Almost one year ago, Israel unleashed "Operation Cast Lead" on the occupied Gaza Strip. Israel 's 22-day assault killed about 1,400 Palestinians, injured thousands more, and destroyed billions of dollars of Palestinian civilian infrastructure.
To this day, Israel maintains a comprehensive siege of the Gaza Strip, an illegal act of collective punishment targeting 1.5 million Palestinian civilians.The siege denies Palestinians adequate access to food, clean water, sanitation, electricity, and even school books and construction materials for rebuilding,
Unfortunately, the United States is complicit in Israel 's human rights abuses of Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.During "Operation Cast Lead,"
to kill and injure Palestinian civilians. Congress has approved another $2.775 billion in military aid to Israel for FY2010, in violation of the Arms Export Control Act.Last Month, the House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning the Goldstone Report
, thereby undermining international efforts to hold Israel accountable for the human rights abuses and war crimes it committed before, during, and after "Operation Cast Lead." And the Department of Energy just awarded a contract to Motorola Israel
, whose bomb fuzes enabled some of the bombs Israel dropped on Palestinian civilians during "Operation Cast Lead."
It's our responsibility to end U.S. support for Israel 's human rights abuses and war crimes against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip and elsewhere. Below are several ways to take action to end U.S. support for the siege of the Gaza Strip.
At our national conference in September, US Campaign member groups voted overwhelmingly to endorse the Gaza Freedom March. Now it's time to step up and show our support with action.
to the Gaza Strip to march side-by-side with Palestinians from the Rafah checkpoint in the south to the Erez checkpoint in the north of the Gaza Strip.The internationals participating in the Gaza Freedom March will convene in Cairo on December 27th, the day that "Operation Cast Lead" began one year ago, cross into the Gaza Strip on December 29th, and join with Palestinian activists to march the length of the Gaza Strip on December 31st.
The Gaza Freedom March will draw the attention of the whole world to Israel 's ongoing siege of and the precarious humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip.Even if you're not able to participate in the Gaza Freedom March, there are still things you can do in your community to support its goals.
Plan an event in your area in solidarity with the Gaza Freedom March Gaza Freedom Marchers have put out a call for solidarity actions between December 27th and January 1st.You can organize a march in your community or another event, such as a vigil, film screening, art exhibition, or teach-in, during these days of action.Click here
While we expect that the Gaza Freedom March events will be powerful expressions of our collective sorrow over last year's attack on the Gaza Strip, we also know that one day of action won't end Israel 's blockade or the U.S. support for Israel 's human rights abuses of Palestinians.There are many ways to link your Gaza Freedom March event to ongoing actions to end the siege of the Gaza Strip and bring a just and peaceful resolution to Israel 's military occupation and apartheid practices against Palestinians.
Connect your event to an ongoing campaign
One way to link your event to the struggle to end U.S. support for Israeli military occupation and apartheid in the Gaza Strip and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territories is to become a Congressional District Coordinator
(CDC) and invite participants in your event to future lobby meetings with your Members of Congress.
Members of Congress are currently scheduled to adjourn for their winter recess on December 18 and are expected to be in their home districts until January 11.During this winter recess, we are asking our CDC's to set up constituent meetings with their Members of Congress to ask them to end U.S. support for Israel 's blockade of the occupied Gaza Strip.Click here
to register as a Congressional District Coordinator or here
to coordinate one round of meetings with your Members of Congress and we'll help train and support you in setting up a meeting with your Members of Congress during the winter recess.
You can also connect your event to an ongoing boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BD campaign.While there are myriad corporations that profit from Israel 's occupation and apartheid practices and deserve to be boycotted and/or divested from, we suggest you plug into an already active campaign that we are organizing or supporting.Three popular BDS campaigns are:
: This campaign is working for accountability from Motorola, which profits by providing communications equipment to the Israeli military, "security" infrastructure to Israeli settlements, and products and services that normalize Israel's settlement system.Click here
to order a campaign kit to get your community involved in this boycott.
: This campaign is working to stop Caterpillar from profiting from Israel 's home demolitions and apartheid wall.Caterpillar's equipment was even mentioned over 25 times in the U.N. Goldstone Report on "Operation Cast Lead." Join us in pressuring this U.S. corporation to end sales to Israel of equipment that it systematically uses to deny Palestinians their human rights.Click here
to order a campaign kit to educate and activate your community.
: This campaign is focused on Ahava cosmetics, a corporation that is based in an Israeli settlement on Palestinian land in the West Bank .Not only is Ahava headquartered in an illegal settlement, it also literally sells stolen Palestinian resources from the Dead Sea .Click here
PLEASE get vocal, there are lots of protests and letter campaigns and petitions and all that but what we NEED is to get everyone that claims they are against the war to start talking to EVERYONE they know and not to just think it's a bad war that must stop and not just talk to other anti war people, we need this talked about by everyone everywhere, at home at work at school at the store, everywhere.
FLOOD media with emails, letters, phone calls and faxs (HUGE list at bottom of this email)
You know what Obama will do next don't you?
C'mon, think about it, he'll not only keep us inIraq and Afghanistan, but he'll drag us into Korea or Iran or anywhere his bosses tell him, and his bosses are the military/oil/pharmesutical/any and all other corporations and we need to stand together to make US the bosses like it's supposed to be.
Either that or we watch more lives wasted and watch our economy totally go down and have a full blown depression and by then it'll be too late to do anything.
March and do anything you want, but talking to people close to you even if they don't want to hear it is probably one of the few things that will work, we need more people knowing the facts and speaking up.
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There are news reports that on Decembers 1st, Obama will be at West Point to announce that he is sending tens of thousands more troops to Afghanistan, this despite our rallies, vigils, petitions, phone calls and e-mails saying NO to MORE WAR.We can't let generals and war profiteers be the only ones who have the President's ear.
Obama needs to hear our voices loud and clear. Now is the time to take to the streets, the airwaves, and the opinion pages to say NO to escalation, NO to massive corruption and war profiteering, NO to bombs dropped on Afghan wedding parties, and no to money squandered on war and occupation while the needs of people in this country go unmet.
We have made a powerful "Hopeless Escalation" visual that you can use to create a sign for your office, your window, or your car.
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Raise your voices to join those of Ambassador Eikenberry, Captain Matthew Hoh, The California Democratic Party, Afghan parliamentarian Malalai Joya, Pakistan's Prime Minister, and 54% of US voters, all of them saying NO.
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1. Recruiters lie. According the New York Times, nearly one of five United States Army recruiters was under investigation in 2004 for offenses varying from "threats and coercion to false promises that applicants would not be sent to Iraq." One veteran recruiter told a reporter for the Albany Times Union, "I've been recruiting for years, and I don't know one recruiter who wasn't dishonest about it. I did it myself."
2. The military contract guarantees nothing. The Department of Defense's own enlistment/re-enlistment document states, "Laws and regulations that govern military personnel may change without notice to me. Such changes may affect my status, pay allowances, benefits and responsibilities as a member of the Armed Forces REGARDLESS of the provisions of this enlistment/re-enlistment document" (DD Form4/1, 1998, Sec.9.5b).
3. Advertised signing bonuses are bogus. Bonuses are often thought of as gifts, but they're not. They're like loans: If an enlistee leaves the military before his or her agreed term of service, he or she will be forced to repay the bonus. Besides, Army data shows that the top bonus of $20,000 was given to only 6 percent of the 47,7272 enlistees who signed up for active duty.
4. The military won't make you financially secure. Military members are no strangers to financial strain: 48 percent report having financial difficulty, approximately 33 percent of homeless men in the United States are veterans, and nearly 200,000 veterans are homeless on any given night.
5. Money for college ($71,424 in the bank?). If you expect the military to pay for college, better read the fine print. Among recruits who sign up for the Montgomery GI Bill, 65 percent receive no money for college, and only 15 percent ever receive a college degree. The maximum Montgomery GI Bill benefit is $37,224, and even this 37K is hard to get: To join, you must first put in a nonrefundable $1,200 deposit that has to be paid to the military during the first year of service. To receive the $37K, you must also be an active-duty member who has completed at least a three-year service agreement and is attending a four-year college full time. Benefits are significantly lower if you are going to school part-time or attending a two-year college. If you receive a less than honorable discharge (as one in four do), leave the military early (as one in three do), or later decide not to go to college, the military will keep your deposit and give you nothing. Note: The $71,424 advertised by the Army and $86,000 by the Navy includes benefits from the Amy or Navy College Fund, respectively. Fewer than 10 percent of all recruits earn money from the Army College Fund, which is specifically designed to lure recruits into hard-to-fill positions.
6. Job training. Vice President Dick Cheney once said, "The military is not a social welfare agency; it's not a jobs program." If you enlist, the military does not have to place you in your chosen career field or give you the specific training requested. Even if enlistees do receive training, it is often to develop skills that will not transfer to the civilian job market. (There aren't many jobs for M240 machine-gunners stateside.)
7. War, combat, and your contract. First off, if it's your first time enlisting, you're signing up for eight years. On top of that, the military can, without your consent, extend active-duty obligations during times of conflict, "national emergency," or when directed by the president. This means that even if an enlistee has two weeks left on his/ her contract (yes, even Guard/Reserve) or has already served in combat, she/he can still be sent to war. More than a dozen U.S. soldiers have challenged "stop-loss" measures like these in court so far, but people continue to be shipped off involuntarily. The military has called thousands up from Inactive Ready Reserve -- soldiers who have served, some for as long as a decade, and been discharged. The numbers: twice as many troops are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan per year as during the Vietnam War. One-third of the troops who have gone to Iraq have gone more than once. The highest rate of first- time deployments belongs to the Marine Corps Reserve: almost 90 percent have fought.
Beating, confinement, chaining, emotional distress - the evidence of elephant suffering in circuses is overwhelming...
"It's kind of like a conductor leading an orchestra"
- AZA Elephant Group Head Mike Keele, on using a bullhook
So why is the Association of Zoos and Aquariums' (AZA) elephant group leader defending the treatment of elephants by Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus?
Tell the AZA to sever all ties with circus elephant cruelty
September 16, 2009
AZA'S COZY RELATIONSHIP WITH CIRCUSES
Despite the overwhelming amount of evidence of cruelty to elephants and other animals, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) maintains close ties with circuses. In doing so, zoos give credibility to the circus and help perpetuate the abuse and suffering inherent to the use of elephants in entertainment.
IDA CONFRONTS THE AZA
While the AZA holds its annual conference in Portland this week, IDA is there to pressure this trade association to sever all ties with the circus industry. Our activities include running a hard-hitting ad
in USA Today, holding a press conference and organizing leafleting outside the convention center where AZA members are gathering.
IDA is also seeking censure of Oregon Zoo acting director Mike Keele, head of the AZA's Elephant Taxon Advisory Group (TAG) and acting director of the Oregon Zoo. In a complaint to the AZA Ethics Committee, IDA detailed Keele's self-serving and disturbingly close relationship with the Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus.
KEELE TESTIFIES AS EXPERT FOR RINGLING CIRCUS
In March 2009, Keele testified as a $125-per-hour expert witness for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus at a trial in the U.S. District Court in Washington, DC. That complaint accused the circus of violating the Endangered Species Act by harming endangered Asian elephants through routine and abusive elephant handling practices. By appearing as an expert for the circus, Keele gave a tacit seal of approval to Ringling's unconscionable practices that were documented through mountains of evidence presented at trial. These include:
Chaining elephants at the Ringling Center for Elephant Conservation for 16 to 22 hours per day;
Using chains and ropes to tear babies away from their mothers at age two or younger (before they are weaned) to begin their training for the circus;
Training baby elephants by breaking their spirits through maternal separation, prolonged restraint (tying up their legs), isolation from other elephants and hitting with bullhooks. (One 2-year-old baby elephant, Aria, was chained nonstop for four months and only let off chains for 40 minutes a day to be trained);
Striking the elephants with bullhooks, the steel-tipped rods used to hit, stab and hook elephants into compliance. Ringling head Kenneth Feld, CEO of Feld Entertainment International admitted under oath that all his handlers strike elephants with bullhooks.
Adding to the incontrovertible evidence of elephant abuse and suffering in the Ringling circus is undercover video
of Ringling handlers repeatedly beating and whipping elephants and tigers. The video was taken while the Ringling trial was underway and Keele was testifying on behalf of this egregious abuser of elephants and other animals.
Keele was well-compensated for his association with the Ringling circus, both in terms of the money he was paid as an expert witness and by advancing his goal of cementing closer cooperation between Ringling and AZA zoos for breeding purposes. In return, the circus received credibility from Keele, whose credentials as a zoo and AZA official were made clear at the trial.
Keele's behavior brings shame to the AZA, harms those within the industry who truly care about protecting elephants and makes a mockery of the group's stated commitment to promote "respect for the dignity of the animals in our care."
TIME FOR AZA TO CONDEMN THE CIRCUS
Several AZA specialist groups, including those that deal with Great Apes and monkeys, have officially condemned the use of these species in entertainment. It's past time for AZA's elephant group to follow suit.
Tell the zoos to sever ties with the cruel circus industry. If zoos want to educate the public about elephants, the place to start is by taking a stand against the use and abuse of these magnificent animals for entertainment.
Contact:
Jim Maddy, President and CEO Association of Zoos & Aquariums 8403 Colesville Road, Suite 710 Silver Spring, MD 20910-3314 (P) 301-562-0777 X222 (F) 301-562-0888 (E) jmaddy@aza.org
Also write to the zoo in your community and request that it adopt a policy condemning the use of elephants in circuses and other entertainment venues. Find zoo contact information here
.
In Defense of Animals, located in San Rafael, Calif., is an international animal protection organization with more than 85,000 members and supporters dedicated to ending the abuse and exploitation of animals by protecting their rights and welfare. IDA's efforts include educational events, cruelty investigations, boycotts, grassroots activism, and hands-on rescue through our sanctuaries in Mississippi, Mumbai, India, and Cameroon, Africa.
In Defense of Animals is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization. We welcome your feedback and appreciate your donations. Please join today! All donations to IDA are tax-deductible.
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"Well over half of nearly 1,400 Palestinians killed in Israel's Gaza war were civilians, including 252 children younger than 16, a leading Israeli human rights groups said Wednesday, challenging Israel's claim that most of the dead were militants..............".
Please click below for more, plus when you go there I added a list of media contacts found on Fair.org down in the comments section. Please contact them and push to get this out to people.
An animal rights group publicized a video Tuesday showing unwanted chicks being tossed alive into a grinder
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This was posted by Lars, I'm passiong it on because it needs to get out to as many people as possible because most people don't know anything about what happens before they get their food.
When you go to the news item you will see links (copy and paste them) in the comments, please be vocal.
Here are a few of the links:
On the Web:
Mercy for Animals video: http://www.mercyforanimals.org/hatchery
Hy-Line International: http://www.hyline.com/
Here is the page with the contact form for hyline:
Before anything else, we owe a couple dozen of you a bit of an apology. We underestimated the demand for the new "Single Payer Health Care" caps and got caught short by a couple dozen with the shipment that went out yesterday. But we will be taking delivery on another big batch before the end of the coming week, and they are all going out first class, so if you don't get yours this week, you will shortly after that, and we thank you for your patience. And if you get a request in this week it will go out then as well. In the meantime, all the "Convict Dick & W" caps have gone out.
Not Even Obama Will Give Up The Illegal War Powers Seized By Bush Unless Congress Makes Him Do It
Even in appointing a special counsel last week to look into torture, Eric Holder essentially directed him to IGNORE whether a crime was committed in ordering torture in the first place. The only mandate lifelong Republican prosecutor John Durham has been given is about whether department personnel EXCEEDED the instructions they were given. The "just following orders defense" rejected at Nuremberg has been resurrected by our new Attorney General.
With Holder doing such a weak job of enforcing the law on his own, it is all the more important to get Congress to reassert itself in all these matters, in particular the abuse of war powers under which all the torture happened in the first place. And HR 104, To establish a national commission on presidential war powers and civil liberties, appears to be a good step in this direction. We should not preemptively exclude congressional commissions or investigations as a route to real justice, for that is what Watergate was all about. Congress must act NOW to constrain ALL future presidents, including Obama, lest we end up with worse than Bush before we know it.
How all those Nazi war criminals would have wished for a standard like that set by Eric Holder. Legal opinions no matter how corruptly or self-servingly drafted become get out of prison free cards. Never might that there were many valiant, patriotic people in the CIA and the FBI, the vast majority, who STRENUOUSLY objected to the adoption of torture as accepted U.S. policy. The fact is that NO member of any one of these agencies could have believed in good faith that the torture techniques condemned when used by every other totalitarian regime were suddenly squeaky clean in their hands.
That is what is so disingenuous about Holder's posture, a refusal to actually confront the real issue. Either we are a nation of laws or else we are not. And if the Justice Department was issuing opinions that were patently bogus in defense of torture, it is corruption in HIS OWN department that must be rooted out, and all involved in such outrages must be held fully responsible.
Instead, Holder's suggestion is essentially that a couple so-called "bad apples" should be scapegoated, just as the contractors directing the torture at Abu Grahib, under orders that came direct from the White House, were allowed to skate away, while the lowest level grunts were given 10 years of hard time. At this point, the best way to pressure Holder to actually do his job is to pressure Congress to do theirs, and execute their own investigation into the abuse of war powers.
And yes, we will continue to hear lies about how splendidly well torture worked, even though it did not, to try to seduce the American people into endorsing the abominable. Cheney was all over the TV over the last couple months asserting that the recently released CIA report would absolve him, by showing how torture led to all kinds of great intelligence breakthroughs. There was nothing like that in there. Instead, there were detailed specific instructions on executing torture, adopted from and imitating the worst dictatorships in history, in clinical detail like something out of World War II Nazi bureaucracy.
The Washington Post is in up to their hips with this disinformation campaign, running a story over the weekend with a headline suggesting that waterboarding and sleep deprivation were a boon to intelligence. And yet when you actually read it you find that WHILE Khalid Sheik Mohammed was being waterboarded 183 times he was giving false intelligence that was harmfully counterproductive. It is only AFTER the criminal mistreatment stopped, and much later, that he actually started to cooperate.
So let us make no mistake, the people who did these things in our name were a handful of true sickos, getting in their own sadistic jollies to the disgrace of the good name of the United States of America. And not just those few who willingly went along with it without objection, those who authorized, justified it, and ordered it must also be held responsible, right back to the desk of former Vice President Dick Cheney, and his go along patsy, George Bush. If Holder is so anxious to relieve CIA employees of responsibility, let them testify against the real criminal kingpins in the White House, as the price of their immunity.
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I think this below is a good thing to add to what we are all doing to get the facts out to the average person about the torturing done with our money and in our name (and against our laws).
Please check this out.
Thanks and Peace NotSilent
Dear Friend,
Want accountability for torturers? Tired of the "few bad apples" line?
The Center for Constitutional Rights has partnered with CREDO Action to distribute Torture Team trading cards to start the conversation about responsibility for torture at the highest levels. Each card features a single high-level official and has information about the way in which he or she paved the way for torture.
You can get one pack of ten cards for free. Click here to check it out and get the Torture Team cards before they run out.
Also, there are several news items, and other information on here (Care2.com ) where you can find where to write, email, call and fax to demand full accountability.
There are sev eral news items on here (Care2.com) and sites where ypou can go and sign petitions and send letters and make phone calls to DEMAND FULL accountability of those that ordered torture and those that carried it out. Please search for what you can do.
Not only is it wrong to torture, but if you are the type that agrees with it just take a minute and think about the repercussions. we are making more people hate us every day. So even if it is only for your own safety, please be informed and speak out against torture and demand full accountability.
Here are a few things followed by an email from IndictBushNow.org You can get on their mailing list.
**Please circulate widely to friends and on social-networking sites**
It is Bush and Cheney who gave the orders and it is they who must be held responsible
“The real culprits in this sordid story are those higher-ups, starting with former president George W. Bush and former vice president Richard B. Cheney, who led America down the degrading path of state-sanctioned torture and left the next administration to cope with the fallout.”
Dear Every member of IndictBushNow should feel proud. The announcement that a Special Prosecutor has been appointed to investigate Bush-era crimes was the direct result of the massive, grassroots movement from below. It was the action taken by you and people all around the country that made this possible.
The investigation must and will lead back to the high officials who ordered their subordinates to carry out the most heinous crimes. Now we must keep up the pressure. In fact we must increase it a hundred fold with newspaper ads, street demonstrations, media outreach and more.
As it was stated by the Washington Post lead editorial today:
“The real culprits in this sordid story are those higher-ups, starting with former president George W. Bush and former vice president Richard B. Cheney, who led America down the degrading path of state-sanctioned torture and left the next administration to cope with the fallout.”
What does the report that Attorney General Eric Holder released yesterday reveal? That Cheney, Bush and Rumsfeld’s torture tactics included:
Mock executions
Repeatedly choking detainees carotid artery until unconsciousness
Threatening sexual attacks against the children and parents of detainees
Detaining the children of detainees and threatening to kill the children
“Hard takedowns” meaning repeatedly smashing prisoners into the floor
Head smashing inmates into walls
Water dousing, pouring freezing water on naked inmates strapped to plastic sheets followed by holding the still naked inmates in bitterly cold cells for days
Sleep deprivation lasting for 11 days
Violent shaking of prisoners
Waterboarding (mock drowning) 183 times in the case of one detainee
Hanging prisoners form their wrists for up to three days
“Scrubbing” the bodies of detainees with metal brushes
More than one hundred prisoners may have died in these torture centers according to Col. Lawrence Wilkerson who served as Colin Powell’s chief of staff during the Bush Administration.
The IndictBushNow movement is now in high gear for the next phase of this critical struggle to save the Constitution. Every elected official and the mass media must know that the people will not accept finding a few low-level scapegoats to punish.
Members of Congress are echoing this call and we can create an avalanche of public support for the indictment of Cheney, Bush and Rumsfeld.
Jerome Nadler, the House Judiciary Constitution Subcommittee Chairman said yesterday: “The gruesome acts described in today's report did not happen in a vacuum ... it is vital that this special counsel be given a broad mandate to investigate these abuses, to follow the evidence where it leads, and to prosecute where warranted.”
Now that the investigation has begun all efforts to limit it will fail. Each step of the investigation will inevitably point to those who gave the orders in the chain of command. It is Bush and Cheney who gave the orders and it is they who must be held responsible.
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