(Untitled)- April 10, 2003 What's Next for the Peace Movement commondreams.org - On March 29, some 35,000 to 45,000 people from across New England came together on the Boston Common for a march and rally to speak out for peace and justice in Iraq. As an African-American who has been involved in the peace movement since I was a teenager in the early 1980's -- and as one of the moderators at Saturday's rally -- I washttp://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2003_04_01_archivepeace.html#200124975 (Untitled)- April 9, 2003 Congressman calls for creation of US "Peace Department" WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US congressman and anti-war activist revived his proposal for the creation of a "US Department of Peace" to be headed by a cabinet-level official on a par with the secretary of state or secretary of defense. Democratic congressman Dennis Kucinich, a presidential candidate and an outspoken critic of President Bush'shttp://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2003_04_01_archivepeace.html#200122678 (Untitled)- April 9, 2003 In Defense of Cacophony (Ilyse Hogue, AlterNet, April 9, 2003) March 20th, the day after the United States began to drop bombs on the Iraqi people, San Francisco was the stage for widespread creative dissent to an illegal and unjustifiable war. . . . That day crystallized the willingness of hundreds of thousands to stand with the global majority in opposing this war. The reasons for people'shttp://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2003_04_01_archivepeace.html#200121893 (Untitled)- April 9, 2003 Rep. Dennis Kucinich To Introduce Bill for Department of Peace commondreams.org SUMMIT COUNTY Summit Daily News - Vail, Colorado - Presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, will introduce a bill today to establish a Cabinet-level Department of Peace, an agency that would be responsible for things ranging from social services to a Peace Academy. Kucinich has the support of 38 other U.S.http://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2003_04_01_archivepeace.html#200117886 (Untitled)- April 2, 2003 US Peace movement wraps itself in the Stars and Stripes guardian.co.uk - The American peace movement is making a bid to reclaim the US flag and establish its patriotic credentials, as hostility to dissent against military action in Iraq intensifies. Haunted by accusations of anti-Americanism from the Vietnam era, and under pressure from a growing atmosphere of intolerance towards protesters,http://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2003_04_01_archivepeace.html#200083327 |