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Wally Nelson would have been 98 on March 27th. He was a pioneer civil rights activist and is considered a parent - along with his partner Juanita Nelson - of the modern war tax resistance movement in the US.

See more on Wally (with links to other resources) at http://www.traprockpeace.org/wallynel…
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Ne…

This short video is a compilation of moments from 1999 to 2002. The final clip is Wally last birthday celebration.

Video © 1999, 2001 and 2002 Charles Jenks; all rights reserved.

Veterans Paul Abernathy and Matt Southworth, both member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, speak with Sunny Miller, Executive Director of Traprock Peace Center, after the antiwar/anti-occupation rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina on March 17, 2007.

For more information, see:
http://www.ivaw.org
http://www.traprockpeace.org
http://www.veteransforpeace.org

For videos of the Fayetteville peace events on March 17-18, 2007 (more coming), visit http://www.youtube.com/TraprockPeaceTV

video © 2007 Charles Jenks; all rights reserved.

Rally website: http://www.fayetteville-peace-rally.org

Iraq War veterans leading march in Fayetteville, North Carolina - March 17, 2007. A short clip of the head of the march. The vets led the chanting for the march through Fayetteville, the home of Fort Bragg (82nd Airborne). See Veterans for Peace - http://www.veteransforpeace.org - and Iraq Veterans Against the War - http://www.ivaw.org.

For more on the march, see http://www.fayetteville-peace-rally.org

video © 2007 Charles Jenks; charles@traprockpeace.org

See more march and rally video at http://www.youtube.com/TraprockPeaceTV

Marchers in North Carolina took to the streets to protest war in Fayetteville on March 17, 2007. About 500 marched to a rally against the war and occupation. For more information on the rally and march, see http://www.fayetteville-peace-rally.org

Video recorded and edited by Charles Jenks. © 2007 Traprock Peace Center; all rights reserved. info@traprockpeace.org
http://www.traprockpeace.org

“We want justice, got to have justice.” This was one of the songs performed by the Fruit of Labor Singing Ensemble at the peace rally in Fayetteville, NC on March 17, 2007.

Fruit of Labor is the cultural arm of Black Workers for Justice; http://www.bwfj.org

Members are affiliated with the NC Public Service Workers Union, UE Loccal 150 - http://www.ue150.org

For more information on the peace rally, see http://www.fayetteville-peace-rally.org

Video recorded by Sunny Miller and edited by Charles Jenks. © 2007 Traprock Peace Center; all rights reserved. It may be replayed as non-commercial, non-profit use (Fruit of Labor may use for any purpose), with attributions and notice to info@traprockpeace.org.

For more videos see Traprock’s video channel at http://www.youtube.com/TraprockPeaceTV

For peace and justice resources,
see http://www.traprockpeace.org

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber spoke at the peace rally in Fayetteville, NC on March 17, 2007. He is President of the NC NAACP and pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, NC. Chuck Fager of Quaker House introduced him.

For more information, see http://www.fayetteville-peace-rally.org

video recorded and edited by Charles Jenks; charles@traprockpeace.org

© 2007 Traprock Peace Center; all rights reserved
http://www.traprockpeace.org

Anti-torture and antiwar activists in North Carolina, joined by Ann Wright and Sunny Miller, protested outside the gates of Aero Contractors LTD in Smithfield, NC. Aero Contractors has been reported to provide planes and pilots for the CIA’s ‘extraordinary rendition’, in other words kidnapping, of people in other countries for interrogation and imprisonment, which has included torture. Several organizations participated in this action:
North Carolina Stop Torture Now
http://www.ncstoptorturenow.org
Veterans for Peace
http://www.veteransforpeace.org
Traprock Peace Center.
http://www.traprockpeace.org

The Folly of War with Iran
 
By Stanley Heller
 
The feeble Democratic leadership has given up on legislation to require the President to seek approval from Congress before attacking Iran.  It stripped the language from the Iraq Supplemental Appropriation Bill.  Reportedly convervative Democrats didn’t want to “tie the President’s hands”.  While the President’s hands were left free no doubt many in Congress found their arms twisted by over 1,000 lobbyists from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee who descended on Washington recently to spread hysteria about Iran. (more…)

“DEATH” OF CONGRESS SHIFTS WEIGHT OF
WAR RESISTANCE MORE HEAVILY ON MILITARY

By Nick Mottern, Director, ConsumersforPeace.org
March 2, 2007

One can argue that Congress died as a representative body on Feb. 16-17, 2007 when it went on record as doing nothing to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq. Statements of the Democratic leadership about the war since then can be compared to the chattering of microbes in a cadaver.

The Congressional Iraq failure made it even more clear that Congress will not block an attack against Iran, despite mounting evidence that such an attack is likely within a few months if not weeks.

And nothing can be expected from Congress to reduce U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan, which, in the shadow cast by the death toll in Iraq, is becoming a war and occupation with no foreseeable end, a war possibly spreading into Pakistan. Indeed, the Afghanistan Plus war seems to have wide support in the Congress. (more…)