From the growing rate of domestic incarceration to increasing problems of international violence, the U.S. has no more serious problem in our midst than the problem of violence itself. Prison-building is our largest urban industry, and we spend over 400 billion dollars a year on military-related expenditures. Yet within the workings of the U.S. government, there is no platform from which to seriously wage peace. At least, not yet. Currently, there is a bill before Congress (H.R. 808) to establish a U.S. Department of Peace as an all-systems response to the problem of violence at home and abroad. Domestically, the DOP will develop policies and allocate resources to effectively reduce levels of domestic, school, and gang violence. Internationally, the DOP will advise the President and Congress on the most sophisticated ideas and techniques regarding peace-creation among nations.
Join friends of the Peace Task Force for an exciting panel discussion with Joe Allegro, Kevin Fagan, and Marianne Perez … state coordinators of the citizen lobbying group, New Yorkers for a Department of Peace. [www.nyc-dop.com] The panelists will present different aspects of the bill, clips from the recent Peace Alliance conference in Washington D.C. and information to anyone who wants to participate in the campaign. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
Wednesday, April 25
7:00-8:30 p.m.
All Souls Church
80th Street & Lexington Avenue
Reidy Friendship Hall
Humane Society's (HSUS) Info Page - 10 Things you should know about the pet food recall
http://www.hsus.org/pets/pets_related_news_and_events/ten_things_you_should_know.html
Questions Linger About Bushes and BCCI
Lucy Komisar, Inter Press Service
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040607L.shtml
Police Back on the Beat
The Japan Times
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/rss/ff20070406a1.html
After his breakthrough soundtrack for Francis Ford Coppola's "Rumble Fish" in 1983, Copeland has scored any number of great movies for directors like Oliver Stone, Ken Loach and John Waters.
[Andy, Sting & Stewart from the early 1980s as The Police]
Bushies Remember They Can't Recall
Marianne Means
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/05/333/
New Police CD
antiMUSIC
http://www.antimusic.com/dayinrock/07/april/06/12.shtml
Reunited rockers THE POLICE are planning to follow their comeback world tour with a new album. STING, ANDY SUMMERS and STEWART COPELAND recently announced they will perform a string of gigs this year (07), 23 years after they split.
Ohio's Election Protection Movement Wins Two Big Victories
Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/05/336/
In Sight/Music & Arts: Rare Pre-Breakup Footage Shows the Police Off-Duty
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200704060081.html
Here's an arresting thought: The British rock band the Police didn't break up because they hated one another.
An Army of Christian Right Lawyers Is Waging War on the Constitution
Sarah Posner, Washington Spectator
http://www.alternet.org/rights/50139/
American Dream Ends in Property Market Crash
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/06/339/
First in the War, Then in the Oil Grab - Congressional Complicity
Richard Behan
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=72&ItemID=12533
And Congress has agreed to this. That is complicity. Was Congress ignorant of the consequences of the deceitful "benchmark?" No. Representative Dennis Kucinich offered an amendment to eliminate it from H.R. 1591. In a letter to his Democratic colleagues, Mr. Kucinich said, "By requiring the enactment of this law by the Iraqi government, Democrats will be instrumental in privatizing Iraqi oil." And so they were. With Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate, the benchmark survived- essentially a prescription for theft.
Dennis Kucinich Speaking On 9/11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIS6UJ8kRIY
"My Name Used to Be #200343"
David Phinney, IPS News
http://www.alternet.org/story/50191/
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