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Colo. Springs peaceniks, Unitarians and NAACP fall for latest Africom campaign
They fell for Darfur and Kony (and Obama!) and now the Colorado Springs social justice community confirms that the city’s national repution for dim-bulbedness doesn’t reflect just its conservatives. Even the dissenting voice in this belly of the US military-judeo-christian-racist … Continue reading
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You can lead a horse to water, but will it give a statement to the press?
From the horse’s mouth: Nope. On advice of lawyer, don’t talk about arrest. On advice from retired lawyers: civil liberties issue iffy. Advice gleaned from the overworked ACLU: case not as good as others we’ve got. Advice from friends: hope … Continue reading
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PPJPC drops justice & peace in favor of Judas kiss & Participatory militarism
You don’t care what our neighborhood Pikes Peak Justice & Peace Commission has gotten its leash tangled around –I shouldn’t– but the latest is just too funny. FIRST, in November they sponsored an Israel-BDS protest to boycott a local Ahava … Continue reading
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Jesus Springs rejects Christian values!
COLORADO SPRINGS- It’s official! Colorado Springs City Council last night renounced our city’s long-reputed (and disputed) Christian Values. In yesterday’s session, an ordinance was approved to prohibit the homeless from seeking refuge on public land. Some might see this is … Continue reading
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PPJPC pair returns from GFM. NBD?
The Colorado Springs peace envoys to the 2009 Gaza Freedom March in Palestine flew back to town last week with absolutely no fanfare, no media reception, no press releases, no coordination by organizers to make an event of their attempted … Continue reading
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Protest at discreet AFB for drones
COLORADO SPRINGS- Local non-confrontational peace activists held a protest today where they knew no one would see them, and to be doubly sure, they timed it so that no commuter traffic would be passing either. Schriever AFB administrates world GPS … Continue reading
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Health [Insurance] Reform rally pics
Health Reform march from Printers Home to Senator Udall’s Office. Patrol car keeps low profile. Coloradans For Peace opts for visibility. March leaves rally site. Marchers approach arch of Union Printers Home. SEIU signs betray Health INSURANCE Reform. PPJPC members … Continue reading
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Tagged Coloradans For Peace, Colorado Springs, Health, Health care reform, Health Insurance, Insurance, March, Peace, Petition, PPJPC, Printers Home, Rally, reform, Union
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Summer Peace Camp versus a Colombian Caribbean Vacation?
As usual, with summer coming up, my little girl wanted to know just how mad at her about her …uh… behaviors over the Winter I really was? She knows that if I had got really upset at her, I would … Continue reading
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Onward Christian Cowards
You can hold forums attended by the faithful, or beat your breast where only the choir can hear, but when there’s a crowd, you’re a regular shrinking violet. The meek don’t inherit the earth, they inherit the dirt. Last Saturday … Continue reading
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When you don’t pay ‘war taxes,’ is it ‘peaceful nonviolence’ or more like smug self-righteous religious complacency?
Monday night I got asked out of the clear blue sky at a meeting of self described ‘Peace’ advocates if I paid taxes? I was kind of drowsy from shift work I had just finished doing, and didn’t really consider … Continue reading
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Meeting Senator-to-be Michael Bennet
COLORADO SPRINGS- Governor Bill Ritter introduced his appointment to the US Senate, political novice Michael Bennet, to an audience of Springs Democrats today. Judging just by Bennet’s own words, this development is about as disappointing as it gets. Full report … Continue reading
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See Ann Wright in action or at the PPJPC
COLORADO SPRINGS- The PPJPC is collecting money to bring noted antiwar activist Ann Wright to Colorado Springs. They’re hoping to have her speak for a fundraiser. I’ve had a chance to meet the retired colonel/diplomat in person a number of … Continue reading
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PPJPC office now only hoping for peace
COLORADO SPRINGS- They couldn’t endorse Obama as the Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission, so the leadership closed their office and let the Obama campaign move in. The proverbial jury can now only pin its hope that the Democrats will … Continue reading
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Tagged AIG, BIA, BOA, Business, Campaign, Colorado, Colorado Springs, Community, Democrats, Justice, leadership, Obama, Peace, Peace Community, Pikes Peak, Pikes Peak Justice and Peace, Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission, PPJPC, Rove
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PPJPC exits stage left, lily-livered left
COLORADO SPRINGS- Oh How Sad! After a long and storied legacy, the Pikes Peak Justice & Peace Commission is closing its doors. Why now –a time of rising injustice and vanishing peace on every continent?! Technically they’ve only announced divestment … Continue reading
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Robin Long gets Leavenworth, with help
COLORADO SPRINGS- Extradited desertion/political refugee Robin Long, spent several weeks jailed in Fort Carson after being refused political asylum in Canada. An army court let Long plead guilty to the charge of desertion based on a plea bargain agreement. The … Continue reading
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Lack of democracy in the PPJPC should not hide behind religiosity
Two PPJPC board members, Genie Durland and Dorothy Schlaeger, wrote to The Colorado Springs Independent trying to explain why the group’s officers locked some of its membership out of the PPJPC building where we had tried to hold a meeting. … Continue reading
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Betrayed by the at-peace community
With “malice,” is the word the CS Indy chose. Oh boy. For our out-of-town readers, the PPJPC dirty laundry has reached the printed news. It certainly is embarrassing, but probably too, about time. I’ve spent the last two years playing … Continue reading
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The DNC Alliance for Real Democracy is a counter-protest Fifth Column
DENVER, COLO.- The Alliance for Real Democracy (ARD), formed to counter the scrappily-named Recreate 68 at the DNC, is in reality an unwitting fifth column, set up by Democratic Party allies to temper protest in Denver. The UFPJ and other … Continue reading
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Justice and Peace takes out its teeth
Time for bed. Purportedly to comply with the Pride parade organizers, and although antiwar slogans abounded in the progressive crowd, the PPJPC pushed a single message: themselves! Notice anyone paying attention? The self-congratulatory crew strode along Tejon Avenue like … Continue reading
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Tagged Antiwar, CIA, Colorado Springs, Community, Crow, Intel, Justice, KLA, Nature, Nonviolence, Parade, Peace, Peace Community, Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission, PPJPC, Pride, School, slogans, Social Justice, Violence, Voice, War
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The DNC’s Denver meatpacking facility
Calling it the Gitmo on The Platte might be a bit of hyperbole here, but look what the Democratic Party has prepared for US dissidents that will arrive protesting their lousy corporate politics? Tasers and cattle pens. I can hardly … Continue reading →