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MARCH ON THE PENTAGON
SATURDAY, MARCH 17
WASHINGTON, D.C .
Free Speech Victory! Permits Secured for Pentagon Demonstration
http://www.internationalanswer.org/
MARCH AND RALLY IN SAN FRANCISCO
SUNDAY, MARCH 18, 2007
(The annual St. Patrick's Day Parade is taking
place on Sat., March 17 in SF.)
ASSEMBLE 12:00 NOON
JUSTIN HERMAN PLAZA -
MARCH TO CIVIC CENTER
For more information:
http://www.actionsf.org/#local4
answer@actionsf.org
Phone: 415-821-6545
Fax: 415-821-5782
VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED! HELP GET OUT THE WORD!
COME GET FLYERS AND POSTERS. HELP WITH FLYERING!
DONATIONS OF TIME AND MONEY ARE NEEDED!
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Video: March on the Pentagon, March 17th
http://www.pephost.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=8353&JServSessionIdr001=cjzhm7cai2.app8a
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Iraq: US and Iraqi Forces Raid Trade Union Offices-Petition
http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/solidarityforever/show_campaign.cgi?c=202
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"A War Budget Leaves Every Child Behind."
[A T-shirt worn by some teachers at Roosevelt High School
in L.A. as part of their campaign to rid the school of military
recruiters and JROTC--see Article in Full item number 4, below...bw]
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THIS IS AN EXCELLENT VIDEO DESTRIBUTED BY U.S. LABOR AGAINST
THE WAR (USLAW) FEATURING SPEAKERS AT THE JANUARY 27TH
MARCH ON WASHINGTON FOCUSING ON THE DEMAND - BRING
THE TROOPS HOME NOW.
It starts out with a statement by Fred Mason on behalf of the AFL-CIO
in favor of "Bring the troops home Now". This marked the first time
the AFL-CIO has come out against a U.S. War.
The speeches concentrate on the need to call for immediate and
unconditional withdrawal of troops as opposed to a gradual (even
for only a month or two) withdrawal of troops. Very strong arguments
are given by a variety of people in support of Bring the Troops Home Now.
Gerry Gordon gives a great statement for immediate and unconditional
withdrawal from Iraq and for Congress to de-fund the war.
Howard Wallace is in this video and he does a good job as a representative
of the San Francisco Labor Council in support of USLAW and the importance
of massive demonstrations to bring the troops home now.
Anthony Arnov gives a fantastic presentation placing the blame where
it lies--on the U.S. Government and nailing Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton
and the Democrats as being the new owners of the war! He quotes from
Obama and Clinton and videos of them are cut into his speech exposing
their ultimate support for the war and for a U.S. "victory" in Iraq.
There are moving interviews with Iraq Veterans Against the War--some
who are taking the courageous stance of refusing to return to Iraq who
have experienced unimaginable horrors.
All of the speakers call for continued mass actions against the war
to Bring the Troops Home Now!
I highly recommend this video...BW.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6935451906479097836&hl=en
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TONIGHT!
SF BAY AREA EVENT TO SUPPORT IRAQ WAR VETERAN
AND WAR RESISTER ARMY SPC. AGUSTIN AGUAYO!
Agustín Aguayo, a 35-year-old Army medic and conscientious
objector, will face court martial on March 6 for resisting
redeployment to Iraq. He has been formally charged by the
Army with desertion and missing movement. If convicted
of all charges, Agustín faces a maximum of seven years
in prison for following his conscience and refusing to
participate in war. He is currently imprisoned pending
trial at a military brig in Manheim, Germany.
More info: http://couragetoresist.org/x/content/view/252/36/
Saturday, March 3 at 7:00 PM to 2:00 AM
*PRAXIS* Party to Benefit Agustin Aguayo
Capoeira Angola Center 2513 Magnolia St., Oakland
*PRAXIS* party to benefit Agustin Aguayo and other soldiers
who refuse to fight! Wicked performers and stylin' djs. Including
ICAF-Oakland, Taiko Ren, Queen Deelah & Cov Records Artists,
Zazous, Fuga, DJ Zahkee, and Qbug. Good times for good causes
- Conscientious Objector Agustin Aguayo and Courage to Resist.
If you can't make the event, please consider an urgently
needed and much appreciated tax-deductible donation to
Agustin's defense fund. Online at
http://couragetoresist.org/donate
or make check payable to "Courage to Resist / IHC",
note "Agustin Aguayo defense" on the memo line,
and send to: COURAGE TO RESIST
484 LAKE PARK AVE #41, OAKLAND CA 94610
http://www.couragetoresist.org/donate
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You are invited to
Witness to War: Revisiting Vietnam in Contemporary Art
at the Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State
University,
1600 Holloway Ave @ 19th Ave, SF
Open through March 15, 2007
Visit our website at:
http://www.sfsu.edu/~gallery/
Please join us. Spread the word, bring a friend!
Sat, Mar 10, 1:00 p.m.
Artists Binh Danh, Thai Bui and Long Nguyen moderated
by art historian Boreth Ly.
Nguyen Dance Company
Dance Performance
Sat, Mar 10, 2:30 p.m.
West Coast Premiere of Documentary Film The Rain on
the River
Sat, Mar 10, 3:30 p.m.
Hope to see you there.
Defend the Los Angeles Eight!
http://www.committee4justice.com/
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March 17: March on the Pentagon-1967/2007
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0gIIzg9hpN8
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George Takai responds to Tim Hardaway's homophobic remarks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcJoJZIcQW4&eurl_
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Iran
http://www.lucasgray.com/video/peacetrain.html
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Another view of the war. A link from Amer Jubran
http://d3130.servadmin.com/~leeflash/
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Petition: Halt the Blue Angels
http://action.globalexchange.org/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=458
http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/289327
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A Girl Like Me
7:08 min
Youth Documentary
Kiri Davis, Director, Reel Works Teen Filmmaking, Producer
Winner of the Diversity Award
Sponsored by Third Millennium Foundation
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1091431409617440489
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Film/Song about Angola
http://www.prisonactivist.org/angola/
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"200 million children in the world sleep in the streets today.
Not one of them is Cuban."
(A sign in Havana)
Venceremos
View sign at bottom of page at:
http://www.cubasolidarity.net/index.html
[Thanks to Norma Harrison for sending this...bw]
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ARTICLES IN FULL:
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1) UFPJ Finally Mentions the March on the Pentagon March 17, in D.C.
A letter VIA Email from Leslie Cagan to UFPJ member groups
to the UFPJ list: ufpj@lists.mayfirst.org
lesliecagan@igc.org
2) Open Letter to Lesie Cagan, National Coordinator, UFPJ
In Response to her letter to UFPJ Member Groups (Above).
by Bonnie Weinstein
www.bauaw.org
3) U.S. House Democrats seek more war funds than Bush
01 Mar 2007 23:53:19 GMT
By Richard Cowan
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N01426347.htm
4) Inmates to fill the void in farm fields
"Pilot program to help farmers replace workers driven
off by state's new immigration laws."
By CHARLES ASHBY
CHIEFTAIN DENVER BUREAU
http://www.chieftain.com/metro/1172581202/1
5) No More Denials, Please
Editorial
March 3, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/03/opinion/03sat1.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
6) Warm Winters Upset Rhythms of Maple Sugar
By PAM BELLUCK
March 3, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/03/us/03maple.html?ref=us
7) New Design for Warhead Is Awarded to Livermore
By WILLIAM J. BROAD
March 3, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/03/washington/03nuke.html?ref=us
[U.S. OUT OF LIVERMORE! DEVOTE LIVERMORE TO PEACEFUL
PURPOSES NOT FOR WAR--TO HELP HUMANITY, NOT DESTROY IT!...BW]
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1) UFPJ Finally Mentions the March on the Pentagon March 17, in D.C.
A letter VIA Email from Leslie Cagan to UFPJ member groups
to the UFPJ list: ufpj@lists.mayfirst.org
lesliecagan@igc.org
Dear UFPJ Member Groups,
In a short while the national office of UFPJ will be sending out an email
notice to our full national email list and we wanted to give you - the
member groups of UFPJ - a bit of advanced notice about this one.
Here's why...
In the blast that is sent out you will see a reference to the demonstration
that ANSWER is calling for March 17th in Washington, DC, as well as
an effort being organized by the Troops Out Now Coalition, also in
Washington, DC right before the weekend of the 4th anniversary
of the war. We want you to know that this does not mean UFPJ has
endorsed either of these activities, and it certainly does not mean that
we have changed our own call for local, decentralized actions all around
the country to mark the 4th anniversary.
In the alert we are sending to our full list there are examples of some
local and regional actions also taking place that weekend, as well as
a list of ways people can get involved. In other words, the full text
makes it clear that we believe local antiwar activities - using the full
range of tactics available to our movement - is the critical next step
for our work. We also know that some people would like to be in
Washington and there is no reason for us to dissuade them. In fact,
many actions against the war in Iraq and against a new war on Iran
are needed.
Here is a part of the message we'll soon be sending out to the
national list:
"On March 19th the fifth year of this illegal, immoral, disastrous war
will begin, and we must mark this occasion with the loudest and
widest demonstrations for peace that we can muster. ANSWER is
organizing a March on the Pentagon on March 17, and Troops Out
Now Coalition is calling for an Encampment to Stop the War beginning
March 12 in Washington, DC. We encourage you to attend these actions
if you are able to do so. At the same time, United for Peace and Justice
knows that our movement must also be vocal and visible in every
community across the country, around the 4th anniversary and beyond.
"We must capture the momentum of the huge numbers of new people
coming to the realization that this war must be stopped. UFPJ member
groups and allies from Alaska to Florida are working hard to organize
a wide array of actions, including vigils, marches, rallies, nonviolent
civil disobedience and more, to mark this tragic milestone and to raise
the demand to bring the troops home
"We urge you to take a moment now to find an event to participate in,
to begin planning one or to make your arrangements to go to DC.
Whatever you do to mark the 4th anniversary, start spreading the
word now to ensure a great turnout! To make Congress, the White
House, the media and our communities take notice, we need to be
loud and we need to be everywhere, saying, END THE WAR and
BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!"
We also want to remind you - and encourage you - to post any
antiwar events or activities you know about on the calendar on the
UFPJ web site. And to do so right now! There are several reasons
to do this:
1) Each day more and more people are looking for ways to get involved.
By posting your activities on the calendar you will make it possible
for more people to find out what's happening in their area.
2) Activists and organizers often look at the calendar to see what
other groups are planning. By posting your activities you might
inspire others to plan something in their town or community.
3) Reporters and journalists look at the UFPJ calendar to get a sense
of what's going on around the country, including in their own city
or state. Let's show them how widespread our movement really is!!
peace,
Leslie Cagan
National Coordinator
UFPJ
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2) Open Letter to Lesie Cagan, National Coordinator, UFPJ
In Response to her letter to UFPJ Member Groups (Above) .
by Bonnie Weinstein
www.bauaw.org
Dear Leslie,
As a UFPJ member group, we are encouraged that finally, UFPJ will,
at least, be mentioning the March 17, March on the Pentagon in D.C.,
in your calendar of events and in your announcement.
http://answer.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ANS_homepage
http://www.actionsf.org/
It is a step forward from completely ignoring that the event is even
taking place, but a far cry from what is needed by the Iraqi people,
our troops and the American people.
What we need, is the greatest united force possible to be organized
in opposition to the war and for the immediate and unconditional
withdrawal of all U.S. Troops and “support-services” from Iraq NOW;
as well as against a myriad of other atrocities committed by the U.S.
Government that we all can agree upon!
Although it can be a difficult process at times, there is no excuse
for refusing to work together toward a massive outpouring of protest
on the fourth anniversary of this ongoing and expanding human
catastrophe--now on the verge of expanding to monumental proportions;
or for refusing to continue our cooperation and unification around these
goals for as long as it takes to achieve them.
Of course there is room for all kinds of protests in addition to mass,
peaceful demonstrations. But these actions should be viewed as ways
to link more individuals to united and massive, peaceful protests as
a culmination of events or as the launching of further, united, ever
larger outpourings of peaceful protest, up until our goals
are met and our troops are brought home and the will of the
majority is honored.
The U.S. escalation of the war and its continued and expanded
assault on the democratic process; on human rights across the globe;
the continued use of torture, imprisonment and rendering of innocent
people; the wanton disregard for the troops on the ground or the
troops tragically wounded; and, most of all, for the Iraqi people who
have suffered the greatest atrocities; compels the movement to bury
their differences and come together to make these protests as large
as possible. This isn’t a popularity contest this is a matter of peoples
lives and of human decency.
We urge UFPJ to go further and endorse, support and build the March 17
March on the Pentagon as well as the mass demonstrations organized for
Los Angeles, San Francisco and elsewhere the weekend of March 17/18
as a first step toward the reorganization of the U.S. Antiwar movement
into a real, democratically structured, united front against the war.
Let’s utilize the full length and breadth of the movement to unify it and
bring more people into the fold. The more people who are involved
in the day to day organizing of the movement toward democratically
agreed upon unified goals--the easier our job will be and the faster
we can achieve our goals—which is the main point of our protests.
Clearly, by the sheer number of appeals for unity in the antiwar
movement recently from groups and individuals across the country—
this is what the people want.
Since it was UFPJ who stated categorically that it would not ever work
with A.N.S.W.E.R. again—it has the responsibility to make the first
move toward unity around the March on the Pentagon, March 17
in D.C.--and give it its full support.
The entire movement has the obligation to work together toward
these same unified goals.
ALL OUT MARCH 17 IN D.C. AND 18 IN SAN FRANCISCO:
MARCH ON THE PENTAGON
SATURDAY, MARCH 17
WASHINGTON, D.C .
Free Speech Victory! Permits Secured for Pentagon Demonstration
http://www.internationalanswer.org/
MARCH AND RALLY IN SAN FRANCISCO
SUNDAY, MARCH 18, 2007
(The annual St. Patrick's Day Parade is taking
place on Sat., March 17 in SF.)
ASSEMBLE 12:00 NOON
JUSTIN HERMAN PLAZA -
MARCH TO CIVIC CENTER
For more information:
http://www.actionsf.org/#local4
answer@actionsf.org
Phone: 415-821-6545
Fax: 415-821-5782
U.S. Out of Iraq Now!
From Iraq to New Orleans, Fund People's Needs NOT the War Machine
End Colonial Occupation: Iraq, Palestine, Haiti, Afghanistan & everywhere
U.S. Hands Off Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, Somalia, Philippines North Korea
Shut Down Guantanamo
In solidarity for antiwar unity and an end to the war,
Bonnie Weinstein, www.bauaw.org
If you would like to receive the Bay Area United Against War (BAUAW )
newsletter via email please send your name and email address to:
giobon@sbcglobal.net
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3) U.S. House Democrats seek more war funds than Bush
01 Mar 2007 23:53:19 GMT
By Richard Cowan
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N01426347.htm
WASHINGTON, March 1 (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Democrats will
more than fully fund President George W. Bush's request for money to fight
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan this year, but are still debating conditions
that could be attached, senior lawmakers said on Thursday.
"There will be $98 billion for the military part," about $5 billion above
the Bush administration's request, said Rep. John Murtha, chairman of a
defense spending panel overseeing war funds.
Murtha told reporters Democrats were still discussing provisions he wants to
attach requiring that U.S. troops have proper training, adequate equipment
and enough rest before being deployed into combat. "We don't have it yet.
We keep going back and refining it," Murtha said.
But he sketched out a certification process that could be tougher than one
floated earlier this week in which Bush would have been given flexibility to
"waive" Murtha's requirements.
Republicans and many conservative Democrats have expressed opposition to
adding such conditions. That has forced House Democratic leaders to try to
find a compromise that allows them to say they are working to phase out the
war while also fully funding troops already in Iraq.
The additional money House Democrats want to add in includes $1 billion more
for U.S. troops girding for a spring offensive in Afghanistan, Murtha said,
and nearly $1 billion more to treat wounded American soldiers suffering from
brain injuries and psychological problems related to combat.
With other add-ons to the massive spending bill, including more U.S. Gulf
Coast rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina, possible aid to farmers who have
suffered crop losses and around $3 billion added in to help close some U.S.
military bases and modernize others, the price tag could rise significantly
above $100 billion, according to several lawmakers and congressional aides.
MURTHA'S CONCERNS
Rep. Bill Young of Florida, the senior Republican on the House
Appropriations defense panel, said lawmakers were still negotiating over
whether money should be included in the emergency war spending bill to fund
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets to replace F-16s lost in Iraq.
The airplanes, to be built by Lockheed Martin Corp.
delivered for another three years, according to some estimates. Young said
he supported funding the purchase now.
Murtha was one of the earliest and highest profile members of Congress to
call for an end to the Iraq war in late 2005 and since then he has come
under sharp attack from Republicans.
But in seeking conditions on war funds, Murtha has insisted that he is
simply calling on the Pentagon to follow its own criteria for the training
of soldiers and their duration in combat.
The former Marine says he is concerned about stressed American troops and an
overall weakening of the military four years after the Iraq war started.
Speaking to reporters, Murtha said that during a recent visit to a military
base he was looking at a seven-ton truck "and the damn seat fell out."
Humvee vehicles, used to move troops around Iraq, have been outfitted with
heavy armor, but lack strong enough suspension systems and engines to
support them, Murtha complained.
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4) Inmates to fill the void in farm fields
"Pilot program to help farmers replace workers driven
off by state's new immigration laws."
By CHARLES ASHBY
CHIEFTAIN DENVER BUREAU
http://www.chieftain.com/metro/1172581202/1
DENVER - It may not be too long before Pueblo County residents start
seeing inmates from state prisons working area farms.
Rep. Dorothy Butcher, D-Pueblo, has managed to work out, at least
in principle, a new program that would call on the Colorado
Department of Corrections to supply inmates to work area farms.
The new work program would operate under the department's
successful Correctional Industries Program, which helps inmates
obtain work while in prison and learn a skill at the same time,
DOC Executive Director Ari Zavaras said Monday.
"We have a lot of details to work out, but this probably will start
as a pilot program in Pueblo County," he said. "Depending
on how well it works, we'll see where it will go."
Zavaras, the newly installed DOC director, said the program
fits in with his and Gov. Bill Ritter's new emphasis on reducing
recidivism in state prisons. Their thinking is that by reducing
recidivism, the state can save money on having to build new
prisons, which under current growth estimates will cost the
state hundreds of millions of dollars over the next five years.
Butcher started the idea with a handful of area farmers who
were complaining that new state laws cracking down on illegal
immigration and the stringent document rules adopted by the
Department of Revenue under Gov. Bill Owens, have left them
short-handed in the field.
Immigrant workers, legal or otherwise, are too afraid to come
to Colorado because of the state's tougher immigrant laws,
Avondale farmers Joe Pisciotta and Phil Prutch told Zavaras
and House Speaker Andrew Romanoff in a special meeting
that Butcher had arranged.
The two men said that because of the new law that the Legislature
passed during a special session on illegal immigration - and the
new documents rules that have frustrated several Colorado
citizens who were trying to get driver's licenses and state
identification cards - they and other farmers are having
problems finding the workers they need.
"We're aware there was a problem (with illegal immigrants),
but you just created another problem," Prutch said.
"They've just given up and gone to other states that don't have
these new laws," Pisciotta said. "They just don't want to deal with it."
Like others around the state, the two Pueblo vegetable farmers
said they need from five to 20 workers and are willing to pay
up to $9.60 an hour, more than they've paid migrant workers
in the past.
But they can't find anyone to do the work.
That's why they turned to Butcher, who in turn went to Zavaras.
"The agricultural business will suffer and some could even
go out of business if we're unable to provide labor for them,"
Butcher said. "They're not asking for something for free.
They're willing to pay more than the minimum wage."
Zavaras said it will take some time to work out the details
to the new pilot project, but he is hopeful something will be
done before the farmers need them in May and June, when
the local growing season begins.
Romanoff said many of the stringent documents rules are
expected to be eased, but there's no guarantee on when
or if that will happen.
"It's something we tried to talk to the old administration
about and didn't get very far," Romanoff said. "Now we're
talking to the new administration."
©1996-2007The Pueblo Chieftain Online
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5) No More Denials, Please
Editorial
March 3, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/03/opinion/03sat1.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
It is time for the Justice Department to stop issuing rote denials that
are becoming increasingly hard to believe about the suspicious firing
of eight United States attorneys. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
should appoint an impartial investigator to get to the bottom of this
unfolding scandal.
Just this week, David Iglesias, one of the eight fired United States
attorneys, charged that he was dismissed for resisting pressure
to begin a politically charged prosecution before the 2006 election.
His allegation came shortly after performance evaluations came
to light that throw considerable doubt on the Justice Department’s
claim that the United States attorneys were fired for poor performance.
United States attorneys, the highest federal prosecutors at the
state level, must be insulated from politics. Their decisions about
whether to indict can ruin lives, and change the outcome of elections.
To ensure their independence, United States attorneys are almost never
removed during the term of the president who appointed them.
The Bush administration ignored this tradition, and trampled
on prosecutorial independence, by firing eight United States attorneys
in rapid succession, including one, Carol Lam of San Diego, who had
put a powerful Republican congressman in jail. Mr. Iglesias, who was
the U.S. attorney in New Mexico, says two members of Congress
called him last October and urged him to pursue corruption charges
against a prominent Democrat before the November election.
He did not. He was dismissed.
Most of the fired United States attorneys’ performance evaluations
praise them for the quality of their work, and for following the priorities
set in Washington. These do not appear to be the evaluations
of people who were fired for poor performance.
A House subcommittee has subpoenaed several of the fired United
States attorneys to testify next week. The Senate is doing its own
investigation. They should question the fired prosecutors, as well
as top members of the Justice Department, to find out how these
dismissals came about. They should also investigate Mr. Iglesias’s
allegations about the two members of Congress, who may have
violated Congressional rules, and even criminal law.
Mr. Gonzales should also begin his own inquiry. Mr. Iglesias has
raised a serious question about politicization of the Justice Department.
That, and not public relations, should be the attorney general’s primary
concern.
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6) Warm Winters Upset Rhythms of Maple Sugar
By PAM BELLUCK
March 3, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/03/us/03maple.html?ref=us
MONTPELIER, Vt. — One might expect Burr Morse to have maple
sugaring down to a science.
For more than 200 years, Mr. Morse’s family has been culling sweet
sap from maple trees, a passion that has manifested itself not only
in jug upon jug of maple syrup, but also in maple-cured bacon,
maple cream and maple soap, not to mention the display
of a suggestively curved tree trunk Mr. Morse calls the
Venus de Maple.
But lately nature seems to be playing havoc with Mr. Morse
and other maple mavens.
Warmer-than-usual winters are throwing things out of kilter,
causing confusion among maple syrup producers, called sugar
makers, and stoking fears for the survival of New England’s
maple forests.
“We can’t rely on tradition like we used to,” said Mr. Morse, 58,
who once routinely began the sugaring season by inserting taps
into trees around Town Meeting Day, the first Tuesday in March,
and collecting sap to boil into syrup up until about six weeks later.
The maple’s biological clock is set by the timing of cold weather.
For at least 10 years some farmers have been starting sooner.
But last year Mr. Morse tapped his trees in February and still
missed out on so much sap that instead of producing his usual
1,000 gallons of syrup, he made only 700.
“You might be tempted to say, well that’s a bunch of baloney —
global warming,” said Mr. Morse, drilling his first tap holes this
season in mid-February, as snow hugged the maples and Vermont
braced for a record snowfall. “But the way I feel, we get too much
warm. How many winters are we going to go with Decembers
turning into short-sleeve weather, before the maple trees say,
‘I don’t like it here any more?’ ”
There is no way to know for certain, but scientists are increasingly
persuaded that human-caused global warming is changing
climate conditions that affect sugaring.
While some farmers and other Vermonters suggest the recent
warm years could be just a cyclical hiccup of nature or the result
of El Niño, many maple researchers now say it seems more like
a long-term trend. Since 1971, according to National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration data, winter temperatures
in the Northeast have increased by 2.8 degrees.
“It appears to be a rather dire situation for the maple industry
in the Northeast if conditions continue to go toward the predictions
that have been made for global warming,” said Tim Perkins,
director of the Proctor Maple Research Center at the University
of Vermont.
Dr. Perkins studied the records of maple syrup production over
the last 40 years and found a fairly steady progression
of the maple sugaring season moving earlier and earlier,
and also getting shorter.
“We had this long list of factors we started with that could possibly
explain it,” Dr. Perkins said. “We have eliminated all of those various
factors. We are at this point convinced that it is climatic influence.”
Over the long haul, the industry in New England may face an even
more profound challenge, the disappearance of sugar maples
altogether as the climate zone they have evolved for moves across
the Canadian border.
“One hundred to 200 years from now,” Dr. Perkins said, “there may
be very few maples here, mainly oak, hickory and pine. There are
projections that say over about 110 years our climate will be similar
to that of Virginia.”
Dr. Perkins and Tom Vogelmann, chairman of the plant biology
department at the University of Vermont, said that while new sap-
tapping technology is helping sugar makers keep up syrup production,
for now, at some point the season will become so short that large
syrup producers will no longer get enough sap to make it worthwhile.
“It’s within, well, probably my lifetime that you’ll see this happen,”
Professor Vogelmann said. “How can you have the state of Vermont
and not have maple syrup?”
Experts say gradual warming has already contributed to a shift
of syrup production to Canada, although other factors may be more
responsible, including Canadian subsidies, improved technology,
and a decline in New England family farms.
“In the ’50s and ’60s, 80 percent of world’s maple syrup came from
the U.S., and 20 percent came from Canada,” said Barrett N. Rock,
a professor of natural resources at the University of New Hampshire.
“Today it’s exactly the opposite. The climate that we used to have
here in New England has moved north to the point where it’s now
in Quebec.”
Maple trees are so iconic here that a good deal of tourism revolves
around leaf peeping of the maples’ fall tapestry, maple syrup
festivals and visits to maple sugar bushes, the name for sugar
maple orchards.
While there have always been some weather fluctuations, certain
conditions are critical to syrup production. To make sap, trees
require what Professor Rock called a “cold recharge period,” several
weeks of below-freezing temperatures that traditionally fell
in December and January, followed by a span of very cold nights
and warmer days.
Catching the first sap of the season is important because it “makes
the best syrup,” Dr. Perkins said. But tapping too early can cause
a sugar maker to miss the back end of the season because eventually
bacteria clog the holes in the trees and prevent more sap from emerging.
“It’s a real conundrum the sugar producers face,” Professor Rock said.
“Do I tap early to catch the early sap flow or do I wait until the regular
season, and maybe not get the highest quality syrup, but the tap flow
remains open until the first buds on trees in April?”
In Vermont, which makes a third of the country’s syrup, sugar makers
are trying different approaches.
Rick Marsh, president of the Vermont Maple Sugar Makers’ Association,
has kept his production high by tapping his 8,000 maples in January
and using a tap with a disposable tip designed to minimize bacteria
growth and keep the holes open longer. Instead of having the tap spill
the sap into buckets, Mr. Marsh, like many sugar makers, hooks the
tap to a labyrinth of plastic tubes and uses a high-powered vacuum
to suck out the sap through the tubes.
“Farmers say, ‘I can’t afford to keep making these changes’ ”
in technology, Mr. Marsh said. “I say you can’t afford not to.”
Still, Mr. Marsh, whose sugar bush in Jeffersonville is near
a “Think Maple!” sign, said it was a “crapshoot” to decide when to tap.
“Anybody plays poker, you’re a sugar maker. If you don’t get the right
weather, it’s like not getting the right cards. And if you misjudge the
weather, it’s like you misplayed your cards.”
Tim Young in Waterville tapped his 10,000 maple trees in November.
“The environment’s changing, and I want to change with it,” said
Mr. Young, who made 1,800 gallons of syrup by January and has
left the taps in in hopes of catching a second sap run by April.
Not every sugar maker believes global warming is responsible
or that the weather changes are part of a long-term trend. Don Harlow,
75, of Putney, said there were some warm years in the 1950s,
and he blames El Niño for the current weather pattern.
Still, he said, “I think what we’re experiencing is a tragic, disastrous
change.” He added that he tapped too late last year and made only
1,800 gallons of syrup, instead of his usual 2,500. This year, he said,
“in the first week of January, heaven sakes, it was 60 degrees in Vermont.”
Global warming is such a concern to Arthur Berndt, one of Vermont’s
largest sugar makers, that he became a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed
by environmentalists and four cities against the Export-Import Bank
and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. The suit says the
agencies contribute to carbon dioxide emissions by financing overseas
fossil fuel projects like oil fields and pipelines, and seeks to compel
them to abide by American restrictions.
December was so warm, Mr. Berndt said, “I was seeding my asparagus
bed on Christmas day.”
Related:
U.S. Predicting Steady Increase for Emissions
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
"The Bush administration estimates that emissions by the United States
of gases that contribute to global warming will grow nearly as fast
through the next decade as they did the previous decade, according
to a long-delayed report being completed for the United Nations."
March 3, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/03/science/03climate.html?ref=us
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7) New Design for Warhead Is Awarded to Livermore
By WILLIAM J. BROAD
March 3, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/03/washington/03nuke.html?ref=us
[U.S. OUT OF LIVERMORE! DEVOTE LIVERMORE TO PEACEFUL
PURPOSES NOT FOR WAR--TO HELP HUMANITY, NOT DESTROY IT!...BW]
The Bush administration announced yesterday the winner
of a competition to design the nation’s first new nuclear weapon
in nearly two decades and immediately set out to reassure Russia
and China that the weapon, if built, would pose no new threat
to either nation.
If President Bush decides to authorize production and Congress
agrees, the research could lead to a long, expensive process
to replace all American nuclear warheads in the next few
decades with new designs.
The first to be replaced with the new Reliable Replacement
Weapon would be the W-76, a warhead for missiles deployed
on submarines.
Officials said the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
in California would design the replacement warhead based
on previously tested components, allowing the administration
to argue that no new underground tests would be necessary
before deploying the new weapon.
Officials said, however, the Livermore design might eventually
draw on technical contributions from a more novel approach
on the drawing boards at Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico,
Livermore’s longtime rival.
The surprise choice of a single laboratory reversed a tentative
decision, reported in January, to combine elements of the Livermore
and Los Alamos designs. In a behind-the-scenes debate over the
last two months, nuclear experts inside and outside the government
faulted the hybrid approach as unusual and technically risky, with
some calling it a “Frankenbomb.”
Administration officials said the Livermore design had won primarily
because its main elements were detonated beneath the Nevada desert
decades ago, making it a better candidate under the nuclear test
ban treaty, which the United States has signed but not ratified.
Thomas P. D’Agostino, acting administrator of the National Nuclear
Security Administration at the Energy Department, told reporters
that the Livermore design was “the most conservative approach.”
Administration officials said the hybrid had been rejected after senior
members of the Navy, which will manage the W-76 replacement,
worried that members of Congress would perceive it as more likely
to require explosive testing.
The announcement of the research path had been expected in early
January but was delayed, officials said, because of last-minute Navy
concerns over control of financing and dividing the scientific labor.
The potentially expensive initiative faces an uncertain future and
has generated much criticism from skeptics who argue that a new
design for the nuclear arsenal is unneeded and is a potential stimulus
to a global nuclear arms race.
“This is a solution in search of a problem,” said Daryl G. Kimball,
executive director of the Arms Control Association, a group in
Washington. “There is an urgent need to reduce these weapons,
not expand them. This will keep the Chinese, the Russians and others
on guard to improve their own stockpiles.”
Among lawmakers who declared their opposition was Senator Dianne
Feinstein, Democrat of California.
“What worries me,” Mrs. Feinstein said, “is that the minute you begin
to put more sophisticated warheads on the existing fleet, you are
essentially creating a new nuclear weapon. And it’s just a matter
of time before other nations do the same thing.”
Critics had ridiculed the hybrid approach as a compromise dictated
by the politics of survival for the nuclear laboratories, rather than
technical merit. In an unusual move, even senior arms designers
spoke out publicly against what they called serious risks of merging
differing designs from different laboratories.
“A hybrid design by inexperienced personnel, managed by committee,
is not the best approach,” John Pedicini, technical head of the design
team at Los Alamos, said last month in a public blog entry.
Mr. Pedicini conceded that the Livermore design had features “that
are an advance over ours, and if we get the assignment, I would
incorporate them in our design.”
“If this is what is meant by hybrid,” he said, “then the outcome
would be good.”
The goal is to replace the arsenal of aging warheads with a generation
meant to be sturdier, more reliable, safer from accidental detonation
and more secure from theft.
The replacements will have the same explosive yields and other
military characteristics of the current weapons, officials said,
a point that senior administration officials have made to Russia
in arguing that the new weapons do not represent an expansion
of the American arsenal.
Mrs. Feinstein cited a report in December saying plutonium pits
have a lifespan of at least 85 years, leading critics to question
whether the new weapons are necessary.
David E. Sanger contributed reporting.
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Food or Fuel?
THE ETHANOL SCAM
By ROBERT BRYCE
CounterPunch
Thursday, March 2, 2007
http://www.counterpunch.org/bryce03022007.html
Putting to a Vote the Question ‘Who Is Cherokee?’
By EVELYN NIEVES
March 3, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/03/us/03cherokee.html?ref=us
U.S. Predicting Steady Increase for Emissions
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
"The Bush administration estimates that emissions by the United States
of gases that contribute to global warming will grow nearly as fast
through the next decade as they did the previous decade, according
to a long-delayed report being completed for the United Nations."
March 3, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/03/science/03climate.html?ref=us
U.S. Says Air Strike Killed Iraq Insurgents Targeting Copters
By REUTERS
Filed at 11:34 a.m. ET
March 3, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-iraq.html
A Federal Witchhunt
The Persecution of Sami Al-Arian
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
March 3 / 4, 2007
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn03032007.html
Army Secretary Is Ousted in Furor Over Hospital Care
By DAVID S. CLOUD
March 3, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/03/washington/03veterans.html?hp
Chavez says he has no plans to eliminate individuals'
private property in Venezuela
Bloomberg News
CARACAS:
Sunday, February 25, 2007
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/25/business/chavez.php
Junior ROTC takes a hit in L.A.
"At Roosevelt High, a coalition of teachers and students works
to end the program, and its numbers are dropping."
By Sonia Nazario
Times Staff Writer
February 19, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-jrotc19feb19,0,6116682.story?coll=la-home-he
Government by Law, Not Faith
Editorial
February 28, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/28/opinion/28wed1.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Low Pay and Broken Promises Greet Guest Workers
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
February 28, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/28/us/28labor.html?hp
Chávez Shares Some Airtime With Castro
By SIMON ROMERO
February 28, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/28/world/americas/28cuba.html
Jailers Testify About Padilla’s Confinement
By DEBORAH SONTAG
February 28, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/28/us/28padilla.html?ref=us
Update:
U.S. Judge Finds Padilla Competent to Face Trial
By DEBORAH SONTAG
March 1, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/us/01padilla.html
Service Members Sign Appeal Calling for Troop Withdrawal
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ
February 28, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/28/us/28appeal.html
After Inquiry, Grand Jury Refuses
to Issue New Indictments in Till Case
By SHAILA DEWAN
February 28, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/28/us/28till.html
F.B.I. Is Reopening Civil Rights Deaths
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
February 28, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/28/us/28fbi.html
Some Immigrant High Schoolers Receive a Lesson in Disappointment
By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN
February 28, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/28/education/28education.html?ref=nyregion
Two Victims and Three Officers to Testify in Shooting Inquiry
By AL BAKER
February 28, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/28/nyregion/28grand.html?ref=nyregion
5 Ex-Managers Plead Guilty in Hiring of Illegal Immigrants
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
February 28, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/28/business/28workers.html
US's Iraq oil grab is a done deal
By Pepe Escobar
Asia Times (Hong Kong)
Feb 28, 2007
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IB28Ak01.html
In Medieval Architecture, Signs of Advanced Math
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
February 27, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/science/27math.html?ref=science
What Castro and Chavez spoke about
The following is the transcript of the conversation between Venezuela's
President Hugo Chavez and Cuban leader Fidel Castro. It has been
edited for brevity.
February 28, 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6403683.stm
Slavery Is Not Dead. It's Not Even Past.
By BOB HERBERT
March 1, 2007
http://select.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/opinion/01herbert.html?hp
The Big Meltdown
By PAUL KRUGMAN
FEB. 27, 2008
March 2, 2007
http://select.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/opinion/02krugman.html?hp
Killing Highlights Risk of Selling Marijuana, Even Legally
By KIRK JOHNSON
March 2, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/us/02cannabis.html
U.S. Reviewing Safety of Children’s Cough Drugs
By GARDINER HARRIS
"The agency has for decades promised to review systematically
the safety of all old drugs, but for a variety of reasons like
budgetary constraints, time and popularity of a particular
drug has not done so."
March 2, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/health/02cough.html
House Passes Bill That Helps Unions Organize
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
March 2, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/washington/02union.html
Proposed Increases in Fees for U.S. Residency
and Citizenship Stir Protest in Newark
By LAURA RIVERA
"'I have no savings,' she said in Spanish. 'If I couldn’t pay before,
imagine now, with this increase.' The cost for her family
to apply would rise to $3,620 from $1,300."
March 2, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/nyregion/02protest.html
Councilor Turner attacked after
City Council passes anti-war resolution
By Phebe Eckfeldt
Boston
Published Mar 1, 2007 9:44 PM
http://www.workers.org/2007/us/boston-anti-war-0308/
Cuba oil boom may complicate U.S. embargo
BY JANE BUSSEY
MIAMI HERALD
Posted on Fri, Mar. 02, 2007
http://www.miamiherald.com/884/story/28682.html
SHERRITT INTERNATIONAL REPORT:
http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2007/03/01/21/030107cubaoil.source.prod_affiliate.56.pdf
Groups Mum On Iraq, Despite Antiwar Tide
New Polling Research Finds Opposition Highest Among Jews
Nathan Guttman
"Washington - Even as a new study found that American Jews
are significantly more opposed to the Iraq War than are Christians,
Jewish organizations decided not to take up the issue at their
annual policy conference."
Fri. Mar 02, 2007
http://www.forward.com/articles/groups-mum-on-iraq-despite-antiwar-tide/
Fears of recession spark further turmoil in markets
By David Usborne in New York
"Fresh anxiety erupted about the health of the world's major economies
yesterday after investors in stock markets across Asia, Europe and the
United States once again staged significant retreats two days after
Tuesday's unexpected global equity sell-off."
Published: 02 March 2007
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article2318740.ece
Education class war
"What the battle of Brighton over a lottery for school admissions
really means for..."
Published: 01 March 2007
http://education.independent.co.uk/news/article2314207.ece
Rape Cases Emerge From the Shadows
Inter Press Service
Dahr Jamail and Ali al-Fadhily
"BAGHDAD, Mar 1 (IPS) - Reports of the gang-rape of 20-year-old
Sabrine al-Janabi by three policemen has set off new demands
for justice from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government."
http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/hard_news/archives/iraq/000544.php#more
Outrage over Imminent Execution of Iraqi Women
Inter Press Service
Dahr Jamail and Ali Al-Fadhily
"BAGHDAD, Mar 2 (IPS) - Three young women accused of joining
the Iraqi insurgency movement and engaging in "terrorism" have
been sentenced to death, provoking protest from rights organisations
fearing that this could be the start of more executions of women
in post-Saddam Hussein's Iraq."
http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/hard_news/archives/iraq/000546.php#more
Soldiers Move to Small Posts in Baghdad's Most Violent Areas
"American soldiers are leaving their sprawling fortress-cities
and establishing many small outposts in the capital's most
violent neighborhoods in a major tactical shift under the
two-week-old Baghdad security plan. American soldiers
say these outposts pose new risks to their safety and
require pulling soldiers off patrols to protect their lodgings."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030107A.shtml
Walter Reed Hospital Officials Knew of Neglect for Years
"Top officials at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, including
the Army's surgeon general, have heard complaints about
outpatient neglect from family members, veterans groups,
and members of Congress for more than three years."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030107B.shtml
Most Support U.S. Guarantee of Health Care
By ROBIN TONER and JANET ELDER
"A majority of Americans say the federal government should guarantee
health insurance to every American, especially children, and are willing
to pay higher taxes to do it, according to the latest New York
Times/CBS News poll."
[TAX THE RICH NOT THE POOR! MONEY FOR HUMAN NEEDS NOT WAR!...BW]
March 2, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/washington/02poll.html?hp
Veteran Care to Be Reviewed After Firing of General
By DAVID S. CLOUD
WASHINGTON, March 2 — President Bush has ordered a top-to-bottom
investigation into the medical care available to returning veterans,
the White House said today, a day after the firing of the two-star
general in charge of Walter Reed Army Medical Center over shabby
conditions there.
March 2, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/washington/02general.html?hp
National Guard Underfunded, Not Prepared for Crises
"The stress of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars has hindered the National
Guard's ability to respond to another attack, major natural disaster
or other domestic crisis, a congressionally appointed commission
said Thursday. Retired Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Arnold Punaro
explains the problem."
March 1, 2007
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/military/jan-june07/military_03-01.html
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A NEW LOOK AT U.S. RADIOACTIVE WEAPONS
Join us in a campaign to expose and stop the use of these illegal weapons
http://poisondust.org/
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You may enjoy watching these.
In struggle
Che:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqcezl9dD2c
Leon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukkFVV5X0p4
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FIGHTBACK! A Collection of Socialist Essays
By Sylvia Weinstein
http://www.walterlippmann.com/sylvia-weinstein-fightback-intro.html
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URGENT APPEAL TO SAVE IRAQ'S ACADEMICS.
Call for action to save Iraq's Academics
A little known aspect of the tragedy engulfing Iraq is the systematic
liquidation of the country's academics. Even according to conservative
estimates, over 250 educators have been assassinated, and many
hundreds more have disappeared. With thousands fleeing the country
in fear for their lives, not only is Iraq undergoing a major brain drain,
the secular middle class - which has refused to be co-opted by the
US occupation - is being decimated, with far-reaching consequences
for the future of Iraq.
http://www.brussellstribunal.org/
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END ALL U.S. AID TO ISRAEL!
Stop funding Israel's war against Palestine
Complete the form at the website listed below with your information.
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ENDORSE THE A.N.S.W.E.R. CALL TO ACTION
March 17-18, 2007
GLOBAL DAYS OF ACTION ON THE
4TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE WAR!
http://answer.pephost.org/site/Survey?
SURVEY_ID=3400&ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&JServSessionIdr011=
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http://answer.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ANS_homepage
Please circulate widely
www.answercoalition.org
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Sand Creek Massacre
"THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE" AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY
SHORT FEATURED AT NATIVE AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL:
http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/local/16035305.htm
(scroll down when you get there])
"THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE" AWARD-WINNING
WRITER/FILMMAKER DONALD L. VASICEK REPORT:
http://www.digitalcinemareport.com/sandcreekmassacre.html
"THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE" AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY
SHORT FINALIST IN DOCUMENTARY CHANNEL COMPETITION (VIEW HERE):
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VIEW "THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE" AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY
SHORT FILM MOVIE OF THE WEEK FOR FREE HERE:
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On November 29, 1864, 700 Colorado troops savagely slaughtered
over 450 Cheyenne children, disabled, elders, and women in the
southeastern Colorado Territory under its protection. This act
became known as the Sand Creek Massacre. This film project
("The Sand Creek Massacre" documentary film project) is an
examination of an open wound in the souls of the Cheyenne
people as told from their perspective. This project chronicles
that horrific 19th century event and its affect on the 21st century
struggle for respectful coexistence between white and native
plains cultures in the United States of America.
Listed below are links on which you can click to get the latest news,
products, and view, free, "THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE" award-
winning documentary short. In order to create more native
awareness, particularly to save the roots of America's history,
please read the following:
Some people in America are trying to save the world. Bless
them. In the meantime, the roots of America are dying.
What happens to a plant when the roots die? The plant dies
according to my biology teacher in high school. American's
roots are its native people. Many of America's native people
are dying from drug and alcohol abuse, poverty, hunger,
and disease, which was introduced to them by the Caucasian
male. Tribal elders are dying. When they die, their oral
histories go with them. Our native's oral histories are the
essence of the roots of America, what took place before
our ancestors came over to America, what is taking place,
and what will be taking place. It is time we replenish
America's roots with native awareness, else America
continues its decaying, and ultimately, its death.
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about how they can purchase the DVD and have me come
to their children's school to show the film and to interact
in a questions and answers discussion about the Sand
Creek Massacre.
Happy Holidays!
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Olympus Films+, LLC
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303-903-2103
"THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE" AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY
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"THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE" AWARD-WINNING
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