SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT OPT-OUT FORM:
The San Francisco USD version of the opt-out form
is simply a sentence on the school enrollment form
with a yes or no checkbox as follows:
"High school applicants: Do you want SFUSD to release
your child's name, address and telephone number to
military recruiters? YES NO"
(The sentence appears in the first part of the actual
Application-after the explanation of how to fill the
form out. It is a sentence in boldface type.)
You can locate the form at: http://portal.sfusd.edu/template/default.cfm?page=policy.placement.appforms
It appears on the right hand side of the screen under
the heading: SERVICES, then click on EPC FORMS.
Obviously this sentence doesn't explain what the
ramifications are for those who check the YES box.
It also doesn't explain that by taking the ASVAB
(Armed Service Vocational Aptitude Battery) your
NO choice on the Opt-Out question is voided and the
Military can contact your child and call them at
Home. And, you can't stop them from calling by blocking
the caller's number-the U.S. Government can't be
"blocked".
Picket the San Francisco
Board of Education!
CUT ALL SCHOOL TIES
TO THE MILITARY!
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27,
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,
8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Tuesday,
8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
*************************************************
NEXT BAUAW MEETING:
TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20, 7:00 P.M.
474 VALENCIA STREET, S.F. NEAR 16TH STREET
SEPTEMBER 24
ANSWER Organizing Meetings:
Tuesdays, 7:00 p.m.
2489 Mission St., suite 24 (at 21st St., S.F.)
STOP THE WAR AND OCCUPATION!
IRAQ, PALESTINE, HAITI....
MARCH AND RALLY SEPTEMBER 24
11:00 A.M. DOLORES PARK, S.F.
COLLEGE NOT COMBAT CONTINGENT
10:00 A.M. 16TH AND MISSION BART PLAZA, S.F.
QUEER CONTINGENT
Dolores Park, steps
near 19th & Dolores
11am, Saturday, September 24.
Palestine Contingent:
Assemble at Tennis courts across from
Mission High
At 18th and Dolores
11 a.m., Saturday, September 24
Mourn the Dead.
Resist Bush's War
Bring U.S. troops home, now
MASS PROTEST RALLY
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24th, 2005
WALNUT CREEK, CA
Gather for the march at 11:00 a.m.
at Walnut Creek BART station
– or –
Meet for the rally at 12:00 noon
at Heather Farms Park Picnic area
off Ygnacio Valley Road in Walnut Creek
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BAUAW NEWSLETTER-MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2005
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1) Press Release
Source: Hasbro, Inc.
G.I. JOE Returns to TV With New Animated Show! SIGMA 6 Debuts
on 4Kids TV on FOX
Friday September 9, 9:49 am ET
PAWTUCKET, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 2005--The world's
first action figure, Hasbro, Inc.'s (NYSE: HAS -News )
G.I. JOE, returns to television with an all-new animated
series, G.I. JOE: SIGMA 6 set to premiere this Saturday,
September 10 on 4Kids on FOX affiliates nationwide at 11:00 a.m.
The weekly G.I. JOE: SIGMA 6 series will be based on
a new storyline, with "SIGMA 6" being the code name for
a new group of G.I. JOE heroes with highly specialized
capabilities that they use to protect the world from
COBRA COMMANDER and his evil forces.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050909/95307.html?.v=1
Check out the "Sigma 6 Team":
http://www.hasbro.com/gijoe/default.cfm?page=team
EMAIL HASBRO AND LET THEM KNOW WHAT YOU THINK OF G.I. JOE
http://hasbro.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/hasbro.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php?p_sid=LrNHiZPh&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX3NvcnRfYnk9JnBfZ3JpZHNvcnQ9JnBfcm93X2NudD03NzYmcF9wcm9kcz0mcF9jYXRzPSZwX3B2PSZwX2N2PSZwX3NlYXJjaF90eXBlPWFuc3dlcnMuc2VhcmNoX25sJnBfcGFnZT0x
2) washingtonpost.com
FEMA's City of Anxiety in Florida
Many Hurricane Charley Victims Still Unsure of Next Step
By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, September 17, 2005; A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/16/AR2005091601922.html
3) Israel to Disrupt Palestinian Vote if Hamas Runs
By JOEL BRINKLEY
Published: September 17, 2005
Mr. Sharon said Israel could choose not to remove roadblocks
and checkpoints that would block Palestinians from the polls
and make it hard for Palestinians in Jerusalem to vote,
among other steps, if Hamas, which calls for Israel's
destruction, takes part.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/17/international/middleeast/17nations.html
4) New Trial Sought for Lawyer in Terror Case (Lynne Stewart)
By JULIA PRESTON, New York Times
Published: August 13, 2005
[NOTE: NEW SENTENCING DATE IS SET FOR OCTOBER 21ST]
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/13/nyregion/13stewart.html
5) The Recovery
FEMA, Slow to the Rescue, Now Stumbles in Aid Effort
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER and ERIC LIPTON
Published: September 17, 2005
"I expressed to the president that it would take a new
partnership between the military and private sector,"
Mr. Taylor said. "Because there will be another one and
I don't think the federal government is going to be able
to help." Indeed, Mr. Bush said in his address to the
nation from New Orleans on Thursday night that the military
would play a new role in federal disaster relief... "Today
is 18 days past the storm, and FEMA has not even put
a location for people who are displaced," he said. "They
are walking around the damn streets. The system's broke.
... In Tangipahoa Parish, the parish president, Gordon
Burgess, said he called FEMA officials daily to ask when
they would arrive to assist residents with housing.
Mr. Burgess said the federal workers say, " 'I'll get
to you next week,' and then the next week and then you'd
never hear from them again."...
"It is a sad experience," said Frank Link,, who was sent
from to Missouri , then to Mississippi, then to Alabama
and then to Tennessee - all with the same load of 41,580
pounds of ice that he had loaded in Chicago. "I went down
there to help. All I did was get the runaround from FEMA."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/17/national/nationalspecial/17fema.html
6) In New York Cribs, Jeff and Lisa Give Way to Ahmed and Chaya
By JENNIFER 8. LEE
Published: September 17, 2005
In the last several years, New York City has had more baby
girls named Fatoumata than Lisa, more Aaliyahs than Melissas,
more Chayas than Christinas. There have been more baby boys
named Moshe than Peter, more Miguels than Jeffreys, more
Ahmeds than Stanleys.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/17/nyregion/17baby.html
7) Study Attributes Stronger Storms to Warmer Seas
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: September 16, 2005
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (AP) - Storms with the power of Hurricane
Katrina are becoming more common, in part because of global
warming, according to a report from a team of researchers
that will be published Friday.
The number of storms in the two most powerful categories,
4 and 5, rose to an average of 18 a year worldwide since 1990,
up from 11 in the 1970's, according to the report, which will
be published in the journal Science.
The researchers were led by Peter J. Webster of the Georgia
Institute of Technology.
There was no increase in storms over all, the researchers
said, just in their intensity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/16/science/16climate.html
8) What Noble Cause?
By Cindy Sheehan
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Saturday 17 September 2005
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091705Y.shtml
9) Sugar for Sugar, Salt For Salt
Go Down In The Flood Gonna Be Your Own Fault
by Christopher Cooper
Published on Thursday, September 15, 2005 by the Wiscasset Newspaper (Maine)
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0915-28.htm
10) Analysis
New Orleans: Dress rehearsal for lockdown of America
By Carolyn Baker
Online Journal Contributing Writer
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/091305Baker/091305baker.html
11) Military Recruiters' Access to Seattle Schools Restricted
Ramy Khalil
http://www.lefthook.org/Ground/Khalil091605.html
12) Hurricane Katrina: The Black Nation's 9/11!
Statement by Saladin Muhammad of Black Workers for Justice
Via NY Transfer News Collective *All the News that Doesn't Fit
sent by The Freedom Archives - Sep 15, 2005 http://freedomarchives.org/mailman/listinfo/news_freedomarchives.org
13) The High Price of Standing Up to Putin
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
September 18, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/weekinreview/18myers.html?pagewanted=print
14) Op-Ed Contributor
Dangling Particles
By LISA RANDALL
Published: September 18, 2005
Cambridge, Mass.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/opinion/18randall.html?pagewanted=all
15) Guantánamo Prisoners Go on Hunger Strike
By NEIL A. LEWIS
Published: September 18, 2005
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 - A hunger strike at the prison camp at
Guantánamo Bay, Cuba , has unsettled senior commanders there
and produced the most serious challenge yet to the military's
effort to manage the detention of hundreds of terrorism
suspects, lawyers and officials say.
As many as 200 prisoners - more than a third of the camp –
have refused food in recent weeks to protest conditions and
prolonged confinement without trial, according to the accounts
of lawyers who represent them. While military officials put
the number of those participating at 105, they acknowledge
that 20 of them, whose health and survival are being threatened,
are being kept at the camp's hospital and fed through nasal
tubes and sometimes given fluids intravenously.
The military authorities were so concerned about ending
a previous strike this summer that they allowed the
establishment of a six-member prisoners' grievance committee,
lawyers said. The committee, a sharp departure from past
practice in which camp authorities refused to cede any
control or role to the detainees, was quickly ended,
the lawyers say.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/politics/18gitmo.html?hp&ex=1127102400&en=0e1376365dbc6773&ei=5094&partner=homepage
16) The Rescues
Aging, Frail, and Refugees
From the Hurricane
By JANE GROSS
Published: September 18, 2005
COLUMBIA, La., Sept. 15 - The frail residents of the
Wynhoven Health Care Center fled New Orleans and the
havoc of Hurricane Katrina for a high school gymnasium,
where they spent four nights sleeping on the floor with
just inches between them. Then they endured a 10-hour
bus ride to this rural outpost in northeastern Louisiana
more than 200 miles from home that might as well have
been the far side of the moon.
They subsisted on bag lunches, did without their insulin
or blood-pressure medicine, risked infection from
catheters that were necessary when no toilets were
available, and finally arrived here at the Haven
Nursing Center with no medical records and only the
clothes on their backs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/national/nationalspecial/18frail.html?hp&ex=1127102400&en=477d062beda215df&ei=5094&partner=homepage
17) Dec 1 NATIONWIDE STRIKE AGAINST POVERTY, RACISM & WAR!
WE MUST TURN OUR OUTRAGE OVER KATRINA INTO A MOVEMENT
On the 50TH Anniversary of Dec.1,1955 - the day in Montgomery
Alabama that Rosa Parks sparked the modern Civil Rights Movement
A CALL FOR A NATIONWIDE STRIKE AGAINST POVERTY, RACISM AND WAR
No School - No Shopping - No Work
local protests and teach-ins through December 2 and 3
Mass March on Wall Street, NYC
SHUT THE WAR DOWN
The People of New Orleans and the Gulf Must Control the
Rebuilding, not Bush's Rich Friends!
Solidarity with Katrina Survivors - We demand an
Independent Investigation
A JOB AT A LIVING WAGE is a human right
Healthcare, Housing and Education, not war and occupation
BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!
18) Lack of Cohesion Bedevils Recovery
Red Tape, Lapses in Planning Stall Relief
By Shankar Vedantam and Dean Starkman
Washington Post Staff Writers
washingtonpost.com
Sunday, September 18, 2005; A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/17/AR2005091701392.html?referrer=email&referrer=email
19) Storm Prompts Evacuation Order in Florida Keys
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 1:26 p.m. ET
September 19, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Tropical-Weather.html?hp&ex=1127188800&en=de23fe7bd0e4e772&ei=5094&partner=homepage
20) Three weeks after Katrina, South shows resilience
Mon Sep 19, 2005 08:29 AM ET
By Carey Gillam and Andy Sullivan
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=9690046&src=eDialog/GetContent
21) Student antiwar activists from Madison and Chicago will be leaving
Wednesday September 21st for the Gulf States to bring solidarity and
relief to those who need it. They are collecting donations at Monday
evening's speaking tour with George Galloway in Chicago. http://
www.mrgallowaygoestowashington.com
22) STOP THE EXECUTION OF FRANCES NEWTON![Col. Writ. 9/13/05] Copyright '05 Mumia Abu-Jamal
23) Frances Newton Executed
http://www.texasmoratorium.org/
24) Please forward this email
Mourn the Dead.
Resist Bush's War
Bring U.S. troops home, now
MASS PROTEST RALLY
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24th, 2005
WALNUT CREEK, CA
Gather for the march at 11:00 a.m. at Walnut Creek BART station
– or –
Meet for the rally at 12:00 noon at Heather Farms Park Picnic area
off Ygnacio Valley Road in Walnut Creek
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1) Press Release
Source: Hasbro, Inc.
G.I. JOE Returns to TV With New Animated Show! SIGMA 6 Debuts
on 4Kids TV on FOX
Friday September 9, 9:49 am ET
PAWTUCKET, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 2005--The world's
first action figure, Hasbro, Inc.'s (NYSE: HAS -News )
G.I. JOE, returns to television with an all-new animated
series, G.I. JOE: SIGMA 6 set to premiere this Saturday,
September 10 on 4Kids on FOX affiliates nationwide at 11:00 a.m.
The weekly G.I. JOE: SIGMA 6 series will be based on
a new storyline, with "SIGMA 6" being the code name for
a new group of G.I. JOE heroes with highly specialized
capabilities that they use to protect the world from
COBRA COMMANDER and his evil forces.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050909/95307.html?.v=1
Check out the "Sigma 6 Team":
http://www.hasbro.com/gijoe/default.cfm?page=team
EMAIL HASBRO AND LET THEM KNOW WHAT YOU THINK OF G.I. JOE
http://hasbro.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/hasbro.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php?p_sid=LrNHiZPh&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX3NvcnRfYnk9JnBfZ3JpZHNvcnQ9JnBfcm93X2NudD03NzYmcF9wcm9kcz0mcF9jYXRzPSZwX3B2PSZwX2N2PSZwX3NlYXJjaF90eXBlPWFuc3dlcnMuc2VhcmNoX25sJnBfcGFnZT0x
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2) washingtonpost.com
FEMA's City of Anxiety in Florida
Many Hurricane Charley Victims Still Unsure of Next Step
By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, September 17, 2005; A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/16/AR2005091601922.html
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3) Israel to Disrupt Palestinian Vote if Hamas Runs
By JOEL BRINKLEY
Published: September 17, 2005
Mr. Sharon said Israel could choose not to remove roadblocks
and checkpoints that would block Palestinians from the polls
and make it hard for Palestinians in Jerusalem to vote,
among other steps, if Hamas, which calls for Israel's
destruction, takes part.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/17/international/middleeast/17nations.html
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4) New Trial Sought for Lawyer in Terror Case (Lynne Stewart)
By JULIA PRESTON, New York Times
Published: August 13, 2005
[NOTE: NEW SENTENCING DATE IS SET FOR OCTOBER 21ST]
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/13/nyregion/13stewart.html
---------*---------*---------*---------*---------*--------
5) The Recovery
FEMA, Slow to the Rescue, Now Stumbles in Aid Effort
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER and ERIC LIPTON
Published: September 17, 2005
"I expressed to the president that it would take a new
partnership between the military and private sector,"
Mr. Taylor said. "Because there will be another one and
I don't think the federal government is going to be able
to help." Indeed, Mr. Bush said in his address to the
nation from New Orleans on Thursday night that the military
would play a new role in federal disaster relief... "Today
is 18 days past the storm, and FEMA has not even put
a location for people who are displaced," he said. "They
are walking around the damn streets. The system's broke.
... In Tangipahoa Parish, the parish president, Gordon
Burgess, said he called FEMA officials daily to ask when
they would arrive to assist residents with housing.
Mr. Burgess said the federal workers say, " 'I'll get
to you next week,' and then the next week and then you'd
never hear from them again."...
"It is a sad experience," said Frank Link,, who was sent
from to Missouri , then to Mississippi, then to Alabama
and then to Tennessee - all with the same load of 41,580
pounds of ice that he had loaded in Chicago. "I went down
there to help. All I did was get the runaround from FEMA."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/17/national/nationalspecial/17fema.html
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6) In New York Cribs, Jeff and Lisa Give Way to Ahmed and Chaya
By JENNIFER 8. LEE
Published: September 17, 2005
In the last several years, New York City has had more baby
girls named Fatoumata than Lisa, more Aaliyahs than Melissas,
more Chayas than Christinas. There have been more baby boys
named Moshe than Peter, more Miguels than Jeffreys, more
Ahmeds than Stanleys.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/17/nyregion/17baby.html
---------*---------*---------*---------*---------*--------
7) Study Attributes Stronger Storms to Warmer Seas
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: September 16, 2005
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (AP) - Storms with the power of Hurricane
Katrina are becoming more common, in part because of global
warming, according to a report from a team of researchers
that will be published Friday.
The number of storms in the two most powerful categories,
4 and 5, rose to an average of 18 a year worldwide since 1990,
up from 11 in the 1970's, according to the report, which will
be published in the journal Science.
The researchers were led by Peter J. Webster of the Georgia
Institute of Technology.
There was no increase in storms over all, the researchers
said, just in their intensity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/16/science/16climate.html
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8) What Noble Cause?
By Cindy Sheehan
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Saturday 17 September 2005
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091705Y.shtml
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9) Sugar for Sugar, Salt For Salt
Go Down In The Flood Gonna Be Your Own Fault
by Christopher Cooper
Published on Thursday, September 15, 2005 by the Wiscasset Newspaper (Maine)
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0915-28.htm
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10) Analysis
New Orleans: Dress rehearsal for lockdown of America
By Carolyn Baker
Online Journal Contributing Writer
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/091305Baker/091305baker.html
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11) Military Recruiters' Access to Seattle Schools Restricted
Ramy Khalil
http://www.lefthook.org/Ground/Khalil091605.html
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12) Hurricane Katrina: The Black Nation's 9/11!
Statement by Saladin Muhammad of Black Workers for Justice
Via NY Transfer News Collective *All the News that Doesn't Fit
sent by The Freedom Archives - Sep 15, 2005 http://freedomarchives.org/mailman/listinfo/news_freedomarchives.org
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13) The High Price of Standing Up to Putin
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
September 18, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/weekinreview/18myers.html?pagewanted=print
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14) Op-Ed Contributor
Dangling Particles
By LISA RANDALL
Published: September 18, 2005
Cambridge, Mass.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/opinion/18randall.html?pagewanted=all
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15) Guantánamo Prisoners Go on Hunger Strike
By NEIL A. LEWIS
Published: September 18, 2005
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 - A hunger strike at the prison camp at
Guantánamo Bay, Cuba , has unsettled senior commanders there
and produced the most serious challenge yet to the military's
effort to manage the detention of hundreds of terrorism
suspects, lawyers and officials say.
As many as 200 prisoners - more than a third of the camp –
have refused food in recent weeks to protest conditions and
prolonged confinement without trial, according to the accounts
of lawyers who represent them. While military officials put
the number of those participating at 105, they acknowledge
that 20 of them, whose health and survival are being threatened,
are being kept at the camp's hospital and fed through nasal
tubes and sometimes given fluids intravenously.
The military authorities were so concerned about ending
a previous strike this summer that they allowed the
establishment of a six-member prisoners' grievance committee,
lawyers said. The committee, a sharp departure from past
practice in which camp authorities refused to cede any
control or role to the detainees, was quickly ended,
the lawyers say.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/politics/18gitmo.html?hp&ex=1127102400&en=0e1376365dbc6773&ei=5094&partner=homepage
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16) The Rescues
Aging, Frail, and Refugees
From the Hurricane
By JANE GROSS
Published: September 18, 2005
COLUMBIA, La., Sept. 15 - The frail residents of the
Wynhoven Health Care Center fled New Orleans and the
havoc of Hurricane Katrina for a high school gymnasium,
where they spent four nights sleeping on the floor with
just inches between them. Then they endured a 10-hour
bus ride to this rural outpost in northeastern Louisiana
more than 200 miles from home that might as well have
been the far side of the moon.
They subsisted on bag lunches, did without their insulin
or blood-pressure medicine, risked infection from
catheters that were necessary when no toilets were
available, and finally arrived here at the Haven
Nursing Center with no medical records and only the
clothes on their backs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/national/nationalspecial/18frail.html?hp&ex=1127102400&en=477d062beda215df&ei=5094&partner=homepage
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17) Dec 1 NATIONWIDE STRIKE AGAINST POVERTY, RACISM & WAR!
WE MUST TURN OUR OUTRAGE OVER KATRINA INTO A MOVEMENT
On the 50TH Anniversary of Dec.1,1955 - the day in Montgomery
Alabama that Rosa Parks sparked the modern Civil Rights Movement
A CALL FOR A NATIONWIDE STRIKE AGAINST POVERTY, RACISM AND WAR
No School - No Shopping - No Work
local protests and teach-ins through December 2 and 3
Mass March on Wall Street, NYC
SHUT THE WAR DOWN
The People of New Orleans and the Gulf Must Control the
Rebuilding, not Bush's Rich Friends!
Solidarity with Katrina Survivors - We demand an
Independent Investigation
A JOB AT A LIVING WAGE is a human right
Healthcare, Housing and Education, not war and occupation
BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!
The Outrage in New Orleans is a clarion call to the
Antiwar and grassroots movement:
The time has arrived to take our struggle to a higher
level. Let us work together and organize a nationwide strike
against Poverty, Racism and War on Dec. 1, 2005, the 50th
anniversary of the day that Rosa Parks helped launch the
modern civil rights movement.No School - No Shopping - No
Work --local protests and teachins through December 2 and 3
-- A Mass March on Wall Street, NYC. It is time for the people
to demonstrate that they can stop business as usual coast-to-
coast when justice requires it.
The war and occupation of Iraq, coupled with the Katrina
Outrage, have demonstrated to the world the urgent necessity
shut for fundamental change, and a movement that is big enough
and determined enough to achieve the goal. Katrina has exposed
the ugly truths about class and race, poverty, war and
militarism. Our demand to end the war in Iraq and to bring
the the troops home now must be backed up by the kind of
mass tactics that signal we mean business.
Fifty years ago, Black people in Montgomery, Al. were
forced by law to sit in the back of public buses, and give
their seats to any white person who demanded it. When Rosa
Parks, a garment worker and civil rights activist, refused
to give up her seat to a white man, she sparked the
Montgomery bus boycott against segregation on public buses,
one of the most successful and truly mass boycotts in history.
The Montgomery bus boycott also introduced to the world
a young reverend named Martin Luther King Jr., who became
the boycott's principal public leader.
Dec. 1 Nationwide strike against poverty, racism
and war- Initiating organizations:
Troops Out Now Coalition, Million Worker March Movement,
Teamsters National Black Caucus, Michigan Emergency
Committee Against War & Injustice.
ENDORSE the call today or volunteer to ORGANIZE AN
ACTIVITY IN YOUR AREA for the December 1 NATIONAL
STRIKE AGAINST POVERTY, RACISM AND WAR!
For more information:
Troops Out Now Coalition
39 W 14th St Suite 206
New York, NY 10011
212-633-6646
info@troopsoutnow.org
www.troopsoutnow.org
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18) Lack of Cohesion Bedevils Recovery
Red Tape, Lapses in Planning Stall Relief
By Shankar Vedantam and Dean Starkman
Washington Post Staff Writers
washingtonpost.com
Sunday, September 18, 2005; A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/17/AR2005091701392.html?referrer=email&referrer=email
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19) Storm Prompts Evacuation Order in Florida Keys
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 1:26 p.m. ET
September 19, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Tropical-Weather.html?hp&ex=1127188800&en=de23fe7bd0e4e772&ei=5094&partner=homepage
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20) Three weeks after Katrina, South shows resilience
Mon Sep 19, 2005 08:29 AM ET
By Carey Gillam and Andy Sullivan
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=9690046&src=eDialog/GetContent
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21) Student antiwar activists from Madison and Chicago will be leaving
Wednesday September 21st for the Gulf States to bring solidarity and
relief to those who need it. They are collecting donations at Monday
evening's speaking tour with George Galloway in Chicago. http://
www.mrgallowaygoestowashington.com
These students are following in the footsteps of a first contingent
of NYC CAN students who are in the Gulf States now.
They have been filing their reports at
http://www.campusantiwar.net
http://www.counterpunch.org
http://www.traprockpeace.org/relief_not_war/
They will travel from the Gulf States to join the "College Not Combat
- Relief Not War" contingent that will march in Washington, DC on
September 24th. A sister contingent is marching in San Francisco that
day. Learn more on the contingents at http://www.campusantiwar.net/
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September 19, 2005
New York - Madison - Chicago to New Orleans and then to Washington DC
Campus Antiwar Network: Money for Relief, Not for War!
By Dennis Kosuth:
While Hurricane Katrina itself was a natural
disaster, there was nothing "natural" about the
government's disgusting lack of response to this
catastrophe.
How can we trust that a government, which began by
ignoring this crisis, is even interested in - let alone
capable of - rebuilding the lives of the affected
people?
This is the very same government, which has not only
destroyed Iraq, but has also proven unable to rebuild
it, despite the billions of dollars spent on the war.
It is clear that from Baghdad to New Orleans, profit
comes before people.
It is no surprise that Bush denies that racism had
anything to do with the fact that African-American
disproportionately suffered in the Gulf Coast
disaster. This same person is conducting a racist,
anti-Arab and anti-Muslim war abroad.
We are asking people to make donations for us to bring
down to those who need it.
The simplest way to help is with a cash donation,
which we will use to either purchase products that
people can use, or give directly to organizations in
the area. We will also accept cleaning supplies,
toiletrys, and medical related items.
For those attending the George Galloway event on 9/19
at Thorne Auditorium, Northwestern University Law
School (375 E. Chicago near Lake Shore Drive) at 7pm,
we will have a table to accept donations. Please stop by.
If you are interested in traveling with us, please
contact Dennis through the information below.
In solidarity,
Alex, Harper Community College
Bob, University of Illinois - Chicago
Dennis, Malcolm X College
Erika, University of Illinois - Chicago
Lauren, Harold Washington College
Sabah, University of Illinois - Chicago
For more information about the Madison/Chicago mission, contact
Dennis Kosuth at dkosut1@yahoo.com or 312-316-2634
Students on the NYC mission include:
Joanna Bove, John Burns, Manijeh Moradian, Vinay Patel, Tiffany Paul,
Francisco Pereyra, Jena Smith, Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, and Zach
ZillJoanna Bove, John Burns, Manijeh Moradian, Vinay Patel, Tiffany
Paul, Francisco Pereyra, Jena Smith, Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, and
Zach Zill
See the Campus Antiwar Network site for updates from CAN students
already in the Gulf states, and for information on the "College Not
Combat - Relief Not War" contingents in the Washington, DC and San
Francisco marches on September 24th.
http://www.campusantiwar.net
For a look at CAN's history since October 26, 2002, see
http://www.traprockpeace.org/campus_antiwar.html
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Forwarded with introduction by:
Charles Jenks
Chair of Advisory Board and Web Manager
Traprock Peace Center
103A Keets Road
Deerfield, MA 01342
413-773-7427
fax 413-773-7507
http://www.traprockpeace.org
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22) STOP THE EXECUTION OF FRANCES NEWTON!
[Col. Writ. 9/13/05] Copyright '05 Mumia Abu-Jamal
If the state of Texas has its way, Frances Newton will be dead
within hours of these words being written; killed by Texas during a
legalized lynching.
If this execution goes forward, it'll be the first time an
African-American woman was executed in Texas since 1854, when an
enslaved Black woman named Lucy was hanged in the coastal port city of
Galveston.
Her family and supporters are raising her case to try to stay the
execution, and hopefully, regain her freedom.
Frances Newton was convicted in the 1988 killings of her husband and
two children.
According to published reports, a Houston D.A. admitted that another
weapon was involved in the killings. Her family and supporters hope
this new evidence will open up the case.
Newton, because of insufficient funds, was assigned a
court-appointed attorney named Ron Mock, a man who has had so many
clients sent to death row, that an entire wing of the unit was known as
'Mock Wing', for the sixteen souls he represented at capital trials.
Among his clientele was Black nationalist, Shaka Sankofa, who was
executed by Texas in 2000.
Of that number, only four are alive today.
When Newton's family raised funds for private counsel, the court
refused to allow Mr. Mock to withdraw, and Frances Newton was stuck with
a lawyer considered among the least competent in the Houston region.
An impressive group of supporters for her commutation, release or
retrial has assembled in the last few weeks. Among them are the Texas
and Austin NAACP, the ACLU, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark,
the President of the American Bar Association, the Texas Civil Rights
Project, the Texas Publishers Assn., and other groups and prominent
individuals, have spoken out in her support.
Michael Greco, President of the American Bar Association, wrote (in
part):
"...[S]ignificant and compelling new evidence ... has not yet been
evaluated by the Texas courts ... This evidence was not discovered
earlier because of the negligence of her appointed lawyer ... He *did no
investigation whatsoever*, and therefore, did not place before the jury
the evidence that now casts doubt on Ms. Newton's involvement in this
crime ..."
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, in a letter to the U.S.
President, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, and the state's Pardon's Board, wrote
(in part):
"Evidence not presented at trial, but now known to have existed, would
have caused an acquittal. Her trial attorney was not competent and can
no longer appear in death cases, but too late for her. A person of
financial means would never have been convicted and probably never even
tried in such a case."
Former comedian and present civil rights activist, Dick Gregory,
didn't speak of legality, but of morality when he said:
"They're going to kill her, and you so-called righteous people are going
to sit back and let it happen!"
Her spirited supporters have assembled a website
(www.freefrances.org
all over the nation.
As of this writing, a two-part commutation petition is before the
Governor of Texas and the Board of Pardons and Parole.
The struggle for her life, and her freedom continues, as the clock
chimes down.
A review of documents from the case, and affidavits attached point
strongly towards her innocence of the crimes which sent her to the Mock
Wing of Death Row in Texas.
As the struggle gains steam, we hope she and her family will prevail.
Copyright 2005 Mumia Abu-Jamal
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23) Frances Newton Executed
http://www.texasmoratorium.org/
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24) Please forward this email
Mourn the Dead.
Resist Bush's War
Bring U.S. troops home, now
MASS PROTEST RALLY
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24th, 2005
WALNUT CREEK, CA
Gather for the march at 11:00 a.m. at Walnut Creek BART station
– or –
Meet for the rally at 12:00 noon at Heather Farms Park Picnic area
off Ygnacio Valley Road in Walnut Creek
PLEASE join thousands of Patriotic Americans on
Saturday, Sept 24 to demonstrate your desire to set America Back on
the Course of True Democracy and to bring home our troops
Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a participatory process. In
order for democracy to work the people must get up off their couches
and actively participate in making it work.
If you’re happy about the war in Iraq and you think the Bush
Administration is doing a good job, then perhaps this leaflet isn’t for
you. Perhaps you don’t need to do anything - you can stay home, tuned
in to FOXNews’ “Fair and Balanced” coverage of the great things Bush is
doing for our economy and the safety of our nation.
But for those who have had enough of this Administration’s bad
judgment, regressive policies, and lack of leadership, there IS
something you can do: join the hundreds of thousands across the nation
in a
MASS PROTEST RALLY
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24th, 2005
WALNUT CREEK, CA
Gather for the march at 11:00 a.m. at Walnut Creek BART station
– or –
Meet for the rally at 12:00 noon at Heather Farms Park Picnic area
off Ygnacio Valley Road in Walnut Creek
Why is this important? It sends a message to President Bush that we
don’t want to “stay the course”. It sends a message to our Senators and
Congresspersons that we’ve had enough and they must start representing
us - the people - not the special interests that finance their
campaigns. It is - aside from voting - the most basic and essential
form of democracy … where we tell our elected representative what “WE
THE PEOPLE” want them to do.
Your role in this process is vital. If you stay home, if you say
nothing, the message to the elected officials is clear:
“the people are not interested and therefore we will make decisions for
them.”
Think about these issues over the next few days:
Iraq War & Terrorism: Our nation was attacked by terrorists on
September 11, 2001. In the days that followed, we once again became a
“united” nation, supporting each other and denouncing the violence of
those who executed the attacks. The world reached out to us with
offers of help and condolences. But instead of ending terrorism, the
Bush Administration began and, in 2003, expanded, a unilateral rampage
through the Middle East, despite worldwide cries to end the violence.
And now, years later, under the direction of that Administration, we
are in another Vietnam-like protracted war that can’t be won, the
mastermind of the attacks – Osama bin Laden - is still free, terrorism
is on the rise worldwide, and the world’s people have come to hate us.
Homeland In-security: Now we are also seeing more of the effects of
this Administration’s harmful preoccupation. Funds and other resources
that should have gone to securing our own nation’s land and people in
the Gulf Coast area were unavailable because of outrageous spending
cuts and diversions to war. Our own people were abandoned.
Record deficits: The Bush Administration inherited a record surplus
of $8 trillion upon taking office. In just six short years he has
turned that surplus into a $4 trillion dollar deficit. You, your
children, and your grandchildren will pay for these poor judgments, for
the squandering of our wealth, well-being and lifestyle we’ve worked so
hard to obtain.
Jobs and the Economy: The Bush Administration is the first
administration since Hoover’s (in 1944) to actually reduce the number
of jobs available to American workers. His policies reward America’s
large corporations for outsourcing American’s jobs to cheap foreign
labor markets.
Join us on Saturday, September 24th in telling President Bush “Enough
is enough, we do not want to ‘stay the course’”:
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