Organizations

Local

• Women Against Military Madness, www.worldwidewamm.org
• Peace in the Precnicts, www.peaceintheprecincts.org
• Friends for a Non-Violnet World, www.fnvw.org
• Minnesota Veterans for Peace, www.twincitiesvfp.org

National

• Progressive Democrats of America, www.pdaamerica.org
• Code Pink, www.codepink4peace.org
• Every Church a Peace Church, ecapc.org
• Veterans for Peace, www.veteransforpeace.org
• Military Families for Peace, www.militaryfamiliesforpeace.org

Action

• Sign the People's Petition: Iraq Peace Process at www.pdamerica.org/petition/iraq-withdraw-petition.php
• Charley's Peace Calendar lists weekly peace events. The calendar is included in the DFL PC Newsletter. To subscribe see groups.yahoo.com/group/DFLProgressiveCaucus/join.
• Attending a peace vigil will give others hope and lift your own spirits. See www.progressivecaucus.net/peace.vigils.asp for a list of ongoing vigils.
• Attend your precinct caucus (neighborhood meeting) on the evening of Tuesday, March 7 to: 1) cast your "preferential ballot" for statewide candidates for the 2006 elections; 2) pass peace resolutions; and 3) start your journey to become a Peace Delegate to the DFL State Convention in June where we will endorse progressive candidates who support a good plan to bring the troops home.

Exit Strategies

• The People's Petition: Iraq Peace Process, www.pdamerica.org/petition/iraq-withdraw-petition.php
• Iraq Peace Plan, www.peaceintheprecincts.org/index.geni?mode=content&id=265

Media

Audio

Disection: Bush Addresses the Nation (2004)

Created by Rebekah Smith for KFAI Radio

A remix of existing media sources to create a new message that challenges Bush’s pre-war address to the nation. Bushes speech is presented in sequence in its entirety with audio clips from a variety of sources inserted.

• Serious Matters Facing our Country and the World (3:18) [Listen]
• Iraq/9-11 (4:51) [Listen]
  Featuring Sen. Russ Feingold speaking against the war on the floor of the Senate.
• Fear Factor (6:09) [Listen]
• The Leaders of other Nations are Buyable (3:41) [Listen]
  Remember Fleischer? You’ll enjoy the hypocrisy in this one.
• Bugged by the Regime (4:48) [Listen]
  Featuring Rep. Keith Ellison at a peace rally. “...Now what have we got? We’ve got debt...He’s ruining your pension. This man [Bush] is a problem. He is a cancer of the world. Do you know that just by being here somebody wants to put you on a list...to watch you and spy on you and tap your phone...I’m going to tell you, don’t you be scared!"
• A Willful Charade (3:42) [Listen]
• I.E. War (5:25) [Listen]
  Featuring some chilling predictions by former UN Inspector Scott Ritter. “We’re going to war ladies and gentleman. We’re going to war.”
• A Subsidiary of Halliburton (3:47) [Listen]
• He Just Knows (He watches Channel 9) (7:25) [Listen]
  Rumsfeld debates Bush?
• A Dead Child (12:22) [Listen]
• Time is Up! (5:07) [Listen]
  Featuring Dennis Kucinich and Paul Wellstone.

Audio sources: Bush Addresses the Nation about Iraq (3/03) (c-span.org); Nader/Laduke 2000 Presidential Rally in Minneapolis (c-span.org); pbs.org; mpr.org; npr.org; CommonDreams.org; Democracynow.org; Sen. Russ Feingold; Minneapolis interviews by Jeremy Stratton and Rebekah Smith; Franklin Roosevelt, March 4, 1933. First inaugural address (www.hpol.org); Fear Factor; Civil Defense Film 1951 (www.conelrad.com/nuclearfamilies); Survivor; Ari Fleischer faces Latin American press; Speech by Scott Ritter; Sen. Tom Daschle; Speech by Amy Goodman; ESL clips (eigozai.com). Music from Willy Grigg’s CD “Kids Stuff”; Tribal Sapien (www.tribesapien.com); The Awkward Moments (www.awkwardmoments.net/); To Sir With Love performed by Louis Higgins. Other music recorded at peace rallies in the Twin Cities.

Articles

• Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), Before the House of Representatives, "Why We Fight", www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2005/cr090805.htm

  "Pursuing this war merely to save face, or to claim it’s a way to honor those who already have died or been wounded, is hardly a reason that more people should die."

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