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Marching in DC on April 13 to demand

  • “U.S. drones out of Africa, the Middle East, Asia and everywhere!”
  • In case you missed it, here’s a recap from the last two emails about the April 13 White House March and Rally.

ANSWER Coalition

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E-mail #1- A powerful and dramatic action: Scenario for April 13

This is not the usual demonstration. Everyone needs to play a role. We would like to ask you and your friends who are coming to the major April 13 White House demonstration against drone warfare to do one or more of the following:

  • Help expose and dramatize the scale of the war crimes committed by U.S. drone warfare by carrying a flag-draped coffin representing the victims of drone attacks.
  • Hold a picture of one of the 5,000 people killed by drone attacks. You can print a picture of one or more of the victims of drone strikes from the website and bring the picture to hold at the demonstration.
  • Participate in a Die-In at the offices of General Atomics corporation, the manufacturer of the Predator Drone.

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E-mail #2- Youth, students, and Palestine solidarity activists mobilize for April 13

The April 13 demonstration demanding “U.S. Drones out of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Everywhere” is continuing to gain momentum with students from a number of universities and Palestine solidarity activists announcing contingents in the march!

  • Youth and Student Contingent formed for April 13
  • Palestine contingent formed for April 13

Read more!

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Related:

Why I’m Marching on April 13 to demand “U.S. drones out of Africa, the Middle East, Asia and everywhere!” ANSWER Coalition

 

 

Connecticut Passes Nation's Strictest Gun Law In Wake Of Sandy Hook Massacre

Christina Wilkie, Huffington Post

04/04/2013 | Both houses of the Connecticut legislature passed some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, approximately 100 days after 26 students and educators were shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.

In a dramatic marathon legislative session that lasted well into the wee hours of Thursday morning, the state House of Representatives debated and passed gun control legislation by a bipartisan vote of 105 to 44. A parallel bill was approved by the state Senate earlier Wednesday on a bipartisan 26-10 vote. Following the House vote, the Senate and House versions of the bill will be reconciled, after which Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) has indicated his intent to sign the legislation as soon as possible.

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Related:

Special Report | The US Gun Culture: Week of March 31, 2013, David Culver, Ed., Evergreene Digest

Tue, 03/26/2013 | America is living under the gun!

Adam Lanza’s Arsenal and Some of the Homicidal and Suicidal Risk Factors that Overwhelmed Him

It cannot be stated often enough that the major common denominator besides the guns in America’s epidemic of mass school shootings is the brain-altering, spell-binding, crazy-making psychiatric drugs that are well-known to be fully capable of causing psychotic episodes, mania, indifference to the suffering of others, suicidality, homicidality and criminality, symptoms that can become manifest when the patient is taking the drugs or when the patient is withdrawing from them.

Gary G. Kohls, Duty to Warn / Evergreene Digest

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April 2, 2013 | Read the recently released list of items below that were found in the Lanza home in New Town, CT on 12-14-12, and you will understand why so many people call Adam Lanza and his mom NRA-certified gun nuts. This unbelievable list of items, that must have cost tens of thousands of dollars, begs the question: “What was the rationale behind the acquisition of such a huge arsenal of lethal weapons?” Simple paranoia seems inadequate to explain what seems to be grossly aberrant behavior.

But, of course, simple logic will tell us that there is no single reason behind any of the well-known American mass school shootings whose most consistent common denominator is the use of lethal weapons that were intended to be for shooting sports.

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Stand with anti-war veteran Mike Prysner against right-wing attacks!

  • Former S. Carolina GOP Exec. Dir. launches fascist attack via Twitter
  • Sign the petition: I stand with Mike Prysner and other veterans and active-duty service members who are taking a stand against war and occupation.

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March 25, 2013 | Join with veterans, service members, military families and supporters in uniting against fascists like Todd Kincannon and supporting the heroic stand taken by anti-war veterans.

Former Executive Director of the South Carolina Republican Party Todd Kincannon attacked Iraq war veteran Michael Prysner on Twitter Sunday, in a series angry and profane tweets. “You are an Iraq veteran? Shame you didn’t come home in a body bag,” one tweet reads. He continued, “I wish the Iraqis had better aim with his ass,” and “I hope if that guy is ever in combat again, the enemy splatters his brains JFK-style. He deserves it.” Kincannon’s tweets against Prysner are packed with anti-gay slurs. Read the Raw Story article here.

Mike Prysner and many other veterans and active-duty troops have been taking a courageous stand speaking out against U.S. foreign policy and war crimes—a task that often draws vitriolic attacks and violent threats. Your support is critical now.

Click here to sign the pledge in support of the courageous work of anti-war veterans, and against fascist right-wing attacks and threats!

Michael Prysner is a former U.S. Army corporal who spent 12 months in Iraq. He is a co-founder of March Forward! and a member of the Board of Directors of Veterans For Peace.

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Related:

Former S.C. Republican official: ‘C*cksucker’ anti-war vet should have ‘come home in a body bag’ David Edwards, Rawstory

  • Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Lydia Howell
  • Monday, March 25, 2013 | The former head of the South Carolina Republican Party on Sunday lashed out at an Iraq war veteran who now opposes the war, saying that he should have “come home in a body bag.”

 

GOP and NRA Protect Domestic Violence Abusers

As president Obama visits Colorado to discuss guns, state GOP launches fight to protect batterers' gun rights.

David Sirota, Salon

Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Jim Fuller

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01 April 13 | Every so often, disparate political events line up so perfectly that they create the possibility of real resonance. In these fleeting moments, a point which might have been lost to news cycle noise can break through and singularly shift momentum by introducing a new angle to an otherwise binary debate. President Obama’s Wednesday visit to Colorado could be one of those moments, thanks to the events surrounding his gun-control-themed trip.

In its preview story of the political week ahead, the New York Times notes that the president is “seek(ing) to regain momentum” on the gun issue as “a filibuster threat is growing in the senate” and as a two-week congressional recess is marked by a nationwide activist push by the National Rifle Association. To counter it, the president is heading to Colorado, a state made famous by two of the most high-profile gun massacres in history – and now the first state in the historically pro-gun West to pass serious gun regulations.

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