September 20, 2009 Issue #150 HUDSON VALLEY ACTIVIST NEWSLETTER/CALENDAR [email protected], http://activistnewsletter.blogspot.com/ ALL ARTICLES AT: http://activistnewsletter.blogspot.com/ CONTENTS 1. REVIVING THE PEACE MOVEMENT OCT. 17 Save the date! Nationwide peace demonstrations, including in the Hudson Valley, coincide with the eighth anniversary of Bush's war in Afghanistan. This is a chance to revive our antiwar movement. Don't miss it! 2. CLIMATE CHANGE LEGISLATION: TOO HOT TO HANDLE IN CONGRESS Republicans and other problems beset the Obama Administration's climate change/energy legislation, but many of the difficulties come from conservative Democrats. 3. SHUT IT DOWN! Up to 300 peace demonstrators marched in protest to the Army Experience Center (AEC) in Philadelphia Sept. 12, resulting in the arrest of six activists. 4. END THE EMBARGO, FREE THE FIVE Just three days after we demonstrated in a Mid-Hudson village against the economic and trade sanctions on Cuba, President Obama announced he was extending them for another year. He obviously didn't get to read our leaflets. 5. IT'S TOUGH FOR YOUNG WORKERS If they can find jobs at all, young workers today have lower-paying jobs than their counterparts did 10 years ago. Health care is a luxury, and retirement security is something for their parents, not them." 6. SETBACK FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES The Obama Administration has made two decisions this month that eroded civil liberties. One strengthens the Patriotic Act. The other denies rights to foreign inmates in the Pentagon's main prison in Afghanistan. 7. AFL-CIO ENDORSES SINGLE-PAYER It marks the first time in perhaps two decades that the union federation has formally supported "Medicare for all." 8. IRAN DOES NOT BACK THE TALIBAN Contrary to U.S. allegations, Shi'ite Iran is certainly not aiding the Sunni Taliban. 9. HIDDEN NUMBERS OF ELDERLY IN POVERTY Poverty among Americans 65 years and older my be twice as high as official statistics indicate. 10. END OF LIFE COUNSELING The "death panel" hoax articulated by Sarah Palin and her ultra-right cohorts amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. 11. BIG FOOD VS. BIG HEALTH INSURANCE Even the most efficient healthcare system would still confront a rising tide of chronic disease linked not to illness or injury but to diet. 12. HONDURAS: VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS Inter-American Commission condemns crackdown on civil rights and violations of human rights by right wing coup regime. 13. NEWS BRIEFS 14. QUOTES IN THE NEWS ALL ARTICLES AT: http://activistnewsletter.blogspot.com/
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