ACTIVISM

Conscience is not on the military's radar screen, and it's not on our television screen. But government officials and media messsages do not define the limits and possibilities of concscience.
We do.
Norman Solomon, War Made Easy, 2005

 

The thousands of Americans, including Greens, who protested in the streets in early 2003 were right

said Michael Berg, Delaware Green candidate for U.S. Representative (bergforcongress.us), We need to hold public officials who got us into the Iraq war accountable. Being right doesn't make us proud, it makes us angry and sorrowful for the needless deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, the more than 2,300 U.S. service members, and the hundreds of civilian contractors.
All of us have become hostages in the new conditions of doomsday technology, runaway economics, global poisoning, uncontainable war.

Here are some examples of things to do:

from The Antiwar League

1. Actively obstruct the military recruitment of our kids. Parents, teachers and students should demand of local school officials and city government that they defy the federal "No Child Left Behind Law" and expel the recruiters from our schools even if they threaten us with a cutoff of federal funds. We must not "sell" our children to the Masters of War for federal blood money. Tell them to shove it.

2. Indict Bush and/or his accomplices. The movement to bring war crimes charges against Bush should not rely on impeachment or an International War Crimes tribunal but should turn to local and state courts and law enforcement officials and demand that they investigate the possibility of a conspiracy by federal officials to start a war of aggression.

3. Oppose federal control of state National Guard units. In Massachusetts last fall there was a signature campaign for a ballot initiative to bring home the Massachusetts National Guard from Iraq and prevent further deployment in overseas wars.

4. Refuse cooperation with the totalitarian Homeland Security project. Demand that our state and city governments and community leaders break the ties that connect out local communities and institutions to the Orwellian "War on Terror." (For example we should abolish the Fusion Centers.)

Such projects of resistance and refusal may already be underway in many places but we need to duplicate these efforts in thousands of communities and we need to make our decentralization strategy explicit. We should declare that we have a home field advantage against the War Party and that we intend to use it to peacefully but decisively dismantle the war machine.

Doug Fuda, April 1, 2006 Local vs. Federal -- the Antiwar Home Field Advantage
Pictures from Delaware vigils

Three Years of Wrongful War & Death

Greens Denounce Utility Rate Increases

Join Sen. John Conyers:

Demand Censure for Bush-Cheney Misconduct; Investigate Impeachable Offenses


Recycle your old electronics

Green Wave: Write a Green Letter or Op-ed Column on Iraq Withdrawal
Send a Letter to an Editor

Join Pacem In Terris at the weekly witness for peace vigils throughout the region.

Under the influence of politicians, masses of people tend to ascribe the responsibility for wars to those who wield power at any given time. In World War I it was the munitions industrialists; in World War II it was the psychopathic generals who were said to be guilty. This is passing the buck. The responsibility for wars falls solely upon the shoulders of these same masses of people, for they have all the necessary means to avert war in their own hands. In part by their apathy, in part by their passivity, and in part actively, these same masses of people make possible the catastrophes under which they themselves suffer more than anyone else. To stress this guilt on the part of the masses of people, to hold them solely responsible, means to take them seriously.
On the other hand, to commiserate masses of people as victims means to treat them as small, helpless children. The former is the attitude held by genuine freedom fighters; the latter that attitude held by power-thirsty politicians.

~ Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism

Dump the Dump

Impeach Bush and Cheney

Impeach Bush and Cheney!

The Insurgent Word
Read the GP Resolution and the Downing Street Minutes

Rice at the Center of the Plame Scandal

Bush can ignore the American public, because the Democrats have completely collapsed as an opposition party.





E.L. Doctorow, The Unfeeling President

Mark Crispin Miller, None Dare Call It Stolen: Ohio, the election, and America's servile press

News: Third Party Watch

...the bum's rush to war

AfterDowningStreet.org

Congressional Call for Withdrawal

Democrats Blow Chance to Hold Bush Accountable for Iraq Policy

Conyers Judiciary Committee Meeting on DSM

End the Madness: An Impeachment List



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The cover story of the latest issue of Green Pages details how the Florida Greens are working with other anti-nuclear activists to prevent the licensing of three new reactors. With a pro-nuclear President in the White House, it’s critical that Greens work with activists around the country to defeat the idea that the answer to climate change is additional nuclear reactors.

In From Hopenhagen to Nopenhagen Brian Tokar of the Institute for Social Ecology states “After the 2007 climate summit in Bali, Indonesia, the Bush administration tried to initiate an alternate track of negotiations on climate policy that involved only a select handful of the more compliant countries … Now that the Obama administration has adopted essentially the same approach …”

Also included are articles on the upcoming mid-term elections and obituaries for Bob Long and Dennis Brutus. As always; read, comment, distribute.

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Features

Florida faces nuclear threat
by Michael Canney

Arizona Greens triumph in federal court
by Claudia Ellquist

Robert “Bob” Long, Green Pioneer (1917-2010)
by Mike Feinstein

Berkeley Peace and Justice Commission follows Ten Key Values
by Bob Meola

Cynthia McKinney receives international peace award

Elections

Fairfax, California’s Town Council: The Green Party Majority
by Mimi Newton

Green-Rainbow Party Sets Sights on 2010 Races
by Dave England

Dozens of candidates file for the Green Party primary in Illinois

World

Green Ideology and Its Relation to Modernity: Including a Case Study of the Green Party of Sweden by Michael Moon
Reviewed by Angela Aylward, Green Party of Sweden (Miljöpartiet de gröna)

From Hopenhagen to Nopenhagen
by Mike Feinstein

Opinion

A vision for the midterm
by Brent McMillan

A tale of party oppression at the local level
by Deyva Arthur, New York State Green Party

Evergreen

Poetic obituary for Dennis Brutus
Stone Hammered to Gravel by Martin Espada

Poetry Corner
Overtime by Jackie Sheeler

Green Music by Tom
by Barbara Rodgers-Hendricks

A summary review of Forever Pleasure, a utopian novel by Theodore R. Eastman
by Barbara Rodgers-Hendricks

Reports

State Reports

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With radiating waves, a skull and crossbones and a running person, a new ionizing radiation warning symbol is being introduced to supplement the traditional international symbol for radiation, the three cornered trefoil.

The new symbol is being launched today by the IAEA and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to help reduce needless deaths and serious injuries from accidental exposure to large radioactive sources. It will serve as a supplementary warning to the trefoil, which has no intuitive meaning and little recognition beyond those educated in its significance.

International Atomic Energy Agency press release

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