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Pancakes for Peace - WNPJ and Madison Hours event
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Safeguard the Guard bill public hearing
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Wisconsin Action Alliance is Live January 3, 2009
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Carbon Free- Nuclear Free Lobby Day
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Wisconsin bill would create a state statute mandating the governor to review legitimacy of Guard fed
Pancakes for Peace - WNPJ and Madison Hours event
2/14 Sun 8:30 – 11:00 am WNPJ Benefit at the Madison Hours PEACE Pancake Breakfast - Madison. Wilmar... read more
Safeguard the Guard bill public hearing
Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 Time: 9:00am - 2:00pm Location: State Capitol, Madison Protect Wisconsin... read more
Wisconsin Action Alliance is Live January 3, 2009
This network, the Wisconsin Action Alliance, encourages the exchange of ideas, expertise and resources... read more
Carbon Free- Nuclear Free Lobby Day
Host: Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice Type: Education - Workshop Date: Tuesday, February ... read more
Wisconsin bill would create a state statute mandating the governor to review legitimacy of Guard fed
Democratic Party of Wisconsin Calls for Support of AB 203 Bill would create a state statute mandating... read more
Wisconsin Action Alliance Latest Info
News and Articles from Other PJEP Networks
Change, Leadership and Opportunity of this Moment
It's been a tumultuous couple weeks and many people are despairing. Haiti, Massachusetts, Supreme Court, and now the loss of our treasured teacher Professor Howard Zinn. It may seem like too much to bare, but it's not. As a matter of fact, there are reasons to celebrate and new opportunities to organize. At the bottom of this longer-than-usual commentary is an invitation for collaboration on an exciting and timely mobilization to reclaim representative democracy. I hope you will send your ideas ... [ more ]
Posted on WAnet by Backbone Campaign
Twitter's Communications Evolution
An article in the November 9 NY Times, "Refining the Twitter Explosion", described changes that Twitter programmers are making to Twitter, changes that are taking steps toward a dramatic realignment of our society.
The article noted that in January 2009, daily traffic was 2.4 million transmissions, but it grew to 26 million tweets by October. Then, the writer Noam Cohen noted the importance of geographic location to high quality information: "Improvements like geolocation...
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Posted on ICJPE by Neighbors for Peace
COAST Joins Lawsuit Opposing Navy Sonar Range
The Navy intends to build a 500-square nautical mile instrumented Undersea Warfare Training Range (USWTR) off the Florida and Georgia coasts, where it plans to conduct around 470 annual exercises involving up to three vessels and two aircraft, and the use of its mid-frequency active sonar. Despite the fact that MFA sonar disrupts, injures, and kills marine life, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), the federal agency responsible for ensuring protection for marine species, has given the ... [ more ]
Posted on MPJEN by Citizens Opposing Active Sonar Threats (COAST)
Money and Politics: Illuminating the Connection, Resource for the Month
Our Resource of the month is Money and Politics: Illuminating the Connection,
MAPLight.org, a groundbreaking public database that illuminates the connection between campaign donations and legislative votes in unprecedented ways. Elected officials collect large sums of money to run their campaigns, and they often pay back campaign contributors with special access and favorable laws.
This common practice is contrary to the public...
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Posted on ICJPE by ICJPE
Minnesotans Arrested at White House Tuesday
13 people were arrested at the White House Tuesday. Nine of them are from Minnesota. They are in the DC jail. Evidently they will be held for 24 hours in a jail that is all stainless steel including the bunks. The water supply does not work that well if at all in the cells. And, according to one observer, they turn up either the heat or the air conditioning to make them uncomfortable.
For the action they had cardboard tombstones with the names of 77 Minnesotans who died in the wars...
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Posted on MAPM by Twin Cities Peace Campaign - Focus on Iraq
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