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Bush Budget Out of Step with American Public
Peace Activists Look to '08 for Change of Government Priorities
Barbra Bearden
Feburary 5, 2008
Yesterday the White House submitted its 2009 military budget request of $515.4 billion. It represents a 5% increase to an already over bloated Pentagon budget from last year and a 37% increase since Bush took office. This figure does not include the approved supplemental spending for the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Our Peace Agenda: A Status Report
Paul Surovell, Chair - South Mountain Peace Action
February 5, 2008
South Mountain Peace Action's priority in 2007 was to urge Congress to act now to end the war in Iraq. We delivered 1,337 signatures in March and hundreds of letters in September, to our Senators and Congressmen. We held rallies in May and August (in coordination with MoveOn.org) and initiated email and telephone campaigns throughout the year. In September we organized a delegation of students and adults to lobby our Senators' representatives in Newark. We organized two busloads to attend the Washington peace rally in January, and we returned to DC in July with Maplewood's Mayor Profeta and Township Committee member De Luca to participate in Cities for Peace Day.
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New York Feminists For Peace and Barack Obama
Melissa Van, Peace Action New York State
2.6.08

In the coming elections, it is important to remember that war and peace
are as much “women’s issues,” as are health, the environment, and the
achievement of educational and occupational equality. Because we
believe that all of these concerns are not only fundamental but closely
intertwined, this Tuesday we will be casting our vote for Senator
Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee for President of the United
States.
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A Peaceful Response to the State of the Union
Seth Long & Barbra Bearden
1. 31. 08
Bush's last State of the Union speech was predictably more of the same; empty rhetoric attempting to put a positive spin on an unpopular and dilapidated presidency. That presidency has sunk our nation's resources into an ill-conceived invasion of Iraq while demonstrating an almost total disregard for America's economic, social, environmental and diplomatic needs.
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Looking Ahead for Peace
Seth Long
12.07.07

The occupation of Iraq and its effect on our economy and international relations, our relationship with Iran and the role of US foreign policy in general, will be the most urgent issues political candidates are asked to address in the 2008 elections.
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Raise The Voice For Peace!
Seth Long
12.25.07

Bush's audacious announcement last week to solidify a permanent US occupation of Iraq is not a surprise to anyone following his handiwork. But it doesn't make it any less outrageous.
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Air Strikes Only Effective in Killing Civilians
Barbra Bearden
October 31, 2007

Imagine you are a parent living in a war zone. When you return your house, and the family you left there, you find it has been completely destroyed. Your children, your spouse, your life scattered around your land like rubble. You, and your family, have become victims of air strikes.
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War Profiteers Working in Iraq
Barbra Bearden
10.11.07
We’ve heard about Blackwater. The actions of Blackwater employees (who are mostly former U.S. Military) are so atrocious and well documented that the Iraqi government has demanded the U.S. find a new company to provide security for civilian diplomats and that Blackwater pay reparations to the families of its victims.
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