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POPSImagine Peace The electricity for the light is generated entirely naturally - geothermally from hot water - at the Hellisheidi Geothermal Power Plant and is one of the reasons for situating the artwork in Iceland. The Imagine Peace Tower is closely connected to Ono's interactive artwork Wish Tree from 1981. The Wish Tree has been integral to many of Yoko's exhibitions around the world in museums and cultural centers where people have been invited to write their personal wishes for peace and tie them to a tree branch. Now amounting to over 700,000 wishes. They are to be housed at the Imagine Peace Tower. EarthCam visitors are invited to send wishes to the Imagine Peace Tower archives by email to wish@imaginepeace.com or by mail to: IMAGINE PEACE TOWER PO Box 1009 121 Reykjavik, Iceland. You can send as many wishes as you like, as often as you like. The site also has many live cams up all over the world, wicked cool stuff!
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POPSLetters From Rachel Letters home from Rachel to friends and family: http://www.peaceheroes.com/PeaceHeroes/rachelcorrieletters.htm The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice: http://rachelcorriefoundation.org/
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POPSThose Who Ignore History... History didn't listen to us," said Tabeyev, who's now 81. "All our efforts to restore peace in the country . . . this was a flop in the end." The fundamental problem in Afghanistan is that it isn't a country in the way the West thinks of countries, said retired Lt. Gen. Ruslan Aushev, who did two tours there and left as a regimental commander. "There has never been any real centralized state in Afghanistan. There is no such nation as Afghanistan," said Aushev, who's a former president of the Russian Caucasus republic of Ingushetia and now heads a veterans group in Moscow. "There are (ethnic groups of) Pashtuns, Uzbeks and Tajiks, and they all have different tribal policies." As a result, any occupation force will spend much of its time propping up a government that has little relevance outside Kabul and trying to corral disparate ethnic groups and tribes into a national army that's often unwilling to fight, Aushev said.
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POPSThe G-20 Protests Have Begun Sunday's march, which fell far short of the thousands organizers had hoped for, was one of several demonstrations expected to take place around theG-20 summit in Pittsburgh, a two-day gathering of the leaders of the world's 20 top economies that starts Thursday. Bail Out The People Movement, one of the march's organizers, also called for an end to foreclosures and evictions. Marchers walked three-quarters of a mile from the church to a place known as Freedom Corner, which has served as a protest meeting spot dating to the 1950s when local black residents fought the demolition of homes, stores and churches in preparation for an arena.
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POPSAnti-War Protests In Israel No organisation called for the demonstration – but more than a thousand men and women gathered spontaneously in order to protest in front of the Ministry of Defense in Tel-Aviv, only a few hours after the murderous Air Force attack on the Gaza strip started. "I know there has been a lot of generalizations and criticizing of the Israeli people during these wars, so I figured I'd share with you another side of the story you wouldn't see on TV." (sean57, DP~Thanks)
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POPSForeign Policy for America SOLUTIONS? Yes, there are. Like the Founding Fathers, Libertarians know that war is the first resort of political scoundrels, but the last resort of a free people. Libertarians know that government's role isn't to police the world — or even to win wars. Government's role is to keep us out of wars — and to protect us from foreign enemies, not create them. How would a Libertarian government assure our safety? Our foreign policy would be simple: We are always ready to defend ourselves, but we threaten no one.
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POPSReagan Would Lose Today In today's Republican party climate, Reagan would not get the nomination today. Whether you view this as good or bad, this video is one of the best I have seen, it is worth a look. Non-intervention is not isolation, it is a means to preserve peace, while maintaining good relations and trade. If any other country's government were to try to dictate policy here, if they planted permanent bases on our soil, we would not stand for it. To say we were attacked because we are free is really grasping at straws and just makes no sense, it shows the true ignorance of foreign policy that most of the candidates appear to have today, and sadly, many are buying into it, while they decline to allow for a closer look into our biggest national tragedy in decades. If we bury history, if we do not educate ourselves and learn everything there is to know regarding catastrophic events, we are damned to repeat them.
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POPSLibertarian Party Says Yes to "Dr. No" Candidacy!!! Party congratulates Congressman Paul for his success in spreading a message of peace, prosperity and freedom. More at site. This is fantastic news! That is, IF he does not get the republican nomination, and If he accepts the chance to run as LP candidate. (Nothing against Kubby)
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POPSNAFTA's Impact on Mexico If the current trend continues with the FTAA, at BEST, over a five year time period, 350,000 more jobs will be lost in Mexico's agricultural sector and that number could go up to 750,000. The Institute for Policy Studies says that NAFTA has taken a toll on Mexican jobs. It argues that NAFTA has destroyed Mexico's small farmers, bringing in an influx of subsidized U.S. food imports. Carnegie Endowment for International peace says that 1.3 million farm jobs have been lost since 1993. The Carnegie report also concluded that the pact has generated few new jobs in Mexico and might only be credited for a "very small net gain" in jobs in the U.S. "NAFTA has been a disaster for us," remarks pig farmer Julian Aguilera to Business Week.jobs.
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POPSDay in Court for Veterans Now, here in the land of the free, home of the brave, the very ones who were sent to foreign lands to fight for our country are having to fight for their freedoms here at home!
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POPSNo one is collateral damage-woman arrested Dressed in the ancient mourning symbols of sackcloth and ashes, a senior citizen protesting war was arrested twice Friday, and violated a stay away order. For the sixth and seventh times this year, Eve Tetaz, 75, a retired D.C. public schoolteacher was arrested for nonviolently protesting the illegal and immoral war and occupation of Iraq. "All life is sacred," Tetaz said. "No one is collateral damage."
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POPSWomen (and little girls) facing war Mah-Bibi at ten years old is destitute and begs for food to support herself and her younger brothers. Women tell their own individual stories of how their lives have been affected by war. Coping with displacement, physical and sexual violence, missing relatives, widowhood, detention... challenges and difficulties that these and thousands of other women must face in their daily lives.
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POPSOneVoice: One Million Voices to End the Conflict! ON October 18, 2007, from Tel Aviv and Jericho, the Israeli and Palestinian people will push their leaders for an end to the conflict - an unprecedented People's Summit to give platform to moderate voices, internationally linked to events held worldwide.
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POPSInternational Non-violence day October 2nd I wonder what it means to have an International Non-violence day. Does it mean that American soldiers, UN 'peacekeepers', Nato Forces, the Israeli military and Blackwater USA will put down their weapons for the day and reflect on the horrors that they are committing in the vague name of an international war on 'terror'? Does it mean that they will all continue killing as a few peaceful marchers around the world proclaim in total sanity, that the insanity that prevails is making it hard for peace-loving humans to coexist with this madness? -from the article
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