Building to the Days of Decision: Between Now and September 14th:

- Lobby your members of Congress to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Ask them to pledge not to vote for more war funding and to support a real plan for peace: The Declaration of Peace campaign's nine point Comprehensive Peace Plan for Iraq.

1. Phone them during National Call-In Days.
2. Join or organize a delegation visit or town hall meeting with your Senators and Representative during the August recess.
3. Videotape your interaction with your Congressperson and their staff, and post it on the DoP website.

- Start organizing mid-September nonviolent action in your city.

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.

2nd Annual ONE LOVE PEACE, MUSIC & ART FESTIVAL

1 PM - 3 PM - Festival Youth Program - Writing, Music, Graffiti Wall, Peace Train Art, Parents' Dialogue Workshop and more!

Afternoon Program Flyer

7 PM - 10:30 PM - An interfaith music and arts extravaganza promoting greater understanding through unity in diversity.

Free and open to the public.

Evening Program Flyer

www.HamptonRoadsNetworkForNonviolence.org

Fighting Bob Fest is an annual Chautauqua featuring progressive speakers, networking opportunities, and entertainment. Fighting Bob Fest carries on the tradition of Robert “Fighting Bob” La Follette by providing a forum for progressive ideas on issues facing Wisconsin and the nation.

Public participation in government has tragically eroded, corporations dominate the policymaking process, and elected officials systematically neglect the public interest in favor of private ones. Freedom and justice are defended through education, and the exchange of ideas promotes solidarity among progressives. To this end, Fighting Bob Fest strives to provide citizens with a forum for democratic participation where frustrations with current policies can be constructively molded into calls to action.

FARMERS AND VETERANS MEET IN MANHATTAN

“The War and Rural America.” is a public forum and meeting being held at The Warwick Hotel, 65 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 Saturday, September 8, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. It is being hosted by: Farms Not Arms and Family Farm Defenders.

Kucinich to headline Rally for Peace Saturday

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Democratic presidential nominee U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio is scheduled to be the featured speaker Saturday at the Rally for Peace, which will be presented by the Palm Beach Democrats and the Palm Beach County Peace and Justice Coalition.

A nonpartisan peace walk will start at 2 p.m. behind the Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., and the rally will begin at 2:30 p.m. inside the Kravis' Cohen Pavilion.

Elna Laun, president of the Palm Beach Democrats, said she has received calls from people around the state who plan to attend.

The event aims to demand action from Washington, D.C., to bring an end to the war in Iraq, Laun said. "This is tied to a national peace movement going on in the month of September," she said.

The SoFlo Raging Grannies are joining with the Palm Beach County Peace & Justice Coalition and the Palm Beach Democrats in a Peace Walk & Rally in West Palm Beach to demand action from Washington to end the war in Iraq. The short Peace Walk begins at 2:00 PM at the Kravis Center (701 Okeechobee Blvd.); the Rally to End the War will begin at 2:30PM in the Kravis Center Cohen Pavilion. Principal Guest Speaker will be presidential candidate Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH). Join us! Let your voice be heard! Directions on: http://www.sofloraginggrannies.org/directions

Live Music, Performances and DJ

Saturday Benefit Featuring:
Statements by Family Members of The Jena Six
Da Truth Brass Band
Sunni Patterson
Truth Universal
Spoken Word from the Renaissance Society Poets
DJ
Food and Drinks
And more...

Sliding Scale, $5 - $15, no one turned away

Building to the Days of Decision: Between Now and September 14th:

- Lobby your members of Congress to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Ask them to pledge not to vote for more war funding and to support a real plan for peace: The Declaration of Peace campaign's nine point Comprehensive Peace Plan for Iraq.

1. Phone them during National Call-In Days.
2. Join or organize a delegation visit or town hall meeting with your Senators and Representative during the August recess.
3. Videotape your interaction with your Congressperson and their staff, and post it on the DoP website.

- Start organizing mid-September nonviolent action in your city.

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.

"War Made Easy" reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations. "War Made Easy" gives special attention to parallels between the Vietnam war and the war in Iraq.

On 5/10/07, Rep. John Spratt betrayed the voters and troops of South Carolina's 6th Congressional District by voting to continue George Bush's disastrous Iraq War forever.

Democrats.com is looking for an "aggressive progressive" Democrat who will challenge Spratt in a Democratic primary in 2008.

Read our Candidate Guide.

If you are interested in running against Spratt, or know a good candidate who could run against Spratt, post a comment below.

September 9, 2007 - 8pm - The Need to Know Benefit Performance - All Proceeds go to VetStage

Read more here: www.vetstage.org

On 5/10/07, Rep. Dennis Moore betrayed the voters and troops of Kansas 3rd Congressional District by voting to continue George Bush's disastrous Iraq War forever.

Democrats.com is looking for an "aggressive progressive" Democrat who will challenge Moore in a Democratic primary in 2008.

Read our Candidate Guide.

If you are interested in running against Moore, or know a good candidate who could run against Moore, post a comment below.

On 5/10/07, Rep. Jason Altmire betrayed the voters and troops of Pennsylvania's 4th Congressional District by voting to continue George Bush's disastrous Iraq War forever.

Democrats.com is looking for an "aggressive progressive" Democrat who will challenge Altmire in a Democratic primary in 2008.

Read our Candidate Guide.

If you are interested in running against Altmire, or know a good candidate who could run against Altmire, post a comment below.

Building to the Days of Decision: Between Now and September 14th:

- Lobby your members of Congress to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Ask them to pledge not to vote for more war funding and to support a real plan for peace: The Declaration of Peace campaign's nine point Comprehensive Peace Plan for Iraq.

1. Phone them during National Call-In Days.
2. Join or organize a delegation visit or town hall meeting with your Senators and Representative during the August recess.
3. Videotape your interaction with your Congressperson and their staff, and post it on the DoP website.

- Start organizing mid-September nonviolent action in your city.

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.

Background:

Wayne County Circuit Judge Deborah Thomas is under attack for challenging the violation of constitutional rights in Wayne County Circuit Court. In 2004 Judge Thomas challenged the lack of representation of African Americans on juries when a jury panel appearing in front of her contained only one African American out of 30 individuals.

In response, Chief Judge Mary Beth Kelly ordered that all challenges to jury composition be removed from Judge Thomas and heard by herself. Recently, because of Judge Thomas’ insistence that the constitutional rights of all people, including the poor, be assured in her courtroom, Judge Thomas has come under further attack and is facing charges in front of the (all white) Judicial Tenure Commission.

Join us in a rally to counter General Petraeus’ Congressional testimony

Rally right before General Petraeus and U.S. ambassador Ryan C. Crocker testify before the House Armed Services Committee and House Foreign Affairs Committee in the Cannon Caucus Room 345 at 12:30pm

The Venezuelan Labor Movement and U.S. Workers: What can we learn from each other? A Meeting with:

Marcos García, Leader of the Metro Workers Union of Caracas, Venezuela & Labor Attaché for the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, DC

What's Really Happening in Venezuela? Come Learn About:

• Constitutional Reforms
• Workers' Rights: Health Care, Education, Housing, Social Services, Pensions
• The 6 Hour Work Week
• Raising the Minimum Wage
• The Rise of the Venezuelan National Union of Workers (UNT) Factory closures & off-shoring
• Nationalizations of major corporations

Sponsored by Latinos Unidos de Michigan & US-Cuba Labor Exchange

For more information please contact Ignacio Meneses 313 587 9285

World Can't Wait - Chicago meets at ACME Art Works Mondays at 7 pm. Drop by!

Building to the Days of Decision: Between Now and September 14th:

- Lobby your members of Congress to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Ask them to pledge not to vote for more war funding and to support a real plan for peace: The Declaration of Peace campaign's nine point Comprehensive Peace Plan for Iraq.

1. Phone them during National Call-In Days.
2. Join or organize a delegation visit or town hall meeting with your Senators and Representative during the August recess.
3. Videotape your interaction with your Congressperson and their staff, and post it on the DoP website.

- Start organizing mid-September nonviolent action in your city.

An object (or an idea) is viral when it has the ability to spread copies of itself or change other similar objects to become more like (it) when those objects are simply exposed to the viral object.

A general strike is proposed for the United States on September 11, 2007, the sixth anniversary of the 9/11/2001 attacks on New York City, Arlington, VA, and Shanksville, PA. The general strike movement has no clearly named leadership. It's described as an Internet viral effort.

Wikipedia defines viral efforts on the Internet as:

An object (or an idea) is viral when it has the ability to spread copies of itself or change other similar objects to become more like (it) when those objects are simply exposed to the viral object. General strikes, more common in Europe, are events that shut down the normal operations of a city, state, or nation for a period of time.

The March of the People arrives in the People's Capitol. Follow their route and progress at: http://marchofthepeople.org/index.php.

In anticipation of its final steps into Washington DC, and thus the formal closing to the March of the People action, march organizers have announced a formal route into the Nation's Capital. This route is called "The Final 9."

It will begin at the intersection of Baltimore Ave. and Regents Dr, adjacent to Chapel Fields, on the University of Maryland College Park campus. Walkers are asked to congregate at 7:00 AM on Sept. 11. Step-off is at 7:30 AM.

The march will follow an 8.75-mile course along Baltimore Ave./Rhode Island Ave. The march will turn left at Scott Circle, onto 16th St. NW, and follow 16th St. to Lafayette Park, where it will end in a formal rally.

Cross-country walkers Mario Penalver and Elliott Nesch will be guest speakers.

March of the People is encouraging all citizens who would like to participate in "The Final 9" to congregate at Chapel Fields, at the University of Maryland in College Park, at 7:00 AM, on Sept. 11, 2007.

FREEDOM FROM FEAR CAMPAIGN - SEATTLE ACTION 9-11-07

The Freedom From Fear Campaign is a response by concerned citizens of Puget Sound to what they believe is a grave Constitutional crisis:

• The Defense Authorization Act of 2006 empowers the President to impose martial law in the event of any incident deemed by the President to be an act of terrorism.
• The National Defense Authorization Act of 2007 permits the President to command National Guard troops without the consent of state governors.
• The National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive gives the President dictatorial powers in the event of a "catastrophic incident."
• The Military Commissions Act suspends the writ of habeus corpus.
• Those who dissent against the invasion and occupation of Iraq may now have their assets seized.
• Presidential signing statements have nullified laws passed by Congress over 1,000 times.

Spend an evening celebrating our freedom of expression thru music, dance and spoken word (open mic time, too.)

Learn about the case for impeachment, find out about the campaign for a US Department of Peace, and discover great ways to work for change right here in Minneapolis...

Speakers Include: Coleen Rowley, former FBI agent and Time person of the year 2003, Marv Davidoff founder of the Honeywell Project, Chante Wolf of Veterans for Peace, Rome Hanson of Parents of Murdered Children and more...

Get INFORMED. Get INSPIRED. Get ACTIVE.

For further information contact jennifer @ (612) 414-7859, or jumolac@yahoo.com

Tuesday, Sept 11 at 7:15pm at Naro Cinema in Norfolk, Va.

NO END IN SIGHT The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq's descent into guerilla warfare, warlord rule, criminality, and anarchy, writer/director Charles Ferguson's jaw-dropping documentary is an insider's tale of wholesale incompetence, recklessness, and venality. Ferguson examines how the principal errors of U.S. policy largely created the insurgency and chaos that engulf Iraq today. And it asks the question: How did a group of men with little or no military experience, knowledge of the Arab world, or personal experience in Iraq come to make such flagrantly debilitating decisions? (102 mins)

Building to the Days of Decision: Between Now and September 14th:

- Lobby your members of Congress to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Ask them to pledge not to vote for more war funding and to support a real plan for peace: The Declaration of Peace campaign's nine point Comprehensive Peace Plan for Iraq.

1. Phone them during National Call-In Days.
2. Join or organize a delegation visit or town hall meeting with your Senators and Representative during the August recess.
3. Videotape your interaction with your Congressperson and their staff, and post it on the DoP website.

- Start organizing mid-September nonviolent action in your city.

Ending the war in Iraq has been DFA's priority from day one, and we will not stop until every soldier is home. Now we're at another critical juncture. On September 11, General Petraeus is expected to report to Congress on the success of the "surge" in Iraq. He's supposed to outline our progress and our setbacks over the past few months.

But, we already know that's not going to happen. The General's report is going to "actually be written by the White House, with inputs from officials throughout the government."¹ President Bush will try to mislead the public again with a whitewashed progress report from Iraq.

We won't let him get away with it.

America needs the truth about what's happening in Iraq. The media must be stopped from blindly "reporting" more positive spin from the Administration.

Today's the day! It's National, nationwide, Act on Iraq day, a campaign for a national call-in day to Congress to end the Iraq War.

What do you believe?

(1) Do you believe that the Iraq War has distracted us from the real war on terror, and has diminished American influence and standing in world affairs?

(2) Do you believe that the death of even one more American soldier in this unnecessary war is too many?

(3) Do you believe that the $177 million we spend each day on fighting a misguided, poorly planned war is a national travesty?

(4) Do you believe that the Iraq War has made us less safe by straining our military to the breaking point, pulling our focus from Afghanistan where Al Qaeda has rebuilt its forces, and fostering the recruitment of hundreds if not thousands of martyrs aligned against the U.S.?

(5) Do you believe that Congress has denied the overwhelming will of the American people to end the war?

We're attending the Saint Paul City Council Meeting. www.ImpeachForPeace.org asks you to show up and wear impeachment shirts, buttons, etc. Signs are also allowed. Some people might wish to demonstrate outside the building, while others will likely want to attend the meeting itself wearing impeachment t-shirts or holding signs.

For details, contact Jodin Morey of Impeach for Peace:
612-328-1451 or use our contact page:
http://impeachforpeace.org/comments.htm

TIDEWATER PEACE ALLIANCE

Building to the Days of Decision: Between Now and September 14th:

- Lobby your members of Congress to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Ask them to pledge not to vote for more war funding and to support a real plan for peace: The Declaration of Peace campaign's nine point Comprehensive Peace Plan for Iraq.

1. Phone them during National Call-In Days.
2. Join or organize a delegation visit or town hall meeting with your Senators and Representative during the August recess.
3. Videotape your interaction with your Congressperson and their staff, and post it on the DoP website.

- Start organizing mid-September nonviolent action in your city.

MISSION STATEMENT

We, having dutifully served our nation, do hereby affirm our greater responsibility to serve the cause of world peace. To this end we will work, with others to:

1. Increase public awareness of the full costs of war.

2. Restrain our government from intervening, overtly or covertly, in the internal affairs of other nations.

3. End the arms race and to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons.

4. Seek justice for veterans and victims of war.

5. Abolish war as an instrument of national policy.

To achieve these goals, members of Veterans for Peace pledge to use non-violent means and to maintain an organization that is both democratic and open with the understanding that all members are trusted to act in the best interests of the group for the larger purpose of world peace.

We urge all people who share this vision to join us.

Sponsored by: International Action Center

Going Pro Se: How Nonviolent Protesters are Defending Themselves in Court

1. We will be discussing the basics of going pro se (defending yourself with an attorney/advisor)
2. And using the Hart 7 as an example.
3. Briefly exploring possible charges on 15th and 20th of Sept.

Most of Hart 7 will be there, and other activists -- including Adam Kokesh. Mark will be unable to join us, but attorneys Jack Barringer (old time civil rights guy) and Michael Madden (NLG) will be joining us.

Pete Perry
571-271-1313
http://beltwaybeast.blogspot.com/

Building to the Days of Decision: Between Now and September 14th:

- Lobby your members of Congress to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Ask them to pledge not to vote for more war funding and to support a real plan for peace: The Declaration of Peace campaign's nine point Comprehensive Peace Plan for Iraq.

1. Phone them during National Call-In Days.
2. Join or organize a delegation visit or town hall meeting with your Senators and Representative during the August recess.
3. Videotape your interaction with your Congressperson and their staff, and post it on the DoP website.

- Start organizing mid-September nonviolent action in your city.

The Declaration of Peace - "Congressional Challenge Day"

Days of Decision:
"We The People Declare Peace!"

A Week of Nationwide Coordinated Actions
September 14 - 21, 2007

At Every Congressional Office Across the Country:

Nonviolent Actions to
End the Funding for the War on Iraq and
Establish A Comprehensive Peace Plan for Iraq

Days of Decision:
The U.S. War on Iraq Will Be At A Crossroads in September

- In September, General Petraeus will deliver his report on the war.

- In September, Congress will face a decision on funding another year of war. Republicans and Democrats will consider the future of U.S. operations in Iraq.

- We, the people, must set the agenda for a change in U.S. policy in Iraq.

- Therefore, The Declaration of Peace is calling upon people across the United States to take nonviolent action in September to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Join us!

A weekly peace vigil has been held in front of the Mendocino County Court House every Friday night from 5 to 6 pm for the last 5 years. All are welcome to come and join our demonstration. Dignity and respect for others is the only requirement. Bring your own peace signs or borrow ours.

Doors open at 7:00 PM, 8:30 Show Time!

$10 cover includes $2 coupon off CD purchase, $6 cover with military ID

Teach-In: Confronting the Triple Crisis
The International Forum on Globalization, the Institute for Policy Studies, The Nation Institute

DIMENSIONS OF THE GLOBAL TRIPLE CRISIS:

• Vandana Shiva (India) director, Navdanya; author, Monocultures of the Mind and Earth Democracy
• David Korten, Positive Futures Network; author, When Corporations Rule the World, and The Great Turning
• Jerry Mander, co-director, IFG; co-editor, The Case Against the Global Economy and Alternatives to Globalization
• Michael Klare, author, Resource Wars and Blood and Oil
• Ann Leonard,Funders Working Group for Sustainable Consumption and Production
• Simon Retallack (UK), head of Climate Change Team, Institute for Public Policy Research
• Sheila Watt-Cloutier, (Inuk), Inuit Circumpolar Conference
• Maude Barlow (Canada), chair, Council of Canadians; co-author, Blue Gold and author, Too Close for Comfort
  

The Declaration of Peace - "Congressional Challenge Day"

Days of Decision:
"We The People Declare Peace!"

A Week of Nationwide Coordinated Actions
September 14 - 21, 2007

At Every Congressional Office Across the Country:

Nonviolent Actions to
End the Funding for the War on Iraq and
Establish A Comprehensive Peace Plan for Iraq

Days of Decision:
The U.S. War on Iraq Will Be At A Crossroads in September

- In September, General Petraeus will deliver his report on the war.

- In September, Congress will face a decision on funding another year of war. Republicans and Democrats will consider the future of U.S. operations in Iraq.

- We, the people, must set the agenda for a change in U.S. policy in Iraq.

- Therefore, The Declaration of Peace is calling upon people across the United States to take nonviolent action in September to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Join us!

Impeachment now is imperative. If, We the People fail to force accountability for these crimes this fall, President Bush will have a free ride with impunity through the Presidential election year of 2008, when the Constitutional duty to impeach will succumb to political pressure, to the end of his second term in January 2009.

The impeachment of Bush, Cheney and the other civil officers of the United States is not merely the best way to bring our troops home from Iraq and prevent new aggressions, it is the sure way and the only way. President Bush, who assaults nations in the name of democracy has proclaimed himself the one man “decider” for the fate of our country and its victims. For him, democracy is an election controlled by wealth every four years and dictatorship in between.

If we fail, the world will see that the American people are powerless to effectively oppose Bush policies that have angered and embittered billions of people, making enemies of most nations, or worse, that the American people support Bush policies. How else could such lawless and destructive policies be tolerated?

Join Iraq Veterans Against the War, Veterans for Peace, the ANSWER Coalition, Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation, and thousands of others in Washington DC on September 15 for a huge antiwar protest timed to coincide with the report by General Petraeus on the "Surge" in Iraq.

The Charlotte County Democrats http://charlottedemocrats.com/cms1/ will be staging an IMPEACH BUSH demonstration in Port Charlotte, corner of Murdock and 41 on September 15th. 10AM - 12PM. Bring a chair if you need one. Bring water. Bring a sign.

Teach-In: Confronting the Triple Crisis
The International Forum on Globalization, the Institute for Policy Studies, The Nation Institute

10am-11:30am
FALSE SOLUTIONS (1)
BIOFUELS:

• David Pimentel, prof. of ecology and ag sciences, Cornell U.; author, Biological Invasions
• Tad Patzek, professor of geoengineering, University of California, Berkeley
• Victoria Tauli-Corpuz (Igorot, the Philippines), chairperson, United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
• Lúcia Ortiz (Brazil), Friends of the Earth
• Debi Barker, co-director, IFG; author, The Rise and Predictable Fall of Globalized Industrial Agriculture.

11:30am-1pm
FALSE SOLUTIONS (2)
“CLEAN COAL”; TAR SANDS; CAP AND TRADE:

• Mary Anne Hitt, director, Appalachian Voices
• Jeff Goodell, author, Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future
  

The Mobile Chapter of The Veterans for Peace, along with Citizens for Peace, and the Peace Is Possible Coalition will be hosting an IMPEACH BUSH AND CHENEY rally here in Mobile on September 15th. Our event is corresponding to the march on Washington on that same date.

We will have as our guest of honor, THE BILLY SUNDAY BAND, featuring their latest anti-war song. We plan to line the streets on both sides of the park, holding IMPEACH BUSH AND CHENEY signs, and also, anti-war signs. Our event is corresponding with national events being held on that same day, especially the big march on Washington.

We plan to line the streets on both sides of the park, facing all the passing traffic on Government Street and Airport Blvd, holding our anti-bush and anti-war signs. Be creative and make a colorful sign, or use one of ours, but please join us in what looks to be a major turning point for the war and bush.

Contact person:

"Moving America from the Mall to Ending the Iraq War"

Locations:

Gathering Rally: Blue Jacket Park, W. 103 and Bond Street, Overland Park, KS (2 blocks east of Quivira) 12 noon to 12:30

March & Rally: 12:30pm to 1:30pm to Sen. Brownback’s office around Oak Park Mall (approx. 1 ½ miles)

Organized by:
Iraq Veterans Against the War, Kansas City chapter with Iraq Task Force, and KS Mutual Aide

Co-sponsored by:
9/11truth.org, AfterDowningStreet.org, American Friends Service Committee, Center for Global Community, Chiapas Justice Project, The Camp Casey Peace Institute, Democracy for the Heart of America, Greens of KC, Irish Republican Socialist Movement, Unity Temple Peacemakers, KS Young Democrats, KC Labor Against the War, Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice, Lawrencesolidarity, PeaceWorks, Missouri Progressive Voter Coalition, People’s Coalition, Shalom Catholic Worker House of KC, Vietnam Veterans Coalition, and World Can't Wait KC chapter.

Hear Ye all Concerned:

Sat - Sept 15 is National Impeach Day. People will be arriving from all over to major cities to protest against this administration.

If you are angry at what's happening in this country - whether it's Bush, Cheney, Rove, Gonzales et al, Iraq war, economy, health care, insurance, environment, Supreme Court ....,

then COME OUT & JOIN US!

Bring signs / Make some yourself / Use ours.

Let's make a difference. Let's show how democracy is supposed to work.

Vince Agamenone - phone: 775-246-5904

email: VINCENTJ49@earthlink.net

Help Spell IMPEACH on the Beach this Saturday

SAT, SEPT 15 -- 1 PM -- CRISSY FIELD, SF

DETAILS, SIGNUP: http://www.beachimpeach.org

Buy a seat in a helicopter to view the scene:

EBAY AUCTION

After Beach Impeach, you may want to go to the anti-war, pro-impeachment "Peace Party" at People's Park in Berkeley, with bands, food, speakers (including Barbara Lee and Daniel Ellsberg), 1-5 p.m. Details at http://www.peoplespark.org

TRANSPORTATION, PARKING, BIKES, DIRECTIONS

-- NOT DOWNTOWN! Our event is on Mason Street in the PRESIDIO -- DO NOT go to Mason Street in DOWNTOWN San Francisco! Enter “Presidio of San Francisco” in your google (or other mapping) search field, and you’ll see a map of the Presidio. Enter the intersection of “Mason and Roberts” – that’s pretty close to a direct hit. The event takes place just to the west, at Crissy Field – you can’t miss it.

Join us for a full day of fun for the entire family. Come to enjoy live music and dance performances, interactive workshops, children's activities, food, vendors of exotic merchandise, chair massages, readings, Reiki, henna and.....people of like minds who want peace on earth, personal freedom and goodwill towards all.

What to Bring: Folding chair or blanket, drums, tamborines, zils or other percussion instruments for the drum circle, dancing feet and a smile.

Contact: savanegas@yahoo.com

Telephone: 757-754-0892

Website for more information.

Join us for the September 15th AUSTIN IMPEACH AND PEACE MEGA-MARCH AND RALLY!

The only way to end this war and stop the next one in Iran is to GET RID OF both Bush and Cheney!

South Florida Impeachment Coalition
Coming Together to Save Our Nation

Featuring David Swanson, Co-Founder of AfterDowningStreet.org
With

• Information
• Videos
• Music
• Actions
• Regional Planning

More Information and find out what you can do: 305-595-5630
http://floridaimpeach.org

Flyer attached.

Thousands of protesters will gather in the nation's capital from September 15th until the 21st for a massive anti-war/anti-occupation mobilization. The Petraeus Report is scheduled to be released at this time and Congress will be taking up the bill authorizing billions more to prolong this tragic war. This week of action will be launched with a huge march from the White House to the Congress on the 15th. For those of you whose hearts and souls will be in D.C. but bodies are stuck in the other Washington, please join together with others who share your outrage at this administration, the lack of accountability, and the inability of Congress to put the brakes on their violations of the Constitution and total disregard for human rights and the rule of law. Bring signs, attitude, friends, family, and a peaceful countenance. It's time to answer their surge with a surge of our own. We'll have impeachment packets available for distribution.

The Declaration of Peace - "Congressional Challenge Day"

Days of Decision:
"We The People Declare Peace!"

A Week of Nationwide Coordinated Actions
September 14 - 21, 2007

At Every Congressional Office Across the Country:

Nonviolent Actions to
End the Funding for the War on Iraq and
Establish A Comprehensive Peace Plan for Iraq

Days of Decision:
The U.S. War on Iraq Will Be At A Crossroads in September

- In September, General Petraeus will deliver his report on the war.

- In September, Congress will face a decision on funding another year of war. Republicans and Democrats will consider the future of U.S. operations in Iraq.

- We, the people, must set the agenda for a change in U.S. policy in Iraq.

- Therefore, The Declaration of Peace is calling upon people across the United States to take nonviolent action in September to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Join us!

Organizing meetings, Issue briefings, Legislative update, State caucuses
To make the most of this opportunity, when peace activists from around the country will be together in Washington, Grassroots America, Iraq Vets Against the War, A.N.S.W.E.R., Veterans for Peace and many other organizations have planned a full day of opportunities for networking, organizing meetings and advocacy training. The agenda is still being set but plan to join us!

Directions from Metro Stop:

There is only one exit from that station when you come up the escalator, you will be facing I Street, which dead-ends at the Metro. So two short
blocks straight ahead, turn right and it will be on their left at the end of the block.

Teach-In: Confronting the Triple Crisis
The International Forum on Globalization, the Institute for Policy Studies, The Nation Institute

10 am-1 pm WORKSHOPS
Key Ingredients of Systemic Change

• Separating False Solutions from Real
• The False Promise of Biofuels
• What Future for Industrial Society?
• Urgent Changes for U.S. Policy
• Powering Down for Sustainability
• How Should We Live Now?
• Seeking an Ecological Economy
• Views from Abroad
• Building Local Living Economies
• “Green Consumption?” Or, Less Consumption?
• The Future of Wilderness
• A Global Grand Bargain for Sustainability
• “Clean Coal” & “Clean Nuclear—Do They Exist?
• The Case Against Carbon Trading
• Climate vs. WTO/World Bank
• What Future for Globalization
• AND OTHERS

1-4 pm
IMPACTING U.S. POLICY

• Betsy Taylor, Center for a New American Dream
• Randy Hayes, pres., Rainforest Action Network
  

PRESS ADVISORY
from the California Clean Money Campaign

WHAT: Opening of the Northern California Headquarters of the California Clean Money Campaign

WHEN: Sunday, September 16, 2007
1:00pm to 2:00pm - Reception
2:00pm to 3:00pm - Program

WHO:

• Representative Barbara Lee
• State Senator Carole Migden (D-San Francisco)
• Assemblymember Loni Hancock (D - Berkeley)
• Assemblymember Mark Leno (D - San Francisco)
• Mayor Gavin Newsom, San Francisco
• Susan Lerner, Executive Director, California Clean Money Campaign

Press Contact:
Moira Brennan - 415.440.0011
Cell: 310.487.4700

Peace group asks: Is there a case for impeachment?

The East Bay Citizens for Peace will present "Impeachment: Is there a case for it?" at 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16, in the St. Michael's Church parish hall, 399 Hope St., Bristol (corner of Hope and Church streets).

The evening features "Impeachment of a President," a "Bill Moyers Journal" PBS program with experts Bruce Fein, conservative lawyer and constitutional scholar, who wrote the first article of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, and John Nichols, contributor to The Nation, author of "The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for Royalism."

Following the film, there will be a question and answer period and discussion with Jared A. Goldstein, associate professor and teacher of constitutional law at Roger Williams University.

The Declaration of Peace - "Congressional Challenge Day"

Days of Decision:
"We The People Declare Peace!"

A Week of Nationwide Coordinated Actions
September 14 - 21, 2007

At Every Congressional Office Across the Country:

Nonviolent Actions to
End the Funding for the War on Iraq and
Establish A Comprehensive Peace Plan for Iraq

Days of Decision:
The U.S. War on Iraq Will Be At A Crossroads in September

- In September, General Petraeus will deliver his report on the war.

- In September, Congress will face a decision on funding another year of war. Republicans and Democrats will consider the future of U.S. operations in Iraq.

- We, the people, must set the agenda for a change in U.S. policy in Iraq.

- Therefore, The Declaration of Peace is calling upon people across the United States to take nonviolent action in September to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Join us!

Lead group for this event is IVAW. Check back for more details coming soon!

Featuring
ARIZONA'S
DENNIS BURKE
Former Director
Arizona Common Cause

About Dennis Burke: As an activist and former director of Arizona Common Cause, Dennis Burke helped lead the 1998 effort to pass the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Act by ballot proposition. The Act provides voluntary public financing to candidates for state-level elected office who agree
to run without private campaign contributions. The system is funded by surcharges on civil and criminal fines and a voluntary tax check-off. Arizona’s Clean Elections system is credited with increasing the number of women and people of color running for state office, boosting voter turnout in communities of color, and reducing the influence of special interest campaign money.

*Panelists include:

HON. LIZ KRUEGER
New York State Senate

JESSICA WISNESKI
Clean Money, Clean Elections Coordinator,
Citizen Action of New York

*Panel still in formation

Moderated by
ANDREA BATISTA SCHLESINGER

Please join us in Huntington Beach Mon. 9-17-07 for rally @ 5 PM in front of City Hall - 2000 Main St. and for Public Comments @ 6 PM.

All concerned citizens are asked to speak one pre-written fact during Public Comments viewed on the local Channel 3. We are asking for at least 30 people to stand up and speak 1-2 sentences during the Public Comments period.

If you've been feeling angry about the condition of our government, here is your opportunity to speak out and do something about it.

For more information:

www.ocimpeacmentsite.org

Join our listserv:

huntingtonbeachimpeach@yahoogroups.com

find out how you can bring this issue to your own city. Now, read the litany of reasons for impeaching Bush & Cheney to get inspired:

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT IMPEACHMENT

Last month, Impeach for Peace succeeded at Rep. Betty McCollum's (D-MN) Congressional District's Executive Committee Meeting. They agreed to have the Central Committee Hearing for the District vote on whether to call on Rep. McCollum to sign the impeachment resolution currently in Congress.

Please join us at the meeting to encourage its members to vote for accountability.

We are on the schedule to introduce a resolution calling on the U.S. House to pass an impeachment resolution and to call on Betty McCollum to sign on to impeachment resolution H.Res 333.

Show up with signs/T-shirts which are pro-impeachment!

Also, Send her a Do-It-Yourself Impeachment.

World Can't Wait - Chicago meets at ACME Art Works Mondays at 7 pm. Drop by!

The Declaration of Peace - "Congressional Challenge Day"

Days of Decision:
"We The People Declare Peace!"

A Week of Nationwide Coordinated Actions
September 14 - 21, 2007

At Every Congressional Office Across the Country:

Nonviolent Actions to
End the Funding for the War on Iraq and
Establish A Comprehensive Peace Plan for Iraq

Days of Decision:
The U.S. War on Iraq Will Be At A Crossroads in September

- In September, General Petraeus will deliver his report on the war.

- In September, Congress will face a decision on funding another year of war. Republicans and Democrats will consider the future of U.S. operations in Iraq.

- We, the people, must set the agenda for a change in U.S. policy in Iraq.

- Therefore, The Declaration of Peace is calling upon people across the United States to take nonviolent action in September to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Join us!

Bring the Challenge for Peace to Washington!

Congressional Challenge Day
September 18, 2007
Washington, DC

What we're asking Representatives and Senators to do about ending the war

What we are asking Representatives and Senators to do about Impeachment

September 18
Congressional Challenge Visits -- various times throughout the day
If this is your first time making a visit to your member of Congress, don't be nervous! We will make sure you have all the information you need, and there will probably be others from your congressional district to do the visit with you. We do recommend that you dress conservatively (within reason of course!)

This is an opportunity to pressure your Rep. and Senators, and also to

Help convince Rep. Jim Costa (D-CA-20) to vote NO on war funding.

Led by Women's International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF).

Tuesday, September 25: Take to the streets when war criminal Bush comes to the UN!

The eyes of the world will be on New York when this monstrous commander-in-chief of a government responsible for horrendous death and suffering from New Orleans to Iraq, comes to speak at the UN.

• Will they see people leaving school or work in powerful and determined actions and protests declaring that Bush & Cheney don’t speak in our name?
• Will they see actions that denounce the torture, the tearing up of basic civil rights, and the march towards a theocratic police state?
• Will the whole area be marked by the color of orange, declaring to the world that this whole murderous program must be brought to a halt and the Bush regime driven out?

Bush is expected to present justifications to the UN for a new towering crime –the expanding of the war to Iran, including threats of use of nuclear weapons.

On Tuesday, September 25th, 2007, George W. Bush will be speaking at the UN at 9:30 AM.

We are organizing an action series that you may want to participate in and we encourage you and your friends/comrades to join us.

We are organizing coffin walks from around the city that will converge on the UN at approximately 9:30 AM. These walks are technically legal in that they require no permit. We will walk on the sidewalk, obey traffic signals, and carry coffins, wear T-shirts or carry signs that say "Arrest Bush". Each group only needs six people in it to have an impact.

A "citizen's arrest" of George Bush will happen at the UN. Although the exact details will be worked out by those involved, the idea is to bring a warrant for his arrest for Murder, Kidnapping, Torture, Destruction of Property, Illegal Wiretapping etc. to the UN and try to detain him so that we can put him on trial for these crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo, and at home.

The purpose of the series is to educate the members of the Loyola community on the meaning of impeachment and why, if we are to uphold the principles of our Jesuit university and of the United States Constitution, it is our responsibility to demand constitutional government leadership.

Bill Wylie-Kellermann, Methodist pastor and peace activist, will be speaking on the illegal tactics of surveillence including wire tapping that this administration has used. He will begin by looking at this issue through a biblical lens.

This event has been marked as open to the public.

LOCATION: Simpson MPR
CONTACT: Lydia Wylie-Kellermann at lwylie1@luc.edu
ADMISSION: free
OPEN TO: all
SPONSOR: Loyola Anti-War Network

The Declaration of Peace - "Congressional Challenge Day"

Days of Decision:
"We The People Declare Peace!"

A Week of Nationwide Coordinated Actions
September 14 - 21, 2007

At Every Congressional Office Across the Country:

Nonviolent Actions to
End the Funding for the War on Iraq and
Establish A Comprehensive Peace Plan for Iraq

Days of Decision:
The U.S. War on Iraq Will Be At A Crossroads in September

- In September, General Petraeus will deliver his report on the war.

- In September, Congress will face a decision on funding another year of war. Republicans and Democrats will consider the future of U.S. operations in Iraq.

- We, the people, must set the agenda for a change in U.S. policy in Iraq.

- Therefore, The Declaration of Peace is calling upon people across the United States to take nonviolent action in September to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Join us!

I invite all my brothers and sisters in the movement to come to D.C. for the International Day(s) of Peace, Sept. 20 & 21. One of those two days, the National Campaign of Nonviolent Resistance will be organizing a massive nonviolent direct action on Capitol Hill.

Why should I come to D.C. instead of trying to do something in my own area?

First of all, the powerholders will be in town on Sept. 20/21, and therefore we should be as well. We should be peacefully occupying Capitol Hill and surrounding the symbol of our supposed democracy -- the Capitol Building. Every day we do not act in concert, to make the strongest statement possible is another day of death and destruction in Iraq. Why should we not just then press for the biggest action possible in order to directly confront those continuing to fund war and military occupation?

There will be a legal and logistical briefing on September 19 at 6:30 PM in a venue close to Capitol Hill. Once the site is confirmed, this information will be shared.

The National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance (NCNR) and the Declaration of Peace will gather in Washington, D.C. on Capitol Hill on September 20, 2007 to demand an end to the war and occupation of Iraq.

The National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance (NCNR) is establishing a working group to take on the responsibility of organizing and fully promoting the Sept 20th event: Rivers of Blood - A Day of Non-Violent Resistance on Capitol Hill.

Join us as we remember all the victims of the immoral and illegal Iraq War. Let us Speak Truth to Power and remind the decision makers of the folly and human cost of continuing to fund the war.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), co-chaired by U.S. Representatives Lynn Woolsey and Barbara Lee and the Out of Iraq Caucus, chaired by U.S. Representative Maxine Waters will co-host a Capitol Hill Open Discussion to review the Bush administration’s policy in Iraq, assess current status of insurgency and future prospects, and need to proceed in a new policy direction to achieve redeployment of U.S. troops before President Bush leaves office.

Speaker confirmed: Dr. William Polk, distinguished senior statesman, Middle East expert and author of multiple books including the just published Violent Politics - A History of Insurgency, Terrorism, & Guerilla War from the American Revolution to Iraq.

Speaker invited: U.S. Army General Wesley Clark (retired) on his new book

You are cordially invited to join

The Pluralism Fund

For two panel discussions on the current state of affairs in Iran

Wednesday, September 19th
10:30am - 2:00pm

U.S. Capitol Building
Room HC-6

Panel Agenda includes:

10:30 am - 12:00 pm
A Snapshot of Iran Today, Three Views

• Fariba Davoodi-Mohajer, Iranian activist and journalist;
• Hadi Ghaemi, currently on leave from Human Rights Watch;
• Frances Harrison, BBC Tehran correspondent from August 2004 to August
  2007;

• Moderator: Suzanne Maloney, Saban Center for Middle East Policy,
  Brookings Institution

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Lunch

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Sanctions: Pros, Cons and Facts

• Jake Colvin, Director, USA*Engage
• Patrick Clawson, Depute Director for Research, Washington Institute
  for Near East Policy

• Jeffrey J. Schott, Senior Fellow, The Peterson Institute
• Moderator: Dr. Robert Litwak
  

Help convince Rep. Jim Costa (D-CA-20) to vote NO on war funding.

Led by Peace Fresno.

We're attending the Saint Paul City Council Meeting. www.ImpeachForPeace.org asks you to show up and wear impeachment shirts, buttons, etc. Signs are also allowed. Some people might wish to demonstrate outside the building, while others will likely want to attend the meeting itself wearing impeachment t-shirts or holding signs.

For details, contact Jodin Morey of Impeach for Peace:
612-328-1451 or use our contact page:
http://impeachforpeace.org/comments.htm

The Board of the Washington Peace Center invites you to a "Legal Logistical Briefing for Speak Truth to Power," a national event as part of Days of Decision.

The Washington Peace Center organized this event as an investment in groups dedicated to nonviolent social change to continue working closely and cooperatively together in the future.

The Washington Peace Center is a 44-year-old progressive peace and justice 501(c)3 and has many times served as a hub for different activist organizations.

For more information:

Pete Perry
571-271-1313

Join the nationwide protest against a racist outrage.

Six young African American students (ages 16-18) have been framed up in Jena, Louisiana and are facing up to life in prison for a schoolyard fight with a white student.

It all began when African American students dared to sit under the “white tree” outside the school. Three nooses were then found hanging from the tree. Three white students were expelled by the principal, but the superintendent of schools reduced it to a 3-day suspension, calling it a “prank.”

Afterwards, all of the African American students stood under the tree.

The District Attorney came to the school and told the African American students to stop the protests or “I can end your lives with one stroke of my pen.”

For Colleagues of Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence AND other friends interested in Iraq, Iran, intelligence, and truth:

It has been exactly three years since (with the help of Prof. Peter Kuznick of American University, Dan Ellsberg, and supportive friends) we held that wonderful gathering of truth-tellers (and hundreds of their closest friends, as well as students) in that cavernous auditorium at American University. It's a morale boost just to recall all those folks sitting/standing in the aisles—Dan Ellsberg, Coleen Rowley (then still with the FBI), Katharine Gunn (from UK intelligence), Col. Frank Grevil (from Danish intelligence), Ann Wright and John H. Brown (two of the three Foreign Service Officers who quit because of the invasion of Iraq), David MacMichael et. al.

It was a memorable evening. But there was a hidden blessing.