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Japan: Guilty of doing good

kladner — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:30:02 +0000

"Here in Tokyo, Japan, 3 peace activists, Toshiyuki Obora, Nobuhiro Onishi and Sachimi Takada were found guilty on April 11, 2008 by the Supreme Court for putting anti-war fliers into the mail boxes of the families of the Japanese soldiers who were dispatched to Irak on the orders of Uncle Sam to assist the shameful U.S.-led coalition in its illegal invasion and occupation of Irak to free it of its oil." Note: the first link in the story did not work. The next two did. More details there.

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Historic vote in Parliament for war resisters

rabble.ca news — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:10:18 +0000

Canadian MPs ? the majority opposition representing the majority of Canadians ? stood in support of Iraq war resisters when they voted to pass an asylum motion yesterday in Parliament.

Arrests for War Resistance Increase Again

Bill Quigley — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:00:49 +0000

We can never forget that everything that Hitler did in Germany was ‘legal,’ and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did was ‘illegal.’ It was ‘illegal’ to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler’s Germany, but I am sure that if I lived in Germany during that time I would have comforted my Jewish brothers even [...]

Is the Antiwar Movement Scaring People Away?

Eric Ruder — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:00:42 +0000

If you’ve been involved in building the antiwar movement during the last couple years, chances are that you’ve asked yourself what it will take to involve more people in organizing to bring the troops home from Iraq. It’s been 18 months since the antiwar movement last held a high-profile national demonstration–on January 27, 2007, in Washington, [...]