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05/21/08 Bring the Guard Home Endorsement Letter |
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Please join a New National Campaign to stop further deployments of the National Guard to Iraq and to bring the Guard home! Please read our endorsement letter. |
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06/01/08 Has Your Town Declared Peace Yet? |
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Please read Karen Dolan's and Ben Manski's article on civic participation, highlightening individual citizens' impact on creating new ideas of foreign policy. The article was published in YES! Magazine's latest edition. Please click here to read the piece. |
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06/04/08 Bar Harbor, ME passes anti-war Resolution |
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Congratulations to Bar Harbor, ME whose Town Hall passed a resolution last night, June 3, opposing a war with Iran unless expressly authorized by Congress. |
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06/10/08 Barbara Lee urges Americans to talk directly to Iranians |
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06/25/08 U.S. Mayors Mobilizing Against a War with Iran |
Thanks to as many as 32 mayors from all across the nation, a resolution saying "No" to invading Iran has been introduced. The initiation for the effort came from Burlington, Vermont Mayor Bob Kiss.
To read Karen Dolan's op-ed on the resolution, please click here.
Please urge YOUR mayor to weigh in on the resolution!
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06/09/08 Cambridge, MA passes No War on Iran Resolution |
We are happy to announce that Cambridge, MA has joined the growing list of cities throughout the nation with No War on Iran Resolutions. Congratulations to Cambridge and its City Council that passed the resolution last Monday, June 9.
Please click here to view the resolution's language. |
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06/16/08 Oberlin, OH passes No War on Iran Resolution |
Last night, June 16, the Oberlin, OH City Council unanimously passed a resolution opposing preemptive attack on Iran.
Congratulations to the city of Oberlin! |
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06/20/08 CBPP: Employment, Foreclosure, & Poverty Data Identify 29 States in Need of Fiscal Relief |
States across the country have projected budget shortfalls
totaling at least $48 billion for 2009. To meet their balanced budget
requirements, they are being forced to raise taxes and/or cut
expenditures - both of which reduce overall demand and thereby weaken
the impact of the recent federal stimulus package. Federal fiscal relief
would limit the need for such actions.
Please read the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities' full report on the issue by clicking here. |
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06/25/08 NATIONAL MAYORS RESOLUTION FOR DIPLOMACY WITH IRAN |
Thanks to almost 50 mayors from all across the nation, a resolution saying "No" to invading Iran has been introduced. The initiation for the effort came from Burlington, Vermont Mayor Bob Kiss.
To read Karen Dolan's op-ed on the resolution, please click here.
Please urge YOUR mayor to weigh in on the resolution!
Join this exciting, creative new effort, initiated by CODEPINK and Global Exchange!!
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06/30/08 Bellingham City Council to consider resolution Opposing US military intervention in Iran |
On June 23rd, Bellingham City Council Member Terry Bornemann brought forward for the council's consideration a resolution urging the Bush Administration to pursue diplomatic engagement with Iran. It also urges Congress to prohibit the use of funds to carry out any military action against Iran without explicit Congressional authorization.
Please click here to read the resolution. |
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07/14/08 Bellingham, WA passes No War on Iran Resolution |
Bellingham becomes first city in Washington to pass a resolution opposing US military intervention in Iran.
To view the resolution's language, please click here.
You can also read the Bellingham Herald's report on the vote by cklicking here. |
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07/23/08 As close to Impeachment as we've been so far! |
This Friday, July 25th, the House Judiciary Committee will convene a
hearing called "Executive Power and Its Constitutional Limitations."
While not defined explicitly as a hearing on the articles of impeachment
that Rep. Dennis Kucinich has put forth, this is the closest we've seen
to a formal discussion on Capitol Hill related to the issue of
impeachment. Click here for the AP article explaining what's happening.
To learn about what YOU can do, please click here. |
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7/23/07- Grilling FEMA Over Its Toxic Trailers |
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The bloody noses started almost immediately. Paul Stewart, a former police officer and first lieutenant in the U.S. Army, completely lost his home when Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. That December, the Federal Emergency and Management Agency (FEMA) gave Stewart and his wife a trailer to live in. The first night they slept in it, she woke up with blood coming out of her nose. Then he started developing troubling respiratory symptoms — burning eyes, coughing, a constantly scratchy throat. One morning, they awoke to find CiCi, their pet cockatiel, half-dead. All the symptoms pointed to formaldehyde poisoning. Read the article from Time Magazine here. |
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7/23/07- Senate Panel Approves Huge Tobacco Tax To Fund Child Healthcare |
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In an overwhelming majority of 17 to 4, and in defiance of a threatened veto by President Bush, the US Senate Finance Committee approved a bill to expand child healthcare using a large increase in tobacco tax. Most of the Republicans on the Committee joined the Democrats to vote in favour of the bill.
The current legislation for the State Children's Health Insurance Program, SCHIP, is due to expire at the end of September. Read the article from Medical News here. |
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7/24/07- Sheehan Arrested in Impeachment Protest |
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Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Monday at the Capitol for disorderly conduct, shortly after saying she would run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over the California Democrat's refusal to try to impeach President Bush.
Sheehan was taken into custody inside Rep. John Conyers' office, where she had spent an hour imploring him to launch impeachment proceedings against Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Conyers, D-Mich., chairs the House Judiciary Committee, where any impeachment effort would have to begin. Read the Washington Post article here. |
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7/25/07- Big Oil: Another Profit Record in Sight |
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- There's rarely been a better time to be a refiner.
In the second quarter, refiners bought crude oil at lower prices and sold gasoline at record high prices. As a result, companies like Exxon Mobil, Chevron, and Valero could see record profits when the industry reports earnings this week. Read the CNN Money article here. |
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7/25/07- State's economy drives more kids into poverty |
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Michigan's troubled economy contributed to a 36 percent jump in the number of children living in poverty between 2000 and 2005, as an additional 116,000 children slipped below the poverty line.
More than 479,000 of Michigan's 2.5 million children were living in poverty in 2005, up from about 363,000 in 2000, the annual KIDS COUNT report released today indicates. The survey tracks child well-being nationally. Read the article from M Live here. |
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7/25/07- Higher city temps blamed on global warming |
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Chicago is feeling the heat: In 2006, the average temperature in the Windy City was 52.1, three degrees above normal.
Temperatures are up again this year in Illinois as well, and will most likely continue to rise here and elsewhere, according to a report released Tuesday by the Environment Illinois Research and Education Center, which blames the increase on global warming. Read the Chicago Sun Times article here. |
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7/25/07- Iraq Contractors on Notice About Labor Abuse |
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Sam McCahon proposed a simple solution to convince US-funded contractors working in Iraq to return passports to their migrant workers. Reaching in his pocket, the candid government contract lawyer pulled out a clip of folded US dollars and held it up.
“This works,” he said, speaking at a conference on labor trafficking in Washington, DC, sponsored last week by the International Peace Operations Association, a trade group of private contractors specializing in military support services.
McCahon pointed out that when businesses in the Middle East realize that they will lose out on lucrative US contracts, they get the message--employees have rights when working for American taxpayers, no matter what their nationality or salaries are. Read the article from the Iraq Slogger here. |
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7/25/07- Justice Dept. drops massive fraud case |
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Two years into a fraud investigation, veteran federal prosecutor David Maguire told colleagues he'd uncovered one of the biggest cases of his career.
Maguire described crimes "far worse" than those of Arthur Andersen, the accounting giant that collapsed in the wake of the Enron scandal. Among those in his sights: executives from a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, the investment empire overseen by billionaire Warren Buffett. Read the McClatchy Newspapers article here. |
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