Resource:
MONEY FOR HUMAN NEEDS NOT WAR!
FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF SOCIAL SERVICES
UNDER THE KNIFE RIGHT NOW GO TO:
http://www.bauaw.org/2005/02/programs-eliminated-or-cut-in-2006.html
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1) THE NEXT BAUAW MEETING WILL TAKE PLACE:
SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 11:30AM
474 VALENCIA STREET, SF
(FIRST FLOOR, TO THE LEFT AND ALL THE WAY BACK
TO THE COMPANEROS DEL BARRIO CHILDREN'S CENTER)
There are three important meetings with the Board of Education
coming up:
2) WE ALL STAND WITH LYNNE STEWART!
NO JAIL TIME FOR LYNNE!
PLEASE WRITE LETTERS TODAY
3) March 19, 2005 Global Day of Action
No to War Occupation ˆ Iraq, Palestine, Haiti,
Afghanistan, Cuba Everywhere!
Bring the Troops Home Now!
Money for People‚s Needs, Not War!
San Francisco: March Assembles: 11 a.m. Dolores Park
Rally: 1 p.m. Civic Center
4) COMING TO THE BAY AREA SOON-POWERFUL ANTIWAR MOVIES
5) Nuclear Survivors Say They Were Fed Lies (link only)
in Government Cover-Ups
Published on Tuesday, March 1, 2005 by
the Agence France Presse
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0301-02.htm
6) ACLU, Ex-Detainees to Sue Rumsfeld Over Abuse (link only)
by Will Dunham
WASHINGTON
Published on Tuesday, March 1, 2005 by Reuters
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0301-01.htm
7) In this message:
· Protest the Curfew in Oakland
· Postering for March 19
Wed. March 2, 11am
KEEP UP THE HEAT AGAINST THE CURFEW IN OAKLAND!!
Oakland City Hall (12th Broadway)
8) THE NATION (link only)
Iraq War Lands in the Midst of
Vermont's Town Hall Meetings
The fighting's burden falls particularly hard on the
state, say backers of an antiwar resolution.
By Elizabeth Mehren
Times Staff Writer
BETHEL, Vt.
March 2, 2005
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/complete/la-na-vermont2mar02,1,5892908.story?coll=la-iraq-complete
9) Mumia Abu-Jamal on the Targeting of Lynne Stewart
From Death Row this is Mumia Abu-Jamal
(c) Mumia Abu-Jamal 2005
Targeting Lynne Stewart
10) Innocenti: child poverty (link only)
on the rise in wealthy nations
(c) UNICEF/HQ97-0211/Press
Tiffany, 10, sits with her mother and step-father on a sidewalk
bench in Florida, USA. After months of homelessness, she and
her sister are being sent to live with their grandmother in
another state.
http://www.unicef.org/childsurvival/index_25285.html
11) Canada a Haven Again (link only)
Like Draft Evaders and Deserters of Vietnam Era,
American Soldiers are Heading North to Find Refuge
from What They Say is an Unjust War in Iraq
by Andrew Metz
Published on Wednesday, March 2, 2005 by New York Newsday
/ Long Island
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0302-09.htm
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1) THE NEXT BAUAW MEETING WILL TAKE PLACE:
SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 11:30AM
474 VALENCIA STREET, SF
(FIRST FLOOR, TO THE LEFT AND ALL THE WAY BACK
TO THE COMPANEROS DEL BARRIO CHILDREN'S CENTER)
There are three important meetings coming up:
(Board of Education Meetings will take place at: 555 Franklin St.)
Sunday, March 6th: The code pink counter-recruitment group
will be holding a meeting at 3 p.m. at the S.F. green office,
1028a Howard St. (between 6th and 7th,) to plan for the
March 8th San Francisco Board of Education meeting, where
this item is on the agenda: Military Recruitment and
JROTC in our Schools.
Tuesday, March 8th: The Board will entertain a motion to
allow counter-recruitment at the schools to counteract
military presence. This meeting is at 7:00 p.m. at
555 Franklin St. Folks are encouraged to speak at this
meeting also. Call 415-241-6427, 241-6493 or 241-6000
March 7th from 8-4pm and March 8th from 8-3pm to get
on the speakers list.
Thursday, March 17th(revised date): There will be a
"meeting of the whole" devoted solely to the issue of
military recruitment at our schools. This meeting is
designed to be a very large meeting that will address
the war and this issue only. Further information about
this meeting will be forthcoming in a day or two. Everyone
should be prepared to mobilize for this meeting. I believe
the March 19th march and rally will also be on the
agenda of this meeting.
Board of Education Meetings will take place at: 555 Franklin St.
BAUAW has submitted the following resolution to the board:
Draft Resolution for San Francisco Board of Education
Cut Ties with the Military:
WHEREAS, the United States military is actively recruiting high
school students into the military to fight in Iraq; and
WHEREAS, many young San Francisco high school alumni are
presently serving in military units fighting in Iraq; and
WHEREAS, it is San Francisco City policy by virtue of
Proposition N, to bring all U.S. troops home from Iraq now; and
WHEREAS, over 1,448 U.S. soldiers and approximately 100,000
Iraqis have been killed in this war and over 10,000 U.S. soldiers
and unknown thousands of Iraqis have been wounded; and
WHEREAS, the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the war
have robbed our children of resources that should be spent
on education and other human needs; and
WHEREAS, military presence in our schools legitimizes the
message that violence is acceptable; THEREFORE BE IT
RESOLVED THAT:It shall be the policy of the San Francisco
Board of Education to support cutting all ties with the United
States military, including, but not limited to: Ending military
recruitment on campuses; ending the Junior Reserve Officer
Training Corps (JROTC); and guaranteeing that all students
and parents are informed of their right to deny military
recruiters access to their names, addresses and telephone
numbers.
Bay Area United Against War (BAUAW) • www.bauaw.org •
P.O. Box 318021, San Francisco, CA 94131-8021 • 414-824-8730
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2) WE ALL STAND WITH LYNNE STEWART!
NO JAIL TIME FOR LYNNE!
PLEASE WRITE LETTERS TODAY:
SUGGESTION AS TO FORMAT OF LETTERS
TO BE WRITTEN ON BEHALF OF LYNNE STEWART
MARGIN: Please leave at least a one-inch left-hand margin
to allow us to bind the letter into the appendix to the
sentencing memorandum that is being filed on
Lynne's behalf.
INSIDE ADDRESS: Honorable John G. Koeltl
United States District Judge
Southern District of New York
United States Courthouse
500 Pearl Street
New York, New York 10007
GREETING: Honorable Sir or Dear Judge Koeltl:
BODY: Briefly introduce yourself and set forth your
relationship to Lynne.
Briefly discuss yourself - your position in work and
in society.
State that you are aware that Lynne is to be sentenced
following a jury verdict of guilty on serious charges:
The remainder of your letter should discuss whatever
you believe to weigh in favor of no jail time. If possible,
you should tell of an incident where she helped you out
or engaged in commendable community service. Do not
try to argue that she is not guilty or was unfairly conviction.
Focus on the unfairness of the government's actions in
bringing the charges; the way in which the government
portrayed her, etc.
* Typewritten letters if possible are preferred.
*
WHEN LETTER IS COMPLETED: Please mail the final product
to the following address:
Jill R. Shellow-Lavine, Esq.
2537 Post Road
Southport, CT 06890
Do not send your letters to the judge. We ask that you forward
your letter me so that the lawyers can present it to Judge Koeltl
with the other letters being written for this purpose. This is the
manner in which letters will have the greatest impact. If they
are sent directly to the Judge's chambers, they may have less
of an impact and could cause the judge a substantial
inconvenience (and annoyance).
Thank you for your cooperation. If you have any questions,
please do not hesitate to contact the defense committee at
www.lynnestewart.org.
Sincerely,
Jill R. Shellow-Lavine
Attorney for Lynne Stewart
For more information go to:
www.LynneStewart.org
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3) March 19, 2005 Global Day of Action
No to War Occupation ˆ Iraq, Palestine, Haiti,
Afghanistan, Cuba Everywhere!
Bring the Troops Home Now!
Money for People‚s Needs, Not War!
San Francisco: March Assembles: 11 a.m. Dolores Park
Rally: 1 p.m. Civic Center
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4) COMING TO THE BAY AREA SOON ARE SOME POWERFUL
ANTIWAR MOVIES
"Mission Accomplished" is a a brutally vivid documentary
filmed entirely on the ground in Iraq. The reality of this
war for American troops is contrasted to the
overwhelming reality of the devastation felt and experienced
by the people of Iraq.
"Mission Accomplished" will open March 18th:
4 Star
2200 Clement St.
San Francisco, CA 94121
415.666.3488
"Voices In Wartime" is a compelling portrayal of human
experience with war through poetry, both from the point
of view of those who were in combat and those who are left
behind.
"Voices In Wartime" will play in S.F. on April 15th at:
Landmark Lumiere 3
1572 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
[This poem by fourth-grader Cameron Penny was read
by Marie Howe in this very beautiful film
directed by Rick King.
"If you are lucky in this life
A window will appear on a battlefield between two armies
And when the soldiers look into the window
They don't see their enemies
They see themselves as children
And they stop fighting
And go home and go to sleep
When they wake up, the land is well again."
By Cameron Penny]
To learn more about these film visit
Cinema Libre Studio
http://www.cinemalibrestudio.com/
Also: check out, GUNNER PALACE |
Some war stories will never make the nightly news.
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5) Nuclear Survivors Say They Were Fed Lies (link only)
in Government Cover-Ups
Published on Tuesday, March 1, 2005 by
the Agence France Presse
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0301-02.htm
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6) ACLU, Ex-Detainees to Sue Rumsfeld Over Abuse (link only)
by Will Dunham
WASHINGTON
Published on Tuesday, March 1, 2005 by Reuters
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0301-01.htm
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7) In this message:
· Protest the Curfew in Oakland
· Postering for March 19
Wed. March 2, 11am
KEEP UP THE HEAT AGAINST THE CURFEW IN OAKLAND!!
Oakland City Hall (12th Broadway)
On March 2 at 11 a.m. All of Us or None and Critical Resistance will
be outside Oakland City Hall demanding jobs from the City of Oakland
for people coming out of prison, on parole or probation. Jerry Brown's
press secretary, Gil Duran, said "If you know any felons who need
work, send them our way. If we can't hire them, we'll find someone
who can." We are going to make him stand by his word as part of
our campaign against the curfew. TELL EVERYBODY YOU KNOW,
especially former prisoners and folks on parole or probation, to
come on down to City Hall to apply for a job. We want a long line
of folks who are looking for work, to show how many of us need
jobs. We are also recruiting service providers and job developers
to come on down on that day, because we know it's unlikely that
the City of Oakland will actually provide the jobs they promise.
JOIN US on March 2, 11 a.m. at Oakland City Hall (12th Broadway)
to demand jobs from the City of Oakland and to protest Jerry
Brown's proposed curfew!!
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Saturday, March 5
OUTREACH FOR MARCH 19
SAN FRANCISCO, meet at 2489 Mission St.
Room 24 at 21st St., 11am
EAST BAY, meet at MacArthur BART Parking Lot,
12noon-12:30pm
Contact Bruce at 925-917-1039 (cell) if you have
questions or need location info
Only two weekends left before March 19! Help make that final
push ˆ get involved and help poster for the next Global Day of
Action. Go out in flyering teams to BART stations or shopping
districts. We have new glossy color posters for March 19 to put
up in storefronts - pick some up to take to your community
businesses.
Call 415-821-6545 for more info.
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8) THE NATION (link only)
Iraq War Lands in the Midst of
Vermont's Town Hall Meetings
The fighting's burden falls particularly hard on the
state, say backers of an antiwar resolution.
By Elizabeth Mehren
Times Staff Writer
BETHEL, Vt.
March 2, 2005
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/complete/la-na-vermont2mar02,1,5892908.story?coll=la-iraq-complete
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9) Mumia Abu-Jamal on the Targeting of Lynne Stewart
From Death Row this is Mumia Abu-Jamal
(c) Mumia Abu-Jamal 2005
Targeting Lynne Stewart
The conviction of civil Rights attorney Lynne Stewart and her
co-defendants translator Mohamed Yousry and paralegal Ahmed
Sattar is a triumph of fear over reason. The three legal workers were
charged and convicted of aiding and abetting terrorism in connection
with their representation of the Blind Egyptian Sheik Omar Abdel-
Rahman. When the former attorney general Ashcroft announced the
arrest of Stewart he did so on the late night David Letterman talk
show. Certainly an unprecedented venue for such an announcement.
And as it began on TV so it was often prosecuted with a fearsome
visage of Osama Bin Laden beamed to jurors via videotape
threatening to attack America on the Sheik's behalf.
Even though the judge dutifully instructed the jury that Osama
Bin Laden had nothing to do with the case. How do you wash
something like that from the mind after it has been admitted
into evidence? Lynne's husband activist Ralph Poynter put the
hammer to the nail when he said of the trial "this prosecution
doesn't have a damn thing to do with terrorism. It has to do
with politics and putting Lynne Stewart away." Stewart was
really targeted because she ignored unconstitutional rules
put in place by the government.
In an interview with Stewart she spoke about what the case
was really about. "The justice department decided that things
that I did as a lawyer are now to be outlawed, are now to be
made into crimes, in order to deter other lawyers from
vigorously defending people. What I basically did was,
I issued a press release on behalf of my client. They said
that this press release was materially aiding a terrorist
organization, thus making it impossible for any first
amendment right to be protected. And to me that is the
real essence of this work, is that we be permitted to defend
people such as yourself in these cases as political people,
not just as defendant 10872."
Recently black political prisoner Albert Woodfox of the Angola
Three talked about the importance of lawyers in destroying
isolation. "I think that this was a pretty strong shot across
the bow as they say, you know if you dare put forth an honest
attempt to uphold the standards of law in this country we will
get you. You know we will destroy you, cause in most cases
they are the only voice to the outside world."
And now the state has prevailed, sending shock waves
through the defense bar that already shies away from the
kind of cases that has been Stewart's staple for a generation.
She has taken on cases involving members of the Black Panther
Party, the Attica Brothers, Puerto Rican Independence fighters
and since at least 1995 the blind Sheik. In order to put into
operation the draconian special measures of the government
the state needs to seed fear into those who are sworn to protect
and provide a full and vigorous defense- lawyers. But the battle
isn't over. Perhaps what has happened has awakened many
people in this country who would have preferred to slumber?
Lynne Stewart, paralegal Ahmed Sattar and professional
translator Mohamed Yousry plan to stage a vigorous appeal
of this outrageous verdict. They will need your support, now
more than ever, it will take work of many to undo John
Ashcroft's revenge.
From Death Row this is Mumia Abu-Jamal. (c) Mumia Abu-Jamal 2005
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10) Innocenti: child poverty (link only)
on the rise in wealthy nations
(c) UNICEF/HQ97-0211/Press
Tiffany, 10, sits with her mother and step-father on a sidewalk
bench in Florida, USA. After months of homelessness, she and
her sister are being sent to live with their grandmother in another state.
http://www.unicef.org/childsurvival/index_25285.html
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11) Canada a Haven Again (link only)
Like Draft Evaders and Deserters of Vietnam Era,
American Soldiers are Heading North to Find Refuge
from What They Say is an Unjust War in Iraq
by Andrew Metz
Published on Wednesday, March 2, 2005 by New York Newsday
/ Long Island
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0302-09.htm
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