The Occupation Project

THE OCCUPATION PROJECT is a new effort initiated by UFPJ member organization Voices for Creative Nonviolence. The plan is to unfold a campaign of sustained nonviolent civil disobedience aimed at ending the U.S. war in and occupation of Iraq. The campaign begins with occupations at the offices of Representatives and Senators who refuse to pledge to vote against additional war funding.

Several UFPJ member groups, including CodePink, Peace Action, Veterans for Peace, After Downing Street, and a host of local groups from North Carolina to Alaska are all involved in this effort. United for Peace and Justice, as a national coalition, has also endorsed The Occupation Project.

Your group can find out more about this initiative, including how you can get involved, by visiting their website. Or you can contact the organizers via phone at 773-878-3815 or via email, occupationproject at vcnv.org
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And if you haven’t already:

Click here and sign Peace Action’s “No War with Iran!” petition today!

http://www.peace-action.org/Iranpetition.html

This petition to Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice rejects any U.S. military action against Iran and demands direct negotiations. Copies will go to Chairs of the Senate

War Resisters — Support the Troops Who Refuse to Fight

The Army has re-filed charges against Lt. Ehren Watada, the first commissioned officer to refuse deployment to Iraq, following mistrial. Find out the latest developments in his case and how you can help.

It takes courage to say that you will not fight — especially if you are a soldier. As more members of the U.S. military step forward for peace, the peace movement must step forward to support them.

Large numbers are now refusing to serve: The Department of Defense estimates that there are about 8,000 AWOL service members. The GI Rights Hotline http://www.girights.objector.org/

(800-394-9544) is currently receiving about 3,000 calls a month.

Republicans spend more on everything.

Before Reagan, the deficit was less than $1 trillion. After Reagan, it was more than $3 trillion.

Before Bush43, the deficit was $5.6 trillion and falling and the budget was balanced. Now, the deficit is almost $9 trillion and growing at nearly $2 billion per day.

What was your point?

I didn’t read the book, but I read the material on the link, it was enough.

That’s kinda misleading when you look at the contracts handed out daily by the DOD for things that aren’t being used in Iraq nor that support the military. The miliatry is not suffering by any means. Most of their stocks are doing very well even. And if your an investor, or trader you might want to look at where these contracts are going.
http://www.defenselink.mil/contracts/

Demands for an investigation into coercion of nations by the US during the vote against Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), have been growing following the revelations by a former ranking official of the Bush administration acknowledging that India’s votes at the IAEA in 2005 and 2006 had been “coerced.”

In a talk just over a week ago at the Institute for Defence (sic) Studies and Analyses in New Delhi, Stephen G. Rademaker — who left his job as Assistant Secretary for Non-proliferation and International Security at the U.S. State Department last December – said, referring to India’s changing attitude towards non-proliferation, “[t]he best illustration of this is the two votes India cast against Iran at the IAEA. I am the first person to admit that the votes were coerced.”

[snip]

Professor Abbas Edalat of Campaign Iran said today;
“The revelation that the US coerced India into voting against Iran on this crucial issue is of global significance. It brings into question the entire legitimacy of the decision by the Governors’ Board of the IAEA to refer Iran to the Security Council and the consequent passing of Resolutions 1696 and 1737 and any future resolutions against Iran the UN might pass.

See Global Research for the article.

Nemesis by Chalmers Johnson

read it

14 for truth

you read the book already?

Breaking News >> Commander of Walter Reed Army Medical Center Relieved of Duty

WASHINGTON — A top Army commander was relieved of his command at Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Thursday after senior officials said they lost trust and confidence in his leadership abilities to address injured soldier care at military medical facilities.

Army Maj. Gen. George W. Weightman leaves his post as two-star general of the North Atlantic Regional Medical Command and Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

So, we had the cold war in 1986 (You know, when Pres. Reagan re-introduced the fiscally irresponsible over-spending , massive deficits and raising the debt faster than any previous President) and money was thrown around like it was going out of style.

There were no large-scale invasions during 1996, so there was no need to pay for our military to deploy in countries that we were invading.

There was the abdication of our responsibility to Afghanistan in 2003 when Pres. Bush would rather invade Iraq that hunt down Usama bin Laden and eradicate the Taliban like he promised. (Pres. Bush has been proven to lie more often and more consistently than Pres. Clinton.).

Wow! You’re right! Democrats “under fund” private companies with non-wartime spending and Republicans “over fund” private companies that detract from our wartime obligations!

Thanks a lot, ballbuster, for proving how bad Pres. Bush is for our military!

click on the chart. democrat presidents consistently underfund the military.
its right there.

I read that whole thing, I don’t even know what to say about stuff now. It seems pretty ucked up.

It’s now our choice. We can continue the same way as imperial Rome and lose our democracy or chose the British model keeping it at the expense of sacrificing empire. Johnson ends his book citing Japanese scholar and journalist Hotsumi Ozaki as a role model example. Ozaki understood his country’s occupation of China would fail and lead to the kind of blowback caused by the Chinese Communist revolution. He tried warning his government, but was hanged as a traitor for his efforts late in WW II. Johnson hopes he won’t meet a similar fate but is as certain as Ozaki “that my country is launched on a dangerous path that it must abandon or else face the consequences.” We should hope we never see them, but wishing alone won’t make it so.

hey exley, you especially need to read this book

I am pretty sure most kids do not wear baggies on their hands while handling their lunch boxes.
The more we find out about Bushco, the worst it gets.

Geez, hard to believe that this administration would lie or mislead.
And those apples that happened to have direct exposure, what happened to them?
Oh, I know, those apples may have had their skins removed before consumption, thus eliminating the possibility of exposure.
By the way, just out of curiousity, are these the same regulators that have given the a-okay for recent V.A. hospitals, particularly Walter Reed?

Bush administration regulators approved children’s lunch boxes that were laden with more than 10 times hazardous levels of lead, then lied about it and refused to release details of their tests, an AP investigation revealed. The administration’s excuse: food in the lunch boxes “may have an outer wrapping, a baggie, so there isn’t direct exposure.”

Honesty, who expected this administration to rule any differently on this. Why George W. Bush himself had such a lunchbox as a child and look how he turned out. He’s President of the United States! What’s a smidge of brain damage really going to do? It just takes the edge off those hard decisions.

Actually they probably have been covering it up longer

Walter Reed officials proceeded to ban the friend who brought Mrs. Rumsfeld in.

Like I said, coverup was all they were interested in.
And that is still the course. With the new orders to the wounded to not talk to the press and them being punished with daily inspections now, of the sort not usually done after leaving basic training.

“Some soldiers believe this is a form of punishment for the trouble soldiers caused by talking to the media,” one Medical Hold Unit soldier said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

makes me sick……

Shameful. While it is all well and good that Young was outraged at the deplorable conditions, he shouldn’t have let his frustrations just make him stop visiting. He should have publicly aired his concerns to the media and other members of Congress. This whole story is a national disgrace.