Peace Action at SF Federal Building: Pelosi Speak With Us! Pt 2

by Robert B. Livingston (gruaudemais [at] yahoo.com)

Thu, Aug 23, 2007 7:27PM

Moments prior to today's peace action at the San Francisco Federal Building (where House Speaker Nancy Pelosi keeps her district office) Toby Blome of Code Pink explains the purpose of the protesters.

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Dumb me!

I left the protest to go to work: to find myself a few hours later without a job: because I quit it!

Maybe my life would be completely different had I stayed with the brave protesters who were arrested!

At least now I have some time to make a couple more posts here at Indybay-- and if anybody knows of a job that suits someone with a low tolerance for any type of BS-- please e-mail me.

Below is an mp3 recording of Toby Blome of Code Pink explaining the strategy and purpose of today's action at the Federal Building.

§Toby Blome among fasters

by Robert B. Livingston

Thu, Aug 23, 2007 7:27PM

Toby is wearing the scarf.

§Toby draws and writes her message in chalk.

by Robert B. Livingston

Thu, Aug 23, 2007 7:27PM

In the interview I informed Tony that I had just read that deaths in Iraq had topped 1 million. The source I cited was incorrect:

This is the source I was thinking of:
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/press.html

Just Foreign Policy (an independent and non-partisan mass membership organization dedicated to reforming U.S. foreign policy) related in a recent e-mail:

"We have crossed another tragic milestone in the war in Iraq. Our estimate of violent Iraqi deaths due to the U.S.-led invasion and occupation has crossed the one million mark.

We have been working hard getting the word out, since the Iraqi death toll should be central to the public debate over ending this war and preventing future ones. We have communicated with hundreds of journalists, spoken on local radio shows, and spread the word online. The counter is now posted on over 150 web sites.1 It has been cited by Democracy Now! and Inter Press Service and appeared in a news video and a hard-hitting editorial cartoon.2

However, despite our best efforts, none of the major U.S. news outlets have covered this story. That is sadly unsurprising, since the major U.S. media have consistently downplayed Iraqi deaths. They refuse to accept the findings of the scientific study conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University last year, on which our estimate is based."

§We must all ask ourselves: "What is it that we write with our actions?

by Robert B. Livingston

Thu, Aug 23, 2007 7:27PM

"The Moving Finger writes: and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it."
-- Omar Khayyam

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