Action Alert

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• GP Guv cand Whitney Maintains Pledge to Keep Illinois National Guard at Home

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 481
  Green Party candidate for Governor Rich Whitney issued the following statement today in response to President Obama’s address committing an additional 30,000 or more U.S. troops to Afghanistan:As my friends and I in the peace movement protest the latest escalation of the occupation of Afghanistan, I take this ...
  7 hours ago

• Please help save Lifta

  
  Window Into Palestine — Authority: 144
  We ask that you please take a few moments to sign a petition that will be sent to the World Monuments Fund so that Israeli plans to destroy the ethnically cleansed village of Lifta can be stopped and that this site can be added to the list of cultural patrimony that must be protected. Please pass... Click on the ...
  18 hours ago

• Say NO to Comcast/NBC Merger (Action Alert)

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 520
  Dandelion SaladvideofreepressDecember 03, 2009Comcast, the nations largest cable company, announced a deal to buy NBC-Universal, one of the worlds biggest producers of TV shows and motion pictures. For consumers, it means higher prices, fewer choices and less innovation. We need to stop this ...
  19 hours ago

• Saturday, Dec 5th at 1pm: Demonstrate against war and drones

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 481
  On Saturday December 5th at 1PM, Pax Christ, South Country Peace Group, VFPLI and others will be conducting the first of many demonstrations to demand an end to occupation and war. Come join us at…BAE  (Long Island’s own weapons manufacturer and producer of Drone aircraft components)450 Pulaski RoadGreenlawn, NY ...
  1 day ago

• GP Prez cand Cynthia McKinney: Is President Obama’s Surge A Trap?

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 481
  Last night, President Obama announced both his decision to add 30,000 U.S. troops to the mire in Afghanistan and his desire to see other countries and N.A.T.O. match his surge.  Thanks to U.S. taxpayers, mercenaries will continue to be a part of the foreign presence in Afghanistan.  The Republicans support the ...
  1 day ago

• World AIDS Day Black Blog Round Up

  
  BlackPerspective.net — Authority: 462
  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services states that: World AIDS Day is observed every year on December 1st. The World Health Organization established World AIDS Day in 1988. World AIDS Day provides governments, national AIDS programs, faith organizations, community organizations, and individuals with an ...
  2 days ago

• Green Party to Obama: No escalation; withdraw US troops from Afghanistan instead

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 481
  Green Party opposes escalation, urges Obama to announce US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in his Dec. 1 speech2008 Green presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney and 2010 Maine Green gubernatorial candidate Lynne Williams will speak at Dec. 12 Emergency Anti-Escalation Rally outside the White House ...
  2 days ago

• GP Prez cand Cynthia McKinney: Shame on Press Already Calling President Obama’s Plan an “Exit Strategy”

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 481
  Many in the special interest press are cynically reporting the President’s speech tonight as an “Afghanistan exit plan.”  We have now reached the point where those who make and interpret current events think they can make us believe that war is for peace, ignorance is strength, slavery is freedom, and lies are ...
  2 days ago

• Call Today & Tell Our Elected Official You Want Affordable Housing for the Holidays

  
  From Poverty to Opportunity Campaign — Authority: 411
  From our friends at the National Low-Income Housing Coalition : Please Call Congress December 1 or 2 for National Housing Trust Fund (NHFT) Money! Lets Get NHTF Money Before Congress Adjourns for Holidays Please call your representative and both of your senators Today (Dec. 1) or ...
  3 days ago

• World AIDS Day - Prevention Through Knowledge (Redux)

  
  BlackPerspective.net — Authority: 462
  I’m primarily reposting my World Aids Day post from last year due to personal time constraints; but nothing much has changed, and the issues are the same. I’ll preface the info with links to a couple of pretty recent post I’ve done on AIDS, including a development in AIDS research: Message from Uganda - A ...
  3 days ago

• Trail of DREAMs and Fasting: Florida’s Escalation

  
  DREAMACTIVIST — Authority: 427
  They keep telling us to wait. But we can’t wait. We won’t wait. We can’t afford to lose another human to an unjust law that shatters his dreams and scars his wrists. Just two weeks ago, we were able to halt (yet again) the deportation of two outstanding students and leaders in our community, the Reyes ...
  3 days ago

• Who is behind the Chegutu controlled anarchy? – Ben Freeth

  
  This is Zimbabwe — Authority: 513
  Please see our Action Alert posted yesterday ( click here ). Please take action to support the Chegutu farming community. In Chegutu the dire situation continues at Sue and Thomas and Beattie’s Umvovo Farm. Burning tires are constantly being lit around the house in the past few days to try to intimidate or ...
  4 days ago

• ACTION ALERT: Chaos and intimidation affecting several farmers in Chegutu

  
  This is Zimbabwe — Authority: 513
  Details of how you can take action to support the affected people in Chegutu at the end of this post, where we ask you to call or sms Inspector Biperu, Clever Kunonga, Kembo Mohadi and Herbert Murewa. There is chaos in Chegutu. Several farms have been experiencing an upsurge in harassment and intimidation by thugs ...
  5 days ago

• You Get What you Vote For!

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 481
  from Cindy Sheehan’s SoapboxThe so-called anti-war movement currently finds itself in somewhat of a quagmire: What to do when the man you raised money for, volunteered for, and yes, even voted for, actually fulfills one of his most repulsive campaign promises?First of all, I never understood why, or how, peace ...
  6 days ago

• GP Prez cand Cynthia McKinney featured at 12/12/09 Anti-war Rally

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 481
  Our organization, End US Wars  (http://www.enduswar s.org)  is holding an Emergency Anti-Escalation Rally on Saturday, December 12 at Lafayette Park at the White House, 11am to 4pm.  Featured speaker: Cynthia McKinney. Green Candidate for Governor in Maine, Lynne Williams, will speak and is coming down by bus for ...
  1 week ago

• Afghan children are dying from the cold

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 520
  Dandelion SaladAlJazeeraEnglishNovember 27, 2009Afghan children die of ‘neglect’ – 27 Nov 2009Afghan refugees who fled the war-torn south have claimed they are so neglected by the government in Kabul that their children are dying from hypothermia for want of the most basic supplies.Families that left Helmand, ...
  1 week ago

• Help save the Palestinian village of Lifta from total destruction

  
  Palestine Think Tank — Authority: 502
  Lifta, a most picturesque Palestinian village, lies on the slopes of West Jerusalem below the highway linking it to Tel-Aviv. It has been abandoned since the invading Hagana underground forces backed by the Stern Gang drove the last of its Palestinian inhabitants in 1948 during the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. It ...
  1 week ago

• Obama Rejects of Land Mine Ban Treaty

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 481
  from DemocracyNow.orgThe Obama administration has announced it won’t sign an international convention banning land mines. This is the first time the Obama administration has publicly disclosed its position on the Mine Ban Treaty, which bans the use, stockpiling, production or transfer of antipersonnel mines. We ...
  1 week ago

• Oregon Tops Report on Policies for Customer-owned Renewable Energy

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 481
  Advocates Release Third Annual Report Card to States on Net Metering, InterconnectionRenewable energy advocates today released the 2009 Edition of Freeing the Grid, a policy guide that grades states on their current net metering and interconnection practices. Together these two policies empower energy customers to use ...
  1 week ago

• Obama’s Secret War in Pakistan: Blackwater Operating in Pakistan Under Covert Assassination and Kidnapping Program

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 481
  from DemocracyNow.orgIn an explosive new article in The Nation magazine, investigative journalist and Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill reveals the private military firm Blackwater is part of a covert program in Pakistan that includes planning the assassination and kidnapping of Taliban and Al-Qaeda ...
  1 week ago

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