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UWM Students Arrested During Protest: 3/4/2010

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The rally hosted by the UWM Education Rights Campaign was broken up by police force at the Chancellor Carlos Santiago's office, when students demanded he take a pay cut before laying off workers and cutting faculty pay 5%.

YouTube videos taken by student involved:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwtJGfnp3HU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stiScozX7Bg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VizB5zFiCF8

 

The Sword and the Shield

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By Bruce Gagnon, edited by Chuck Baynton

The latest news is that Romania will be hosting the U.S. Army’s ground-based “missile defense” systems. Russia is not pleased with this development. These same Army Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) systems have been deployed in Japan and South Korea and will be deployed in Taiwan, continuing US military encirclement of China.
The Standard Missile-3 (SM-3), already in the Persian Gulf and soon to be based on destroyers in the South China Sea and elsewhere, has a range of 500 kilometers but can be enhanced for longer distances. It was used by the U.S. Navy to destroy a satellite 130 miles above the Pacific in February of 2008 in a test viewed by Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. “The satellite was unlike any target the system was designed to go after ... The satellite was in orbit…traveling at incredible speeds,” Mullen said. Translation: the SM-3 also has anti-satellite weapons capability. That means the Pentagon can use the Aegis-based missile to knock out Russian or Chinese satellites as part of a first-strike attack.

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Largest Peace Group Pushes House Vote to Remove Troops from Afghanistan in 2010

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For Immediate Release:  March 4, 2010
Contact:  Paul Kawika Martin, Peace Action, 951-217-7285, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

  Washington, DC — Peace Action, the nation’s largest grassroots peace group, supported legislation that would force a debate and vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on removing all troops from Afghanistan this year.
  “While the timeline may not be perfect in this legislation, it’s better than the lack of an Afghanistan withdrawal timeline expressed by the Obama Administration.  The resolution will allow debate on the House floor where Representatives will express concerns that the cost of a failed military strategy is too high,” stated Paul Kawika Martin, the group’s policy and political director.
  The bipartisan, concurrent resolution offered by Congressman Kucinich (D-OH-10) today uses section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution which forces action by the House within 15 calendar days.  Currently, the House plans a debate and vote next Wednesday.
  The group knows that the resolution is unlikely to pass, but argued that congressional debate and oversight is needed at a time when polls show Americans increasing their opposition to the Afghanistan war and connecting huge war expenditures with a lack of funding for domestic needs.
  “Just as the U.S. has an exit timeline for Iraq, we need one for Afghanistan.  An expressed date of July, 2011 to start military drawdown by President Obama is not good enough,” argued Martin who travelled to Afghanistan late last year.
  “It’s time to transition from more military spending to investing in diplomacy, development and economic stimulus that creates long-term stability in the region.”

 

News From Everywhere

Exit Strategies for Afghanistan and Iraq By Tom Hayden - ... Representative Dennis Kucinich will step into the crosswinds this week and force the House of Representatives to wake up, pay attention, and vote up or down on the Afghanistan war. The Kucinich initiative at least will reveal where Congress stands. Whether it will energize the peace movement for upcoming March protests or beyond is unpredictable.

Local Nuclear War, Global Suffering by Alan Robock and Owen Brian Toon - Scientific American January 2010: climate.envsci.rutgers.edu [to view sidebars and other supplementary material please use this link] - Worry has focused on the U.S. versus Russia, but a regional nuclear war between India and Pakistan could blot out the sun, starving much of the human race.

Fiction of Marja as City Was US Information War - For weeks, the U.S. public followed the biggest offensive of the Afghanistan War against what it was told was a "city of 80,000 people" as well as the logistical hub of the Taliban in that part of Helmand. ... It turns out, however, that the picture of Marja presented by military officials and obediently reported by major news media is one of the clearest and most dramatic pieces of misinformation of the entire war, apparently aimed at hyping the offensive as a historic turning point in the conflict.

Roundtable Discussions

Peace Education Project
Roundtable Discussion Group

Alterra Coffeehouse
Mar. 28, 2010   2 p.m.

Topic: Nuclear Disarmament

Discussion articles: TBA