Peace Takes Courage
March 2004, news of the upcoming draft, plans to attack Iraq, and how
the January "national vote" was hacked by US authorities in Iraq.
All three in one link, click here.
Like to be reminded of your elected
representatives? National, state, or local, check out
Project Vote-Smart, a great web site for all kinds of information on elected
officials, who they are, how to reach them, voting records, email addresses, etc.. The
link will
start out with representatives of Sheboygan at all levels, you can also use your
own zip code for any portion of the US.
Peace Action-Wisconsin
- is a peace and justice organization which works for a world where human
needs are met, the environment is preserved, and the threats of war and
nuclear weapons have been abolished. We are committed to non-violence as a
way of life and offer our members opportunities for education, lobbying
and public witness.
Veterans for
Peace is a national organization for both veterans and associate
member non-veterans working to eliminate war. They've been there and
feel that the most patriotic thing we can do for our military is to bring
them home.
Sheboygan
Veterans for Peace is the local chapter and has worked with us on
many local projects.
Campus AntiWar
activities: plans, results, goals nationwide.
Voices in the Wilderness
- Since its founding in 1996, Voices in the Wilderness has
campaigned to end economic and military warfare against the Iraqi people.
Peace
North is an activist community located in the Hayward-Cable,
WI area. They maintain an extensive web site where
you can find news, articles, humor, and one of the best regional event
calendars in the area!
http://www.ivaw.net/ Iraq Veterans
Against the War.
Trap Rock Peace,
lots of ideas and information for working against war. Has an
extremely detailed analysis of Powell's report to the U.N. and the
rebuttal for every item. Powerful. This site also has veterans speaking
out against the military lies regarding depleted uranium.
http://www.antiwar.com/ Antiwar.com
is a program that provides a sounding board of interest to all who are
concerned about US foreign policy and its implications.
http://www.commondreams.org/
Common Dreams
is a national non-profit citizens' organization working to bring
progressive Americans
together to
promote progressive visions for America's future.
http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/Summary.aspx Iraq
War Casualties this web site was developed … to provide information
that has been scrupulously culled from government sources and
cross-checked against other existing lists to ensure the most accurate and
complete accounting of deaths that we can possibly assemble.
Fact Check - a nonpartisan, nonprofit, "consumer
advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and
confusion in U.S. politics. We monitor the factual accuracy of what is
said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates,
speeches, interviews, and news releases. Our goal is to apply the best
practices of both journalism and scholarship, and to increase public
knowledge and understanding.
www.palestineremembered.com Rare photos and eyewitness
accounts depicting the destruction and ethnic cleansing of the
Palestinian villages. Detailed history about the evolution and
core issues of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
United for
Peace and Justice
is a coalition of more than 750 local and national groups throughout the
United States who have joined together to oppose our government's policy
of permanent warfare and empire-building. Time to end the occupation
of Iraq and bring the troops home NOW!
Global
Coalition For Peace was formed to join forces with all those working
for the unity of the human family where meditation, prayer, educational
programs and events will be some of the means used to spread this message.
http://www.sojo.net/
Sojourners, is a Christian ministry whose mission is to proclaim and
practice the biblical call to integrate spiritual renewal and social
justice.
www.globalresearch.ca has
the big picture in a lot of little pieces.
www.snowshoefilms.com has
videos from various rallies and speakers not shown on regular TV.
This book, www.waronfreedom.org,
is a huge source on American foreign policy.
On
www.internationalanswer.org, the world speaks on injustice.
The nation-wide organization
Peace Action Network has a great
newsletter. We are associated with their Milwaukee based group.
To learn more about the devastating effects to the people of Iraq from
the economic sanctions imposed by the U.N. and enforced by the U.S.
government, go to www.vitw.org, the site
for Voices in the Wilderness. These people go to Iraq to witness the
suffering and then come back to share their testimonies so that more
people here will understand many of the Iraqi's plight.
Read the Pledge of Resistance on
www.notinourname.net.
For conscientious objectors, this site is especially good for young men
ages 18 to 26: www.objector.org.
This site has a lot of good information on the question of nonviolence:
www.nonviolence.org; especially
of interest is the question, Why a military?
If you would like to become an inspector to disarm the country with the
most weapons of mass destruction in the world (guess who?), sign up at
www.rootingoutevil.org. Just
reading the testimonies of other "inspectors" from all over the world is
enlightening. It dispels the myth that the U.S. is a beacon of hope for
the rest of the world.
If you want to keep informed and become active online, go to
www.moveon.org and subscribe.
www.truemajority.com
http://www.terrorismanswers.com/policy/foreignaid.html
Details of
where
foreign aid from the United States is being directed.
http://www.zmag.org/list2.htm
Among other things, a partial
list of U.S. military interventions from 1890 to 2000.
08/03/04 "ICH" -- A humanitarian crisis has been looming in Iraq since
the 1991 U.S. war due to shortage of drinking water and increase in
waterborne diseases that kill children. Despite abundant supplies of
water from the Tigris and Euphrates, and the Shatt-Al-Arab waterway
formed by the confluence of the two rivers, because of the destruction
to Iraq’s infrastructure and the genocidal sanctions imposed on Iraq by
the U.S-UN.
Aug. 2, 2004 -- Forty years ago today, a murky military encounter at sea
plunged the United States deeper into the war in Vietnam. On Aug. 2,
1964, three North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked a U.S. destroyer in
the Gulf of Tonkin. Two days later, the U.S. Navy reported to Secretary
of Defense Robert McNamara that another American destroyer was under
attack by the North Vietnamese.
The allegation that Iraqi Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi shot seven
restrained prisoners (killing six) in a fit of anger—with a number of
witnesses present—is certainly newsworthy.
But, remarkably, the U.S. media has chosen not to cover it,
preferring to accept official denials. The foreign press is not so
trusting. The disconcerting result is that we simply aren’t getting the
same picture of Iraq that citizens of every other English-speaking
country see.
Names and faces of all the Americans killed in Iraq
Iraqi victims of the war
