Hi. I am Wakana Yokota, who goes to school in Boston now. I went to the protest in NY on Feb 15. It was a great experience, and I was really happy to be there being a part of the big crowd. I left Boston about 7:00 am and I arrived at 45 street, 9th ave in NYC at 10:30am. I was going to 47 street 1st ave, but police blocked streets so I couldn't get there. Around 11:00am, many … [Read more...] about Wakana Yokota on NY demonstration
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Urgent Appeal on Iraq by Scholars of Allied Occupation of Japan
U.S. PLANS FOR WAR AND OCCUPATION IN IRAQ ARE A HISTORICAL MISTAKE An Urgent Appeal from Students of the Allied Occupation of JapanThe administration of U.S. President George W. Bush has announced plans to occupy Iraq, following "pre-emptive" military strikes, based on the so-called Japanese model -- the post-World War II Allied occupation of Japan. As students of the … [Read more...] about Urgent Appeal on Iraq by Scholars of Allied Occupation of Japan
The Disquieted American by Chalmers Johnson
Daniel Ellsberg's leaks from inside the Pentagon helped to end the Vietnam war. On the eve of another unpopular war, Chalmers Johnson holds out for an Ellsberg in the Bush administration...--reprinted from The Guardian (UK) February 6, 2003 under FAIR USE principles--(Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg Viking, 498 pp., $29.95, … [Read more...] about The Disquieted American by Chalmers Johnson
– Japanese Peace Group Puts Ad in Washington Post
WASHINGTON — A Japanese citizens' group and a former U.S. servicemen's group placed an advertisement opposing a war on Iraq in the Washington Post's Thursday editions, asking, "Is America addicted to war?""Please bring your soldiers home. Iraq is contaminated with radiation from depleted uranium used by the U.S., causing suffering of Iraqi children and Persian Gulf War … [Read more...] about – Japanese Peace Group Puts Ad in Washington Post
– Laura Bush Cancels poetry reading, fearing war of words
https://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15100By John Nichols, The Nation February 4, 2003 A bit of advice for the Bush White House: Don't pick fights with professional wordsmiths. First Lady Laura Bush's decision to cancel a White House symposium on the poetry of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Langston Hughes because she feared antiwar sentiments might be … [Read more...] about – Laura Bush Cancels poetry reading, fearing war of words