Issue 366 - June 2006
Uniting for Immigrant Rights and Iraq Secular Resistance
Featuring
- Illusions of Security in the US and Israel
- The Standoff with Iran: Time to Talk
- Promoting Peace and Progress at the Local Level
In This Issue
 Israel’s experience with terrorism — and its longtime exploitation of fear for political ends — helps shed some light on our own government’s deceptions and their troubling implications. |
 “Our aim is to end the occupation, rebuild civil society, and establish a secular and non-nationalist government in Iraq.” — Samir Adil “In the Iraq Freedom Congress, we start from this point: that the presence of women in our movement is a precondition for achieving equality and freedom.” — Houzan Mahmoud |
| Rights are Not in Limited Supply | As lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people of color, we support the current immigrant rights marches and rallies happening across the country, and we march too. | |
| Exploitation without Borders | I believe that if we look just under the surface, we can see that our Black and Brown fates are deeply intertwined. | |
| No Immigration Bill is Better | The Senate bill expands current guest worker programs, and establishes new ones, allowing employers to recruit workers outside the country on temporary visas. | |
| The US and Iran: Time to Talk | Are the issues regarding Iran’s nuclear program capable of resolution? It certainly seems possible. | |
| The Weapon of Mass Destruction In Our Neighborhood | Affinity groups have gone to the headquarters of Entergy, the company that owns the plant, each month since November with different creative actions that send a clear message that we do not want Vermont Yankee providing our electricity. | |
| Time to Dust Off that No Nukes Button | In sum, none of the available alternative energy sources can match nuclear power's ability to thwart the nation's inherent democratic tendencies and stop the nation's slide toward local control. | |
| Promoting Peace and Progress at the Local Level | Communities for Progress has created a web site which provides comprehensive toolkits for community groups interested in getting anti-war ordinances passed, as well as the space to construct a national network of activists working on passing initiatives and getting referendum questions on state ballots. | |
| 'You Must Arrest Us Too': William Sloane Coffin, 1925-2006 | And if we are correct, if the war is a crime, then is it criminal to refuse to have anything to do with it? | |
| Honoring Damu Smith and His Work to Unify the Peace Movement | Damu understood better that most that the struggle to end war and poverty in the world could only happen with the inclusion and participation of people of color. | |
| Pieces | Events, Gatherings, Opportunities, Resources, Campaigns | |
| Conscientious Objectors Building Transnational Nonviolent Community | Meeting and talking with resisters from Latin America, Europe, and Israel, I was startled by just how parallel our struggles are. | |
| From the Editor's Desk | ||
| A Resolution from the City of El Paso | BE IT RESOLVED that the Mayor and City Council of the City of El Paso oppose President Bush’s proposal and any other proposal that militarizes the border. | |
| The Line Between Us: Teaching about the Border | ||
| Massachusetts Action Alert: Final Push to Get "End the War" Referendum on the November Ballot | ||
| A Declaration of Peace |
