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Latest on the U.S.-Backed Coup in Honduras:
7/21: Tom Loudon - Honduran Coup reveals crisis of democracy in the United States as well >> Read More
7/20: Democracy hangs by a thread in Honduras >> Read More
President Obama announced his decision to send 17,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, on the grounds that 'the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan demands urgent attention'.
United For Peace and Justice strongly opposes this decision. We urge you to immediately call on President Obama to choose diplomacy, not escalation. We must let him know that a military solution is not the answer in Afghanistan. Call 202-456-1111 today!
12/1/08 Lee Siu Hin: What We Should Expect from President Barak Obama?
What should we expect from President Barack Obama? We've lived through 1976-1980, when many argued we should support “liberal” President Jimmy Carter because he was the “lesser of two evils,” do we now overlook his failed policies? We've lived through the 1992-2000 Bill Clinton period, when we 'celebrated' the end of the Reagan-Bush neocon era, but ended up entering the not so-left, but rather hawkish-neoliberal, Clinton era. These lessons from modern U.S. political history teach us that the more the politicians claim to “change”, the more remains the same -- regardless whether we elect “left” or "right" candidates. >> Read More
CALL TO ACTION!
May Day 2009 National Immigrant Workers Mobilization
We are calling A national day of multi-ethnic unity with youth, labor, peace and justice communities in solidarity with immigrant workers and building new immigrant rights & civil rights movement!
Wear White T-Shirt, organize local actions to support immigrant worker rights!
1) No to anti-immigrant legislation, and the criminalization of the immigrant communities. 2) No to militarization of the border. 3) No to the immigrant detention and deportation. 4) No to the guest worker program. 5) No to employer sanction and "no match" letters. 6) Yes to a path to legalization without condition for undocumented immigrants NOW. 7) Yes to speedy family reunification. 8) Yes to civil rights and humane immigration law. 9) Yes to labor rights and living wages for all workers. 10) Yes to the education and LGBTQ immigrant legislation.
We encourages everyone to actively linking our issues with different struggles: wars in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine & Korea with sweatshops exploitation in Asia as well as in Los Angeles, New York; international arm sales and WTO, FTAA, NAFTA & CAFTA with AIDS, hunger, child labors and child solider; as well as multinational corporations and economic exploitation with racism and poverty at home—in order we can win the struggle together at this MAy Day 2009!
Please send your May Day 2009 reports to:
$83.4 Billion for War
[United for Peace & Justice] The Obama administration has asked Congress for an additional $83.4 billion to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for FY2009. On the table, too, is a request for $130 billion to fund the wars in 2010. This, despite the fact that 6 in 10 Americans believe the war in Iraq was a mistake and growing numbers fear escalating war in Afghanistan.
United For Peace and Justice opposes this supplemental request and urges you to call your Representatives and Senators today and tell them that you, too, oppose the FY2009 Supplemental and you want them to stand with constituents who want to redirect our funds to reconstruction and aid, not war.
To reach the Washington switchboard, call 202-224-3121.
3/19: UFPJ Call For Local Actions on 6th Anniversary
On March 19, 2003, the United States launched an illegal and immoral war against the people of Iraq. For six long years, our government lied, all the while human rights and the rule of law have been disregarded, the death toll has mounted, and massive destruction has left Iraq in ruins. The war has drained our national treasury while the profits of oil companies and war profiteers have soared.
United For Peace and Justice calls on groups large and small in cities, towns and rural communities all across the country to take public action on the 6th anniversary of the war. We call for the war and occupation to end now and for all the troops and contractors to be brought home!
The March 21st March on the Pentagon is shaping up to be a dramatic and highly significant demonstration. From the Pentagon, we will march to the nearby giant corporate offices of Boeing Company, Lockheed Martin Corporation, General Dynamics and KBR (the former subsidiary of Halliburton).
There are 64 departure locations in 20 states bringing thousands of activists to Washington, D.C. Large numbers of students from across the country are mobilizing to join the demonstration.
We will be carrying hundreds of coffins representing the victims of war from Iraq to Afghanistan, Palestine, Pakistan, Lebanon, Somalia, Yemen, and the U.S. GIs who have been killed in the various fronts of George W. Bush’s proclaimed "endless war." Bush is gone but these criminal occupations and unilateral bombing attacks continue each and every day. Tens of thousands more troops are being sent to Afghanistan. In the last month civilian deaths in Iraq spiked and the occupation continues to cost $480 million each day. The people of Gaza are living under siege.
We will deliver these coffins to the doorsteps of the biggest war corporations and profiteers who make up the anchor of the Military-Industrial Complex.
Precious and limited resources are diverted from education, jobs, housing and health care, and given to these war corporations. The huge profits derived from war become an incentive for more war. We need a real change and that’s why we are marching in the thousands on March 21.
President Obama announced his decision to send 17,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, on the grounds that 'the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan demands urgent attention'.
United For Peace and Justice strongly opposes this decision. We urge you to immediately call on President Obama to choose diplomacy, not escalation. We must let him know that a military solution is not the answer in Afghanistan. Call 202-456-1111 today!
1/17 Latest News from Israel Invasion and Killing at Gaza, Over 1,200 Killed >> Read More
ACTIONS AGAINST MASSACRE! Lists of Upcoming Worldwide Protests Against Israeli Invasion and Killing on Gaza! >> Read More
Please send us your protest information and reports to:
STOP THE WAR COALITION (UK) Web: http://www.stopwar.org.uk 3RD NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION FOR GAZA SATURDAY 24 JANUARY London, UK ISRAEL OUT OF GAZA NOW: LIFT THE BLOCKADE
2/1-2: Washington DC Grassroots Advocacy & Training+Lists of Other Grassroots Congressional Actions Against Israel Invade Gaza >> Read More
1/14-1/16: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago Activists Direct Actions to Stop Israel War in Gaza >> Read More
1/14: Interfaith Declaration for Peace >> Read More
Fact Sheet : by US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, dealing with U.S. complicity in the Gaza crisis (1/5) >> download
Talking Points : The Gaza Crisis (12/28, Institute for Policy Studies) >> Read More
1/17: Israel shells UN school in Gaza
The UN has called for a war crimes investigation over the shelling of its school [AFP]
[al Jazeera] Israeli tank shells hit a UN-run school in Gaza, killing at least two people, as war in the Palestinian territory stretched into a 22nd day.
Heavy bombardment of so-called Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip - from artillery on the ground and jets overhead - continued on Saturday despite speculation that Israel will wrap up its military operations later in the day.
The death toll from the now more than three weeks of assault stands at 1,199 Palestinians killed, including more than 400 children according to UN and Palestinian medical sources.
At least 13 Israelis have also died in the same period, including three civilians.
School attacked
A Palestinian woman and a child were killed in the early hours of Saturday at the school run by the UN relief and works agency (Unrwa) in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza >> Read More
1/16: Testimony - Gaza Ambulance Drivers Risk Life and Limb to Evacuate Civilians to Safety (PCHR) >> Read More
1/16: Israel wants troops in Gaza after truce
[al Jazeera] Israel's security cabinet is in favor of a unilateral ceasefire in Gaza which will allow its army to remain in the beleaguered sliver >> Read More
1/10: People worldwide protest against Israel+Videos >> Read More
Latest Videos from Israel Invade Gaza at ActivistVideo.org >> View
1/7 Gaza: Over 600 Palestinians Killed. Humanitarian Crisis Faces 1.6 Million
Gaza Massacre Escalates As Ground Assault Begins
[San Francisco Indy Bay Independent Media Center] On Saturday January 3rd, Israel confirmed its troops have entered the Gaza Strip as attacks on Gaza entered their eighth day. Tanks moved into the besieged Gaza Strip though Beit Hanoun crossing shortly after nightfall on Saturday. Power lines have been cut throughout Gaza, and all of Gaza is now without electricity.
By Tuesday January 6th, at least 600 Palestinians were dead and thousands of Palestinians are wounded and many are dying due to hospitals being cutoff from the outside world. On Tuesday, as many as 40 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike on a United Nations-run school which many Palestinians were using as a shelter after having been ordered to leave their homes by the Israeli army.
In the days before the ground assault, Israel intensified air and artillery attacks. At least 13 people were killed when a missile struck a crowded mosque in Beit Lahiya; more than 200 people had been inside the Ibrahim al-Maqadna mosque for evening prayers when it was struck and at least 50 were wounded in the attack. On Friday, January 2nd, Israel allowed between 350 and 450 foreigners to leave Gaza, but for most Palestinians the borders are closed and 1.6 million people are unable to escape the increasingly deadly Israeli attacks.
As protests occur around the world and many world leaders denounce the massacre, the US has blocked even a basic UN statement condemning civilian deaths and US politicians like NY mayor Bloomberg and Democratic Congressman Gary Ackerman have flown to Israel to show their support for Israel's actions. While polls show that the US public is divided in their views on Israel's attack, US politicians in both major parties are almost all united behind Israel. President-elect Obama is refusing to talk about world events until he gets elected but statements from his advisers suggest his stance will be very similar to that of Bush.
In San Francisco, an emergency protest took place Saturday January 3rd at Powell and Market. Photos: 1 | 2 | Annoucements 1 | 2 In San Jose there was a protest on Sunday January 4th. Over 1,000 people gathered to protest Israel's actions in Gaza. Photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 In San Francisco, on Monday January 5th, a thousand protesters marched from Market and Montgomery to the Federal Building, demanding that Israel halt its invasion of Gaza. A small delegation attempted to enter the Federal Building to deliver a message asking the US government to stop supporting the Israeli military. Video | Photos: 1 | 2 | 3
1/6: Hamas speaks (by Mousa Abu Marzook) >> Read More
1/3: Ten Thousand Protest in Tel Aviv and Voices of Jewish Dissent Over Gaza >> Read More
12/30: Reports form Worldwide Protests Against Massacre in Gaza >> Read
12/28 New York, NY: Thousands Rally in Rockefeller Center Against Israeli Aggression + Update: Video >>Read More
12/28: Talking Points - The Gaza Crisis (Institute for Policy Studies)
If we are serious about ending this carnage, this time, we have no choice but to try to analyze, try to figure out what caused this most recent massacre, how to stop it, and then how to continue our work to end the occupation, end Israel's apartheid policies, and change U.S. policy to one of justice and equality for all >> Read More
1/28 Analysis: Israel had planned the attack for 6 months, mount PR Campaign, and Israeli far rights gain support from the attack
Israel's ongoing onslaught on the sealed off Gaza Strip, marketed to the world as a response to Palestinian rocket-firing, has been planned six months ago and is Israel's version of America's "shock and awe" campaign against Iraq, Haaretz reported on Sunday, December 28. In addition, Israel has mounted a public relations campaign to convince international hearts and minds that Hamas is to blame for the death and destruction they are seeing on their television screens >> Read More
Video 12/27: Israel launches missile attacks on Gaza (Al-Jazeera) at ActivistVideo.org
1/6/09 Washington DC: MARCH OF THE DEAD - 111th Congress
THE MARCH OF THE DEAD WILL BE THERE
WE CARRY THE NAMES OF THOSE KILLED DURING THE ILLEGAL U.S. INVASION AND OCCUPATION OF IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN >> Read More
Lists of Jan 20, 2009 Inauguration DayActions from Across the Country >> Read More
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Declaration of Peace 2009 Call to Action >> Read More
12/1 Lee Siu Hin: What We Should Expect from President Barak Obama?
What should we expect from President Barack Obama? We've lived through 1976-1980, when many argued we should support “liberal” President Jimmy Carter because he was the “lesser of two evils,” do we now overlook his failed policies? We've lived through the 1992-2000 Bill Clinton period, when we 'celebrated' the end of the Reagan-Bush neocon era, but ended up entering the not so-left, but rather hawkish-neoliberal, Clinton era. These lessons from modern U.S. political history teach us that the more the politicians claim to “change”, the more remains the same -- regardless whether we elect “left” or "right" candidates. >> Read More
Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) Come to Washington February 6-9, 2009 to demand "The Change WE Need"
President Elect Obama opposed the war in Iraq before it started, calling it a "dumb war." But he and his advisors have also said that they plan to spread the return of combat troops from that "dumb war" out over sixteen months and to keep tens of thousands of other troops on the ground in Iraq indefinitely.
So from February 6-9, MFSO will be traveling to Washington to bring the new President and new Congress the message that it is long past time to bring all our troops home from Iraq. The four days of events will include:
A teach-in on Capitol Hill featuring the voices of military families, veterans, and Iraqis, explaining the need for an immediate and complete end to the war in Iraq -- and the human impacts of continuing the occupation.
A march from Arlington National Cemetery to the White House.
Lobbying members of Congress to end the war in Iraq.
January-April 2009: 100 Days Campaign To Close Guantanamo and End Torture!
CALL TO ACTION
With Obama taking office, we have a historic opportunity to reverse the disastrous torture policies of the last eight years. We begin on Sunday, January 11, 2009, which marks seven years of detention and torture at Guantanamo. We want this to be the last time we come to Washington to demand the closing of the detention camp at Guantanamo and an end to torture!
January 11, 12:45pm at Dupont Circle in DC Theater, Procession and Rally. Featuring speakers, the Theater Against Torture, torture survivorHector Aristizabal, a Puppet Brigade, and a procession of people wearing orange jumpsuits and black hoods.
January 11 - January 20 in DC & elsewhwere Fast for Justice
Following the rally at Dupont Circle, more than 40 people will begin a liquid-only fast (most will be at the White House) that will continue through Inauguration Day. Please join us!
January 20 - April 30 in DC & the US 100 Days to Close Guantánamo & End Torture In addition to a sustained physical presence at the White House, there will be organized activities - from film screenings to lectures and community meetings - in Washington, DC, and across the country. These activities are designed to mobilize people concerned about torture and keep sustained pressure on our elected officials to close Guantánamo with deliberate speed. We are hoping small groups people will join us in DC for a week at time.
For up-to-date details as well as information about housing, food, rides and directions, legal support and more, visit www.100dayscampaign.org.
12/15 Iraq Watch: Journalist throw shoes at Bush on Iraq trip (video and commentary)
[BBC] A surprise visit by US President George Bush to Iraq has been overshadowed by an incident in which two shoes were thrown at him during a news conference. An Iraqi journalist was wrestled to the floor by security guards after he called Mr Bush "a dog" and threw his footwear, just missing the president.
Bush shoe-thrower in hospital after beating: brother 16 Dec 2008 The Iraqi journalist who hurled shoes at US President [sic] George W. Bush is in hospital after being beaten up by security guards, his brother charged on Tuesday, as judicial authorities launched a probe into the incident. "He has been taken to Ibn Sina hospital because he has a broken arm and ribs and is also suffering injuries to his eye and leg," Durgham al-Zaidi said of his brother Muntazer.
12/14/08: UFPJ National Assembly A Success!
Things have been busy here in Chicago!
With UFPJ's 4th United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) National Assembly coming to a close, the coalition can speak with great enthusiasm of the renewed level of commitment and participation by its member groups. With the consensus adoption of our revised Unity Statement, a new Strategic Framework, and a Program for Action designed for the opportunities and challenges of this period, there was a renewed commitment to the work of this coalition.
In addition, the delegates to the Assembly adopted a campaign of organizing and protest tentatively entitled "Yes We Can!...End the War!", leading up to a major mobilization in NYC on the April 4th anniversaries of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Riverside Church speech in 1967 and his assassination the following year. Read More »
Peace Activism 
On March 19, 2003, the United States launched an illegal and immoral war against the people of Iraq. For six long years, our government lied, all the while human rights and the rule of law have been disregarded, the death toll has mounted, and massive destruction has left Iraq in ruins. The war has drained our national treasury while the profits of oil companies and war profiteers have soared. 
President Obama announced his decision to send 17,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, on the grounds that 'the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan demands urgent attention'. 
Photos: 
January 11, 12:45pm at Dupont Circle in DC 
