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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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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