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"If you assume that every child is sensitive, vulnerable, readily injured, and easily broken, then you will never be far from the truth. If you assume that all children are motivated by pride and justice, you will be able to communicate with them. If you assume that all children should be treated as sacred trusts who deserve your full measure of devotion, you will be on the right path. If you seek to find the vulnerable, precious child in yourself and in all other adults at all times in your dealings with yourself and others, you will have achieved enlightenment. You will become a gift to the children in your life to whatever degree that you remain enlightened in your dealings with them." Peter R. Breggin, M.D., Reclaiming Our Children: A Healing Plan for a Nation in Crisis ******************** Submitted by Maureen

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil … is for good men to do nothing.~~

Edmond Burke

“Any life lost in war is the life of a human being, irrespective of whether it is an Arab or an Israeli...........................................

The wife who becomes widowed is a human being, entitled to live in a happy family, Arab or Israeli..............................................

Innocent children, deprived of paternal care and sympathy, are all our children, whether they live on Arab or Israeli soil, and we owe them the biggest responsibility of providing them with a happy present and bright future.”

Mohammed Anwar El-Sadat

There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now.

Eugene O'Neill

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear.”
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman Statesman, Philosopher and Orator
Date: 42BC

“Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.”

Molly Ivins

Hope........And it is not a dream of a fancy proud,
With a fool for its dull begetter;
There's a voice at the heart that proclaims aloud--
'We are born for a something better!'
And that Voice of the Heart, oh, ye may believe,
Will never the Hope of the Soul deceive!'

Friedrich Schiller

“We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and remember we are not descended from fearful men — not from men who feared to write, to speak , to associate with and defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular. . . .(Senator McCarthy) didn’t create this situation of fear, he merely exploited it, and rather successfully. . . Cassius was right, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”

Edward R. Murrow

'Newt Gingrich is a stupid person's idea of a smart person.'

Alan Grayson

Noah’s Ark : Everything I need to know, I learned from Noah’s Ark .. ONE: Don’t miss the boat. TWO: Remember that we are all in the same boat! THREE: Plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the Ark. FOUR: Stay fit. When you’re 60 years old, someone may ask you to do something really big. FIVE: Don’t listen to critics; just get on with the job that needs to be done. SIX: Build your future on high ground. SEVEN: For safety’s sake, travel in pairs. EIGHT: Speed isn’t always an advantage. The snails were on board with the cheetahs. NINE: When you’re stressed, float awhile. TEN: Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals. ELEVEN: No matter the storm, there’s always a rainbow waiting. Most people walk in and out of your life, but FRIENDS leave footprints in your heart.

Unknown

Congress is not preparing to defend the people of the United States. It is planning to protect the capital of American speculators and investors…. Incidentally this preparation will benefit the manufacturers of munitions and war machines…. Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought! Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder! Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings! Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!

Helen Keller at Carnegie Hall January 5, 1916

'The law is meant to be my servant and not my master, still less my torturer and my murderer'

James Baldwin, The Nation, 7/11/66

The bottom line is this: Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing to comply with international law, with the Roadmap for Peace, with official American policy, with the wishes of a majority of its own citizens–and honor its own previous commitments–by accepting its legal borders. All Arab neighbors must pledge to honor Israel’s right to live in peace under these conditions. The United States is squandering international prestige and goodwill and intensifying global anti-American terrorism by unofficially condoning or abetting the Israeli confiscation and colonization of Palestinian territories.

Jimmy Carter / Palestine Peace Not Apartheid

When the song of the angels is stilled, When the star in the sky is gone, When the kings and the princes are home, When the shephers are back with their flock, The work of Christmas begins: To find the lost, To heal the broken, To feed the hungry, To release the prisoner, To rebuild the nations, To bring peace among brothers and sisters, To make music in the heart.

Howard Thurman

The Republican Party is doing a great job in provoking such a dangerous episode by making consensual governance impossible in a time of awful practical problems and challenges. They’re in the process, right now, of transforming themselves from the party of “no” to the party of no decency, no common sense, no ideas, no conception of the public interest, and no respect for the traditions that they pretend to stand for, like due process of law. In the days since the passage of health care reform, they’ve gone as far as inciting mobs to violence against their fellow congressmen and senators — bricks thrown through windows, death threats made, coffins placed in the yards of their adversaries. One day soon, somebody with a gun or an explosive device, someone with a very sketchy sense-of-self, and perhaps a recent record of personal failure and humiliation, is going to sacrifice himself to become the Tea Party’s first martyr by shooting up a shopping mall in some blue district.

James Howard Kunstler

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

'God shouldn't be put in charge of everything until we get to know Him a little better' Kurt Vonnegut, The Nation, 11/28/81

Kurt Vonnegut, The Nation, 11/28/81

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives…inside ourselves.

Albert Camus

there is no longer any doubt as to whether the (Bush) administration has committed war crimes. The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.

Maj. Gen. Antonio, M. Taguba / Investigator of Abu Ghraib

It's coming to America first,
the cradle of the best and of the worst.
It's here they got the range
and the machinery for change
and it's here they got the spiritual thirst.
It's here the family's broken
and it's here the lonely say
that the heart has got to open
in a fundamental way:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

Leonard Cohen

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15 May

The girl killed by Barack Obama – she never saw it coming [Graphic Video]

The O’Leary: And you are going to vote for this man???

The McGlynn: Please think of this little one as your daughter. Does anyone in our country care?

Posted in Anti-War Videos by: The O'Leary
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12 Apr

The Oracles of Pennsylvania Avenue

Al Jazeera World12 Apr 2012 06:47 GMT

A two-part series looking at three individuals and their 25-year, 24/7 peace vigil in front of the White House.

Posted in Anti-War Videos by: The McGlynn
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11 Dec

We Are Many

We Are Many is a documentary about the never-before-told story of the biggest protest in history, on 15 February 2003, and its legacy, through the Arab Spring to the Occupy Movement. The day that saw an estimated 30 million people in over 700 cities around the world, gave birth to a new global social movement.

What we are witnessing around the world today with the 99%in America, the Indignados in Spain, UK Uncut, the Arab Spring, is directly linked to what took place on February 15 2003. From Wall Street to Wisconsin, from Madrid to Athens, and all across the Middle East, people are rising up to make their voices heard. This is a story of anger, passion and remarkable people striving for justice and democracy. It’s a story of huge change happening in our time.

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We Are Many – a feature length documentary film

A Documentary project in London, United Kingdom

byAmir Amirani

WHO’S BACKING US?

Individuals

Ken Loach – World-renowned film director is a Patron of the project
Danny Glover – Actor and activist is a Patron of the project
Brian Eno
Jesse Jackson
Richard O’Brien – Writer of the Rocky Horror Show
Medea Benjamin – Code Pink
Mark Rylance – British Actor
Lindsay German – Stop The War Coalition
Tariq Ali
Ricken Patel – Co-founder of Avaaz
Leslie Cagan – United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ)
Harry Belafonte
Noam Chomsky
Tim Robbins – Actor
Arundhati Roy – Author
Oliver Stone – Oscar-winning Film Director, Producer and Screenwriter

Posted in Anti-War Videos, Human Rights, Occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan by: The McGlynn
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10 Dec

Ron Paul’s Eye-Opening Ad on our Wars

This Ad Needs to go Viral.

The ad is brutally effective in fixing many of our misconceptions about the current so called war on terror. And I think it absolutely needs to go viral. It needs to be posted on forums, political blogs (both republican and democratic blogs alike) and Facebook pages everywhere. This is not about getting Ron Paul elected, because republicans absolutely hate him and will never give him the nomination. This is about opening as many eyes to the truth of what we’re doing, as possible before 2012.

In reply to the expected comments, we want to reiterate, this is about the message, not the messenger. The message in the ad resonates and just because this message comes from someone we disagree with on several issues, doesn’t make it any less valid or any less important to get out there.

Ignoring this ad just because you disagree with the messenger on other issues, would be akin to ignoring Barack Obama’s message on the plight of the middle class just because you disagree with his stance on marijuana.

Posted in Anti-War Videos, Occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, US Middle-East Policy by: The O'Leary
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12 Sep

WikiLeaks’ Collateral Murder: U.S. Soldier Ethan McCord

Not for viewing by children or the faint of heart.

Posted in Anti-War Videos, Occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan by: The McGlynn
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The girl killed by Barack Obama – she never saw it coming [Graphic Video]

The O’Leary: And you are going to vote for this man???

The McGlynn: Please think of this little one as your daughter. Does anyone in our country care?

The Oracles of Pennsylvania Avenue

The Oracles of Pennsylvania Avenue

We Are Many

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We Are Many – a feature length documentary film

A Documentary project in London, United Kingdom

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Ron Paul’s Eye-Opening Ad on our Wars

This Ad Needs to go Viral.

In reply to the expected comments, we want to reiterate, this is about the message, not the messenger. The message in the ad resonates and just because this message comes from someone we disagree with on several issues, doesn’t make it any less valid or any less important to get out there.

WikiLeaks’ Collateral Murder: U.S. Soldier Ethan McCord

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byAmir Amirani

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In reply to the expected comments, we want to reiterate, this is about the message, not the messenger. The message in the ad resonates and just because this message comes from someone we disagree with on several issues, doesn’t make it any less valid or any less important to get out there.

Not for viewing by children or the faint of heart.