January 17th, 2007
Granny Peace Brigade Itinerary:
Wednesday 17th
5-9 pm
Stewart R. Mott House (122 Maryland Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 Phone:
202-546-3732)
Dinner, Meet and Greet, Strategy/Planning/Assignments, and Lobby Training
We are asking $10-20 dollars for meal served and expenses. No one is to be
turned away.
Thursday 18th
9 am - 10:30 am
Rayburn Building (Southwest of the Capitol on a site bounded by Independence
Avenue, […]
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January 17th, 2007
Sarah Olson, an independent journalist and radio producer (seen in the photo above interviewing war resister Pablo Paredes while on assignment for the Canadian Broadcasting Company), received a supoena in December to testify in the court-martial of 1rst Lt. Ehren Watada, the first commissioned officer to refuse deployment to Iraq. The supoena is […]
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January 16th, 2007
Press Advisory
Contact: Joan Wile
Phone: 917-441-0651
Email: joanwile@grandmothersagainstthe war.org
December 22, 2006
100 GRANNIES TO VISIT 100 SENATORS
Plans are proceeding for the GRANNY PEACE BRIGADE Descent on the Senate January 18, at which time at least 100 grandmothers will visit all 100 United States Senators in their Washington offices to demand an immediate end to the […]
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January 12th, 2007
The following statement and call to action is being circulated by the Global Women’s Strike . Please note that there were substantial formatting problems in the original, every effort has been made to correct them without changing the text itself:
WOMEN ALL OVER THE WORLD SUPPORT THE DEMANDS OF THE
WOMEN OF OAXACA
4 January 2007
In November […]
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January 11th, 2007
Cross-posted from Sheroes:
Many thanks to my dear friend Janie Rezner for allowing me to post her Solstice prayer. Janie is an extraordinary artist, poet and musician. She also has a radio program, Women’s Vocies on KZYX. Please visit her website to see more of her wonderful art and learn more about her […]
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January 10th, 2007
The following excerpt is from a statement by Sara Rich, Suzanne Swift’s Mother:
“Something struck me as I read Suzanne’s file, other than the names of
the three sexual predators and harassers. Others are just culpable as
these three in their lack of protection of this soldier. Equal
Opportunity officer William Cox ignored Suzanne’s plea for
protection. Who trains these […]
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January 10th, 2007
Celina R. DeLeon has an excellent piece on Alternet about the case of Suzanne Swift, a military police officer who was court-martialed for going AWOL instead of returning to a military unit where she was sexually abused. Swift, who suffers from PTSD was released last week after 30 days in jail. In accordance with the […]
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January 9th, 2007
Many thanks to Jan Strout, Director of the NW Organizing Project of the National Organization for Women for letting me reprint her remarks at the press conference held in conjunction with the release of Suzanne Swift from prison. Suzanne went AWOL from the military after she was ordered to return to the same unit […]
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January 9th, 2007
Many thanks to the authors for allowing me to reprint this excellent statement:
“Federal Report on Prostitution: A Missing Link
There is something amiss in the divided report on prostitution published
four weeks ago by a Canadian House of Commons sub-committee: we men seem to
be invisible.
The authors of the majority report focus the whole issue of prostitution on
“persons […]
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January 7th, 2007
For all the marches, rallies and petitions, most of us end up feeling quite helpless to stop violence such as is being experienced by the women in the Darfur region of Sudan. But Jewish World Watch in partnership with Solar Cookers International, KoZon Foundation and CARE-Chad, has come up with an idea that is brilliantly […]
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