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“In Iraq this is a daily event,” said Juan Cole, referring to the Virginia Tech killings during a “NewsHour” appearance to discuss Iraq. “Imagine how horrible it would be if this kind of massacre were occurring every single day.”
Also, Bill Moyers Journal: Buying the War

Articles of Note:

1. The Final Act of Submission by Scott Ritter
2. U.S. Holds 18,000 Detainees in Iraq Recent Security Crackdown in Baghdad Nets Another 1,000 by Walter Pincus
3. Four Hired Guns in an Armored Truck, Bullets Flying, and a Pickup and a Taxi Brought to a Halt. Who Did the Shooting and Why? A Chaotic Day On Baghdad’s Airport Road by Steve Fainaru
4. The Baghdad gulag By Pepe Escobar
5. And finally, watch the trailer from the documentary “Taxi to the Dark Side” about the continued use of Gitmo.

(Above) Tom Shea reads a statement of protest for “the illegal and immoral” war in Iraq while 5 others listen. Over all, 6 people occupied Senator Levin’s Traverse City office in opposition to the Senators decision to continue to fund the Iraq war.

Record Eagle articles:

1. ‘Sit-ins’ held at Levin’s and Stabenow’s offices By PATRICK SULLIVAN
2. Camp’s view on the war is shifting By PATRICK SULLIVAN

More on Camp visit at Traverse Peace Alerts

All Welcome to the next Traverse Area Peace and Justice Community Meeting Saturday, April 14 - 3PM Friends Meeting House, 5th and Oak, Traverse City

• Debriefing about the past week’s actions

• Discussion and planning for future actions, events and strategies

Lisa Franseen reads a version of an address given by Robert Kennedy during the Vietnam war that read without reference to dates or Vietnam sounds eerily similar to current affairs. She was joined by Sally Neal in the hallway outside of Senator Levin’s office. Below, Senator Levin’s representative Harold Chase speaks with reporters about what he is going to do if they don’t leave. “I have no idea,” Chase replied.

Tomgram: The Theater of the Imperially Absurd

How the Bush Administration Destabilized the “Arc of Instability by Tom Engelhardt. And, on any given day, you can see the evidence of this on a case by case basis in your local paper or on the TV news. You can check out the Iraqi, or Somali, or Lebanese, or Iranian, or Pakistani disasters, or impending disasters. But what you never see is all those crises and potential crises discussed in one place – without which the magnitude of the present disaster and the dangers in our future are hard to grasp.

Thank you for your support over these years. In the past five years we have:

• MEJP has done quite a lot to educate the Traverse area public about the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and US foreign policy in the Middle East. 
• MEJP has established this JustPeace listserve and hosts a MidEast:JustPeace Blog.
• MEJP has also surely helped spur interest in showing progressive films in the area.
• The MEJP Steering Committee continues to discuss the future course of MidEast:JustPeace initiatives in the area.
• Give us your ideas on what you would like to see from MEJP at mkrom@centurytel.net.
• Stay tuned for some exciting events…………

MEJP has also been a supporting member of US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.  While the occupation has had the greatest impact upon Palestinians, the occupation also takes its toll on Israelis and also on the US public that funds Israel to the tune of $23,240 per Israeli.  To this end, please review a letter to members of Congress and the President calling for an end to US support for Israel’s military occupations. The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation is planning to deliver 100,000 of these messages to Congress by June 10, 2007 to protest the 40th year since the 1967 Israeli illegal occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem.  Join MidEast:JustPeace in reaching this goal. Click Here to sign the letter and take action now.

The Traverse Area Peace and Justice Community met on Saturday March 31 to plan for our meeting with Rep. Dave Camp. We chose several speakers and observers to be among a 12 person group ok’d to meet with Dave Camp at his office at 121 E. Front St. at 1:45 PM on Tuesday April 10, 2007. The topic is the Iraq War. The public is welcome to join us outside Camp’s office on that date to illustrate for him that many, many in his District do not support more money for war, more troops and further escalation of the war to Iran.

Join us at 121 E. Front St. at 1:30 PM on April 10, 2007. Send your letters of concern over the war to all your representatives: Contact information for area U.S. Senators and Representatives

Baghdad: Mapping the violence, a Mulit-media interactive presentation by the BBC offers a visual tool to realizing the impact of the daily violence in Iraq.

ANTI-WAR MEETING THIS SATURDAY MARCH 31, 2007
12 Noon to 2:00 PM- Friends Meeting House - Oak & 5th, Traverse City

City Police Spied Broadly Before G.O.P. Convention –

“For at least a year before the 2004 Republican National Convention, teams of undercover New York City police officers traveled to cities across the country, Canada and Europe to conduct covert observations of people who planned to protest at the convention, according to police records and interviews.”

From Amnesty International 21 March 2007 ISRAEL/OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES Right to family life denied Foreign spouses of Palestinians barred
Download the Report from Amnesty International.

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