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Apr
18
Vigil at Senator Kohl's

Past - Tuesday, April 18 2006 from noon to 2 pm
Senator Herb Kohl's office, 14 W. Mifflin St, Suite 207 (on Capitol Square, beside Vet's Museum)
Joy First, 222-7581, jsfirst@charter.net
     
 
When our Senators return to Washington on April 24, they will be voting on supplemental funding for the war in Iraq for $70 billion more. The bill passed the house already, though we can be proud that Tammy Baldwin voted against it.

Both senators say they have not yet decided how they will vote, but they have both voted for supplemental funding for the war in the past.

Now is the time to put pressure on our senators to vote against the bill for supplemental funding for the war. NOTE CHANGE IN PLANS: Instead of a 24 hour vigil, we will be holding a one hour vigil outside Senator Kohl's office in Madison at 14 W. Mifflin St, Suite 207 on Tuesday April 18 starting at noon, then another hour inside. People can participate by helping hand out literature to passersby, reading the names of Americans and Iraqis who have died in the war, and then paying a visit to Kohl's office.

Also, please call Senator Feingold about the supplemental funding and about introducing a law to get our troops out of Iraq. Tell everyone you know to call him. His Middleton number is 828-1200 and his DC number is 202 224-5323. We should be doing the same thing with Senator Kohl. His Madison number is 264-5338 and his DC number is 202 224-5653.

NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT. Please everyone, this next week is crtical in putting pressure on Senators Feingold and Kohl to vote against the supplemental funding.

  
     
Meeting | Peace Submitted by barbara on Sun, 04/16/2006 - 10:28am.
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Apr
18
War Profiteering Talk by Jeffrey St. Clair

Past - Tuesday, April 18 2006 at 7 pm
UW Humanities Building, Room 1111
International Socialist Review and Haymarket Books
For more information, please email spieper@wisc.edu or call 294-5961.
http://www.counterpunch.org/
     
 
Hear author and journalist:
Jeffery St. Clair, co-editor of CounterPunch and author of Grand Theft Pentagon: Takes of Corruption and Profiteering in the War on Terror, will be in Madison as part of a national book tour.
 
Jeffery St. Clair is an award-winning investigative journalist, co-editor of political newsletter CounterPunch and author on nine books, including Whiteout: the CIA, Drugs and the Press, Been Brown So Long It Looked Like Green to Me: the Politics of Nature and Imperial Crusades: Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia.
 
From the F-22 fighter jet and B-2 bomber to the Stryker tank and Star Wars, Grand Theft Pentagon chronicles how the Pentagon shells out billions to politically wired arms contractors for weapons that don't work for use against an enemy that no longer exists. St. Clair shows how many of the biggest arms contracts were literally inside jobs, negotiated by Pentagon generals who later went to work for the very same corporations that were awarded the contracts.
 
Sponsored by International Socialist Review and Haymarket Books
  
     
Economics | Talk Submitted by barbara on Sun, 04/16/2006 - 9:18am.
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