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about peace and justice in our world Vol. 3, Issue 9 August
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PEACE ACTION IN WASHINGTON, D.C. OCTOBER 2 Peace, labor, racial justice, and immigrant groups are
planning a march in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, October 2, under the title "One Nation Working Together". The
demonstration will call on the Obama administration and Congress to create jobs, meet the needs of communities, and move money
from war to the communities. For
more information, contact Peace Action, at www.peace-action.org Locally, Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives will be
getting out more information as available.
ARE
WE HANDING OSAMA BIN LADEN A PROPAGANDA VICTORY? The ultimate victory for Osama and the 9/11 hijackers is the moral timidity that would ban a mosque
from the neighborhood (of Ground Zero.) Our enemies struck at our heart. Did they also warp our
identity? The war against the terrorists is not a war against Islam. In fact, you can't have an effective war against
the terrorists if it is a war against Islam. -- Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Dick Cavett says
of the vicious rhetoric out there: "We are handing a lethal propaganda grenade to our detractors around the world."
The deaths of 3,000 people at Ground Zero on
that terrible day caused incalculable damage even, it sometimes seems, to our basic common sense and American values. Is the
damage irreparable? One hopes not.
Newsweek featured an interview
with two mothers who lost sons that day, Sally Regenhard and Adele Welty. Adele approves the location of the mosque;
Sally opposes it. They were asked what they would they
say to the politicians who use Ground Zero as an excuse to inflame tempers.
Adele answered
firmly: "DON'T! Don't go down to Ground Zero and make speeches. Don't use family members as a backdrop for photographs,
You ought to be ashamed of yourself, using people who are grieving for your own political advantage."
Sally responded
with a hearty: "Amen, sister!" and clapped her hands above her head.
Faith in Public
Life has issued a statement, signed by religious leaders of all faiths, that reminds us that: "Fear-mongering and hateful
rhetoric only undermine treasured values at the heart of diverse faith traditions and our nation's highest ideals."
You can find and sign onto this statement at www.faithfulamerica.org
NOVEMBER 2, WE'LL GET THE GOVERNMENT WE DESERVE Voter turnout in the mid-term elections
is always low. This time it may go even lower and dramatically affect the government we get. The middle-of-the-road
voter -- that is, the vast majority of the electorate -- looks at the political scene and sees on the right an invigorated,
vehement, angry, even venomous throng. And on the left this voter sees vigorous attacks on the president. The voter
shrugs saying, "They're all bums. Why should I vote? It's just too nasty."
Robert Reich in
The American Prospect notes that in Obama, "many on the left found comfort in the belief that a single man could
make transformative change without powerful tailwinds behind him. That was a pipe dream." Paul Krugman in The
New York Times, cautions, "Progressives would be foolish to sit out this election. Mr. Obama may not be the
politician of their dreams, but his enemies are definitely the stuff of their nightmares."
An election is looming
-- with fateful results for our country and the rest of the world.
Voter turnout is going to be a big problem. How will you get involved?
SHELLEY AND JIM
DOUGLASS TO LEAD PAX CHRISTI RETREAT Shelley and Jim Douglass, long time peace activists, will lead Pax Christi
LI's annual retreat Saturday, October 20, 9:30AM-4PM, at St. Joseph Church, Garden City. They founded the Center
for Nonviolent Action in the 1970's to coordinate resistance against the Trident nuclear submarine. Author of several books
on peace, his book JFK and the Unspeakable, Why He Died and Why It Matters was recently republished in paperback.
Registration is required. Donation of $20 before October 1 includes breakfast and lunch; $25 after October 1. Checks
can be made to: "Pax Christi Long Island", and mailed to 3496 Jerusalem Ave., Wantagh 11793. For information go to
PaxChristi.LongIsland@verizon.net
PUT
THIS ON YOUR CALENDAR Leadership
Conference. Saturday, September 11, 9:30AM-5PM. Farmingdale. Workshops: health care bill, solutions for the
economy, quality education. By L.I. Progressive Coalition. Free; includes lunch. To register, contact Jonathan Grindell,
516-541-1006, ext. 15 or jonathan@lipc.org
Hofstra International Scene Lecture Series.
Theater in Axinn Library; Wednesdays, 11:15AM-12:30PM: September 15 -- "Beyond Austerity; Recovery for Whom"; Max Fraad
Wolff, economics professor, New School for Social Research. September 22 -- "America's Militarized Economy";
Michael Zweig, economics professor, SUNY-Stony Brook. October 13 -- "America's Descent into Empire";
Tom Engelhardt, author The American Way of War. November 10 -- "The Hebrew Republic,"; Kai Bird, contributing editor,
The Nation. By
Hofstra Departments of Economics, History, and Sociology; and LIAPA. For information, call Martin Melkonian, 516-463-5595.
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about peace and justice in our world Vol. 3, Issue 8 ************************************************************************** July 25, 2010 ************************
STAND WITH IMMIGRANTS' PROTEST AGAINST ARIZONA LAW
The anti-immigrant law
in Arizona -- SB1070 -- is scheduled to go into effect in that state on July 29. Other anti-immigrant legislation
is popping up in states across the country -- including New York. The Workplace Project will hold a vigil against the law on Wednesday,
July 28, 7PM, on West Columbia Street, Hempstead, between the Hempstead train and bus stations. On Saturday, July 31, at noon, at the Port Jefferson
Village Hall, several organizations will hold a Faith and Community Solidarity Vigil. Co-sponsors include LI WINS, LI Jobs
With Justice, and LI Immigrant Alliance. For information go to charleneo@jwj.org.
It's time
for those of us whose families came to this country some time back to stand alongside these folks.
Religious leaders have spoken out strongly in
support of comprehensive immigration reform. Cardinal Daniel DiNardo made a strong appeal to all the priests in the 150 Catholic
churches of the Galveston-Houston diocese to preach on July 4 on immigration reform. Jesuit provincial superiors
across the country cited a "constitutional and moral imperative to act" in response to the Arizona law.
Jennifer Butler, of the group Faith in Public Life, notes that
"more states are taking up this Arizona-style legislation that targets entire communities and demonizes immigrants.
. . Catholic, evangelical, mainline Protestant and Jewish organizations are mobilized and not backing down." ******************************************************
ANNUAL HIROSHIMA COMMEMORATION: AUGUST 5
The annual commemoration
of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will be held Thursday, August 5, 7:30PM at the Shelter Rock Unitarians'.
The program No Nukes. No Wars. Save the Planet includes author David Wildman; Rev. Mark Lukens, Interfaith
Alliance; Habeeb Ahmed, Islamic Center of LI; Rabbi Irwin Huberman, Congregation Tiferet Isreal, Glen Cove. For information,
call Great Neck SANE/Peace Action: 516-487-3786. Or go to longislandpeace@gmail.com.
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Friday,
August 6, 7PM, in Bellport, there will be a procession from the cemetery on Station Road to the harbor, followed by reflections
in memory of the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. For information: dmu7@optonline.net ***************************
LI peace groups gathered
thousands of signatures to add to a world-wide petition to eliminate nuclear weapons. The START Treaty to reduce numbers
of nuclear weapons was passed at the global conference at the UN and is now up for ratification by Congress.
****************************************************************************** HEALTH CARE ACT: "WELL, IT COULD
HAVE BEEN WORSE." That's
the opinion of the LI Coalition for a National Health Plan in announcing their determination to work for a "Medicare
for All", single-payer health care plan. The League of Women Voters,
at their June national convention voted overwhelmingly for a resolution to "advocate strongly for
bills that legislate for improved Medicare for All".
It offers some perspective to recall that President Franklin Roosevelt's 1935 Social Security
legislation covered less than 40% of senior citizens -- omitting retired domestics,
state employees and farmworkers. FDR knew, however, that if he could get the legislation passed it could be strengthened
later -- and it was. *********************************************
WOMEN AND SPIRIT:
CATHOLIC SISTERS IN AMERICA "Women and Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America" is a traveling exhibit showing the history
of the religious orders of women in the United States. Sponsored by the Leadership Conference of Women Religious in association
with the Cincinnati Museum Center, the exhibit will be at the Statue of Liberty Ellis Island Museum from September 24
to January 22. For information, go to www.womenandspirit.org
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At
the recent convention of Pax Christi USA, LCWR was honored with PCUSA's Eileen Egan Peacemaker Award as "the backbone
of the Catholic peace and justice movement. These strong, prophetic and compassionate women are always on the frontlines where
those who are weak and most vulnerable suffer at the hands of violent and unjust power." Pax Christi Long Island
"enthusiastically and lovingly" endorsed this testimonial, sending the Sisters "our congratulations, our appreciation,
our encouragement, and our prayers" and a donation to LCWR
Want to put in a good word for the Sisters? National Catholic Reporter
suggests you write to: Archbishop Pietro Sambi, Apostolic Nunciature, 3339 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20008. *****************************************
THOSE JOBS
IN ARIZONA THAT IMMIGRANTS DO Immigrants pick virtually all the iceberg lettuce used in the U.S. -- from your Big Mac to the ready-mix
bags of salad in your supermarket. To get the feeling of what that work is like,
read Working in the Shadows. A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won't Do by Gabriel Thompson.
He spent two months "cutting" lettuce in Arizona, two
months working in a chicken-processing plant, and two months doing bicycle deliveries for a restaurant in New York City.
Thompson lives in Brooklyn; he wrote his book while staying in Montauk. *********************************************
ENGLISH
TEACHERS: BAD-GRAMMAR ALERT I wish it was otherwise but, between you and I, its an historic fact that if you try and be different
than others, with new innovations, you'll be more unique and have less problems.
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PUT THIS ON YOUR CALENDAR You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train. Wednesday,
July 28, 7:30PM. at Massapequa Library. Howard Zinn documentary film. Co-sponsors: LI Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives,
LI Progressive Coalition, Pax Christi, Peacesmiths, Veterans for Peace. For information, call 795-1085 or 799-4088.
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23, 2010
"NO TO OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING; YES TO RENEWABLE ENERGY" This Saturday, June 26, at 11AM, people
concerned for the environment will join hands to proclaim: "NO to offshore oil drilling; YES to clean renewable energy."
This effort is co-sponsored by an array of groups, including Sierra Club, Audubon, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Earthday
2010.
Demonstrations will take place across the country,
around the world and at beaches throughout Long Island. For information: ww.handsacrossthesand.org
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ARMY CLOSES HIGH-TECH RECRUITING CENTER IN PHILLY MALL The $12 million Army Experience Center in Franklin Mills shopping mall will
close July 31, after attracting 40,000 visitors to engage in simulated war with a full-size Humvee and two helicopters and
an array of computers. A coalition of 30 peace groups -- including Long Islanders -- staged several demonstrations against
the center saying it made a game of killing. LI Iraq Veterans Against the War said, "By portraying war
as a game, the center glorified violence to our children and disrespected those soldiers who gave their lives in combat."
The Army said in closing it after two years that
the center wasn't permanent but only intended to determine the most effective tools for "public outreach." ******************************************************************************************** JESUIT SUPERIORS
SIGN ON TO "JUSTICE FOR IMMIGRANTS" Each of the 10 major Jesuit superiors in
the U.S. signed onto a letter, hand-delivered to the White House and to each individual Congressional office, citing a
"constitutional and moral imperative to act" in response to the controversial Arizona law. The letter, which urged immediate and comprehensive immigration reform, came from
the U.S. Catholic Bishops' Justice for Immigrants Campaign. ************************************************************************ UNITED STATES SENATE: GOVERNMENT GROWN GROTESQUE Have you heard of the "secret hold"? No, it's not a fraternity handshake, though it's certainly a sly
wink-and-a-nod to one's fellows. A U.S. Senator, some of whom have as a goal the failure of the Obama presidency, can
put a secret hold on any bill or nomination, anonymously and giving no reason. He just has to whisper into the ear
of his party's leader. The other political party has no idea who has put on the "hold" or why or even how many holds
there are. There are said to be 309 bills frozen in
the Senate by a secret hold, most previously approved in the House, some by large margins; and 96 federal court nominees and
heads of executive agencies, most of them already approved in committee without any controversy. Is this any way to run a country? Some Senators -- Wyden (D) and Grassley (R) leading the way -- are trying
to change this. *********************************************************************** YOU LIKED THREE CUPS OF TEA? TRY STONES INTO SCHOOLS
Greg Mortenson's Three Cups of Tea was a fascinating introduction to the people of Afghanistan
and Pakistan -- as well as a real-life thriller that showed how to promote peace. His follow-up book -- Stones
Into Schools, sub-titled Promoting Peace with Books not Bombs -- offers an up-close view from
the people's eye level of what happened in that area after 9/11, the invasion of U.S. military, the earthquake in Pakistan
-- and demonstrates the even more critical necessity of learning how to promote peace. **************************************************************** PAX
CHRISTI USA TO HONOR WOMEN RELIGIOUS Pax Christi USA will present the Eileen Egan Peacemaker
Award to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious at the National Catholic Conference on Peacemaking in Chicago, July
16-18. The Sisters are "the backbone of the Catholic peace and justice movement. These strong, prophetic and compassionate
women are always on the frontlines where those who are weak and most vulnerable suffer at the hands of violent and unjust
power. . . They have called us to be a people committed to living lives fashioned by the heart of the Gospel which Jesus
proclaimed." ************************************************************* PUT THIS ON YOUR CALENDAR Is Congress
Doing Its Job? Wednesday, June 23, 7:30PM. Massapequa Park Library. Speakers: Jack Bilello, author, teacher; Bill
McNulty, radio broadcaster, social activist. For information: 516-799-4088.
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Are
We Trying to Rule the World? Thursday, June 24, 7PM Huntington Library. Speaker: Ed Ciaccio, Long Island activist.
For information: Long Island Progressive Coalition's Huntington Chapter, 516-541-1006, ext.10.
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Pax Christi LI Meeting. Sunday, July 11, noon. Pastoral Center, Our Lady of Miraculous Medal, Wyandanch. Contact:
PaxChristi.LongIsland@verizon.net
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Images of Mercy, Icons of Justice. July 26, 27, 28,29; 10AM-noon. Our Lady Queen of Martyrs,
Centerport. Tom Petriano, St. Joseph College professor, speaks on Mother Teresa, Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, Mohandas Gandhi,
and Oscar Romero. Fee $25, payable to OLQM. For information: Sister Eileen Corcoran, 631-757-6250.
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May 30, 2010 ********************** JONES BEACH PEACE VIGIL
REMEMBERS U.S. WAR DEAD
As the thousandth U.S. troop death in Afghanistan was announced, local peace groups conducted their 6th annual
memorial vigil at Jones Beach with a solemn reading of the names of U.S. war dead there and in Iraq. Meanwhile, powerful
Navy jets screamed overhead and buzzed the beach causing children to cringe and cover their ears. On the ground, military
recruiters displayed high-tech weaponry to attract young people to enlist. Co-sponsors
of the peace vigil were: Pax Christi LI, Code Pink LI, LI Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives, North Country Peace Group, SOAW,
Suffolk Peace Network, Veterans for Peace LI. *************************************
THIS IS THE WEEK TO CALLYOUR CONGRESSPERSON The 1,000th U.S.death (in Afghanistan) comes midway between the president's decision last December to
send 30,000 more U.S. troops there and a gut check on the war's progress that he has promised by the end of the
year . . . A majority of Americans -- 52% -- say the war is not worth the cost. --- Associated Press So
far, 18 U.S. Senators (including Schumer and Gillibrand) and 100 Representatives favor a timetable for withdrawal of
troops from Afghanistan to be added to the up-coming war supplemental bill which they'll be voting on after their Memorial
Day recess. Contact your Congressperson and urge him or her to co-sponsor H.R.5015. And contact Congressman Tim
Bishop to thank him -- he's already signed on! ************************************************
THAT ANTI-NUKE PETITION YOU SIGNED? THEY HEARD YOU The 189 member nations of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, gathered at the UN for a month-long conference, adopted
a detailed plan of small steps down a long road toward nuclear disarmament. For the first time at an every-5-year review,
the Treaty, signed in 1970, has laid out and approved a complex action plan to move on the major points. The 28-page declaration, approved by consensus, also calls for a conference in 2012 "on
the establishment of a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and all other weapons of mass destruction." For more information, go to www.peaceandjusticenow.org ******************************************
DEMONSTRATE THE STRENGTH OF PROGRESSIVE
VALUES Lots of demonstrations and protests are taking place on Long
Island, for an array of important causes. Sometimes it seems a zero sum game of competition with one another for protest participants.
It need not be. It should not be. We can and should consider standing in one another's protests when possible. Why? Because progressives
share a lot of values. Of course, we each hold dear one or more particular causes -- peace, health care
reform, immigration reform, the environment, jobs, education. And, yes, at times there's a cacophony of causes you care
about, all competing for your attention and your time. Here's
another way to look at it: When you can, bring your progressive energies to other progressive
causes. It's a multiplier effect, showing that "progressive" is an underlying American value found in the
above-mentioned causes. Your
cause is ending the war? And Jobs With Justice has a demonstration? Make yourself a sign saying "Money for JOBS, not
for war" and show up. Immigrants are rallying for immigration reform? And your
ancestors came over during the potato famine? Show your European-American face at the rally and add your progressive
energy to their cause. It makes a difference. ******************************************* WHY ARE WE FIGHTING IN AFGHANISTAN? FILM, DISCUSSION Rethink Afghanistan, a new documentary by Robert Greenwald raises challenging questions,
at a film-and-discussion at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington on June 2, 7:30PM. Guest speaker, David Wildman, executive director of Human Rights & Racial Justice for United Methodists'
Global Ministries, has frequently visited Afghanistan, most recently in May. $13 ($9 for members) includes reception. Co-sponsors: Huntington Unitarians Universalist Fellowship, L.I.
Interfaith Alliance, Pax Christi, LI Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives, Code Pink LI, GreatNeck SANE/Peace Action. ********************************************** TWO MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR WELCOMING THE IMMIGRANT. The workshop, Welcoming the Immigrant, offering resources for teaching, preaching and talking
about immigration reform, has been scheduled at two more churches: Tuesday,
June 8, 7:30PM, Sacred Heart Church, North Merrick; and Saturday June 12, 10AM, Church in the Garden, Garden City. Workshop facilitators are Rev. Tom Goodhue, LI Council of Churches; Father Bill Brisotti, Our Lady of
Miraculous Medal, Wyandanch; Maryann Slutsky, LI WINS; Luis Valenzuela, LI Immigrant Alliance, Dick Koubek, Jobs With Justice. Co-sponsors include: LI Council of Churches, LI WINS, LI Immigrant Alliance, LI Jobs With Justice.
****************************************************** HOW
TO DEFINE JUSTICE -- TWO VIEWS Serene Jones, president of Union Theological
Seminary, defined it this way: "Justice is nothing but love with legs. Justice is what love looks like
when it takes social form." And Cornell West put it more succinctly: "Justice
is nothing but love acting in public." ***************************************************** PUT THIS ON YOUR CALENDAR Pax Christi LI monthly meeting. Sunday,June 6, noon. At Pastoral Center, Our Lady of
the Miraculous Medal Church, Wyandanch. For information, contact PaxChristi.LongIsland@verizon.net ********************************************************** Afghanistan
and the Business of War. Friday, June 11, 8PM. Hewlett-Woodmere Library. Talk by Christopher Vongsawat,
who served with NY National Guard in Afghanistan in 2008, was discharged in 2009 as a conscientious objector. By
Five Towns Forum. For information call 516-623-5689. Peace !
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May 12, 2010 THE WARS CONTINUE; THE
MEMORIAL VIGIL CONTINUES: MAY 29 For the sixth year, Long Island peace groups
will remind beachgoers that Memorial Day weekend is not supposed
to be a big military recruiting tool. A prayerful memorial observance will take
place at Jones Beach as the U.S. military brings out its big guns, its aerial acrobatics with warplanes to
entice young men and women to sign up to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Mac Bica of LI Veterans for Peace objects to the corporate-sponsored recruiting extravaganza because
"Memorial Day is not a time to celebrate militarism . . . is not about exploiting the sacrifices of our young men and
women for the purposes of commercial marketing."
The peace groups' vigil will have two parts. You can be part of either or both:
10AM -- the solemn recitation of names of U.S. troops
killed in these wars; then, after that, the distribution of flyers to beachgoers. Co-sponsors of the event include Pax Christi
LI, Suffolk Peace Network, Code Pink LI, SOAW, LI Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives, LI Veterans for Peace, North Country
and South Country Peace groups. For information: PaxChristi.LongIsland@verizon.net
MILLIONS LET WORLD LEADERS KNOW: NO
MORE NUKES! The UN's month-long conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty got
a good boost from the millions of petitions gathered throughout the world calling for "the peace and security
of a world without nuclear weapons." Long Island peace makers were part of that number; coordinated by LI Alliance
for Peaceful Alternatives, 2,500 petitions were gathered at local colleges, supermarket parking lots, at group
meetings and church services, and from early-morning LIRR commuters. At Nassau
Community College, two hibakusha (survivors of the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan) spoke of their experiences then
signed the petition offered them by a leader of the student group PeaceWork. On May 2, many thousands of people rallied, marched, cheered and chanted their support for serious
good faith negotiations to begin the abolition of all nuclear weapons throughout the world. Marchers were greeted at the
festival at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza by the Pax Christi table where they were offered a packet containing a Prayer
for NonViolence and a couple of candy kisses as a thank-you for their efforts.
Here's a thought from Rev. A.J. Muste who said during
an anti-Vietnam War protest: "I don't do this to change the country. I do this so the country won't change me."
FATHER ROY BOURGEOIS
OF SOA WATCH TO SPEAK MAY 13 Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of the School
of the Americas Watch will speak on Obama's Latin America Policy on Thursday, May 13, 7:30PM at the Shelter Rock Unitarians'.
He will report on his recent trip to El Salvador and surrounding regions. Co-sponsors include Shelter Rock Forum, LI
Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives, Great Neck Sane/Peace Action, Pax Christi LI, LI School of the Americas Watch. For information: Shelter Rock Forum www.uucsr.org or call LI Alliance 516-741-4360.
WHAT DO ALTRIA, XE AND WHISC HAVE IN COMMON? They demonstrate what
must be a new sub-speciality in public relations -- how to hide a brand and its works from the public. They're names adopted
to make you forget that Altria is still the tobacco company Phillip Morris, that Xe is still Blackwater, and the mouthful
-- Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation -- is still the School of the Americas.
TIPS ON EFFECTIVE ADVOCACY WITH ELECTED OFFICIALS "A face-to-face visit with an elected official , or their staff, is the most influential form of
advocacy . . . (Next best are) writing letters and making telephone calls. Postcards, petitions, and e-mails
(provided they include your name and address) have some impact but considerably less. Online petitions can be good for raising
awareness but may be inaccurate and are typically not effective advocacy. Petitions forwarded by e-mail are almost always
outdated and/or wrong and should be avoided. -- Welcoming the
Immigrant: Teach, Preach and Talk about Comprehensive Immigration Reform
"BETTER THAN TEA" -- PAUL STARR IN AMERICAN
PROSPECT "There are good reasons why Obama cannot and
should not indulge in a full-bore populism that, in practice, would yield nothing but deadlock and disaster. The Democrats
are the party of responsible government, and America needs at least one of those. Rather than play to the crowds
and have their programs go down in flames, Democrats need to make progress on the central problems facing the country
. . . Let the Republicans drink the Tea Party's brew. Progressives shouldn't wish for the equivalent. Calm and
intelligent leadership is ultimately a better formula for long-term public support."
PUT THIS ON YOUR CALENDAR "Obama's
Latin American Policy and the Honduran Coup". Friday, May 14; 8PM;
Hewlett-Woodmere Library. Talk by Dan Beeton, policy analyst for Center for Economic and Policy Research. By Five Towns Forum.
For information, call 516-623-5689.
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