Photo of Iraq Moratorium Day #1 in Sewanee, TN (pop. 2335)
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Our Commitment
I hereby make a commitment that on the Third Friday of each and every month, I will break my daily routine and take some action, by myself or with others, to end the War in Iraq. Sign me up!
DELAY IN IRAQ PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS? The provincial election plan — strongly backed by Washington — would shift more political powers to regions and is viewed by Sunni Arabs as path to gain more influence over decisions by the Shiite-led government.
MALIKI SUPPORTS OBAMA WITHDRAWAL PLAN Minutes after the Democratic presidential candidate met the Iraqi leader at his private residence, Maliki's spokesman, Ali Dabbagh, announced that Iraq wants American combat troops to leave by the end of 2010, a few months later than Obama has proposed.
U.S. PLANNING TO ATTACK FALLUJAH--AGAIN "The Americans and their allies transferred our leader, Colonel Fayssal al-Zoba'i from his post because they have bad plans for the city," a major in the Fallujah police force told IPS. "He has all the right to keep his post because he was the one who led us to defeat the insurgency while the Americans failed. They (the U.S. military) seem to have a plan to destroy the city again."
In keeping with the locally-based, bottom-up spirit of the Iraq Moratorium, will you please consider giving one dollar every month to keep the Moratorium growing? One buck! You can hand it to the organizers of local events, mail it to us or donate online.
Month by month, this Moratorium is expanding. With more resources, it can grow faster. Every dollar goes directly into organizing. Will you help us with this vital work? Larger donations are of course welcome, but the bottom line is we are counting on your dollar.
**Congratulations to the folks in Sewanee, TN who observed the first anniversary of the Iraq Moratorium on Friday, July 18. For everyone else, that will be September 19, Moratorium Day #13, but the folks in Sewanee liked the idea so much when they heard about it that they jumped the gun and started two months early, last July. Read about it here. That's a Sewanee photo at the top of this page.
** No attack on Iran! Responding to the renewed threats of a U.S./Israeli attack on Iran before President Bush leaves office, United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ), the nation's largest peace coalition, has called for coordinated Days of Action across the United States on July 19-21, to speak out against any U.S./Israeli military attack on Iran. Some Iraq Moratorium actions on Friday, July 18, will include a theme of "No Attack on Iran." UFPJ suggests what you can do to stop another war.
** National Assembly endorses Iraq Moratorium. The National Assembly to End the Iraq War and Occupation has overwhelmingly endorsed the Iraq Moratorium. The vote among the 370-plus activists from across the country was nearly unanimous. The Assembly "recommends that participating groups and individuals, and the movement as a whole, take up the call of the Iraq Moratorium to build locally-based antiwar activity on the Third Friday of every month. That will draw more people into active opposition to the war and expand the base for all types of antiwar protest, including large demonstrations," the action item adopted by the Assembly on Saturday says.
** David Swanson video now on the site. David Swanson of After Downing Street and Democrats.com, speaking to 60 people at an Iraq Moratorium event in Milwaukee while the House was voting for more war funding, urged action to keep the pressure on Congress. And he warned about putting too many eggs into the Election Day basket. Watch it here.
**Pete Seeger: Let 1000 protests bloom. Pete Seeger, who takes part in a weekly antiwar vigil in the Hudson Valley, in the NY Times: “I don’t think that big things are as effective as people think they are. The last time there was an antiwar demonstration in New York City I said, ‘Why not have a hundred little ones?'" He said that working for peace was like adding sand to a basket on one side of a large scale, trying to tip it one way despite enormous weight on the opposite side. “Some of us try to add more sand by teaspoons,” he explained. “It’s leaking out as fast as it goes in and they’re all laughing at us. But we’re still getting people with teaspoons. I get letters from people saying, ‘I’m still on the teaspoon brigade.’”
**Why join the Third Friday Moratorium events? Organizers in Hayward, WI, the city of 2100 that has led the nation in per capita turnout for Moratorium events, make a strong case for unity and holding events on the same day. Read it on the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice website.
"Domestic economic terrorism in Baton Rouge" is the title for this video, which shows veterans and others protesting President George Bush's visit to Baton Rouge on April 22. One of the vets asks police officers at the scene to help him make a citizen's arrest of Bush for war crimes, which brings some interesting reactions. It's an amusing five minutes.
