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First - Sign & Donate to publish this message in Texas: Stop Patriarchy: Emergency in Texas Stop Forced Motherhood Abortion on Demand and Without Apology “If nothing changes, on September 1st all but six abortion clinics in Texas will be closed (there were 46 in 2011). “Women will begin dying from dangerous illegal abortions. Others will be imprisoned for self-inducing abortions. Thousands more will have their lives foreclosed by being forced to bear children they do not want – shattering their dreams, trapping them in abusive relationships, and/or driving them into humiliating and dangerous poverty. Rural, poor, immigrant, and women of color will be hardest hit. “Worse, this emergency in Texas is not an isolated problem...” Read the rest of the statement and sign-on. Join Merle Hoffman (CEO of Choices Women's Medical Center in New York City), Carol Downer (founder of Feminist Women's Health Center in Los Angeles), Rev. Donna Schaper (senior minister at Judson Memorial Church, NYC), Sikivu Hutchinson (Black feminist atheist author), Diane Derzis (owner of the last abortion clinic in Mississippi), and Sunsara Taylor (writer for Revolution, Stop Patriarchy; fighter for abortion rights since 1995) in signing this statement along with Elaine Brower, Susan Brownmiller, Marilyn Fitterman, Carol Giardina, C. Clark Kissinger, Sandy Rapp, SarahRoche-Madhi, Debra Sweet. We aim to publish this in a major Texas newspaper on August 4th, the first day of court proceedings which will determine whether all but six remaining abortion clinics in Texas will be forced to close on September 1, 2014. Only with your donations will publication be possible. Scroll down to add your name and donate to see this statement published in Texas. Find out more about the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride: Ground Zero Texas. Mary Anne Grady jailed for Hancock AFB Drone Protest July 10, 2014: Syracuse, NY. Anti-drone protester Mary Anne Grady was sent to county jail for a maximum 12 month sentence for violating a temporary "Order of Protection" granted by a County Judge to explicitly to protect the Commander Evans of Hancock Air Force Base, who said he wanted to keep protesters "out of his driveway." Years of non-violent protest, including civil disobedience, led by the Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones and Stop the Wars, have focused public attention on the role of Hancock in remotely piloting US drones around the world, particularly Reaper drones over Afghanistan, and also in training drone operators. The use of Orders of Protection (OoP's) is an outrageous application of an instrument developed to protect women from domestic abusers. Ironically, those actual orders are often violated, or unenforced. But to use the same framework to cast political protesters as a danger to the commander of the base is an outrageous attack on the free speech and assembly rights of the people who are risking their freedom to stop US drone war through holding signs on public property. The Syracuse Peace Council provides background on the Orders of Protection and suggests How You Can Help Fight Orders of Protection. Democracy Now covered the sentencing; watch now. Read more... Uniting Against the Bombing of Gaza Download here: posters & the following flyer in English & Spanish. Israel has unleashed another murderous campaign against Gaza. If your heart is sickened by what Palestinians are living and dying through now, let us confront – and act to help many people confront -- that all this violence is backed by the $3.1 billion in military aid Israel receives each year from the U.S. People of conscience must stand against and resist the crimes of our own government, and that includes U.S. political and military support for the crimes of its cohort, its allies, when those powers commit crimes against humanity funded by and therefore “made in the U.S.A.” During the 1980’s when wars rocked Central America, and also when South African apartheid was being challenged — it made a real difference when people inside the U.S. woke up to the facts of what their own government was doing, and questioned which side America was on. Many people inside the empire publicly stood up and said NO to the U.S. Empire. That is what is needed today, once again! Palestinian children, men, and women are dying every day as a result of the illegal actions of the U.S. government and Israel going back 60 years. The U.S. government must be brought to account for arming Israel. Stop Illegal, Unjust U.S. support of Israel Stop U.S. Threats to Attack Iraq Again Courageous Resistance! “I have come to the decision that I refuse to participate in this criminal act.” Reprieve reported Tuesday that: "A military medical professional at Guantanamo Bay recently refused to force-feed detainees after witnessing the suffering it caused detainees, it has been revealed.   The incident is thought to be the first case of 'conscientious objection' to force-feeding at Guantánamo since a mass hunger-strike began at the prison last year. Cleared Syrian Abu Wa’el Dhiab related the news on a phone call last week with his Reprieve lawyer, Cori Crider. Dhiab explained that a military nurse recently told him he would no longer participate in force-feedings, saying: “I have come to the decision that I refuse to participate in this criminal act.”   Carol Rosenberg in the Miami Herald reported: Word of the refusal reached the outside world last week in a call from a prisoner, Abu Wael Dhiab, to attorney Cori Crider of the London-based legal defense group Reprieve. Dhiab, a hunger striker, described how a nurse in the Navy medical corps abruptly refused to “force-feed us” sometime before the Fourth of July — and disappeared from detention center duty. We will follow this and report more as we attempt to learn who the nurse is, so we can applaud his conscience. Above: one of the restraint chairs used in force-feedings at Guantanamo. Passing along to you: Witness Against Torture Releases New Posters Project From Witness Against Torture: “For the last three years, Witness Against Torture has presented short runs of posters featuring quotes from former and current Guantánamo detainees. This week, we are releasing five new posters designed by WAT member Justin Norman. These artistic renderings of the plight of the detainees will hopefully engage people in a new way. We hope you like them. Furthermore, you can purchase printed images of these posters on the Witness Against Torture website. These purchases help in raising funds for efforts to shut down the detention center that continues to hold them. Click here to check out the new posters, which are all available on our website store.” Share this message: What happens on the World Can't Wait conversations?  Sometimes, we have a guest speaker who talks with us about key issues we want to know more about. World Can't Wait Conversation Thursday, July 10 10pm Eastern / 7pm Pacific Organizers of the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride will join the conversation. Register for dial-in info. At other times, it's World Can't Wait supporters talking amongst ourselves, planning, and confronting the latest ourages.  Last week, we designed 2 posters, and came up with the content of a flyer by talking about what we had learned in the previous few days at protests of the bombing of Gaza See the results below: Download here: posters & flyer in English & Spanish. To support & allow World Can't Wait to play its role in stopping the crimes of your government, become a sustainer.  Monthly sustainers pay all the web, phone, office & printing expenses of this all-volunteer effort.

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