War

If you vote in the Texas primary (or during early voting), be sure to come back to your individual precinct voting location (not an early voting location) for your precinct convention.

Precinct conventions start at 7:15 PM, or after the last person in line has voted, and are a great place to educate others about issues you care about, and get resolutions on them approved and sent up to the Senate District (SD) conventions and the state convention, so they'll get noticed by a lot more people.

Go to our resolutions list http://paa-tx.org/resolutions and pick out resolutions of interest to you -- just click on the titles of any of them. Download the pdf versions that are formatted for printing, and bring several copies of each to your precinct convention. If you want to write your own resolution on a topic we did not cover, refer to our Resolution-Writing Guidelines (see link at http://paa-tx.org/resolutions ) for suggestions on how to write a good resolution that is likely to be passed.

Some additional resolutions are also on the Burnt Orange Report web site http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/10038/2010-tdp-resolutions-thread -- please see these too.

If you don't vote in the primary, you are eligible to sign petitions to help get the Green Party on the ballot in Texas this year. For at least one state-wide office (Comptroller), there's no Democrat on the ballot, so this is not even a conflict for any Dem. See http://hcgp.org for details.

A PETITION TO PRESIDENT OBAMA FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS ABOLITION

Lee Loe has finished putting together a "Palestine-Israel Notebook" -- an 8-page publication similar to the Iraq Notebooks http://paa-tx.org/node/670 we distributed a few years ago.

To get a copy of this resolution formatted for printing, so you can take it with you to your precinct convention, click on the link in the Attachment box below.

WHEREAS the U.S. government spends billions in tax dollars maintaining military bases in more than 100 countries; and

To get a copy of this resolution formatted for printing, so you can take it with you to your precinct convention, click on the link in the Attachment box below.

WHEREAS, THE UNITED STATES invaded the country of Iraq based on a LIE told to the American people and

This is a PDF (Adobe Acrobat) document meant to be printed and handed out.

The topic: a receipt for thte war to be submitted with your tax return. And/or handed out at the IRS office(s) to let people know how much money they're spending on the war.

This plaque was given to Cindy Sheehan by members of the Progressive Action Alliance, first at Camp Casey (just outside of Crawford, Texas), August 2005, then again in Houston for the Bring Them Home Now Tour, September 1, 2005: http://www.paa-tx.org/node/193

Photo taken March 20, 2007, during a special freeway blogging for the 4th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, in which different groups held signs on each of six bridges over the Southwest Freeway (US-59) in Houston.

Photo taken March 20, 2007, during a special freeway blogging for the 4th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, in which different groups held signs on each of six bridges over the Southwest Freeway (US-59) in Houston.

This is a call to action. Please help increase the pressure on our government. Give more people a chance to speak out. Take blank, stamped post cards, clipboards, pens, and officials’ address lists everywhere you go.

House Resolution 413 would repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002: Sponsored by Rep. Sam Farr (D-CA)

Here are 3 main things this bill does:

Photo taken Feb. 7, 2007, evening rush hour
Gulf Freeway, Houston
Picture showing some of the signs in the "Impeach Bush/End Iraq Occupation" themes

Photo taken Nov. 15, 2006, evening rush hour
Southwest Freeway, Houston
Picture showing some of the signs in the "Stop Israel Agression/No war with Iran" theme
This theme is usually on Wednesdays.

The "Surge Smurge" sign was displayed to south bound traffic one morning although this direction is much better for evening. The amount of display area is smaller because of the road signs attached to the bridge.

Morning drive time. One sign shown to north bound traffic from a Gulf Freeway pedestrian bridge just south of the Loop 610. Although traffic is dense here, this site is not as interactive as blogging over the Southwest Freeway.

Complete PDF (Adobe Reader) format of the 9/11 Commission report.

This version obtained from the Government Printing Office (GPO) at

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/911/ 

Access the link to see a section-by-section table of contents.  

Photo collage by Massoud Nayeri, from Iraq War Summit and March, organized by Congressperson Sheila Jackson-Lee

Sherry Glover read the following piece by Steve Young, with permission, at the Jan. 14, 2007 ceremony for the 3000th casualty memorial in Houston. She said, "I felt that it expressed what I could no longer find words for. I think it was most effective to read it while having the audience look toward those flags."