Peace Movement Archives Digest
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March 02, 2008
Tonight's 60 Minutes on CBS News had a segment from David Martin (cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3897986n) discussing a "ray gun" - some sort of directed energy beam - that the Pentagon is testing for possible use as a non-lethal weapon. I had previously seen a clip on Youtube (link), which only features the...
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December 26, 2007
If you're like me, a production house that lists among it supporters Jackson Browne, Stan Goff, "Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains" (?), "Palisadians for Peace" (?), United for Peace and Justice, Michael Moore, and the like might cause you to sprint for the exit. However, you might want...
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September 16, 2007
Here's a video from the DC Iraq protest: link. It appears to have featured even more of a (if I may use the phrase) wacko contingent than the protest that I attended, and those were in Los Angeles. Includes a dirty hippie on a pogo stick, another one with an...
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January 30, 2007
On Saturday, thousands of "peace" protesters clogged the Capitol to protest the Iraq war. Everyone who's everyone was there: Jane Fonda, Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, Code Pink, and so forth. Without checking, I'm going to guess it was largely organized by ANSWER (Stalinists are great with set-up and break-down) and...
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January 09, 2007
Those wacky, loony lefties are at it again, with 1000 fellow travelers spelling out "IMPEACH!" in the San Francisco ("Frisco") sand: Thankfully - unlike past incidents in the same area - they appear clothed. There's a larger version of that picture here, and here's some video....
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July 26, 2006
Susan "Medea" Benjamin is a very well known, far-left protester who's famous for getting arrested at anti-war and similar rallies, flying to Cuba with her organization Code Pink, and on and on. Yet, to read this Think Progress post you'd think they'd never heard of her before. Either that, or...
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April 06, 2006
A blogger went undercover at an ANSWER meeting and has a report. The meeting mostly concerned ANSWER's upcoming Monday April 10 rally for illegal aliens in Washington DC and their NYC rally on the 29th. A featured guest was Juan Jose Gutierrez (also featured here in "AVWatch: Villaraigosa's under-reported associations"...
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March 24, 2006
Actor Charlie Sheen has joined a growing army of other highly credible public figures in questioning the official story of 9/11 and calling for a new independent investigation of the attack and the circumstances surrounding it... Speaking to The Alex Jones Show on the GCN Radio Network, the star of...
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February 07, 2006
With all the talk of "jyllands-posten mohammed" "muslim cartoon" it's slightly worth observing the above poster which was a proud part of a 3/22/03 "peace" protest in Hollywood....
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February 01, 2006
Cindy Sheehan's much-prized First Amendment rights might not have been violated (nofollowpolicy) when she was arrested at last night's State of the Union. It's apparently a misdemeanor to engage in sloganeering and the like inside the Capitol building. In fact: The wife of Rep. C.W. Bill Young, R-Indian Shores, told...
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This site stands in solidarity with loony activist - and proud Democrat - Cindy Sheehan. There's obsessive coverage of her arrest at the SOTU here, including a picture of the shirt. And, from this: ...Capitol Police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider told the Associated Press that Sheehan kept the anti-war slogan covered...
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January 29, 2006
Maybe he could convince her to stay. In related news: CARACAS, Jan 29 (IPS) - An informal International Women's Tribunal, meeting at the sixth World Social Forum in the Venezuelan capital, found "imperialism" and U.S. President George W. Bush guilty of violating the human rights of people in countries...
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January 23, 2006
"World Can't Wait" - a Revolutionary Communist Party-linked group - will be conducting nationwide protests on Jan. 31 to coincide with Bush's State of the Union address. The protests will be in one of the only forms that the far-left understands: At 9:00 PM EST, just as Bush starts to...
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January 18, 2006
The "International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration of the United States" has indicted U.S. president George W. Bush for his crimes. Although the indictments have no legal effect, they will make those on the very far-left feel better. The "International Commission" is sponsored...
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December 23, 2005
The New York Times offers "Police Infiltrate Protests, Videotapes Show". It's certainly worrisome if true. Unfortunately, the "if true" part is key, since they have no actual proof that those discussed in the article were actually police or working with them. The allegations are based on a series of videotapes...
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December 14, 2005
The S.F. Chronicle story "Tears, anger, silence at protesters' candlelight vigil" ("Speakers read from Williams' anti-gang children's books") unwittingly exposes just how far gone the left has gone. It would be one thing if those they describe were just anti-death penalty. But, it's more than that: many of them were...
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November 17, 2005
Received via email: Dear MoveOn member, Top Republicans in the House of Representatives are now vowing to vote on their reverse Robin Hood budget proposal within 48 hours. Your work has helped erode their support, and the vote is too close to call. That's why today we're launching our "Face...
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November 04, 2005
Ah, "liberal" hypocrisy. A new book reports on the extensive stock holdings of "liberal" favorite Michael Moore. Here are just some of the companies a trust he controls has owned stock in: Pfizer, Merck, Genzyme, Elan PLC, Eli Lilly, Becton Dickinson, Boston Scientific, Sunoco, Noble Energy, Schlumberger, Williams Companies, Transocean...
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November 03, 2005
The (mainland) China newssource Xinhua reports on protests held by an organization called "World Can't Wait". In Los Angeles alone, they say that more than 800 high school students walked out of classes. If you've been following along with the "peace" movement, but you've never heard of WCW before, you're...
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October 31, 2005
Shown here (direct link), Tiffany out of CodePink has a nice smile and a definitely nice pose. Her turn-ons include protesting, tofu, and Caribbean dictators. Turn-offs include the Bush administration, the Bush Crime Family, and traffic. She's got some mean hips. For those with "speciality" interests, another member of the...
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October 22, 2005
CodePink is organizing a sex tour peace and freedom tour of Cuba, and you're invited: This New Year's CODEPINK will be organizing a large group of fun-loving and freedom-loving Americans to break George Bush's ban on travel to Cuba. Join co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, together with Academy...
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October 01, 2005
DHS sensors have detected the presence of airborne Tularemia in Washington on September 24 and 25, the dates of the big peace protest. Tularemia is a disease normally spread by people handling dead rabbits and other rodents or by ticks bites, and about 200 people catch it each year. It...
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September 30, 2005
That is the charge in "Liberal Media Again Whitewashed the Colorful, Leftist, Kook Fringe", about the MSM coverage of the recent peace protests. It concentrates on the Washington Post piece by Petula Dvorak, the front-pager "Antiwar Fervor Fills the Streets." ...Dvorak's story didn't get to the unifying message of the...
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September 25, 2005
Where have all the flowers gone indeed: The politicization of American pop dates from the 1960s, but it grew out of a patient leftist political strategy that began in the mid-1930s with the Communist Party's "Popular Front" effort to use popular culture to advance its cause. One figure stands out...
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September 23, 2005
Knight-Ridder informs us that "Top Democrats won't attend anti-war rally in Washington". (For the backstory, see "ANSWER, UPJ, Cindy Sheehan, Code Pink, MoveOn to protest at White House September 24".) However, two lesser lights will be attending: Reps. Cynthia McKinney (D-Saturn) and John Conyers (D-Neptune). Those staying away include: Howard...
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September 22, 2005
And, before you go you might want to read "War protesters linked to radical left-wing groups": The groups gathering in Washington this weekend to protest President Bush and the war in Iraq have ties to radical left-wing groups and communist organizations and have enjoyed the support of the left's biggest...
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September 02, 2005
Last week one of Cindy Sheehan's bodyguards allegedly physically "attacked" a KGO cameraman who was walking in her fake field of crosses: I asked Mark Matthews of KGO about the alleged assault, "I'm not happy about it. We're happy to abide by the rules when we know what the rules...
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August 31, 2005
Code Pink's August 26th release "CODEPINK Statement on Vigil Outside of Walter Reed Hospital" contains this shocking news: ...In recent weeks, the vigil has attracted some people who have tried to change the tone and message of the vigil, including yelling and holding up inappropriate signs. The organizers have asked...
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July 23, 2005
Earlier today I made the mistake of attending the impeach Bush Downing Street Memo day in Hollywood. I've been to several "peace" protests, and this one earned a "2", with a "10" involving the Pope pledging to work with Bono and the Rockefellers to build World Communism, and a...
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July 21, 2005
[UPDATE: I wasted an hour at this event. See "Los Angeles Impeach Bush protest falls flat" for my report.] On Saturday, July 23 protests will be held in cities across the U.S. to try to bring attention to the Downing Street memo. This is called "DSM Day" and it's been...
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July 05, 2005
FPM has a nice profile of one of our favorite "liberals", Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York City: "The Man Behind the Attack on Guantanamo"....
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June 24, 2005
Harold Meyerson discusses the "peace" movement in the WaPo's "No One to Demonize". I'm only going to discuss this bit: ...Confronted with a choice between U.S. occupation and chaos, millions of Americans -- chiefly liberals and Democrats -- who'd been against the war decided to give occupation a chance... Actually,...
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April 25, 2005
Yes, indeed. Apparently I missed the announcement, but yesterday around 1000 anti-Japan demonstrators marched from City Hall to the Japanese consulate nearby: The demonstrators held signs demanding that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi stop visiting Yasukuni Shrine, where Class-A war criminals are enshrined along with Japan's war dead, and calling on...
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This report describes an incident on April 19 in L.A.'s Echo Park: A small but militant group of anti-war protesters confronted retired Iraqi war general Tommy Franks this morning as he left a student assembly at Logan Street Elementery School in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. General Franks,...
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March 20, 2005
There was an A.N.S.W.E.R.-organized "peace" protest in Hollywood on Saturday. I didn't cover it because a) I had more pressing matters, and b) I usually park several blocks away from such events and then bike in but my bike is in need of adjustments before I can ride it. Riding...
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February 23, 2005
AFP: The US anti-war movement is looking for ways to revive itself, following President George W. Bush's reelection and in the face of divided public opinion, to see US troops out of Iraq. Some 500 representatives of pacifist organizations, former combatants, soldiers' families, as well as actor and activist Danny...
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January 21, 2005
America's favorite peace protester, Susan "Medea" Benjamin, is safely behind bars. Again: WOMEN PEACE ACTIVISTS DRAGGED OUT OF INAUGURATION CEREMONY BY THE POLICE MEMBERS OF CODEPINK: WOMEN FOR PEACE UNFURL BANNERS AND SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE IRAQ WAR DURING GEORGE BUSH’S INAUGURAL ADDRESS Washington, DC – As George W. Bush...
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December 11, 2004
There was no discernible anti-U.S. or anti-Bush component? In what might one of the most shocking protests in recent memory, liberals will soon be protesting against the genocide in Darfur. And, they'll be protesting against the government of Sudan and the United Nations, not the U.S.: Diverse groups will join...
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November 10, 2004
TANKS APPEAR AT ANTI-WAR PROTEST IN WESTWOOD: LOS ANGELES, November 9, 2004 - At 7:50 PM armored tanks showed up at an anti-war protest in front of the federal building in Westwood. The tanks circled the block twice, the second time parking themselves in the street and directly in front...
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September 02, 2004
From "Feminists Compare Bush's 2000 Election Victory to 'Savage Rape'": ...Poet Molly Birnbaum read aloud to a crowd of feminists gathered in New York's Central Park on Wednesday night, as part of a NOW event dubbed "Code Red: Stop the Bush Agenda Rally." "Imagine a way to erase that night...
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August 31, 2004
Yep, she did it again. Since there are no permalinks at this site, let's try this play-by-play account: Tuesday 31 August 2004 4:10PM: Medea Benjamin has just been arrested, and the crowd is turning very ugly... 4:20PM: Medea Benjamin has been taken away, and the crowd is swelling. The buzz...
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July 25, 2004
Susan "Medea" Benjamin on the "free speech zones" at the DNCC: "We don't deserve to be put in a detention center, a concentration camp," said Medea Benjamin of San Francisco. "It's tragic that here in Boston, the birthplace of democracy, our First Amendment rights are being trampled on." Two...
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June 29, 2004
Several readers have emailed me this story: San Francisco voters will have more than one chance to express their views on the U.S.-led war in Iraq this presidential election year after four local officials submitted a ballot measure Tuesday calling on the federal government to end the conflict... Heh? I...
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March 12, 2004
There's more on media coverage of Susan Lindauer here: Of the 120 main press reports so far on Lindauer's arrest yesterday, only 12 expressly identified her former employers as Democrats......
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March 11, 2004
This is just laugh-out-loud funny. The headline of an AP report on this matter is "Accused spy is cousin of Bush staffer." Now, of course, the way this works is many people will just see the headline, or their view of this matter will be greatly influenced by it. They...
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Coverage of Susan Lindauer is in 'U.S. woman charged with spying for Iraq', 'How Susan Lindauer Was Caught', this, this, and this. The indictment is here. An email that appears to be from her is here. From this article: "I'm an anti-war activist and I'm innocent," Lindauer told WBAL-TV as...
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July 21, 2003
Susan Medea Benjamin and friends are busy again, starting OccupationWatch.org, whose goals include: * Research the dynamics, programs, and composition of the Iraqi movement to resist occupation in order to provide a more comprehensive picture to the international community; * Support the creation of independent Iraqi organizations, such as media...
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June 22, 2003
From this: The leader of France's anti-globalisation movement... was snatched from his bed at dawn yesterday and taken to prison by helicopter... ...[He] was inspired to political activism when America imposed tariffs on French cheeses and paté de foie gras as revenge for the European Union's ban on American hormone-treated...
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June 18, 2003
Here's a transcript of a video secretly shot at a recent A.N.S.W.E.R. meeting by ProtestWarrior: MODERATOR: So let's get started on the portion of the agenda where we all get a chance to talk, and I would like to appeal to my fellow European American males to not be the...
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June 05, 2003
A.N.S.W.E.R. is planning a big protest on Friday, June 27 at 6pm in front of the Century Plaza Hotel in Century City. Despite the rush hour traffic, I just might cover it. Here's the text of their flyer. Fisk at will: Un-elected President George W Bush has carried out a...
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May 28, 2003
From this ABC Nightline piece: Marla Ruzicka, 26, from the San Francisco Bay Area, has been in Baghdad since the day Saddam's statue fell in the city center. She has been doing a headcount of the Iraqi injured and the dead. She's found more than she expected. She has formed...
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May 16, 2003
Brigitte Bardot is taking heat for various comments in her recent book. For instance: "I am against the Islamisation of France. For centuries . . . our fathers gave their lives to chase all successive invaders from France." I consider that not just historically accurate (more or less, in the...
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May 01, 2003
Other than a few right-wing blogs and this one news report, I haven't seen much about the William Morris Agency's shutting down of boycott-hollywood.us. I'll keep waiting for the leftie blogs and online news sites to catch up... (foley in some crickets here)...
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The site boycott-hollywood.us is being shut down due to a threatening letter their registrar (/host?) received from William Morris Agency lawyers. The three parts of the letter are here, here, and here. (If none of the BH addresses work, here's a copy of the post and the letter). Their registrar...
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April 29, 2003
According to Scheer's latest "Are We Dumb or Just Numb?" (alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15773): The embarrassingly secular nature of the government was summarized in another Los Angeles Times story on the status of women: "For decades, Iraqi women � at least those living in Baghdad and some other big cities � have enjoyed...
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April 27, 2003
This article checks in with various anti-war celebs to find out what they're doing since they recently disappeared from sight. It's all pretty good, but: But Mike Farrell, star of television's "MASH" and organizer of "Artists United to Win Without War," told Reuters that those who joined the loyal...
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April 13, 2003
What/Where/When? Peace Protest/Hollywood and La Brea, Hollywood, CA/earlier today. Pictures? Right here. (These might be a little too dark for PCs and a little light for Macs.) Numbers? Much less than previous protests, maybe 2 or 3 city blocks worth. The word about the cheering Iraqis seems to have gotten...
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April 12, 2003
From the give-us-any-straw-to-hold-on Department, comes this: Many Iraqi citizens have taken to the streets in recent days to celebrate their freedom from dictator Saddam Hussein. But that joy could turn to sorrow, anti-war protesters warn, when the Iraqis begin to see their country adopt western cultural values. Stephanie Schaudel, co-coordinator...
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April 10, 2003
International A.N.S.W.E.R. is switching gears a bit. Rather than protesting against the war, they're now protesting against the occupation. How long will it be before they call for an intifada? While they will never admit it, this planned "endless war" is a class war waged by the U.S. government on...
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April 09, 2003
The Village Voice does its best to uncover our secret plot to commit genocide against the Arab and Iraqi peoples, and comes up a bit short in this review of unflattering Iraqi war stories....
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April 08, 2003
The la.indymedia.org's front page currently has a section entitled "PEACE: as bullets fly what do we mean?": OK, Peace Movement! Lots of folks protesting before the war started. People out protesting right now! Before, "No War" simply meant "don't fire the gun, George." What does "No war" mean now? What...
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April 07, 2003
This article about Lou Grant/Ed Asner contains this quote: "It's just difficult for me to imagine Hussein goose-stepping into Warsaw." Someone should explain GW #1 to him....
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April 05, 2003
I think a fun project would be to shoot a video with a sequence of wild-eyed "peace" protesters and street people reading this Pilger article. Money quote #1: "The killing of some 80 villagers near Baghdad last Thursday, of children in markets, of the "chicks who get in the way''...
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Want to fuck with a "peace" protester's mind? Show them this speech: Earlier today, I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces. Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to...
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April 01, 2003
Glenn links to a few good articles, including one in the LA Weekly....
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From this: Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich took his anti-war campaign to the House floor Tuesday, calling for an end to the fighting in Iraq to allow weapons inspectors to return. Kucinich, a congressman from Ohio, repeated the phrase, "Stop this war now," 10 times in his brief speech. He...
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Gosh I hope not. As a social deviant myself, I want there to be as much difference between me and the wacky anti-warriors. This article says otherwise: COLLEGE STATION, March 26, 2003 - As the price of war continues to mount, both in lives and dollars, so too do the...
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March 30, 2003
Links to my reports, to some of my pictures and to external articles: External reports, etc.: David Corn on A.N.S.W.E.R. and NION 'Not In Our Name and the World Wide Terrorism Web' Background on 'United for Peace and Justice' Nat Hentoff: 'Why I Didn't March This Time' Pic: "We support...
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March 28, 2003
Here's a report from a "peace" "teach-in" at Columbia University. All of the profs speaking were against the war; English prof. Bruce Robbins uttered the title quote. However, the nadir of the "teach-in" were the comments by one Nicholas De Genova, professor of anthropology: [De Genova] called for the defeat...
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March 26, 2003
Susan's got her name in the paper again. 'In the trenches: Can the anti-war movement survive the outbreak of war?' is about a week old, but chocka with heartening quotes from Susan and pals....
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New Delhi, March 26, IRNA -- Hundreds of thousands of protestors in a demonstration against the US war on Iraq in Meerut on Tuesday declared that they would boycott products made by American or British companies and burned effigies of the American president and British prime minister in protest. The...
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March 22, 2003
To save time, here's my new format: What/Where/When? Peace Protest/Hollywood and Vine, Hollywood, CA/earlier today. Pictures? Right here. Numbers? Around 5000 participants. What were they fighting for? This protest was designed to protest against the "biased" war coverage of CNN and other media outlets. It was held in front of...
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March 21, 2003
According to this: AMMAN, Jordan - Furious Arabs stormed Middle Eastern streets Friday, screaming "Death to America" and demanding vengeance for the invasion of Iraq... In Beirut, Lebanon, Grand Ayatollah Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah used his Friday sermon to denounce both the United States and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. "We...
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According to 'Protester picks wrong spot to lock himself': Jody Mason padlocked himself to an entrance of the Washington State Grange building at 924 Capitol Way S., thinking it was a sub-office of the U.S. Department of Energy... He told employees he'd chained himself to the building in civil disobedience...
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According to this Salon (yes, Salon) article: And in protest marches, antiwar advertising and local arts events, the evidence leaves one to wonder whether this highly visible bloc of the left has weighed these issues -- weighed life by life the repression of the 24 million Iraqis who live in...
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March 20, 2003
I went to the peace protest in downtown L.A. earlier today, and the pics are here. Only a few hundred people showed up, and it was a peaceful protest, with the organizers working with the cops, and vice versa. This was in contrast to today's Westwood protest, yesterday's Westwood protest,...
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March 15, 2003
I was going to go to the peace protest today in downtown L.A. However, since it's been raining heavily all day including lightning, and since my camera isn't compatible with the rain, I think I'll skip it. Gosh, I hope they didn't make their swastikas and Fuck Bush signs using...
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March 13, 2003
Via CroooowBlog comes this article: Police early Wednesday arrested a 19-year-old woman who witnesses said showed up at the memorial late Tuesday, claimed responsibility for burning some of the flags and pushed Chandler while saying the memorial endorsed the looming war in Iraq. Jennifer Quintana, whom police identified only as...
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March 12, 2003
According to this: "Hell No, We Won't Go!" has morphed into "Peace is Patriotic" in the modern anti-war lexicon, as peace strategists urge their followers to embrace the flag rather than burn it. Aware that screaming denunciations of the United States might alienate mainstream Americans, some leaders of the peace...
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March 11, 2003
www.boycott-hollywood.us, www.hollywoodhalfwits.com, Citizens Against Celebrity Pundits, VikingPhoenix (huh?), DumbCelebs, and all the rest. Hollywood Halfwits refuses to correct the Janeane Garofalo quote, which I corrected here. As the comments to this post show, boycott-hollywood doesn't get Garofalo's humor. DumbCelebs, to his or her credit, does correct the misconception....
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[Newer information will be put in this post.] I just saw on the TV news confirmation of this post. A kinda dazed or stoned-looking young progressive college student type confessed to putting up the Bob Dylan sign and burning or slashing a couple of the flags. She claims to have...
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I just tried to contact the La Habra PD for more information on the 9/11 memorial which was apparently trashed by peace protesters. Only their PR department is giving out information, and there were four other callers ahead of me, so I'll try later. Lord knows, I'm no big fan...
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March 09, 2003
A new day, a new "peace" group: CodePink4Peace. That was started by, and using a mailing address of, Susan Medea Benjamin of Global Exchange. You might remember Global Exchange as the author of the inflated civilian death statistics in Afghanistan. Oh, and CodePink4Peace is not to be confused with just...
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March 08, 2003
And this one actually sounds like it was fun: The federal building in Westwood became a focal point for anti-war demonstrators on Saturday, with a handful of women stripping to their thongs and a separate group led by actor Danny Glover marching down Wilshire Boulevard to protest a possible war...
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March 01, 2003
'Hippie Crap Saves The World: Can better orgasms and upping your personal vibe really thwart BushCo idiocy?' is yet another thought-provoking column from S.F. Chronicle commentator Mark Morford: Wanna know what conservatives really hate? What makes everyone from harmless GOP dittoheads to ultra-right-wing nutjobs full of rage and hiss and...
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February 26, 2003
Sheryl then and now....
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February 21, 2003
According to this: Elected leaders of the nation's second-largest city on Friday approved a resolution opposing a unilateral war against Iraq and urging the Bush administration to exhaust all diplomatic options before committing military forces... "I hope people understand we're not a bunch of crazy politicians trying to dictate federal...
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February 19, 2003
The article about CA's unexpectedly high unemployment rate here ends with With Gray Davis and George Bush California gets nothing. Davis is too incompetent to employ effective political tactics of any sort, while George Bush simply doesn’t care. 205,000 jobs lost in one year in the country’s most populous state?...
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February 15, 2003
I went to today's peace protest in Hollywood. The pics are here. Got there a bit late. As with the past protest, I was riding my bike, which makes covering open streets easy but isn't so good for pushing through the throng. There were the same dumb signs as the...
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February 13, 2003
Ken Layne links to this funny cartoon about a visit to an anti-war protest....
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February 12, 2003
Via Volokh comes the link to this article about the City of L.A. considering adopting one of two anti-war resolutions. One is from Councilpersons Eric Garcetti and Ruth Galanter, and the other is from Councilman Tom LaBonge. According to a representative of Garcetti's office, their resolution was created with the...
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February 10, 2003
According to the piece 'Idiotarians and Traitors of the Right': There have been many right-wing attempts to cozy up to the Islamofascists. In every case an alliance was proposed against the same enemy: against liberals, against secularists, against the ACLU, against the liberal press, against Hollywood, against atheists and unbelievers,...
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February 03, 2003
According to this: The White House's postponement of a literary symposium it believed was becoming politicized led two former U.S. poets laureate to characterize the decision as an example of the Bush administration's hostility to dissenting or creative voices. "I think there was a general feeling that the current administration...
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January 13, 2003
Here's an interesting editorial: As Tony Blair yesterday reaffirmed his determination to confront Saddam, the Stop The War coalition was able to present an impressive list of celebrities to add glamour to the fight to save Iraq from Anglo-American terror... Everyone who is anyone from the soft-headed centre to the...
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Andrew Sullivan links to the cover of the current Der Spiegel: "Blood for Oil - What it's really all about." In the next entry, he links to one of my pics from Saturday's peace protest. Vielen Danke....
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January 11, 2003
I went to the anti-war protest in downtown L.A. earlier today, and the pics from the event are here. After having attended this and the previous protest, I only have one question: Can we just nuke Iraq and shut these people up? Now - really - I'm not a warblogger....
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January 06, 2003
A group of Marin County women plan to march naked through San Francisco on Jan. 18 to protest the possibility of war with Iraq. I already covered these people. Unfortunately, this time, we won't have the luxury of a long shot. In other news, the killer of three hospital workers...
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January 02, 2003
For my very first link to a Steven den Beste novel(la), I'm choosing this post about anti-warriors and "news" reports from Reuters. Which, at 104x768, only takes up 3.5 vertical screens! Thanks Steve....
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According to this article: About a dozen Arab writers and lawyers plan to appeal to the Arab world to put pressure on Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to step down to avert a war... The appeal -- made by lawyers and writers fed up with their governments' opposition to U.S. policy...
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December 17, 2002
I spotted the following extremely funny comment here on a report on the Hollywood peace protest I covered below. Your commentary is joke! What cheap thrills do you get posting here? I would not be surprised that you concur with Trench Lott's bigoted (in no way revealing) commentary, about race...
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December 15, 2002
Last night, I went to the anti-war protest in Hollywood at Hollywood Blvd. and Highland. I'm not a warblogger (I swear!) but I kinda wanted to do something like this, but not like this. You can see the photos I took by clicking the pic to the right. My reporter's...
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December 10, 2002
Via LGF (link right) the full text of the celeb letter of support to Saddam is here. The cumulative number of months that these people haven't worked is probably well into the 4 figures, as they say in Hollywood. And, how did these has-beens find out about the letter? Is...
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November 20, 2002
That's the tag line for Jennifur Lopez's new opus "Maid in Manhattan." It's got a picture of her with the leading man, and a smaller pic of her in a maid outfit. Gosh, I can't quite figure out the plot. I'm sure JLo is a horrendous bitch, but on this...
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November 18, 2002
Instapundit links to a picture in which 50 women from west Marin county got nekkid and spelled out the word "PEACE" in solidarity with the innocents of Iraq. (Geez, check out the porker in the "E." OK, that's a nasty thing to say...) Excuse me for a moment please, there's...
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September 27, 2002
I can imagine the shooter's glee when he got this shot. The other one earlier in the slideshow featuring the girl giving the dual peace signs between cops looks a little too staged for my tastes....
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