Activists seek to keep Oregon guard home
Corvallis Gazette-Times An estimated 700 signatures from Corvallis are among 7,000 gathered by supporters of the “Campaign to Keep Oregon’s Guard in Oregon.” The group plans to hold a press conference at noon today in the Capitol basement and then deliver the signatures to Gov. Ted Kulongoski, Senate President Peter ...
Deserter's cause taken up by activists at Miramar
By Tony Perry / Los Angeles Times Reporting from San Diego -- Antiwar activists have taken up the cause of an Army deserter who was deported from Canada and is now being held at the brig at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. Two dozen members of Military Families Speak Out ...
By Keith Edwards / Kennebec Journal AUGUSTA -- A group of local residents who've held weekly vigils for peace and democracy for the last six years is calling it quits, due to a belief President-elect Barack Obama will "right many wrongs."And if he doesn't?They'll be back.Jan. 15 will be the ...
Camp Hope Holds Obama to "Change" Pledge ...by Mike Ferner
"From the people who put you in office" Determined to keep President-elect Barack Obama true to his promise of change, peace and economic justice activists kick off an 18-day outdoor vigil January 1, four blocks from the Illinois Senator's home in Chicago. Camp Hope, headquartered in the Windy City's Drexel ...
6 years of peace protests in Rockland
By Steve Lieberman / The Journal News NANUET - Joan Rudolph of Nanuet applauds both encampments at Middletown Road and Route 59 for their activism and perseverance. For the past six years - through rain or shine, and warm or cold temperatures - Rudolph and thousands of others have seen ...
Two teachers promote peace, compassion
By Waveney Ann Moore / St. Petersburg Times Married for 30 years, Pinellas County public school teachers John and Sheila Stewart have a standing date most Wednesday evenings: They head to busy Pinellas County intersections to wave signs protesting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and money spent on them. ...
Fight Erupts At Calif. Veterans Day Parade
AUBURN (AP) ? Punches were thrown and a tug-of-war ensued over a sign when a peace group tried to join Auburn's Veterans Day parade. Six Veterans for Peace marchers say they were eventually allowed to march at the back of Tuesday's parade -- as long as they kept their anti-war ...
Local veterans recall horrific realities of war
By Alan Morrell / Rochester Democrat & Chronicle Military veterans spoke Sunday about their experiences with the horrors of war during a program that began at Washington Square Park and continued in the First Universalist Church in Rochester. Other speakers discussed being war resisters and conscientious objectors — and about ...
San Francisco Veterans Day Parade Draws Crowd
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5 / KCBS) ? A Veterans Day parade along San Francisco's Market Street had the thoroughfare lined on both sides with onlookers over the weekend. With the election behind us, and the blue skies over the Bay Area Sunday, it was a good time to remember our ...
Veterans group reminds drivers of wars' sacrifices
MADISON (WKOW) -- One after one, the line of small tombstones representing military death after another snakes up and down Speedway Road in Madison. The group Veterans for Peace placed the 4,800 tributes on Saturday. Each one represents the servicemen and women killed fighting in Afghanistan since 2001 and Iraq ...
Madison Veterans For Peace Dramatizes Cost Of War
"Memorial Mile" Made Up Of 4,800 Tombstones WISC Madison MADISON, Wis. -- With Veterans' Day coming up this Tuesday, a Madison group is trying to dramatize the cost of war.Saturday morning, the Madison chapter of Veterans for Peace constructed the Memorial Mile. The display is made of 4,800 "tombstones" placed ...
VETERANS FOR PEACE END ARCHIVES OCCUPATION ON HIGH NOTE
"We may be back again soon," Vets add Washington -- Five military veterans, all members of Veterans For Peace, are breaking camp from their perch on the National Archives building this morning, taking with them their 22x8-ft. banner demanding “DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION. ARREST BUSH AND CHENEY: WAR CRIMINALS!” that has ...
Gold star parents, veterans protest Bush's visit to OKC
By Jamie Hughes / Oklahoma Daily Across the street from the entrance of the private home President Bush visited Friday, protestors expressed their displeasure with the Bush administration and his policies. President Bush was in Oklahoma City Friday morning for a private fundraiser for Arizona senator and presidential hopeful John ...
Nun arrested ahead of Republican National Convention
St. Paul, MN - (AP) Police in riot gear arrested two women in their 70s and seven others taking part in an antiwar march at the Republican National Convention on Sunday after they crossed a security fence into a restricted area near Xcel Energy Center. The nine were arrested for ...
Obituary: Alfred Zappala, 68, an advocate for peace
By Walter F. Naedele / Philadelphia Inquirer Alfred Zappala went the distance - at marathons and in his opposition to the war in Iraq. His foster son, Sgt. Sherwood Baker, 30, was killed in a warehouse explosion in Iraq in April 2004, becoming the first soldier from the Pennsylvania National ...
Farmer donates produce to protest war
By Alison Dietz / Chronicle-Telegram OBERLIN, OH — A local farmer has taken anti-war protests in a new direction this summer and declared that he’s not selling anything until the United States stops fighting wars. Bob Williams’ farm, on the corner of Route 20 and Quarry Road, is “closed for ...
Why I Will Not Vote for John McCain
By Phillip Butler / Military.com As some of you might know, John McCain is a long-time acquaintance of mine that goes way back to our time together at the U.S. Naval Academy and as Prisoners of War in Vietnam. He is a man I respect and admire in some ways. ...
Former Star Wars program director to speak in GJ today
By Sharon Sullivan / Grand Junction Free Press GRAND JUNCTION, CO — Some would say Robert Bowman is a patriot in more ways than one. Bowman is a former fighter pilot who flew 101 combat missions in Vietnam. He’s the former director of Advanced Space Programs Development for the United ...
Coffeehouse by Fort Lewis would support veterans
'We're trying to reach out to soldiers' By Carol Smith / Seattle Post-Intelligencer A group of local veterans hopes to launch a coffeehouse near Fort Lewis where soldiers – both active-duty and out of the military – can brew both good java and good company. The coffeehouse would be a ...
Thousands of demonstrators expected at GOP convention
ST. PAUL, Minnesota (AP) -- A 73-year-old retired surgeon marching in silence with a tombstone picturing a soldier killed in Iraq. A philosophy professor calling for a new investigation into the September 11 terrorist attacks. A long-haul trucker from Texas protesting the price of oil. Those are just a few ...
Protest march planned during President Bush's visit to Kennebunkport, Maine
WHEN: Saturday, August 2, 2008 at 1:00 PM WHERE: Protest March begins at 1:00 from the Consolidated School on School Street in Kennebunkport (The Google) and protesters will make a 2 mile walk to the Bush family compound at Walker's Point (The Google). CONTACT: Jamilla El-Shafei, organizer of The Kennebunks ...
Judiciary releases witness list for Kucinich "impeachment" hearing
The Politico The House Judiciary Committee has released its witness list for Friday's hearing on Rep. Dennis Kucinich's (D-Ohio) impeachment resolution. One big surprise — a House Republican will testify. Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.), a huge critic of President Bush's policy in Iraq, is scheduled to appear before the Judiciary ...
He says he hasn't backed away from immigration stance By John Marelius and Leslie Berestein / San Diego Union-Tribune Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain yesterday vigorously disputed his opponent's assertion that he had backed away from his own comprehensive plan to overhaul the nation's immigration laws. “I do ask ...
Twin Cities activists want more media coverage of Iraq war
By Rodrigo Zamith / Minneapolis Star Tribune Standing outside the Star Tribune headquarters with a camera and printed statements, anti-war activists petitioned the newspaper for more media coverage of the Iraq War. It was the first of three stops this morning for the ten anti-war activists representing Grandmothers for Peace, ...
Vets returning from Iraq turn to war protesters for help
By Audrey Parente / News-Journal DAYTONA BEACH, FL -- Three months after his advanced infantry training in the Army Reserves, Mike Gianfriddo was deployed to Iraq. His military occupational specialty: administrative assistant. His job in Iraq: tower guard. He served in Iraq from September 2005 for a year, then returned ...
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