Dear Friends,
We've now held 8 weeks of Peace Protests, calling for a Stop to
War on Iran and Stop to Imperialism everywhere! It was really great to
see everybody show up last Saturday, despite the weather. Thankfully, the
torrential rain stopped just in time for our protest! Here are 12 photos from the event.
As you likely know, we're continuing these protests until the
end of August, and possibly beyond. Again, we meet every Saturday at 11
AM in front of the Washington County Courthouse in Fayetteville. We're
looking for ways to make these protests more creative, fun and engaging, so
please let us know any ideas. A couple ideas we're considering are to
create more artistic street theater, including costumes mimicking wounded war
victims, and to make more music and noise to keep the energy up. Please
do whatever you can to make these events more interesting!
Another main goal is to increase attendance. To this end,
we're running weekly ads in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, distributing
flyers, and airing PSAs on the radio and Fayetteville Public TV. We
also have the events on Facebook here.
Please help print and distribute the attached flyers, especially at the Farmers
Market. Lastly, please donate for these efforts online here, or mail checks made out to
Arkansas Nonviolence Alliance, 60 W. Smith St. Fayetteville AR 72701.
Thank You!
Attachments area
OMNI
IRAN NEWSLETTER,
August 9, 2019.
COMPILED
BY DICK BENNETT FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE AND JUSTICE
(#11 Oct. 8, 2011; #12 Jan. 31, 2012; #13 Feb.
22, 2012; #14 Feb. 26, 2012; #15 March 17, 2012; #16 April 12, 2012; #17 May
21, 2012; #18, July 9, 2012; #19 August 13, 2012; #20 Sept. 10, 2012; #21, Dec.
14, 2012; #22 March 5, 2013; #23 Nov. 12, 2013; #24 March 5, 2014; #25 January
17, 2015; #26, July 28, 2015; #27, June 3, 2018; #28, June 21, 2019; #29, July
11, 2019.)
CONTENTS: IRAN NEWSLETTER #30, August 8, 2019
OMNI’S NO IRAN
WAR DEMONSTRATIONS SATURDAYS 11AM, COURT HOUSE
(Abel Tomlinson)
Peacemaking
UN Charter
George, Abel, Art about Tulsi Gabbard and
building the peace movement.
Who Wants War?
The Warmakers!
Republicans Boozman and Cotton v. Udall-Kaine-Lee
Amendment.
Action: Call or write AR’s Congressional
Delegation, WOMACK
Chomsky v. Bolton and the other War-Lovers
ruling our government.
Peace Action v. Bolton and Pompeo et al.
Dick: NADG
and Mainstream Media
Dick:
UAF Panel on Iran as US threatens WAR
Foreign Pushing to War:
“Coalition of the Killing”: Netanyahu, bin Salman,
bin Zayed
Uri Ben-Eliezer, Israeli’s Militaristic Nationalism
Iran Newsletters 27-29
TEXTS
SOME MESSAGES, ESSAYS, BOOKS, and ACTIONS FROM
PEACEMAKERS
OMNI Center for
Peace, Justice, and Ecology and the Nonviolence Peace Alliance are protesting
US preparations to bomb Iran. Part of our
legal and moral foundation is the UN Charter, which prohibits not just
attacking another country EXCEPT IN CASE OF DEFENSE
AGAINST ARMED ASSAULT, but making preparations to attack. (See Chapter I.) The Charter is a treaty ratified by Congress;
i.e., it is US LAW.
Join us each
Saturday in August at the Courthouse, College and Dickson, 11:00 a.m. to
noon. We have placards, or bring your
own—a few words in large letters.
PRAISE FOR TULSI GABBARD, and
HOPE FOR A MASS FOR PEACE
“Why the Media hates Tulsi.” Definitely worth noting as she’s the only candidate who’s openly challenging our bi-partisan foreign policy consensus. Card-carrying members of the Democratic Establishment such as Howard Dean have been attacking her for years.
Regardless of Tulsi’s record
or chances of winning the election, I am most interested in whatever pushes the
conversation toward peace & justice & shifts public
consciousness. She is doing that.
If public
consciousness is sufficiently shifted, mass movements can follow...electoral
politics be damned. I see movement politics as more powerful, and less
corruptible. The People lead, politicians follow. That's what we are
working on every Saturday. I have a dream a fire will ignite & reach
critical mass like a nuclear bomb for peace. Better to dream than give in
to despair, I figure.
Cheers! Abel
I really agree about the need to build a critical mass
for peace. And I think this will happen, because of Iran tensions.
Iran can’t sit still under our economic warfare. They must continue
upping the ante, by gradually increasing their uranium enrichment for sure and
probably also by seizing oil tankers (Revolutionary Guard troops control this,
provided Khomeini agrees). Eventually, the US and Israel will become
uncomfortable about the uranium build-up and will have to resort to something
more than sanctions. One possibility: Israel bombs Iran.
There are many other possibilities. At some point in all this, the
American public is going to finally speak out about Iran and there will be a
critical mass for peace. All Americans should be speaking out now, as we
are in Fayetteville. Americans do not want another Mideast war. –
Art Hobson
WHO AND WHAT ARE PUSHING FOR WAR AGAINST IRAN
THE WARMAKERS
For the Record: The Republicans on June 28, 2019 blocked
the Udall-Kaine-Lee amendment to stop a dangerous, needless,
destructive, and costly war with Iran. That does not mean we lose in the long
run. Let’s continue our pressure on Sens. John Boozman and Tom Cotton. Give them a call and simply say what’s on
your mind, a few words or many. Get
engaged with them and their staff who are just as bloody-minded as the
Senators. Be innovative and let the rest
of us know.
None of the senators or representatives publishes his e-mail
address, but each can be contacted by filling in forms offered through his
website.
Senator John Boozman: (202)224-4843
Website Email: http://www.boozman.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me
Lowell Office
phone: 479-725-0400
Senator Tom Cotton: (202)224-2353
Website Email: http://www.cotton.senate.gov/content/contact-tom
Springdale Office phone: 479-751-0879
The following offers further reading for you who wish to know more
about the infamous vote, and who are the friends of war and of peace.
Jun 28, 2019 - The Senate chose not to attach an Iran amendment from Democratic Sens. Tom Udall of New Mexico and Tim Kaine of Virginia to a must-pass defense bill. ... to do
whatever he wants, it's not that if Congress says 'no,' that would stop him. .... Susan Collins of Maine, Mike Lee of Utah, Jerry Moran of Kansas ...
Jun 28, 2019 - Sixty yes votes would have been required to get the amendment added ... add the Kaine-Udall proposal retroactively if they could secure the votes. ...
Republicans, however, had appeared confident that they would be able to block it from .... Collins Jerry Moran Rand Paul Mike Lee James Inhofe war powers.
Jun 28, 2019 - Senators Udall and Kaine deserve particular credit for forcing a vote and ... cast
a vote supported the amendment, and four Republicans - Mike Lee, ... of lawmakers determined to block an unauthorized Trump war on Iran.
Jun 28, 2019 - The Kaine-Udall amendment failed to gain the 60 votes it needed, ... Trump to seek
congressional approval before going to war with Iran, ... and Mike Lee (R-Utah), who
supported it. ... Democratic senators pushed for the vote earlier this week by
threatening to blockthe passage of a key defense bill,
the ...
Jun 28, 2019 - ... Tom Udall, Tim Kaine, Mike Lee, Rand Paul, Jeff Merkley, Chris Murphy, and Dick Durbin
to block funding for any unauthorized war with Iran:.
ACTION
CALL OR WRITE OUR HOUSE MEMBER TOO
We must hold in our minds the determination to rid
Arkansas of these warmakers.
Rep. Steve Womack, 3rd District:
(202)225-4301
1119 Longworth
House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Washington, DC 20515
3333 Pinnacle
Hills, Suite 120
Rogers, Arkansas 72758
Rogers, Arkansas 72758
Rep. Rick
Crawford, 1st District: (202)225-4076
Rep.
French Hill, 2nd District: (202)225-2506
Rep.
Bruce Westerman, 4th District: (202) 225-3772
Led by John Bolton, the Trump administration is pursuing catastrophe to
protect U.S. dominance. BY NOAM
CHOMSKY
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The build-up to war with Iran sounds familiar
Peace Action supporter,
We must not stop now.
John Bolton and Mike Pompeo certainly haven’t stopped their
efforts to build a case for war with Iran. Just
last week, Secretary of State Pompeo briefed Congress and once again pushed
dubious claims about links between Iran and Al Qaeda. [1] This is an
insidious attempt to use the open-ended 2001 Authorization for the Use of
Military Force (AUMF), which authorizes U.S. force against Al Qaeda or anyone
linked to them, as authority to start a war with Iran.
We cannot allow this to happen again.
As I’m sure you know, a war with Iran would have devastating
consequences in both blood and treasure, potentially even worse than the war
in Iraq. According to dozens of Middle Eastern scholars, a war with Iran
would undoubtedly lead to a horrific toll of dead and injured, major
environmental destruction, large scale forced migration, world-wide
recession, as well as producing other equally dangerous and unintended
consequences. [2] Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates adds, “If you
think the war in Iraq was hard, an attack on Iran would, in my opinion, be a
catastrophe,” and commented that such an attack would only “make a
nuclear-armed Iran inevitable.”
Make no mistake, the time to prevent a war is now. Last week, Trump reportedly called off a military strike
on Iran. How much longer do you think he’ll stand up to the constant pro-war
rhetoric from Iran hawks like Bolton and Pompeo on his national security
team? The time for Congress to act
is now. Sign our petition today demanding that Congress speak out and step in
to stop the march to war with Iran.
Thank you for everything you do to prevent this unnecessary
and illegal war.
Sincerely, Jon
Rainwater
Executive Director Peace Action
P.S. According to a recent poll, a majority of likely voters
in targeted swing states do not support an American military strike on Iran.
[3] We need Congress to get that
message, and you can help us do that by signing the petition today!
Sources
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/politics/us-iran.html [2] https://mondoweiss.net/2019/06/scholars-unmitigated-disaster/ [3] https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/25/poll-iran-military-swing-state-1380318
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US Media, NADG, “amid rising tensions”: But who is causing the tensions?? See OMNI’s newsletters on NADG reporting on Iran: https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2019/07/critiques-of-iran-reporting-us.html
As during the Vietnam War,
UAF barely murmurs against this aggression.
For
example, consider this rare panel on Iran, the closest the UAF gets to
following UA’s motto when it comes to US war crimes: Veritate Duce Progredi.
University
of Arkansas
Middle East
Studies Forum to Discuss Developments, Perspectives on Iran on Aug. 30.
Aug. 21,
2018 Iran 360 Degrees: Current
Perspectives, Prospective Changes, a forum featuring regional experts and
Middle East Studies faculty, will take place on Thursday, August 30 from 4:00
to 6:00 p.m. in the Arkansas Union (ARKU) Room 510-511
Topics to be
discussed include current Iranian perspectives on evolving political events in
the country and abroad; human rights struggles in Iran today, with a focus on
the status and strategies of women’s rights activists; regional views on Iran
from the Sino-Pak-Indo perspective; and developments in Sunni vs. Shia
religious and political divides. [I attended
this panel, which as you see diffused, evaded, covered-up the US war against
Iran in preparation. Panels like this is
one of the ways UAF and most universities in the US are complicit by avoiding
direct confrontation of US imperial aggression.
As of 8-9-19 UAF has not had a panel at least questioning the legality
or rationality of the US war.–Dick]
Attendees
are invited to a reception to follow the event to meet Middle East Studies
faculty, students and staff. [Maybe the
real purpose of the panel.]
FOREIGN WAR MAKERS EAGER TO WAR WITH IRAN 2019
Bob Dreyfuss.
“Coalition of the Killing: The ‘B Team’ Is Pushing for War Against
Iran.” The Nation (June 3/10, 2019). Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, SA Crown
Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed.
Ben-Eliezer, Uri.
War Over Peace: One Hundred Years
of Israeli’s Militaristic Nationalism. U
of California P, 2019.
URI BEN-ELIEZER is a political sociologist and chair of
the department of sociology at the University of Haifa, Israel. His
research interests include Israeli democracy, civil society, social
movements, state-society relations, army-society relations, and peace and war.
He has published numerous articles in such journals as Comparative Politics, Comparative Studies in
Society and History, Comparative Political Studies, Theory and Society, Political Geography, Social Politics, Social Movement Studies, and Ethnic and Racial Studies. Ben-Eliezer is also the
author of three books in English: The Making of Israeli
Militarism (Indiana UP, 1998); Old
Conflict, New War: Israel’s Politics Toward the Palestinians(Palgrave-Macmillan,
2012); and War over Peace: One Hundred Years of Israel’s
Militaristic Nationalism (Uof California P, 2019).
CONTENTS: IRAN NEWSLETTER #29, July 11, 2019 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2019/07/omni-no-war-against-iran-newsletter-29.html
OMNI’S NO IRAN WAR DEMONSTRATIONS SATURDAYS 11AM, COURT
HOUSE (Abel Tomlinson)
Contact Congress on War Powers, Action
Support House Amendment to Curb Trump (J Street)
Cut Pentagon $$ (Peace Action)
Criticisms
of US Aggression
Have We Learned Nothing from Iraq?
Jeremy Scahill, Col. Wilkerson (The Intercept)
Veterans for Peace
Against Sanctions
Take to the Streets
Congress for Peace
Representative Omar
Senator Bernie Sanders
The Iranian People Are Not Our Enemies (Larison)
Democrats (Tveten)
US Empire by Economic Siege
Johnstone, Starvation Sanctions Worse than Overt Warfare
Dan Beeton, Iran and Venezuela
Donald Trump, Crushing Iran
Iran
Newsletters #28
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2019/06/iran-newsletter-june-21-2018-28.html
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#27
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