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• Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87

  "By Mark Feeney, Globe Staff. Jan 27, 2010 The following appeared on Boston.com: Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and a leading faculty critic of BU president ...

• Take Action: "Cheer or Jeer" Your Representative for Signing or Not Signing Letter on Gaza Blockade

  January 27, 2010 Unfortunately, it's not too often that we get the opportunity to thank Members of Congress for doing the right thing. That's why it's so important to do so when they do something that we ask of them. On January 21, 2010, 54 Representat...

• Ten Things the United States Can and Should Do for Haiti

   *From Bill Quigley, Legal Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights and a law professor at Loyola University New Orleans. He is a Katrina survivor and has been active in human rights in Haiti for years with the Institute for Justice and Democ...

• Sign Letter to the President on Upcoming Iraqi Elections

  Now is Not the Time to Forget About Iraq Dear Colleague: Afghanistan and Yemen are dominating the foreign-policy headlines these days, so much so that we often seem to forget there are still over 100,000 American troops in Iraq.  And while viole...

• FEINGOLD LISTENING SESSION IN MILW. COUNTY ON 1/19/10

  U.S. Senator Russ Feingold will hold a listening session in Milwaukee County on Tuesday, January 19.  Senator Feingold has pledged to hold listening sessions in all of Wisconsin's 72 counties each year of his six-year term and this will be the Senato...

• Proposed climate change bill should not relax laws on nuclear reactors

  PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, WISCONSIN NETWORK FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE, PEACE ACTION WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH Proposed climate change bill should not relax laws on nuclear reactors, groups say FOR IMMEDIA...

• January 2010 Calendar

  Sat. Jan. 2 Milwaukee Stand for Peace. Take a stand against the U.S. War and Occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan. 12 noon-1pm EVERY SAT. at various intersections. Wed. Jan. 6 Iraq Vets Against War meeting. Milwaukee. 3pm, Peace Action Center, 1001 E Kee...

• National Priorities Project Tallies cost of war through 9/30/10

  $747 billion for Iraq $299 billion for Afghanistan through September 30, 2010 For more information: 413.584.9556 or www.nationalpriorities.org.   Congress has appropriated an additional $136.8 billion for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for the 2010 f...

• 'Journal Sentinel warmongering?'

  We recently chided Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Managing Editor George Stanley for losing all perspective on the Afghanistan war after visiting his son's Army unit there and coming home to write a four-part series cheerleading for victory there.  Milw...