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C-Span DRG * ArcticDrilling * Sitcha * MayDay


29 April 2005

You can no more win a war,

than you can win an earthquake.


-- Jeanette Rankin



1) C-Span Broadcast: David Ray Griffin April 30, 10:30 AM ET
2) Stop Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil drilling today!
3) Richard Sitcha Alert ~ Update ~ Reminder
4) NYC March and Rally Against the Iraq War & for Nuclear Disarmament

Editor's Notes:


David Ray Griffin's Wisconsin lecture, "9/11 and the American Empire," is now scheduled to be aired on C-Span2 (Book TV) this Saturday, April 30th, at 10:30 AM Eastern time.

Item 2 is an urgent action request by BioGems. They have recently learned that the House and Senate could vote by Friday on a final budget resolution that would pave the way for opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. Please call the Capitol Hill switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask for the office of your representative: "Vote against any budget resolution that includes reconciliation instructions that could lead to Arctic Refuge oil drilling." Then call your two senators and leave them the same message.

Item 3 is a reminder and update on Richard Sitcha.

Item 4 is on the NYC March and Rally for Peace in Iraq and Disarmament Worldwide



1) C-Span Broadcast: David Ray Griffin April 30, 10:30 AM ET

The following is forwarded from the webmaster of SeptemberEleventh.org

Dear 9/11 Truth Activists and concerned citizens,

We have a date!

David Ray Griffin's Wisconsin lecture, "9/11 and the American Empire," is now scheduled to be aired on C-Span2 (Book TV) this Saturday, April 30th, at 10:30 AM Eastern time (7:30 AM PDT), right after Andrew Bacevich on "The New American Militarism" (9:00 AM EDT), which also should not be missed.

So set your alarm clocks (especially if you live on the West Coast) and get your VCRs ready. Also, forward this email to EVERYONE you know!

And much appreciation goes out to Kevin Barrett and the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth (www.mujca.com), who organized the lecture.

Blurb below directly from C-Span's website.

Towards peace and truth,

Emanuel Sferios
Webmaster, SeptemberEleventh.org
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www.booktv.org/General/index.asp?segID=5677&schedID=343

Saturday, April 30 at 10:30 am

The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions
David Ray Griffin

Description: David Ray Griffin takes a critical look at the official 9/11 Commission Report put out by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. Professor Griffin argues that the "omissions and distortions" in the report amount to a cover-up by government officials and says that the available evidence suggests that the Bush administration was complicit in the 9/11 attacks (either by ignoring known threats or through actual participation in the planning of the attacks). Professor Griffin asks a series of questions which he says have been either inadequately answered or completely ignored by the commission. These include questions surrounding the attack on the Pentagon, the way in which the World Trade Center towers collapsed, and the behavior of President Bush and his Secret Service detail following notification that a second plane had hit the WTC. The talk was hosted by the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth (mujca.com) and took place at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Includes Q&A.

Author Bio: David Ray Griffin is professor emeritus at the Claremont School of Theology, where he taught for over 30 years (retiring in 2004). He has authored or edited over two dozen books, including "God and Religion in the Postmodern World," "Religion and Scientific Naturalism," and "The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11."



2) Stop Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil drilling today!

Dear NRDC BioGems Defender,

We have just learned that the House and Senate could vote by Friday on a final budget resolution that would pave the way for opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

No matter how many times you've contacted your senators and representative on this issue before, it is critical that you call them again right now.

Please call the Capitol Hill switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask for the office of your representative. The operator can give you his or her name if you don't know it. You'll be forwarded to a staff member or an answering machine. Leave a message urging your representative to:

"Vote against any budget resolution that includes reconciliation instructions that could lead to Arctic Refuge oil drilling."

Then call your two senators and leave them the same message.

The wording of your message is important because the budget resolution may not even mention the words "Arctic Refuge." It is more likely to contain "reconciliation instructions" to the House Resources Committee and the Senate Energy Committee requiring them to find budget savings of $1.4 billion or more. The pro-drilling chairmen of these committees would then be free to say they will generate new revenue by allowing drilling in the Arctic Refuge.

Remember: if your representative or senators vote for a budget resolution with these reconciliation instructions, they are voting to drill the Arctic Refuge!

Your phone call will have the biggest impact, but if you are unable to call, then please send electronic messages to your representative and senators by going to
www.nrdcactionfund.org/redfordarctic/action.asp?step=2&item=52387

Please stand up for America's Arctic Refuge in its hour of greatest need!

Sincerely,

John H. Adams
NRDC Action Fund



3) Richard Sitcha Alert ~ Update ~ Reminder

This is both a reminder of the significance of your participation in our struggle and a brief update on developments over the past week or so. If you have not yet called the offices of both Senator Kennedy (617-565-3170) and Senator Kerry (617-565-8519) please do so very soon! Kennedy is a member of the Judiciary Committee and, as such, feels bound not to approach the legal aspects of the case. Ask him to respond to the conditions under which Sitcha has been held these past 20 months, to facilitate my being allowed to interview him for print/TV, and to urge Kerry to examine all the circumstances of Sitcha's extraordinary experience in this country. As Kerry knows all the facts, we're simply asking him to become involved.

***

Background: Trained in law, Richard Sitcha, now 43, fled Cameroon in April 2001 with the help of a priest after he had been arrested and tortured for revealing the government's role in the murders of nine youth (the Bepanda Nine). He was granted asylum here January 16, 2003.

Following telephone calls to Cameroon which failed to verify Sitcha's involvement, the INS summoned him to court September 18 of that year and made him a part of Homeland Security's "Pilot Program" of incarceration during adjudication. This "person's" first lock-down, incredibly, was with hardened criminals at Connecticut's maximum security prison Osborn. There he was beaten so badly he had to be hospitalized, a circumstance that - along with language obstacles - contributed to failure of his habeas corpus appeal of the asylum reversal.

Recent developments: The government has pressed hard to have him deported. His motion was filed in the wrong district, nonetheless rejected on March 31. Judge Ponsor this week did deny the government's motion for deportation, thus allowing his defense committee until the end of May to file an appeal. Being explored are apparent flaws throughout his legal proceedings.

Near the end of his year at Greenfield's jail he was denied the right to make phone calls for his defense to Cameroon and when, on April 1, he and the 29 other INS prisoners locked up there were transferred (for the second time away from a strong community of support) he was placed in a cell overnight, naked and without a blanket. Since then he has been kept in solitary confinement.

Those of us who have known him, variously as a member of Saint Ann's, advisor to students on African affairs at Wesleyan University, or through visitations, know him to be warm and gentle, a devout Catholic, and model prisoner - at the same time one whose idealist's view of America has been demolished.

Perspectives: The interest of Cameroon in the return of one who "revealed state secrets," and the eagerness of our government to deliver him, we suspect, is intimately connected to Cameroon's offshore oil and its natural gas reserves, oil company construction of pipelines through Cameroon from Chad, and the Pentagon's desire to establish a US military base in that country. Our State Department consistently reports the 22-year rule of President Biya violates human rights. All communications in the country are monitored by the government. These dots are rather easy to connect.

The legal process will have to play itself out, but the 887 people in the Greenfield area who petitioned members of Congress now seek these congressmen's personal involvement addressing the serious issues of repeated constitutional violations, assault and cruel and unusual punishment, the government's failure to provide materials during discovery, interference with Sitcha's defense, denial of press interviews, blocking Sitcha's acceptance in a third country and, should he be deported, allowing one of us to accompany him back to Cameroon to seek guarantees for his safety there. Please forward to your lists.

Carl Doerner
Email: cdoerner@surfglobal.net



4) NYC March and Rally Against the Iraq War & for Nuclear Disarmament

SUNDAY, MAY 1: END THE WAR! ABOLISH NUKES!
NYC March and Rally Against the Iraq War & for Nuclear Disarmament

Assemble 11AM, 1st Ave North of 50th Street, NYC
March by the United Nations
Rally 2PM at Heckscher Ballfields in Central Park (near Columbus Circle)

Visit unitedforpeace.org for details


We are just days away from the demonstration in New York City on May 1. On the day before the U.N. reviews the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, tens of thousands will march and rally for global nuclear disarmament and an immediate end to the Iraq War. There is still time to make your plans to be part of the important event, and to help get the word out to others.

People from around the U.S. and delegations from around the world will be joining us for this mobilization, including at least 1,000 people from Japan. Survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 60 years ago will march with us, dramatizing the stakes in the global struggle to abolish all nuclear weapons.

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MAY 1: END THE WAR! ABOLISH NUKES!
NYC March and Rally for Peace in Iraq and Disarmament Worldwide
Visit unitedforpeace.org for leaflets and more information


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