100 Thousand Poets for Change - Friday, Sept. 28

Submitted by Susan Lamont
on Sun, 09/09/2012 - 7:05am

Peace in Afghanistan, the Civil Society Way

Submitted by Susan Lamont
on Fri, 09/07/2012 - 8:45pm

 


By Giuliano Battiston

 

 More than a decade after the fall of the Taliban, Afghanistan is still in the midst of an irregular war. Talking peace is difficult because no one quite knows who to talk to.

The efforts gain significance coming ahead of the UN General Assembly meeting Sep. 14 on promoting a culture of peace. As officials talk, more ground-level efforts are being led by civil society groups.

New efforts have been made by officials to talk to anti-government groups, driven by the 2014 transition date when responsibility for security will be transferred fully to Afghan authorities, and

7 Ways to End the Deficit (Without Throwing Grandma Under the Bus)

Submitted by Susan Lamont
on Fri, 09/07/2012 - 8:42pm

 

By John Cavanagh

 

This fall, the U.S. Congress is going to wage a pitched, dragged-out battle over cutting roughly $120 billion a year to solve the so-called deficit crisis. Vital things like teachers’ jobs and Medicare could well get cut.

The Right is already launching new coalitions to push for an austerity budget, calling for cuts in “wasteful government spending,” including key safety-net programs like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and food stamps. America has overspent, they say. America is broke.

In Memory of Joshua Casteel

Submitted by Susan Lamont
on Tue, 09/04/2012 - 9:03pm

 

By Jeff Paterson, Courage to Resist. August 31, 2012

An Arabic translator, Joshua Casteel (left in photo) deployed to Iraq with the 202nd Military Intelligence Battalion in 2004. He served as an prisoner interrogator at the now-infamous Abu Ghraib prison from June 2004 to January 2005. During his deployment, Joshua told his command about his intention to apply for a conscientious objector discharge. His command at Abu Ghraib assigned him to the "non-combat" role of working at the massive and toxic burn pit.

Boycott the Organic Traitor Brands and Vote "Yes" on Prop. 37

Submitted by Susan Lamont
on Thu, 08/23/2012 - 8:24pm

Some of my favorites are on here - going to change my buying habits

 
In recent weeks, several public interest groups, including the Organic Consumers Association, Cornucopia Institute, Mercola.com, and Natural News, have pointed out the gross hypocrisy and greed of large food and beverage corporations selling billions of dollars of organic and natural food, while meanwhile bankrolling the industry opposition to GMO labeling.

Occupy in Motion

Submitted by Susan Lamont
on Mon, 08/20/2012 - 9:27pm

Don't miss the Volunteer Orientation for "Occupy In Motion" this
Tuesday @ 6pm at the Arlene Francis Center! If you can't make it,
we'll have a make-up one next Sunday, the 26th, at 2pm at the Peace
and Justice Center.

"Occupy In Motion" is a two-month effort to recruit hundreds of new
participants to Occupy Santa Rosa, solidify ourselves as an organized
political force in our community, and make concrete gains in our
campaigns for poor and working people, and the 99%, including efforts
to organize homeless communities, workers and tenants.

Julian Assange speaks

Submitted by Susan Lamont
on Mon, 08/20/2012 - 9:25pm

 

There is unity in the oppression.

There must be absolute unity and determination in the response.

 

Julian Assange

founder of WikiLeaks

Statement on Escalating Threats from UNAC - United National Antiwar Coalition

Submitted by Susan Lamont
on Thu, 08/16/2012 - 11:12pm

 


 

DANGEROUS ESCALATION IN THREATS OF MILITARY ACTION AGAINST SYRIA AND IRAN

AND INCREASED RACIST VIOLENCE AND REPRESSION AT HOME

UNAC CALLS FOR EDUCATION AND ACTION

NO WARS/NO SANCTIONS/NO DRONES/NO THREATS/NO PROVOCATIONS/NO ASSASSINATIONS

SELF-DETERMINATION FOR THE PEOPLE OF SYRIA AND IRAN

NO TO RACISM, RAIDS, AND REPRESSION

 

BUILD OCTOBER 7 ACTIONS AGAINST WARS ABROAD AND POLICE STATE

ATTACKS ON CIVIL LIBERTIES AT HOME

 

The news is filled with alarming new threats of attacks on Syria and Iran.  Secretary of State Clinton says the U.S.

Beaten Down, Isolated, and Distracted

Submitted by Susan Lamont
on Thu, 08/16/2012 - 9:07pm

 

By Phil Rockstroh

A couple of decades ago, upon returning to Atlanta, Georgia, after spending a year abroad, I would frequent an independent bookshop that contained a small coffee shop/cafe, where I would sip tea, read books and periodicals, and engage in the nearly extinct art of long form face-to-face verbal discourse with other habituates of the cafe. To this day, I have long standing friendships with a number of people I came to know during those years.

Yet even then, I noticed how the atomization inherent to the internalization of the corporate state (the manner that the domination

Nuclear Free Future Month

Submitted by Susan Lamont
on Fri, 08/03/2012 - 10:26pm

 

Nuclear Free Future Month

NUCLEAR-FREE FUTURE MONTH: TIME TO PHASE OUT NUCLEAR POWER AND START NEGOTIATIONS ON A TREATY TO BAN THE BOMB!

 August 6th and 9th 2012 will mark the 67thanniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A year and a half ago, the nuclear disaster at Fukushima once again brought the dangers of nuclear technology to the center of the world’s attention.

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