Call Congress Now! - Vote on the SOA/WHINSEC
SOA Watch has received confirmation that Congress will vote on an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2009 that would require that the School of the Americas/WHINSEC release the names, ranks, country of origin, courses and dates attended of students and instructors at the institute. [...]

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Thank you!
In an amazing turn of events, the House of Representatives today voted AGAINST the supplemental funding for the war in Iraq!!
The bill would have provided $166 billion in war funding, the largest single provision since the war started in 2003. In a move that no one expected, dozens of Republicans voted “present,” which is [...]

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Just moments ago, by a near-unanimous vote, the Senate stood up to Big Media. They voted to throw out the FCC decision to let the largest media companies swallow up even more local media.
This is simply an astounding victory, and it would not have happened without the massive grassroots effort by you and thousands of [...]

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As early as tonight, the Senate will have its last chance to roll back media consolidation, and Sen. Jon Tester and Sen. Max Baucus could cast the deciding vote. All of our work to stop runaway media conglomerates could come down to your senators!
Their vote would overturn a disastrous FCC giveaway of local news outlets [...]

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Mother’s Day Proclamation - 1870
by Julia Ward Howe
Arise then…women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
“We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All [...]

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By Thomas Powers
There is a working assumption among the American people that a new president enters the White House free of responsibility for the errors of the past, free to set a new course in any program or policy, and therefore free—at the very least in constitutional theory, and perhaps even really and truly free—to [...]

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Dear Friends, The House of Representatives will vote as soon as tomorrow — Thursday, May 8 — on an additional $178 billion for the war and occupation in Iraq!
Amazingly, the bill includes $70 billion for fiscal year 2009. This means the funds for the occupation will keep flowing well into the next administration, allowing the [...]

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CQ TODAY ONLINE NEWS
May 8, 2008 – Updated 12:57 p.m.
With Democrats Divided, Senate Panel Delays Vote on War Supplemental
By Liriel Higa and David Clarke, CQ Staff
As House Democrats struggled to bridge their divisions over a war supplemental spending bill, the White House budget director warned that President Bush will veto the legislation if they persist [...]

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ROBERT SCHEER
In the increasingly unlikely event of a McCain-Clinton election, folks who care about the peace issue would have serious reason to worry. Both of these candidates are inveterate hawks, and what we would be up against is a choice between the neoconservatives and the neoliberals as to who could be more adventurous in getting [...]

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What’s it going to take for us to hold the Iraq War profiteers accountable? The Bush administration’s $3 trillion war in Iraq has been the direct cause of our current recession, and yet private defense contractors continue to reap billions in profits. I’m not even talking about KBR for the moment. That loathsome Cheney-backed Halliburton [...]

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