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Harry BelafonteHarry Belafonte, at 84 years old, is still making headlines.

On Thursday, CNN talked with the actor/humanitarian/activist at the Television Critics Association Tour in Beverly Hills. He was there to promote his upcoming HBO documentary “Sing Your Song," which chronicles his longstanding career and work alongside many notable civil rights activists.

But what caught our attention during the interview were his outspoken words on President Obama and the current budget impasse.

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WikiLeaks

Wikileaks

Discover the truth

of the unjust, illegitimate war in Iraq and Afghanistan: WikiLeaks releases hundreds of thousands of military records revealing thousands of civilian deaths, execution squads,
other war crimes. 

The Guantánamo Files

documenting torture, abuse, and years of unjust imprisonment.

Watch "Collateral Murder"

The military's own video documenting the killing of 12 Iraqis from a helicopter circling above

Help Stop these Crimes: Collateral Murder Video Showings and more...

Bradley Manning

Support Bradley Manning

The young soldier accused of releasing the US military records. 
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Abortion Rights

January 2012: Stand Up for Abortion and Birth Control

January 22 and 23, on the 39th anniversary of the Roe V. Wade Supreme Court Decision which legalized abortion, come to DC to:

Stand up for Abortion and Birth Control

Read and sign the call to action issued by Sunsara Taylor

 

Guantánamo

10 Years Too Many: National Day of Action Against Guantánamo!

Read reports/view photos and video from protests in DC and around the country on January 11, the tenth anniversary of Guantánamo.

New Project: CloseGuantanamo.org
Sign the petition and demand the Obama administration close it NOW!

No War on Iran! PDF Print E-mail
Saturday, 28 January 2012 16:46

NO war! NO sanctions on Iran! NO intervention! NO assassinations in Iran!

In many ways, U.S. war on Iran has already begun.

The United States and Israel, both of which have nuclear weapons, say they will stop at nothing to keep Iran from having a nuclear program, even though the U.S. Secretary of Defense says Iran won’t have nuclear capability anytime soon.

The U.S. has begun harsh economic sanctions that can destroy the Iranian economy, and the lives of millions of Iranians through depriving them of food, medicine and electricity. Either the U.S. or Israel is killing Iranian scientists in car bombings. U.S. surveillance drones are flying over Iran, in violation of its sovereignty. 3 U.S. carrier groups are right off Iran's shore. And secret U.S. commando operations are in the country.

Will we allow another U.S. war based on lies?

Download Flyers for the Day of Mass Action to Stop a U.S. War on Iran February 4:

NYC PDF

Other areas (editable: add local info, keep both files together): DOC  JPG

 
NATO Torture and Abuse in Libya PDF Print E-mail
Saturday, 28 January 2012 17:02

by Stephen Lendman  

NATO's alleged "responsibility to protect" was subterfuge. Months of terror bombings left Libya a charnel house.

Africa's most developed country was ravaged. Tens of thousands were killed, multiples more injured, and millions left on their own sink or swim.

When is war not war? It's when mass killing and destruction are called the right thing. It's also when terrorizing and traumatizing an entire population goes unaddressed.

 
Center for Constitutional Rights: New Videos Plus Support for the “Close Guantánamo” Petition to Obama PDF Print E-mail
Saturday, 28 January 2012 17:10

by Andy Worthington 

In the long struggle to close Guantánamo, protests took place in Washington D.C. and across America on the 10th anniversary of the opening of the prison on January 11, and the newly established “Close Guantánamo” campaign (of which I am a member of the steering committee) launched a petition on the White House’s “We the People” website, calling on President Obama to fulfill his promise to close the prison, which he made when he took office three years ago, and pointing out how fundamentally unjust it is that 89 of the remaining 171 prisoners have been cleared for release, and yet are still held.

That petition needs to secure 25,000 signatures by February 6, to oblige the President to respond, and at the time of writing, over 4,300 people had signed it. Many groups have been asking their supporters to sign it, and yesterday the Center for Constitutional Rights publicly added their voice to the campaign, sending out an email alert to all their supporters, asking them to sign the petition, and also asking visitors to the “Close Guantánamo” page on their website to sign it.

 
Amherst: The Art, Photos, Stories, and Poetry of Guantanamo Prisoners on Display PDF Print E-mail
Saturday, 28 January 2012 17:19

by Michelle Williams

In Amherst Massachusetts, tucked away on Main Street, an art installation shared the stories of people over 1400 miles away, in Guantánamo Bay.

The exhibit titled, “Guantánamo: Ten Years and Counting,” features the artwork, poetry, photos and stories of prisoners in the Guantánamo Bay detention camp though two-dimensional panels, clips of documentaries and a life-size mannequin wearing the standard issued orange jumpsuit that prisoners wear, with a black sack on its head.

This month marks the 10th year the detention camp has held detainees.

Beginning at the left side of the gallery, the first panel highlights a phrase U.S Military Intelligence Officers said to Hadj Boudella, a former detainee of Guantánamo, “You are in a place where there is no law – we are the law.”

 
The Sound of Silence: Where Is the Anti-Choice Outcry Over North Carolina's Forced Sterilization of Women of Color? PDF Print E-mail
Saturday, 28 January 2012 17:27

by Pamela Merritt

A task force in North Carolina recently ruled that survivors of that state’s eugenics program should be paid $50,000 each in financial compensation. Eugenics is often defined as the science of “improving” a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of “desirable” heritable characteristics.

The practice of eugenics was not limited to Nazi Germany nor is it a well kept secret that’s been waiting to be discovered by organizations opposed to reproductive justice.

In America, state governments set up eugenics boards that determined the reproductive future of thousands. I grew up listening to my maternal Grandmother, a Mississippi native, warn against trusting doctors and passing along lessons she learned from other poor women of color who went into a hospital to give birth only to later find out that they were given a Mississippi Appendectomy without their consent.

 
Killing Iraqis Makes Us Safer -- And Other Lies PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 25 January 2012 20:24

[Obama] had called it a dumb war.  Now he says it made us safer.  If it was dumb, was he dumber?  What is he trying to say?

By David Swanson

In the news around the world and even in the United States on Tuesday was the anger among Iraqis at the failure of the United States to hold anyone seriously accountable for the 2005 massacre in Haditha.  The story was a useful reminder of how the operations of the U.S. military over the past decade have fueled hostility toward our nation.

President Obama began his State of the Union speech Tuesday night by absurdly claiming the exact opposite, asserting that the war on Iraq has made us safer and -- I kid you not -- "more respected around the world."  He later equated the war on Iraq to World War II, a surefire way to put anything beyond criticism in the United States, provided you can get people to fall for it.

Remember, this is the guy who won the Democratic Primary in 2008 by the simple fact of having not yet been in the Senate in 2003 and thus having avoided voting for the war that he funded to the hilt as a senator beginning in 2005.  He had called it a dumb war.  Now he says it made us safer.  If it was dumb, was he dumber?  What is he trying to say?

In the next breath, Obama says "some troops in Afghanistan have begun to come home."  Never mind that there are three times as many U.S. troops in Afghanistan now as when Obama moved into the White House.  The myth is that he's ending wars. 

 
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