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Danny Sweeney
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Our first action
May 14, 2004 @ 04:06 AM
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Our first action - support.
We are a new group - but groups like ours have been opperating for many years now.
One such group is Greenpeace - perhaps the most well known of all activist groups.
They are under attack from George Bush.
here is a copy of a message i posted on TIG a few minutes ago
Next monday (17th May) George Bush isw planning on taking the whole of the international environmental group Greenpeace to court.
The trial begins on May 17th, and results from a protest against an illegal shipment of mahogany headed for the Port of Miami in Florida two years ago.
Unable to find a suitable law against calling attention to environmental crimes, the Attorney General has charged Greenpeace under an obscure 19th-century law designed to stop prostitutes from boarding sailing vessels.
If we are found guilty, it will mean being branded a criminal organisation
While Greenpeace is in the dock, those who logged, imported and sold the illegally imported mahogany continue to operate.
Not only is this a wholly unwarranted and politically motivated attack on an organisation that was attempting to prevent a crime, but it also sets a dangerous precedent for the future of free speech and the right to civil protest in the US. It could also be used as an example in other countries to curb non-violent direct action. The case has been attacked in articles and editorials
in the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, and Miami Herald. Senator Patrick Leahy of the US Judiciary Committee wrote to US Attorney General John Ashcroft saying his selective prosecution of Greenpeace could "have a chilling effect on free speech and activism of all kinds." Al Gore called the case "highly disturbing" in a speech to MoveOn members. Fellow environmental and civil rights groups have rallied to demand Ashcroft drop the case. But Ashcroft's not listening.
Now it's your turn to make sure we don't let this case go unchallenged. We need your help. Sign on to our letter demanding Bush and Ashcroft prosecute illegal
loggers rather than Greenpeace. To date, 37,000 people have joined this appeal.
We want to have 50,000 signatories by Monday. We need to show the US government that people all over the world are watching this trial. We need to remind them they can't silence Greenpeace without silencing everyone who supports
Greenpeace.
Don't let Bush and Ashcroft silence you. Take action now:
http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/bin/vi...ion_id/195.html
Find out more about the case below:
http://www.greenpeace.org/internati...?item_id=472552
Meet some of the people involved and the history of the action and prosecution:
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/issues...ml/1/index.html
Send this fun animation about the case to your friends:
http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/bin/vi...rticle/931.html
Please all follow these links - this can be our first action - to support our brothers in Greenpeace.
In the letter Bush and Ashcroft make sure you include that you are a member of Act 4 Peace, and that we support Greenpeace 100%.
I'm writting to Greenpeace it's self showing our support - lets make a name for ourselves.
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otis moore
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yes has been happing around the world
May 20, 2004 @ 09:43 AM
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people use religeon as crutch to feed the hungry to propel their views to the masses of disllougen and uneducated people and also to corupted people by negative propaganda put out by the mass media they are easy subjects to twist as whole. there whole philosophe on life are people who are lost and at a crossroad in life they can'nt fingar out the system of barter and trade and capital and also a current education or a high education in this country these people are easy to multipulate and also to bait people into disagreement that those'nt solve there problem or nothing or find a resolution to their disagreement these people are race baiters to cause mayhem in are community and other community all over the country these people are nothing but annakus to start a rebellion for their own ganes there are selfish and irrsponisable to the need of the homeless in this country and specially to the black community and people who can make a diffence in this country.we should letting the goverment give way the food to the need
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chuka
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whats has happened to our value system
June 22, 2004 @ 02:25 AM
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i will like to comment on the alarming rate of abuse in our societies and neglect to our values and culture it is incresing alarmly , what can be done to check this trends, i refer to my eailer post crisis of values at the culture and heritage post.
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