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13" X 3.5" vinyl long lasting
bumper sticker, the same one at the BEACH IMPEACH
event in San Francisco and featured in the ABC -7 newscast.
NO MORE TROOPS 2.25"BUTTON
Get out in the streets with this message. BUSH needs a good spanking...!
IMPEACH!
- 2.25" Button
(pin-back)
These are the same buttons worn at the BEACH IMPEACH
event on January 6 in San Francisico. Tell the
world where you stand!
Buy ten - $15.00 +SH
more
buttons...
THE LIST: BOOKS, MAGAZINES,
NEWSPAPERS THE
LIST is a collection of books, magazines and newspapers,
that a number of us in the MPJC have found especially enlightening,
brilliant, provocative or educational. These are the kinds of materials
we rely on to understand not just our own country and it's place in
the world, but the world entire -- its politics, economics, wars,
resistence movements, revolutions, and civilization itself. The books
cover the widest possible range of topics and progressive political
perspectives: from Mumia Abu-Jamal's memoir of the
Black Panther Party; to Li Onesto's on-the-ground
account of the People's War in Nepal; to Tariq Ali's
latest volume on the recent emergence of progressive governments in
Latin America; to Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickled and
Dimed, on her time spent trying to feed and house herself on minimum
wage jobs. The periodicals range from the well-known and highly respected
socialist Monthly Review, to the anarchist Z
Magazine, to small newspapers put out by Marxist-Leninist
revolutionary groups. We like all these books and periodicals precisely
because they directly challenge or reject the assumption that the
evils of capitalism and empire are inevitable or necessary. We like
the fact that they freely use analytical tools like marxism or anarchism
or anarcho-primitivism to criticize everything the mainstream media
takes for granted. We like their combative and often revolutionary
perspectives, since we too insist that the world change now, before
yet another generation of humanity is offered up as blood-sacrifice
on the altar of capital and imperial ambition.Click
here for a complete list of suggested reading and holiday gift giving.
SPRING
FASHIONS
JUST OFF THE RUNWAY Whether
you're going on a bike ride, jogging, playing tennis or
just going on a quick trip to the farmers market, Marin
fashionistas wouldn't be caught without this spring's
must have fashion accessory, the famous IMPEACH BUSH SOCKS.
Feeling extra generous this holiday season? Send a pair to your
favorite congress-person or even to the man himself.
IMPEACH BUSH SOCKS
Impeach Bush Socks small - S/M 6-10
$10 plus shipping.
Impeach Bush Socks large L/XL 9-13
$10 plus shipping.
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$1.50 + postage
Book club members were extremely pleased with Osama's
first selection, William Blum's ROGUE STATE.
We found it to be a concise yet devastating account of U.S.-sponsored
skullduggery, assassination, and massacres around the world, all
done in the service of U.S. capital and its imperial interests.
The book is an excellent response to the question, "Why
do they hate us?" (Apparently we were not alone in
our appreciation, since Blum's book rocketed up the New York Times
bestseller list the moment Osama plucked it from its undeserved
obscurity.)
While we're waiting for Osama's next selection,
members of the book club have offered these suggestions:
A People's History of the United States,
by Howard Zinn
This modern classic on the history of the United States demonstrates
that right here at home people of color, workers, women, immigrants,
labor organizers and left activists often get treated just as badly
(and for much the same reasons) as the U.S. mistreats the rest of
the world's people.
The New Pearl Harbor,
by David R. Griffin
Read this book for the truth behind the lies about 9-11. This should
be an exciting selection for our club, especially if Osama decides
to let us in on just who his "silent partners" in Washington
really were.
Lies My Teacher Told Me,
by James W. Loewen
This book will appeal to our younger book club members. Kids, don't
believe those textbook accounts of the glories of U.S. history that
you're getting in elementary, middle and high school. Loewen's endlessly
readable, informative and entertaining book will give you the facts
you need so you can tell your teacher to take that textbook and
shove it.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man,
by John Perkins
This recent publication gives a fascinating, lucid account of the
secret technique of U.S. imperial racketeering in Latin America
and points east. According to Perkins, here's how it works: first,
the U.S. sends an economic hit man to visit the head of a little
country (Panama, for example); the hit man says the U.S. wants the
little country's natural resources and labor and wants the country's
government to implement policies to keep its labor poor, oppressed
and cheap; or else, says the hit man, the C.I.A. will begin assasinating
the country's leaders and bombing its population. This technique,
Perkins notes, has been wildly successful.
PLEASE NOTE
- The Osama bin Laden Book Club meeting has been moved!
Please contact your local cell leader, Alberto Gonzales or the NSA
for further directions.
The Halliburton Rod and Gun Club
meetings
will be held right after the OBL Book
Club. The
topics for the March meetingwill be: The art of identifying
protected species and fine adjusting for sensitive
triggers to improve safety. Our special guest speaker will
be George W. Bush.
Special thanks to Safety Coordinator, Dick Cheney for these timely
educational talks.
"What kind of peace do I mean? What
kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world
by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security
of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that
makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations
to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children--not
merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women--not merely
peace in our time but peace for all time."
- John F. Kennedy
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what you really want and not get it, then to vote for what you
DON'T want and get it."
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THE POLITICAL SCENE
THE COMING WEEKS IN MARIN
AND BEYOND
Monday, December
22, 6:00 PM
MPJC Holiday PotLuck
Come One and All,
with Open Mike and Shoe Toss to the Homeless... Come and share food and drink, your music, poetry, good
thoughts and feelings, with activist friends and family!
Shoe Toss at the Lame-Ducker...
Bring shoes that have been tucked away in your closet, and
warm up your throwing arm. A life-size cardboard replica
of George Bush will be held accountable! All shoes thrown will be donated to those in
need WHERE:
First United Methodist Church of San Rafael
9 Ross Valley Dr.
San Rafael
Just off of Fourth St. (Miracle Mile)
not far from Bedrock Music and Cafe Gratitude
INFO: 721-7241 Hosted by Marin Peace and Justice Coalition and Co-sponsored
by First United Methodist Church
Saturday, January
3, 7:30 PM
Cuban Revolution Celebration
50th anniversary of the Revolution
La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley
Films – Speakers - Music - Dancing
Featured speaker Saul Landau summarizing 50 years of
revolution, highlighted by his film clips of Fidel and Cuba from
the 1960s to the present.
Local Cuba activists will have tables with Cuban literature,
art and crafts and will take part in a Q&A panel.
Mayors of local sister cities will give messages of greetings,
and more.
Cuban music and dancing, featuring DJ Emiliano Echeverria. $10 donation requested, no one turned away for lack of
funds, wheelchair accessible.
Tuesday, January
20, 8 AM
Obama Inauguration
Cruising Club Sausalito
The Ruth Group
Front to row seat to the swearing in of our 44th President, Barack
Obama. Come sip mimosas and dine on bagels and fruit as we witness
a new era of leadership take hold.
$10
Map - http://tinyurl.com/89k5g6
Save the Date!
Evening of April 18, 2009 The National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
will have its annual Testimonial Dinner on April 18,
2009 in Oakland, CA and our Champion of Justice will be
Stephen Bingham. More details, including an opportunity
to honor Stephen, will follow in January. Tickets will be available
beginning in March. See www.nlgsf.org
for more information.
"In the battle of ideas, George Lakoff
is one of the progressive movement’s Five-Star Generals.[In Whose
Freedom?] he shows what we must do to take back precious ground
lost to the Right—the concept of "freedom," on which
America’s very foundation is built. Read this and arm yourself."
—Robert Reich
MPJC'S
Independent Media Campaign
Needs You...
If you think media need to be part of the solution, not the problem...that
democracy and everything we care about depend on an informed citizenry...and
if you want to help promote and support media that's getting it
right...
Then we invite you to take part in MPJC's Independent Media Campaign.
We need volunteers, organizers and financial supporters.
We welcome organizations to endorse the campaign and to participate.
We seek Marin merchants who will carry our Independent Media Guides
in stores throughout the county.
Come to one of our presentations about the campaign. For date,
location, and time, contact Zhenya at 381-9085.
Visit us at www.mpjc.org/imc.
"Do not regret growing older, it is
a privilege denied to many."
"The people on death row are groomed
for prison just the way the Kennedys are groomed for Congress."
Aundre Herron, death row attorney for the
California Appellate Project
MPJC began in 2001
Our deep concern for all life on earth is seen through our
events and actions that empower and inform.
We are part of a broad movement for peace and justice
and are always promoting connections and collaboration among
activist communities and organizations in Marin and beyond.
In 2003 we joined United for Peace and Justice,
a national coalition of 1600 member groups. Please
subscribe to our weekly email bulletin and join over
1800 homes in Marin and the Bay Area that
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THIS
WEEK ON CHANNEL 26
If you appreciate this kind of free speech and independent programming
on television, please help us advertise.
Feel free to send this schedule to your email lists, friends, and
enemies, too.
Thelink below is a one-page, easy-to-print-out schedule with
one schedule for you and one for your neighbor.
You may also copy the schedule and distribute it at any venue,
event or function you like. Click the link below. With your help we can
make Channel 26 the People's Channel!
CODE PINK has a shoe toss at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
November 15th through January 18th
Saturdays and Sundays
Creekwalks
Spawning Coho Salmon
See spawning coho salmon on a Naturalist led Creekwalk. Join
SPAWN Naturalists for explorations along Lagunitas and
San Geronimo Creeks in Marin County to look for spawning coho
salmon and other protected streamside species. Led
by experienced guides, you will learn about the ecology of Marin's
magnificent coho salmon, our local streams, and what you can
do to help restore local watersheds.
Creekwalks begin November 15th and run through January 18th
, with 2 TOURS DAILY Saturdays and Sundays at 10 am
and 1 pm. SPAWN is also organizing special trips over
the Holidays!
Reservations are required and can be processed directly online
at www.SpawnUSA.org,
or start the process with an email to Creekwalk@SpawnUSA.org
or a phone call to (415) 663-8590 x207.
Creekwalks take place in the Lagunitas Creek watershed, West
MarinCounty. The cost is $10 for adults, $4 for kids,
FREE to SPAWN members ($35 for a family membership),
and no one is ever turned away for lack of funds. Tours
will proceed rain or shine! Bring binoculars, camera, hiking
boots and rain gear if wet weather.
No On 8 Rally - San Rafael
THIS
WEEK ON CHANNEL 26
If you appreciate this kind of free speech and independent programming
on television, please help us promote Marin's Public
Acess, Channel 26.
Feel free to send this schedule to your email lists, friends, and
enemies, too.
The link contains a one-page
PDF, easy-to-print-out schedule with one schedule for you
and one for your neighbor.
You may also copy the schedule and distribute it at any venue,
event or function you like. With your help we can make Channel 26 the People's
Channel!
Stay active in our democracy!
OPEN GOVERNMENT It’s Your America: Share Your Ideas
The story of the campaign and this historic moment has been
your story. Share your story and your ideas, and be part of
bringing positive lasting change to this country. Click
on An American Moment
Are you a twitter? See what our elected ones tweet!
“The
Health Care Blues” <---Click to play, or right
click and choose "save link as" by David “Mac Daddy” Glick
The song is about our broken dysfunctional health care system
and the only real fair and rational solution – single
payer public financed universal health care, instead or a corporate
profit driven health care system. We need to regard
health care as a public good and a basic human-right. David Glick
is a long time peace, justice and health care activist.
He resides in Fairfax California and can be reached at dclaudeglick(at)yahoo.com
or 415.457.3825
Pink - Dear Mr. President
PEACENOVATOIN NOVATO'S JULY 4th Parade
PeaceNovato's Weekly Vigil
We’ll be holding our regular weekly vigil at the Novato Farmers
Market on Mondays from 5:30 to 7pm. Come hold a sign
at City Hall, or join Don at our table in the Market itself.
Weekly vigils continue through September.
MILL VALLEY MEMORIAL DAY PARADE SLIDESHOW
Members of MPJC, Peace Novato, The Ruth Group,
Campaign to Restore Democracy, PDA along with the Redwood's
Seniors for Peace and friends bring a message of peace and remembrance
for the troops we lost in the war as we marched in the
Mill Valley Memorial Day Parade
ICE RAIDS IN THE CANAL
TAKE
ACTION Support Today's
WAR RESISTERS
Support U.S. soldiers who
refuse to fight in Iraq and who go to Canada seeking
asylum. Right now, there are over 200 GI resisters in
Canada, but unlike what occurred during the war in
Viet Nam, these resisters have not been openly and warmly welcomed
by the Canadian government. Resisters must apply to the Refugee
Board for permission to stay, and so far, those who have applied
have been turned down. Their cases are being appealed.
Let officials in the Canadian government know that there
are a great many people here in the U.S. who want the resisters
to be allowed to stay. The Canadian War Resisters Support
Campaign (WRSC) told us that there are some members of the parliament
who might be willing to sponsor legislation granting resisters
asylum. WRSC is mobilizing Canadian citizens to put pressure
on their members of parliament to pass such legislation, and
have told us that it would help greatly for those legislators
to hear from as many U.S. citizens a possible.
Courage to Resist has launched a letter-writing campaign
to Canadian parliamentarians. Through our website,
www.couragetoresist.org,
people can sign a letter that we will print out and mail to
the appropriate officials in Canada. We have already sent over
2,000 of these letters, but want to send many, many more.
So we are asking for your help in building the momentum of our
campaign by sending the accompanying announcement out to your
mailing list, or putting it in your newsletter.
Buff Whitman-Bradley
Courage to Resist Organizing Collective
MARIN COUNTY REGISTRAR OF VOTERS
ELECTION ADVISORY COMMITTEE
2008 MEETINGS
Location unless indicated: Room 324A Marin Civic Center
Friday, February 29, 2008,
9:30 AM.
Friday, March 28, 2008, 9:30 AM.
Friday, April 18, 2008, 9:30 AM.
Thursday, June 19, 2008 – 7:00 PM. - ANNUAL MEETING,
Board of Supervisors Chambers
Friday, July 18, 2008, 9:30 AM.
Friday, August 15, 2008, 9:30 AM.
Friday, December 19, 2008, 9:30 AM.
Have
news about the new Marin Chapter of the Minutemen?
Keep us posted. We will be
posting their actions and antics.
We are part of the Marin
MinuteKlan Watch.
Zero racist
tolerance!
Aug 11, 2007: Marin Minutemen
Larkspur California
The Chapter of the Marin Minutemen has met
twice at the American Legion on Ward St. in Larkspur CA.. Their
most recent meeting was Aug 11, 2007. Marin residents are being
duped into joining this group thinking they are getting into
a pro "American" protect our borders group, which
is the furthest from the truth. The sales pitch sounds nice
during the presentation, until their code is interpreted into
plain English. Once you understand the jargon you'll know they
have been studying the Karl Rove book of Orwellian Double speak. The Minutemen Dictionary –
code words interpreted 1. neo-cons= Jews (they are
anti-Semite Jew haters and holocaust deniers)
2. Communists = Progressive Democrats, Democrats,
Green Party, peace and justice groups, The Catholic Church,
The Methodists Church and pretty much everybody who disagrees
with their dogma. 3.Goons = Latinos or anyone
from the opposing side who has the nerve to challenge and disagree
with their racism and scapegoat tactics.
4. Anchor Baby = a derogatory term referring
to an American Born Citizen (another racist “them vs us” reference) 5. Operation Wetback = referring to the past
scapegoat tactics in this country during the 1950s 6. Invasion = refers to the waves of refugees
fleeing US instigated oppression; coming from economically ruined
countries including Mexico, Central America and South American
regions. Also includes those being oppressed by US supported
puppet dictators and US trained military death squads. 7. Subsidized socialist bums = really means
all people that receive any government benefits, that is all
people except Minutemen (Their members; retired police,
retired firemen and armed service retirees and all retirees
receiving socialized payments are of course excluded from this
insult, they are known as Subsidized Socialist OK Bums) 8. slack-jawed cretin = another insult bandied
about on their vlogs meant to degrade Latinos and others who
might disagree with their form of racism. 9. scruffy looking scumbags = refers to all
Latinos 10 . Pretend Indians = Aztec and Mayans 11. We are not racist = at least we are not
admitting we are, (but read their comments and the associations
they have with racist hate groups you’ll know the truth) Exposing Marin Members -
Progressive activists have video taped and photographed their
comings and goings and received audio recordings of their meetings.
They claim, in all fairness to unsuspecting Marin members they
will not post the revealing video, audio and pictures online
just yet. They feel, like exposing sex-offenders to a community,
that the community has a right to know about the members and
leaders of a racist group based in Marin. When there has been
enough time for the unsuspecting Marinites to leave the group
the activists have promised to divulge Marin membership of the
Minutemen. Jimmy Justice
MINUTEMEN
NEWS FLASH In Videos, Minutemen Shown Damaging Migrant
Camp
By WILL CARLESS
Voice of San Diego, Staff Writer
Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2007
San Diego Minutemen can be seen pulling down migrant workers'
huts and rummaging through migrants' possessions in a collection
of video clips shot by a former member of the group. Read
the entire article and watch the video...<<<<click
The History of the Middle East
in 90 seconds: "Do you feel ignorant of the political
history of the middle east? You have no idea just how ignorant."
Click
here, you will be surprised…
IGNORANCE IS BLISS
MY DAY AT SIX FLAGS Animalista - Coco Hall Imagine a five year old girl sunk in a
velvety movie theater seat in 1952, clutching her bitty box
of jujubes, crying for Dumbo, whose jailed
mother rocks him with her trunk stuck through a prison-barred
window. That was me. A half a century later, I’m preparing
my campaign to free the elephants at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom,
formerly known as Six Flags Marine World (Six Flags). When I
saw an ad on their website for a new program, Trainer For a
Day, I signed up immediately.
Six
Flags Discovery Kingdom, though owned by The City of Vallejo,
is managed by Six Flags Theme Parks, Inc., and exists to improve
the value of its stock. It promotes an image of family fun,
education, and conservation. Six Flags is not a shabby amusement
park. A cross between Disneyland, a county fair, Marine World
and a Zoo - which it actually is, approved by the American Zoo
and Aquarium Association (AZA) - you pay $50 for the day. It
has a number of programs that customers can buy into to enhance
their experience. Programs such as Trainer for a Day, offer
the customer extra pleasure and exclusive access to animals,
but the real point is to make more money. For example, for a
fee, you can feed a seal or pet a dolphin, or for more money,
sit on the edge of the pool and play with the dolphins. For
even more, you can be a Trainer For A Day. Whatever level of
customer investment, it all adds up to animal exploitation. Click to read the entire
article.
On March 9 in downtown San Rafael
the Marin community came togther to voice their opposition
to the Homeland Security ICE raids recently being carried
out in Marin. This is one of many planned actions in response
to the terrorizing activities of the ICE agents.
Demonstrating against U.N.
violence and massacres in Haiti, February 7, 2007. A
Waldo Pickett Mini Doc, with a "Billy
Fingers" special narration and introduction
to the topic!
Let's Change Marin's Media Landscape! Help the
Independent Media Campaign to challenge the corporate lambs
and support the roaring voices from Independent sources.
Click on the guide to find out more! Freedom Happens when you make a choice...
VIDEO - Marin Gray
Panthers Peace March, March 18, 2006
Watch the video of the Gray Panthers march and vigil against
the Iraq war in downtown San Rafael.
Click here to view the 10 Mb Quicktime Video
Thanks to John Parulis from Brightpathvideo.com
for these links and the video/tech work to cover this important
peace march and vigil.
“The
Health Care Blues”
