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Weary of War? Don't Collaborate |
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Story submitted by Laura Tillem on Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 4:00pm |
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Weary of War? Don't Collaborate
By Kathy Kelly
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Friday 18 April 2008
An April 14 Associated Press article by Anne Flaherty reported that US senators and representatives are finding common ground in asking that Iraqis begin picking up the tab for the cost of war. The lawmakers are troubled that Iraqis might experience windfall surpluses of revenue generated by rising oil prices, while Americans bear the burden of paying for the Iraq war. "In hearings last week," Flaherty writes, "Joseph Lieberman (I-Connecticut) asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates whether Baghdad should start paying some US combat costs, and Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) raised the possibility that an anticipated Iraqi budget surplus this year could be used to help Afghanistan, whose $700 million in annual revenue represents a small fraction of Iraq's $46.8 billion budget." |
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Iran · Iraq
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Visit to Congressional Offices to protest the war |
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Event submitted by Laura Tillem on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 8:40pm |
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PLEASE NOTE: the time on this event may show up incorrectly on some computers. The correct time is 3:30 PM.
Wichita people will be visiting our congressional offices to ask our representatives to actually represent our interests and End The War.
3:30-4:30 p.m. at Sen. Robert’s and Rep.Tiahrt’s offices, 1st and Market |
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Iraq
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Candlelight Vigil Against the Iraq War |
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Event submitted by Laura Tillem on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 3:58pm |
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MoveOn has called for a Candlelight vigil to honor the soldiers whose lives have been taken by this senseless war. |
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Iraq
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End the War in Iraq and NO New War in Iran |
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Event submitted by Laura Tillem on Sunday, October 14, 2007 - 11:15pm |
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Join us to “Roast” Weenies and Marshmallows
(Symbolizing those spineless Senators and Representatives who refuse to use their power to end the war)
Oct. 27, 2007, Noon
Peace and Social Justice Center
13th and Topeka
Take part in the countrywide demonstrations to end the war in Iraq and say “No New War with Iran”
Oct. 27, 2007 is the 5th anniversary of the vote in the U.S. Senate, which gave George Bush authority to go to war in Iraq. The rationale for war was based on lies. A new nationwide survey finds a large and growing majority of Americans is dissatisfied with the position of the United States in the world. Most Americans believe that U.S. policies are increasing the threat of terrorist attack and decreasing goodwill toward the United States. Large majorities of Americans feel that the United States puts too much emphasis on military force and unilateral action. |
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Iran · Iraq
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What's Next Meeting |
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Event submitted by Laura Tillem on Sunday, October 14, 2007 - 12:41am |
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PLEASE NOTE: On some computers the time of the event may be shown incorrectly. The correct time is 10:30 AM.
What's Next Action group meeting: the all volunteer heart of our efforts to end the war on Irag. We meet the second and fourth Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. (With occasional other 10:30 Saturday meetings). Join in and help us move forward our Depleted Uranium Bill, Counter-Recruiting, War Tax Protest, USD 259 Opt-Out Follow-through, and other activities.
We meet on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of each month, with occasional meetings on other Saturdays. |
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Iran · Iraq · Israel/Palestine
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No End in Sight - Film |
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Event submitted by Laura Tillem on Saturday, April 26, 2008 - 8:54pm |
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No End In Sight is a 2007 Academy Award nominated documentary about the American occupation of Iraq.
The film focusess on serious mistakes made by the Bush administration in the two year period following the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. The film shows how these errors caused or contributed to the rise of the insurgency, the lack of security and basic utilities, sectarion violence, and civil war. |
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Iraq
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Speech at Rally marking the 5th anniversary of the Iraq War |
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Page submitted by Laura Tillem on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 3:30pm |
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Let's talk about why getting out soon is better for the Iraqis.
Let's be clear: what the US as represented by the Bush administration
does in Iraq has not been and will not be concerned with the interests
of Iraqi people. They are interested in having a power base in Iraq
with which to exercise power over the entire Middle East. Refusing to
leave now that we have sowed destruction has nothing to do with
stopping a civil war (in fact we are arming the Sunnis so when we do
have to leave the civil war will be more deadly). Instead it is
because they do not want to give up the idea of a pliant government
there and they do not want to admit what the whole world knows: the US
cannot just impose its will on another people. |
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Iraq
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Wheels of Justice in Wichita |
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Event submitted by Laura Tillem on Thursday, April 3, 2008 - 2:42pm |
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PLEASE NOTE THE TIME FOR THIS EVENT IS 6:30 PM. A bug in our website software causes this to show up incorrectly on some computers.
The Wheels of Justice tour is coming to Wichita next week. They will be speaking at a potluck dinner at the Peace Center at 6:30. The presentation will be at 7:00.
The main speaker is Gene Stoltzfus:
Until 2004, he was the Director of the Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT),
a program of Brethren, Mennonite and Friends churches and other
affiliated organizations that places teams in high conflict zones like
Haiti, Hebron (West Bank), Iraq, Colombia, and Mexico In addition CPT
violence reduction projects have been developed in urban North
America, with Native people on the highly conflicted border between
Mexico and the United States. CPT includes 40 trained full time
peacemaker corps members twelve staff people and nearly 150 reservists
(persons trained to work in CPT settings for up to three months each
year) who emphasize human rights protection, nonviolent action,
peacemaking campaigns and documentation. |
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Iraq · Israel/Palestine
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March and Rally to mark the 5th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq |
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Event submitted by Laura Tillem on Sunday, February 10, 2008 - 7:50pm |
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PLEASE NOTE: On some computers the time of the event may be shown incorrectly. The correct time is 12 noon.
March from McLean and Douglas with the St. Patrick's Day Parade and then walk 1 blk. to a 12 noon rally against the war at Seneca Park, 200 blk. of South Seneca. Signs, Speeches, Music. Let's get ending the war back on the agenda! |
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Iraq
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Protest the war with the Molly Brigade |
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Event submitted by Laura Tillem on Sunday, February 10, 2008 - 7:48pm |
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PLEASE NOTE: On some computers the time of the event may be shown incorrectly. The correct time is 4:30 PM.
Join with the Molly Brigade to protest the war and its human costs. More than 6500 US Vets and Troops from Afganistan and Iraq wars have committed suicide, making the US deaths well over 10,000 total. |
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Iraq
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