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GET THE MILITARY OUR OF OUR SCHOOLS!
VOTE YES ON I!
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Picket the San Francisco Board of Education!
CUT ALL SCHOOL TIES TO THE MILITARY!
TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 6:30-7:30 P.M.
555 FRANKLIN ST. (Near Van Ness and McAllister)
If you wish to speak at the Board meeting
Call: 241-6427
Monday between 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, between 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
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1) Documentary of Cindy Sheehan journey to Crawford, Texas
http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/127648/index.php
2) Cuba's Environmental Strategy
Ecologists-by-Necessity
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS)
Winter 2000
By Richard Levins
http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/americas/cuba/sustainable/susdev/drclasWin2000.html
3) Op-Ed Columnist
The Swift Boating of Cindy Sheehan
By FRANK RICH
Published: August 21, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/21/opinion/21rich.html
4) Army planning for
four more years in Iraq
Top general says U.S. military prepared for 'worst case'
Updated: 5:11 p.m. ET Aug. 20, 2005
WASHINGTON - The Army is planning for the possibility of
keeping the current number of soldiers in Iraq - well over
100,000 - for four more years, the Army's top general said
Saturday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9022420/
5) Tribute to Father Louie Vitale
and his new focus on the
Struggle for peace and justice!
Hi!
This Friday August 26 at 7pm at St. Boniface's Church,
175 Golden Gate Ave. is a special night!
Father Louie Vitale, the tireless activist pastor of
St. Boniface's (and member of Religious Witness with
the Homeless), is retiring on September 1 to focus
more on the struggle for peace and justice.
As part of the tribute to him, Reader's Theater is
presenting "The Trial of the Catonsville Nine," a play
by Daniel Berrigan. The play focuses on the trial of
nine catholic activists (including Berrigan) who
walked into an induction center in Catonsville,
Maryland in 1968 and burned draft records as a protest
of the unjust Vietnam War.
I AM PLAYING one of the defendants, the loveable and
feisty George Mische.
PLEASE come and pay honor to Father Louie and see a
great play. All proceeds benefit the St. Boniface
Neighborhood Center, which will continue the work for
peace and justice that Father Louie began.
INFO:
"The Trial of the Catonsville Nine"
Friday August 26, 7pm (doors open at 6:30)
$10-$100 (no one turned away)
Call for reservations, seating limited: 415-861-5848
or e-mail sbnctr@hotmail.com Hope to see you there.
Tommi
6) Op-Ed Columnist
Truth in Recruiting
By BOB HERBERT
Published: August 22, 2005
Stop fighting unnecessary wars, or reinstate the draft....
With a series of television ads, the Army is also trying to
win over what it calls the "influencers," the parents and
other adults who have been counseling youngsters to stay
away from the military. That campaign was packaged by the
Leo Burnett agency, which has the following to say about
itself:
"Leo Burnett USA creates ideas that inspire enduring belief
for many of the world's most valuable brands and most
successful marketers, including McDonald's, Disney, Procter
& Gamble, Marlboro, Altoids, Heinz, Kellogg, Nintendo and
the U.S. Army."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/22/opinion/22herbert.html
7) Concerns Are Voiced About
Amount of Power Given
to Major Contractor for U.S.O.
By JAMES RISEN
Published: August 22, 2005
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 - Ever since Bob Hope took his show
on the road during World War II, the U.S.O. has been
entertaining American troops overseas.
But just as the organization is increasing efforts
to support soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, it has
been roiled by internal concerns over its management
practices. Several current and former U.S.O. officials
say that the organization's president, Edward Powell,
has given an unusual amount of power over the internal
management of the U.S.O. to a major contractor, a man
who has family ties to Mr. Powell.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/22/politics/22uso.html
8) People's Power in Cuba. . - book review
Hobart Spalding
Peter Roman, People's Power: Cuba's Experience With
Representative Government (Boulder: Westview Press, 1999),
284 pages plus photos. A second edition, in paperback, is
forthcoming from Rowan and Littlefield.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1132/is_9_54/ai_97740516/print
9) FOCUS | Afghanistan Growing Deadlier for US Troops
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082205Z.shtml
10) Taliban say will not attack Afghan voters
Mon Aug 22, 2005 09:23 AM ET
By Robert Birsel
KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban fighters will not attack polling
stations during next month's election in Afghanistan, a
spokesman for the guerrillas said on Monday, but he vowed that
the war against the government and U.S. forces would go on.
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=9438211&src=eDialog/GetContent
11) Deadlock, doubts as Iraq ticks down to deadline
Mon Aug 22, 2005 09:19 AM ET
By Alastair Macdonald
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Hours from a midnight deadline that
could plunge Iraq's fledgling political system into crisis,
there was no sign of an end to deadlock on Monday over a new
constitution and profound doubt over where that would lead.
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=9438193&src=eDialog/GetContent
12) Bush to face protests as he defends Iraq policy
Mon Aug 22, 2005 07:21 AM ET
By Caren Bohan
CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President Bush, trying to
counter the message of anti-war vigils outside his ranch and
growing public discontent with Iraq, leaves Texas on Monday for
the first of two speeches on the war and the September 11
attacks, but more protesters await him.
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=9436734&src=eDialog/GetContent
13) On Saturday, August 27, Hands Off Venezuela,
San Francisco Bay, will be sponsoring a report back
on the World Youth Festival in Caracas and a presentation
of the Film, Venezuela From Below.
Report Back: World Youth Festival
Mark Ostapiak, an activist with Hands Off Venezuela,
will talk about his experience at the recently concluded
World Youth Festival held in Caracas, Venezuela.
Venezuela from Below
A film by Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler/67 min., 2004
In Spanish and German with English Subtitles
7:00 PM, Saturday, August 27.
Center for Political Education
522 Valencia, Third Floor,
Near 16th Street, SF (not wheelchair accessible)
$5/$3 Students, Seniors, Unemployed
14) WALK TALL
By John Mellencamp
From the album "Walk Tall"
2004
http://www.mellencamp.com/albums/words_and_music/lyrics.html
15) The 911 Power to the Peaceful Festival is proud to present
this amazing collection of Musicians, Speakers and DJ's.
Saturday, September 10, Speedway Meadow, Golden Gate Park, S.F.
http://www.powertothepeaceful.org/index.html
16) Below is a solidarity statement being circulated in
the Twin Cities by activists who are setting up a support
committee with the help of AMFA as well as other airline workers.
---------*---------*---------*---------*---------*--------
1) Documentary of Cindy Sheehan journey to Crawford, Texas
http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/127648/index.php
---------*---------*---------*---------*---------*--------
2) Cuba's Environmental Strategy
Ecologists-by-Necessity
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS)
Winter 2000
By Richard Levins
http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/americas/cuba/sustainable/susdev/drclasWin2000.html
---------*---------*---------*---------*---------*--------
3) Op-Ed Columnist
The Swift Boating of Cindy Sheehan
By FRANK RICH
Published: August 21, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/21/opinion/21rich.html
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4) Army planning for
four more years in Iraq
Top general says U.S. military prepared for 'worst case'
Updated: 5:11 p.m. ET Aug. 20, 2005
WASHINGTON - The Army is planning for the possibility of
keeping the current number of soldiers in Iraq - well over
100,000 - for four more years, the Army's top general said
Saturday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9022420/
---------*---------*---------*---------*---------*--------
5) Tribute to Father Louie Vitale
and his new focus on the
Struggle for peace and justice!
Hi!
This Friday August 26 at 7pm at St. Boniface's Church,
175 Golden Gate Ave. is a special night!
Father Louie Vitale, the tireless activist pastor of
St. Boniface's (and member of Religious Witness with
the Homeless), is retiring on September 1 to focus
more on the struggle for peace and justice.
As part of the tribute to him, Reader's Theater is
presenting "The Trial of the Catonsville Nine," a play
by Daniel Berrigan. The play focuses on the trial of
nine catholic activists (including Berrigan) who
walked into an induction center in Catonsville,
Maryland in 1968 and burned draft records as a protest
of the unjust Vietnam War.
I AM PLAYING one of the defendants, the loveable and
feisty George Mische.
PLEASE come and pay honor to Father Louie and see a
great play. All proceeds benefit the St. Boniface
Neighborhood Center, which will continue the work for
peace and justice that Father Louie began.
INFO:
"The Trial of the Catonsville Nine"
Friday August 26, 7pm (doors open at 6:30)
$10-$100 (no one turned away)
Call for reservations, seating limited: 415-861-5848
or e-mail sbnctr@hotmail.com Hope to see you there.
Tommi
---------*---------*---------*---------*---------*--------
6) Op-Ed Columnist
Truth in Recruiting
By BOB HERBERT
Published: August 22, 2005
Stop fighting unnecessary wars, or reinstate the draft....
With a series of television ads, the Army is also trying to
win over what it calls the "influencers," the parents and
other adults who have been counseling youngsters to stay
away from the military. That campaign was packaged by the
Leo Burnett agency, which has the following to say about
itself:
"Leo Burnett USA creates ideas that inspire enduring belief
for many of the world's most valuable brands and most
successful marketers, including McDonald's, Disney, Procter
& Gamble, Marlboro, Altoids, Heinz, Kellogg, Nintendo and
the U.S. Army."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/22/opinion/22herbert.html
---------*---------*---------*---------*---------*--------
7) Concerns Are Voiced About
Amount of Power Given
to Major Contractor for U.S.O.
By JAMES RISEN
Published: August 22, 2005
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 - Ever since Bob Hope took his show
on the road during World War II, the U.S.O. has been
entertaining American troops overseas.
But just as the organization is increasing efforts
to support soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, it has
been roiled by internal concerns over its management
practices. Several current and former U.S.O. officials
say that the organization's president, Edward Powell,
has given an unusual amount of power over the internal
management of the U.S.O. to a major contractor, a man
who has family ties to Mr. Powell.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/22/politics/22uso.html
---------*---------*---------*---------*---------*--------
8) People's Power in Cuba. . - book review
Hobart Spalding
Peter Roman, People's Power: Cuba's Experience With
Representative Government (Boulder: Westview Press, 1999),
284 pages plus photos. A second edition, in paperback, is
forthcoming from Rowan and Littlefield.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1132/is_9_54/ai_97740516/print
---------*---------*---------*---------*---------*--------
9) FOCUS | Afghanistan Growing Deadlier for US Troops
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082205Z.shtml
---------*---------*---------*---------*---------*--------
10) Taliban say will not attack Afghan voters
Mon Aug 22, 2005 09:23 AM ET
By Robert Birsel
KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban fighters will not attack polling
stations during next month's election in Afghanistan, a
spokesman for the guerrillas said on Monday, but he vowed that
the war against the government and U.S. forces would go on.
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=9438211&src=eDialog/GetContent
---------*---------*---------*---------*---------*--------
11) Deadlock, doubts as Iraq ticks down to deadline
Mon Aug 22, 2005 09:19 AM ET
By Alastair Macdonald
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Hours from a midnight deadline that
could plunge Iraq's fledgling political system into crisis,
there was no sign of an end to deadlock on Monday over a new
constitution and profound doubt over where that would lead.
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=9438193&src=eDialog/GetContent
---------*---------*---------*---------*---------*--------
12) Bush to face protests as he defends Iraq policy
Mon Aug 22, 2005 07:21 AM ET
By Caren Bohan
CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President Bush, trying to
counter the message of anti-war vigils outside his ranch and
growing public discontent with Iraq, leaves Texas on Monday for
the first of two speeches on the war and the September 11
attacks, but more protesters await him.
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=9436734&src=eDialog/GetContent
---------*---------*---------*---------*---------*--------
13) On Saturday, August 27, Hands Off Venezuela,
San Francisco Bay, will be sponsoring a report back
on the World Youth Festival in Caracas and a presentation
of the Film, Venezuela From Below.
Report Back: World Youth Festival
Mark Ostapiak, an activist with Hands Off Venezuela,
will talk about his experience at the recently concluded
World Youth Festival held in Caracas, Venezuela.
Venezuela from Below
A film by Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler/67 min., 2004
In Spanish and German with English Subtitles
7:00 PM, Saturday, August 27.
Center for Political Education
522 Valencia, Third Floor,
Near 16th Street, SF (not wheelchair accessible)
$5/$3 Students, Seniors, Unemployed
In Venezuela, a profound social transformation identified
as the Bolivarian process has been underway since Hugo
Chávez's governmental takeover in 1998. It concerns a broad
process of self organization, from which has developed
a progressive constitution, a labor law, new educational
possibilities, and a number of further reforms for the
impoverished majority of the population of what is
potentially a wealthy state.
"We wanted to present the people themselves explaining
what is happening, how they feel, how they live, so that
at least some of this strength for change coming from the
people can be conveyed. We also wanted to show that the
people are very conscious of what is happening. They know
what they want and what needs to be done, and that they
do not need anybody to talk for them. They are perfectly
capable of talking themselves. " --Dario Azzellini, Director
Why We're Doing This:
This is a benefit for Hands off Venezuela. HOV is bringing
a leader of the National Union of Workers of Venezuela (UNT),
Stalin Perez Borges, to San Francisco on September 25.
Perez is a leader of the new Venezuelan labor federation
that has swept out the old, corrupt, CIA-supported labor
federation and has the majority of union workers supporting it.
Hands Off Venezuela The Hands Off Venezuela campaign
(HOV) is an organization of groups and individuals who
support the right of the people of Venezuela to self-
determination and oppose any intervention by the United
States against the democratically elected government
of Venezuela.
Hands Off Venezuela in the San Francisco Bay Area is
part of a relatively new national campaign, and joins
with activists from Minneapolis, Boston, Miami, and
Seattle, St. Louis, Fargo, and Providence, and others.
HOV is also part of an international campaign, based
in London, England, to build a worldwide campaign in
defense of Venezuela against U.S. interference and
aggression.
When: 7:00 PM, Saturday, August 27.
Where: Center for Political Education
Address: 522 Valencia, Third Floor,
Near 16th Street, SF (not wheelchair accessible)
Costs: $5/$3 Students, Seniors, Unemployed
Transit and Parking info:
Closest Bart is 16th St.
Mission District City-Owned Parking Lots:
Mission & Bartlett Garage,16th & Hoff Garage
HANDS OFF VENEZUELA
www.ushov.org
San Francisco: Email: sfbay@ushov.org
Phone: (415) 864-3537
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14) WALK TALL
By John Mellencamp
From the album "Walk Tall"
2004
http://www.mellencamp.com/albums/words_and_music/lyrics.html
The simple-minded and the uninformed
Can be easily led astray
And those that cannot connect the dots
Look the other way
People believe what they want to believe
When it makes no sense at all
So be careful of those killing in Jesus's name
He don't believe in killing at all
And I wish you a long sight line
And the strength to walk tall
Walk tall
Yeah, walk on
Through this world
Walk tall
Somewhere out in the distance
Is the death of you and me
Even though we don't think of it much
It's still out there for us to see
If you treat life like a ballroom fight
You'll die stinking of gin
No drunkards are allowed in heaven
No sinners will get in
Walk tall
Yeah, walk on
Walk tall
Through this world
Walk tall
So be careful in what you believe in
There's plenty to get you confused
And in this land called paradise
You must walk in many men's shoes
Bigotry and hatred are enemies to us all
Grace, mercy, and forgiveness
Will help a man walk tall
So walk tall
Yeah, walk on
Walk tall
Through this world
Through this world
Yeah, walk tall
Then walk on
Walk tall
UNITED FOR PEACE & JUSTICE | 212-868-5545
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Yahoo! Groups Links
To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ufpj-news/
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15) The 911 Power to the Peaceful Festival is proud to present
this amazing collection of Musicians, Speakers and DJ's.
Saturday, September 10, Speedway Meadow, Golden Gate Park, S.F.
http://www.powertothepeaceful.org/index.html
Please explore the festival to find....
Yoga
9:30am YOGA with Michael Franti, Nicki Doane & Eddie
Modestini of Yoga on Maui
Come early and start the day with Yoga!
Eco Skate Ramp
New to the 911 PTTP Festival, an eco skate ramp
will be constructed on site. The ramp will be built by
ASEC (Action Sports Environmental Coalition) with FSC
(forest stewardship certified) wood that came from
last year's x-games competition. The Mini Ramp will
be donated either to a Bay Area High School after the event.
Confirmed to skate the ramp: Danny Way - Jen OBrien -
CaraBeth Burnside - Lyn-z Adams - Mimi Knoop
Healing Art Tent
Serene enviornment offering a variety of bodywork
including massage and reiki.
Art Gallery
Open-Air Art Gallery showcasing local visual artists.
Kids Zone
A fun tent offering face-painting, story-telling,
arts & crafts for the kids.
DJ Area
open-air DJ area featuring the best in House,
Breaks, Hip-Hop and Reggae.
DJs: Miguel Migs -DJ Adnan -Adam Ohana -DJ M3 –
Ren the Vinyl Archeologist - Tony Moses
Social Justice Organizations
Social Justice & Environmental Organizations will
be on site, offering info on many different issues.
Vendors
Stroll thru the food and artisan vendor row for
international foods and conscience products.
American Sign Language
ASL interpreters for the duration of Main Stage.
MUSIC BY:
MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD
ANTI-FLAG
SAUL WILLIAMS
JEAN GRAE
MARIE DAULNE
from ZAP MAMA
GLIDE CHOIR
SPEAKERS:
ANGELA DAVIS
WOODY HARELSON
ROBERT GREENWALD
PAUL RIECKHOFF
MARIO HARDY
TIM GOODRICH
MAYOR GAVIN NEWSOM
DAVE FRANKEL
MARYLON BOYD
DJs:
MIGUEL MIGS
DJ ADNAN
ADAM OHANA
DJ M3
DJ REN
THE VINYL ARCHEOLOGIST
TONY MOSES
SKATERS:
DANNY WAY
JEN OBRIEN
CARABETH BURNSIDE
LYN-Z ADAMS
MIMI KNOOP
www.spearheadvibrations.com
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16) Below is a solidarity statement being circulated in
the Twin Cities by activists who are setting up a support
committee with the help of AMFA as well as other airline workers.
A STATEMENT OF PROTEST AND SOLIDARITY
As Twin Cities union leaders and activists, we want to make it
clear that we stand against the behavior of Northwest Airlines
management and with the workers of Northwest Airlines and their
unions as they seek economic justice.
For too many years the management of Northwest Airlines -- and
other U.S. corporations -- has demanded that workers give more
hours, more effort, and more of their lives to their jobs while
receiving reduced compensation, less security, and less respect. At
the same time, management has taken home fat compensation packages,
stock options, bonuses, and golden parachutes. NWA management is now
in the midst of spending, by their own admission, more than $100
million to bust the mechanics' union. They are recuiting hastily
trained scabs and employing the infamous union-busting Vance
Security company to intimidate the hard-working men and women who
have given decades of their lives to Northwest.
NWA management has demanded that mechanics allow the
contracting-out of the 53% of their work that remains since
management already contracted out 38% of it. Fewer than one-fourth
of the mechanics employed in 2000 will continue to have jobs. For
those who remain, management demands a 26% wage cut and the emptying
of their underfunded defined-benefit pensions into 401K plans tied
to the stock market. NWA management has demanded that flight
attendants undergo a 40% cut in their overall compensation. They are
seeking similar cuts from other workers and, if they are able to
force the mechanics and the flight attendants to accept these cuts,
these other workers -- pilots, baggage handlers, ticket agents,
clerical workers, and others -- will have little base from which to
resist. The flying public will also have many reasons to question
the safety of NWA flights.
NWA management's behavior is all too familiar. It mirrors the
actions of Hormel, the Detroit newspapers, Caterpillar, Staley,
Delphi Auto Parts, Enron, and United Airlines. It also sets the
stage for other corporate employers to demand that their workers and
unions allow expanded outsourcing of work, accept slashed wages and
benefits, and give up the pensions that they have sacrificed for
over many years.
This must stop. These actions by NWA management, combined with
their abuse of the trust of Minnesota citizens, tax-payers, and
state government, make them a suitable poster child for the labor
movement's renewed efforts to educate, organize, and mobilize all
Americans -- native-born and immigrant, blue collar and white
collar, manufacturing and service, women and men, union members and
non-union members. All of us need to say "NO!" to this kind of
behavior. NO to union-busting! NO to corporate greed! NO to a race
to the bottom of the economic ladder!
We union leaders and activists stand against Northwest Airlines'
behavior and we stand with Northwest's workers and their unions in
their struggle for economic justice.
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