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 Transfered from old site  Sign up for our weekly e-mail newsletter:     <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/auth/add-self.php">http://www.tcgreens.org/auth/add-self.php</A>     Pataki Supporter Punches Activist Outside Debate   <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021021122917669.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021021122917669.html</A>     Hawkins: Pension Fund should Divest from Isreali Bonds   <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021021072301172.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021021072301172.html</A>     Aronowitz criticizes tax cut proposals   <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021021071701679.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021021071701679.html</A>     Sept 25 meeting minutes   <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/2002101806403511.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/2002101806403511.html</A>     Pesticide Notification succeeds in Suffolk County   <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021018063005209.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021018063005209.html</A>     People give Mayors a Lesson   <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021017050624369.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021017050624369.html</A>     Demonstrators expose Hillary's Hypocrisy   <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021017050056370.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021017050056370.html</A>     No Further Reason to Vote for Democrats and Republicans   <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016054942916.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016054942916.html</A>     Afghanistan One Year Later   <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016054421528.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016054421528.html</A>     Read our lips: No war on Iraq   <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016054026361.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016054026361.html</A>     Skepticism over Bush's war finds voice in streets   <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016053342305.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016053342305.html</A>     ---------     Pataki Supporter Punches Activist Outside Debate     Last Sunday, outside the offices of Syracuse's Channel 5, a man wearing   an Orangemen jacket punched a member of the Marijuana Reform party in   the process of throwing him out of a tent packed with Pataki supporters.     Victoria Jordan, me, my wife and my 3-month-old were invited to an event   at the debate site. We arrived late and were confused about where to go.   As we walked towards the television studio, a police officer politely   asked us what our credentials were. I didn't think we'd get in, but I   decided to play all of the cards we had. I told him that Victoria was a   campaign coordinator for Aronowitz and that my wife and I were members   of the state committee.     <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021021122917669.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021021122917669.html</A>     ---------     Hawkins: Pension Fund should Divest from Isreali Bonds     Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for State Comptroller,   announced that he would use social criteria as well financial concerns   in determining how to invest the state $100 billion plus pension fund.   Hawkins said he would start by divesting from government bonds in Israel   until it complies with United Nations resolutions. Hawkins also said   that environmental concerns should be made part of the state's audits   and tax systems.     Jennifer Daniels, the Green nominee for Lt. Governor, joined Hawkins in   calling for an overhaul of the state's economic development program.   Daniels also harshly criticized Pataki and the State Legislature for   their efforts to curtail civil liberties following September 11th, and   called upon Congress to stand up to Bush and put a halt to his plans to   launch a ground war against Iraq.     "A government that failed to protect us from the worst act of terrorism   in US history is now seeking to muzzle the voice of citizens that might   criticize it under the guise of anti-terrorist legislation. We must   repeal the New York State Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001, oppose the USA   Patriot Act, and oppose the drive toward war in Iraq. War abroad and   repression at home must be opposed. They mean federal cuts to New York   for social and environmental programs and loss of our freedom to   influence policy," stated Daniels.     <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021021072301172.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021021072301172.html</A>     ---------     Aronowitz criticizes tax cut proposals     Stanley Aronowitz, the Green Party candidate for Governor, said today he   found it incredible that both Carl McCall and George Pataki would   propose increasing corporate tax giveaways while the state was facing a   multi-billion state budget deficit. McCall recently announced that he   wants increased tax credits for companies that create jobs slightly   above the local average wage. Governor Pataki also recently told that   Business Council that he plans to propose more tax cuts for them.     "McCall and Pataki are competing to see who can give away more of our   tax dollars to their campaign contributors. The only surprise is that   these proposals are not greeted with howls of laughter by the media or   cries of outrage by working taxpayers. New York already gives away   billions of dollars annually in tax breaks, subsidies and other   corporate welfare giveaways and yet both major parties have refused to   hold corporations accountable for actually creating jobs. The Democrats   and Republicans make poor people sweep the streets for thirty hours a   week in exchange for putting a leaky roof over the heads of their   children, but even after corporate executives have plundered our pension   plans and stolen our children's future, they wouldn't dream of holding   corporate officials for the millions they receive in welfare. It is time   to end corporate dependence on tax giveaways,â€ Aronowitz stated.     <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021021071701679.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021021071701679.html</A>     ---------     Sept 25 meeting minutes     Thanks to Kathy Halton for writing these up.     1. Mark Dunau's report on his campaign. He has begun his walk of his   district. Will start Friday from Geneva and walk to Auburn. He showed us   an article in the Oneonta Daily Star, which portrays him as the anti-war   candidate. A contact number if you want to walk with him is:   607-467-4034. Website is www.ruralparty.com.     2. Pete Meyers report on his campaign for Sheriff of Tompkins County.   His campaign is going well. The Ithaca Times on page 3 this last week,   had a good article on Pete, by Tye Wolf. Pete now has the support of the   Ithaca Paraprofessionals, and would like to get the support of the UAW.   The voter registration drive has now registered 285 voters in Tompkins   County. The Cornell student groups want to do a drive, and people are   going up Friday. Pete's main issues are: he is against jail expansion   because it is too costly and law enforcement people will be pressured to   fill it; he believes in alternatives to incarceration and restorative   justice. He feels there are class issues re the Rockefeller drug laws'   enforcement, and he also thinks that the local law enforcement people   will have to stand up to pressure to attack civil liberties because of   the anti-terrorist stuff.     <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/2002101806403511.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/2002101806403511.html</A>     ---------     Pesticide Notification succeeds in Suffolk County     Below is an interview that I had with Al Lane on Dec. 7, 2001. Lane owns   Professional Tree Supply,Inc., for 43 years in the wholesale   lawn/nursery supply business     Unfortunately, in Syracuse/Onondaga in Dec. 2001, no enviro groups   (neither NYPIRG, the lead group, nor Sierra Club, Am. Lung Assn. et al.)   ever brought up info at any public hearing about the overwhelming   success of the implementation of Pesticide Neighbor Notification in   Suffolk County in the summer of 2001.     So, in Onondaga County, the regional CNY chapter of the powerful NY   Landscape Assn. was able to use the scare tactics of job loss and   bankruptcy (despite the success of PNN in Suffolk)among the local garden   and landscape/lawncare business to get all GOP legislators, including   three lameducks, to defeat PNN in Dec. 2001.     <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021018063005209.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021018063005209.html</A>     ---------     People give Mayors a Lesson     by Men Manski     Mayors from 200 of the nation's 300 largest cities came to Madison, Wis.   in June to be wined and dined. Instead, they found the people were upset   with their feeding on corporate cash.     The U.S. Conference of Mayors meetings were held in a cordoned-off   four-block area of the downtown, beyond concrete barricades, security   checkpoints, and the nervous eyes of hundreds of police officers. More   than 1,000 people demonstrated against the corporatization of American   cities. Before it was over the police had arrested seven people and   $750,000 was spent by Madison officials on event security. Also, Madison   Mayor Sue Bauman had significantly damaged her re-election prospects.     Where previous meetings of the U.S. Conference of Mayors had been marked   by protests, this meeting was the first in which the protests defined   the agenda.     <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021017050624369.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021017050624369.html</A>     ---------     Demonstrators expose Hillary's Hypocrisy     “Hillary Clinton’s supposed to be our representative, but who is she   representing?” asked Frank Reynoso. “The people, or big business?”     Reynoso was one of about sixty demonstrators this evening at the New   School’s 12th street auditorium, where Clinton was speaking to an   audience of about three hundred.     The protest, organized by the No Blood for Oil Coalition as well as a   coalition of NYU and New School students, was spirited, with the   penned-in demonstrators banging drums and wearing paper masks of   Clinton’s face proclaiming “SHAME” and “SPINELESS.” One woman wore an   elaborate plastic Clinton mask from a local Halloween shop.     <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021017050056370.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021017050056370.html</A>     ---------     No Further Reason to Vote for Democrats and Republicans     "NO FURTHER REASON TO VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS WHO VOTED TO   HAND POWER TO DECLARE WAR ON IRAQ TO BUSH," SAY GREENS     A dark day for democracy: Congress undermines its own constitutional   authority to declare war, drops plans for an independent investigation   of September 11     WASHINGTON, DC -- Candidates of the Green Party of the United States   reacted angrily to Congress's bipartisan approval yesterday of the   resolution to surrender its constitutionally mandated authority to   declare war to President Bush.     "Most leading Democrats, going against the majority of their own party,   joined Republicans in handing Bush his blank check for an invasion of   Iraq," said Rahul Mahajan, Green candidate for governor of Texas. "They   have acted together as faithful factions of a single War Party,   dedicated to the interests of the fossil fuel and arms contractor   lobbies and to the establishment of the United States as a global   empire. This decision may benefit elites, but it hurts ordinary working   people in the United States and Iraq. Those who voted against the   resolution should be applauded, but there can be no further reason for   anyone to vote for the Democrats who supported this resolution."     <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016054942916.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016054942916.html</A>     ---------     Afghanistan One Year Later     By Rahul Mahajan, Green Candidate for Texas Governor     As the full imperial dimensions of current administration policy become   clearer, helped along by the recent promulgation of a new “national   security” policy that calls explicitly for a new imperialism based on   military dominance, opposition to the planned war on Iraq is mounting   across the globe (except in Congress, where the Democratic leadership   has once again sold out, ignoring the overwhelming message sent by the   huge grassroots mobilization of recent weeks).     In the context of Iraq, it has become acceptable, even respectable, to   say that the emperor is aptly garbed for a naked power grab. To this   day, however, few are willing to criticize the war in Afghanistan. In   fact, some self-proclaimed spokespeople for the antiwar movement have   recently suggested that the “left,” which is to say the peace movement,   the global justice movement, and most of the progressive grassroots   activists in the country, still handicaps itself by its opposition to   that war. The official story remains that, whatever has come after, the   war on Afghanistan remains the one shining success in the “war on   terrorism.”     One year later (the bombing started on October 7, 2001), many of the   results are in, and it’s about time for a critical look at some of those   “successes.”     <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016054421528.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016054421528.html</A>     ---------     Read our lips: No war on Iraq     By Deirdre Griswold     How relieved the war gang in Washington would be if ordinary people were   to go back to discussing nothing more dangerous than "Have a nice day"   and "Kind of warm, isn't it?" in their daily encounters.     Instead, a different kind of discussion, one long delayed but thus all   the more necessary, is bubbling to the surface. Tentatively at first,   people are asking each other, "What do you think of this war Bush is   talking about?" And, perhaps to their surprise, they are finding that   their friends, neighbors and co-workers harbor the same doubts they do.     They haven't heard this on television or read about it in the   newspapers. As far as the corporate media are concerned, there's only   one viewpoint out there among the people: unswerving loyalty to   President George W. Bush. But more and more there is concrete evidence   that people are thinking for themselves.     <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016054026361.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016054026361.html</A>     ---------     Skepticism over Bush's war finds voice in streets     During the last weekend of September, anti-war protests took to the   streets in cities across the United States and around the world, giving   voice to growing skepticism over the Bush administration's hell-bent   plan to invade Iraq.     Washington, San Francisco, Chicago, Denver, Phoenix and Flagstaff,   Ariz., were among the cities that were host to important manifestations   against the war Sept. 27-29. Overseas, massive demonstrations were seen   in London, Rome and Madrid.     And on the heels of that weekend of protest, two anti-war coalitions   based in the U.S. made an important contribution to the unity of the   movement against war, racism and repression.     On Sept. 30 the International ANSWER coalition--Act Now to Stop War and   End Racism--and the Not In Our Name Project issued a joint statement.   They called on all opponents of Bush's war on Iraq to mobilize for both   Oct. 6 regional protests in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and   other cities, and for the Oct. 26 national march on Washington and the   West Coast march in San Francisco.     http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016053342305.html
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 Transfered from old site Sign up for our weekly e-mail newsletter: <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/auth/add-self.php">http://www.tcgreens.org/auth/add-self.php</a> Pataki Supporter Punches Activist Outside Debate <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021021122917669.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021021122917669.html</a> Hawkins: Pension Fund should Divest from Isreali Bonds <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021021072301172.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021021072301172.html</a> Aronowitz criticizes tax cut proposals <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021021071701679.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021021071701679.html</a> Sept 25 meeting minutes <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/2002101806403511.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/2002101806403511.html</a> Pesticide Notification succeeds in Suffolk County <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021018063005209.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021018063005209.html</a> People give Mayors a Lesson <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021017050624369.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021017050624369.html</a> Demonstrators expose Hillary's Hypocrisy <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021017050056370.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021017050056370.html</a> No Further Reason to Vote for Democrats and Republicans <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016054942916.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016054942916.html</a> Afghanistan One Year Later <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016054421528.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016054421528.html</a> Read our lips: No war on Iraq <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016054026361.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016054026361.html</a> Skepticism over Bush's war finds voice in streets <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016053342305.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016053342305.html</a> --------- Pataki Supporter Punches Activist Outside Debate Last Sunday, outside the offices of Syracuse's Channel 5, a man wearing an Orangemen jacket punched a member of the Marijuana Reform party in the process of throwing him out of a tent packed with Pataki supporters. Victoria Jordan, me, my wife and my 3-month-old were invited to an event at the debate site. We arrived late and were confused about where to go. As we walked towards the television studio, a police officer politely asked us what our credentials were. I didn't think we'd get in, but I decided to play all of the cards we had. I told him that Victoria was a campaign coordinator for Aronowitz and that my wife and I were members of the state committee. <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021021122917669.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021021122917669.html</a> --------- Hawkins: Pension Fund should Divest from Isreali Bonds Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for State Comptroller, announced that he would use social criteria as well financial concerns in determining how to invest the state $100 billion plus pension fund. Hawkins said he would start by divesting from government bonds in Israel until it complies with United Nations resolutions. Hawkins also said that environmental concerns should be made part of the state's audits and tax systems. Jennifer Daniels, the Green nominee for Lt. Governor, joined Hawkins in calling for an overhaul of the state's economic development program. Daniels also harshly criticized Pataki and the State Legislature for their efforts to curtail civil liberties following September 11th, and called upon Congress to stand up to Bush and put a halt to his plans to launch a ground war against Iraq. "A government that failed to protect us from the worst act of terrorism in US history is now seeking to muzzle the voice of citizens that might criticize it under the guise of anti-terrorist legislation. We must repeal the New York State Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001, oppose the USA Patriot Act, and oppose the drive toward war in Iraq. War abroad and repression at home must be opposed. They mean federal cuts to New York for social and environmental programs and loss of our freedom to influence policy," stated Daniels. <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021021072301172.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021021072301172.html</a> --------- Aronowitz criticizes tax cut proposals Stanley Aronowitz, the Green Party candidate for Governor, said today he found it incredible that both Carl McCall and George Pataki would propose increasing corporate tax giveaways while the state was facing a multi-billion state budget deficit. McCall recently announced that he wants increased tax credits for companies that create jobs slightly above the local average wage. Governor Pataki also recently told that Business Council that he plans to propose more tax cuts for them. "McCall and Pataki are competing to see who can give away more of our tax dollars to their campaign contributors. The only surprise is that these proposals are not greeted with howls of laughter by the media or cries of outrage by working taxpayers. New York already gives away billions of dollars annually in tax breaks, subsidies and other corporate welfare giveaways and yet both major parties have refused to hold corporations accountable for actually creating jobs. The Democrats and Republicans make poor people sweep the streets for thirty hours a week in exchange for putting a leaky roof over the heads of their children, but even after corporate executives have plundered our pension plans and stolen our children's future, they wouldn't dream of holding corporate officials for the millions they receive in welfare. It is time to end corporate dependence on tax giveaways,â€ Aronowitz stated. <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021021071701679.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021021071701679.html</a> --------- Sept 25 meeting minutes Thanks to Kathy Halton for writing these up. 1. Mark Dunau's report on his campaign. He has begun his walk of his district. Will start Friday from Geneva and walk to Auburn. He showed us an article in the Oneonta Daily Star, which portrays him as the anti-war candidate. A contact number if you want to walk with him is: 607-467-4034. Website is <a href="http://www.ruralparty.com">www.ruralparty.com</a>. 2. Pete Meyers report on his campaign for Sheriff of Tompkins County. His campaign is going well. The Ithaca Times on page 3 this last week, had a good article on Pete, by Tye Wolf. Pete now has the support of the Ithaca Paraprofessionals, and would like to get the support of the UAW. The voter registration drive has now registered 285 voters in Tompkins County. The Cornell student groups want to do a drive, and people are going up Friday. Pete's main issues are: he is against jail expansion because it is too costly and law enforcement people will be pressured to fill it; he believes in alternatives to incarceration and restorative justice. He feels there are class issues re the Rockefeller drug laws' enforcement, and he also thinks that the local law enforcement people will have to stand up to pressure to attack civil liberties because of the anti-terrorist stuff. <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/2002101806403511.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/2002101806403511.html</a> --------- Pesticide Notification succeeds in Suffolk County Below is an interview that I had with Al Lane on Dec. 7, 2001. Lane owns Professional Tree Supply,Inc., for 43 years in the wholesale lawn/nursery supply business Unfortunately, in Syracuse/Onondaga in Dec. 2001, no enviro groups (neither NYPIRG, the lead group, nor Sierra Club, Am. Lung Assn. et al.) ever brought up info at any public hearing about the overwhelming success of the implementation of Pesticide Neighbor Notification in Suffolk County in the summer of 2001. So, in Onondaga County, the regional CNY chapter of the powerful NY Landscape Assn. was able to use the scare tactics of job loss and bankruptcy (despite the success of PNN in Suffolk)among the local garden and landscape/lawncare business to get all GOP legislators, including three lameducks, to defeat PNN in Dec. 2001. <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021018063005209.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021018063005209.html</a> --------- People give Mayors a Lesson by Men Manski Mayors from 200 of the nation's 300 largest cities came to Madison, Wis. in June to be wined and dined. Instead, they found the people were upset with their feeding on corporate cash. The U.S. Conference of Mayors meetings were held in a cordoned-off four-block area of the downtown, beyond concrete barricades, security checkpoints, and the nervous eyes of hundreds of police officers. More than 1,000 people demonstrated against the corporatization of American cities. Before it was over the police had arrested seven people and $750,000 was spent by Madison officials on event security. Also, Madison Mayor Sue Bauman had significantly damaged her re-election prospects. Where previous meetings of the U.S. Conference of Mayors had been marked by protests, this meeting was the first in which the protests defined the agenda. <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021017050624369.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021017050624369.html</a> --------- Demonstrators expose Hillary's Hypocrisy “Hillary Clinton’s supposed to be our representative, but who is she representing?” asked Frank Reynoso. “The people, or big business?” Reynoso was one of about sixty demonstrators this evening at the New School’s 12th street auditorium, where Clinton was speaking to an audience of about three hundred. The protest, organized by the No Blood for Oil Coalition as well as a coalition of NYU and New School students, was spirited, with the penned-in demonstrators banging drums and wearing paper masks of Clinton’s face proclaiming “SHAME” and “SPINELESS.” One woman wore an elaborate plastic Clinton mask from a local Halloween shop. <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021017050056370.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021017050056370.html</a> --------- No Further Reason to Vote for Democrats and Republicans "NO FURTHER REASON TO VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS WHO VOTED TO HAND POWER TO DECLARE WAR ON IRAQ TO BUSH," SAY GREENS A dark day for democracy: Congress undermines its own constitutional authority to declare war, drops plans for an independent investigation of September 11 WASHINGTON, DC -- Candidates of the Green Party of the United States reacted angrily to Congress's bipartisan approval yesterday of the resolution to surrender its constitutionally mandated authority to declare war to President Bush. "Most leading Democrats, going against the majority of their own party, joined Republicans in handing Bush his blank check for an invasion of Iraq," said Rahul Mahajan, Green candidate for governor of Texas. "They have acted together as faithful factions of a single War Party, dedicated to the interests of the fossil fuel and arms contractor lobbies and to the establishment of the United States as a global empire. This decision may benefit elites, but it hurts ordinary working people in the United States and Iraq. Those who voted against the resolution should be applauded, but there can be no further reason for anyone to vote for the Democrats who supported this resolution." <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016054942916.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016054942916.html</a> --------- Afghanistan One Year Later By Rahul Mahajan, Green Candidate for Texas Governor As the full imperial dimensions of current administration policy become clearer, helped along by the recent promulgation of a new “national security” policy that calls explicitly for a new imperialism based on military dominance, opposition to the planned war on Iraq is mounting across the globe (except in Congress, where the Democratic leadership has once again sold out, ignoring the overwhelming message sent by the huge grassroots mobilization of recent weeks). In the context of Iraq, it has become acceptable, even respectable, to say that the emperor is aptly garbed for a naked power grab. To this day, however, few are willing to criticize the war in Afghanistan. In fact, some self-proclaimed spokespeople for the antiwar movement have recently suggested that the “left,” which is to say the peace movement, the global justice movement, and most of the progressive grassroots activists in the country, still handicaps itself by its opposition to that war. The official story remains that, whatever has come after, the war on Afghanistan remains the one shining success in the “war on terrorism.” One year later (the bombing started on October 7, 2001), many of the results are in, and it’s about time for a critical look at some of those “successes.” <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016054421528.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016054421528.html</a> --------- Read our lips: No war on Iraq By Deirdre Griswold How relieved the war gang in Washington would be if ordinary people were to go back to discussing nothing more dangerous than "Have a nice day" and "Kind of warm, isn't it?" in their daily encounters. Instead, a different kind of discussion, one long delayed but thus all the more necessary, is bubbling to the surface. Tentatively at first, people are asking each other, "What do you think of this war Bush is talking about?" And, perhaps to their surprise, they are finding that their friends, neighbors and co-workers harbor the same doubts they do. They haven't heard this on television or read about it in the newspapers. As far as the corporate media are concerned, there's only one viewpoint out there among the people: unswerving loyalty to President George W. Bush. But more and more there is concrete evidence that people are thinking for themselves. <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016054026361.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016054026361.html</a> --------- Skepticism over Bush's war finds voice in streets During the last weekend of September, anti-war protests took to the streets in cities across the United States and around the world, giving voice to growing skepticism over the Bush administration's hell-bent plan to invade Iraq. Washington, San Francisco, Chicago, Denver, Phoenix and Flagstaff, Ariz., were among the cities that were host to important manifestations against the war Sept. 27-29. Overseas, massive demonstrations were seen in London, Rome and Madrid. And on the heels of that weekend of protest, two anti-war coalitions based in the U.S. made an important contribution to the unity of the movement against war, racism and repression. On Sept. 30 the International ANSWER coalition--Act Now to Stop War and End Racism--and the Not In Our Name Project issued a joint statement. They called on all opponents of Bush's war on Iraq to mobilize for both Oct. 6 regional protests in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other cities, and for the Oct. 26 national march on Washington and the West Coast march in San Francisco. <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016053342305.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20021016053342305.html</a>
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