| British MP George Galloway, travelling with a massive convoy of donated humanitarian supplies over 5,000 kms. on their way to Gaza. Donations include over a hundred vehicles, 20 ambulances and a fire engine. Over a million and a half dollars raised so far. More on Viva Palestina here. |
| Good news!, from Peace Action: From the Peace Action Blog with co-writer Alexandra Bell of the Ploughshares Fund (Feb. 13, '09): 'Over twenty organizations including the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, the evangelical group Faithful Security, the Friends Committee on National Legislation, the Project on Government Oversight and Women’s Action for New Directions worked the Hill with citizen groups across the country to strip the funding from the final bill. [Full disclosure: many of the groups received grants from our foundation, Ploughshares Fund.] The bonus slid by the Senate, but a group of influential House Members were not going to let this one pass. Congressmen Ed Markey (D-MA), Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and James McGovern (D-Mass.) wrote to House Appropriations chair David Obey (D-Wis) outraged at the “back-room deal in the Senate.” “We are shocked that while the Senate felt it was necessary to cut billions of dollars for school construction they found an extra billion for nuclear weapons,…' |
| Sign the petition asking President Obama to 'Stop the Carnage, Ban the Cluster Bomb!' - an initiative of the American Task Force for Lebanon. Over half the world's countries signed the treaty as of 2008. Lebanon remains littered with hundreds of thousands of unexploded cluster bombs dropped all over Southern Lebanon in 2006 by Israel. |
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| Petitions and Open Letters: Petition: International Action Center demanding justice for the Palestinian People. Now over a million voices strong. Sign form letter: Take Action against President Obama's FY2010 Budget Request for increased Military Aid to Israel - almost three billion dollars a year! From Peace Action: Peace Action strongly opposes Obama's recent announcement to send a further 17,000 troops to Afghanistan and urges people to immediately call on Obama to choose diplomacy, not escalation. Sign their open letter, here. (P.S.: Remember, if you don't have a zip code, you can look one up or you could use 11937 New York. We are citizens of the world. Right?) |
| Recommended reading: If Israel has nothing to hide, let us into Gaza - B'Tselem; Ma'an News Agency; Feb. 23, '09; Cast Lead: 8-year-old boy wilfully killed near Beit Lahiya; Defense for Children International - Palestine; Feb. 18, '09; The real Israel-Palestine Story is in the West Bank; Ben White; Guardian; Feb. 20, '09; Chomsky: Obama OK'ed Israel's Gaza War; Press TV; Feb. 21, '09; AP Impact: Army charity hoards millions; AP National Writer Jeff Donn; Feb. 21, '09; Editorial: Human vs. Human Means No More Humans; Feb. 22, '09; Diane V. McLoughlin |
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