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Written on Good Friday, April 14, 2006 Youth     seven is too young to hear that daddy won’t come home years go by but still can’t fill the time you spent alone   fourteen is too young to care about saving innocent lives to campaign hard to stop a war based on naught but… Continue reading Youth – a poem by Avery Friend

Traprock Homepage Don’t Attack Iran Petition Don’t Attack Iran By Cindy Sheehan Fresh from a resounding victory in Iraq, George Bush swaggered onto the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln and boldly and confidentally declared victory. It was a pretty war, it was a clean war, it looked stunning in all of its shock and… Continue reading Don’t Attack Iran by Cindy Sheehan

Traprock Homepage Bush is considering a nuclear strike on Iran – what are we going to do about it? Friends, Seymour Hersh reports in The New Yorker that President Bush is considering using nuclear weapons as part of a U.S. military strike against Iran. See https://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060417fa_fact Despite the disaster in Iraq, there has been almost… Continue reading Antiwar Petition and Talking Points on Iran

Traprock Homepage See Ward Reilly’s entire photo album (185 photos) Veterans-Survivors March…Mobile To New Orleans Beauty Defined In Epic Action by Ward Reilly Dave Cline of VVAW and VFP called me, and a few others, back in December, and asked what I/we thought about organizing a march along the (Katrina-affected) Gulf Coast, to commemorate the… Continue reading Veterans and Survivors March – Mobile To New Orleans

Traprock Homepage March 28, 2006 Seven Months After Katrina: Sleeping in Your Car in Front of Your Trailer in Front of Your Devastated Home, Tales of Lunacy and Hope from New Orleans By Bill Quigley. Bill Quigley is a law professor at Loyola University New Orleans. His email address is Quigley@loyno.edu In New Orleans, seven… Continue reading Seven Months After Katrina

Traprock homepage Edge of Sports “Death Row” Talks Back to Etan Thomas By Dave Zirin This Sunday at 4pm, I am proud to be speaking at an event in San Francisco called a “Civil Rights Slam for Justice,” sponsored by among others the Campaign to End the Death Penalty. The slam will be at the… Continue reading “Death Row” Talks Back to Etan Thomas

Traprock Homepage March 21, 2006 by Charles Jenks It’s hardly news that the conservative movement in the Catholic Church has it in for feminists, gays and heretics. Still, I was shocked this week by the report on a conference of 5000 Catholic men in Boston, and the results of a little googling of Opus Dei… Continue reading Bigotry in the Catholic Conservative Movement

Traprock Homepage The Logic of Withdrawal by Anthony Arnove March 18, 2006 We find ourselves in a remarkable situation today. Despite a massive propaganda campaign in support of the occupation of Iraq, a clear majority of people in the United States now believes the invasion was not worth the consequences and should never have been… Continue reading The Logic of Withdrawal by Anthony Arnove

Dear friends of Mountain View Voices for Peace, Dear friends of United for Peace and Justice, Dear Danny Schechter, Dear Leslie Cagan, In the Mountain View Voices for Peace poster for the March 2006 third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq – https://www.mvvp.org/ – there is written 30,000 Iraqis I found the same poster in… Continue reading Open Letter to UFPJ on Counting Iraqi Dead

THE INSANE SOCIETY The war criminals’ freedom, the jesters’ democracy, the fat banquet and those mountains of corpses that nobody cares. But the Emperor is naked. By Gabriele Zamparini (*) “The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does… Continue reading THE INSANE SOCIETY by Gabriele Zamparini