BAUAW Newsletter

Monday, April 04, 2005

BAUAW NEWSLETTER-MONDAY, APRIL 4, 2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY

SFPD INTIMIDATION OF BAY AREA UNITED AGAINST WAR
(WWW.BAUAW.ORG)

Dear Friends in the anti-war movement,

Saturday, April 2, as we entered Centro del Pueblo for the
meeting of Bay Area United Against War (B.A.U.A.W.), two
S.F. police officers were waiting for us. They asked questions
such as: how many people were expected to attend the
meeting and how many people were expected to the
"demonstration" at Washington H.S. They said that their
commanding officer, Lt. Lynch, from the Richmond Police
Station, had sent them to the meeting and when we told
them that they didn't belong there, they claimed to "be
part of the community," and therefore their presence was
appropriate claiming it was a public meeting in a public
building.

Police Officers do not have a right to attend and ask
questions at an antiwar meeting! Their presence is
intimidating. (When this was mentioned to Lt. Lynch in
a conversation on Sunday he said it reflected our negative
attitude toward the police.) In this case they said they were
trying to gather information. But, they could have easily
called us up and asked their questions. We informed them
that whenever we plan an event that needs permits, etc.
we have always followed proper procedure so they had
no cause to even question us.

There is no demonstration planned by B.A.U.A.W. at
Washington H.S. What we are planning is a counter-recruitment
information table at a career fair at the school Tuesday,
April 5, where there will be military recruiters present.
(When we told this to the two officers, they proceeded
to ask what material we were having on the table and if any
material will have our name on it and what other groups will
be listed on the material.)

This activity is part of B.A.U.A.W.'s campaign to implement
Proposition N, the ballot measure in which S.F. voters approved
a resolution to bring all the troops home now from Iraq.
B.A.U.A.W. is campaigning for the school district to cut all
ties with the military including direct military recruitment
on campus as well as the Junior ROTC program. Our purpose
is to urge students not to join the military, not to volunteer
to fight against the Iraqi people as part of this illegal,
immoral war.

Our purpose is to attempt to recruit students to participate
in the antiwar movement. We are perfectly within our
constitutional rights to conduct this work and to demonstrate
if we so choose, even though at this time, we are not calling
for a demonstration. And if we did call for a picket line on
the sidewalk without a sound system, no permit is required
anyway so there would be no reason to notify the police.

The police have no right to show up at our meetings where
we discuss our antiwar work. We have filed a formal complaint
against the police for this intrusion on our rights and are
seeking legal advice to prevent them from doing it again
without good cause.

Citizens have a right to hold meetings without police presence.

Bay Area United Against War
www.bauaw.org
415-824-8730

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1) Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will be in San Francisco on
APRIL 5th at the Ritz Carlton Hotel at 6:30pm.
600 California at Stockton at 6pm.

2) MILITARY RECRUITERS WILL BE AT THE CAREER FAIR AT
GEORGE WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL.
A COUNTER-RECRUITMENT TABLE
AT THE CAREER FAIR HAS BEEN ARRANGED!
B.A.U.A.W. WILL MEET AGAIN:
SAT. MAY 7, 11:30 a.m.
474 VALENCIA STREET, SF
(FIRST FLOOR, TO THE LEFT AND ALL THE WAY BACK
TO THE COMPAÑEROS DEL BARRIO CHILDREN'S CENTER)

3) Military Out of Our Schools-Bay Area Network
Regional Counter Recruitment Conference
NEXT ORGANIZING MEETING:
Wed. April 6, 7pm
American Friends Service Committee
65-9th St, San Francisco (near Civic Center BART)
Be There!
For more info: (510) 465-1617 x4, awe@objector.org
To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOOS-BAY/

4) Justice for New Americans Fundraiser
Sunday, April 17, 2005 2:00 p.m.
San Jose Repertory Theatre
"Making Tracks" is a rock muscial that tells stories
of seven generations of Asian Americans in America.
See www.makingtracks.com
J4na mailing list
J4na@justicefornewamericans.org
http://justicefornewamericans.org/mailman/listinfo/j4na

5) Benefit for Military Resisters
and Iraq Veterans Against the War
Old-Time Square Dance with LIVE Music! Saturday, April 30, 2005
Potrero Hill Neighborhood House
953 De Haro St., San Francisco
(at 22nd St. overlooking SF General Hospital)
Social & Introductions: 6 pm - 7:30 pm
Dance: 7:30 pm - 11 pm
$10-$30 sliding scale / $5 students
FEATURING
The Stairwell Sisters
http://www.stairwellsisters.com
with calling by Evie Ladin
"wild, hard dance music...infectious" - Oakland Tribune
AND
The Squirrelly Stringband
http://www.spectacularopticals.com/SQUIRRELLY.swf
The Bernal Hill Stringband and other special guests!

6) VOICES IN WARTIME
OPENS IN S.F. APRIL 15, 2005
Landmark Lumiere 3
1572 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94109

7) Caterpillar Free Zone
Please sign the online petition, Caterpillar:
Stop Bulldozing Palestinian
Lives no later than April 10 in time for Caterpillar
Inc.'s annual shareholders' meeting in Chicago on April 13.
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/stopcat/
Caterpillar Free Zone
loumorgan2003@yahoo.com

8) CAMPUS ANTIWAR NETWORK (CAN)
KICKS CIA RECRUITERS OFF NYU
PRESS ADVISORY
April 2, 2005
Student protest prevents CIA recruiting event at New York University
Antiwar students hope to halt unique CIA college marketing effort at
NYU

9) Give a Hoot, Don't Recruit (LINK ONLY)
UDC Law Students Protest Military Recruiters
By Will O'Bryan
Published on 03/31/2005
http://www.metroweekly.com/gauge/?ak=1516

10) E-Mails Reveal Fraud (LINK ONLY)
in Nuclear Site Study
By MATTHEW L. WALD
Published: April 2, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/02/politics/02yucca.html?

11) 'One Huge US Jail' (LINK ONLY)
By Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark
The Guardian UK
Saturday 19 March 2005
Afghanistan is the hub of a global network of detention
centres, the frontline in America's 'war on terror',
where arrest can be random and allegations of torture
commonplace. Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark investigate
on the ground and talk to former prisoners.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,1440836,00.html

12) Draft may be needed in (LINK ONLY)
a year, military analysts warn
Bob Dart
Cox News Service
WASHINGTON
Mar. 30, 2005 03:24 PM
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0330draft30-ON.html#

13) Why you can't be antiwar (LINK ONLY)
and pro-occupation
April 1, 2005 | Page 3
http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/537/537_03_Antiwar.shtml

14) CLOSE THE GAP!
(email me directly if you want the full color version
that won't translate in this post--nyelich@prochoiceamerica.org)
GAP CEO funding campaign against California students and working
families. Shouldn't a store that sells to students stick up for
students? Not the GAP.

15) The state of the world? (LINK ONLY)
It is on the brink of disaster
An authoritative study of the biological relationships vital
to maintaining life has found disturbing evidence of man-made
degradation. Steve Connor reports
30 March 2005
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=624667
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/040105EA.shtml

16) Terror suspect said (LINK ONLY)
to be hiding in U.S.
By Madeline Baró Diaz
Miami Bureau
April 1, 2005
Rumors are swirling that Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles,
accused of anti-Castro terrorism, is hiding out in Miami,
but friends and federal officials on Thursday said they
could not confirm the stories were true.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-
pdposada01apr01,0,479809.story

17) No Home Fit for Heroes (LINK ONLY)
Around 130,000 veterans of the Iraqi conflict have already
returned to the US. For some, all that awaits is a life
of virtual destitution. So far, the numbers are small, but
the fear is that they are just the start of a chronic
problem that America will be dealing with for years
to come. Gary Younge reports
Gary Younge
Saturday April 2, 2005
Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5159728-110878,00.html

18) Lautenberg Cites Criminal Laws DeLay (LINK ONLY)
May Have Broken in Threat Against Federal Judges
WASHINGTON, DC
April 1, 2005
http://lautenberg.senate.gov/~lautenberg/press/2003/01/2005401638.html

19) U.S. Citizen Held in Iraq as (LINK ONLY)
Suspected Insurgent
Reuters
Apr. 1, 2005
http://abcnews.go.com/US/print?id=633093

20) My Big Fat C.E.O. Paycheck (LINK ONLY)
By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH
April 3, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/business/yourmoney/03pay.html?

21) The Billionaires' Club (LINK ONLY)
By BOB HERBERT
OP-ED COLUMNIST
Published: April 4, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/04/opinion/04herbert.html?hp

22) Net Aids Theft of Sensitive ID Data (LINK ONLY)
By Jonathan Krim
The Washington Post
Monday 4 April 2005
Critical Social Security numbers widely available.
Want someone else's Social Security number?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/040405Z.shtml

23) We need a post-Zionist (LINK ONLY)
leap of faith
Assimilation with space for Jewish identity offers
us a better future
John Rose
Saturday April 2, 2005
Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1450719,00.html

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1) Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will be in San Francisco on
APRIL 5th at the Ritz Carlton Hotel at 6:30pm.
600 California at Stockton at 6pm.

Labor and community groups will be welcoming him with
a huge protest initiated by the California Nurses Association.

On April 5 San Francisco's corporate leaders will gather at the
Ritz Carlton to line Arnold's pockets. Join nurses, working
families, patients and Californians from around the state to
stop his corporate sell-out!

Tell the Governor and his donors: "Not in Our Town!"

For more information: 510-273-2240.

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2) MILITARY RECRUITERS WILL BE AT THE CAREER FAIR AT
GEORGE WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL.
A COUNTER-RECRUITMENT TABLE
AT THE CAREER FAIR HAS BEEN ARRANGED!
B.A.U.A.W. WILL MEET AGAIN:
SAT. MAY 7, 11:30 a.m.
474 VALENCIA STREET, SF
(FIRST FLOOR, TO THE LEFT AND ALL THE WAY BACK
TO THE COMPAÑEROS DEL BARRIO CHILDREN'S CENTER)

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3) Military Out of Our Schools-Bay Area Network
Regional Counter Recruitment Conference
NEXT ORGANIZING MEETING:
Wed. April 6, 7pm
American Friends Service Committee
65-9th St, San Francisco (near Civic Center BART)
Be There!
For more info: (510) 465-1617 x4, awe@objector.org
To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOOS-BAY/

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4) Justice for New Americans Fundraiser
Sunday, April 17, 2005 2:00 p.m.
San Jose Repertory Theatre
"Making Tracks" is a rock muscial that tells stories
of seven generations of Asian Americans in America.
See www.makingtracks.com
J4na mailing list
J4na@justicefornewamericans.org
http://justicefornewamericans.org/mailman/listinfo/j4na

Then followed by a fundraiser with
reading of transcripts of the case that
highlights FBI's interrogation of
Wen Ho Lee and Judge Parker's apology,
followed by an award ceremony and a reception.
Ticket available for sale at www.j4na.org

Cecilia L. Chang
Justice for New Americans
P.O. Box 120
Fremont, CA 94537
510 537-2929
510 537-3340 fax
www.j4na.org

J4na mailing list
J4na@justicefornewamericans.org
http://justicefornewamericans.org/mailman/listinfo/j4na

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5) Benefit for Military Resisters
and Iraq Veterans Against the War
Old-Time Square Dance with LIVE Music! Saturday, April 30, 2005
Potrero Hill Neighborhood House
953 De Haro St., San Francisco
(at 22nd St. overlooking SF General Hospital)
Social & Introductions: 6 pm - 7:30 pm
Dance: 7:30 pm - 11 pm
$10-$30 sliding scale / $5 students
FEATURING
The Stairwell Sisters
http://www.stairwellsisters.com
with calling by Evie Ladin
"wild, hard dance music...infectious" - Oakland Tribune
AND
The Squirrelly Stringband
http://www.spectacularopticals.com/SQUIRRELLY.swf
The Bernal Hill Stringband and other special guests!

ANTI WAR EVENT TO SUPPORT A CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR:
All dances taught! Beginners welcome!
The most fun you could have for the best cause!
All proceeds to benefit the defense of Pablo Paredes
(swiftsmartveterans.com) and Iraq Veterans Against the War
(ivaw.net). To protest the Iraq War, Petty Officer Third Class
Pablo Paredes publicly refused to deploy to the Middle East and
is now facing military courts martial. IVAW is a newly formed
organization of recent Iraq veterans opposed to the ongoing war
and occupation.

Benefit hosted by Not in Our Name, Code Pink, Iraq Veterans
Against the War, International Socialist Organization, College
Not Combat, Courage to Resist, Freedom Socialist Party, Queers
for Peace and Justice/SF, Radical Women, and Bay Area United
Against War.

Public transit: Muni 19 bus from Civic Center BART (8th Street) -
outbound toward Hunters Point.

"Combine this band's vocal prowess with skilled
multi-instrumental chops and a hellbent-for-leather attitude, and
you have a wild funky recording... Brittle, hard-edged, exciting
ensemble singing... in which the Stairwell Sisters rocket into
the high lonesome stratosphere." - Old-Time Herald

For more information and leaflets:
http://bayarea.notinourname.net
510-601-8000

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6) VOICES IN WARTIME
OPENS IN S.F. APRIL 15, 2005
Landmark Lumiere 3
1572 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94109

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7) Caterpillar Free Zone
Please sign the online petition, Caterpillar:
Stop Bulldozing Palestinian
Lives no later than April 10 in time for Caterpillar
Inc.'s annual shareholders' meeting in Chicago on April 13.
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/stopcat/
Caterpillar Free Zone
loumorgan2003@yahoo.com

Tomorrow morning, Tuesday 29th March,
party leaders on Limerick City
Council will consider a motion
put forward by the Ireland Palestine
Solidarity Campaign to declare
Limerick City the worlds first
Caterpillar
Free Zone.

The motion calls on the City Council
to ban the use of all Caterpillar plant
and machinery on Council worksites
from January 1st 2006, and calls on
all traders in Limerick City to implement
a voluntary ban on the sale of
Caterpillar merchandise.

On April 13th Caterpillar shareholders
meet in Chicago and will discuss a resolution
on the sale of bulldozers to Israel. The potential
domino effect of a City declaring itself
a Caterpillar Free Zone will not go unnoticed
by the shareholders.

We need your help - please email the City
Council info@limerickcity.ie or better still
phone the Mayors office (353) 61 415799
and encourage the councilors to support
the motion and congratulate them for being
the first city in the world to consider such a motion.

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8) CAMPUS ANTIWAR NETWORK (CAN)
KICKS CIA RECRUITERS OFF NYU
PRESS ADVISORY
April 2, 2005
Student protest prevents CIA recruiting event at New York University
Antiwar students hope to halt unique CIA college marketing effort at
NYU

CONTACT:
Sam Pipp, (339) 832-0761, spp230@nyu.edu Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, (646) 320-
6880, wrigleyfield@nyu.edu ATTN: All Media

***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE***

A planned CIA recruiting event at New York University (NYU) was
cancelled after the Campus Antiwar Network (CAN) called a protest
demanding the CIA abandon its recruiting program at NYU. 20 hours
before the recruiting event was scheduled to begin, its organizers sent
an email to all those who had registered, headlined, "The CIA Speaker
Event scheduled for Thursday, March 31 @6PM has been CANCELLED due to
the possibility of a protest by the Campus Antiwar Network."

The event -- which was scheduled to include speakers from the CIA, a
dinner, and a raffle for prizes such as an iPod Shuffle -- was
organized by students in an NYU marketing class whose classwork for the
semester is to market the CIA to their peers at NYU. They will be
graded on their efforts; the CIA, which provided them a $2500 budget
for their project, retains ownership of the marketing campaign they
create. The CIA hired the company EdVenture Partners to broker this
arrangement.

This alliance between the university and the CIA to market CIA
employment on campus is taking place at only two universities this
semester: NYU and the University of Texas-Pan American (UTPA). Students
at both schools have rallied in protest against the program.

"We believe they're testing the waters to see how brazenly they can
recruit on campuses without encountering student opposition, before
spreading programs like this to colleges across the country," said
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, a senior at NYU and member of the Campus
Antiwar Network. "Forcing them to cancel their big speaking event is a
huge victory. It showed them they can't market an agency that supports
torture and murder around the world without a fight."

After the event was cancelled, about twenty students rallied in
celebration outside the building where it was scheduled to have been
held, passing out fact sheets about the CIA's history of assassination
attempts and support for brutal dictatorships. Ten students went to
challenge the event's organizers to a public debate on campus about the
CIA -- an offer which was declined.

"Their marketing campaign says they want to 'dispel the myths' about
the CIA," said David Florey, a senior at NYU and member of the Campus
Antiwar Network. "But they refused our offer to debate. They can't
dispel the reality of the CIA's own practices. It's not a myth that the
CIA organized the program in Afghanistan that trained Osama bin Laden."

PART OF A NATIONAL COUNTER-RECRUITMENT MOVEMENT

NYU's protest comes in the context of a counter-recruitment movement
that has swept colleges and high schools across the country. Students
at schools ranging from Seattle Central Community College and San
Francisco State University on the West Coast, to City College New York
and and Southern Connecticut State University on the East Coast, have
chased military recruiters off their campus this schoolyear.

Expensive private colleges like NYU don't get the same kinds of
military recruiters. The only recruiters NYU has seen this year came
from the Judge Advocate General (the legal arm of the military), which
faced protest from NYU students opposed to the discriminatory Don't
Ask, Don't Tell and the prosecution of war resisters. But students at
NYU see their CIA Off Campus campaign as a contribution to the national
counter-recruitment movement.

"We know that because of the general affluence of the students at NYU,
direct military recruitment will never be as fruitful as the government
would hope, but in the past few months, we_ve seen a significant
increase in the presence of OTHER forms of recruitment for militaristic
operations," said Sam Pipp, a sophomore at NYU and member of the Campus
Antiwar Network. "This CIA recruitment in the guise of a class
represents a campaign of sorts on the part of the government to pull as
many as they can into the military machine."

"We're here as part of a growing counter-recruitment movement that has
the potential to stop Bush's ability to carry out his agenda of war and
terror," said Leia Petty, a member of the Campus Antiwar Network, at
the protest. "We're here to say that torture and terror are not career
opportunities, and we don't intend to back down until the CIA drops all
efforts to recruit at NYU."

THIS PROTEST IS JUST THE BEGINNING

Two days before NYU's protest, students at UTPA had protested the CIA
recruiting event at their campus, where the CIA is explicitly marketing
itself as an employer of choice for Latinos. "I think the students in
the marketing class are naive to think they're offering any
opportunity to Hispanics," said Samantha Garcia, president of Students
for Peace and Justice and the University Socialist Forum at UTPA, two
groups that protested the CIA. Garcia noted the CIA's history of
involvement in Latin America, such as its involvement in the overthrow
of Chile's left-wing leader Salvador Allende and its support of
Nicaragua's Contras.

At both schools, students plan to keep fighting the CIA presence and
opposing the U.S. occupation in Iraq, which they see as intimately
connected. "Bush says we're bringing democracy to Iraq," Wrigley-Field
said. "But the history of the CIA shows the U.S. is the last country
that can bring democracy anywhere."

Campus Antiwar Network http://www.campusantiwar.net Press advisory available
online at http://www.traprockpeace.org/can_nyu_04april05.html

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9) Give a Hoot, Don't Recruit (LINK ONLY)
UDC Law Students Protest Military Recruiters
By Will O'Bryan
Published on 03/31/2005
http://www.metroweekly.com/gauge/?ak=1516

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10) E-Mails Reveal Fraud (LINK ONLY)
in Nuclear Site Study
By MATTHEW L. WALD
Published: April 2, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/02/politics/02yucca.html?

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11) 'One Huge US Jail' (LINK ONLY)
By Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark
The Guardian UK
Saturday 19 March 2005
Afghanistan is the hub of a global network of detention
centres, the frontline in America's 'war on terror',
where arrest can be random and allegations of torture
commonplace. Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark investigate
on the ground and talk to former prisoners.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,1440836,00.html

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12) Draft may be needed in (LINK ONLY)
a year, military analysts warn
Bob Dart
Cox News Service
WASHINGTON
Mar. 30, 2005 03:24 PM
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0330draft30-ON.html#

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13) Why you can't be antiwar (LINK ONLY)
and pro-occupation
April 1, 2005 | Page 3
http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/537/537_03_Antiwar.shtml

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14) CLOSE THE GAP!
(email me directly if you want the full color version
that won't translate in this post--nyelich@prochoiceamerica.org)
GAP CEO funding campaign against California students and working
families. Shouldn't a store that sells to students stick up for
students? Not the GAP.

GAP founder Don Fisher is one of Governor Schwarzenegger's leading
special interest fundraisers ˜ and one of his biggest donors.

Together, Fisher and his family have given $154,700 to
Schwarzenegger and his committees ˜ even though Schwarzenegger has
raised student fees, cut school funding, vetoed the "Car Buyers Bill
of Rights" and terminated consumer, patient and environmental
protections, while calling students and nurses "special interests."

After promising to fully fund California schools, the Governor
shortchanged students by $2 billion this year. 10,000 students were
turned away from college last year because of his cuts.

Now Don Fisher is out raising money for the Governor's special
election attacking teachers, school funding and worker pensions ˜
and he's one of the leading contributors to a right-wing scheme to
silence the voice of labor unions and working people.

When you pay the GAP, you pay the price.

RALLY AGAINST THE GAP AND ARNOLD'S SPECIAL
INTEREST FUNDRAISING

SF GAP at 100 Post

Tuesday, April 5 _ 3:30 PM

Then march with us at 4:30 PM to the Ritz Carlton Hotel, 600
Stockton (at California)

To protest Arnold's (up to) $44,600-a-plate fundraiser.

For more information contact www.californiaconsumersunited.org or
call toll free 877-289-8591.

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15) The state of the world? (LINK ONLY)
It is on the brink of disaster
An authoritative study of the biological relationships vital
to maintaining life has found disturbing evidence of man-made
degradation. Steve Connor reports
30 March 2005
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=624667
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/040105EA.shtml

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|
16) Terror suspect said (LINK ONLY)
to be hiding in U.S.
By Madeline Baró Diaz
Miami Bureau
April 1, 2005
Rumors are swirling that Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles, accused
of anti-Castro terrorism, is hiding out in Miami, but friends and
federal officials on Thursday said they could not confirm the stories
were true.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-
pdposada01apr01,0,479809.story

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17) No Home Fit for Heroes (LINK ONLY)
Around 130,000 veterans of the Iraqi conflict have already
returned to the US. For some, all that awaits is a life
of virtual destitution. So far, the numbers are small, but
the fear is that they are just the start of a chronic
problem that America will be dealing with for years
to come. Gary Younge reports
Gary Younge
Saturday April 2, 2005
Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5159728-110878,00.html

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18) Lautenberg Cites Criminal Laws DeLay (LINK ONLY)
May Have Broken in Threat Against Federal Judges
WASHINGTON, DC
April 1, 2005
http://lautenberg.senate.gov/~lautenberg/press/2003/01/2005401638.html

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19) U.S. Citizen Held in Iraq as (LINK ONLY)
Suspected Insurgent
Reuters
Apr. 1, 2005
http://abcnews.go.com/US/print?id=633093

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20) My Big Fat C.E.O. Paycheck (LINK ONLY)
By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH
April 3, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/business/yourmoney/03pay.html?

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21) The Billionaires' Club (LINK ONLY)
By BOB HERBERT
OP-ED COLUMNIST
Published: April 4, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/04/opinion/04herbert.html?hp

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22) Net Aids Theft of Sensitive ID Data (LINK ONLY)
By Jonathan Krim
The Washington Post
Monday 4 April 2005
Critical Social Security numbers widely available.
Want someone else's Social Security number?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/040405Z.shtml

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23) We need a post-Zionist (LINK ONLY)
leap of faith
Assimilation with space for Jewish identity offers
us a better future
John Rose
Saturday April 2, 2005
Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1450719,00.html

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Friday, April 01, 2005

BAUAW NEWSLETTER-FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2005

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1) STOP MILITARY RECRUITING AT OUR SCHOOLS!
LETS HIT THE U.S. WAR MACHINE WHERE IT REALLY HURTS!
STOP THE WAR! BRING ALL THE TROOPS HOME NOW!
COME TO THE NEXT BAUAW MEETING:
SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 11:30AM
474 VALENCIA STREET, SF
(FIRST FLOOR, TO THE LEFT AND ALL THE WAY BACK
TO THE COMPAÑEROS DEL BARRIO CHILDREN'S CENTER)
The High Schools are the meat and potatoes of military
recruitment. JROTC puts them up close and personal with
our kids. We want education not militarization!
The San Francisco Unified School district should cut
all ties to the military!

2) Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will be in San Francisco on
APRIL 5th at the Ritz Carlton Hotel at 6:30pm.
600 California at Stockton at 6pm.

3) MILITARY RECRUITERS WILL BE AT THE CAREER FAIR AT
GEORGE WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL
600 32nd Avenue between Geary and Balboa Sts.
TUESDAY, APRIL 5TH, 9:50AM-12:20PM
Come to the BAUAW meeting April 2 and help plan ways to
keep the military out all the career fairs and out
of our schools!
SAT. APRIL 2, 11:30 a.m.
474 VALENCIA STREET, SF
(FIRST FLOOR, TO THE LEFT AND ALL THE WAY BACK
TO THE COMPAÑEROS DEL BARRIO CHILDREN'S CENTER)

4) Military Out of Our Schools-Bay Area Network
Regional Counter Recruitment Conference
NEXT ORGANIZING MEETING:
Wed. April 6, 7pm
American Friends Service Committee
65-9th St, San Francisco (near Civic Center BART)
Be There!
For more info: (510) 465-1617 x4, awe@objector.org
To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOOS-BAY/

5) Justice for New Americans Fundraiser
Sunday, April 17, 2005 2:00 p.m.
San Jose Repertory Theatre
"Making Tracks" is a rock muscial that tells stories
of seven generations of Asian Americans in America.
See www.makingtracks.com
J4na mailing list
J4na@justicefornewamericans.org
http://justicefornewamericans.org/mailman/listinfo/j4na

6) Benefit for Military Resisters
and Iraq Veterans Against the War
Old-Time Square Dance with LIVE Music! Saturday, April 30, 2005
Potrero Hill Neighborhood House
953 De Haro St., San Francisco
(at 22nd St. overlooking SF General Hospital)
Social & Introductions: 6 pm - 7:30 pm
Dance: 7:30 pm - 11 pm
$10-$30 sliding scale / $5 students
FEATURING
The Stairwell Sisters
http://www.stairwellsisters.com
with calling by Evie Ladin
"wild, hard dance music...infectious" - Oakland Tribune
AND
The Squirrelly Stringband
http://www.spectacularopticals.com/SQUIRRELLY.swf
The Bernal Hill Stringband and other special guests!

7) VOICES IN WARTIME
OPENS IN S.F. APRIL 15, 2005
Landmark Lumiere 3
1572 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94109

8) Caterpillar Free Zone
Please sign the online petition, Caterpillar:
Stop Bulldozing Palestinian
Lives no later than April 10 in time for Caterpillar
Inc.'s annual shareholders' meeting in Chicago on April 13.
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/stopcat/
Caterpillar Free Zone
loumorgan2003@yahoo.com

9) The Coming Draft (LINK ONLY)
veteransforpeace.org
America's armed forces and the demands of current
deployment widen the likelihood of reinstating the draft.
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/The_Coming_draft_032504.htm

10) Two-thirds of world's resources 'used up' (LINK ONLY)
Tim Radford, science editor
Guardian
Wednesday March 30, 2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,13369,1447920,00.html

11) Urgent - Defend SFSU and CCNY student activists
Urgent appeal from student activists.
CampusAntiwarNetwork@yahoogroups.com
[Please sign the petition, call-in your support for both SFSU
and CCNY activists.--Desmond]

12) April 7th: Oakland Docks Anti-War Benefit and Commemoration
please forward widely, and apologies for any repostings:
COMMEMORATE APRIL 7, 2003 ANTI-WAR PICKET
& SUPPORT ONE OF THOSE INJURED BY OAKLAND POLICE
A Benefit for Willow Rosenthal's Medical Needs; Willow was permanently injured by
the Oakland Police on April 7th, 2003.
Thursday April 7th, 7 p.m.
Café Van Kleef (21 and over)
1621 Telegraph @17th, Oakland
(19th Street BART)
donation: $10-100 (no one turned away)

13) Economic Growth Brisk, Profits Surge (LINK ONLY)
By Glenn Somerville
WASHINGTON (Reuters)
Wed Mar 30, 2005 09:27 AM ET
http://www.reuters.com/
newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8036633&src=eDialog/GetContent

14) CALL TO ENDORSE
Stop the Budget Cuts!
Tell Bush & Congress:
Hands Off Social Security!
Fund People's Needs -
Not War in Iraq!
Saturday, April 30, 2005
National People's Speak-Out in San Francisco
with Ramsey Clark and others
Mission High School, 3750 18th St., 7 pm

15) U.S. Air Force Plans (LINK ONLY)
for Future War in Space
By Leonard David
Senior Space Writer
posted: 10:00 am ET
22 February 2004
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/
higher_ground_040222.html

16) Join an Historic 24-Hour Emergency Read-In
* Save the Salinas Public Libraries
* Celebrate Your Love of Books
Saturday, April 2nd, 1:00p.m. to Sunday, April 3rd, 1:00p.m.
at Cesar Chavez Public Library, Salinas
At 1:00 p.m. Sunday we will join festive Cesar Chavez Holiday
Celebrations

17) Ella Baker Center, The Oakland Institute, Global
Exchange & KPFA Free Speech Radio Present
Creative Alternatives to Corporate Globalization:
Next Steps for the Movement
A panel discussion and report back with Van Jones &
Deborah James
Moderated by Anuradha Mittal
A Benefit for KPFA Radio
Sunday, April 3rd, 7:00pm
The Women‚s Building
3643 18th Street, San Francisco

18) COMCAST CEO & BIG CABLE EXECS COMING TO TOWN
* STOP MEDIA CONSOLIDATION *
* SPEAK UP FOR OUR COMMUNITIES *
* DEFEND WORKERS' RIGHTS *
RALLY AT THE NATIONAL CABLE CONVENTION
Sunday, April 3rd, 2:00 p.m.
Moscone Center, corner 4th and Howard Streets, San Francisco

19) UN Monitor: War on Iraq (LINK ONLY)
Has Doubled Malnutrition
Among Iraqi Children
Published on Thursday, March 31, 2005 by the Associated Press
GENEVA
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0331-08.htm

20) Most Americans Say No (LINK ONLY)
Nations Should Have
Nuclear Weapons
by Will Lester
Published on Thursday, March 31, 2005
by the Associated Press
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0331-05.htm

21) UN Rights Expert Charges (LINK ONLY)
US Using Food Access as Military Tactic
Published on Thursday, March 31, 2005
by the Agence France Presse
GENEVA -- A UN human rights expert sharply condemned the
invasion of Iraq and the global anti-terror drive, accusing the
US-led coalition of using food deprivation as a military tactic
and of sapping efforts to fight hunger in the world....
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0331-12.htm

22) U.S. Soldiers Told to 'Beat (LINK ONLY)
the F**k Out of' Detainees
by William Fisher
Published on Thursday, March 31, 2005 by the Inter Press Service
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0331-13.htm

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1) STOP MILITARY RECRUITING AT OUR SCHOOLS!
LETS HIT THE U.S. WAR MACHINE WHERE IT REALLY HURTS!
STOP THE WAR! BRING ALL THE TROOPS HOME NOW!
COME TO THE NEXT BAUAW MEETING:
SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 11:30AM
474 VALENCIA STREET, SF
(FIRST FLOOR, TO THE LEFT AND ALL THE WAY BACK
TO THE COMPAÑEROS DEL BARRIO CHILDREN'S CENTER)
The High Schools are the meat and potatoes of military
recruitment. JROTC puts them up close and personal with
our kids. We want education not militarization!
The San Francisco Unified School district should cut
all ties to the military!

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2) Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will be in San Francisco on
APRIL 5th at the Ritz Carlton Hotel at 6:30pm.
600 California at Stockton at 6pm.

Labor and community groups will be welcoming him with
a huge protest initiated by the California Nurses Association.

On April 5 San Francisco's corporate leaders will gather at the
Ritz Carlton to line Arnold's pockets. Join nurses, working
families, patients and Californians from around the state to
stop his corporate sell-out!

Tell the Governor and his donors: "Not in Our Town!"

For more information: 510-273-2240.

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3) MILITARY RECRUITERS WILL BE AT THE CAREER FAIR AT
GEORGE WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL
600 32nd Avenue between Geary and Balboa Sts.
TUESDAY, APRIL 5TH, 9:50AM-12:20PM
Come to the BAUAW meeting April 2 and help plan ways to
keep the military out all the career fairs and out
of our schools!
SAT. APRIL 2, 11:30 a.m.
474 VALENCIA STREET, SF
(FIRST FLOOR, TO THE LEFT AND ALL THE WAY BACK
TO THE COMPAÑEROS DEL BARRIO CHILDREN'S CENTER)

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4) Military Out of Our Schools-Bay Area Network
Regional Counter Recruitment Conference
NEXT ORGANIZING MEETING:
Wed. April 6, 7pm
American Friends Service Committee
65-9th St, San Francisco (near Civic Center BART)
Be There!
For more info: (510) 465-1617 x4, awe@objector.org
To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOOS-BAY/

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5) Justice for New Americans Fundraiser
Sunday, April 17, 2005 2:00 p.m.
San Jose Repertory Theatre
"Making Tracks" is a rock muscial that tells stories
of seven generations of Asian Americans in America.
See www.makingtracks.com
J4na mailing list
J4na@justicefornewamericans.org
http://justicefornewamericans.org/mailman/listinfo/j4na

Then followed by a fundraiser with reading of transcripts of the case that
highlights FBI's interrogation of Wen Ho Lee and Judge Parker's apology,
followed by an award ceremony and a reception.
Ticket available for sale at www.j4na.org

Cecilia L. Chang
Justice for New Americans
P.O. Box 120
Fremont, CA 94537
510 537-2929
510 537-3340 fax
www.j4na.org

J4na mailing list
J4na@justicefornewamericans.org
http://justicefornewamericans.org/mailman/listinfo/j4na

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6) Benefit for Military Resisters
and Iraq Veterans Against the War
Old-Time Square Dance with LIVE Music! Saturday, April 30, 2005
Potrero Hill Neighborhood House
953 De Haro St., San Francisco
(at 22nd St. overlooking SF General Hospital)
Social & Introductions: 6 pm - 7:30 pm
Dance: 7:30 pm - 11 pm
$10-$30 sliding scale / $5 students
FEATURING
The Stairwell Sisters
http://www.stairwellsisters.com
with calling by Evie Ladin
"wild, hard dance music...infectious" - Oakland Tribune
AND
The Squirrelly Stringband
http://www.spectacularopticals.com/SQUIRRELLY.swf
The Bernal Hill Stringband and other special guests!

ANTI WAR EVENT TO SUPPORT A CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR:
All dances taught! Beginners welcome!
The most fun you could have for the best cause!
All proceeds to benefit the defense of Pablo Paredes
(swiftsmartveterans.com) and Iraq Veterans Against the War
(ivaw.net). To protest the Iraq War, Petty Officer Third Class
Pablo Paredes publicly refused to deploy to the Middle East and
is now facing military courts martial. IVAW is a newly formed
organization of recent Iraq veterans opposed to the ongoing war
and occupation.

Benefit hosted by Not in Our Name, Code Pink, Iraq Veterans
Against the War, International Socialist Organization, College
Not Combat, Courage to Resist, Freedom Socialist Party, Queers
for Peace and Justice/SF, Radical Women, and Bay Area United
Against War.

Public transit: Muni 19 bus from Civic Center BART (8th Street) -
outbound toward Hunters Point.

"Combine this band's vocal prowess with skilled
multi-instrumental chops and a hellbent-for-leather attitude, and
you have a wild funky recording... Brittle, hard-edged, exciting
ensemble singing... in which the Stairwell Sisters rocket into
the high lonesome stratosphere." - Old-Time Herald

For more information and leaflets:
http://bayarea.notinourname.net
510-601-8000

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7) VOICES IN WARTIME
OPENS IN S.F. APRIL 15, 2005
Landmark Lumiere 3
1572 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94109

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8) Caterpillar Free Zone
Please sign the online petition, Caterpillar:
Stop Bulldozing Palestinian
Lives no later than April 10 in time for Caterpillar
Inc.'s annual shareholders' meeting in Chicago on April 13.
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/stopcat/
Caterpillar Free Zone
loumorgan2003@yahoo.com

Tomorrow morning, Tuesday 29th
March, party leaders on Limerick City
Council will consider a motion
put forward by the Ireland Palestine
Solidarity Campaign to declare
Limerick City the worlds first
Caterpillar
Free Zone.

The motion calls on the City Council
to ban the use of all Caterpillar plant
and machinery on Council worksites
from January 1st 2006, and calls on
all traders in Limerick City to implement
a voluntary ban on the sale of
Caterpillar merchandise.

On April 13th Caterpillar shareholders
meet in Chicago and will discuss
a resolution on the sale of bulldozers
to Israel. The potential domino effect
of a City declaring itself a Caterpillar
Free Zone will not go unnoticed by
the shareholders.

We need your help - please email the
City Council info@limerickcity.ie or
better still phone the Mayors office
(353) 61 415799 and encourage the
councilors to support the motion and
congratulate them for being the first
city in the world to consider such a motion.

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9) The Coming Draft (LINK ONLY)
veteransforpeace.org
America's armed forces and the demands of current
deployment widen the likelihood of reinstating the draft.
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/The_Coming_draft_032504.htm

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10) Two-thirds of world's resources 'used up' (LINK ONLY)
Tim Radford, science editor
Guardian
Wednesday March 30, 2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,13369,1447920,00.html

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11) Urgent - Defend SFSU and CCNY student activists
Urgent appeal from student activists.
CampusAntiwarNetwork@yahoogroups.com
[Please sign the petition, call-in your support for both SFSU
and CCNY activists.--Desmond]

WHAT YOU CAN DO
Students Against the War,
San Francisco State University
We ask the public to speak-out
against the administration's plans to
Limit free speech rights, and demand
that no sanctions be placed on students
that helped to plan the March 9th protest.
Please contact:

Robert A. Corrigan, SFSU President
Phone: (415) 338-1381, Fax: (415) 338-6210
Email: corrigan@sfsu.edu please CC your email to:
cansfsu@hotmail.com Penny Saffold,
SFSU Vice President/Dean of Students
Phone: (415) 338-2032, Fax: (415) 338-0900
Email: psaffold@sfsu.edu please
CC your email to: cansfsu@hotmail.com
Also, please sign our online petition at
http://www.petitiononline.com/sfsu/petition.html/
For more information about the March 9th protest:
http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/breaking/003099.html http://
www.insidebayarea.com/localnews/ci_2603424
http://kpix.dayport.com/launcher/4122/?tf=video_player.tpl
Watch a video of the protest at http:
//www.indybay.org/uploads/collegenotcombat.mov
We urgently need your help. Please lend your support
to anti-war Student activists and activists who are
fighting the militarization of our
schools byletting the administration
know that their actions are not supported by
members of the community, students,
alumni, faculty, and staff.

Sincerely,
Students Against War

CCNY Activists Need Your Support
On March 9, CCNY security attacked student and faculty
protestors who were demonstrating against military
recruiters.
www.citydefensecampaign.org

COME HEAR THE TRUTH & SPEAK YOUR MIND AT
OUR TOWN HALL MEETING
12:30pm Thursday, March 31st
CCNY, NAC Building, Room 1/202

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP

1. Let them know what you think:
(and copy cityfreespeech@earthlink.net on your emails)

Gregory Williams, President
212-650-7285/7286, 212-650-7680 (fax)
c/o Chief of Staff Michael Rogovin
mrogovin@ccny.cuny.edu
Maureen Powers, VP for Student Affairs
212-650-5426, 212-650-7080 (fax)
c/o Assistant to the VP George Rhinehart
grhinehart@ccny.cuny.edu
George Crinnion, Director of Public Safety
212-650-7992, 212-650-7991
(fax) gcrinnion@ccny.cuny.edu
Danny Vasquez, Security Specialist
212-650-7988, 212-650-7991
(fax) dvasquez@ccny.cuny.edu 2.
Sign on to the letter supporting free speech on campus

To sign onto the letter, send an email to:
cityfreespeech@earthlink.net 3. Donate to the defense fund:
Make checks payable to City Defense Fund,
809 W. 181st St. #182, New
York, NY 10033

4. Join the next defense campaign meeting
(1.5 blocks from campus)

7pm Monday, April 4th
417 W. 141st Street #2
(2nd buzzer from the top)
between St. Nicholas & Hamilton Terrace

*SAVE THE DATES*
Disciplinary hearings for the students and staff
will be April 8th and
14th respectively.
Details TBA.
Visit http://www.campusantiwar.net
for more on counter-recruitment by
CAN affiliates.

Charles Jenks
Traprock Peace Center
103A Keet Road
Deerfield, MA 01342
413-773-7427 (Traprock office line) http://www.traprockpeace.org

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12) April 7th: Oakland Docks Anti-War Benefit and Commemoration
please forward widely, and apologies for any repostings:
COMMEMORATE APRIL 7, 2003 ANTI-WAR PICKET
& SUPPORT ONE OF THOSE INJURED BY OAKLAND POLICE
A Benefit for Willow Rosenthal's Medical Needs; Willow was
permanently injured by the Oakland Police on April 7th, 2003.
Thursday April 7th, 7 p.m.
Café Van Kleef (21 and over)
1621 Telegraph @17th, Oakland
(19th Street BART)
donation: $10-100 (no one turned away)

MUSIC:
·Andrea Pritchett (of Rebecca Riots), Shelley Doty (East Bay
Express called her "the complete performer in her use of cranked
Emotions in her singing, edgy rock energy and swinging jazz
guitar rhythms." ) & Friends

·Henri Ducharme with TaraLinda - New French music and beyond
(accordion & vocals)

·Spoken Word Performance

VIDEO:
·"Shots on the Docks" the documentary depicting the events at
the Oakland Docks on April 7, 2003 by Steve Zeltzer of the
Labor Video Project will screen.

SPEAKERS:
·Jack Heyman, ILWU rank and file activist who was arrested by
police April 7, 2003 and fought and won bogus charges against him.

·Antonia Juhasz, winner of the Project Censored Award for her
article on the corporate invasion of Iraq, co-author of 'Alternatives
to Economic Globalization' (2nd Edition) and antiwar educator and
organizer.

·Bernardo Garcia-Pandavenes, Campaign for Community Safety and
Police Accountability.

.Osha Neumann, part of the team of civil rights attorneys who,
through a civil suit in conjunction with grassroots pressure, won new
OPD crowd control policy that prohibits the indiscriminate use of wooden
bullets, rubber bullets, tasers, bean bags, pepper spray and police
motorcycles to control or disperse crowds or demonstrations.

HORS D'OEUVRES WILL BE SERVED

On April 7 2003 hundreds of Bay
Area anti-war, labor and community
activists picketed corporate war
profiteers at the Oakland docks. The
Oakland Police Department (OPD),
after meeting days before with
Maritime bosses, opened fire on
nonviolent community members with wooden
bullets, shot-filled sacks and
concussion grenades and charged people with
motorcycles for two hours. Their
assault injured 60, including 7 long
shore workers and 3 members
of the press, in the most violent attack on
the anti-war movement in the US,
which was addressed by the UN
Commission on Human Rights.
Picketers did shut down the
docks on April 7, 2003,
A month later on May 12 and
one year later on April 7, 2004.

Those arrested and facing bogus
charges won their cases and there have
been reforms to police crowd
practices won in civil suits in the
aftermath, but the OPD and
Mayor Jerry Brown (who may run for
California Attorney General)
remain largely unaccountable.

Willow Rosenthal, urban farmer,
community organizer, and anti-war
Social justice activist, sustained
permanent injuries on that day. We are a
group of friends of Willow and
local activists who are raising money to
assist her with her medical
expenses, as she has not received any
compensation from the city of
Oakland. In the event that her case
settles, any unused funds raised
will be diverted to anti-war organizing.

HOW YOU CAN HELP
·Forward this email to your lists and friends
·Donate money in any of the following ways
1.On line with a credit card at
http://www.actagainstwar.org 2.
Send a check to
Willow Rosenthal
PO Box 611
Berkeley, CA 94701

3.Or come to the benefit on April 7th
and make a donation in person.

Contact: Dorrit 510-981-1967
dorrit@riseup.net Sponsored by:
friends of Willow, Campaign for
Community Safety and Police
Accountability (PUEBLO), Code
Orange Affinity Group, and the Transport Workers
SolidarityCommittee (formerly the
Committee to Defend ILWU Local 10 BA Jack
Heyman). http://www.actagainstwar.org

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13) Economic Growth Brisk, Profits Surge (LINK ONLY)
By Glenn Somerville
WASHINGTON (Reuters)
Wed Mar 30, 2005 09:27 AM ET
http://www.reuters.com/
newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8036633&src=eDialog/GetContent

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14) CALL TO ENDORSE
Stop the Budget Cuts!
Tell Bush & Congress:
Hands Off Social Security!
Fund People's Needs -
Not War in Iraq!
Saturday, April 30, 2005
National People's Speak-Out in San Francisco
with Ramsey Clark and others
Mission High School, 3750 18th St., 7 pm

Click here to endorse

Act Now - Become an Endorser Today!
The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition Action Plan includes merging the
struggle against endless war with resistance and opposition
to Bush's assault on Social Security, social programs, unions
and working people's rights at home. We appeal to you to
endorse these important actions today.

Bush has launched a taxpayer funded campaign, complete
with a strategizing "war room," to push through his plan to
privatize Social Security. Bush and his corporate advisors are
falsely crying "crisis" to scare younger workers into accepting
"reforms." What is really going on is a scheme to channel
hundreds of billions of dollars to the big Wall Street banks
and investment firms at our expense. Currently Bush is on
a 60-day, 60-city tour to convince people around the
country to support his plan to destroy this vital social program.

The Bush administration intends to slash virtually all
remaining social services, including Social Security, to fund
unlimited war and occupation in Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan,
Haiti and more. They continue to spend more than $200 million
a day on the war in Iraq, while targeting over 150 vital health,
housing, education and jobs programs for complete elimination
in this year's budget. The impact would be devastating for
millions of people, and we must stop them in their tracks.

On Saturday, April 30th, join the broadening movement to say
"Stop the Budget Cuts! Hands Off Social Security! Fund People's
Needs - Not War in Iraq!" at the National People's Speak Out
in San Francisco.

Here's what you can do:

1) BECOME AN ENDORSER. Endorsements from organizations
and individuals are welcome. CLICK HERE to become an
endorser of this call and the Saturday April 30th Regional
Mass Rally at Mission High School in San Francisco.

2) ORGANIZE TRANSPORTATION to the April 30th National
People's Speak-Out in San Francisco. We will stand together
to say "Stop the Budget Cuts! Hands Off Our Social Security!
Fund People's Needs, Not War!" Join us! Don't forget to bring
signs and banners representing your organization. CLICK
HERE to fill out the Transportation Form and help spread the
word about your union or organization's car caravan, van or
bus coming to April 30th.

3) DOWNLOAD A FLYER AND FACT SHEET, SPREAD THE WORD
about April 30th and the campaign to defend social security,
stop the budget cuts, and fund people's needs - not war in
Iraq. CLICK HERE to download and initial flyer and fact sheets.

4) ORGANIZE OR JOIN THE PROTESTS in every city of Bush's
"Destroy Social Security" tour. The AFL-CIO and other
organizations are mobilizing protesters, young and old, to
meet Bush and say "Stop the Budget Cuts! Hands Off Social
Security! Stop the War!" A.N.S.W.E.R. calls the antiwar
movement and all activists to join these demonstrations
and connect the issue of Iraq and militarism with the fight
to defend Social Security and to defeat the Bush budget
cuts. If Bush is coming to your city, contact our National
Office in Washington DC at 202-544-3389.

5) HOLD A PEOPLE'S SPEAK OUT to Stop the Budget Cuts,
Defend Social Security, and Fund People's Needs, Not War,
April 30 - May 6 in your community or on your campus.
Contact us to find a Speak-Out near you or for assistance
or to have an A.N.S.W.E.R. organizer speak at your activity.
Fact sheets and other materials can be downloaded from
our website at http://www.answercoalition.org/. Fill out
the Event Listing form to help spread the word about your
action.

6) DONATE to the campaign to the Stop the Budget Cuts
Hands Off Social Security Fund People's Needs not War
Campaign. The success of these events and continuing
strength of the movement depend on donations from you,
and people like you, who are dedicated to defending and
expanding the gains the people have won. We can not do
it without your help. CLICK HERE to make a tax-deductible
donation over a secure server, you'll also get information
on donating by check.

CLICK HERE TO ENDORSE the call to say "Stop the Budget
Cuts! Hands Off Our Social Security! Fund People's Needs,
Not War!" - April 30th Mass Regional Rally in San Francisco.

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

Help the movement continue to grow strong. You can make
a tax-deductible contribution to A.N.S.W.E.R. through
a secure server by clicking here, where you can also find
information on how to contribute by check.
Click here to subscribe to the ANSWER SF e-mail list,
click log in, register and manage your preferences.

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15) U.S. Air Force Plans (LINK ONLY)
for Future War in Space
By Leonard David
Senior Space Writer
posted: 10:00 am ET
22 February 2004
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/
higher_ground_040222.html

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16) Join an Historic 24-Hour Emergency Read-In
* Save the Salinas Public Libraries
* Celebrate Your Love of Books
Saturday, April 2nd, 1:00p.m. to Sunday, April 3rd, 1:00p.m.
at Cesar Chavez Public Library, Salinas
At 1:00 p.m. Sunday we will join festive Cesar Chavez Holiday
Celebrations

Join us in an historic 24-hour emergency read-in! Libraries are the
Soul of our communities, providing vital services to all - especially the
most low - income members and children. We need to help save our
libraries!

While Congress is about to allocate another $81 billion for war, vital
services at home are being slashed - affordable housing, food stamps,
public transportation, health care, and education - including
libraries. According to the American Library Association, library
funding cuts have topped $100 million in the last 18 months, and
libraries in almost every state in the nation are facing cuts of up to
50 percent.

In Salinas, California--the hometown of the great John Steinbeck and
heart of the farmworker community, the entire public library system is
scheduled to close for lack of funds. This poor farmworker community
has paid $80.5 million in taxes for the war in Iraq
( http://costofwar.com/ ), but
doesn't have $5 million to keep its libraries open.

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17) Ella Baker Center, The Oakland Institute, Global
Exchange & KPFA Free Speech Radio Present
Creative Alternatives to Corporate Globalization:
Next Steps for the Movement
A panel discussion and report back with Van Jones &
Deborah James
Moderated by Anuradha Mittal
A Benefit for KPFA Radio
Sunday, April 3rd, 7:00pm
The Women‚s Building
3643 18th Street, San Francisco

The event will provide a lively and informative
community forum to address the latest policies
promoted by the neo-liberalist agenda, and the global
resistance movement‚s current strategies to build
creative alternatives to these undemocratic global
initiatives. The panelists will report back from both
the World Economic Forum and the World Social Forum,
which each met this past January in Davos, Switzerland
and in Porte Alegra, Brazil, respectively. The World
Economic Forum, which invites 1,000 top international
business and political leaders, has gathered annually
for over 30 years to discuss issues regarding
macroeconomics and to develop geo-political agendas.
The World Social Forum, in contrast, convenes hundreds
of thousands of social, environmental and cultural
activists to formulate effective alternatives to
corporate globalization, and to build just,
sustainable and democratic solutions.

Tickets: $10 at the door. No one turned away for lack
of funds.
Public Information: www.kpfa.org  510-848-6767 x255

Van Jones, Esq, is the founder and National Executive
Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
(EBC). Headquartered in Oakland, EBC is a national
organization that challenges human rights abuses in
the U.S. criminal justice system.Van is a steadfast
opponent of policies that result in the
over-imprisonment and unlawful abuse of marginalized
peoples in the U.S. The Center‚s new program, Reclaim
the Future, can be viewed at:
http://www.ellabakercenter.org

Deborah James is the Global Economy Director at Global
Exchange, where she has worked to democratize the
global economy since 1993. In 2004, Deborah served as
the first Executive Director of the Venezuela
Information Office in Washington, DC, an organization
that reframed public debate of the exciting
progressive social transformation and successfully
shifted US foreign policy towards Venezuela.
http://www.globalexchange.org

Anuradha Mittal, a native of India, is an
internationally renowned expert on trade, development,
human rights and agricultural issues. She is the
author and editor of numerous articles and books
including America Needs Human Rights, She is the
founder and executive director of a new policy think
tank, The Oakland Institute.
http://www.oaklandinstitute.org

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18) COMCAST CEO & BIG CABLE EXECS COMING TO TOWN
* STOP MEDIA CONSOLIDATION *
* SPEAK UP FOR OUR COMMUNITIES *
* DEFEND WORKERS' RIGHTS *
RALLY AT THE NATIONAL CABLE CONVENTION
Sunday, April 3rd, 2:00 p.m.
Moscone Center, corner 4th and Howard Streets, San Francisco

Comcast dominates more than just cable TV in the U.S. -- they also
control how many of us access the Internet. They use this power to
raise rates, invade customers' privacy, harass and punish employees
who speak up for their rights, and ignore the demands of the
communities where they operate.

In the Bay Area alone, Comcast holds over 100 cable franchises,
most of which function as monopolies. Comcast has sued San Jose
and Walnut Creek, has failed to pay the money it owes to Sacramento,
and won't renew contracts that expired years ago in dozens
of other cities.

Now Comcast is co-sponsoring the Cable Industry's national
convention in San Francisco, where the company's long
awaited contract re-negotiation with the City is just about
to begin.

This rally is sponsored by the Communications Workers
of America, AFL-CIO, Media Alliance, Media Action Marin,
Jobs with Justice, Global Exchange, and CodePink.

For more information contact CWA Local 9415
(510) 834-9415 or CWA Local 9423 (408) 278-9423,
organize@cwa9423.com

Contact Media Alliance
1904 Franklin St., Ste. 500
Oakland, CA 94612
Phone: 510-832-9000
Fax: 510-238-8557
information@media-alliance.org

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19) UN Monitor: War on Iraq (LINK ONLY)
Has Doubled Malnutrition
Among Iraqi Children
Published on Thursday, March 31, 2005 by the Associated Press
GENEVA
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0331-08.htm

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20) Most Americans Say No (LINK ONLY)
Nations Should Have
Nuclear Weapons
by Will Lester
Published on Thursday, March 31, 2005 by the Associated Press
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0331-05.htm

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21) UN Rights Expert Charges (LINK ONLY)
US Using Food Access as Military Tactic
Published on Thursday, March 31, 2005 by the Agence France Presse
GENEVA -- A UN human rights expert sharply condemned the invasion
of Iraq and the global anti-terror drive, accusing the US-led coalition
of using food deprivation as a military tactic and of sapping efforts to
fight hunger in the world....
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0331-12.htm

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22) U.S. Soldiers Told to 'Beat (LINK ONLY)
the F**k Out of' Detainees
by William Fisher
Published on Thursday, March 31, 2005 by the Inter Press Service
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0331-13.htm

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23) Okay, We Give Up
Scientific American, April 2005
By The Editors
http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2005/03/science-was-just-bunch-of-
theory.html

There's no easy way to admit this. For years,
helpful letter writers told us to stick to
science. They pointed out that science and
politics don't mix. They said we should be more
balanced in our presentation of such issues as
creationism, missile defense and global warming.
We resisted their advice and pretended not to be
stung by the accusations that the magazine should
be renamed Unscientific American, or Scientific
Unamerican, or even Unscientific Unamerican. But
spring is in the air, and all of nature is
turning over a new leaf, so there's no better
time to say: you were right, and we were wrong.

In retrospect, this magazine's coverage of
so-called evolution has been hideously one-sided.
For decades, we published articles in every issue
that endorsed the ideas of Charles Darwin and his
cronies. True, the theory of common descent
through natural selection has been called the
unifying concept for all of biology and one of
the greatest scientific ideas of all time, but
that was no excuse to be fanatics about it.

Where were the answering articles presenting the
powerful case for scientific creationism? Why
were we so unwilling to suggest that dinosaurs
lived 6,000 years ago or that a cataclysmic flood
carved the Grand Canyon? Blame the scientists.
They dazzled us with their fancy fossils, their
radiocarbon dating and their tens of thousands of
peer-reviewed journal articles. As editors, we
had no business being persuaded by mountains of
evidence.

Moreover, we shamefully mistreated the
Intelligent Design (ID) theorists by lumping them
in with creationists. Creationists believe that
God designed all life, and that's a somewhat
religious idea. But ID theorists think that at
unspecified times some unnamed superpowerful
entity designed life, or maybe just some species,
or maybe just some of the stuff in cells. That's
what makes ID a superior scientific theory: it
doesn't get bogged down in details.

Good journalism values balance above all else. We
owe it to our readers to present everybody's
ideas equally and not to ignore or discredit
theories simply because they lack scientifically
credible arguments or facts. Nor should we
succumb to the easy mistake of thinking that
scientists understand their fields better than,
say, U.S. senators or best-selling novelists do.
Indeed, if politicians or special-interest groups
say things that seem untrue or misleading, our
duty as journalists is to quote them without
comment or contradiction. To do otherwise would
be elitist and therefore wrong. In that spirit,
we will end the practice of expressing our own
views in this space: an editorial page is no
place for opinions.

Get ready for a new Scientific American. No more
discussions of how science should inform policy.
If the government commits blindly to building an
anti-ICBM defense system that can't work as
promised, that will waste tens of billions of
taxpayers' dollars and imperil national security,
you won't hear about it from us. If studies
suggest that the administration's antipollution
measures would actually increase the dangerous
particulates that people breathe during the next
two decades, that's not our concern. No more
discussions of how policies affect science
eitherb$"so what if the budget for the National
Science Foundation is slashed? This magazine will
be dedicated purely to science, fair and balanced
science, and not just the science that scientists
say is science. And it will start on April Fools'
Day.

Okay, We Give Up

MATT COLLINS
THE EDITORS editors@sciam.com
COPYRIGHT 2005 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, INC.

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