneakers, a bright yellow poncho and a plan. He's got outrage in his heart, a Web site in his name and much of his retirement savings sunk into his cause.
John Nirenberg, a 60-year-old Ph.D., author and academic, plans to walk from Boston to Washington, D.C., to confront House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in hopes of persuading Congress to take up the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney.
He's no activist, he says. He's not sure he'll make a difference. But he's going to try.
On Sunday, he'll hit the road from Faneuil Hall, walking 15 miles a day until he gets to Capitol Hill, making symbolic stops at the Statue of Liberty, Independence Hall and Trenton, N.J., as he makes his way to the U.S. Capitol.
Wearing a "Save the Constitution, Impeach Bush and Cheney," sandwich-board style sign, he hopes to rally support for an issue Pelosi has said is no longer on the table.
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IMAGINE PEACE
http://www.imaginepeace.com/
Saturday, December 8th, 2007
Yoko Ono on the 27th Anniversary of John Lennon's Passing
Dear Friends,
This December 8th is the 27th anniversary of John Lennon's passing.
You are welcome to visit www.IMAGINEPEACE.com at any time on Dec 8th for a special message & video.
WAR IS OVER! artwork is now available for download at:
http://www.imaginepeace.com/downloads/WarIsOver.jpg
Print & display in your window, workplace, school, street, car, computer & elsewhere over the holiday season.
On December 8th, 11.15pm (your local time) remember John by taking a moment of quiet reflection. If you would like to play or sing the song "Imagine" and imagine a world of peace, just know that we are all together at that moment in every time zone, as IMAGINE PEACE makes its way around the world - every hour for 24 hours.
Send in stories & photos of what you did on December 8th to stories@imaginepeace.com for us, the family of Peace and Love, and tell us of your experiences. That would be lovely!
With deepest love
Yoko Ono Lennon
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
'What is Peace?: Remembering John Ono Lennon' ...by Cindy Sheehan
Is peace just an absence of war?
That question begs another question: What is war?
Is war a “hot” conflict with bombs raining down on civilians? Is it covert action with undercover agents fomenting unrest and electoral rebellion? Is it crippling sanctions that target unarmed and un-protected civilians who become desperate for medicine when their child is dying of dysentery or hungry for food to fend off starvation?
Is war maintaining a large standing army and an over-bloated Ministry of War even in peacetime? Is war destroying our precarious environment for the sake of a comparative few to the detriment of the many? Is war recklessly using natural resources when there is a limited supply and many people are killed or enslaved so others can have diamond engagement rings or cheap crap at Wal-Mart?
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December 5th, 2007 12:37 pm
Curtains Rise Again
By Keith Schneider / New York Times
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — When the director Michael Moore moved to northern Michigan from New York City in 2002, the marquee of the State Theater on Front Street here had been dark since 1978. It was a sullen space in this Great Lake city’s central business district.
Last month, the marquee woke up with a splendid billboard of blinking lights and a triumphant message. The message said “Mission Accomplished!” as Mr. Moore and hundreds of residents celebrated the opening of the nearly 11,000-square-foot State Theater as a year-round art-house movie theater.
The $850,000 renovation of the State Theater, which dates to 1916, when it opened as the Lyric, was led by Mr. Moore. He coaxed an army of volunteers and professional electricians, carpet installers, carpenters and other craftsman to execute the project in just six weeks.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mikeinthenews/index.php?id=10544
December 5th, 2007 12:43 pm
Filmmaker puts Traverse City in spotlight
By Louis Aguilar / The Detroit News
TRAVERSE CITY, MI -- Filmmaker and liberal activist Michael Moore has found one place where he's not creating controversy -- this scenic upper Michigan Republican bastion.
The Oscar-winning local resident spearheaded the $850,000 renovation of a old downtown movie theater that is feeding this town's aspirations of becoming the "Ann Arbor of the north."
Many here hope that Moore and the newly reopened State Theater will tap into the affluent, educated empty-nesters who are turning this once-seasonal tourist town into an upscale village of culinary and cultural delights.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mikeinthenews/index.php?id=10545
December 5th, 2007 1:40 am
Bush probe remains on Ulster agenda
By Robert M. Miraldi / Kingston Daily Freeman
KINGSTON, NY - A special session of the Ulster County Legislature on Wednesday will include a proposed resolution urging Congress to create a committee to investigate the Bush administration on charges it violated the Constitution.
Offered by the Legislature's Efficiency, Reform and Governmental Affairs Committee, the resolution says President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have "violated laws of the United States by numerous acts, including misleading Congress and the public by alleging threats from the nation of Iraq to justify war, the countenance of torture of prisoners, the surveillance of American citizens beyond the reach of judicial review," and arbitrarily detaining citizens without charge and without allowing them their right to legal counsel.
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December 4th, 2007 9:15 pm
Anti-war demonstrators cited in Williston
By Matt Sutkoski / Burlington Free Press
WILLISTON, VT -- Thirteen demonstrators were arrested and cited for trespassing Friday at a Vermont Army National Guard recruiting office as dozens more protesters surrounded the building, opposing military recruiting in schools.
The protests grew from a campaign by students at Mount Mansfield Union High School in Jericho who object to military recruiters in their school and the requirement that high schools hand over student contact information to the recruiters.
Many of the protesters were taken to the Chittenden County Sheriff's Office, where they were to be processed and cited for trespassing Friday evening, Williston Police Chief James Dimmick said. Three juveniles were cited and released, he said.
The high school students organized Friday's demonstration, and other groups opposed to the war in Iraq joined the cause.
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December 4th, 2007 1:55 am
Raging Grannies honk off Ferndale
Peace activists fight city over right to urge sympathetic drivers to toot horns
By Jennifer Chambers / Detroit News
FERNDALE, MI -- A close inspection of Nancy Goedert's picket sign shows she encourages passing drivers not to honk if they support peace.
Yet the 74-year-old social activist and her fellow vigil keepers, their signs hoisted high above Woodward Avenue, drew a symphony of beeps and toots from dozens of enthusiastic motorists for more than an hour on a recent weeknight, thanks to the bigger, bolder letters that spell out "HONK FOR PEACE" and spread Goedert's true message.
Despite Ferndale's controversial ban on honking in response to political protests, Goedert's smaller addendum -- "Ferndale cops say don't" -- allows Goedert to spread her anti-war message until a federal court decides whether honking car horns are a protected form of free speech.
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December 7th, 2007 5:01 pm
Tour backs health plan
By Nanci Bompey / Asheville Citizen-Times
ASHEVILLE, NC – Liv Boykins has been traveling around the country in a school bus, sleeping in homeless shelters and in people’s homes, and eating food where she can find it.
Boykins, special assistant to Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., is one of five people who have been on the road since Nov. 12 to help promote the congressman’s bill calling for universal health care.
The group, sponsored by the organization Healthcare-NOW, stopped in Asheville Wednesday and Thursday to drum up support for the legislation.
“It is the only bill out there that will make health care a human right,” Boykins said. “You will be covered from the cradle to the grave.”
The legislation calls for expanding Medicare to all American citizens. It has 86 signatures from representatives in the U.S. House. No North Carolina representatives have signed on to the legislation.
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December 7th, 2007 12:54 am
Cheney makes shopping stop in Stuttgart
Associated Press
STUTTGART, AR — Vice President Cheney stopped by a Stuttgart hunting supply store Tuesday to pick up supplies while hunting in the heart of Arkansas’ duck country.
Television footage showed Cheney looking over a box of rounds as other shoppers walked past the vice president in Mack’s Prairie Wings. Store employees said it was Cheney’s third visit to the store in Stuttgart, a rural town that bills itself as the “duck capital of the world.”
“Mack’s is one of the great places in America for this sort of thing. I’m on their mailing list,” Cheney told Little Rock television state KATV. “I get the catalog all the time, so we had a little extra time today and thought we’d stop by.”
Mack’s manager Chuck Lock said it was business as usual during Cheney’s visit. Staffers said the vice president bought a pair of suspenders and some ammunition.
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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 (23)
Related Bills: H.RES.799
Latest Major Action: 5/4/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HE00333:@@@N
DC Address:
The Honorable Raul Grijalva
United States House of Representatives
1440 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-0307
DC Phone:
202-225-2435
DC Fax:
202-225-1541
Email Address:
http://grijalva.house.gov/?sectionid=49§iontree=249
WWW Homepage:
http://grijalva.house.gov/
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December 5th, 2007 1:23 am
U.S. Finds Iran Halted Its Nuclear Arms Effort in 2003
By Mark Mazzetti / New York Times
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 — A new assessment by American intelligence agencies released Monday concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains frozen, contradicting a judgment two years ago that Tehran was working relentlessly toward building a nuclear bomb.
The conclusions of the new assessment are likely to reshape the final year of the Bush administration, which has made halting Iran’s nuclear program a cornerstone of its foreign policy.
The assessment, a National Intelligence Estimate that represents the consensus view of all 16 American spy agencies, states that Tehran is likely to keep its options open with respect to building a weapon, but that intelligence agencies “do not know whether it currently intends to develop nuclear weapons.”
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SiCKO
http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/dvd/
SiCKO-Cure National Road Show
http://www.healthcare-now.org/healthcare_road_show.html
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006
Be It Resolved: You Can Impeach the President
Official State Impeachment Text
Impeachment Text for Cities & Towns
Impeachment Text for County Democratic Committees
Impeachment Text for State Assemblies and/or Legislatures
Jefferson's Manual, Section LIII, 603
You Can Impeach the President
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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.
It's all an amazing sight. I can't tell you how thrilled I am to see the impact a movie can have. For all of you who have written me to ask, "What can I do," well, read more about what others have done, and then try these simple steps:
1. Call or write you member of Congress right now (I'll wait) and tell him or her that you insist they become a co-sponsor of H.R. 676 -- "The United States National Health Insurance Act." It's sponsored currently by Rep. John Conyers and 76 other members of Congress. Insist that your congressperson be one of those co-sponsors. I want to see 100 co-sponsors by Thanksgiving. Will you help make that happen?
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