Anti-War / War + Peace

The Ithaca Feeder March of the March to Ft. Drum passes through Syracuse, NY, today, May 12, and delivers a letter to Sen. Clinton's office and to the US Attorney General's Office, demanding no funds for the illegal occupation of Iraq.

It is a fallacious and legalistic straw man ploy for any society or organization (such as the Department of Defense) to arrogate, as definition, that an individual must oppose “all” war on religious or ethical grounds to be considered a “conscientious objector”. Simply to be “conscientious” means to act from one’s “own” conscience—not from the collective hearsay of any particular group or on legalistic grounds of some corporate presumption. The individual conscience is the moral compass of conscientious authority.

Captain Eric H. May, the Internet intelligence writer, examines the awful possibility that the Bush administration will get even with Ron Paul for writing his blockbuster book, "The Revolution: A Manifesto."

What: Art Exhibit Opening and Reception. Photography of RIT fine arts student James ("Alec") Burney, including images of Rochester's Obama campaign, anti-war movement, and local tranches de vie.

When: Friday 5/9/08. 5pm to 9pm

How much: Free

Where: Storefront Anti-war Crisis Center
658 Monroe Ave. (near Oxford St., off street parking in rear)

When else: Exhibit on through June 8th. Gallery Hours Tues.-Fri.:12n to 8pm, Sat.-Sun.: 12n to 5pm

Miro info: 436-1786

Four veteran military professionals continue to update the public about the Mayday Alert, which is becoming the most discussed false flag analysis in recent US history.

First let me state that I am Jewish and both my parents are too. On this 60th Anniversary of the establishment of Israel I morn the great harm the establishment of Israel caused the Palestinians. By harm I am talking about the 750,000 Palestinians who were forced to flee there homes and become impoverished refugees between 1948 and 1949. Jewish militias went to Palestinian village after Palestinian village and massacred the Palestinian inhabitants. It did not matter whether the inhabitants had been a threat to the Jewish people. The name of the game was Ethnic cleansing.

This week's Indy TV, a cable access TV Show produced by members of Rochester Indymedia, will feature an interview with Rochester Iraq Veterans against the War President Mike Totten and Declaration of Peace member Kathy Castania. They will discuss the importance of the upcoming peace march to Fort Drum.

An impressive array of military men join Captain Eric H. May, the Internet intelligence writer, in issuing a false flag alert for May 1-8, when the Bush administration will be conducting nationwide terror exercises.

On May 1, all 29 ports on the U.S. West Coast are to be shut down by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) in protest against the U.S. war on Afghanistan and Iraq. This is a historic event of international significance: labor action against imperialist war by a major American union. The strategically placed port workers in the ILWU can bring commerce with Asia to a grinding halt, and they’re about to demonstrate it. The maritime employers are already screaming, and you can bet it’s got the attention of the warmongers in Washington. All labor should take up the challenge this poses: For workers strikes against the war! Meanwhile, immigrants’ rights groups are once again mobilizing on May Day. And on April 30 and May 1, the independent truckers who move cargo to and from the docks may play an important role in a shutdown. The imperialist war on Afghanistan and Iraq is also a war on immigrants, minorities, working people and democratic rights “at home.” We need to defeat this attack here and abroad, in opposition to both the capitalist war parties. The “antiwar movement,” whose aim has always been to pressure the Democrats, is at a dead end. What’s needed is working-class action independent of the bosses. What that takes is a fundamental break from the Democratic Party and the pro-capitalist politics that infuse the labor bureaucracy.