War is a Lie! (David Swanson in L.A. May 10)

Pfc. Sandoval and CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; David Swanson (warisalie.org)

We are the future right now. Spanish-speaking girl yearns for peace: Guerra No ("No War")

David Swanson speaks in L.A. May 10th on

We are working to end ALL WAR with WorldBeyondWar.org. Progressive Pacifica L.A. radio host Lila Garrett (Connect the Dots) will introduce David Swanson, who is the host of "Talk Nation Radio." He helped plan the nonviolent occupation of Freedom Plaza in Washington D.C. in 2011, having worked as a reporter and press secretary for the 2004 presidential campaign of Dennis Kucinich.

• Kucinich will be in on the other side of town at the same time at rival UCLA's campus for the United We Stand Festival, a rap/hip-hop college concert with Wu-Tang Clan, Public Enemy, Luminaries, Immortal Technique, Jill Stein, and Marianne Williamson...

He was also communications coordinator for the targeted and wrongly tainted ACORN and Secretary of Peace in the Green Shadow Cabinet. Swanson's books include War No More: The Case for Abolition, War Is A Lie, When the World Outlawed War, and The Military Industrial Complex at 50 (all of which he will be signing). Find his blogs at DavidSwanson.org and WarIsaCrime.org and WarIsaLie.org. More

• Sat., May 10, 2014, 12:00-2:30 pm
• United University Church
• 817 W. 34th St., L.A., CA, 90089
• FREE, open to all, wheelchair accessible
• Contact: Kathleen (310) 339-1770, sign-up
• Exposition Light Rail: Jefferson/USC Station

Parking in the UUC lot and Lot M. Access to UUC parking is through Gate 5, McClintock/Jefferson entrance to USC. Get a parking permit at Gate 5 kiosk. Tell them you are going to the church. Turn left onto 34th St. and then next left onto Watt Way. Turn right into Lot M, and go through Lot M to UUC Lot.

Sponsored by California Peace Alliance, Code Pink, Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace, KPFK, Military Families Speak Out, MLK Coalition LA, Office of the Americas, Peace Center of United University Church, Progressive Democrats of Santa Monica Mountains, Project Great Futures, Topanga Peace Alliance, United Teachers of Los Angeles Human Rights Committee, and Veterans For Peace.

"Stop the Wars!" on other nations and the working people in the US (Occupy Oakland)

Saying no to our U.S. "War Criminals" (video)

Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; Amy Goodman (DemocracyNow.org)

In yer face, killer, war criminal! (Code Pink)

Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice -- a war criminal and unindicted co-conspirator along with Dick Cheney, Karl "the Architect" Rove, both George Bush(es), Donald Rumsfeld, and John Ashcroft -- was forced to withdraw as commencement speaker at Rutgers University following protests by faculty and students over her role in the 2003 American (U.S.)-led invasion of Iraq and our torture of captives.

 

Seeking justice with a torture lawsuit

Rutgers faculty circulated a petition decrying the role Rice played in "efforts to mislead the American people about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq." 

 

G.W. Bush, Condi Rice on way to jail (CP)

Last week, Rutgers students occupied a campus building in a call for the invitation (and its $35,000 stipend) to be withdrawn. In a statement this weekend, Rice said her appearance "has become a distraction."

The "No Rice Campaign" at Rutgers is discussed by student protester Carmelo Cintrón Vivas and Baher Azmy, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. More

 

PEACE ON EARTH! WOMEN FOR JUSTICE, CODE PINK FOR PEACE (codepink.org)

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• Ralph Nader on TPP, GM recall, nuclear power, and the "Unstoppable" left-right anti-corporate movement

NYC to reform Stop and Frisk, end racial profiling 

New York’s new Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced the city will drop its appeal of a ruling by a U.S. district court that found the NYPD’s controversial "stop-and-frisk" program unconstitutional and settle an ongoing lawsuit.

 

Years after vowing to close Gitmo, Obama signed NDAA instead

Saying he would close Guantánamo years after it opened, Pres. Obama has signed the National Defense Authorization Act, barring the use of federal funds to transfer detainees from the notorious American torture prison in Cuba to U.S. soil. Of the 166 prisoners remaining, 86 have been cleared for release...

Our senses are lying to us (video)

Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly; HuffingtonPost.com; BuzzFeed

(BF) Special thanks to Alison Koellisch and Butt Dial. Rubber hand test is based on research about multisensory integration. Basketball test based on research from Simmons and Chabris. McGurk Effect test based on research from McGurk and MacDonald.

• ANTI-Monsanto worldwide protests: NO GMO food!
• Afghans suffer for America in Afghanistan
• The ancient Buddhist architecture of India
• Un-Happy Columbus Day!
• Robot zings Republican party



More than 1,200 people detained in Russian protest

• Born Again, and Again, and... How many times can one man [or bisexual Christian pastor] find Jesus? Can Bishop Eddie Long be reborn a second time? The Atlanta-area Baptist megachurch leader accused of sexual misconduct [sodomy, homosexuality, "adultery"] with several young men, announced on Sunday he is taking time off to focus on his family. His church, like many evangelical Christian churches, exhorts sinners to be “born again,” accepting Christ as their savior on the path to redemption. If a born...
• Mexico's drug crackdown spurs extortion wave
• Syria's president should get a Nobel prize, Assad jokes
• Should pregnant women have sex or exercise?
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How Republicans rigged shutdown
 

Bad news for Social Security

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