for those who don't know, this is the group that has been petitioning the security council among other places and one of the most together petiton groups. they had 300 volunteers deliver the last petition - 12 boxes of signatures to each u.n. mission on the council. i was touched by the photos and statements i browsed through, sent in from the vigil sites around the world.
in the Other mainstream, but somewhat removed from u.s. bias is the CBC (canadian broadcasting commission). like the beeb in its scope of resources except this is high-tech/low-war canada.
http://cbc.ca
or go directly to
http://cbc.ca/iraq
canada is not a member of the 'coalition of the willing' and is subsequently not on the u.s. list of 'friendly' nations. this has a good part of the population going through a range of anxious emotional reactions from fear to anger. still, there,s been problems with the bush administration since the beginning. historically, the first foreign visit made by a new u.s. has been to ottawa - sharing 'the world's longest unpatrolled border' and largest trade partner, &c., &c. but bush has not yet officially been to canada (bush41 has a fishing cottage or sommat like that - i'm not sure where - but going fishing with daddy doesn't count as a state visit). the irony is that canada went with the u.s. into afghanistan, had certain casualties - some at the hands of u.s. soldiers, has maintained a prescence there - cleaning up mine fields, &c., and even has a ship or two in the gulf as part of this 'war on terrorism' - although i can't say what that is. still, it officially condemns the invasion, as it did with viet nam. perhaps if this war drags on as it did then, the population will once again increase with young usanians seeking asylum in canada.
our concern is that the economic pressure the u.s. is capable of will, in turn, scare the population into pressuring parliament to join in the war. and so there are unprecedented anti-war activities going on every week. here in montreal there have been marches on the weekends with hundreds of people taking part. this is extraordinary considering the population size.
anyroad, here are some sites from the u.s.
longstanding u.s. journals that are antiwar include :
the nation - outsoken with a page for antiwar activities http://thenation.com as well as harpers atlantic monthly
and what u.s. journals may not fit to print:
http://www.commondreams.org/ http://www.counterpunch.org middle east report http://www.merip.org/index.html
TruthOut http://www.truthout.org Alternet http://www.alternet.org Slate http://slate.msn.com
and some bush photo opps http://winstars.free.fr/english/bush.html
fun to circulate - some are already well known.
this takes a rather long time if you don't have broadband so i suggest you get started on folding all those socks lying about.
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