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Common Dreams Background Iraq Crisis Issue Guide by Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies U.S. History with Iraq, 1980 - 2 August 1990 Commentary Common Dreams News Center April 12, 2003 April 8, 2003 March 30, 2003 March 29, 2003 March 25, 2003 March 24, 2003 U.S. steps up secret surveillance March 23, 2003 March 22, 2003 March 20, 2003 |
Local News and Announcements... Don't miss anything...please scroll downJuly 2004 FOR NewsFOR Candidate Survey for 2004 Election The Mid-Missouri FOR sent surveys to various state and federal candidates. We realize there are many worthwhile questions for voters to consider besides the ones we’ve posed, but please keep these answers in mind when you go to the polls. We urge all eligible individuals to exercise their right to vote. The FOR does not endorse any particular candidate. We provide this information to help educate and encourage voters to learn more about the various candidates. Candidates are listed according to the order which they'll appear on the voting ballot and incumbents are designated by (I). State Candidate Survey The survey asked the State candidates to answer the following questions: 1) Would you support or oppose a bill initiating a moratorium on executions in Missouri while a commission studied various sentencing patterns and other issues relating to the state's death penalty? 2) Do you support or oppose abolition of the death penalty? 3) Do you support or oppose the continued deployment of Missouri National Guard units in Iraq? Answers from state candidates... (a pdf file) Federal Candidate Survey The FOR surveyed all candidates for Missouri's contested U.S. Senate seat and the state's 9th District U.S. House seat. Candidates are listed in the order which they'll appear on the voting ballot; incumbents are designated by (I). The FOR does not endorse any candidate.The survey asked the candidates the following questions: 1) Do you support or oppose immediately beginning the full with-drawal of U.S. military troops from Iraq and the closing of new U.S. military bases in Iraq? 2) Do you support or oppose immediately ending the economic em- bargo against Cuba and normalizing relations with that nation? 3) Do you support or oppose a national moratorium of executions while studies are conducted to research sentencing patterns? 4) Do you support or oppose death penalty abolition? 5) Do you support or oppose transporting radioactive waste from nuclear power plants and other sites across country (including on MO high-ways and train tracks)to Yucca Mountain Nevada for long-term storage? Answers from federal candidates (a pdf file) Danny Wolfe Hearing for New Counsel Set for 30 July The Mid-MO FOR encourages all concerned citizens to attend the following court hearing to support Danny Wolfe, most certainly wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Danny Wolfe will finally get his day in court Friday, 30 July. Unfortunately, the court date-- more that a year and a half after the Missouri Supreme Court ordered a new trial for Wolfe-- will focus solely on a fundamental request for new legal representation apart from the public defender system. Consider joining the Mid-Missouri FOR in attending the critical hearing, set for 9:00 a.m. in the Camden County courthouse in Camdenton (south of Lake of the Ozarks). Call Jeff at 573-449-4585 to car-pool from the Columbia area...more Briefs Filed with U.S. Supreme Court in Juvenile Death Penalty Case Death Penalty Documentary to Air 30 July "Deadline," a riveting new documentary on capital punishment in the United States, has its premiere in a special two-hour edition of NBC-TV's "Dateline" at 7:00 p.m.,Central Time, Friday 30 July. The film, from Big Mouth Productions, explores two of the most significant events in the history of the death penal-ty: the abolition of the punishment in 1972 and the momen-tous debate in Illinois in 2002-2003 over Gov. George Ryan's granting clemency for all of the state's death-row prisoners. "Can capital punishment be justified in a criminal justice system so fraught with error that in Illinois, 13" death-row inmates slated for execution were discovered to be innocent and exonerated, during a time, when 12 others were executed in the state? This was exactly the question that former Illinois Gov. George Ryan faced in the final days of his term as he de-cided whether to let 167 people live or die. And it is the ques-tion that U.S. viewers will face July 30 when living rooms are visited by this powerful documentary. The Mid-MO FOR will have a copy of the program avail-able for future viewings. Tune in Friday evening to watch and/or call 449-4585 to borrow our copy. War's Human Devastation and Wise Dissent Poignant postings continue to arrive from the Vietnam Veterans Against the War's e-mail list-serve. Here are blurbs from some and the url's to review the full worthwhile articles: Email this:  
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