Philly Against War organized a march to
call attention to our two primary objections to US policy: The wars in
Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan and the diversion of money needed for
human needs to warfare and corporate greed.
Our set of secondary demands:
- End war crimes including torture, Prosecute the war criminals!
- End US Support for the Israeli Occupation of Palestine! End the siege of Gaza!
- US Hands off Iran, Latin Americaand North Korea!
- Self-determination for all oppressed peoples and nations.
- Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Wow! The US is considering deploying
500,000 troops to Afghanistan?!?! It's not at all clear
that al Qaeda has any desire to establish a significant presence
in Afghanistan, so that can't
be the reason the US wants to ramp up the war there. What's even
less clear is that Afghans would welcome al Qaeda back into their
country under any circumstances.
Delegation from U.S. to Honduras
At the offices of the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York,
an Oct. 5 news conference announced that a 12-person delegation would
arrive Oct. 7 in Tegucigalpa for a fact-finding mission. The delegation
includes political and religious activists, community organizers, labor
unionists, students and youths.
The Bulletin
of Atomic Scientists takes a look at the state of nuclear
disarmament. They report mixed reviews, many hopeful signs "the April
speech of U.S. President Barack Obama in Prague and positive
negotiations related to a START follow-on treaty," but also many
disappointments "the international community hasn't been able to
achieve such progress
because of a lack of consensus, political will, and the ineffectiveness
of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)."
US Campaign to end the Israeli Occupation
Last week, the UN
Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, headed by Justice
Richard Goldstone,
a former member of the South African Constitutional Court and former
Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former
Yugoslavia and Rwanda, released a 575-page report documenting
violations of human rights and international law, war crimes, and
possible crimes against humanity committed before, during, and after
Israel's December 2008-January 2009 assault on the occupied Gaza Strip.
US Campaign to end the Israeli Occupation
Lots of rain at the beginning and a
little at the end, but generally the weather was good enough. Oh, and
there was supposed to be a whole set of right-wingers in town carrying
out "tea parties," protesting media
"liberal bias." We didn't see any sign of any such protesters.
