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Dec 1, 2009
Focus: Peace
Action Request: Various
Location: United States

 

The Pentagon estimates that it costs $1 billion to send an extra 1,000 troops to Afghanistan.

That breaks down to $1 million per soldier.

In addition, the entire U.S. military spends $1.9 million of taxpayer money every minute.

That’s $1.9 million not used for health care, schools, or investing in our communities.

 

Those number are from here:

http://support.afsc.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=9281.1&dlv_id=12203

That's the American Friends Service Committee

 

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. 

 

This below is from:

 

FAIR's Media Contact List

Let your voice be heard! Talk back to the media.


Network/Cable Television

ABC News
77 W. 66 St., New York, NY 10023
Phone: 212-456-7777

General e-mail: netaudr@abc.com
Nightline: nightline@abcnews.com
20/20: 2020@abc.com

 

CBS News
524 W. 57 St., New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-975-4321
Fax: 212-975-1893

Email forms for all CBS news programs
CBS Evening News: evening@cbsnews.com
The Early Show: earlyshow@cbs.com
60 Minutes II: 60m@cbsnews.com
48 Hours: 48hours@cbsnews.com
Face The Nation: ftn@cbsnews.com

 

CNBC
900 Sylvan Avenue, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632
Phone: (201) 735-2622
Fax: (201) 583-5453
Email: info@cnbc.com


CNN
One CNN Center, Box 105366, Atlanta, GA 30303-5366
Phone: 404-827-1500
Fax: 404-827-1784
Email forms for all CNN news programs

 

Fox News Channel
1211 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY 10036
Phone: (212) 301-3000
Fax: (212) 301-4229
comments@foxnews.com

List of Email addresses for all Fox News Channel programs
Special Report with Bret Baier: Special@foxnews.com
FOX Report with Shepard Smith: Foxreport@foxnews.com
The O'Reilly Factor: Oreilly@foxnews.com
Hannity: Hannity@foxnews.com,
On the Record with Greta: Ontherecord@foxnews.com
Glenn Beck: GlennBeck@foxnews.com

 

MSNBC/NBC
30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10112
Phone: (212) 664-4444
Fax: (212) 664-4426

List of Email addresses for all MSNBC/NBC news programs
Dateline NBC: dateline@nbcuni.com
Hardball with Chris Matthews: hardball@msnbc.com
MSNBC Reports with Joe Scarborough: joe@msnbc.com
NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams: nightly@nbc.com
NBC News Today: today@nbc.com

 

PBS
2100 Crystal Drive, Arlington VA 22202
Phone: 703-739-5000
Fax: 703-739-8458

The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer: newshour@pbs.org

 


National Radio Programs

National Public Radio
635 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20001-3753
Phone: 202-513-3232
Fax: 202-513-3329

E-mail: Alicia Shephard, Ombudsman ombudsman@npr.org
List of Email addresses for all NPR news programs


The Rush Limbaugh Show
1270 Avenue of the Americas, NY 10020
Phone (on air): 800-282-2882
Fax: 212-445-3963
E-mail: ElRushbo@eibnet.com

Sean Hannity Show
Phone (on air): 800-941-7326
Sean Hannity: 212-613-3800
James Grisham, Producer: 212-613-3807

E-mail: Phil Boyce, Program Director phil.boyce@citcomm.com


National Newspapers

The Los Angeles Times
202 West First Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: 800-528-4637 or 213-237-5000
Fax: 213-237-4712

L.A. Times Contact Information by Department
Letters to the Editor: letters@latimes.com
Readers' Representative: readers.rep@latimes.com


The New York Times
620 8th Ave., New York, NY 10018
Phone: 212-556-1234
D.C. Bureau phone: 202-862-0300
Fax: 212-556-3690

Letters to the Editor (for publication): letters@nytimes.com
Write to the news editors: news-tips@nytimes.com
Corrections: senioreditor@nytimes.com
New York Times Contact Information by Department
How to Contact New York Times Reporters and Editors

 

USA Today
7950 Jones Branch Dr., McLean, VA 22108
Phone: 703-854-3400
Fax: 703-854-2078

Letters to the Editor: editor@usatoday.com
Give feedback to USA Today


The Wall Street Journal
200 Liberty St., New York, NY 10281
Phone: 212-416-2000
Fax: 212-416-2658

Letters to the Editor: wsj.ltrs@wsj.com
Comment on News Articles: wsjcontact@dowjones.com


The Washington Post
1150 15th St., NW, Washington, DC 20071
Phone: 202-334-6000
Fax: 202-334-5269

Letters to the Editor: letters@washpost.com
Ombudsman: ombudsman@washpost.com
Contact Washington Post Writers and Editors


Magazines

Newsweek
251 W 57th Street, New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-445-4000
Fax: 212-445-5068

Letters to the Editor: letters@newsweek.com


Time
Time & Life Bldg., Rockefeller Center, 1271 6th Ave., New York, NY 10020
Phone: 212-522-1212
Fax: 212-522-0003

Letters to the Editor letters@time.com


U.S. News & World Report
1050 Thomas Jefferson St., Washington, DC 20007
Phone: 202-955-2000
Fax: 202-955-2049

Letters to the Editor letters@usnews.com


News Services / Wires

Associated Press
450 West 33rd St., New York, NY 10001
Phone: 212-621-1500
Fax: 212-621-7523

General Questions and Comments: info@ap.org
Partial Contact Information for the Associated Press by Department and Bureau

 

Reuters
Three Times Square, New York, NY 10036
Telephone: 646-223-4000

Reuters Editorial Feedback


United Press International
1133 19th Street, NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20036
Telephone: 202-898-8000
FAX: 202-898-8048

Comments and Tips: tips@upi.com


FAIR wants to hear about your media activism. Please send copies of your letters to journalists to

FAIR
104 W. 27th St. 10th Floor
New York, NY 10001
fair@fair.org
We can't always respond, but we look at everything.
back to FAIR'S Media Activist Kit
For additional contacts including local media, please see: www.newslink.org or www.newsdirectory.com

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Talk to everyone you know.
Please
Thanks and PeaceNotSilent

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Posted: Dec 1, 2009 9:09pm
Nov 30, 2009
Focus: Peace
Action Request: Protest
Location: United States

Obama Hopeless Escalation

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.

Download the flier for your office, window or car: B W | Color

You can send "Hopeless Escalation" as an e-card to your friends and family. Or try making a banner to hang from a freeway overpass!

Find a local event near you plus local CODEPINK events here

See more tips and tools here

Whatever you decide to do--do it now!

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.

Standing Up for Peace,
Dana, Emily, Farida, Gael, Gayle, Janet, Jodie, Marina, Medea, Nancy, Paris, Rae, Suzanne, and Whitney

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Posted: Nov 30, 2009 3:47pm
Oct 6, 2009
Focus: Peace
Action Request: Various
Location: United States
Editor's Note: The following is excerpted from Army of None: Strategies to Counter Military Recruitment, End War and Build a Better World published by Seven Stories Press, August 2007. Reprinted here by permission of publisher. Copyright © 2007 Aimee Allison and David Solnit

Top military recruitment facts

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.

More, incuding information on counterrecruitment can be found here:
http://www.alternet.org/world/62945/

And the MySpace page for the book that listed the above facts:
http://www.myspace.com/armyofnonebook
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Posted: Oct 6, 2009 2:22am
Sep 16, 2009
Focus: Animal Welfare
Action Request: Various
Location: United States

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Beating, confinement, chaining, emotional distress - the evidence of elephant suffering in circuses is overwhelming...

 Ringling elephant gets the hook

 "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);Another elephant threatened with the hook
  • 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.

What You Can Do

 

 

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

 
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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.

In Defense of Animals
3010 Kerner, San Rafael, CA 94901
Tel. (415) 448-0048 Fax (415) 454-1031
idainfo@idausa.org

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Posted: Sep 16, 2009 7:38pm
Sep 9, 2009
Focus: Human Rights
Action Request: Various
Location: United States
Israeli Study: Majority of Gaza War Dead Were Civilians





"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.



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Posted: Sep 9, 2009 7:26am
Sep 1, 2009
Focus: Animal Welfare
Action Request: Think About
Location: United States
Video Shows Chicks Ground Up Alive at Egg Hatchery







Lars
- 48 minutes ago - news.yahoo.com


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:

http://www.hyline.com/aspx/contactus/contactus.aspx?navid=10

Here is the email for the company:

info@hyline.com

and here's a page of a list of all their Subsidiaries, Affiliates, Organizations, Tradeshows, Publications and
Distributors

http://www.hy-line.com/aspx/links/links.aspx?navid=9



Peace

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Posted: Sep 1, 2009 7:24pm
Aug 31, 2009
Focus: Government
Action Request: Petition
Location: United States

This is from http://www.peaceteam.net/


Please read, follow through and pass along.


Thanks


Peace


NotSilent


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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.

Presidential War Powers Action Page:
http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1001.php


 



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.

Presidential War Powers Action Page:
http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1001.php


 



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.

So again, if want a "Convict Dick & W" cap we'll be shipping more of
those this week, we'll have more of the "Single Payer Health Care"
caps at the same time. And you can request either of these or any
other of our progressive advocacy gifts from the return page of the
action page above, or directly from this link.

Progressive Advocacy Gifts: http://www.peaceteam.net/all_gifts.php


 



And yes, you can also respond to this action through the new Twitter
gateway. Just send the following Twitter reply, and add any personal
comment you like.

@cxs #p1001

And if you want a step by step explanation of how to set up the
Twitter thing here is the link for that.

Twitter Activism Step-By-Step: http://tcxs.net/step_by_step.php


 



Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed
to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.

If you would like to get alerts like these, you can do so at
http://www.peaceteam.net/in.htm


 




 



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Posted: Aug 31, 2009 7:36pm
Aug 28, 2009
Focus: Human Rights
Action Request: Read
Location: United States
Hey Folks,

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.

http://act.credoaction.com/tortureteam/?r_by=-1606921-MIJuYMx&rc=taf.sticker
 


Thanks!

Get Your Free Torture Team Cards!

2,045 Packs of Cards Ordered So Far!



http://act.credoaction.com/tortureteam/?r_by=-1606921-MIJuYMx&rc=taf.sticker

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.

Here's are a couple,

http://www.care2.com/news/member/276942576/1220761

http://www.care2.com/news/member/276942576/1230118

http://www.care2.com/news/member/471046224/1228690


Here's the Attorney General's phone number:

Office of the Attorney General -
202-353-1555



Please look for these things and follow through with them as we NEED to get more people aware!

Thanks
Peace
NotSilent

 
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Posted: Aug 28, 2009 5:51pm
Aug 25, 2009
Focus: Human Rights
Action Request: Read
Location: United States

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.

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It is Bush and Cheney who gave the orders and
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“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.”

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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.

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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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Organic Bytes - If you can't see this message contact us oca@mail.democracyinaction.org August 21, 2009 Organic Bytes #187 Dangerous Flu Vaccines, USDA Stupidity and More.... Health, Justice and Sustainability News
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  • Quote of the Week: Jim Hightower: "USDA: Irresponsible, Dangerous, and Stupid"
  • Bad News of the Week: USDA Wants Genetic Engineering Allowed in Organic
  • Good News of the Week: Vacation with the OCA and Savor Mexico's Growing Organic Movement
  • Alert of the Week: Factory Pig Farms & Big Pharma Vaccines - Protect Your Family & Know Your Rights
  • Video of the Week: Vaccine Nation
  • Alert Update of the Week: Whole Foods CEO Ignites Boycott
  • Web Forum Hot Topic: Meat-Eating and Soy Products
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Quote of the Week "Irresponsible, Dangerous, and Stupid" Is the Unofficial Slogan of the USDA

"Let's bring into our country a genetically-engineered, non-native tree that is known to be wildly invasive, explosively flammable, and insatiably thirsty for ground water. ... Yes, this would be irresponsible, dangerous, and stupid - but apparently 'Irresponsible, Dangerous, and Stupid' is the unofficial slogan of the U.S. Department Agriculture."

Read More and Take Action Against GE Trees

 

Bad News of the Week USDA Wants Genetic Engineering Allowed in Organic

"In reality, the divide between organics and biotechnology is an artificial construction maintained by ideology rather than science. A governmental decision to change organic regulations to permit the use of biotechnology could have far-reaching policy implications for global agriculture. Allowing producers to gain organic certification for biotech crops could encourage the development of a new type of environmentally sustainable agricultural production with greater benefits for the consumer." - USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, "The Unexplored Potential of Organic-Biotech Production," May 26, 2009

Read More and Learn Why GE Can't Be Organic

 

Good News of the Week OCA's Via Organica EcoTours to Mexico

August 2-9, 2009, Via Organica (the "Organic Way"), OCA's sister organization in Mexico, organized our first Agro-EcoTour to Mexico, bringing US organic consumers down to the beautiful San Miguel de Allende region of Guanajuato, for a first-hand look at the budding organic Movement south of the border. Tour leaders included Ronnie Cummins, OCA Director, Alexis Baden-Mayer, head of OCA's Washington, DC office, Luc Monzies, organic farming expert, and Ana Maria Quispe, Via Organica's staff dietician and translator.

Trip highlights included an all-day Organic Agriculture workshop at the Via Organica farm and conference center, attended by 250 small farmers from the area who are working with our staff to make the transition to organic agriculture; visits to regional organic farms and permaculture sites; a rural community organizing center; as well as organic retail stores, restaurants, and farmers markets.

Learn and read more about OCA's EcoTours

 

Sign up for the next OCA/ViaOrganic tour to Mexico October 4-11

 

Alert of the Week Factory Pig Farms & Big Pharma Vaccines - Protect Your Family & Know Your Rights

The propaganda machine of the U.S. government and Big Pharma are busy force-feeding Americans a dubious, in fact dangerous message: don't worry about filthy, disease-ridden factory farms and drugged-out farm animals incubating infectious diseases like the Swine Flu, because Big Pharma will protect us, starting with quasi-mandatory mass vaccinations of schoolchildren this fall. Not only is the Obama Administration ignoring warnings by the world's scientists that factory farms are the source and direct cause of the Swine Flu and Bird Flu epidemics, but they are preparing to allow greedy drug companies to inject you and your children with basically ineffective Swine Flu vaccines that contain hazardous viruses and chemicals. As organic consumers know, there are practical alternatives to factory farms (organic farms and ranches). And as millions of alternative medical consumers and practitioners understand, there are clear alternatives to hazardous Swine Flu vaccines: strengthening our body and immune systems with healthy organic diets, medicinal herbs, and homeopathy.

Learn more and take action!

 

OCA Needs Your Help!

OCA needs your help and support. If we are to stop Monsanto's GMOs and shut down factory farms; if we are to head off dangerous vaccines and promote holistic health; if we are to make organic food and farming and green living the norm--rather than just the alternative--we need your donations today. Any size donation is welcome, but for those who can afford it, give OCA a donation of $1000 or more and we'll treat you to a royal organic vacation and tour at the Mexican organic farm and EcoTourism center of our sister organization Via Organica.

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Video of the Week Trailer for Vaccine Nation

Investigative film director Dr. Gary Null challenges the basic health claims by government health agencies and pharmaceutical firms that vaccines are perfectly safe.

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Alert Update of the Week Whole Foods Market Faces Boycott Over Opposition to Public Option and Single Payer

Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey set off a firestorm of controversy in a recent Wall Street Journal article

 
, arguing against health care reform and the so-called "public option." Mackey contends that the United States can fix our healthcare crisis not by reining in insurance companies and improving access to comprehensive healthcare and affordable organic food, but by patronizing his overpriced WFM and further deregulating the insurance industry. In fact, Mackey believes that healthcare is not a human right, but a commodity that only the wealthy should have. Tens of thousands of organic consumers and health care advocates have responded by calling for a boycott of Whole Foods Markets.

Over fifteen thousand OCA members have contacted WFM in recent months, urging the nation's largest retailer of organic products to increase organic food access, implement comprehensive testing for GMOs in their private label products and eliminate dangerous chemicals from their body care products. WFM responded by bowing to OCA pressure and has promised to sell significantly more organics in 2010. We having an impact!

Tell Whole Foods to support their stated mission of promoting organics, health, justice, and sustainability

 

Web Forum Posting of the Week Bytes Readers Stand Up for Meat-Eating and Against Soy

Last week, we reported on a Washington Post article summarizing a number of recent reports

 
indicating that one of the best things you can do to reduce your carbon footprint and greenhouse gas pollution is to reduce your meat consumption.

We also included a line in a sample letter to Whole Foods, asking them to stock organic soy...

 

Several Bytes readers wrote us to stand up for meat-eating and against soy. We've included their comments and our response in our Web forum where OCA members are engaged in a vibrant debate on the pros and cons of vegetarian and vegan diets

 
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Headlines and Articles of the Week

1) Organic Transitions News of the Week:
The Common Security Club Network

 

These are uncertain times. The economic crisis has reminded us of our vulnerabilities. Debt. Foreclosure. Evaporating Savings. Rising Costs. Job Insecurity. We can face these changes alone - or come together. Common Security Clubs bring people together to explore ways to increase our economic security through mutual aid and shared action.
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2) Via Organica News of the Week:
Ancient Farming Techniques to Save the Campo

 

Poor farmers in Mexico are experimenting with a sustainable way of growing food crops that their ancestors used. It could provide them with better protection against the extremes of climate change, reduce deforestation, improve food security and even promise a better diet.
Learn more
 

3) Agri-Intellectual News of the Week:
Why Organic Must Replace Chemical and Energy-Intensive Agriculture

 

The sustainable-food movement needs to step up and start grappling with big questions: 1) Soil Fertility-How are we to build soil fertility on a larger scale? 2) Labor-Who's going to work our farm fields, and at what wages? and 3) Access-How can we make sustainably grown food accessible to everyone?
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4) Millions Against Monsanto News of the Week:
Michael Taylor: Monsanto's Man in the Obama Administration

 

In collusion with the Rockefeller and Bill and Melinda Gates foundations, Taylor is once again the go-between man for Monsanto and the U.S. government, this time with the goal to open up African markets for genetically-modified (GM) seed and agrochemicals.
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5) World Hunger News of the Week:
Vandana Shiva: Climate Change, Drought and India's Looming Food and Water Crisis

 

Water wasteful chemical agriculture has depleted ground water, mined soil fertility and contributed to climate change. The solutions for the climate crisis, the food crisis, and the water crisis, under which India is reeling, are biodiversity based organic farming systems.
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