Carl Rising-Moore has asked that we pass along this information.

GW Bush arrived at the Crawford "ranch" on Monday August 13. The duration of his stay is not known, but it is suspected that he is starting his annual summer vacation at that time.

A continued presence near the ranch at the checkpoints is vital.

We feel its our responsibility to continue to stand up with our peaceful protests. Being close to Crawford, we have a unique grassroots opportunity to directly speak truth to power.

If you can spend some time at Camp Casey III, the checkpoint, or in the ditch with Carl, please contact him directly at 317-777-4805.

Transportation will be available from CC III to the checkpoints.

More information may follow on specific actions.

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold, is for people of good conscience to remain silent." --Thomas Jefferson.

The People’s Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition PHRF/OC is seeking your financial support for a critical human rights initiative to hold the US government, on all levels, accountable for the policies and decisions that resulted in the death of over 2,000 people in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast and the displacement of over 1 million in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. This initiative is the International Tribunal on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita which will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana August 29th – September 2nd, 2007 (see www.internationaltribunal.org for more details).

The goals of the International Tribunal are as follows:

1. Hold the US government accountable for its crimes against humanity;
2. Demand financial restitution and justice for the Survivors of Katrina and Rita; Advance the Katrina reconstruction movement;

Anti-war & progressive groups in the Metroplex area plan a huge protest to be held in downtown Fort Worth Aug. 31st – Sept. 1st when the National Republican Party is planning to have 20,000 delegates from throughout the U.S. & all of the Republican Presidential candidates attend their Straw Poll Convention at the Ft. Worth Convention Center. This will be the beginning of the month when Gen. Patreaus is to give his report to the nation. The national media will probably cover this Convention.

4 pm - Neighborhood walk leaves from Drexel Sq. Park Fountain (51st & Drexel)
5-9 pm- Picnic at Harold Washington Park (53rd & Hyde Park Blvd.)

Food –- Open Mic Spoken Word Poetry - Art Activities - Speakers - YOU!

Two years - since the names Katrina and its effects on the Lower Ninth Ward seared into the world's vocabulary, along with Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, and Fallujah, as one of the monstrous crimes of the Bush regime.

Two years - since the Bush regime allowed tens of thousands of people - mostly Black - to suffer, starve, dehydrate and die in the unbearable heat, humidity and toxic sludge of a flooded city.

Two years - in which tourist sections and a football stadium have been restored while public housing has been shuttered and surrounded with barbed wire, in which people trying to return to the projects have been evicted by SWAT teams, and the public hospital remains closed, never to reopen.