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On July 12th, after one postponement, the POTA (Peace of the Action) 3, plus 3, went to trial in DC Superior Court for our arrests after the ANSWER rally and march on March 20th (the 7th anniversary of the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq).On March 20th, after the rally ...
Students rally against war, ask for peace
TEANECK, NJ – "Honk if you're with us!" shouted 13 Stillman Elementary School students June 2 in front of the Teaneck Armory.The W.I.T.S. (World Improvement with Tenafly Students) Club was at it again making their voices heard loud and clear in an effort to take a stand against war and ...
Group tired of spending money on war
Drivers slowed down by the "bottleneck" on Route 4 near Belle Avenue, because a 40-foot banner hanging from the Garrison Avenue Bridge caught their eyes on Sunday.The banner, "$1 Trillion for War – No More!" marked the day U.S. taxpayers had spent $1 trillion since 2001 on the wars on ...
Whose Streets? (Our Streets between One and Four When we have a Permit)
On the 7th commemoration of the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq, there was a rally and march in DC sponsored by the A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition that was attended by about eight thousand people. For quite awhile, I have been having problems with marches on Saturday, anyway. It seems like we ...
Protesters prepare for Saturday's antiwar demonstration
Maggie Pondolfino has a 24-year-old son who is a soldier serving in Afghanistan -- "he's honorable, courageous, has a lot of integrity and he loves his mother," she said. Which is why, in part, she said she will be marching in an antiwar demonstration Saturday to bring him and other ...
War's death toll brings out protesters
Local anti-war protesters, marking what they count as the 1,000th American killed in action in Afghanistan, staged a demonstration Tuesday night in Daytona Beach. The death toll differs from the count of the U.S. Department of Defense, which reports 916 total soldiers have been killed in action in and around ...
The president's words ring hollow to them
When the president insisted that the days of funding a war "with a blank check are over," one woman scoffed, "Yeah, right." When the commander in chief suggested critics were wrong to compare the military effort in Afghanistan with the Vietnam War, several laughed out loud. And when Barack Obama ...
Nancy Lessin and Charley Richardson
Nancy Lessin and Charley Richardson are co-founders of Military Families Speak Out
November 24th, 2009
Open Letter to President Obama on Afghanistan
November 23, 2009 President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Obama: As you prepare to announce a new strategy for Afghanistan that could mean deploying tens of thousands more of our loved ones to fight a war with no foreseeable end, we ...
Late soldier's family gives their grief purpose: ending Iraq war
Five years after setting a Marine van on fire, the father of a soldier who died in Iraq has turned personal tragedy into a political testament. By Jennifor Lebovich / Miami Herald In the front yard of the former Hollywood home of the Arredondo family stands a small rose bush, ...
In Congress: 32 Heroes, 21 Frauds ...by David Swanson
After Downing Street"I want to support my president," said Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), who changed her no vote to a yes. The congressional elections of 2006 and 2008 were almost universally understood as shaped by public desire to end the war in Iraq. Last month, when a war supplemental spending ...
The War is Not a Game ...by Gold Star Families Speak Out
Gold Star Families Speak Out Expresses Outrageat Video Game Based on Deadly Battle in Iraq Nationwide -- Members of Gold Star Families Speaks Out (GSFSO), family members of those killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, are expressing outrage at two companies that plan to release a video game that graphically recreates ...
WASHINGTON - March 19 - After six years of war and the historic election of a new President, we as veterans, military and Gold Star families felt an urgent need to reach out to the larger peace/anti-war movements to make our position on Iraq clear during this time of political ...
Military Families Speak Out marks Iraq anniversary
An auto procession will line up in Seal Beach and follow a route that will pass by the Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, the Veterans Affairs center, a cemetery and end at Congresswoman Laura Richardson's office in downtown Long Beach. Long Beach Press-Telegram To mark the sixth anniversary of the ...
U.S. to pay family of Belchertown Marine who committed suicide $350,000
By Fred Contrada / Belchertown Republican BELCHERTOWN - In what the plaintiffs' lawyer said could be a ground-breaking settlement, the U.S. government has agreed to pay $350,000 to the family of a former Belchertown Marine who took his own life after returning from Iraq. Jeffrey M. Lucey was a corporal ...
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 ...
Boston father of fallen Marine leads protest
By Bryan Bender / Boston Globe ST. PAUL - The father of a Boston Marine killed in Iraq led thousands of antiwar protesters yesterday in a boisterous but largely peaceful demonstration outside the Republican National Convention, while riot police and National Guardsmen clashed separately with a collection of small fringe ...
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 ...
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 ...
Our Sacrifice ...by Dante Zappala
Sherwood would be 34, still a big brother, a father proud of his ever growing teenage son. He'd be holding it down somehow -- working like a dog, passionate about his family and the people he served. He'd know my son. They'd share on equal measure the endless newness and ...
An Antiwar March Through Towns Unused to One
By Michelle York / New York Times CENTRAL SQUARE, N.Y. — On Wednesday, Charlie Price was smoking a cigarette and sitting outside his restaurant, Charlie’s Place, on a two-lane stretch of highway on the outskirts of town. He watched as a small group protesting the war in Iraq marched toward ...
Local anti-war marchers step off for Fort Drum
By James Hawver / Rochester Democrat and Chronicle ROCHESTER, NY — As they set off on their nine-day, 118-mile march, two dozen local veterans and activists carried peace flags, anti-war banners and what they hope is a small share of the burden placed on the American soldiers sent to Iraq ...
By Lisa Crutchfield / Richmond Times-Dispatch Some protest war on streets of Richmond; others pray for peace Nearly five years after the start of the war, area peace activists remain passionate about their causes. And their numbers are growing, says Adria Scharf, executive director of the Richmond Peace Education Center. ...
Anti-war demonstrators cited in Williston
By Matt Sutkoski / Burlington Free Press WILLISTON, VT -- Thirteen demonstrators were arrested and cited for trespassing Friday at a Vermont Army National Guard recruiting office as dozens more protesters surrounded the building, opposing military recruiting in schools. The protests grew from a campaign by students at Mount Mansfield ...
The Not-So-Small Price of Iraq ...by Dante Zappala
UNTIL RECENTLY, I thought America agreed that the death of over 3,800 troops in Iraq is a tremendous loss to this country. My brother, Sgt. Sherwood Baker, is just one in that number. He was a soldier in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard, and was killed in an explosion in ...
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March 23rd, 2013
This evening is going be a big moment in turning our country around on the issue of gun violence. That's why I desperately want you ...
March 21st, 2013
I am hosting a nationwide series of house parties this Saturday night where tens of thousands of people will gather together in living rooms to ...
March 15th, 2013
The response to my Newtown letter this week has been overwhelming. It is so very clear to everyone that the majority of Americans have had ...
March 13th, 2013
America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA)
The year was 1955. Emmett Till was a young African American boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi. One day Emmett was seen "flirting" with ...
February 26th, 2013
My Final Word on Buzzfeed and Emad Burnat's Detention at LAX
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 ...
February 26th, 2013
Michael Moore Responds to Buzzfeed Story on '5 Broken Cameras' Co-Director Emad Burnat
On Tuesday, February 19th, Emad Burnat, the Palestianian co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary '5 Broken Cameras,' was detained with his wife and son at Los ...
February 20th, 2013
Last night was the Motion Picture Academy-sponsored dinner in Beverly Hills honoring the directors and producers of this year's five nominated films for Best Documentary. ...
September 11th, 2010
If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
OpenMike 9/11/10 Michael Moore's daily blog I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on ...
December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
"The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different." – Michael Moore in ...
November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
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 ...
December 16th, 2010
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 ...
November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
'Dirty Wars' by Jeremy Scahill
Why have you started a comedy festival in northern Michigan in the middle of winter?
Because if you were here in the dead of winter in the middle of nowhere (which is actually somewhere to us), you'd need a few laughs too ... Continue Reading
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