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In Denver Kathy Kelly on Afghanistan
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Denver Rally and Potluck Luncheon
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CPIS Going to South Korea for GN's 2009 Space Conference
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Israeli Soldiers Speak Out in Boulder
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Ongoing and Expanding US Occupations
In Denver Kathy Kelly on Afghanistan
1,000 U.S. soldiers have died Almost 250 billion dollars have been spent Countless Afghan citizens... read more
Denver Rally and Potluck Luncheon
On February 20, 2010, the Colorado Citizens for Peace will remember their 5th Anniversary.The longest... read more
CPIS Going to South Korea for GN's 2009 Space Conference
GN's 2009 Space Conference April 16-18, 2009 Seoul, South Korea International Conference against... read more
Israeli Soldiers Speak Out in Boulder
Breaking the Silence Israeli Soldiers Speak Out on the Moral Costs of Occupation Lecture and Film ... read more
Ongoing and Expanding US Occupations
Resource of the month: Ongoing and Expanding US Occupations During this month ... read more
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News and Articles from Other PJEP Networks
Change, Leadership and Opportunity of this Moment
It's been a tumultuous couple weeks and many people are despairing. Haiti, Massachusetts, Supreme Court, and now the loss of our treasured teacher Professor Howard Zinn. It may seem like too much to bare, but it's not. As a matter of fact, there are reasons to celebrate and new opportunities to organize. At the bottom of this longer-than-usual commentary is an invitation for collaboration on an exciting and timely mobilization to reclaim representative democracy. I hope you will send your ideas ... [ more ]
Posted on WAnet by Backbone Campaign
Twitter's Communications Evolution
An article in the November 9 NY Times, "Refining the Twitter Explosion", described changes that Twitter programmers are making to Twitter, changes that are taking steps toward a dramatic realignment of our society.
The article noted that in January 2009, daily traffic was 2.4 million transmissions, but it grew to 26 million tweets by October. Then, the writer Noam Cohen noted the importance of geographic location to high quality information: "Improvements like geolocation...
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Posted on ICJPE by Neighbors for Peace
COAST Joins Lawsuit Opposing Navy Sonar Range
The Navy intends to build a 500-square nautical mile instrumented Undersea Warfare Training Range (USWTR) off the Florida and Georgia coasts, where it plans to conduct around 470 annual exercises involving up to three vessels and two aircraft, and the use of its mid-frequency active sonar. Despite the fact that MFA sonar disrupts, injures, and kills marine life, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), the federal agency responsible for ensuring protection for marine species, has given the ... [ more ]
Posted on MPJEN by Citizens Opposing Active Sonar Threats (COAST)
Money and Politics: Illuminating the Connection, Resource for the Month
Our Resource of the month is Money and Politics: Illuminating the Connection,
MAPLight.org, a groundbreaking public database that illuminates the connection between campaign donations and legislative votes in unprecedented ways. Elected officials collect large sums of money to run their campaigns, and they often pay back campaign contributors with special access and favorable laws.
This common practice is contrary to the public...
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Posted on ICJPE by ICJPE
Minnesotans Arrested at White House Tuesday
13 people were arrested at the White House Tuesday. Nine of them are from Minnesota. They are in the DC jail. Evidently they will be held for 24 hours in a jail that is all stainless steel including the bunks. The water supply does not work that well if at all in the cells. And, according to one observer, they turn up either the heat or the air conditioning to make them uncomfortable.
For the action they had cardboard tombstones with the names of 77 Minnesotans who died in the wars...
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Posted on MAPM by Twin Cities Peace Campaign - Focus on Iraq
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