BAUAW NEWSLETTER-SATURDAY, DEC. 18, 2004

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STOP THE WAR ON IRAQ! BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!
ALL OUT JANUARY 20TH, 5:00 P.M., CIVIC CENTER, S.F.

************BREAKING NEWS**************

According to the A.N.S.W.E.R. Washington, DC news conference
covered live on CSPAN on Friday, Dec. 17, (the news conference
will be re-broadcast-see item following this) the U.S. government
is not allowing antiwar/anti-Bush protestors onto Pennsylvania Ave.
along the inauguration route.

A.N.S.W.E.R. reported, there are three types of tickets available for
the inauguration, Group A, is for personally invited guests; Group B,
is for contributors to the Bush campaign (for both of these groups
a list is carefully checked before tickets are sold;) tickets for Group C,
for the general public, are not available. None. They are simply not sold.

The Government, in a stalling move, has not denied permits to ANSWER
for space for counter demonstrators, rather they are delaying as long
as possible with the knowledge that the longer the permits are denied,
the harder it will be for people to make arrangements to come to DC
to protest. If and when permits are officially denied, A.N.S.W.E.R.
declared they would challenge the government legally as they did
in the last presidential inauguration "celebration."

We have a constitutional right to protest the inauguration. BAUAW
encourages all to show up in DC and come to Pennsylvania Avenue
with your signs and banners and express your opposition to Bush
and to the War.

We demand, along with A.N.S.W.E.R., equal access along the rout
for all. We have a right to protest our government or any of its official
representatives. Nothing gives the government the right to disallow
legal and peaceful protest. We say all out to Washington, DC if you
can make it.

If you can't go to DC, come out Jan. 20, 5pm, Civic Center, SF. in
solidarity with all protestors in Washington and everywhere who
oppose this war.

We are encouraging everyone to participate somehow by wearing
buttons and signs at work, at school and on the bus; hold banners
at freeway entrances, and crowded shopping areas etc. on Jan. 20.
Students should hold rallies and march to the Civic Center.

Come to our next meeting and pick a place to flyer or table for
Jan. 20 or hold a sign during the day, on Jan. 20 if you can.

NEXT BAY AREA UNITED AGAINST WAR MEETING:

SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 11AM
CENTRO DEL PUEBLO
474 VALENCIA STREET
(NEAR 16TH STREET IN SAN FRANCISCO)

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A.N.S.W.E.R. January 20 Press Conference to be rebroadcast on C-Span

Friday, December 17
8:13 pm ET on C-Span 1
11:45 pm ET on C-Span 1

Saturday, December 18
5:15 am ET on C-Span 1

Check the C-Span schedule for additional times and changes.

Leaders from the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition and others involved in
the January 20 Counter-Inaugural Protest in Washington DC held
a press conference today (December 17). The press conference
was broadcast live on C-Span 1 at 1 pm ET.

At this time, the press conference is scheduled to be rebroadcast
on C-Span 1 at 8:13 pm ET and 11:45 pm ET on Friday, December 17,
and at 5:15 am ET on Saturday, December 18. Additional broadcast
times are likely and can be found on the C-Span website schedule.
Please note that all times are subject to change - so please check
the schedule regularly. The program is called "Inaugural Parade
Protests - Act Now to Stop War & End Racism (A.N.S.W.E.R.)".

Programs can also be viewed on the C-Span website and heard
on the radio.

Show your support for this free speech fight and to help build
the January 20 CounterInaugural demonstration along Pennsylvania
Avenue. We cannot carry out this huge effort without the generous
donations from those in the United States who believe in justice.
You can make an urgently needed contribution for the January
20 mobilization through a secure server by clicking here, where
you can also find information on how to contribute by check.

Pledge now to support the January 20 demonstration. To
endorse, click here.

The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition will send out an email update in
the next few days regarding logistics, bus drop off and other
transportation information. If you are organizing transportation
from your city, fill out the Transportation Form to list your
information on the A.N.S.W.E.R. website and help spread the
word.

For downloadable flyers, click here.

A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
Act Now to Stop War & End Racism
http://www.ANSWERcoalition.org
info@internationalanswer.org
National Office in Washington DC: 202-544-3389
New York City: 212-533-0417
Los Angeles: 323-464-1636
San Francisco: 415-821-6545
For media inquiries, call 202-544-3389.

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Hello All,

Lynne Stewart will be on Court TV tonight (a segment filmed
earlier this month). The show begins at 5 pm goes until 6 pm.
Interviewed by Joe Hamill we expect her segment to be in the
latter part of the show.

And another reminder - we have a wonderful Holiday Party
planned for Saturday, Dec. 18th. Please be there!!!!

From: "Larry Felson"
Subject: Lynne Stewart case

Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 07:56:15 +0000

[From Pat in New York]

The trial portion of the case has concluded. We now face summations
and charge. Govt. summations begin on December 29th and may
go into December 30th. There will be a 4 day break for New Years
until Monday, January 3rd. The Order of Summations : Summation
in Chief by Mr. Dember, AUSA for the Government; followed by
David Stern, Esq. for Mr. Yousry, and either Barry Fallick, Esq.
or Kenneth Paul, Esq. for Ahmed Sattar; followed by Michael Tigar
for Lynne Stewart. Then the Government will have rebuttal
summation by Robin Baker, AUSA. Followed by Judge Koeltl's
charge to the jury. To hear Michael Tigar it is probably best to
be in court on January 3rd and 4th. Check the website for further
updates and don't forget to come to The People's Holiday Party
on Saturday, December 18th.
COME TO THE PEOPLE'S HOLIDAY PARTY!!!

JOIN US
TO BENEFIT

THE LYNNE STEWART DEFENSE COMMITTEE
(LYNNE STEWART, ATTORNEY NOW ON TRIAL IN FEDERAL
COURT NEW YORK)

THE BRECHT FORUM
(WORKING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE & RAISING MONEY FOR
MOVING EXPENSES)

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18TH - 7:30 P.M. TIL

FEATURING:
MICHAEL SMITH - MASTER OF CEREMONIES
LYNNE STEWART
VINIE BURROWS - ACTRESS CULTURAL WORKER
SPARLHA SWA - SINGER
RANDY CREDICO - COMEDIAN AND ACTIVIST
KHALIL JOHNSON - POET
NORMAN MARSHALL - PORTRAYER OF JOHN BROWN
LORCAN OTWAY OF SORCHA DORCHA, WITH DICK
CHENEY AND THE QUAKERS
DJ GRINGO LOCO - DANCING

AN EVENING OF SOLIDARITY, FUN, MUSIC, DRINKS
AND FOOD - SPEECHES AND SCHMOOZING
SLIDING SCALE $10 - $20 & up appreciated
PLACE: THE BRECHT FORUM
122 W27TH. ST.,10TH FLOOR, NEW YORK CITY
(Between 6TH & 7TH Aves.)
STOP BY ON YOUR WAY TO AND FROM OTHER
EVENTS OR FOR THE WHOLE EVENING - SEE YOU THERE
212-625-9696

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1) Art & Resistance in Occupied Palestine
Recent murals and Palestinian & Israeli Civil Disobedience

2) Nearly Half in U.S. Say Restrict Muslims
By WILLIAM KATES
ITHACA, N.Y. (AP)
Associated Press Writer
Dec 18, 9:43 AM EST
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MUSLIMS_CIVIL_LIBERTIES?SITE=NYSTA&SE
CTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

3) Bush looking at freezing domestic spending
WASHINGTON (AP)
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/17/bush.spending.ap/index.html

4) U.S. Presses Co-Defendant Near Close of Terror Trial
By JULIA PRESTON
December 17, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/17/nyregion/17stewart.html

5) Arab media reports on US plan to attack Iran
AzerNews (Azerbaijan)
December 17, 2004
http://www.azernews.net/view.php?d=5536

6) Pentagon Seeks to Expand Role in Intelligence
By DOUGLAS JEHL and ERIC SCHMITT
WASHINGTON
December 19, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/politics/19military.html?hp&ex=1103432400&
en=0623190e8121e407&ei=5094&partner=homepage

7) In Congo War, Even Peacekeepers Add to Horror
By MARC LACEY
December 18, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/18/international/africa/18congo.html?hp&ex=11
03432400&en=962ad452438e18ef&ei=5094&partner=homepage

8) AARP Poll Shows Most Support Legalizing Medicinal Marijuana
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
December 19, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/national/19marijuana.html

9) PICTURES OF WAR
Here are two sets of pictures.
First set---
PLEASE ACCESS:
http://dahrjamailiraq.com/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=album28&page=
1
page=1>
Second Set--
PLEASE ACCESS:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/coalitionforfreethoughtinmedia/message/26138



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1) Art & Resistance in Occupied Palestine
Recent murals and Palestinian & Israeli Civil Disobedience

Susan Greene, Eric Drooker, Dalit Baum, members of Jews for a Free
Palestine recently returned from the West Bank, Monadel Herzallah and
Special Guests

A slide and video lecture, art auction, food, and raffle fundraiser


Saturday, December 18th 7:00

New College of California, 777 Valencia Street
$10-$100 no one turned away for lack of funds

Proceeds go to medical aid for Gaza, victims of home demolition and Break
the Silence Mural Project

Sponsored by Break the Silence Mural Project and Jews for a Free Palestine,
Middle East ChildrenÂ’s Alliance, Justice in Palestine Coalition, Anarchists
Against the Wall

The Slide and Video Lecture:
In 2004 Break the Silence SF muralist and psychologist Susan Greene and
renowned illustrator Eric Drooker traveled to the West Bank and Gaza to
paint community murals with Palestinians.

Dalit Baum is a member of Anarchists Against the Wall and Black Laundry,
and will show video documentation of Israeli and Palestinian joint actions
and civil disobedience protesting the Wall.

The following murals were completed:

1) Hani Amer Family Mural: on the Israeli built wall that encircles the
Hani Amer home in the West Bank that has been the site of many protests and
Palestinian and Israeli peace camps. This mural was painted with the
children and extended family and represented an act of creative control over
their environment.

2) Memorial mural in Qadura refugee camp in Ramallah that honors an Italian
journalist killed by the Israeli military and eleven young people who were
killed during the first and second uprising or Intifada,

3) In the town of Beit Hanoun in the Gaza strip, several hundred thousand
citrus trees were destroyed leaving the town unemployed and devasted. On a
cultural center for youth Greene, Drooker and the center's staff painted a
three story orange tree. The Center's director wanted the children to
remember what the orange trees looked like.

The Art Auction:
A silent auction for works by some of the Bay Area's finest artists.

Cheap Arts and Crafts:
By some of the Bay Area's most crafty

Raffle:
For a wide range of exciting offerings

Refreshments and delectable foods.

Brief History of Break the Silence

Starting in 1989 when a group of Jewish Women Artists travelled to Palestine
to paint community murals in solidarity with Palestinian refugees, Break
the Silence has worked to use art to raise awareness about what life is like
for Palestinians in Israel. Our ultimate goal is to contribute to the
struggle to end the occupation of Palestine.

BTS has painted murals in refugee camps and cultural centers in the West
Bank and Gaza, and to reach our aim has painted murals in San Francisco
about Palestine, published articles, created videos and presented scores of
slide shows across the country.

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WHEN SPIDERS UNITE, THEY CAN TIE DOWN A LION -- Ethiopian Proverb

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2) Nearly Half in U.S. Say Restrict Muslims
By WILLIAM KATES
ITHACA, N.Y. (AP)
Associated Press Writer
Dec 18, 9:43 AM EST
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MUSLIMS_CIVIL_LIBERTIES?SITE=NYSTA&SE
CTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) -- Nearly half of all Americans believe the U.S.
government should restrict the civil liberties of Muslim Americans,
according to a nationwide poll.

The survey conducted by Cornell University also found that
Republicans and people who described themselves as highly
religious were more apt to support curtailing Muslims' civil
liberties than Democrats or people who are less religious.

Researchers also found that respondents who paid more attention
to television news were more likely to fear terrorist attacks and
support limiting the rights of Muslim Americans.

"It's sad news. It's disturbing news. But it's not unpredictable,"
said Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Muslim American
Society. "The nation is at war, even if it's not a traditional war.
We just have to remain vigilant and continue to interface."

The survey found 44 percent favored at least some restrictions
on the civil liberties of Muslim Americans. Forty-eight percent
said liberties should not be restricted in any way.

The survey showed that 27 percent of respondents supported
requiring all Muslim Americans to register where they lived with
the federal government. Twenty-two percent favored racial
profiling to identify potential terrorist threats. And 29 percent
thought undercover agents should infiltrate Muslim civic and
volunteer organizations to keep tabs on their activities and
fund-raising.

Cornell student researchers questioned 715 people in the
nationwide telephone poll conducted this fall. The margin of
error was 3.6 percentage points.

James Shanahan, an associate professor of communications
who helped organize the survey, said the results indicate

"the need for continued dialogue about issues of civil liberties"
in a time of war.

While researchers said they were not surprised by the overall
level of support for curtailing civil liberties, they were startled
by the correlation with religion and exposure to television news.

"We need to explore why these two very important channels
of discourse may nurture fear rather than understanding,"
Shanahan said.

According to the survey, 37 percent believe a terrorist attack
in the United States is still likely within the next 12 months.
In a similar poll conducted by Cornell in November 2002,
that number stood at 90 percent.

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3) Bush looking at freezing domestic spending
WASHINGTON (AP)
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/17/bush.spending.ap/index.html

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is telling federal agencies
to expect lean budgets next year, with congressional aides and
lobbyists saying President Bush appears ready to propose freezing
or even slightly cutting overall domestic spending.

Targeted would be all annually approved programs except for
defense and domestic security.

Excluding those two would leave a part of the budget the
administration estimates will total $388 billion for the fiscal
year that began October 1. Also excluded are automatically
made payments like Social Security and interest on the federal
debt.

Bush's stringent approach comes as record federal deficits
that hit $413 billion last year hinder his ability to pay for
overhauling Social Security and extending his tax cuts. He
also has tied the budget shortfalls to the weakening dollar,
and pledged to reduce red ink to help prop up the currency.

At his White House economic conference on Thursday, Bush
said he made "good progress" in holding the growth of non-
defense, non-homeland-security programs this year to about
1 percent.

"What I'm saying is we're going to submit a tough budget," he
said. "And I look forward to working with Congress on the
tough budget."

The president is still making final decisions about the $2.5
trillion budget for 2006 he will propose in February.

But House and Senate aides, speaking on condition of anonymity,
said cuts appeared destined for such programs as housing, grants
for community development, purchases of new equipment for
the Federal Aviation Administration, and Army Corps of Engineers
water projects.

Even the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, an
administration favorite, was facing an increase of just 1 percent,
pending appeals to the White House by outgoing NASA
Administrator Sean O'Keefe, a lobbyist said.

The zero-sum game that is federal budgeting means that if
spending for next year is held flat, for every dollar increase that
administration favorites like education or veterans receive,
another dollar must be cut elsewhere.

Even a program receiving the same as this year would lose
purchasing power due to inflation, now running about
3 percent annually.

Bush's spending blueprint would be among the toughest for
domestic programs since President Reagan's budgets of the 1980s.

Overall domestic spending has grown every year but three
since 1987 -- in 1995 and 1996, when Republicans first
recaptured Congress, and in 2000, immediately after a one-
time influx of U.S. aid to help poor and debtor countries.

Even as domestic spending growth has slowed, overall
expenditures including defense and domestic security
continue to climb, largely due to the costs of wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan.

Congress approved $87.5 billion for those wars in fall 2003
and $25 billion more last spring, and Bush is expected to
request another $75 billion to $100 billion early in 2005.

As word of Bush's still-evolving plans for domestic spending
has seeped out, it has cheered conservative Republicans.
They spent much of Bush's first term criticizing him for
letting spending grow too rapidly and pressuring
congressional leaders to try clamping down on spending.

Excluding homeland security and emergencies like hurricanes,
domestic spending has grown by 27 percent since Bush took
office in 2001.

"I really do believe that this White House gets it," said Rep.
Mike Pence, R-Indiana, a leading House conservative.

Last February, Bush proposed a 0.5 percent increase for
domestic programs, which Congress eventually doubled.
Advocates of cutting spending are hoping for better results
next year, since November's elections will bring more
conservatives to the House and Senate for the new Congress.

"They've run out of excuses," said Stephen Slivinski, budget
director of the conservative-leaning Cato Institute. "They
can't blame anyone else."

Still, Democrats and many moderate Republicans are certain
to fight for their priorities when Congress begins translating
Bush' budget proposal to actual spending legislation next year.

"This tells you the administration's priority is tax cuts over
fiscal responsibility and providing central services to the
American people," said Thomas Kahn, Democratic staff
director of the House Budget Committee.

Last May, the White House budget office distributed a memo
to federal agencies warning them to anticipate an overall
domestic spending cut of about 0.7 percent next year. At
the time, White House officials called the document an early
step in the budget process.

"The budget process is still under way," White House budget
office spokesman Chad Kolton said Thursday. He said the
administration still intends to cut the deficit in half in five
years, and the next budget "will reflect our commitment
to stay on that path."

Copyright 2004 The Associated Press

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4) U.S. Presses Co-Defendant Near Close of Terror Trial
By JULIA PRESTON
December 17, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/17/nyregion/17stewart.html

A federal prosecutor in the terror trial of Lynne F. Stewart,
a New York defense lawyer, battered one of her co-defendants
yesterday with fierce questions, and then concluded a cross-
examination with an outburst of indignation about the crimes
alleged in the case.

The rush of emotion came on the final day of testimony in the
trial, which has lasted nearly six months. The prosecutor,
Christopher Morvillo, bore down on the co-defendant, Ahmed
Abdel Sattar, a postal worker from Staten Island who has worked
as a paralegal with Ms. Stewart. Suddenly accelerating the pace
of the testimony, Mr. Morvillo drew together many strands of
evidence that the government has been weaving week after
week in Federal District Court in Manhattan. He grilled Mr. Sattar
about his state of mind in October 2000, when he helped write
and release an Islamic edict "to mandate the killing of Jews
wherever they are found."

Mr. Sattar has testified that he wrote the edict, or fatwa, with
Rifai Taha, a fugitive Egyptian militant who was then hiding in
Afghanistan, probably in Al Qaeda training camps, and who
had been named by the United States as one of the world's
most dangerous terrorists. "It is a fact, is it not, Mr. Sattar,
that you drafted this statement with the leader of a terrorist
network?" Mr. Morvillo asked.

"Yes, it is a fact," Mr. Sattar replied.

"A person you knew was in Afghanistan with Osama bin
Laden?" Mr. Morvillo fired back.

"Yes."

"A person that you knew was considered by the United
States to be a threat to national security?"

"Yes."

"And a person who you knew had signed Osama bin
Laden's fatwa calling for the murder of Americans, right?"

"Yes."

Mr. Morvillo was referring to a separate edict issued by
Mr. bin Laden in February 1998, in which he called for
the killing and kidnapping of Americans. Mr. Taha was
one signer of Mr. bin Laden's fatwa.

Mr. Sattar released the edict he had written Mr. Taha under
the name of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, a fundamentalist
Islamic cleric. The sheik, a client of Ms. Stewart's, is serving
a life sentence in federal prison for conspiring in a failed
1993 plot to bomb tunnels and landmark buildings in New
York. But the sheik, who was in solitary confinement at the
time, did not find out about the fatwa until some time later,
evidence in the trial has shown.

Mr. Sattar is charged with soliciting violence and conspiracy
to kidnap and kill in a foreign country. Ms. Stewart is accused
of participating in a terrorist conspiracy by violating prison
restrictions imposed on Mr. Abdel Rahman in order to pass
him letters from Mr. Sattar, which contained messages
discussing violence from the sheik's militant followers in
Egypt.

Visibly shaken by Mr. Morvillo's questions, Mr. Sattar sought
to distance himself from his own words, saying they were
"ugly and hateful." He said again that he was "outraged" by
the violence in Israel after a September 2000 visit by Ariel
Sharon to the site of Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. He was
especially troubled, he said, by the shooting of a Palestinian
boy by Israeli troops, which had been shown repeatedly on
the news.

He said he had only wanted to gain publicity for the sheik,
and added, pounding his fist on the stand: "I did not mean
to kill anybody. I was crying out loud, Mr. Morvillo."

Mr. Morvillo concluded his cross-examination of Mr. Sattar
by inquiring about phrases that the defendant edited out
of the fatwa calling explicitly for attacks on Americans
in the United States.

"Mr. Sattar, is that what you were referring to last week
when you told us that you defend the Constitution of
the United States?" the prosecutor asked.

"Yes," answered Mr. Sattar, who was born in Egypt but
became a naturalized American citizen in 1989.

"You are quite a patriot," Mr. Morvillo retorted.

Judge John G. Koeltl struck the comment from the record
and ordered the jury to disregard it. But Ms. Stewart's
chief lawyer, Michael E. Tigar, denounced it as improper
and asked the judge to declare a mistrial. The judge
denied that motion but, in an unusual step, criticized
Mr. Morvillo's remark to the jurors.

The jury is to return on Dec. 29 for closing arguments
and for instructions from the judge.

Copyright 2004 The New York Times

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5) Arab media reports on US plan to attack Iran
AzerNews (Azerbaijan)
December 17, 2004
http://www.azernews.net/view.php?d=5536

US forces will infiltrate Iran's territory through Azerbaijan, Iraq,
and Georgia. The US ground troops plan to complete the invasion
in two weeks, the London-based ash-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper reported.

The publication said that the US National Security Council is
currently developing the plan for the occupation of Iran.
The White House plans to overthrow the Islamic regime in this
country and destroy its nuclear resources.

A Central Intelligence Agency employee David Cay, who headed the
commission engaged in searching for nuclear weapons in Iraq,
has been instructed to develop the plan for the operation.

The occupation of Iran will be carried out in three stages. The first
envisions destroying Iranian armed forces through an air attack.

Afterwards, the country's military units producing nuclear weapons
will be attacked. The number of such facilities is 125.

After the nuclear facilities are destroyed, the ground operation will
Be launched. The US plans to send a part of its contingent to Iran
through Azerbaijan.

According to the Pentagon, US troops will not attack Iran's capital,
Tehran, but surround it. US military experts say that several commando
Detachments will suffice to subdue the Iranian authorities. Arab media have
Reported that such forces are training in Florida, USA.

The ash-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper issued a similar report 18 months
Before the US attack on Iraq.

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6) Pentagon Seeks to Expand Role in Intelligence
By DOUGLAS JEHL and ERIC SCHMITT
WASHINGTON
December 19, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/politics/19military.html?hp&ex=1103432400&
en=0623190e8121e407&ei=5094&partner=homepage

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 - The Pentagon is drawing up a plan that
would give the military a more prominent role in intelligence-
collection operations that have traditionally been the province
of the Central Intelligence Agency, including missions aimed at
terrorist groups and those involved in weapons proliferation,
Defense Department officials say.

The proposal is being described by some intelligence officials
as an effort by the Pentagon to expand its role in intelligence
gathering at a time when legislation signed by President Bush
on Friday sets in motion sweeping changes in the intelligence
community, including the creation of a national intelligence
director. The main purpose of that overhaul is to improve
coordination among the country's 15 intelligence agencies,
including those controlled by the Pentagon.

The details of the plan remain secret and are evolving, but
indications of its scope and significance have begun to emerge
in recent weeks. One part of the overall proposal is being drafted
by a team led by Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, a deputy under
secretary of defense.

Among the ideas cited by Defense Department officials is the
idea of "fighting for intelligence," or commencing combat
operations chiefly to obtain intelligence.

The proposal also calls for a major expansion of human-
intelligence collection efforts under the Pentagon's auspices,
both within the military services and the Defense Intelligence
Agency, including more aggressive, offensive missions aimed
at acquiring specific intelligence sought by policy makers.
(The term human intelligence refers to information gathered
directly by spies rather than by technological means.)

The proposal marks the latest chapter in the fierce and long-
running rivalry between the Pentagon and the C.I.A. for
dominance over intelligence collection.

White House officials are monitoring the Pentagon's planning,
as is the C.I.A. The proposal has not yet won White House
approval, according to administration officials. It is unclear
to what extent American military forces have already been
given additional authority to carry out intelligence-gathering
missions.

Until now, intelligence operations run by the Pentagon have
focused primarily on gathering information about enemy
forces, the main preoccupation of military commanders. But
the overarching proposal being drafted in the Pentagon, which
encompasses General Boykin's efforts, would focus military
intelligence operations increasingly on counterterrorism and
counterproliferation, areas in which the C.I.A.'s directorate
of operations has always played the leading role.

"Right now, we're looking at providing Special Operations
forces some of the flexibility the C.I.A. has had for years,"
said a Defense Department official who spoke on the condition
of anonymity because the plan has not yet been approved.
"It would be used judiciously, and with all appropriate oversight
controls."

General Boykin's proposal would revamp military commands
to ensure that senior officers planning and fighting wars work
more closely with the intelligence analysts tracking threats like
terrorists and insurgency cells. Another part of the Pentagon's
plan was articulated in a recent directive by Defense Secretary
Donald H. Rumsfeld that instructed regional commanders to
expand the military's role in intelligence gathering, particularly
in tracking terrorist and insurgent leaders.

"What we're talking about with the combatant commanders is
using their military forces in the field in a more thoughtful way,
and having a level of awareness to gather information that's
important," said Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman.

In public allusions to the plan, both General Boykin and Vice
Adm. Lowell E. Jacoby, the director of the Defense Intelligence
Agency, have stuck to generalities that have left unclear exactly
what is being proposed. But some intelligence officials say they
believe those remarks open the way to more clandestine military
operations intended to gather intelligence on terrorists and
weapons proliferators.

One former intelligence official questioned the utility of the
military's putting more resources into intelligence collection
at a time when it is already stretched thin in dealing with the
counterinsurgency in Iraq and addressing threats elsewhere.

"If you're a shooter, go do that job," said the former intelligence
official, who has opposed efforts by the Pentagon to expand its
intelligence gathering role. "But don't put the shooter in a pinstripe
suit and send him to Beirut to chase bad guys." He said he regarded
the military's initiative as an attempt to make inroads into turf
controlled by intelligence agencies.

A current intelligence official who works outside the Pentagon
described the relationship between the Pentagon and the C.I.A. as
"closer than ever," but he added that "cooperation is strongest in
the places where it counts most, like Iraq and Afghanistan." The
official said, "There's a real sense that there's plenty of work for
everyone, and the key for both agencies is close coordination
and insisting that all of us apply the best possible tradecraft in
human intelligence operations."

General Boykin was traveling abroad and not available for
comment this week. Over the last two weeks, he and his top
aides have declined repeated interview requests on this subject.

The general provided an overview of the plan in an address in
October to the Association of the United States Army,
a nonprofit educational organization, and copies of his
briefing slides are posted on the group's Web site.

A brief synopsis of General Boykin's plan was provided by
Defense Department officials, as were remarks prepared for
delivery in a Nov. 15 address by Admiral Jacoby.

"Our present intelligence collection architecture - optimized
to identify and track large conventional forces - is inadequate
to warn against these new challenges for terrorists, provide
sufficient information on insurgent groups, determine the
status of discrete W.M.D. production capabilities, learn the
intentions of leaderships from rogue states, or determine
friend from foe when intermingled in a foreign country,"
Admiral Jacoby said in that speech.

The admiral said intelligence agencies needed to put a new
premium on acquiring "persistent surveillance" through "
close-in and continuous collection against broader problem
sets."

General Boykin, who attracted controversy last year for saying
in remarks to Christian groups that Muslims worship "an idol"
and describing the battle against Muslim radicals as a fight
against Satan, has been the prime architect of the proposal,
which has been under review at the Pentagon since January
2004. The general reports to Stephen A. Cambone, who since
2003 has used his newly created post as under secretary of
intelligence to assert a role in which he has competed with
George J. Tenet, the former director of central intelligence,
and his successors for dominance over American intelligence
agencies.

Among the proposals described by Defense Department
officials is a plan to create a Joint Intelligence Operational
Command within the Pentagon, which would elevate intelligence
to much more power and prominence. The command being
proposed could replace the Defense Intelligence Agency,
Defense Department officials say.

If approved, General Boykin's proposal would allow the
Pentagon to be less reliant on other intelligence agencies,
including the Central Intelligence Agency, for its operations,
senior defense officials said.

"It will give more options to the military for how they gather
the intelligence, instead of having to depend on other agencies,"
said one senior military officer who has received a preliminary
briefing on the proposal and spoke on condition of anonymity
because the plan has not yet been approved.

Maj. Gen. Charles W. Thomas, a retired senior Army intelligence
officer who has worked as a consultant for General Boykin on
his project, said he broadly supported the general's goals.

But General Thomas warned that one possible danger in
bringing battle commanders and intelligence officials so close
together to fight a common enemy was the risk that the
intelligence could be skewed to fit the commander's war plan
and not the reality on the ground.

A spokesman for the Special Operations Command in Tampa,
Fla., Col. Samuel Taylor, said on Friday that the command had
been briefed on an early draft of General Boykin's remodeling
initiative, but that staff officers and senior commanders had
not yet reviewed it in depth.

President Bush last month ordered the C.I.A. and the Defense
Department to review a plan that could expand the Pentagon's
role in covert operations, perhaps replacing the C.I.A. in providing
paramilitary forces for such missions. Mr. Bush's directive set
a 90-day deadline for the review.

The idea of transferring paramilitary authority from the intelligence
agency to the military's Special Operations Forces was among
several prominent recommendations made by the
Sept. 11 commission.

The proposal remains under review. But in public testimony in
August, Mr. Rumsfeld and John E. McLaughlin, who was then the
acting intelligence chief, expressed reservations about the idea,
and it was not included in the measure Mr. Bush approved on Friday.

Copyright 2004 The New York Times

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7) In Congo War, Even Peacekeepers Add to Horror
By MARC LACEY
December 18, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/18/international/africa/18congo.html?hp&ex=11
03432400&en=962ad452438e18ef&ei=5094&partner=homepage

BUNIA, Congo, Dec. 16 - In the corner of the tent where she says
a soldier forced himself on her, Helen, a frail fifth grader with big
eyes and skinny legs, remembers seeing a blue helmet.

The United Nations peacekeeper who tore off her clothes had used
a cup of milk to lure her close, she said in her high-pitched voice,
fidgeting as she spoke. It was her favorite drink, she said, but one
her family could rarely afford. "I was so happy," she said.

After she gulped it down, the foreign soldier pulled Helen,
a 12-year-old, into bed, she said. About an hour later, he gave
her a dollar, put a finger to his lips and pushed her out of his
tent, she said.

In this same eastern outpost, another United Nations
peacekeeper, unable to communicate with a 13-year-old
Swahili-speaking girl who walked past him, held up a cookie
and gestured for her to draw near. As the girl, Solange, who
recounted the incident with tears in her eyes the other day,
reached for the cookie, the soldier reached for her. She, too,
said she was raped.

The United Nations said recently that it had uncovered
150 allegations of sexual abuse committed by United Nations
peacekeepers stationed in Congo, many of them here in Bunia
where the population has already suffered horrendous atrocities
committed by local fighters. The raping of women and girls is
an all-too-common tactic in the war raging in Congo's eastern
jungles involving numerous militia groups. In Bunia, a program
run by Unicef has treated 2,000 victims of sexual violence in recent
months. But it is not just the militia members who have been preying
on the women. So, too, local women say, have some of the soldiers
brought in to keep the peace.

The United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, said recently that
there was "clear evidence that acts of gross misconduct have taken
place" in the United Nations mission in Congo, which began in
early 2000 and is known by its French acronym, Monuc. Mr. Annan
added, "This is a shameful thing for the United Nations to have
to say, and I am absolutely outraged by it."

The number of cases may be impossible for United Nations
investigators to determine precisely. Helen and Solange said
in recent interviews that they had not told their stories even
to their parents, never mind to United Nations officials. Rape
carries a heavy stigma here, both girls made clear. They told
their stories when approached by a reporter.

"I didn't tell my mother because she would beat me," said
a grim-faced Solange, starring at the ground. Solange, a sixth-
grade dropout, said she had no interest in visiting a health clinic
or seeing one of the psychologists that Unicef has paid for to
counsel the many rape victims in and around Bunia. If she seeks
help, the girl said, her mother might find out.

Helen's mother is dead, and Helen did not dare tell her father for
fear of a beating. She said she knew he would blame her for going
near the soldiers in the first place and might even throw her out
of the house.

Helen did go on her own to a health clinic soon after the assault
because she said she hurt between her legs. The health worker
gave her something to drink, which she paid for with the same
dollar that the soldier had given her, she said.

"I was so afraid when he took my clothes off," Helen said, fidgeting
with her dirty T-shirt. "I was quiet. I didn't say anything."

The allegations leveled against United Nations personnel in Congo
include sex with underage partners, sex with prostitutes and rape,
an internal United Nations investigation has found. Investigators
said they found evidence that United Nations peacekeepers and
civilian workers paid $1 to $3 for sex or bartered sexual relations
for food or promises of employment. A confidential report prepared
by Prince Zeid Raad al-Hussein, Jordan's ambassador to the United
Nations, and dated Nov. 8, says the exploitation "appears to be
significant, widespread and ongoing."

Violators described in the investigation, which continues, appear
to come from around the globe. Fifty countries are represented
among the 1,000 civilian employees and 10,800 soldiers who
make up the United Nations mission in Congo. Already, a French
civilian has been accused of having sex with a girl, though it is
unclear where that case stands, and two Tunisian peacekeepers
have been sent home, where the local authorities will decide
whether to punish them.

The United Nations report details allegations of sexual misconduct
by peacekeepers from Nepal, Pakistan, Morocco, Tunisia, South
Africa and Uruguay, and lists incidents in which some soldiers
tried to obstruct investigators.

When they arrive for duty, peacekeepers are presented with the
United Nations code of conduct, which forbids "any exchange
of money, employment, goods or services for sex."

The home countries are responsible for punishing any of their
military personnel who violate the code while taking part in
a United Nations peacekeeping mission.

The United Nations, which has had previous scandals in
missions in Cambodia and Bosnia, also warns the soldiers
against sexual contact with girls under 18, even though the
law in Congo permits sex with girls as young as 14.

The United Nations policy says that mistakenly believing
someone is older "cannot be considered a defense." The
youth of Helen and Solange cannot be mistaken. They said
they were abused while selling bananas and avocados to
soldiers. Each girl said she was among the girls and women
who have flocked to the camps that peacekeepers have set
up around Bunia. These two girls walked from tent to tent with
fruit balanced on their heads, using gestures to make deals.

Helen would sell her fruit for 10 francs apiece, or a few cents,
and would earn about $1 a day. She would give the money to
her older sister.

Solange would trade her fruit for the small containers of
milk issued to soldiers. She would then sell the milk in
town, making about $1.50 a day. She used the money
to help her family buy food.

Some of the girls and women who have entered the
peacekeepers' camps concede that they had less-than-
innocent intentions.

Judith and Saidati, both 15 and sexually experienced
with Congolese boys, acknowledged that they were looking
for foreign boyfriends as they sold their fruit.

The girls, who have the same father, said in a recent
interview that they both found French boyfriends first,
when the French Army controlled Bunia last year. Then
they each found soldiers from Nepal, one of the countries
supplying peacekeepers to the United Nations mission.
After that, the girls spent time with soldiers from Morocco,
who make up the bulk of the force now patrolling Bunia.

The girls said they each stuck to one soldier apiece and
switched to new ones only when their boyfriends were
transferred out. Each time they had sex, the soldiers gave
them $5, they said. Sometimes, they got other gifts, too,
they said.

One day, however, after their latest boyfriends had gone,
a social worker visited them and told them of the dangers
of having sex with soldiers. The woman sat them down
and told them about AIDS and the other sexually transmitted
diseases they might get. "She told us not to go anywhere near
the soldiers," said Judith, who like the other girls agreed to be
identified only by her first name. "She said we're still young and
they might make our lives short."

The two half sisters said the social worker's words frightened
them, and they said they had not had any boyfriends for the
last few months. But they also acknowledged that fewer
Moroccan soldiers were propositioning them, reducing their
temptation. The soldiers' new commander is keeping a closer
eye on them, the girls said. "They want to come to us but their
chief is watching them," Judith said.

Judith and Saidati said they wanted the soldiers to remain in
Bunia for many years. The girls said the United Nations troops
had succeeded in stabilizing the town, which was a war zone
just over a year ago. The foreigners also have much more money
to spend than local boys, the girls said.

"I like them," said Judith, smiling coyly.

"They treat us so nice," added Saidati, who was beaming.

But the two younger girls, Helen and Solange, were far more
sober when they spoke of the foreign troops. They said they
stopped selling fruit at the military camp immediately after
they were attacked and had never been back. They said
they had trouble sleeping at night and could not forget
what the soldiers did to them.

"Whenever I see one of them, I remember what happened,"
said Helen, who lives near a military checkpoint operated by
soldiers wearing blue helmets just like the one she remembers
seeing in the tent. "I'm afraid of them."

Copyright 2004 The New York Times

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8) AARP Poll Shows Most Support Legalizing Medicinal Marijuana
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
December 19, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/national/19marijuana.html

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (AP) - Nearly three-fourths of Americans
middle age and older support legalizing marijuana for medical use,
according to a poll taken for AARP.

More than half of those questioned said they believed marijuana has
medical benefits, while a larger majority agreed the drug is addictive.

AARP, whose 35 million members are all at least 50 years old, says
it has no political position on medical marijuana and that its local
branches have not chosen sides in the scores of state ballot initiatives
on the issue in recent elections.

But with medical marijuana at the center of a Supreme Court case
to be decided next year, and nearly a dozen states with medical
marijuana laws on their books, AARP said, it decided to study the
issue.

"The use of medical marijuana applies to many older Americans who
may benefit from cannabis," said Ed Dwyer, an editor at AARP The
Magazine, which will report on the issue in its March-April issue,
scheduled to appear in late January.

Among the 1,706 adults age 45 and older who were polled in
November, opinions varied along regional and generational lines
and among the 30 percent of respondents who said they had smoked
marijuana. AARP members represented 37 percent of the respondents.

Over all, 72 percent of respondents agreed "adults should be
allowed to legally use marijuana for medical purposes if a physician
recommends it." Those in the Northeast (79 percent) and West
(82 percent) were more receptive to the idea than in the Midwest
(67 percent) and Southwest (65 percent). In Southern states,
70 percent agreed with the statement.

Seventy-four percent of all those surveyed thought marijuana
is addictive.

Copyright 2004 The New York Times

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9) PICTURES OF WAR
Here are two sets of pictures.
First set---
PLEASE ACCESS:
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Second Set--
PLEASE ACCESS:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/coalitionforfreethoughtinmedia/message/26138


Now this is what I want you to do:

First, sit down and make sure there is nothing near you that can
be thrown at anyone, hurled at anything, smashed into pieces.

I would assume that by now these have all been used up heaving
them at the TV screen, but ya never know.

Then, turn off everything, and make the room silent.

Look at both sets. All of it. Very slowly.
As slowly as it takes to bleed to death.
As painfully as it takes to breath with a hole ripped in your lungs.
With all the focused minute concentration of a USMC sniper
narrowing a famished 12 year old in his sights.

As the tears burn ineradicable traces down your face, and
grief and rage shred your insides, and as you turn your face
to the sky in voiceless open mouthed horror and shame,
consumed by the truth of our complicity and cowardliness-
I want you to sit there in it.
Sit in it and donÂ’t move.
Try to keep breathing.

Now, we can decide What Is To Be Done.

1. STOP THE PARADE
We must STOP the forward motion of what is going on.
Not complain, not protest, no investigations, hearings,
lawsuits, demonstrations, marches with signs.
We must make this murderous machine STOP DEAD.
We must make it all come to a complete and utter HALT.
If even for an hour, a day.
It is not enough to march, or to make some symbolic gesture,
or to carry a placard with a pithy message, or to chant,
or goddnoes change the Democratic Party Leadership.
It is not enough to be Right.
This is all very nice IÂ’m sure.
None of this has done a goddam thing, and you know it.
Nothing.

On January 20, 2005, every blood-sucking bastard in the
US Government will be in one place-- in Washington DC.
Every no soldierÂ’s father, lobbyistÂ’s best boy, AIPAC Hooker.
Every Connected Pseudo-Christian Crusading Son of Jesus,
pension-robbing CEO, NRA sucking, air fouling, grandchild
sodomizing profit monger maniac MF still breathing will be there.
And all of the worldÂ’s so-called press, just flown in business
class from Kiev and hunkered down in their 500 a night hotels
will be there, with their million dollar cameras, and 100 dollar
haircuts, and thousand dollar botox jobs, and their big salaries
and big expense accounts, and even bigger egos- all
slobbering over the Status Quo- they will be there and
the World will be Watching.

And we better be there too.
And we better put a STOP to the Parade. Right there,
for everyone to see.
This is our Tiananmen Square –
This is our Tiananmen Square
Pennsylvania Avenue is our Tiananmen Square.
One man standing in front of a tank, unafraid to die-can
stop the Parade in its tracks. Bring the Government to its
knees, with the world in witness.

We have to show up. Show up at the route down
Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House to the
Capitol, and STOP the goddam Parade.
With our bodies.
We must lie down in the road, and not move.
Tens and hundreds and thousands and tens of
thousands of us.
BEFORE the parade can get to The Capitol.
We have this one chance to stop the goddam
Parade, and we better take it.
Peacefully. Non-violently. Passively. Assertively.
This is our Tiananmen Square.

2. Walk OUT

We have GOT to try to get to DC somehow.
But if we cannot-
Tiananmen Square can be wherever you are.
We have to STOP everything everywhere at noon on
January 20, 2005.
The Parade must come to a complete and utter halt,
wherever it is, wherever we are, whatever weÂ’re doing.
We must walk off the job, walk out of school, stop our
cars, our busses, our cabs, our bicycyles. Put down
that sandwich, log off the chat room.
Noon on Jan 20.
Lie down in the street. And not get up.
The Parade has to stop.
We must say- NO. You go no further.

This time there is only ONE Evil.
And it has to be stopped.
For an hour or a day, for ten minutes --
with the World watching.
In a way that is undeniable-
That the press cannot stash somewhere
behind the potted plant of some celebrity
catastrophe or bogus epidemic.
In broad daylight, in every village and town.
Walk OUT.
Lie down.
Do not get up.

Look, we walked into the voting booths with full
knowledge that we had no real choice, our humanity
and citizenship made brutally vestigial waaaay before
any votes were counted, our rights stolen before our
votes were.
We walked into the booths like Jews walking into
the ovens.
Because it was easier to believe that something
acceptable was inside than to face the utter horror
of the truth.
We KNEW – and now we’re whining.
TimeÂ’s up.

There has been a Radical Regime Change in the WORLD-
and you cannot ever say you didnÂ’t know. If thatÂ’s OK
with you, then do nothing.
If not-
January 20,2005.
See you in Tiananmen Square.

CALL TO ACTION: ONE-DAY PROTEST STRIKE AND
DEMONSTRATIONS ON INAUGURATION DAY, JANUARY 20
http://www.counter-
inaugural.org for up-to-date
counter-inauguration planning.
We call for a one-day protest strike and demonstrations
across the United States and for marches on US embassies
in as many other countries as possible. We know that for
most people January 20 is a workday, and that work conditions
can vary drastically. We suggest people reach out to others
in their workplaces, campuses and neighborhoods and either
call in sick or walk out at noon on January 20. College and
university students can easily take a day off from classes.
Whether you then choose to join an organized protest action
or form a local affinity group of friends to organize an action
of your own, join us and others in the streets to reclaim our
power. We donÂ’t consent, and we wonÂ’t obey! In the streets
for real democracy! Act together for real alternatives!

A Call for decentralized, local actions around the world on J20
DC Anti-War Network Working Group,
Counter-Inauguration actions
http://www.dawndc.net/events/j20_05 )

The Call
http://www.dawndc.net
"DAWN calls for people all over the nation and world to converge
on Washington, DC, on the day of George W. Bush's Inauguration,
January 20, 2005, for peaceful anti-war actions. While DAWN
is coordinating with many groups for a day of actions, DAWN
calls additionally for these specific actions:
(1) A permitted nonviolent anti-war rally followed by a march
to Bush's inaugural parade route;
(2) A nonviolent civil disobedience die-in, following the rally,
in memorial to the dead at the hands of Bush and his Administration."
For more information, visit http://www.dawndc.net

DAWN also calls for organizations, affinity groups, and individuals to
partner with us in organizing these two actions.
If you or your group or organization wants to endorse DAWN's call to
action, please send an e-mail to info@dawndc.net. Write also if you wish
to collaborate in the planning or offer financial donations or other
material support.



http://www.j20walkout.tsx.org
Organizing is underway in several cities and in numerous schools for a
massive walkut on January 20th against the Inauguration. Please visit the
website and spread the word to students and youth (and everyone else!).
Post updates or announcements of your walkouts and events in
the forum and read up on others!

Build, Organize, Walkout!
-J20 Walkout! group

What Will J20 Look Like?

We call on the people of the empire to use their privilege of living
within the empire to stop it from functioning on January 20th, 2005,
the day that George W. Bush is to be inaugurated the next president of
the U.S. Together, we can stop the gears of global capitalism from
turning. We call for actions across the U.S. and around the world
which are focused on stopping the machinery of war and global
capitalism. These actions include both mass mobilizations, street
parties, Civil Disobedience and Direct Action as well as Assembleas
Populares, Encuentros and other forms of real, direct democracy.

Alongside the bodies in the streets, we also call for networks of
electronic civil disobedience, hacktivism, and tactical media to join
in the struggle. Against the bio-electronic forms of empire dominating
the conduits of capital, media, and everyday life, we make this call in
the spirit of the Critical Art Ensemble, Conglomco, RTMArk, and all the
radio pirates and Indymedia centers worldwide.

The ORGANIC collective
Opposing Repression Globally and Nurturing Independent Communities
http://ORGANICcollective.org

dc justice and solidarity legal collective:
info@justiceandsolidarity.org: http://www.justiceandsolidarity.org

working with lawyer's guild
on legal support of the week jan. 20 legal office, street teams,
training for affinity groups to do own legal support, what do to
if you get arrestedÂ….

Disgusted by Bush's election? Get active!
* Visit http://www.unitedforpeace.org for links to
events and groups
* New "Bring the Troops Home Now" car magnets at
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/merchandise
* Donate at http://www.unitedforpeace.org/donate
to enable us to keep fighting back
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From Turn Your Back on Bush:
"Turn Your Back on Bush is a new kind of event in an old tradition:
direct nonviolent action. In the past four years, Bush has made it
clear that dissent is unwelcome in his America, and his policies
have created an atmosphere where demonstrators are corralled
and their messages marginalized. Polls show that the majority
of Americans disagree with Bush on numerous issues, but by
refusing to talk to anyone but the most subservient press
outlets and appearing only in highly staged events, he has cut
himself off from all but his most ardent supporters. We want
our audience with our President.

"On inauguration day, we will gather as citizens for the public
events of the day and join the rest of the crowd. At a given
signal, we will turn our backs. Until the moment we turn around,
there will be nothing to distinguish us from the rest of the
crowd. By leaving our signs and buttons at home, we will
avoid all of the obstacles that Bush and his supporters have
used to keep anyone who disagrees with him out of sight.
For this one moment we will speak as one and show Bush
that winning an election does not mean he has the support
of all Americans."

For more information, visit
http://www.turnyourbackonbush.org
A Text Mob Group for the Counter-Inauguration:

https://www.txtmob.com/group_info.php?listID=940
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LINKS AND INFORMATION RE: COUNTER INAUGURATION
ACTIONS
JANUARY 20, 2005:

http://www.counter-inaugural.org <<<<<
for up-to-date counter-inauguration planning.
http://www.dawndc.net DC actions
http://www.dawndc.net/events/j20_05 Die In
http://www.j20walkout.tsx.org walkout
actions
http://www.inaugural05.com/
http://www.turnyourbackonbush.org
http://www.ANSWERcoalition.org

www.newyork.notinourname.net
www.notinourname.net

http://www.unitedforpeace.org
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/events
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/events

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/pythian/billionaires/

http://www.afic.army.mil/events.htm

http://www.velocitynyc.com/inaugural-balls.shtml
http://www.scinauguralball.com/
http://www.freerepublic.com/w2ball/
http://www.enaugural.com/
http://sandiego.indymedia.org
www.counter-inaugural2005.org

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/counterinaugural_tc/
info@justiceandsolidarity.org
http://www.justiceandsolidarity.org
http://www.inaugurationmedia.org
eve.lyman@bostonmobilization.org
http://ORGANICcollective.org
www.notinournmame-seattle.net
https://www.txtmob.com/group_info.php?listID=940&
text mob
http://www.contro-inaugurazione.it

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found
out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed
upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with
either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are
prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress:
Frederick Douglass