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  • October 2009 PeaceWorker

    October 2009
    Created: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 16:00 Author: Administrator
    Opinion Building a Better Strategy for the Peace Movement By Peter Bergel I have recently become increasingly critical of the strategy and tactics that have guided the peace movement for the last decade or more. The dangers that threaten the human ...

  • September 2009 PeaceWorker

    October 2009
    Created: Monday, 31 August 2009 16:00 Author: Administrator
    Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Front page NPP Tallies Cost of War Through September 2009 $687 Billion for Iraq. $228 Billion for Afghanistan. Congress has appropriated another $84.8 billion for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for...

  • July 2009 PeaceWorker

    October 2009
    Created: Tuesday, 30 June 2009 16:00 Author: Administrator
    Top StoryDeFazio Explains Why He Voted for More War FundsBy Congressman Peter DeFazioThank you for contacting me about the 2009 Iraq/Afghanistan Defense Supplemental Appropriations bill. This bill provides $96.7 billion, 87% of which would be to cover cos...

  • June 2009 PeaceWorker

    October 2009
    Created: Sunday, 31 May 2009 16:00 Author: Administrator
    Highlights Our food supply has become dependent on fossil fueled transportation, chemicals we don’t understand, and corporate decisions regarding profitability. Each of these dependencies threatens us with scarcity in the foreseeable future. How can...

  • May 2009 PeaceWorker

    October 2009
    Created: Thursday, 30 April 2009 16:00 Author: Administrator
    Highlights During the last years of the Bush administration, the public cry for immigration reform rose from a murmur to a roar. Now President Obama seems poised to make good on his campaign promise to help deliver it. Other Highlights In “Obama Boo...

  • April 2009 PeaceWorker

    October 2009
    Created: Tuesday, 31 March 2009 16:00 Author: Administrator
    Highlights As the public comes to understand more about the threat posed by climate change, OPW’s 5% Solution Project becomes ever more relevant. Our focus topic explains the project, why it is crucial and how you can get involved. Other Highlights ...

  • March 2009 PeaceWorker

    October 2009
    Created: Saturday, 28 February 2009 16:00 Author: Administrator
    Highlights Efforts to prevent National Guard deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan are active now in nearly half the states. What is driving this new peace initiative and what does it mean for Oregon? Other Highlights Members of military families ar...

  • February 2009 PeaceWorker

    October 2009
    Created: Saturday, 31 January 2009 16:00 Author: Administrator
    Highlights Millions of words have been written about how the financial crisis came about. The arcane jargon of high finance has come into popular discourse. But we believe there is a bigger picture being ignored by a lot of the media. The system is mor...

  • December '08/January '09 PeaceWorker

    October 2009
    Created: Wednesday, 31 December 2008 16:00 Author: Administrator
    Highlights Barack Obama’s election is a necessary condition for change, but not a sufficient one. As he said, there is still much to be done at the grassroots level. Our focus topic, as well as Peter Bergel’s and Norman Solomon’s editorials, sugg...

  • November 2008 PeaceWorker

    October 2009
    Created: Friday, 31 October 2008 16:00 Author: Administrator
    Energy Independence and the Real Cost of Oil Analysis: U.S. Spends Billions to Defend Access to Energy Reserves According to a new report from National Priorities Project (NPP), the United States is spending between $97 and $215 billion dolla...

  • October 2008 PeaceWorker

    October 2009
    Created: Tuesday, 30 September 2008 16:00 Author: Administrator
    Nonviolence Conference Brings Peace Experts to Oregon By Peter Bergel Last month, Oregon was treated to two major nonviolence conferences during one weekend. One, sponsored by the Peace and Justice Studies Association and organized by former Pea...

  • September 2008 PeaceWorker

    October 2009
    Created: Sunday, 31 August 2008 16:00 Author: Administrator
    Highlights One of the worst legacies of the Bush administration is the shambles it has made of our Constitutional rights. Beginning just after the 9/11/01 attacks, the Bushies successfully pushed the PATRIOT Act through Congress and matters have onl...

  • July 2008 PeaceWorker

    October 2009
    Created: Monday, 30 June 2008 16:00 Author: Administrator
    Iran Sanctions Resolution Raises Controversy By Carah Ong H.Con.Res. 362, a new resolution introduced on May 22, 2008 by Representatives Gary Ackerman (D-NY) and Mike Pence (R-IN), is raising controversy in Washington and across the country. There...

  • June 2008 PeaceWorker

    October 2009
    Created: Saturday, 31 May 2008 16:00 Author: Administrator
    House Votes Against Supplimental Funding UFPJ Legislative Working Group In an amazing turn of events, the House of Representatives voted AGAINST the supplemental funding for the war in Iraq!! The bill would have provided $166 billion in war fundin...

  • December 2007 PeaceWorker

    October 2009
    Created: Friday, 30 November 2007 16:00 Author: Administrator
    Highlights In this Season of Peace it seems appropriate to examine religion as a force which both drives and resists war. Other Highlights · “Olympia Activists Stand Firm Against Continued Military Shipments Through Port” reports on the exciti...

  • November 2007 PeaceWorker

    October 2009
    Created: Wednesday, 31 October 2007 16:00 Author: Administrator
    Highlights The U.S. government’s school of assassins, now called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, is the focus of annual protests at its Fort Benning, GA headquarters every November. Find out what this nefarious bran...

  • July 2007 PeaceWorker

    October 2009
    Created: Saturday, 30 June 2007 16:00 Author: Administrator
    Highlights Quick. What’s the U.S.’ largest export? Wheat? Cars? Gadgets? Maybe once, but not any more. It’s weapons ¾ war material. How can we resist the merchants of death who traffic in these commodities and how can we transform the system...

  • June 2007 PeaceWorker

    October 2009
    Created: Thursday, 31 May 2007 16:00 Author: Administrator
    Why should you care about international law? Because it offers the only way we can live at peace in an international community. Just as the rule of law has replaced the law of the jungle at every other level, global peace requires global law.  For a f...

  • May 2007 PeaceWorker

    October 2009
    Created: Monday, 30 April 2007 16:00 Author: Administrator
    Highlights Many people, even a surprising number of peace people, say they believe in nonviolence, yet doubt its power. Our focus topic this month shares some stories of people who have courageously used nonviolence at various levels with surprising a...

  • April 2007 PeaceWorker

    October 2009
    Created: Saturday, 31 March 2007 16:00 Author: Administrator
    Front page New Lawmakers Seek War Debate by Christina Bellantoni Congressional Democrats — especially new members — are clamoring for action on the Iraq war, citing polls showing that American voters want to change course, but leaders...