There is a write in campaign to nominate Cindy Sheehan for Time’s Person of the Year. I certainly understand why she should be nominated. She engaged a nation in a discourse that desperately needed to be held. Whenever a nation creates an icon from a simple human being and does so almost overnight, you know […]
SOA Sister Protest at Fort Huachuca
Some call it Fort Sneezy but the innocuous nickname does little to mask the truly dark actions that take place at Fort Huachuca. Like most dirty little dark secrets, it is not so much a matter of no one knowing but of no one wanting to know. In Southern Arizona on Sunday November 20th about […]
Unlikely Allies — CODEPINK and Murtha
Strange times make for strange bedfellows. Well at least for strange sheet-fellows. CODEPINK Tucson and CODEPINK Phoenix dropped a banner during the State Democratic Committee meetings Saturday in Tucson to encourage Arizona Democrats to work for peace — like Murtha. While they come to the mutual position — that the troops need to get out […]
Arizona Democrats Grow Ovaries, Balls, and a Spine
At the AZ Democratic Party Committee Meetings yesterday in Tucson a miraculous transformation occurred. Women grew ovaries, men grew balls, and several slumped figures straightened with regenerated spines. The Democrats supported a resolution submitted by Sherry Bohlen, State Committee Member from District 8 – Maricopa County to: Resolution Demanding an Inquiry of Iraq War Abuses. […]
Propaganda American Style
A major creator of propaganda, also known as “perceptual management” had worked for a long, long time to create an American mindset that would support a war against Hussein.Check out Rolling Stone for the article about it. buildpeace.blogspot.com
A day dedicated to the cause of world peace.
November 11th became a federal holiday in 1938. An act of Congress declared it to be “…a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace.” The Act was amended in 1954 the holiday became renamed ‘Veterans Day’ by amendment to the 1938 act so that all veterans could be honored. My first memory […]