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Uranium Mine Proposal Threatens Roanoke River Watershed |
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Written by Gerald Rudolph
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Monday, 07 January 2008 |
The largest undeveloped deposit of uranium in North America is located in Pittsylvania County, in Southside Virginia, and Virginia Uranium Inc. (largely Canadian owned) wants to rape the earth and reap the profits.
This enterprise would result in the contamination of the Roanoke River Watershed from Chatham to North Carolina, the Albemarle Sound and the Atlantic Ocean with heavy metals and radioactive materials that would persist in the environment for millions of years. And then, of course, there are the dangers inherent in the processing and transportation of uranium products and the disposal of nuclear waste, and, well, the specter of Chernobyl-type nuclear power plant mishaps. And then, of course there's nuclear and depleted uranium weapons.
The Legal Defense Fund is working with the citizens of Southside, who are determined to prevent this catastrophe for Virginia and the world from happening, and we'll need your support.
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News Conference to Announce Major Effort to Recruit Women Candidates |
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Written by Gerald Rudolph
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Sunday, 06 January 2008 |
Columbia
- A news conference to announce the formation of the
Southeastern Institute for Women in Politics, to identify, recruit and
support female candidates for political office in South Carolina, will
be held Monday, Jan. 7 at 11 a.m. in the First Floor Lobby of the
Statehouse.
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Friday, Jan. 11: SHUT DOWN GUANTANAMO! |
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Written by Michael Berg
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Saturday, 05 January 2008 |
Friday, Jan. 11: SHUT DOWN GUANTANAMO! Restore Habeas Corpus, Restore Our Constitution!
12:00 pm
Strom Thurmond Federal Building
This Friday marks the sixth anniversary of the opening of the United States prison camp in Guantanamo Cuba.
Since 2002, 775 people have been held in a state of legal limbo, many
forced to endure psychological and physical torture. People has young
as 13 and as old as 98 have had to sweat it out behind the barbed wire
Guantanamo prison. The Bush Administration has claimed that Guantanamo
contains the worst of the worst terrorists, but yet not a single
prisoner has had a fair trial. They have all been denied their rights
to Habeas Corpus. Guantanamo has justly shattered America's esteem in
the world. It's time to try or release all the prisoners and SHUT DOWN GUANTANAMO!
Senators Lindsay Graham and Jim Demint have supported to Guantanamo
since its inceptions and have been working to make sure that none of
the detainees is allowed to step foot in the United States mainland in
order to receive a fair trial.
Join us this Friday, January 11, at 12 noon in front of the Strom Thurmond Federal Building.
Tell your Senators and the Bush Administration that 6 years is 6 years
too many. Come in an orange jumpsuit, bring shackles, be creative in
order to show the horrors of Guantanamo, or else come as you are. We will have speakers, cardboard prisoners, readings from Guantanamo detainees, and then we'll march.
For more information you can call Michael Berg at 803-760-9208 or write
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Waging Peace Accepting Articles |
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 03 January 2008 |
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Waging Peace is once again open for business! We are planning on a February issue of our e-newsletter, with a deadline of Jan. 20th. Please send articles, poems, thoughful essays about our issues, etc., to
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March 12-15: Peace Orgs Plan for March 2008 |
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Written by Gerald Rudolph
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Thursday, 03 January 2008 |
Peace Organizations Plan Week of Actions for 5th
Anniversary of Occupation of Iraq
 Numerous
peace and justice organizations, including student groups taking
advantage of Spring Break, are making plans for a week of actions from
March 12th to 19th to mark the end of the fifth year of U.S. occupation
in Iraq. Events will culminate in a national day of actions on March
19th, the fifth anniversary of the invasion. Congress members will be
home on break, and activists hope to organize nonviolent civil
disobedience actions in all 435 congressional districts, as well as
nonviolent actions in Washington, D.C., focused on war profiteers.
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Women in Black meets in front of the state house at Gervais and Main at
5:00 pm every Wednesday until the US is out of Iraq. Please come.
Post Office Box 7933