Archive for the ‘Build Peace’ Category
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
Make some calls! NOW! This is from the
Facebook Wall:
OccupyTucson needs your help! TPD is utilizing a strategy of financial attrition to kill the movement by issuing criminal citations to occupiers in the who stay in the park past 10:30pm. This citation carries a potential sentence of up to a $1000 fine, up to 6 months in jail, and up to 3 years probation. They are bleeding this movement financially instead of using pepper spray and batons. We need you all to take action no...
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Tags: 99 percent, 99%, by the people, for the people, freedom of assembly, Human Needs Not Corporate Greed, occupy, of the people, police, Tucson
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Monday, October 3rd, 2011
People from all over the country are heading to Washington, D.C. this week. A bit further on I discuss meeting with three of them heading across country to Occupy DC. October 6th marks the 10th anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. Ten years ago we were mourning the attacks on New York City, the District of Columbia, and one attack that was thwarted and became a crash site in Pennsylvania. We had the world on our side, our country was more united than...
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Tags: 99 percent, caravan, CODEPINK, corporate personhood, Freedom Plaza, GMO, greed, Human Needs Not Corporate Greed, infrastructure, Occupy DC, Occupy Wall Street, Veterans for Peace, vigil
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
Don't Ask Don't Tell finally goes away. A person's sexual orientation is no one's business, and yet for the last 18 years any non-heterosexually oriented person had to hide their sexual orientation or risk expulsion from the military, punishment, and loss of benefits. Obama has kept
another campaign promise.
Right now the military is doing better at promoting and protecting constitutional basics than the society at large. Just look at the recent
Top Air Force O... (more...)
Tags: church and state, constitution, DADT, Don't Ask Don't Tell, rape as weapon, repeal day, Sexual Assault, sexual orientation
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Saturday, September 10th, 2011
We got the call from my step-daughter early that day; we didn't have hours, days or weeks of worry. She was a lovely and quite intelligent young woman, only 25, who worked in lower Manhattan, not all that far from the WTC, and lived in Brooklyn. She was okay. Her building had been evacuated and she was going to have to walk back to Brooklyn that day. Our younger daughter was in 6th grade and the school called because they were concerned about her. She seemed...
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Tags: 10 years later, 9/11, anniversary, Christina Taylor Green, chronicle, generation, impact, January 8th, New York, Peace, Pentagon, Remember, September 11, Terrorism, Tucson, war, writings just after the attacks, WTC
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