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On October 1, 2008, the Ithaca, NY, Common Council declared Ithaca a "Community of Sanctuary" for protestors against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but denied sanctuary status to supporters of the wars. Proponents of the sanctuary resolution used a false narrative of "suppressed" anti-war protestors to justify having government protect only locally popular speech content. Similar tactics can be expected nationally, as Democrats use government power to protect only liberal speech under the guise of promoting "fairness." {Snip} Nonetheless, the sanctuary city proponents used this false narrative of "suppressed" protestors to support its petition drive. The resolution sought to...

Coming on the heels of the Winter Soldier retread that once again portrayed U.S. soldiers as bloodthirsty maniacs, antiwar protestors converged on Washington D.C. this week for another major antiwar protest. At least, that’s what the organizers promised to deliver. The protests kicked off on Tuesday night with “Sound the Alarm” at Union Station. This demonstration was modeled after “Frozen Grand Central,” a piece of performance art carried out at Grand Central Station in January. The idea is that a large group of people suddenly freeze in place, in the middle of a busy train station, for five minutes. If...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A U.S. Army medic jailed for desertion after refusing to return to Iraq is on a mission to tell young Americans about the grim realities of war before they join the military. Mexican-born combat medic Agustin Aguayo, in Germany to receive a peace award, told Reuters that U.S. Army recruitment methods were unfair as young people got a one-sided, positive picture of combat. "I want to bring young people awareness. We ask them to sacrifice so much yet we don't educate them about the realities of war," said Aguayo, who describes himself as a conscientious objector, in...

A flamethrower taken to the antiwar protesters Here is the link or cut and paste to your browser: http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=17782936&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=580169&rfi=6

<p>WASHINGTON -- Actress and long time peace activist Jane Fonda, a favorite target of right-wing attacks since the 1970s for her high-profile opposition to the Vietnam War, will rejoin the ranks of the antiwar movement today at a major rally in Washington.</p>

<p>Tens of thousands of demonstrators from across the country converged on the Mall in Washington today to urge the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq as President Bush is proposing to send more troops in an effort to stabilize the country.</p>

This educational has the goal of upgrading our understanding of the struggle for immigrant rights and against repressive immigration legislation which is taking place right now throughout the country. The goal is to place in bold relief the central problems of inequality, criminalization, and the greed of US corporations. The suggested readings which are attached include the 2006 report to the National Board on immigration, the resolution on immigration passed at the 28th National Convention, and a PWW article. The club should invite guests to participate in this educational discussion of the immigrant rights struggle and immediately distribute the educational...

A planned student walkout Wednesday to protest the Iraq war is causing friction and uncertainty in some schools. An advocacy group called Youth Against War and Racism is organizing a rally and march in downtown Seattle as part of a national protest on the first anniversary of President Bush's re-election. Organizers, who want high-school students to walk off campus at noon, said they're expecting as many as 2,000 students from 30 schools in Seattle and beyond. Organizers plan to begin the rally at 1 p.m. at Westlake Center, then at 2 p.m. march to the Capitol Hill Arts Center for...

<p>WASHINGTON, DC 10/7/05— Neither rain nor dark of night nor suffocating humidity nor high winds nor slippery mud beneath their feet shall stay these FReepers from their appointed rounds. Not the umbrella of the FReeper next to you ducking under your umbrella to dump a heavy stream on your shoulders, nor your FoamCore signboards turning to mush and curling over, nor your fingers turning red and blue from the sign paint wetly streaking.</p>

<p>Please note: to view the stunning photos by TgslTakoma and BMWcyle that illustrate this story, click the italic photo captions.</p> <p>WASHINGTON, DC, September 30, 2005—After twenty-four Friday nights of schlepping the Mother of All Banners, scores of pro-troops signs and dozens of American flags to Georgia Avenue at Elder Street – and don't forget the icewater, soda chests, hot pizzas and lawn chairs – it gets old.</p>

Rush's site is headlined with the great DC Freeper Club G'tmo banner. Check it out!

STOP THE NEXT WAR NOW: A DAY OF REFLECTION, PLANNING AND ACTION September 11th 2005 12:15 pm box lunch/discussion, All Saints Church, Pasadena call 626 683-9004 for information 7:00 - 9:30 pm: Panel Discussion Immanuel Presbyterian Church 3300 Wilshire Blvd. (at Berendo, East of Vermont) ICUJP, CODEPINK, KPFK and PCU present Medea Benjamin – Global Exchange, CODEPINK, (recently nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize) Ray McGovern – former CIA analyst; founder -Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity) Tom Hayden – former California State Assemblyman; co-author of the Port Huron Statement) Eisha Mason – Executive Director, the Center for the Advancement...

George Galloway and Jane Fonda are to appear at Northwestern Law School on Monday, Sept. 19, 7pm. The Program is call "George Galloway's Stand Up and Be counted: No To War and Occupation 2005 Tour." The cost is $10-$100, sliding scale. It's sponsored by The New Press, National Council of Arab Americans, International Socialist Review, and the Center for Economic Research and Social change. There isn't a website, but you can call 773.551.5780 for info. Details to follow; email pwchicago@sbcglobal.net if you're in for a counter-demonstration.

Similar to other actions this Anti-Troops group has performed during soldiers' funerals in the past there are plans to picket another funeral, and a 9/11 memorial march in DC. Here are the facts regarding these planned protests: 1.) Fallen Soldier Army Staff Sgt. Brian Morris - Constantine, Michigan on Thursday, September 1, 2005 12:30-1:00pm. Planned picket of WBC is planned to take place outside the Eley Funeral Home on THURSDAY. News reports state the actual funeral will be on FRIDAY the 2nd of September. 2.) America Supports You Walk for Freedom - Washington DC & Arlington, VA 8:00am - 12:00pm...

Happy Anniversary As the two-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq approaches, the antiwar movement strategizes for a post-election comeback. Does it have a prayer? By David Perez Leave it to Santa Cruz to produce Cpl. Jonathan Murphy, a Marine Corps sniper, who calls the invasion of Iraq "the worst move the U.S. could have made." Murphy, who recently returned to Santa Cruz from Iraq after a seven-month tour, currently divvies his time between being a UCSC student and working the door at the Red Room. A busy man, he agreed to meet on condition that we conduct the interview...

With freedom on the move across the Middle East and beyond, aggrieved anti-war protesters here in the United States have nothing better to do this weekend than what they have always done: stand in the way. The most unhinged of left-wing activists, from breast-exposing pacifists to the conspiracy-mongers of MoveOn.org, will descend on New York, Washington and other major media markets to "mark the two-year anniversary of the U.S. bombing and invasion of Iraq." They will do so by clogging the streets, tying up police resources and leaving behind a trail of anti-Bush propaganda litter. Who says the Left doesn't...

Here's your FREE 2005 Support the Troops Event material. "Bringing the troops home means bringing the war home, AGAIN." "Supporting the troops MEANS supporting the war." "Save America from terrorist appeasing socialists. Support the war. Support the troops. Support the president." "You don't believe in war. The terrorists do. What's a president to do?!" "No peace without freedom. No peace with genocidal dictators. No peace while tyrants breed terrorists." The posters are in PDF format and are presized for 18 X 24 prints. All you have to do is download the files to your own floppy disk, then take the...

Today is a special day. It’s the 75-year anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s famous “salt march.” On March 12, 1930, Gandhi began a 240-mile march to nonviolently resist the British tax on salt and move India closer to independence from British rule. Gandhi changed India and the world, with his relentless, nonviolent struggle for peace and justice. (For more on Gandhi’s life, click here.)Today is also important because it begins our 7-day countdown to the March 19 worldwide day of protest against the Iraq war. Next Saturday, people throughout the world will raise our voices on the two-year anniversary of the US...

Will there be an anti-war protest in Denver on March 19 and 20, 2005? - the anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom - If there will be, I am willing to plan a FR counter-protest for Saturday the 19th. The main thing I want to do is publically replay Colin Powell's U.N. presentation on Iraq from a 24 inch TV and loud speakers from my car. Any other demonstration ideas are welcome. Please write me at FR, or contact me from my web site www.conservativeimage.com to notify me that you would like to participate. If I don't get enough response, I'll...

President Bush should enjoy his victory celebration while he can. He will soon face the most determined antiwar movement since the 1960s. The Iraq situation is becoming more and more reminiscent of the Vietnam disaster. American troops mostly stay in heavily fortified barracks. When they do venture out, their sweeps don't achieve durable pacification. Militants and young men of fighting age are long gone by the time American bombardments start.

Excuse the interruption but I am trying to find a picture posted here in the last few days that shows a man holding a sign which reads: "I (heart) NY even more without the world trade center" which was taken at a lib/socialist rally.Can you point me to it?

PRO-BUSH WAR PROTESTER EXPOSES ANTI-WAR PEACENIKS DAVE SOMMERS , Staff Writer 03/28/2004 When it comes to defending what he sees as President Bush’s correct stance in fighting the war on terror, Raoul Deming is about as proactive as one could be. In fact, he has attended nearly every rally on the East Coast in the past year, whether pro or con, and says he’s always ready to confront those who speak out against the president or scoff at any displays of patriotism. Just last weekend, Deming attended an anti-war rally in Fayetteville, N.C., where he argued with protesters and then...

Something called the Arlington South protest is coming to Florida. The first one will be 3/20/04 in Naples. I would be happy to have some support to counter this demonsrtation. Thanks....Here is part of the e-mail I recieved.... "Peace activists in the SW Florida area have nearly completed the assembly of 600 crosses out of recycled construction site wood to use in a similar display as shown in the above photo" "We are looking to take our crosses on the road, possibly down as far as Key West, up the east coast, and even along the gulf coast if possible."

Today Saturday was a great day for America and a very bad day for the pencil necked tofu eating gender challenged cowardly appeasenik terrorist lovers. At Veterans Park today the Pro America Rally was cancelled. It was a cold overcast ice-rainy slushy day, that had been preceeded by an even worse thunder and lightening ice storm night. So... the event was cancelled and it was annouced as cancelled on T.V. That my friends is the good news. Why? Because the park filled up ANYWAY!. Thats right! When I got there there were 3 former Marine vets. Thats all. I joined...

Calif. Journalist Suspended Over Antiwar Protest Fri Mar 28, 5:41 PM ET Add Entertainment - Reuters Industry to My Yahoo! By Adam Tanner SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A San Francisco Chronicle reporter suspended after getting arrested in an anti-war rally said on Friday that he felt unfairly treated and that no one should expect complete objectivity from a journalist. The Chronicle suspended technology reporter Henry Norr, 57, effective Thursday, after he was among more than 1,300 people arrested last week for blocking public streets on the first morning after the Iraq (news - web sites) war started. "I don't write...

<p>Man Allegedly Stopped Several Feet From Small Crowd CINCINNATI -- An antiwar rally was disrupted when a man drove his tractor-trailer rig toward about 40 protesters who were holding signs on the sidewalk of a freeway overpass, police said.</p> <p>James Watters, 49, of Cincinnati, was charged with three counts of aggravated menacing, one count of inducing panic and one count of reckless operation of a vehicle, police said. He remained in the Hamilton County jail Monday night.</p>

In the Palestinian areas, about 700 Palestinians, most of them schoolchildren, waved Iraqi flags and posters of Saddam and burned two U.S. flags after the attack. The Palestinians in the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun shouted "Death to America, death to Bush," and "We will sacrifice our soul and our blood for Saddam."

Former president Jimmy Carter, the man who bears the distinction of having been at the helm of the most abysmal failure of a presidency, wrote an op-ed piece against the upcoming war against Iraq in the New York Times this Sunday. Perhaps he wrote to the New York Times in the hopes that there would be enough liberal readers of that rag that he might find a receptive audience. Or perhaps he hoped there are enough people in the audience that weren´t alive when he was president, or those who were alive have forgotten what a sad time his single...

LA HABRA -- Antiwar protesters burned and ripped up flags, flowers and patriotic signs at a Sept. 11 memorial that residents erected on a fence along Whittier Boulevard days after the terrorist attacks in 2001 and have maintained ever since. However, although officers witnessed the vandalism Saturday afternoon, police did not arrest three people seen damaging the display because they were "exercising the same freedom of speech that the people who put up the flags were,' La Habra Police Capt. John Rees said Monday. "For this to be vandalism, there had to be an ill-will intent,' he said.

Members of the DC Chapter of Free Republic are conducting a surprise FReep of the March for Peace organized by NOW and the Code Pink Ladies and it is going on as I type. The Now and Code Pink Ladies will be joined by Raelian women (and Raelian men in touch with their feminine side) who plan a disrobing ceremony in front of the White House. Reports from the scene tell me that there's a bunch of Howard Stern fans who came to the White House today for the unveiling. Positioned on the North side of Lafayette Park, inside the...

Students pack Capitol in their plea for peace 11:32 PM 3/05/03 Karen Rivedal Higher education reporter For more than 20 minutes early Wednesday afternoon, about 2,000 students filled the state Capitol rotunda with defiantly deafening cheers. "This is what democracy looks like!" they chanted, while bureaucrats stared down from balconies ringing the crowd. The Capitol rally, which continued until about 5 p.m., was the fevered high point of an all-day student strike at UW-Madison. The event, known as "Books Not Bombs," enlisted college students from around the world to skip school to protest the possible war in Iraq, and in...

Several hundred DC area high school students skipped school (after all these snow days) to hold an "anti-war" demonsatration at DuPont Circle in Washington, D.C. The rally is well-attended by the media. There is a small sound system in use; the student speakers are all repeating the marxist indoctrination slogans. There is a sign calling them "D.C. Area Students for Peace." The speakers are calling for more money for education -- their education. As an aside, D.C. and Montgomery County school systems are two of the best funded educations systems in the country with an average cost of about $9,000...

I realize the organizers of the "possibly 10 million anti-war protestors" are the usual suspects, er, socialists, but I wonder if FReepers keep tabs on any of the groups listed below? Thanks for your help. United for Peace & Justice is a new national campaign that brings together a broad range of organizations throughout the United States to help coordinate our work against a U.S. war on Iraq. At an initial meeting in Washington, DC on October 25, more than 70 peace and justice organizations agreed to form United for Peace & Justice and signed on to the following statement:...

<p>San Francisco -- The band that broke away from the Jan. 18 peace march along San Francisco's Market Street and spent 35 minutes vandalizing the Financial District marked the Bay Area's introduction to "black bloc" protests, police say.</p> <p>The black bloc, named for its activists' black attire, couples a confrontational style of street protest with anarchist philosophies. It arose in Europe during the late 1980s.</p>

No More Killing, No More War — No More Violence Anymore Toogood Reports October 4, 2001 Lowell Phillips With all that´s going on in the world and the countless potentialities that might cause things to go from bad to worse, one would think that there are better things to do than to fixate on the tomfoolery of a tiny minority flailing away in the ideological margins. Having said that, I still find it difficult to entirely discount the ranting of those who took to the streets this past weekend in protest of the declared, but as yet unrealized, "war on...

January 20, 2003, 12:00 p.m.The Anti-WarriorsOn the streets with the protesters.By Daniel J. Flynn Tens of thousands converged on the Mall in Washington, D.C. this weekend to protest the prospect of a U.S.-led war on Iraq. News reports of the event described the participants as a cross-section of America. A CNN report on the eve of the protest maintained, "throughout the ranks, today's peace activists are growing grayer and more moderate." In case you didn't get the message, an on-screen headline reading "not the usual suspects" accompanied a later CNN report on the demonstrators on Aaron Brown's NewsNight. After...

Jane Fonda joins with Revolutionary Communist Party According to L.A. Weekly writer Steven Mikulan; "the “Not in My Name” campaign - which pushes an anti-war statement signed by scores of prominent and celebrity lefties, including Jane Fonda, Martin Luther King III, Marisa Tomei, Kurt Vonnegut and Oliver Stone - has been directed, in part, by C. Clark Kissinger, a longtime Maoist activist and member of the Revolutionary Communist Party." Mikulan continued; "Lately, another kind of debate has swirled around the doctrinaire beliefs of the anti-war movement’s organizers. International ANSWER (Act Now To Stop War and End Racism), the group behind...

Critics of the war on terrorism have been marginalized for the past six months, but want you to know that it is not because their views are aberrant. It is rather because our recent military actions have been supported by a domestic campaign to suppress dissent.The latest example that has them worked up into a lather is William J. Bennett's Americans for Victory Over Terrorism. Bennett and Empower America recently founded this organization to counter attacks on the war on terrorism in the academy and elsewhere, or as was said at a gathering of the National Press Club "take to...