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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 21. Juli 2006 / Time Line July 21, 2006
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Peace Issues In the News
By: Christy Snider
Peace movement gets off to hopeful start in Beirut
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=74136
Daily Star - Lebanon, Lebanon - 23 hours ago - BERUT: The capital
saw its first anti-war rally Thursday morning. Lil Hayat (For
Life), a gathering of 40 voluntary organizations and NGOs, made the
call. The 300-odd demonstrators marched from UN House (headquarters
of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia) to the
Saifi headquarters of the European Commission. There, organizers
read a letter to EU envoy Patrick Renauld calling on the EU to
press Israel for an immediate cease-fire.
Peace movement urges cease-fire
http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=3702
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, NY - 21 hours ago - A dovish Jewish
group urged the U.S. government to call for a Mideast cease-fire
and the release of three kidnapped Israeli soldiers.
The Peace Movement's Challenges in the Midterm Elections
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/3833/1/198/
Political Affairs Magazine, NY - Jul 16, 2006 - Report to the
National Committee of the Communist Party June 24, 2006.
A change in the composition of the congress will make it more
possible to end the occupation in Iraq. That's the political
reality. Today I will not discuss the next national initiatives of
the peace movement, nor assess the tremendous 350,000-person
national demonstration on April 29, 2006 organized to mobilize the
majority peace sentiments toward the 2006 midterm elections. I also
will not get into the details of the upcoming national peace
conferences or the work to organize joint actions between the peace
and immigrants rights movements. I will discuss two points we, the
Party and Left, need to address in the next months: 1) the need for
an active, vibrant peace movement in the lead up to Election Day,
and 2) Party District and Club initiatives to strengthen the impact
of the peace movement in defeating the right in November.
Young Peace Activists Hone Their Strategy
http://www.voanews.com/english/AmericanLife/2006-07-20-voa57.cfm
Voice of America - 6 hours ago - The Iraq War often seems to be one
of numbers: $320-billion spent, more than 2500 US troops killed and
over 18,000 wounded. Iraqi civilian deaths are estimated from 5000
to well over 10,000. And the mounting cost of the war has energized
the peace movement in the United States. As with an earlier
conflict - Vietnam - it's led by young people and veterans of the
war.
On the 2006 World Conference against A & H Bombs
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/3861/1/199/
Political Affairs Magazine, NY - 5 hours ago - The following is an
Akahata interview with Taka Hiroshi, Japan Council against A and H
Bombs (Gensuikyo) secretary general. He discussed the significance
of the 2006 World Conference against A & H Bombs to be held on
August 2-9 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Democrats Versus the Peace Movement?
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2006/07/democrats_peace.html
Mother Jones, CA - Jul 12, 2006- With Congress still blindly
heeding the Bush administration, the anti-war movement is the only
hope for peace in Iraq.
Peace Action focuses on November elections
http://www.pww.org/index.php/article/articleview/9512/1/331
People's Weekly World - 21 hours ago - DETROIT - Peace Action, the
nation's largest grassroots peace organization, held its National
Congress here July 14-15 and November's elections were a topic
throughout.
'Non-violence alone can end Middle-East conflict'
http://newstodaynet.com/18jul/rf17.htm
News Today, India - Jul 18, 2006 - 'The international press gives
undue importance to the travails and pain with regard to the
Arab-Israeli conflict rather than highlighting the peace movement
in the region, ' said Professor David Shulman of the Department of
Indian and Armenian Studies of Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
"Syracuse Jews for Peace" hold vigil
http://news10now.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=73385
News 10 Now, NY - Jul 19, 2006 - Drivers honked in support of
Syracuse Jews for Peace, a local group calling for a ceasefire in
the Middle East.
Norma Becker, 76, fought for peace and civil rights
http://www.thevillager.com/villager_166/normabecker.html
The Villager, NY - Jul 6, 2006 - Norma Becker, teacher, civil
rights activist and prominent figure of the peace movement during
the Vietnam War, died of lung cancer in her New York City home on
June 17. She was 76.
A Hopeful Sign: The Religious Left is Back
http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/tik0607/lerner-sign
Tikkun, CA - Jul 10, 2006- When 1,200 people packed All Souls
Unitarian Church
http://www.all-souls.org/
in Washington, D.C. in May for the East Coast launching of the
Network of Spiritual Progressives
http://www.spiritualprogressives.org
(NSP), they gave renewed signs that something powerful is indeed
happening.
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Dr. Christy Snider
Department of History
Berry College
Mt.Berry, GA 30149
706-368-5652
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