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No Respect, No Peace: 10/21/2010

Cosmo Garvin, Seth Sandronsky and Hugh Biggar - Sacramento News & Review

It's been a tough year for the Peace and Freedom Party in California. In the spring, voters passed Proposition 14, the "top two" primary system, which will probably spell the end of third-party election campaigns in the state. The press, particularly the big dailies, have never been very understanding, or ...


Taxpayer 'Invoice' Might Change The Debate In D.C.: 10/17/2010

Brian Tumulty - Ithica Journal

WASHINGTON -- What if you received an invoice in the mail every year to show just how your federal tax bill was spent?David Kendall of the Third Way, a Washington think tank of moderate liberal policy leanings, broached the idea recently in an article that included a sample invoice.Kendall used ...


Changing The Nation's Spending Priorities From War To Peace: 10/16/2010

By Madelyn Hoffman - OP-ED News

On Saturday, October 2nd, a bus provided by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) left from the Essex Junior Academy, next door to the Bloomfield-based New Jersey Peace Action (NJPA), and traveled to the One Nation Working Together (ONWT) rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. NJPA organized 4 ...


Local Grannies Protest Cost Of Afghan War: 10/15/2010

Maud Easter - Albany Times Union

Tomorrow, Saturday the 16th, I'll be out on the sidewalk by Colonie Center, joining other grandmothers – or in my case, grandmotherly aged women – to demand an end to the Afghan War. We'll be there because we know we and our families can't afford this war anymore. Instead of ...


Wars Take Huge Toll On 9th District: 10/14/2010

Chris Dunn - Collegiate Times

Free tuition at Virginia Tech? Free health care for low-income families? Drastically reduced taxes for all? Safer vacations abroad? These are but a few ways in which citizens of the 9th District could benefit from the absence of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.


Northampton Passes Resolution To “Bring The War Dollars Home”: 10/14/2010

Sara Jackson - Daily Collegian

On Oct. 7 the mayor and city council of Northampton passed a resolution called, "Bring the War Dollars Home," which calls on the Northampton's congressional representatives to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan on the grounds of economic cost to the city. Six council members voted for the resolution, ...


Debunking The Ridiculousness Of The “Pverty Draft” Legend: 10/12/2010

- The American Legion's Burn Pit

A multi-cultural military, for a multi-cultural country. Let's not let extremists frame the topic.


South Leads Military: 10/12/2010

Georgeann King - Midtown Republican Club

According to a survey by the National Priorities Project, the South leads in military volunteers. The regional breakdown shows that active duty recruits per 1,000 youth is 1.81 in the South; 1.01 in the Northeast; 1.33 in the Midwest and the West has 1.44. That translates into 23% more recruits ...


Cut Federal Budget By Ending The Wars: 10/09/2010

- Des Moines Register

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One Nation: Uniting For Jobs, Not War: 10/08/2010

Phyllis Bennis - YES! Magazine

His always-identifiable, once-in-a-generation voice booming across the sun-drenched National Mall, the legendary actor-activist Harry Belafonte evoked the words of his long-ago friend and colleague, Martin Luther King, Jr. As he spoke, a hundred thousand people rose to their feet in a roaring ovation. Whatever had come before, this was the ...