This week, the White House launched their “We the People” petition site. Don’t confuse this with the National Endowment For the Humanities site. On the positive side, the White House guarantees an official response to any petition that reaches 5,000 signatures within 30 days. The site launched yesterday and I immediately put up a petition for the U.S. [...]
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
International Peace Day was created as a way to acknowledge the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. It’s important to remember that for all its faults, the United Nations remains the best infrastructure to create a peaceful world. And yet, when President Obama takes the podium to lecture the world on creating peace, it [...]
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Never could I have imagined in my role as an online organizer for CODEPINK that I would land a free ticket to Burning Man and be able to connect the dots between this incredible cultural event and my anti-war activism. I entered an Antiwar Art Contest hosted by Fresh Juice Party, an action group demanding [...]
Monday, September 12, 2011
Today, Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa held a town hall meeting in West LA. I attended the meeting to ask him how he’s going to use the lobbying weight of the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) and the Los Angeles DC office to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and bring the money home. Think [...]
Sunday, August 7, 2011
This Week in Accountability, August 7, 2011 While speaking at the Aspen Security Forum, the former Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair called for an end to U.S. drone strikes. He also mentioned that the U.S. over spends billions on security and intelligence. Blair was confirmed in early January 2009 as Director of National Intelligence [...]
Saturday, July 16, 2011
This Week in Accountability, July 16, 2011 Former Guantanamo Navy photographer Elisah Dawkins who served in Iraq is facing deportation to the Bahamas and federal prosecution for lying on his U.S. passport application. Dawkins attended high school in Miami, went to nursing school and joined the Navy. While stationed at Guantanamo, he photographed the everyday [...]
Friday, September 23, 2011
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