Peace groups protest Afghan war anniversary
Peace groups protest Afghan war anniversary
Published October 8, 2009 in the State News, including a photo and video.
Posted at Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Uwe Reinhardt on health care reform
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/18/reinhardt.health.inflation/index.html
In this comment, Uwe Reinhardt makes a powerful case for health care reform. The current system, which spendsfar too much on private insurance company profits, leaves everyone vulnerable, including those of us who have insurance through our jobs.
Here is my personal comment. It is way past time for a strong public program of health insurance in thiscountry. My relatives in Norway have excellent medical care provided by their government and feel valued by their government. Older Americans have a good health insurance program - Medicare -covering everyone aged 65 years and older, as well as some peoplewith disabilities.
We must have health care reform that includes a strong public option. A public option can build in effeciencies and negotiate prices.. Otherwise, for-profit companies will continue to increase costs and pad their profits at the expense of the rest of us.
Health reform that includes a strong public option will improve health care for all of us. Everyone benefits from reform if there is an efficient public program available to all. Health care will be more accessible, costs will be lower, and the terrible inefficiencies of the current system will be reduced. We must have health care reform now.
Margaret N
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Friday, June 26, 2009
Panel opposes torture during discussion at MSU
Panel opposes torture during discussion at MSU - from the State News, June 23, 2009
Panel opposes torture during discussion at MSU
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Monday, June 15, 2009
End Torture Forever - Press Conference at Michigan Capitol 11 June 2009
End Torture Forever - Press Conference at Michigan Capitol, 11 June 2009
Press advisory:
“End Torture Forever” - 24-Foot Banner at Michigan Capitol
Michigan Religious, Legal, and Peace Groups Mark Torture
Awareness Month by Calling for Investigation, Legislation
WHAT Press Conference in front of “End Torture Forever” banner that will hang on the Michigan State Capitol Building’s East Steps
WHEN: Thursday, June 11, 9:30 a.m.
WHERE: Michigan Capitol Building - East Steps.
SPEAKERS:
Dawud Walid is currently the Executive Director of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) and the assistant Imam of Masjid Wali Muhammad in Detroit. Walid also serves as a board trustee for the Detroit Metropolitan Interfaith Workers Rights Committee (www.cairmichigan.org).
Mary Bejian, Deputy Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan. “The ACLU, through the courts, legislatures and communities, has worked tirelessly to expose the abuse and torture of detainees in U.S. military prisons and “black sites” overseas, and to uphold the rule of law.” (www.aclumich.org)
The Rev. Reid Hamilton is the Chaplain of Canterbury House, the Episcopal Campus Ministry at the University of Michigan, and brings to anti-torture activism his experience as a military lawyer with the 82d Airborne Division. (www.canterburyhouse.org/)
Jim Turner is a Regional Representative for U.S. Senator Carl Levin. Sen. Levin has been a leader in the Senate, investigating torture. Senator Levin has pushed for strong standards to prohibit cruel treatment and torture (levin.senate.gov).
Erika McNamara is an attorney and serves as the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice representative to the Regional and State Partners Council for the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (www.nrcat.org).
Other events for Torture Awareness Month in Michigan include banners at local churches and:
Ann Arbor -- June 13th: Michigan Theater, 1:00 pm, Saturday, June 13, 2009. Showing of the documentary movie, Torturing Democracy, by Sherry Jones, describing how the U.S. government adopted torture as official policy in the aftermath of 9/11, followed by discussion with human rights expert Susan Waltz.
East Lansing -- June 23rd: MSU College of Law, 7:00 pm, Tuesday, June 23, 2009. Panel presentation, “What is at Stake in the Torture Debate?” - with Catherine Grosso, Susan Waltz, Dorean Koenig, and Erick Williams. Contact Kenneth Harrow for more information on the panel: harrow@msu.edu , cell phone: 517 803-8839.
Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice (www.icpj.net) empowers people of faith and people of conscience in the Washtenaw County/Ann Arbor, Michigan area to act on their moral and religious values to build a better world. The Peace Education Center (www.PeaceEdCenter.org) & Greater Lansing Network Against War & Injustice (www.glnawi.org) educate & advocate in Lansing area for peace, justice, & human rights.
The Lansing State Journal carried this story 12 June 2009, with a photo.
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009906120316
Posted at Monday, June 15, 2009
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Friday, March 20, 2009
Dozens join protest against ongoing war
Dozens join protest against ongoing war
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Dozens join protest against ongoing war
By Jeff Kanan
The State News
Published: March 19, 2009
More than 50 students, faculty members and area residents met Thursday on the median of Grand River Avenue at Abbot Road to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war.
Holding colorful signs and flags, they urged residents to remember fallen soldiers and to support troop removal in Iraq.
“Even though we’re hopeful our troops will be out of there by 2011, the war still goes on, the cost goes up and people are dying,” said Ann Francis, a member of the Greater Lansing Network Against War and Injustice and an event coordinator.
The Iraq war began March 19, 2003, and has cost the country more than $600 billion, according to some estimates.
Published on Thursday, March 19, 2009
Posted at Friday, March 20, 2009
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Peace groups protest Afghan war anniversary
Published October 8, 2009 in the State News, including a photo and video.
Posted at Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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1 comments
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Uwe Reinhardt on health care reform
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/18/reinhardt.health.inflation/index.html
In this comment, Uwe Reinhardt makes a powerful case for health care reform. The current system, which spendsfar too much on private insurance company profits, leaves everyone vulnerable, including those of us who have insurance through our jobs.
Here is my personal comment. It is way past time for a strong public program of health insurance in thiscountry. My relatives in Norway have excellent medical care provided by their government and feel valued by their government. Older Americans have a good health insurance program - Medicare -covering everyone aged 65 years and older, as well as some peoplewith disabilities.
We must have health care reform that includes a strong public option. A public option can build in effeciencies and negotiate prices.. Otherwise, for-profit companies will continue to increase costs and pad their profits at the expense of the rest of us.
Health reform that includes a strong public option will improve health care for all of us. Everyone benefits from reform if there is an efficient public program available to all. Health care will be more accessible, costs will be lower, and the terrible inefficiencies of the current system will be reduced. We must have health care reform now.
Margaret N
Posted at Tuesday, August 18, 2009
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Friday, June 26, 2009
Panel opposes torture during discussion at MSU
Panel opposes torture during discussion at MSU - from the State News, June 23, 2009
Panel opposes torture during discussion at MSU
Posted at Friday, June 26, 2009
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Monday, June 15, 2009
End Torture Forever - Press Conference at Michigan Capitol 11 June 2009
End Torture Forever - Press Conference at Michigan Capitol, 11 June 2009
Press advisory:
“End Torture Forever” - 24-Foot Banner at Michigan Capitol
Michigan Religious, Legal, and Peace Groups Mark Torture
Awareness Month by Calling for Investigation, Legislation
WHAT Press Conference in front of “End Torture Forever” banner that will hang on the Michigan State Capitol Building’s East Steps
WHEN: Thursday, June 11, 9:30 a.m.
WHERE: Michigan Capitol Building - East Steps.
SPEAKERS:
Dawud Walid is currently the Executive Director of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) and the assistant Imam of Masjid Wali Muhammad in Detroit. Walid also serves as a board trustee for the Detroit Metropolitan Interfaith Workers Rights Committee (www.cairmichigan.org).
Mary Bejian, Deputy Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan. “The ACLU, through the courts, legislatures and communities, has worked tirelessly to expose the abuse and torture of detainees in U.S. military prisons and “black sites” overseas, and to uphold the rule of law.” (www.aclumich.org)
The Rev. Reid Hamilton is the Chaplain of Canterbury House, the Episcopal Campus Ministry at the University of Michigan, and brings to anti-torture activism his experience as a military lawyer with the 82d Airborne Division. (www.canterburyhouse.org/)
Jim Turner is a Regional Representative for U.S. Senator Carl Levin. Sen. Levin has been a leader in the Senate, investigating torture. Senator Levin has pushed for strong standards to prohibit cruel treatment and torture (levin.senate.gov).
Erika McNamara is an attorney and serves as the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice representative to the Regional and State Partners Council for the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (www.nrcat.org).
Other events for Torture Awareness Month in Michigan include banners at local churches and:
Ann Arbor -- June 13th: Michigan Theater, 1:00 pm, Saturday, June 13, 2009. Showing of the documentary movie, Torturing Democracy, by Sherry Jones, describing how the U.S. government adopted torture as official policy in the aftermath of 9/11, followed by discussion with human rights expert Susan Waltz.
East Lansing -- June 23rd: MSU College of Law, 7:00 pm, Tuesday, June 23, 2009. Panel presentation, “What is at Stake in the Torture Debate?” - with Catherine Grosso, Susan Waltz, Dorean Koenig, and Erick Williams. Contact Kenneth Harrow for more information on the panel: harrow@msu.edu , cell phone: 517 803-8839.
Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice (www.icpj.net) empowers people of faith and people of conscience in the Washtenaw County/Ann Arbor, Michigan area to act on their moral and religious values to build a better world. The Peace Education Center (www.PeaceEdCenter.org) & Greater Lansing Network Against War & Injustice (www.glnawi.org) educate & advocate in Lansing area for peace, justice, & human rights.
The Lansing State Journal carried this story 12 June 2009, with a photo.
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009906120316
Labels: human rights, Michigan
Posted at Monday, June 15, 2009
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Friday, March 20, 2009
Dozens join protest against ongoing war
Dozens join protest against ongoing war
==============================================
Dozens join protest against ongoing war
By Jeff Kanan
The State News
Published: March 19, 2009
More than 50 students, faculty members and area residents met Thursday on the median of Grand River Avenue at Abbot Road to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war.
Holding colorful signs and flags, they urged residents to remember fallen soldiers and to support troop removal in Iraq.
“Even though we’re hopeful our troops will be out of there by 2011, the war still goes on, the cost goes up and people are dying,” said Ann Francis, a member of the Greater Lansing Network Against War and Injustice and an event coordinator.
The Iraq war began March 19, 2003, and has cost the country more than $600 billion, according to some estimates.
Published on Thursday, March 19, 2009
Labels: iraq war protest
Posted at Friday, March 20, 2009
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