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Washington, DC - 03-19-08 - Photo: Emily
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Organizing Tools
- Local Cost of Iraq War
- How much has the Iraq War cost Westchester County and New York
State? Find out here.
- No War Westchester Reading List
- Recommended books for students and activists
Plans for ending the war
A Responsible Plan to End
the Iraq War
McGovern, George S. and
Polk, William R. “The
way out of war:
A blueprint for
leaving Iraq now,” Harper’s Magazine, December 2006. Also
available as a book: McGovern,
George S. and Polk, William R. “Out
of Iraq: A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now,” Simon and Schuster,
New York, NY 2006.
Hayden, Tom. “Ending
the War in Iraq,” Akashic Books, New York, NY, 2007.
From Mother Jones:
The Moral Dilemma of Leaving Iraq -
It
started as Bush's war, but we all own it now—and it's time we took a
hard look at what that means. Conversations with more than 50 experts,
from General Petraeus' advisers to antiwar activists
1. Editors'
Introduction: You Break It, You Buy It
2. Out
Now, Ask Questions Later?: Six Challenges for Antiwar Activists
3. Exiting
Iraq: Now or Never?
4. The
Logistics of Moving the Military Out of Iraq
5. Four
Post-Occupation Scenarios
6. Civil
War: Inevitable or Not?
7. The
Coming Iraqi Exodus
8. Why
the U.S. May Not Leave Iraq
9. Al
Qaeda in Iraq: How Dangerous Is It?
10. Damned
if We Do: America's Moral Obligations
11. A
Glossary of Iraq Lingo
12. Charts
and Maps
13. Interviews
Legislative Information
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United for
Peace and Justice
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Peace Action of New York State
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Friends Committee on National Legislation
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Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation - see especially
their analysis of
problems with using supplemental appropriations to fund military
activities in Iraq and Afghanistan
Economic Impact of the War
- National Priorities
Project
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The $3 Trillion War – article by Joseph Stiglitz on the mounting long-term costs of
the Iraq war and occupation
- AFSC
Cost of War Exhibit
From the AFSC Cost of War Web
Site:
Counting the Uncountable:
The Human and Economic Cost of 5 years of War and
Occupation in Iraq
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Front of flyer (PDF)
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Back of flyer (PDF)
Download fact sheets on the details of the cost of war:
(PDF)
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What is Head Start and why is it funded?
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How did we come up with numbers for how many families could be fed?
> Why are we
comparing healthcare to war costs?
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What’s a “Free School Lunch” and why are they important?
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Top Iraq War Profiteers
Oil Dependency and Military Intervention
Klare, Michael. “Blood
and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on
Imported Petroleum,” Metropolitan Books, 2004.
Consumers for Peace -
Exxon/Mobil boycott, consumer guide to gasoline and military
intervention in Iraq
The Apollo Alliance -
campaign to invest in clean energy, create 3 million jobs, and curb
dependency on foreign oil
1Sky - campaign to cut carbon
emissions
Cool Cities - local/regional action
to address climate change
Military Recruitment Information
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No
War Westchester Counterrecruitment Info
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War
Resisters League
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Courage to Resist
Progressive Foreign Policy
- Foreign Policy in Focus
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Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) is a "Think Tank Without
Walls" connecting the research and action of more than 600 scholars,
advocates, and activists seeking to make the United States a more
responsible global partner. It is a project of the Institute for Policy
Studies. FPIF provides timely analysis of U.S. foreign policy and
international affairs and recommends policy alternatives. We believe U.S.
security and world stability are best advanced through a commitment to
peace, justice and environmental protection as well as economic, political,
and social rights. We advocate that diplomatic solutions, global
cooperation, and grassroots participation guide foreign
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policy.
- Institute for Policy Studies
- The Institute for Policy Studies turns Ideas into Action for Peace,
Justice and the Environment. We strengthen social movements with independent
research, visionary thinking, and links to the grassroots, scholars and
elected officials.
I.F.
Stone once called IPS "the think tank for the rest of us." Since 1963,
we have empowered people to build healthy and democratic societies in
communities, the US, and the world.
- Center for International
Policy
- Promoting a U.S.
foreign policy based on international cooperation, demilitarization and
respect for basic human rights
“The
Eight Pillars of War in Iraq”
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Iraqi
Support
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American
Public Opinion
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American
Media
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Political
Support
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U.S.
Military Capacity
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U.S.
Financial Capacity
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Moral
Reputation
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U.S. Global
Alliances
Source: Hayden, Tom. “Ending
the War in Iraq,” Akashic Books, New York, NY, 2007, p 174.
- The Three Trillion Dollar War
- Article by economist Joseph Stiglitz
Eyes Wide Open -
Photo Exhibit from American Friends Service Committee
- Beyond Vietnam - Speech by Dr. Martin
Luther King
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Address delivered to the Clergy and Laymen
Concerned (CALC) about Vietnam, 4 April 1967,at Riverside Church, New York,
NY
From NY Review of Books, Volume
55, Number 12 · July
17, 2008:
Embedded in Iraq
By Michael Massing
The embed had proved surprisingly easy to arrange. No one had objected
to the three New York Review articles I had sent in as samples of
my work. On the application form, I had written that I wanted to visit a
typical Baghdad neighborhood to see how the surge was working and to get
a sense of what more had to be done before the US could begin to draw
down its forces in any significant number. Though I didn't say it, I
also wanted to see what the embedding process itself was like.
Iran: The Threat
By Thomas Powers
At a moment of serious challenge, battered by two wars, ballooning debt,
and a faltering economy, the United States appears to have lost its
capacity to think clearly. Consider what passes for national discussion
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Videos
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Alive in Baghdad -
Life, from Iraqis to You. Alive in Baghdad is a weekly news
program distributed via RSS. Our limited staff is able to post a video every
Monday morning, so if you’re looking for more material please look through
our archive.
Alive in Baghdad employs Iraqi journalists to produce video packages each
week about a variety of topics on daily life in Iraq. Through the work of a
team of Americans and Iraqi correspondents on the ground, Alive in Baghdad
shows the conflict through the voices of Iraqis. Alive in Baghdad brings
testimonies from individual Iraqis, footage of daily life in Iraq, and short
news segments from Iraq to you.
- Hijacking Catastrophe
- This independent film examines how a radical fringe of the
Republican Party has used the trauma of the 9/11 terror attacks to advance a
pre-existing agenda to transform American foreign policy, while rolling back
civil liberties and social programs here at home.
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Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers
- Acclaimed director
Robert
Greenwald (Wal-Mart: The High
Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed and
Uncovered) takes you inside the
lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed
forever as a result of profiteering in the reconstruction of Iraq. Iraq
for Sale uncovers the connections between private corporations making a
killing in Iraq and the decision makers who allow them to do so
- No End in Sight
- "...a jaw-dropping, insider’s tale of wholesale incompetence,
recklessness and venality. Based on over 200 hours of footage, the film
provides a candid retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in
2003 by high ranking officials such as former Deputy Secretary of State
Richard Armitage, Ambassador Barbara Bodine (in charge of Baghdad during the
Spring of 2003), Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell,
and General Jay Garner (in charge of the occupation of Iraq through May
2003) as well as Iraqi civilians, American soldiers, and prominent
analysts."
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Taxi to the Dark Side -
Directed by Alex Gibney. An in-depth look at the torture practices
of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an
innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.
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The End of Surburbia: Oil Depletion
and the Collapse of the American Dream -
Since World War II North Americans
have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a
sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. As the
population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years, so too has
the suburban way of life become embedded in the American consciousness.
Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. But as we
enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge about the
sustainability of this way of life. With brutal honesty and a touch of
irony, The End of Suburbia explores the American Way of Life and its
prospects as the planet approaches a critical era, as global demand for
fossil fuels begins to outstrip supply. World Oil Peak and the inevitable
decline of fossil fuels are upon us now, some scientists and policy makers
argue in this documentary. The consequences of inaction in the face of
this global crisis are enormous. What does Oil Peak mean for North America?
As energy prices skyrocket in the coming years, how will the populations of
suburbia react to the collapse of their dream? Are today's suburbs destined
to become the slums of tomorrow? And what can be done NOW, individually and
collectively, to avoid The End of Suburbia ?
- War Made Easy:
How Presidents
and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
- War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a
50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the
United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by
actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage
of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush,
revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically
disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential
administrations.
- Winter Solider: Iraq and
Afghanistan - Powerful testimony on the human consequences of war from veterans of the
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
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RANT
Collective Organizing Resources
- Direct action links and resources from nonviolence
trainers' collective
- Nonviolence
Training Project
- Direct action links and resources
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- Ruckus Society
- Direct action training materials
Bread and Puppet Theater- The Bread and Puppet Theater is one of the oldest, nonprofit,
self-supporting theatrical companies in this country. Peter Schumann
founded Bread and Puppet in 1962 on New York City’s Lower East Side. The
Theater is now an internationally recognized company that champions a
visually rich, street-theater brand of performance art. Its shows are
political and spectacular, with huge puppets made of papier-maché and
cardboard, a brass band for accompaniment, and anti-elitist dances. Most
shows are morality plays — about how people act toward each other — whose
prototype is "Everyman." Their overall theme is universal peace.
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- All Bread and Puppet Theater
shows, created and designed by Schumann
with input from the company, use music, dance and slapstick to get their
point across. Their distinctive imagery — featuring puppets (of all kinds
and sizes), masks, costumes, paintings, buildings, and landscapes —
seemingly breathe with Schumann's distinctive visual style of dance,
expressionism, dark humor and low-culture simplicity.
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