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What Would Jesus Buy? - Free Film Screening
 Saturday, November 14
7:00 to 8:30 pm
Poughkeepsie Friends Meeting
249 Hooker Ave., Poughkeepsie, NY 12603
What Would Jesus Buy? follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir as they go on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse:
the end of mankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt! From producer Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me). "Fast and funny" - NY Times. "Tremendously entertaining" - Village Voice.
The screening will be followed by an audience discussion. This is part of the "Give Peace a Film" series and there is no admission charge.
Sponsored by:
-Dutchess Peace Coalition
www.dutchesspeace.org
-Poughkeepsie Friends Meeting
www.poughkeepsiequakers.org
Print out a flyer: Jesusbuy.pdf
...This White House makes a serial vacillator like Bill Clinton look like Patton crossing the Rhine. Veterans from the Clinton White House, in fact, jumped on Obama. "The president may have overlearned the lesson of the Clinton health care plan fiasco, which was: Don't deliver a package to the Hill, let the Hill take ownership," said Robert Reich, who served as labor secretary under Clinton. There were now so many competing ideas about how to pay for the plan and what kind of mandates to include that even after the five bills are completed, Congress will not be much closer to reform than it was at the beginning. "The president has got to go in there and give it coherence," Reich concluded.
But Reich's comment assumes that Obama wants to give the bill coherence. In many ways, the lily-livered method that Obama chose to push health care into being is a crystal-clear example of how the Democratic Party likes to act — showering a real problem with a blizzard of ineffectual decisions and verbose nonsense, then stepping aside at the last minute to reveal the true plan that all along was being forged off-camera in the furnace of moneyed interests and insider inertia. While the White House publicly eschewed any concrete "guiding principles," the People Who Mattered, it appeared, had already long ago settled on theirs. Those principles seem to have been: no single-payer system, no meaningful public option, no meaningful employer mandates and a very meaningful mandate for individual consumers. In other words, the only major reform with teeth would be the one forcing everyone to buy some form of private insurance, no matter how crappy, or suffer a tax penalty...
The whole sorry story on
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/29988909/sick_and_wrong/6
Sick and Wrong
How Washington is screwing up health care reform – and why it may take a revolt to fix it
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At the Woodstock Forum, which took place August 15 and 16, 2009, well over 300 people heard and discussed the many pressing issues of our time. Jeremy Scahill spoke of the need to react to the Bush-like policies of the Obama Administration.
Interview with former Israeli pilot, Yonatan Shapira about gaza. By SF Bay Area Independent Media Center (Indybay). In 2003 he initiated the group of Israeli Air Force pilots who refused to participate in attack missions on Palestinian territories. He is a co-founder of Combatants for Peace, an organization of former Palestinian and Israeli fighters.
I am deemed a radical because I believe that partisan politics should be left to the wayside when hundreds of thousands of people are dying for a war based on lies that is supported by Democrats and Republican alike. It amazes me that people who are sharp on the issues and can zero in like a laser beam on lies, misrepresentations, and political expediency when it comes to one party refuse to recognize it in their own party. Blind party loyalty is dangerous whatever side it occurs on. People of the world look on us Americans as jokes because we allow our political leaders so much murderous latitude and if we don't find alternatives to this corrupt "two" party system our Representative Republic will die and be replaced with what we are rapidly descending into with nary a check or balance: a fascist corporate wasteland.
Cindy Sheehan
Saturday, January 27th in DC
Photos by Econosmith
More pictures by Emily
 Israeli Violence in the West Bank
"A 19-year old Swedish human rights worker had her cheekbone broken by a Jewish extremist in Hebron today.
Earlier the same day at least five Palestinians, including a 3-year-old child, were injured by the settler-supporting extremists, who rampaged through Tel Rumeida hurling stones and bottles at local residents ...
Tove Johansson from Stockholm walked through the Tel Rumeida checkpoint with a small group of human rights workers (HRWs) to accompany Palestinian school children to their homes ...
One settler then hit Tove on the left side of her face with an empty bottle, breaking it on her face and leaving her with a broken cheekbone. She immediately fell to the ground and the group of Jewish extremists who were watching began to clap, cheer, and chant."
(ISM media office)
Sleep-Out for the Homeless
Friday, Oct. 6 starting at 6:30 pm
Winter is not far away, and homeless men and women must find a
place to sleep at night. They need blankets, clothes, canned food,
and toiletries. Bring donations, or join us for a night under the stars!
Israeli state terrorism in Lebanon
The vigil on 9 and 9D is still going after three years (Saturdays at 12:30).
The Voices for Peace gave us a great send-off for the April 29 Peace Rally in NYC
About 40 people came out in Rhinebeck to protest the war.
March 11 Peace Rally in New Paltz (Photos by Economsmith)
A cold day at the US Army Recruiting Center
Rhinebeck Die-in. Story and pictures by Jeff.
Eyes Wide Open exhibition came to Poughkeepsie and the Dutchess Greens
helped raise funds for it. Photo by Econosmith. More pictures by Jeff
Dancing to the Walker Family Band, we raised over $300 for the
Eyes Wide Open exhibit and counter recruiting efforts in Dutchess Co.
Stop Caterpillar Sales to Israel
Local protest at Caterpillar on Noxon Rd. draws over 30 people.
International rally sponsored by: American Friends Service Committee,
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Jewish Voice for Peace,
Maryknoll Sisters, National Lawyers Guild, Presbyterian Church USA,
and the Tikkun Community.
Over 50,000 Palestinians have been made homeless by
Caterpillar bulldozers. American peace activist Rachel
Corrie was killed by one trying to save a family home.
(Picture: The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions)
New Paltz rocks for peace (photo by Econosmith)! More pictures by Jeff and Doug
Not our President: DC '05
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