Empire Building Action Group
Night from Baghdad graphic
This plaque was given to Cindy Sheehan by members of the Progressive Action Alliance, first at Camp Casey (just outside of Crawford, Texas), August 2005, then again in Houston for the Bring Them Home Now Tour, September 1, 2005: http://www.paa-tx.org/node/193
Photo taken March 20, 2007, during a special freeway blogging for the 4th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, in which different groups held signs on each of six bridges over the Southwest Freeway (US-59) in Houston.
Photo taken March 20, 2007, during a special freeway blogging for the 4th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, in which different groups held signs on each of six bridges over the Southwest Freeway (US-59) in Houston.
YOU and your friends are invited to a SIGN MAKING PARTY for PEACE
Why: Make giant signs and banners to use on Mar. 20 for the coordinated freeway blogging and candlelight vigil, on freeway overpasses for the 4th anniversary of the Iraq invasion. Make your own sign stressing the need for peace and for bringing the troops home now. And of course, you can use your sign later, or donate it to someone else who will, as the freeway blogging is a continuing activity as long as US troops are in Iraq.
This is a call to action. Please help increase the pressure on our government. Give more people a chance to speak out. Take blank, stamped post cards, clipboards, pens, and officials’ address lists everywhere you go.
House Resolution 413 would repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002: Sponsored by Rep. Sam Farr (D-CA)
Here are 3 main things this bill does:
Photo taken Nov. 15, 2006, evening rush hour
Southwest Freeway, Houston
Picture showing some of the signs in the "Stop Israel Agression/No war with Iran" theme
This theme is usually on Wednesdays.
WHEN I CAME HOME is a film about homeless veterans in America: from those who served in Vietnam to those returning from the current war in Iraq. The film looks at the challenges faced by returning combat veterans and the battle many must fight for the benefits promised to them.
The Isis Pages
Subject: IRAQ WAR SUMMIT: WHAT NEXT?
Summit and Peace March
THE IRAQ WAR SUMMIT: WHAT NEXT?
Join A Constructive Dialogue On Saving Lives Of Americans, Securing The Homeland, And Bringing Our Troops Home With Dignity.
WHO: Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, academician, veterans, clergy and other invited guests
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee
Check web site below for details.
To arrange carpooling from Houston, please post a note on the PAA discussion list, or come to the 4th Friday Flicks event http://www.paa-tx.org/node/2467 the evening before the Austin protest.
American Arab Anti Discrimination Committee, Texans for Peace, Palestinian Solidarity Committee, International Socialist Organiz
Sherry Glover read the following piece by Steve Young, with permission, at the Jan. 14, 2007 ceremony for the 3000th casualty memorial in Houston. She said, "I felt that it expressed what I could no longer find words for. I think it was most effective to read it while having the audience look toward those flags."
This article has links to speeches, photos, and the event description for the 3000th casualty memorial, at Memorial Park in Houston, Jan. 14-20, 2007. This event was held to memorialize the terrible loss of life, (US and Iraqi), that we have had so far during the Iraq invasion and occupation.
Photo taken Nov. 15, 2006, evening rush hour
Southwest Freeway, Houston
Picture showing some of the signs in the "Stop Israel Agression/No war with Iran" theme
This theme is usually on Wednesdays.
Let's party! Let's tell the world that change is in the air! Let's make signs!
We're having a sign making party, before the First Amendment is taken away, for those needing a sign for the March 18 demonstration or for freeway blogging, or for anything else for which you need a political sign.
Where:
Bill & Cheryl Crosier's garage/sign-making laboratory
7445 Santa Fe Dr.
Houston 77061
713-305-5346
just northwest of Hobby airport
map: http://tinyurl.com/4f6xq
When:
Sat. Mar. 11, 2-6 pm
Bring any of this if you have it, but don't go out and buy any:
*Dark paint (latex only, please -- alkyd or oil-based paint takes too long to dry)
*LARGE cardboard, old sheets, old political yard signs, or anything large, lightweight, & paintable
*1.5 - 3" Paint brushes (we already have some, including larger ones and rollers)
*Something to share for dinner if you want to stay afterwards (or money for something to be delivered)
To find large pieces of cardboard, go by your favorite dumpster or call a nearby appliance store to ask when is a good time to get large boxes when their trucks return from delivery.
Fold the cardboard parallel to the corrugations if needed, to fit into your car.
We can duct tape smaller cardboard pieces together.
Old sheets make great signs/banners, too, and hold up if it rains better than cardboard.
Be sure to wear clothes and shoes that are OK to get paint on. We have several old T-shirts you can borrow.
The Freeway Blogger web site http://www.freewayblogger.com/ has lots of great examples, with photos of some of the hundreds and hundreds of signs that have been placed on freeway overpasses and other visible locations in all 50 states.
The simple procedure: http://www.freewayblogger.com/howto.htm
Everyone is invited to help us make signs, so feel free to forward this to others who may believe in the 1st Amendment.
Progressive Action Alliance
Join us for an international day of solidarity and make the 3rd anniversary of the criminal war & occupation of Iraq the last one.
BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!
From New Orleans to Baghdad
STOP the War Abroad and HERE at HOME!
Money for jobs, health care, housing, schools and veterans benefits – NOT WAR!
Build levees, not bombs
Support the struggle of Katrina evacuees
Stop the illegal surveillance
Overturn the USA PATRIOT Act
NO CUTS IN VA FUNDING
NO WAR FOR OIL & EMPIRE
Hands off Iran & Venezuela
End all colonial occupations - From Iraq & Afghanistan to Palestine & Haiti
From Latin America & the Caribbean, to Africa, Asia & the Middle East – no more interventions
Please bring signs to remind the public about the thousands in the US military (as well as Iraqis) who have been severely wounded, disabled, and who need ongoing help, but who the US government is ignoring.
We want to support the VA Hospital and bring attention to how US funding of the occupation of Iraq is causing tremendous grief to both US and Iraqi families, and demonstrate the hypocrisy of a government that claims to be supporting the troops and hurricane survivors, while it spends money instead on death and destruction.
Keep the Heat in the Street!
Let us unite with Texas activists who are protesting in Austin, Dallas, Denton, San Antonio, and Galveston!
Protests are happening around the world! See http://answercoalition.org/ and http://unitedforpeace.org/
Houston Actions on Saturday, March 18:
11 AM – Demonstration & Leafleting at the VA Hospital, corner of OST and Almeda Rd.
1 PM – Rally 1/2 mile north of demonstration, at the southeast corner of Hermann Park, corner of Holcombe Blvd. and Almeda Rd.
Performances by local musicians and poets, open mic for our youth to voice their ideas on "Taking Back Our Future"
Parking is available near the rally location, and it's a short walk down to the demonstration. The Almeda Rd. entrance to the VA medical center may not be open on the weekend.
See list above
U. S. Tour of Duty's Real Intelligence Project presents
Former UN Weapons Inspector
Scott Ritter
and
U. S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee
at an emergency public discussion about Iraq, Iran, and America's constitutional crisis
"We Won't Get Neo-CONNED! Again"
A citizen response to lying, spying, and dying for the "war on terror"
US Tour of Duty, KPFT http://kpft.org, Light in the Darkness Publications http://www.ihspress.com/
To get a copy of this resolution formatted for printing, so you can take it with you to your precinct convention, click on the link in the Attachment box below.
WHEREAS members of the U.S. military in Iraq have killed many thousands of Iraq civilians; and
