Archive for February, 2012
Counter-Summit for Peace & Economic Justice
NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is holding a summit meeting in Chicago, May 2012. The NATO summit will be held in conjunction with a summit of the Group of 8 (G8). We, peace and justice activists, will gather at a counter summit to voice a new vision of global security and peace.
Join us in Chicago May 18 & 19 for a counter-summit to conceive and help build a more peaceful, economically secure,and environme
February 26, 2012
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Ten SOA Watch delegates just returned from a week long visit to the border between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, from February 12-19, organized in conjunction with Project Puente. Delegates visited with human rights organizations, farm-workers, students, women's groups, parents of the disappeared and immigration activists on both sides of the border to understand more about militarization in the border region. The delegation ended with a bi-national rally at the border fence to remember
February 26, 2012
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The recent passage of provisions on conflict minerals from eastern Congo in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform act has brought unprecedented attention to the linkages between trade in minerals crucial to electronics and other industries and the ongoing conflict in DRC. These provisions have been welcomed by the State Department, the Congolese government, a diverse coalition of NGOs, and by leading companies. But the passage of the legislation also raises important questions about how it will be i
February 22, 2012
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The stark choice between a fascist or an imperialist course in Syria should be discarded for a third and better course.
By Joseph Massad
http://www.aljazeera.com
2012 February 6 10:28:22
In the context of the US invasion of the Gulf in 1991, British academic Fred Halliday announced his new right-wing affiliations in the British newspaper the New Statesman by declaring: "If I have to choose between imperialism and fascism, I choose imperialism." It never occurred to Halliday that he
February 15, 2012
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A stunning, powerful, and beautifully filmed tribute to Britain's peace movement. Beating the Bomb was produced by Meera Patel and Wolfgang Matt. Madmoviesonyoutube brought the film to YouTube with this introduction:
Beating the Bomb covers 50 years of the Peace movement in Britain against the historical and political backdrop of the atomic age.
Now called 'nuclear deterrent', nuclear weapons have shaped the power structures that rose out of the rubble of WWII and underpin them
February 15, 2012
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