East End Report: 05/25/2008

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

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Recommended Reading:

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

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

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According to a Suffolk Life May 28 story, all 40 members of the Army National Guard unit based in Patchogue are headed to Iraq.

One of the guards states "I think it's important that I go to Iraq and that we should never forget 9/11"

On June 6 they will be going first to Fort Sill in Oklahoma for 3 months training and then to Iraq for the rest of what is described as a 1 year tour of duty.

By June 2009 they will have a new commander in chief and the war funding will have at least until the fall of '09 to go. Members of the Guard unit say they are looking forward to their time in Iraq and understand that the morale of the troops there now is good.

Perhaps they did not hear about the psychological problems of returning GI's as described in the media. If we could reach them we would ask them to listen to the testimony of the Iraq Veterans Against the War given this past March in a meeting in suburban D.C. See Winter Solldier at ivaw.org

Of course, we wish the Patchogue Guards a safe deployment as they join 'Operation Iraqi Freedom'.

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