Dear Mr Bacher,

I am writing to ask for your support for a recently
launched campaign, Hands Off the People of Iran.

The initiative for this campaign has come from Iranian
organisations and individuals. Our aim is to oppose
any attack on Iran and at the same time give
solidarity to the fight of the Iranian people against
their oppressive, theocratic regime.

Hands Off the People of Iran’s founding statement can
be read on our website at www.hopoi.org and, if you
agree with its aims, we would very much appreciate
your support as a signatory. You can sign up via the
form on our website or by emailing me to confirm your
intentions.

More here

And the latest news on the plight of Afghani children here

AUGUST PEACE EVENT


Will the US produce more nuclear bombs, making them more likely to be used, or will we use the opportunity before us to eliminate nuclear weapons? On the one hand our country is spending more money on nuclear programs than we did during the Cold War. And as more nuclear technology becomes available, we could see a future with 20 or 30 countries armed with nuclear weapons. On the other hand, there is now a historic opening to work to actually eliminate nuclear weapons. Grassroots power has forced Congress to start to question the nuclear status quo. Congressmembers are asking for a real debate over the future of nuclear weapons. Will we use this moment of grave danger to fulfill this great promise? To find out more about US plans to build new nuclear weapons and to be inspired to act, please attend!

Sunday, August 5
4:00-5:30 p.m.
doors open for tabling at 3:30
Admission is free - donations accepted

CSUS Alumni Center
6000 J Street
(by College Town and near Hornet Stadium)

featuring:
Mary Perner from TriValley CARES
Mary Wind from Teach Peace
UCDavis Taiko Dan
True Colors Chorus
and much more (Note: SFD's own Zoe Lackemacher will do a reading of Sadako and the 1000 Cranes!)
Time: Sunday, August 5, 2007 - 3:30pm PST

Catherine Thomasson, MD, President of Physicians for
Social Responsibility will be coming to Sacramento on
Friday, June 29, 2007!

Dr. Thomasson visited Iran in March as part of a
friendship delegation sponsored by the Fellowship of
Time: Friday, June 29, 2007 - 7:00pm PST

This is the latest update from SOA Watch. The vote to defund the School of the Americas has been postponed until today. More calls to close the school are needed today!

School of the Americas Watch
http://www.SOAW.org | 202-234-3440
June 21, 2007
SOA/WHINSEC Vote Update

SOA Watch has received NEW information, that WHINSEC has a secret weapon and that the Pentagon's public relations campaign has won some influence with the Representatives who have already told you they will vote YES.

Yesterday was a busy day in Congress and they were not able to finish the Foreign Operations Appropriations bill, so we have bought more time to counteract the Pentagon campaign and persuade Congress to vote YES to cut funding for the SOA/ WHINSEC.

Beginning at 10:00am on Thursday, June 21, the amendments to the Foreign Operations Appropriations for fiscal year 2008 will be debated, including the McGovern - Lewis (GA) amendment to prohibit funding for the SOA/ WHINSEC.

"Before He Invades" is a short, musical, sassy indictment of the Bush administration and embraces the growing movement to Impeach! The music is based on "Before He Cheats" by Carrie Underwood and performed by my friend Craig Lehman and my two daughters, Angelina & Lacey. I (Michael Stavros) wrote the words and made the video. Check it out. You are welcome to add it to your website, my space or blog, etc. I hope you enjoy it.

Peace,
Michael

Turn, Turn, Turn
Cindy Sheehan

To everything there is a season.
A time for war, a time for peace.
Ecclesiastes, Hebrew Scriptures

I wish I could say I thought of something profound as I saw the president and his wife's picture on that billboard on Hwy 317 in my rear view mirror on my way out of Crawford today. I will be back for the final weekend farewell to Camp Casey on July 6th, but I won't be back as the owner of property there, or as a leader of the American peace movement.

The protests that were Camp Casey I and II that evolved into the five acres on Hwy 317 (Lone Star
Parkway), which was known as Camp Casey III, definitely were effective and served a relevant purpose in the national discourse of the pros and cons of the war. In an occupation that was and still is kept far from apathetic American eyes, summer '05 was one of the first times the cost of BushCo's Iraq fiasco was made public and many people sympathized and resonated with and some even traveled for miles to be with the Mom in the ditch.

When I announced that I was going to put my five acres up for sale in Texas, the horrible anti-peace; anti-American group, Move America Forward announced that they would buy it to erect a "Memorial." This group still cheer-leads and supports a war where our troops are clearly being misused and mal-treated by their civilian leadership and celebrates each death as a sacrifice for the neo-con, obscene, and Orwellian idea of "freedom." Move America Forward is still collecting money for their memorial, which will never be built on my old property and if they really wanted
to buy it, they wouldn't have sent out a press release---they just wanted a few more minutes of fame off of my misery!

Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba Will Arrive in Sacramento on July 4

The Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba is coming to Sacramento on Wednesday, July 4, 2007, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Black United Fund of Sacramento Valley, 4104 44th Street. Join us for an afternoon of friendship and to welcome the Caravan to Sacramento.

The event is sponsored by the Sacramento Area Black Caucus, Black United Fund of Sacramento Valley, All African Peoples Revolutionary Party, Central America Action Committee, Birthing Project, Sacramento Area Peace Action, Zapatista Solidarity Coalition-Sacramento Chapter, Chicano Consortium-Sacramento and Vanguard Public Foundation.

Richard Becker from the International Action Center will be the keynote speaker. The event will include poetry, music and other speakers. This event is potluck style, free and open to the general public.
Time: Wednesday, July 4, 2007 - 4:00pm PST

For immediate release: June 11, 2007

Contact: Faye Kennedy, fayek [at] springmail.com, (916) 484-5025

Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba Will Arrive in Sacramento on July 4

The Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba is coming to Sacramento on Wednesday, July 4, 2007, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Black United Fund of Sacramento Valley, 4104 44th Street. Join us for an afternoon of friendship and to welcome the Caravan to Sacramento.

From Cindy Sheehan...

This is not a formal invitation, but just a heads up to let everyone know that we will be having a final Camp Casey gathering on July 6-8th in Crawford and a 50th birthday party for me.

I sold the property yesterday to Bree Walker, a progressive radio talk show hostess from San Diego, who wants to make it a Memorial/Peace Garden/Monument. Which relieves me greatly!

I hope you all can make it to Camp Casey...

Love
Cindy
Time: Friday, July 6, 2007 - 12:00pm PST

EXCLUSIVE: PROGRESSIVE LA TALK RADIO HOST TO BUY CINDY SHEEHAN PROPERTY IN CRAWFORD, TEXAS
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4665

Former TV News Anchor, Bree Walker, to Purchase 5-Acre 'Camp Casey' Property Near Bush Ranch
Will Keep Property Open to Public as 'Legacy for Peace'; Sheehan to Appear Live in Studio on Walker's Program Saturday...

Former Los Angles newscaster turned progressive talk radio host, Bree Walker will be purchasing Cindy Sheehan's 5-acre property near the Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas, The BRAD BLOG has learned.

Walker, currently a resident of San Diego, was previously a television news anchor in Los Angles and New York. She confirmed the news to us moments ago, in an exclusive interview, that she intends to keep the property "as a ground for freedom and peace" and is considering erecting a memorial there for troops killed in Iraq. She hopes to create a meditation garden on the grounds and to keep it open to the public.

"I'm cashing out my capitalist corporate stocks and buying into a legacy of peace," she told The BRAD BLOG moments ago. Sheehan will be selling the property for the same price she purchased it for so as not to be seen as profiting from the sale, Walker explained.

Please join us tomorrow (Thurs. June 7) at 9 am as we finish the final lap of the Walk For Peace



THURSDAY will be the final day of the Veteran's Walk for Peace at the State Capitol. It will mark the final lap of the approximately 3,500 U.S. troops remembered for their deaths, and to protest the war. Thousands of Iraqi civilians who also have been killed were also remembered in the walk that began Memorial Day.

The FINAL LAP begins at 9:30 a.m. People should arrive at 12th & L St. between 9 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. We should be finished by about 10 or 10:15 a.m.

Military Families Speak out and Vets for Peace and a few others - per our anonymous Iraq Vet - will make statements at the end of the final lap. We'll march from 12th & L around the capitol and to the vet memorial.
Time: Thursday, June 7, 2007 - 9:00am PST

Coming Up on "Media Edge" --

Independent Journalist Jeremy Scahill on "Blackwater" (June 3-4)

"TerrorStorm" -- A State of War Only Serves as an xcuse for Domestic Tyranny (June 3-4)

Iraq War Resister Agustin Aguayo Talks to a Sacramento Audience (June 10-11)

You can also watch these on their website at www.wethemedia.tv

SACRAMENTO, CA - "Media Edge" is a locally created video magazine series presented on cable access channels in the greater Sacramento area. "Media Edge" offers two hours of in-depth, thought-provoking, progressive viewpoints every week to cable TV subscribers. Each episode features a mix of locally produced and nationally distributed videos and documentaries.

Episode #109 of "Media Edge" (June 3-4) includes:

Man Walks Around Capitol To Protest Iraq War
One Lap Planned For Each Fallen Soldier

Click here to watch the video.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A man identifying himself as a Navy veteran of the Iraq war has been circling the state Capitol once for each person killed in the conflict.

Joined by other anti-war marchers, the man on Wednesday completed his 362nd lap, representing the number of California soldiers killed.

A VIGIL FOR PALESTINE!

Saturday, June 2nd from 11:30am-1:30pm
FOR INFO: jaycolbe@netzero.com
or (916) 448-7157
LOCATION: Arden & Heritage (in front of Arden Mall)


This is the first Saturday Vigil dedicated in solidarity to the Palestinian people, who will begin their 41st year under occupation on Friday, Jun 8th. Please come out and show your support!
Time: Saturday, June 2, 2007 - 11:30am PST

Here's a video that Mary Brassell made on Tuesday, May 29, 2007

By Dan Bacher

A Iraq War veteran dressed in desert fatigues has been marching around the State Capitol in Sacramento 24 hours a day since 8 a.m. on Memorial Day to remember U.S. troops killed in Iraq and the futility of the war itself, spurring hundreds of supporters to walk with him and offer him support.

The veteran, who prefers to remain anonymous to concentrate people’s attention upon the nearly 3,500 U.S. soldiers that have been killed in the Iraq War, plans to take one lap around the capitol for all U.S. troops killed in Iraq, including about 362 from California. He expects to reach the 362 milestone sometime Wednesday evening.

The veteran is carrying a yellow ribbon in memory of each fallen soldier, as well as reading the name and brief biography of each soldier on every lap he makes around the capitol. Marchers accompanying him are carrying white sheets of paper with the names of Iraqi civilians killed in Iraq since 2003 to remember the estimated 685,000 Iraqis that have perished since G.W. Bush invaded the country in March 2003.

Please show this Vet the support he deserves!!

Thursday, May 31, 2007, Walk to End the War News conference, please arrive by 9am at 11th & L near the north steps , conference starts at 9:30am. We will hear from the veteran who has been walking since 8am on Memorial Day will have completed walking for the 362 Californians who died as of May 30, 2007. We will then continue to walk, asking people to take the name of a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi until all names have been walked. As of May 30, a total of 3471 U.S. soldiers have been died and an estimated 685,000 Iraqis. We have about 3500 Iraqi names, so for each Iraqi name, there are another 200 people for whom we do not have names. NOTE that after the news conference, the walk will be stationed from 12th & L. For more information: 916-448-7157 or sacendwar@yahoo.com.


If you have not done so today, please call your Congress person (202-224-3121) and demand that they:
Time: Thursday, May 31, 2007 - 9:00am PST

This Saturday, June 2nd, from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm, please join our mass
demonstration at 16th & Broadway, in Sacramento, to protest the continued
U.S. occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan and to promote freedom for the
Time: Saturday, June 2, 2007 - 6:30pm PST

Cindy Has Earned a Rest
By William Rivers Pitt | t r u t h o u t | Columnist | Wednesday 30 May 2007

My alliance with Cindy Sheehan began with an exchange of emails several years ago after I made mention of her son, Casey, in an article about the expanding number of American troops lost in Iraq. She wrote to thank me, and to correct me on some small details about precisely when and how Casey died. Our friendship grew from that moment, and over time, she was always there to hand me a good kick in the pants whenever I needed one.

Last March, Cindy's long-belt of road-bound activism brought her to Boston, where she spoke at a rally commemorating the four-year anniversary of the war. My bar is a favorite spot of hers; I'd brought her there twice before during previous visits she made to Massachusetts, and both times I saw the same woman of passionate energy and commitment who sat in a Texas ditch until the country could no longer ignore her - or the war. The light was in her eyes, the hope that things could be changed was in every word she spoke and, as ever, the sorrow from her loss was there like a shroud. She was motivated, optimistic, cynical, tired, inspired and resolute, all at the same time.

When I brought her and some of her friends out to have a beer and relax last March, however, I saw a different Cindy.