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Cynthia McKinney
March 20 is the 7th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq
Green Party candidates, leaders, and other members will participate in the ‘US Out of Afghanistan and Iraq Now‘ march in Washington, DC, on Saturday, March 20. The Green Party of the United States opposed the US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan from the very beginning, and more recently criticized President Obama for expanding the Afghanistan War into Pakistan and for his announcement of 30,000 additional US troops to be sent to Afghanistan (http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=267).
Greens will join hundreds of thousands of others to demand an end to the wars and occupations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, and Haiti and threats of war against Iran. March 20 is the seventh anniversary of the invasion launched by the Bush-Cheney Administration against Iraq, in which hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died and tens of thousands of US troops have been killed or been maimed.
Greens participated in the “Rally to tell Obama No You Can’t!” on December 12, 2009, in Washington, DC in Lafayette Park near the White House, which was sponsored by the End US Wars Coalition (http://www.enduswars.org). Among the Green Party speakers at the rally were Cynthia McKinney, the Green Party 2008 presidential nominee; Lynne Williams, 2010 Green Party candidate for Governor of Maine (http://www.lynnewilliams2010.org); and Marian Douglas-Ungaro of the DC Statehood Green Party. Read more »
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KW: At The Albany Times Union, they requested from the government, and have published, a great document that shows how many state workers there are in various departments and offices. The list gives interesting insight into where our government spends the most money, and what some budget priorities are. I will say that reading it for priorities is not as easy as matching line to line, because some issues – such as education – have several different offices or departments that cover them. And, some items seem to have a “zero”, just because they are left-over offices which have been taken over by another sector or department.
Michael Kornfeld suggested this site to me. It is awesome, and very local. Has good, Long Island news, with a focus on the Town of Huntington.
