Wednesday

UPDATE: CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS

ISRAEL: Update on imprisonment of conscientious objectors

In recent weeks, several Israeli objectors went in and out of prison. It is especially worrying that some objectors already served more than 100 days in prison, with no end in sight.

Alex Cohn (ISR14726) was released from Military Prison No 4 on Friday, 26 August 2005, after completing his sixth prison term - a total of now more than 100 days in prison for refusing to enlist. He was ordered to present himself at the Induction Center again this week - and might well be imprisoned again.

Wissam Qablan (ISR14735), a Druze conscientious objector, was released after his seventh prison term last week, after spending more than 112 days in prison. He too was ordered to present himself at the Induction Center again this week.

Orwa Zidan (ISR14753) was released from Military Prison No 4 last two weeks ago after completing his first prison term. On Sunday, 21 August, he again presented himself to the Induction Base near Tel Aviv and again declared his refusal to enlist in the IDF. He was sentenced to another term of 21 days, and sent to Military Prison No 4.

Shaul Mograbi-Berger (ISR14754) was released from his first prison term on 26 August 2005. He too is likely to be reimprisoned again this week.

War Resisters' International calls for letters of support to the imprisoned objectors:
Orwa Zidan
Military Prison No 4
Military Postal Code 02507, IDF
Israel

War Resisters' International calls for letters of protest to the Israeli authorities, and Israeli embassies abroad. An email letter can be sent at http://www.wri-irg.org/co/alerts/20050830a.html .

War Resisters' International calls for the immediate release of conscientious objector Orwa Zidan, and all other imprisoned conscientious objectors.

Andreas Speck
War Resisters' International


Addresses

Shaul Mofaz

Minister of Defence,

Ministry of Defence,

37 Kaplan st.,

Tel-Aviv 61909,

Israel.

e-mail: sar@mod.gov.il or pniot@mod.gov Fax: +972-3-696-27-57 / +972-3-691-69-40 / +972-3-691-79-15


Commander of Military Prison No. 4,

Military Postal Code 02507

IDF, Israel

Fax: +972-3-957-52-76


Commander of Military Prison No 6

Military Prison No 6

Military postal number 01860,

IDF, Israel.

Fax: +972-4-869-28-84


Addresses of Israeli embassies can be found at http://www.embassyworld.com/embassy/israel1.htm


Addresses of Israeli media:

Ma'ariv:

2 Karlibach st.

Tel-Aviv 67132

Israel

Fax: +972-3-561-06-14

e-mail: editor@maariv.co.il


Yedioth Aharonoth:

2 Moses st.

Tel-Aviv

Israel

Fax: +972-3-608-25-46


Ha'aretz (Hebrew):

21 Schocken st.

Tel-Aviv, 61001

Israel

Fax: +972-3-681-00-12


Ha'aretz (English edition):

21 Schocken st.

Tel-Aviv, 61001

Israel

Fax: +972-3-512-11-56

e-mail: letters@haaretz.co.il


Jerusalem Post:

.O. Box 81

Jerusalem 91000

Israel

Fax: +972-2-538-95-27

e-mail: news@jpost.co.il or letters@jpost.co.il


Jerusalem Report:

Fax: +972-2-537-94-89


Radio (fax numbers):

Kol-Israel +972-2-531-33-15 and +972-3-694-47-09 Galei Tzahal +972-3-512-67-20


Television (fax numbers):

Channel 1 +972-2-530-15-36

Channel 2 +972-2-533-98-09


Andreas Speck
War Resisters' International

Archives of co-alert can be found at http://wri-irg.org/news/alerts

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Bring Them Home Now Tour

Bring Them Home Now Tour
Press Release, BringThemHomeNowTour.org, 31 August 2005

 FROM CAMP CASEY, CRAWFORD TO WASHINGTON DC

From George Bush’s door step to communities along the way, we demand that:

* Elected Representatives Decide Now to Bring the Troops Home
We Take Care of Them When They Get Here
We Never Again Send Our Loved Ones to War Based on Lies!


* duckdaotsu would restate these demands to :
  • Bring the Troops Home IMMEDIATELY, FROM AROUND THE WORLD.
  • NO EXCEPTIONS.
  • PROVIDE CURRENT VETS WITH RESOURCES FOR HEALING AND TRANSITION & CONTINUE TO Care[for] Them FOR LIFE
  • We Never Again GO TO War

We are currently at a significant turning point in how the American public views the war in Iraq. As the death toll in Iraq rises, Cindy Sheehan’s vigil near President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, has captured the hearts and minds of thousands of Americans. Bush’s approval rating is falling. The voice of military families, who have lost loved ones and those with loved ones in harm’s way or about to deploy, can activate the American people. The voice of veterans, both of this war and of previous wars will also build the movement to end the war. Together these critical voices can demand that President Bush make the decision now to bring the troops home.


On August 31st, the last day of the encampment, the Bring Them Home Now Tour will launch three buses from Crawford, Texas, each carrying military and Gold Star families, veterans of the Iraq War and veterans of previous wars. These buses will travel different routes across the country, converging in Washington, DC on September 21, for the United for Peace and Justice Mobilization September 24th-26th.

The tour will amplify the voice of Gold Star families, who show the devastating human cost of this war; the voice of military families, for whom each and every day that this war continues brings the potential for the most devastating of consequences; and the voice of veterans, who can share the ground truth about war and the impact on those who were sent off to fight it.
Over the course of the tour, members of the sponsoring organizations will reach out to military families, veterans, and concerned citizens in cities and towns in the heartland, the north, and the south. The Tour will spread the truth about the war in Iraq, mobilize people to Washington DC for September 24-26th and ask Congressional decision-makers the hard questions Cindy has asked President Bush and to learn what our elected representatives are doing to bring this war to an end.


The Bring Them Home Now Tour is sponsored by Gold Star Families for Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, and Veterans For Peace.


Related Links
  • www.bringthemhomenowtour.org
  • BY TOPIC: Cindy Sheehan & Camp Casey (Summer 2005)


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  • Opinion/Editorial: There is Such a Thing as “Too Late” (31 August 2005)
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  • BY TOPIC: Cindy Sheehan & Camp Casey (Summer 2005) (29 August 2005)
  • Opinion/Editorial: Two "Green Zones" (29 August 2005)
  • Action & Activism: Camp Casey Diary: Tuesday 23rd to Sunday 28th August 2005 (29 August 2005)
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  • Iraq Diaries: The Good, the Bad and ...the Innocent (26 August 2005)
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    September 1968: Women Protest Miss America

    September 1968: Women Protest Miss America

    By Louise Bernikow
    WeNews historian

    September 7, 1968: Women's Liberation Protests Miss America.


    (WOMENSENEWS)--On the boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J., bathing beauties had been cavorting and competing for a title, a tiara and some cash since 1921.

    In 1968, young members of a group called New York Radical Women focused on the enormously popular Miss America contest, with its runway parade mimicking the judging of animals at a county fair, forced competition for male approval and ludicrous beauty standards as a symbol of American women's oppression.

    After alerting the media, over 100 women went to Atlantic City on Sept. 7, planning an afternoon of sloganeering--"women are not meat," for one--and street theater on the boardwalk. Into a large "Freedom Trash Can" they flung "instruments of female torture," including make-up, high heels, Good Housekeeping magazine, girdles, garter belts and bras. A jeering crowd of several hundred surrounded the protesters, along with newspaper and television cameras. Later, while the "show" went on in the convention hall, a few demonstrators dropped a banner over the balcony railing. It was the nation's first look at the words: "Women's Liberation."


    Bra Burners

    The bras stuck in the public imagination. Although the plan had been to set fire to the objects in the trash can, authorities withheld a permit to do so. Nonetheless, "bra burners" became the derisive shorthand for women's liberation, partly because reporters had been told everything would burn and partly because, escalating protests against the Vietnam War featured draft card burning. The phrase seemed to some a gender equivalent.

    The demonstration and its coverage inspired some women in simple ways--no more leg shaving, for example. Others responded to the larger political message and went in search of a women's liberation group.

    For several decades, in many parts of the country, beauty contests continued to be the targets of feminist protestors. Actions against Miss California pageants, for example, came to include thousands of people and theatrical touches such as a protestor's dress made of bologna skins.

    While Miss America was losing her home grown commercial appeal--the show was dropped from national television because of failing viewer interest--international beauty pageants thrived, along with those for children like Jon Benet Ramsey and a spate of make-over and plastic surgery shows hit the airways. By the time Atlantic City asked Miss America to leave town, as they did this year, she seemed less like a piece of meat than a lady with a demure tea-cup left over from a bygone era.



    Louise Bernikow is the author of seven books and numerous magazine articles. She travels to campuses and community groups with a lecture and slide show about activism called "The Shoulders We Stand On: Women as Agents of Change." She can be reached at weezieman@aol.com
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    Saturday

    Pressures Against Media Blogging

    Iraq Versus Vietnam: A Comparison of Public Opinion

    Submitted by editor on August 24, 2005 - 2:33pm.

    By Frank Newport and Joseph Carroll
    Source: Gallup

    Due to complaints by the Gallup organization
    MediaChannel has removed this article from our site.

    and free use bites the dust again.

    However, we still have the story, so hold on!

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    August 24, 2005

    Iraq Versus Vietnam: A Comparison of Public Opinion

    Gallup reviews public opinion during the Vietnam War and the current war in Iraq



    by Frank Newport and Joseph Carroll

    Americans have become negative about the war in Iraq more quickly than they did for the Vietnam War. It took more than three years before a majority of Americans said it was a mistake to send troops to Vietnam, a state of affairs reached within a year and three months of the inception of the Iraq war. However, the percentage of Americans mentioning Iraq as the nation's most important problem is lower than was the case for Vietnam at a similar point after it began. George W. Bush's approval ratings on Iraq — so far — have been higher than Lyndon Johnson's ratings on Vietnam.

    uhm...

    and now I have to go sign up for a thirty day trial, while being thrown around that website like a kid in a big blown up castle... sorta like what they try to be in our lives. The big castle from which the real information is announced.

    shit.

    more coming soon. I had some great articles working on the comparisons since the inception of the war. Lets take a look at all of those, what do you say?

    I found that the news from a year ago was very interesting when compared to today's headlines. As most of you know, I have been following my dao further into creative indeavors and or course, when you live in the mountains in colorado, well, ya live outside mosta the time. So here's the scoop. I have been working on art. And have found a great way to get it to you.

    Anyway back to the stories. I will start the warm-up exercises for the flaming-hoop jumping ahead of me to get the privilege of reading the rest of the above article. And again, I shall return.

    Wanna look at a picture while ya wait?

    xoxo this is the new blog

    more duck, less editor.

    YAYA!
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