Antiwar Effort Emphasizes Civility Over Confrontation (NY Times)

Our Allies Selling Arms to the "Axis of Evil?"

Iraq War Quiz

Why War with Iraq is WRONG

How Much Will the War Cost ?

By State

By City Platteville income taxes will pay 2.5 million dollars for the war

Candle Light Peace Vigils Around the World

Former Army Hero speaks against the war -will stay in Bagdad during bombing to help children

http://www.veteransforpeace.org/

http://www.bringthemhomenow.com/

Military Families Speak Out

Veterans Against Iraq War

http://www.StudentPeaceAction.org

Man Arrested for Wearing A peace T-Shirt

US Spies on the UN

The power of protest around the world - (Flash Movie)

We Are not Alone - More from around the world (Shockwave movie)

The Unseen Gulf War - Photos from the past Gulf War

Why even Gulf Veterans Are Against War in Iraq

The Gulf War and Sanctions

Do you have loved ones in the military? Are you opposed to war in Iraq?
Then you'll be interested to know about a new organization called Military Families Speak Out

City Council Resolutions Opposing War in Iraq

Press Briefing by Ari Fleischer - Jan. 2003

amateur photographer arrested for taking pictures of public place - now labeled a terrorist- Another freedom lost

Animated presentation about U.S "technical difficulties"

A collection of regular reports from Iraq from independent journalists

The Case Against the Iraq War

Senator Byrd's Questions that should be asked Before War with Iraq

Questions that should be asked before war by Larry Williams, a retired Marine colonel

Why we should Invade Iraq - Animated Spoof

Students for an Informed Response

A great animated presentation about the state of the world lately

***Picture This -The Reality of War - Is This What Patriotism is about?

Resources for Peace -  Lots of links

http://www.moveon.org/
MoveOn helps busy people be effective citizens. MoveOn is committed to broadening participation to counter the influence of monied interests and partisan extremes

http://www.voice4change.org/

http://www.unitedforpeace.org/

Education for Peace in Iraq Center (EPIC)

Common Cause.org

Justifications for NOT Going To War

6 Reasons Not to Go to War (PDF format)    

A 9/11 Victim's mother response to the President (PDF Format)  

911, It is a Crime NOT a War

Alternatives To War

An Alternative to All-out War

Ten Points of Alternatives to War

Alternative to War

The Role of the United States
America Involved in Terrorist Activity? (School of the Americas) (PDF Format)     

School of America Watch

United States a "'Rogue State?"

Operation Northwood U.S. Military Plan to Terrorize U.S. Cities to Provoke War With Cuba

Civil Liberties Issues

Animated Presentation Regarding Civil Liberties  - Thought Provoking

Statement of U.S. Senator Russ feingold (WI) on the Anti-Terrorism Bill 10/25/2001

The New USA PATRIOT ACT (Anti-Terrorism Bill) -Opinion by John Kaminski PDF  

The New Yorker Explores Diverse Views on Safety and Freedom

UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION (Plus other Historical Documents)


American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

A Century Of U.S Military Interventions

A Partial List of 130 U.S. Military Interventions  from 1890 to1999 PDF   

Writings About Peace

http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/

Gandhi - History - PDF format

Meinhardt - "Good from Bad" - PDF Format

Meinhardt - "Can Someone Explain?" PDF Format

Meinhardt - Song about Peace - PDF Format

POEM ABOUT WAR  Meryl Grebe, Babanango, South Africa

"ON SPEAKING UP" Pastor Martin Neimoller PDF Format

Hermann Goering on Generating Public Acceptance for War (Sound Familiar?)  PDF Format

Justice Arthur Goldberg on Civil Liberties in War and Peace Times PDF Format

THE WAR PRAYER -by Mark Twain

Nuremberg War Crime Tribunal, 1950 about civil disobedience  PDF Format

Noam Chomsky -- Saying What Media Don't Want Us to Hear

1984, Orwell's Cautionary Tale becoming Reality?

Other Links

Collection of links to pages discussing the VALIDITY (or Not) of various rumors to come out of the September 11

Family members of victims of the 9/11 attacks tour Afghanistan - Calling it "a second Ground Zero" Story and Streaming Audio

***Afghanistan Picture Gallery

Another Good List of Links

http://www.peaceresponse.org/

Fight Hate and Promote Tolerance - TOLERANCE.ORG

Bush Speech King

God On Our Side?  Truth from Humor

Satirical Public Service Announcement

Students for an Orwellian Society

Prove you Are a True AMERICAN PATRIOT -REGISTRATION FORM ON-LINE

"This Modern World"   Tom Tomorrow Cartoons

Get your AMERICAN CRUSADE TRADING CARDS - A SPOOF -COLLECT THE WHOLE SET!

Great Lets go to War Posters (Satire)

Political Strikes Cartoons

Bush State of the Union Slightly Edited to show reality in a funny way

Bush The Great Communicator - Funny Video

American Justice Will Never Be the Same! Flash Movie

Collateral Assets

Counter Revolution- Walking the other way at farmers market

Discussion

George W. Resume

The Madison Institute (TMI) is a think-tank of concerned citizens in the progressive tradition, dedicated to the study of complex social and political issues

Help to Ban Land mines http://www.banminesusa.org/

A.N.S.W.E.R.    "Act Now to Stop War and End Racism"

Holiday Songs Slightly Re-Written about The State of  Things

David Rovics SONGS OF SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE

http://www.mp3.com/davidrovics

Media Literacy in Times of War

Peace Grants

THIS IS LONG BUT IMPORTANT- PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO READ IT

September 11:

...I'm declaring September 11 "International Enough Day." Enough flag-waving, enough violence, enough nationalism. Enough already! September 11 was not an American tragedy... it was a human tragedy. It was a tragedy not just for the people in the US who died, but for every innocent person killed as a result of the US reaction to the attacks as well. It was a tragedy for the human spirit, regardless of nationality, religion, and anything else.

On September 11, let's say "Enough." No more killing. Let's remember not only the victims of the hijacked airplanes in the US, but of the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. Let's remember all the Israelis killed by Palestinian bombers and all the Palestinians killed by Israeli troops. Let's remember all the innocent people slain by Union Carbide in Bhopal, India in 1984. Let's take the day to contemplate the people who've been victims of genocidal warfare in Africa, and the ones who've starved to death because of political games as well. Let's remember the victims of the Holocaust and of the firebombing of Dresden, too. Let's not forget those who were slain in the Mai Lai massacre.

Instead of waving the flag of one nation and thinking only about our Own dead, let's make September 11 a day to remember all the people who've died at the hands of someone else's political agenda through no fault of their own, and let's say enough. We should stand up and disavow this, no matter what country we're in, no matter what religion we are, no matter our political affiliation or status or race or anything else.

If we had a moment of silence marking the time of every atrocity ever committed in the name of nationalism, religion ... every atrocity committed in the name of the artificial borders that try to make us forget that we're all human, all in this together, all fragile creatures whose lives can be snuffed out in an instant through no fault of our own ... then we would never speak again.

So we here in America should, I think, observe September 11 as the day when the nightmares that humans around the world have been living with for decades came lumbering ashore on the East Coast of the US. We should see it for what it is; the day the US truly experienced the horror that rings like a bell around the globe, from South America to the Middle East to Micronesia, the day we joined the human race at a most profound and fundamental level.

There should be no "Patriot Day," no day to further emphasize that we're different. Instead, let's say "Enough." Enough of putting the interests of any one nation above the interests of the human race. Enough dwelling on our small differences. Enough killing each other over them. Enough hate,enough fear, enough hunger, enough violence, enough bombing, enough enough enough ENOUGH.

We should each find our own way of expressing this. A moment of silence... or perhaps a day of silence. Meditation, art, whatever it is that you do...do it. Take the day to celebrate the lives of all of us -- wherever we're from and whatever we believe - who are still here, and think on those-wherever they were, whenever they were and whatever they were - who weren't so lucky.

Take the day to remember the fragility of human life and all the nightmares wrought by those who wanted to impose their will upon the whole of humanity. Commit no act of violence, however small. Let go of any hatred and prejudice and thirst for revenge and, for one day, see yourself in the other and the other in yourself. Do whatever you do, and do it to say ENOUGH. and let's pray that GOD BLESS ALL HUMANITY... not just America!

Vyomananda Paramacarya

". . . Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness
to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out hate; only
light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.
Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies
toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. . . The chain reaction
of evil -- hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -- must be broken,
or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation".

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963, p. 51

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