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.” |
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 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.
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in stopping the crimes of your government, become a sustainer. Monthly
sustainers pay all the web, phone, office & printing expenses of this
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