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"Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act" Talmud ( Sabbath, 54b)

Help Wanted

Names of the War Dead: May 25 in East Hampton

Tidings fromHazel Kahan: Moving Sets You in Motion - May 22 at 12 Noon

Recommended Reading:

Hazel Kahan's Tidings Blog

Reading Between the Lines: Remembering Bobby Kennedy's Assasination - Anna Manzo, Dying for Oil - Reginald Johnson

"You have no history and your past does not matter."

Rashid Khalidi - Palestine: Liberation Deferred

Sixty Years of the Palestinian Nakba

Israel at 60: We Will Not Be Celebrating

Palestine: Orphanages Face Threat

Boycott Big Three Oil Companies

Food Crisis in Haiti

Reverend Wright's Sermons - What did he really say?

Long Island Wins: Immigration 101 and more - updated daily

Revealed: the US plan to start a Palestinian civil war

International Food Aid May Be Rationed - BBC Report

Arundhati Roy on Genocide: Listening to Grasshoppers

AFSC Iraq Video on YouTube / and more

Counter Recruiting Schedule Revised Feb 14

Alternative Media

Democracy Now!

The independent news hour with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez:
on Riverhead/Southampton/Southold/Shelter Island Channel 20:

Monday 10 pm
Tuesday 11 pm
Wednesday 7pm
Thursday 6pm
Friday 9 pm
Saturday - 6:30 am

Also on WUSB 90.1 FM 5pm Mon-Friday and East Hampton LTV Ch 20

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For more Information on Peace Activism on LI

see North Fork People of Conscience at www.nfpofc.blogspot.com

see Suffolk Progressive Vision at www.spv.active.ws

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Help Wanted

The Counter Recruitment committee of the Suffolk Peace Network needs your help.

Military recruiters have a large presence in our schools and they are given unfiltered access to our children and grandchildren. With the end of school just around the corner, recruiters have stepped up their efforts to enlist our kids. We know times are tough and prices for everything have risen drastically, but if you would please print out a few copies of the attached flyer and place them in stores, delis, arcades or anywhere else your local high school kids hang out, it would be greatly appreciated. Remember to make small cuts on the bottom so people can easily detach the information to take home with them.

After you place the flyers, please send a short email back to me indicating which school district you are in, where you placed the flyers and anything else you think will be helpful to us. Thank you for joining us in spreading the message that there are alternatives to military enlistment.

Please feel free to forward to those who might be interested in helping.

Peace, Karen Sackett 631-875-8647
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ALTERNATIVES TO ENLISTMENT

“A STATE-BY-STATE WEBPAGE FOR YOUTH ON JOBS OF LOCAL, NATIONAL, AND GLOBAL IMPORTANCE, COMMUNITY COLLEGES, COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, AND FINANCIAL AID.”

WWW.CENTERONCONSCIENCE.ORG/ALTERNATIVES/INDEX.SHTML

CHOOSE TO SERVE YOUR COMMUNITY. CHOOSE TO HONOR YOUR CONSCIENCE.

A campaign for Peace and Justice by the Center on Conscience & War 1-800-379-2679

Also go to: www:noarmy.com / www.ivaw.org / www.afsc.org/itsmylife/ (free booklet)Local Contact: www.spncr.active.wsPhone: 631-896-3375
Also go to: www:noarmy.com / www.ivaw.org / www.afsc.org/itsmylife/ (free booklet)Local Contact: www.spncr.active.wsPhone: 631-896-3375
Also go to: www:noarmy.com / www.ivaw.org / www.afsc.org/itsmylife/ (free booklet)Local Contact: www.spncr.active.wsPhone: 631-896-3375
Also go to: www:noarmy.com / www.ivaw.org / www.afsc.org/itsmylife/ (free booklet)Local Contact: www.spncr.active.wsPhone: 631-896-3375
Also go to: www:noarmy.com / www.ivaw.org / www.afsc.org/itsmylife/ (free booklet)Local Contact: www.spncr.active.wsPhone: 631-896-3375
Also go to: www:noarmy.com / www.ivaw.org / www.afsc.org/itsmylife/ (free booklet)Local Contact: www.spncr.active.wsPhone: 631-896-3375
Also go to: www:noarmy.com / www.ivaw.org / www.afsc.org/itsmylife/ (free booklet)Local Contact: www.spv.active.wsPhone: 631-896-3375
Also go to: www:noarmy.com / www.ivaw.org / www.afsc.org/itsmylife/ (free booklet)Local Contact: www.spv.active.wsPhone: 631-896-3375

Smith Haven Mall Drops Charges Agains Peace Activists

May 22:

The charges brought against two peace activists who participated in a demonstration at the Smith Haven Mall in March were dismissed on May 22 in Suffolk County Court in Central Islip.

The Suffolk Assistant District Attorney stated that the charges of disorderly conduct against Susan Steinmann were being dropped 'in the interest of justice'. On March 29 Ms. Steinmann refused a Suffolk Policeman's command to stop reading the names of the Iraq war dead in the Mall. Don Zirkel an 80 year old peace activist was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after he refused to take off a T-shirt with an anti-war message while eating lunch in the mall's courtyard.

Before the court appearance the activists stated

"Our purpose is to put the Iraq War on trial -- The war is wrong, The war is criminal … Not the peace activists. Additionally, we challenge the Mall's right to limit freedom of speech."

Susan McKeon Steinmann, a member of South Country Peace Group, who was arrested for reading the names of American soldiers killed in Iraq at the center of the Mall, said,

"It is ironic that mall personnel told me they wanted to create a 'pleasant shopping
environment' for their customers. It is immoral that I was arrested for reading the names of the dead. Calling attention to the human cost of this war is of a higher moral order than maintaining a pleasant shopping environment. As an American citizen, and as a person who truly believes in the sanctity of human life, I chose to speak out."

With the charges dropped the issue of whether free speech in a public space of a privately owned shopping mall will not be decided. Also the opportunity to put the war on trial rather than the activists was lost. And this must be why the charges were dropped.

The North Fork Environmental Council

The North Fork Environmental Council seeks volunteers to assist our existing Land Use Committee in many facets of conserving our precious land, water and air. We need volunteers to help us "Save What's Left¨ of our environment. What does the word environment mean? "Environment" means all the external conditions or influences under which humans, animals and plants live or are developed.

What are some of the duties of our Land Use Committee?

to establish and recommend programs designed to foster increased public concern and awareness of the environment; to ensure that all the aspects of preservation and maintenance of the natural environment are fully considered in the administration of land use and resource development, and minimize and prevent waste of those resources. to inquire into/study any matter related to the environment or land use; and if considered advisable, to make recommendations to the Board of Directors of NFEC respecting any matter relating to the environment and the development and use of land and other natural resources.

We're there - every step of the way! Our Land Use Committee needs additional voices to help us "Save What's Left" for generations to come.

If you, or someone you know, share an interest in this area, our Land Use Committee is seeking New Members.

To learn more about their efforts in our community, contact the NFEC at (631) 298-8880.

Ken Rubino, President North Fork Environmental Council

nfec@optonline.net

The People of Clarendon County—A Play by Ossie Davis

Riverhead Middle School, 600 Harrison Street, Riverhead

Invites You to a Book Celebration & Performance
Thursday, May 29th, 2008 • 6 PM
In the RMS Café

Free to the Public

The People of Clarendon County—A Play by Ossie Davis

& the Answer to Racism!
Based on the book edited by Alice Bernstein

This 1955 play by Ossie Davis honors South Carolina parents who risked their lives for
their children's education. Their courageous legal challenge to segregation led to the
Supreme Court’s landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education.

Hear journalist and Aesthetic Realism Associate Alice Bernstein tell of conversations
with Ossie Davis in 2004 which led to her finding his play. With his encouragement, she
gathered documents about these unsung heroes, and essays on the education that can
end racism: Aesthetic Realism, founded in 1941 by Eli Siegel.

See Riverhead Middle School and High School students enact scenes from “The People
of Clarendon County,” originally performed in 1955 by the young actors—Ossie Davis,
Ruby Dee, and Sidney Poitier.

Experience the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method as educator Monique Michael, a
contributor to this book, presents a science lesson she’s taught to first graders. See how,
as children learn successfully, they become kinder and prejudice ends!

Special guests include people in our own community who helped change history!

Light refreshments and Book Signing

Conference on Affordable Housing in Riverhead

Peconic Community Council, Inc.’s 25th Annual Conference on
Affordable Housing for the Long Island Workforce and the Homeless

Friday - June 13, 2008 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Keynote Speakers:

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy
Captain Colette Masom, Salvation Army

In addition Captain Masom will be receiving the Mary Carnicelli Award

Speakers and Panelists

Congressman Tim Bishop
County Legislator Jay Schneiderman
Diana Weir, V.P. of L.I. Housing Partnership
Rosemary Dehlow, L. I. Director Community Housing Innovations
Riverhead Town Supervisor Phil Cardinale

A Continental Breakfast and 25th Anniversary Luncheon will be served

Location: Riverhead Polish Hall
Directions to The Riverhead Polish Hall, 214 Marcy Ave., Riverhead, NY
Long Island Expressway East, Take Exit #72 – Route 25 towards Riverhead – go 0.3 miles bear Right on West Main Street – go 2.8 miles,
turn Left on Marcy Ave. – go 0.1 miles Riverhead Polish Hall is on your Right

For more information please contact PCC
Phone: 631-727-6831
Fax: 631-727-6836
E-mail: Information@pccouncil.org

Peconic Community Council Inc.
554 East Main Street, Suite 303
Riverhead, NY 11901

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