Add your name: Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline once and for all
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/no-dapl/?source=search
Reject the Dakota Access Pipeline pipeline and declare this land a cultural district, eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places, to ensure its protection.
Drones Kill Children 9-21-15 Hancock Field Action
FIVE ARRESTED HOLDING HUGE “DRONES KILL CHILDREN” BANNERS ACROSS HANCOCK REAPER DRONE BASE MAIN ENTRANCE.
Oliver Stone’s American History: ‘We’re Not under Threat. We Are the Threat’
Read Article: http://www.globalresearch.ca/oliver-stones-american-history-were-not-under-threat-we-are-the-threat/5546363
More information: http://www.untoldhistory.com/
Watch Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNM9lOFRgCI
Watch Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CO815qqWsc
Women’s Boat to Gaza: Activists Detained by Israel, Weeks After U.S. OKs billions in Military Aid
Interview with Ann Wright
A flotilla bound for Gaza carrying food, medicine and other humanitarian aid was intercepted and seized last week by the Israeli Navy. The Women’s Boat to Gaza had set sail from the Spanish port city of Barcelona in mid-September in efforts to break the ongoing Israeli blockade. Organizers say the Israeli military seized the boat and detained the 13 human rights activists aboard in international waters about 40 miles away from Gaza’s shore. The Israeli military towed the boat to the Israeli port of Ashdod and detained the women for up to four days before deporting them. We speak to passenger Ann Wright, retired Army colonel and former U.S. diplomat.
Read Transcript: http://www.democracynow.org/2016/10/12/womens_boat_to_gaza_13_activists
Ann Wright’s recent article: http://www.alternet.org/world/israel-imposed-darkness-gaza
Visionary Housing Project for War Veterans
MIDWAY CITY, CA–(Marketwired – Nov 30, 2015) – American Family Housing (AFH) — a nonprofit organization dedicated to permanently ending the cycle of homelessness — is proud to announce its visionary new project in Midway City, Calif., called Potter’s Lane. Estimated for completion in 2016, the energy-efficient and sustainable housing site will fulfill one of the community’s greatest needs: permanent housing for chronically homeless veterans. Simultaneously, AFH will join a revolution that is bringing an end to chronic homelessness among our nation’s veterans in major metropolitan centers throughout the U.S.
Potter’s Lane: http://www.afhusa.org/potterslane.php
Video: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/video/3423167-housing-project-for-homeless-veterans-unveiled-in-o-c/
AFH is a nonprofit that builds housing and provides services for the homeless and is creating California’s first shipping-container apartment building that can provide housing that is quick
and economical, in addition to being permanent and very comfortable and appealing.
Veterans For Peace Statement in Support of the Pipeline Resistance at Standing Rock
Image: Tony Webster
Veterans For Peace stands in solidarity with the historic resistance at the Camp of the Sacred Stones in North Dakota. We join our Indigenous sisters and brothers in opposing the construction of an oil pipeline by the Dakota Access company that threatens drinking water and sacred burial grounds.
We acknowledge that the courageous stand of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and many allied tribes is being carried out by caretakers of the earth who are protecting and defending their ancestral lands and the water that runs through it for current and future generations.
The continued assault against the sacred land and water as well as the destruction and desecration of sacred sites is an atrocity and must be stopped. The United States must honor its treaties and recognize Indigenous rights.
We strongly condemn the violence being used against the resistance and believe it to be both a crime and a human rights abuse.
We consider the violation of Indigenous lands, culture and tradition to be another example of specific geographic regions — those typically home to vulnerable and marginalized populations — being deemed exploitable and expendable by our government and certain corporations. These are areas that VFP advisory board member and investigative journalist Chris Hedges has referred to as “sacrifice zones.”
Read Complete Article: http://www.veteransforpeace.org/our-work/position-statements/veterans-peace-statement-support-pipeline-resistance-standing-rock/
Resource Links
• http://nodaplsolidarity.org/
• http://fundrazr.com/d19fAf?ref=sh_25rPQa
• http://www.gofundme.com/redwarriorcamp?rcid=ac7fda908f4111e6a6bbbc764e05b494
• http://redpowermedia.wordpress.com/tag/amnesty-international-usa/
Send emails … make calls in support of halting the Dakota Access Pipeline
Army Corps of Engineers http://www.usace.army.mil/
North Dakota Regulatory Office http://www.nwo.usace.army.mil/Missions/Regulatory-Program/North-Dakota/
Governor: Jack Dalrymple http://www.governor.nd.gov/
Morton County Sheriff Dept http://www.co.morton.nd.us/index.asp?SEC=%7BF66ECC52-5D04-437C-B12D-21C09801849E%7D
Petition: http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/no-dapl/?source=search
Image: Tony Webster http://www.flickr.com/photos/diversey/
License – Creative Commons
Greg Palast’s “Best Democracy Money Can Buy” Opens in NYC and LA Sep 30
This real life detective story is told in a film noir style with cartoon animations, secret documents, hidden cameras, and a little help from Law & Order detectives Ice-T and Richard Belzer, plus Divergent spirit Shailene Woodley, Rosario Dawson, Santa Claus (Ed Asner), and Willie Nelson as a stoner musician (can you imagine?).
Palast and his posse expose the darkest plans of the uber-rich to steal America’s democracy. Donald Trump plays a billionaire on TV. Palast jumps the real billionaire behind the “billionaire.”
If you want tickets for the premiere week, order your tickets now.
Fri, Sat, Sun evening showtimes include Q&A with Greg Palast & Guests.
New York Tickets
Sep 23 – Sep 29
Los Angeles Tickets
Sep 30 – Oct 6
Limited seating and no premium charge.
Tickets: http://thebestdemocracymoneycanbuy.com/in-theaters/
Videos: http://thebestdemocracymoneycanbuy.com/videos/
More information: http://thebestdemocracymoneycanbuy.com/
http://www.gregpalast.com/
And dig this: To get the film out as widely as possible before the November 8th election… In addition to the traditional cinema release, grassroots activists & organizations and individuals may request theatrical-on-demand® screenings via Gathr—no charge to you and we arrange the theater. Just put your tushies
in the cushies, regular ticket prices and popcorn hot and buttery.
For more information, contact zach@gregpalast.com
US Veterans Support Lawsuit Over ‘Targeted Killing’ by Drones
Three military veterans once involved in the U.S. drone program have thrown their support behind a Yemeni man’s legal fight to obtain details about why his family members were killed in a 2012 strike.
Read Article: http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/39058-us-veterans-support-lawsuit-over-targeted-killing-by-drone
Pentagon Cannot Account For $6.5 Trillion Dollars
Global Economy, Militarization and WMD Adding to the appearance of impropriety is the fact that thousands of documents that should be on file have been removed and disappeared without any reasonable explanation.
“A new Department of Defense Inspector General’s report, released last week, has left Americans stunned at the jaw-dropping lack of accountability and oversight. The glaring report revealed the Pentagon couldn’t account for $6.5 trillion dollars worth of Army general fund transactions and data, according to a report by the Fiscal Times. ” — Read Article: http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/07/31/Pentagon-s-Sloppy-Bookkeeping-Means-65-Trillion-Can-t-Pass-Audit
Suicide rate of U.S. veterans rose one third since 2001
Veterans face a 21 percent greater risk for suicide than those who had not served in the armed forces.
“The suicide rate among American veterans has increased by nearly a third since 2001, a bigger rise than in the wider population of the United States, a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs study released on Wednesday said.” – Read Article
Latest Book by Ron Kovic…”Hurricane Street”
The following excerpt is from Ron Kovic’s new book, “Hurricane Street.” Published by Akashic Books
The March
July 4, 1974
The day of the big march has finally come and it’s clear from the very start that we are not going to get the numbers of veterans showing up that we hoped for. The air is hot and sticky, a typical summer day in the nation’s capital. By eleven thirty, fewer than a hundred veterans and our supporters have arrived at Meridian Hill Park, and by noon our numbers have swollen to a measly one hundred and fifty.
Bobby and his little brother Charlie unfurl the thirty-foot AVM banner while Joe, Eddie, and Sharon hand out AVM membership cards and buttons to everyone. There are several American flags that were donated by one of the local VFW chapters and half a dozen red, white, and blue AVM flags on poles that we brought with us from LA. Some guy from Virginia in a Marine Corps dress blue uniform with a bugle keeps blowing “Taps” until we ask him to stop. A few local reporters show up and are milling about the crowd, doing interviews and asking questions as it becomes more and more clear that the Second American Bonus March is going to be a big bust.
I try to put on a brave face as one of the reporters walks up to me, asking where the tens of thousands of veterans I promised are. I don’t know what to say other than realizing in this moment that the reality of the situation has finally caught up with me and there’s no longer room for excuses. I can see by the looks of some of the others around me that they are becoming concerned. Joe Hayward is already joking about how the march is a farce and how this will be the end of the AVM.
I do my best to keep everyone’s spirits up and sometime around two p.m. we begin to move down 16th Street. It’s all getting a bit absurd as we shout and chant and try to look dignified. Marty and Nick are being pushed by some of the other veterans and I do my best to maintain my composure. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry and I feel ashamed and embarrassed as our sorry procession slowly rolls down 16th Street. I can’t wait for the march to end.
The great crowds we hoped for are nowhere in sight. A few people on the sidewalk wave at us and I distinctly remember one old man getting up from his lawn chair and saluting. But for the most part people seem a bit puzzled by our ragtag procession as we head into Lafayette Park to set up our tents.
I am still hoping inside that the image of disabled Vietnam veterans camping out in front of the White House will inspire others to join us, but as we settle in, our dwindling numbers say it all. Fewer than fifty of the original marchers remain. Many say they are tired and want to go home, while others openly admit they are fed up because the march hasn’t turned out the way they hoped it would.
Later that day, my mother and father drop by our campsite—just as they promised—having driven all the way from Massapequa and parked their motor home a few blocks from the White House.
“Happy birthday, Ronnie!” my mother shouts, giving me a great big hug and handing me a present. “You can open it later.”
“We’re really proud of you, Ronnie. Happy birthday,” my father says softly, leaning over and placing his hand gently on my shoulder.
I am so happy to see them, and realize just how much I have missed them. They’ve always been there for me and have never let me down: praying for me at a special novena Mass at our church in Massapequa while I fought for my life on the intensive care ward in Da Nang; visiting me at the St. Albans Naval Hospital with other wounded marines; patiently caring for me when I was at the Bronx VA. They stood by me when I was arrested for protesting the war, and when I shouted down President Nixon with two other disabled veterans during his acceptance speech at the 1972 Republican National Convention in Miami. Even when our neighbors back in Massapequa rejected me, telling their children to stay away from me, afraid I might influence them with my “radical ideas”; and after the many nights I came home drunk from Arthur’s Bar, tormented by the war, crying out and bitterly cursing God and my country, blaming God, blaming everyone.