250,000 March in NYC; Gulf War Vets Speak Out

250,000 March For Peace in NYC
http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030324071314632.html

Greens: Investigate Isreali Murder of Rachel Corrie
http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030324070829526.html

Gulf War Vets Speak Out
http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030324065516898.html

Protestors Snarl Traffic in San Fransico
http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030321055651521.html

US Greens: Bush Indictable For War Crimes
http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030321054719987.html

Protestors Shut Down San Francisco; 1000+ Arrested
http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030321053103949.html

Bush Defeated At Home As Bombs Fall on Bagdad
http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030320062416980.html

IDF Disrupts Funeral of Murdered Activist
http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030320061727125.html

Nader: Iraq Attack Invites Terrorism
http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030320060842851.html

Greens Call on Americans to Resist Bush War
http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/2003031906000624.html

Ithacan Defies Restricted Zone At White House
http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030319055654403.html

Tipping Point For Wind Power
http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030319055140660.html

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250,000 March For Peace in NYC

At five minutes to noon, they began to walk south on Broadway, the front line made up of activists, clergymen and a few politicians, all with their arms linked. Charlie Rangel was among them, an old foot soldier from the Korean War, walking with the casual confidence of a man who has fought for his country and knows that a war is not a stroll on a beach. He glanced up at Macy's to his right, then to the brilliant clear skies above, and stepped off with the others. It is more than half a century since Rangel was a young man with a rifle in the frozen fields of Korea. His face said that he still remembered.

Then all of them were coming: white-haired men and women older than Rangel, children born as the century wound down. Old hippies, middle-class women, men in business suits, students with tears painted on their cheeks, gray-haired professionals, black Americans and Asian-Americans and Arab-Americans. They were stretched in lines of 20 and 25 across Broadway, and when you looked uptown, you could not see the end of them.

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Greens: Investigate Isreali Murder of Rachel Corrie

WASHINGTON, DC -- Members of the Green Party of the United States, outraged at the murder of American peace activist Rachel Corrie and disruption by the Israeli military of a memorial service for her, demanded an investigation and decisive measures by the U.S. government to stop the Sharon government's violent treatment of Palestinian civilians, destruction of Palestinian homes and infrastructure, and illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories.

Greens reaffirmed their support for American, European, and Israeli peace activists who continue to risk their lives in nonviolent resistance to the occupation and defense of Palestinian civilians. The Green Party has also called for an international protection force in the territories to insure the safety of Palestinian and Israeli civilians and adherence by Israel to the Geneva Conventions Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.

http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030324070829526.html

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Gulf War Vets Speak Out

by Michael Slate

Just about every guy I knew when I was a teenager ended up in Vietnam. The draft board buses used to load up outside the steel mill, and they were packed full--week after week, year after year. Everybody just staring out the window, no smiles, no laughs, sometimes a few wet eyes.

A whole lot of the guys never came back. Some came back with no legs or missing arms. And many came back to our streets consumed by day-long nightmares.

And still many others came back to oppose the Vietnam War and to speak out so that everyone could know the truth about the war.

http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030324065516898.html

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Protestors Snarl Traffic in San Fransico

Joe Garofoli and Jim Herron Zamora, Chronicle Staff Writers

San Francisco -- It took three hours for anti-war activists to cripple downtown San Francisco using hit-and-run civil disobedience tactics to an extent never before seen in the Bay Area.

The city that nursed the sit-ins and be-ins of the counterculture protesters of the 1960s was gummed up by a form of demonstration that relies on the whims of small knots of activists, who flitted from block to block instead of lumbering with the predictability of a mass march.

Although a loosely knit affiliation of small groups called Direct Action Against the War coordinated Thursday's demonstration, even its organizers didn't know where the hydra was going.

"We don't really know how many people are out there or where they're going next," Ladan Sobhani, an organizer with Direct Action Against the War, said shortly before noon. "People make that decision on their own."

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US Greens: Bush Indictable For War Crimes

WASHINGTON, DC -- As President Bush gave orders launching the invasion of Iraq, the Green Party of the United States reaffirmed its opposition to the war and demand for the withdrawal of troops, quoting Theodore Roosevelt:

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." (Remarks in 1918 on President Woodrow Wilson's suppression of dissent against U.S. involvement in World War I)

Pledging to maintain protests and other nonviolent action, Greens called the invasion a war of conquest and warned that President Bush and White House officials may find themselves indicted for numerous violations of U.S. and international law. Greens and other antiwar activists are organizing emergency responses to the invasion, including a recall campaign, initiated by www.PeaceEconomy.org, against pro-war Congress members who violated their oath to uphold the Constitution by surrendering their power to declare war.

http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030321054719987.html

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Protestors Shut Down San Francisco; 1000+ Arrested

In San Francisco this morning, hundreds of protesters gathered at different intersections and public buildings, blocking traffic, staging die-ins and temporarily shutting down government buildings in San Francisco.

Attempts to block the bridges linking the City with the East Bay were made. But heavy police presence forced demonstrators to change course.

As we go to press, around 1,000 demonstrators are pushing their way again to block the Bay Bridge. Heavy police presence is reported.

The SF Police Department was out in full force. Police repression was reported in front of the Federal Building and during other non-violent actions. It is estimated that about 1,000 people have been arrested so far, including a group of Black Block activists that gathered at 7th and Market Streets and were immediately surrounded by about 300 cops.

http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030321053103949.html

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Bush Defeated At Home As Bombs Fall on Bagdad

Increasingly, the Bush team faces massive defeats all over the world- with only their bombing of Iraq, which escalated just an hour or two before I write this, as a consolation.

First of all, today the US Senate defeated, for the second time in the Bush Administration, plans to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska. This plan has been the subject of intense partisan fighting for thirty years now- its rejection, once again, with a few Republicans voting against, is a sign that Bush has no additional clout as a result of his brutality- if anything, it makes it more difficult for him to accomplish anything as a president.

http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030320062416980.html

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IDF Disrupts Funeral of Murdered Activist

Israeli forces fired teargas and stun grenades in Rafah Tuesday in an effort to break up a memorial service for Rachel Corrie the American peace activist killed by an IDF army bulldozer in Gaza on Sunday, according to a UK Guardian report. "Holding a stretcher draped with an American flag, some 1,000 Palestinians marched through the Rafah refugee camp as a sign of mourning," according to the World Socialist Web Site.

And here in the US, Corrie's murder has been used to express a mixture of hate and anti-Palestinian sentiment. The University of Maryland's student newspaper, the Diamondback, printed an editorial cartoon poking fun at Corrie's death. Under an illustration is printed a mock definition of stupidity, described in part as, "Sitting in front of a bulldozer to protect a gang of terrorists." See editorial.

http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030320061727125.html

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Nader: Iraq Attack Invites Terrorism

Dear Minority Leader Daschle and Minority Leader Pelosi:

President Bush is on the verge of taking the United States into a costly preemptive war, against an enemy widely viewed as posing no imminent or direct threat to our nation or allies, despite the nonviolent alternative of relying on continued and expanded UN-backed inspections. He seems bent on a war, fraught with short- and long-term global risks, without support from long-time international allies, in violation of international law, and without a Congressional declaration of war required by our Constitution. Moreover, he does so despite the grave dangers his actions provoke -- not just to the children and people of Iraq, who are sure to suffer thousands and perhaps many more deaths, injuries and toxic sickness -- but to the United States and its international standing in world affairs.

http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030320060842851.html

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Greens Call on Americans to Resist Bush War

WASHINGTON, DC -- Members of the Green Party of the United States stepped up their opposition to the ultimatum issued to Iraq by President Bush on Sunday after his summit with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, and Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Durao Barroso.

President Bush declared Monday, March 17 as the day Iraq must completely disarm or face an invasion, and a U.N. endorsement of a U.S. military attack is no longer expected. Greens, noting that invasion may begin within the week, will participate in protests and nonviolent direct action the day after attacks are launched, in events being planned by United for Peace and Justice, the National Youth and Student Peace Coalition, the "Bush is Taking the Shirts Off Our Backs to Pay for this War" Coalition, and other groups.

Many Greens are challenging Democratic officeholders who oppose the war, especially presidential candidates, to participate in civil disobedience.

http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/2003031906000624.html

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Ithacan Defies Restricted Zone At White House

Washington, D.C.- While most Americans may be concerned about reality television show outcomes or who can cover their Saturday night shifts, 20-year-old human rights advocate Briana Binkerd-Dale of Groton, N.Y., is pondering new ways to shock the public. And she's doing it.

Binkerd-Dale was arrested Saturday, March 8, with about 24 other women by U.S. Park Police while protesting war on Iraq. All received citations for demonstrating in a restricted pedestrian mall area in the front of the White House. It was Binkerd-Dale's fourth arrest for nonviolent civil disobedience.

http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030319055654403.html

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Tipping Point For Wind Power

by Jesse Broehl, Staff Writer, SolarAccess.com News

Wind power has reached a tipping point where its success and growth as an alternative to fossil fuels will proceed at an increasing pace, ushering in a new era of clean, diversified and domestically produced energy, said Christopher Flavin, president of the WorldWatch Institute.

Flavin delivered the keynote address at the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association's (NESEA) annual Building Energy conference that brings together a variety of companies and individuals involved with Renewable Energy, sustainability and energy efficiency.

While his speech to a packed crowd of more than 1000 people covered a host of topics related to Renewable Energy, Flavin's focus was clearly on wind energy.

"Wind Power is breaking out into the mainstream," Flavin said. "With scores of incremental advances, and a steadily continuing decline in prices, wind power will be the lowest cost electricity within the next few years."

http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030319055140660.html

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