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Action. (Activist Web).


* http://www.notinourname.net/

A clean interface with a clear message: no retaliation abroad in the name of justice at home. Not in Our Name (NION NION Not in Our Name (anti-war group) ) got its name from the statement made by a September 11 victim's family against the bombing in Afghanistan. NION, which is backed by Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Martin Luther King III Martin Luther King III (born October 23 1957, in Montgomery, Alabama) is a human rights advocate and community activist. He is the first son of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King. His siblings are Dexter Scott King, and Rev. Bernice Albertine King. , and death row activist Mumia Abu-Jamal, has organized major efforts in New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 and San Francisco. You can sign its beautifully articulated "pledge of resistance" in 18 languages. Its parent site http://www.unitedforpeace.org/ offers information on events elsewhere in the country.

* http://www.moveon.org/

Propelled by the Clinton impeachment impeachment, formal accusation issued by a legislature against a public official charged with crime or other serious misconduct. In a looser sense the term is sometimes applied also to the trial by the legislature that may follow.  debacle, a pair of Silicon Valley do-gooders put together an electronic people's campaign to urge congressional leaders to register their grievances and "move on." Since then, the MoveOn PAC has mobilized thousands of people and thousands of dollars with their fairly mainstream, red-white-and-blue, pro-democracy campaigns to untangle the 2000 vote count, to unveil Cheney's role in Enron, and to counter U.S. militarism Militarism
See also Soldiering.

Adrastus

leader of the Seven against Thebes. [Gk. Myth.: Iliad]

Siegfried

killed many enemies; led many troops to victory. [Ger. Lit. Nibelungenlied]
 since 9/11. If you've got the bandwidth, check out their new-fangled version of the Vietnam-era little girl with daisy TV ad. They're geared toward the "exhaust all diplomacy" approach.
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Author:Banks, Gabrielle
Publication:Colorlines Magazine
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Date:Mar 22, 2003
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