Activists Start Fast on Anniversary of Opening of Guantanamo
Over 125 activists have started a twelve-day fast to mark the beginning of the ninth year of the US military prison detention at Guantanamo. The Fast for Justice will continue until January 22, the date by which President Obama had initially vowed to close the prison.
Activists protest in DC over Guantanamo prison
WASHINGTON — Dozens of human rights activists marked the eighth anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay prison for detainees by protesting by the White House on Monday.Members of Witness Against Torture, which is calling on President Barack Obama to follow through with his pledge to close the U.S. ...
"An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind."Mahatma GandhiThree events over the holidays have caused me great consternation and they proved to me that I am not so cynical and jaded that my government can't still shock me, if anythingOf course, the first event has to be ...
Tenacious Priest Fights Colo. Nukes
GREELEY, Colo. — Five months in Weld County Jail was starting to wear thin on Father Carl Kabat's normally patient and jovial demeanor. He misses the outdoors, the freedom to move around, which at 76 is getting harder to do anyway. With the potential for another several months under lock ...
Peace Activists to Set Up Encampment in Washington
In August of 2005, Cindy Sheehan, who had lost her son in Iraq, set up camp outside George Bush's vacation home in Crawford, Texas. She had a simple question; she wanted to know what the "noble cause" was for which her son had died. Thousands of people joined Cindy in ...
Best films of the noughties No 10: Fahrenheit 9/11
It seems strange to reflect that, drowning as we are these days in campaigning documentary films, when he started out, Michael Moore was one of a kind. Ever since his 1989 film Roger & Me, in which he harassed the CEO of General Motors over the closure of car plants ...
Copenhagen day of mass protest passes without major incident
Protests involving thousands of people today inside and outside the Bella conference centre hosting UN climate talks in Copenhagen have passed off without major incident.About 4,000 campaigners marched on the Bella centre in an attempt to stage a "people's assembly" inside the summit, but were stopped by police. At least ...
Activists protest troop buildup
PRINCETON BOROUGH - Susan Uscenski drove an hour and a half from Manahawkin to Princeton. A few friends told her about a vigil to protest President Obama's recent announcement of a troop increase in Afghanistan. She voted for Obama, but a year later, she felt like she needed to say ...
'We don't want violence, we want to get our voices heard' says protesters
One thousand of them have already been arrested, and tomorrow will bring protesters' largest, angriest demonstration in the Danish capital – right outside the building where the crucial negotiations are underway.Mass arrests are likely as a predicted 5,000 demonstrators descend on the Bella Centre on the same day as many ...
Thousands of students protest against US forces
KABUL (NNI): Thousands of university students protesting against US forces in eastern Nangarhar province blocked the Kabul-Jalalabad Highway for hours. The demonstration was staged by Nangarhar University students in Daronta district to denounce the US forces' operation in Laghman province, where 15 civilians were allegedly killed. The operation in the ...
BURLINGTON, VT — Dozens of people gathered on Church Street Sunday to express their disappointment in President Obama.The demonstrators were part of a peace rally that meets in downtown Burlington every year. Members of the group say they're disappointed that Obama won the Nobel Peace prize, only to escalate the ...
Protesters in New York carry fake coffins to mark war president Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize
About 50 demonstrators walked from outside the United Nations to the military recruiting office on Times Square in central Manhattan.Walking to a slow drumbeat, they carried black cardboard coffins, the first of which was draped in the US flag."Barack Obama does not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, especially after his ...
Obama accepts Nobel prize with 'difficult questions' about war and peace
President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize today by asking "difficult questions" about war and peace, while acknowledging he is a first-year president and a superpower commander-in-chief who is sending more troops to Afghanistan."I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the considerable controversy that your generous decision has ...
Thousands march for peace in Oslo
More than 6,000 people marched in Oslo after US President Barack Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize with a speech justifying war, urging him to live up to the accolade. The crowd marched in a peaceful, torchlight procession aimed at denouncing nuclear weapons and ended up outside Obama's hotel in ...
Police and protesters gear up for Obama visit
OSLO — Although he doesn't show up at the Copenhagen climate talks until next week, U.S. President Barack Obama won't be far from global warming issues when he lands in Oslo Thursday to collect his contentious Nobel Peace Prize.Greenpeace activists said they had laid out the message "Obama: our climate, ...
Group stands silent for peace at Ellensburg post office
ELLENSBURG, WA — These protesters were not looking for an argument.Soon after a handful of Ellensburg residents in mid-December 2004 began standing in front of the city’s post office each Wednesday with a sign saying “silent vigil for peace” they got responses from passersby.Those standing in vigil said nothing in return.“I ...
Hundreds rally at West Point to call for end of Afghan war
WEST POINT — More than 250 people held a candlelight vigil outside the U.S. Military Academy on Tuesday night to protest President Obama's decision to escalate the eight-year-old war in Afghanistan.The protest was held shortly before Obama announced that the United States would send 30,000 more troops to the South ...
4 arrested at Lieberman's office
Hartford (WTNH) - Protesters who are miffed about Joe Lieberman's stance against the current health care reform package held demonstrations today at his offices in Washington, D.C. and Hartford. 30 people showed up to Lieberman's Hartford office this morning. Four were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. "Arrest the real ...
Police Arrest 6 Protesters At Lieberman's Office
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Capitol Police say six universal health care supporters have been arrested after protesting at Sen. Joseph Lieberman's office in Washington. Sgt. Kimberly Schneider says officers arrested the protesters Tuesday morning at the Hart Senate Office Building. Schneider says the protesters were asked to leave Lieberman's seventh-floor ...
Nearly 300 rally in Royal Oak for national health care reform
As Congress gathered in Washington to begin debate on legislation to overhaul the nation’s health care system, local people gathered in Royal Oak to rally in support of the bill.“I really wanted to be a part of this,” said Phyllis Livermore, a Birmingham resident who stood along Woodward Avenue holding ...
Five Arrested for Breaking Into Navy Base
BANGOR — Five protestors associated with an international peace movement were arrested Monday after cutting through three security fences to reach an area where nuclear missiles are stored at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor.Cited on suspicion of trespassing and destruction of government property were Bill Bischel, 81, a Catholic priest from Tacoma; ...
Single payers protest at Pelosi's office
About 50 single-payer activists and labor union members held a sit-in at House Speaker Pelosi's San Fransisco office today where 11 people were arrested, said Chuck Idelson, spokesman for the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee. The group was protesting Pelosi's decision to strip the health care reform bill of ...
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Thanks to everyone for bearing with me as I spend so much time on what happened to Emad Burnat. It's important to me because he's ...
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February 20th, 2013
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I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
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Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
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This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
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