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Newton Dialogues on Peace
and War was formed shortly after the September 11 attacks. We are
a group of Newton citizens, united by shared concerns about the current crisis
and by a sense of urgency about the many issues facing our country as a result
of these attacks.
 We believe
that "The United States needs a new direction". While we
acknowledge that there are no simple answers to the problems that confront
our nation and the rest of the world, Newton Dialogues urges a new direction
for the United States.
Click Here to see our
full Mission Statement.
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Get Involved
Newton Dialogues has a number of committees working on a variety
of initiatives and upcoming events including speakers, film showings,
our web site, Alternative Views newspaper, taking actions against military
recruiting, distributing literature and information about the war and its
domestic impact, etc. If you are feeling that you want to move from the
sidelines to a somewhat more active role (and even better, if you have an
idea for a group action that you would like to be involved in), please
contact
us at
ntndlg@comcast.net
and let us know.
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Articles email list: Newton Dialogues has started a new
email list for sharing articles about the War in Iraq and related issues.
If you wish to subscribe simply send an email to
ndpw-articles-subscribe@
lists.riseup.net. For those who are afraid of being overwhelmed by
emails, we expect to be sending only one or two articles per week.
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 Photo by Ellen Shub
Join our Weekly Vigil -
Still being held every Thursday, 5 to 6
p.m., corner of Beacon and Center Streets, Newton Center. We continue
to bear witness to the wrongs that are being done, both at home and abroad,
in our name. It is more important than ever to express dissent in a public
way. Please join us.
This vigil has been held every Thursday since July 11, 2002.
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Help collect signatures for Newton Dialogues Petition for a 25% Cut in the Military Budget.
Signatures are being collected at the Library, The Farmers' Market, and other sites. It's fun; it's easy. People are friendly and understand the importance of the issue. The military budget is impoverishing our country and diverting badly needed funds for urgent human needs. Please help.
Contact Jerry Manning at jerrymanning@rcn.com or 1-617-548-5264 for information on how you can participate.
You can download the petition and print it at home from:
http://www.newtondialogues.org/Petition-To-Cut-The-Military-Budget.pdf
Alternatively, you may read and sign the petition ONLINE at
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/CutMilitaryBudget25pct/
and urge your friends, relatives, and associates to sign it too!
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Newton Dialogues on Peace and War Supports the "Appeal for Redress",
a petition to Congress from active duty service
men and women to withdraw our armed forces and bases from Iraq.
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The petition reads:
As a patriotic American proud to serve the nation in uniform, I respectfully
urge my political leaders in Congress to support the prompt withdrawal
of all American military forces and bases from Iraq . Staying in Iraq
will not work and is not worth the price. It is time for U.S. troops
to come home
Click Here
for More...
A group from the Appeal will publicly present their petition and
active duty signatures to members of Congress on Monday, January
17 at 3:30pm. A good way to support them would be for each of us
to let our congressman and senators know that we'd like them to
support the Appeal by being present January 17. Calls to their office
are most effective and emails are also useful. Contact information
is below. It takes just a few minutes; please do it now.
Here's a sample message that you might send:
I urge you to publicly declare your support of the Appeal for
Redress, a petition from active duty service men and women for the
US to withdraw from Iraq. I'd especially appreciate it if you'd
participate in the presentation to Congress of their signatures
at 3:30pm January 17, on the Independence Avenue steps of the Rayburn
Office Building.
More information about this effort (including making a donation)
can be found at
http://www.appealforredress.org/.
(Click
for Map)
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Additional Announcements
of Upcoming Events of Interest
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Amnesty International Activities
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NEW CONTENT has been added recently:
[Always check the Upcoming Events section for new
Events listings]
Washington
Post Article: Bush Says U.S. Pullout Would Let Iraq Radicals Use Oil as
a Weapon The During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, President
Bush and his aides sternly dismissed suggestions that the war was all
about oil. "Nonsense," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld declared.
"This is not about that," said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer.Now,
more than 3 1/2 years later, someone else is asserting that the war is
about oil -- President Bush.
Doug McIntyre, a conservative talk show host wrote " An Apology from a Bush Voter".
I was wrong to have voted for George W. Bush.
In historic terms, I believe George W. Bush is the worst two-term President
in the history of the country ...
Seymore Hersh's article "The Iran Plans", describing
the Administration's plans for bombing Iran with 'tactical' nuclear weapons
has been added to the "Articles" section..
"Finding
a Place in American History for 9/11" by Joseph J. Ellis recently appeared
as an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times.
The text of "Restoring
the Public Trust", a speech by Bill Moyers.
"Finding
a Place in American History for 9/11" by Joseph J. Ellis recently appeared
as an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times.
"A time comes when silence is betrayal." That time has come for us in
relation to Vietnam. Beyond Vietnam,
Dr. Martin Luther King, Speech at Riverside Church, April, 1967.
" The war against Iraq, the assault
on its people, the occupation of its cities, will come to an end, sooner
or later. The process has already begun. The first signs of mutiny are appearing
in Congress." After
the War, Howard Zinn in
The Progressive
Newton Dialogues has started an email list for sharing articles about the
War in Iraq and related issues. Click
Here for more information.
Click Here for information
on Amnesty International's activities calling for an end to torture and
for an investigation into abuses at the Guantanamo "detention facility".
A new book A Civil
Republic: Beyond Capitalism and Nationalism by
Sev Bruyn, emeritus professor in
the Department of Sociology at Boston College and an active member of Newton
Dialogues Click Here.
An article examining the Civilian Death Toll in Iraq and
why Americans have been kept misinformed about civilian casualties in the
war, (inspired by the study published in the Lancet and presented at the
Newton Dialogues Monthly meeting by Dr. Les Roberts , one the authors of the Lancet study) has been added to the
Peace And War section.
A moving statement about "heroism" and "cowardice" by Sgt. Camilo Mejia,
who became a conscientious objector after serving a tour of duty in
Iraq was added to the
Peace and War section.
Rep. Ed Markey has introduced a bill in Congress to ban the practice of
"outsourcing torture" to other countries. The text of his Press Release
on this bill has been added to the
Peace and War section.
A link to a short but powerful movie by the American Friends Service Committee
has been added to this page. Click Here
to see more.
U.S. & Coalition Casualties Click Here
for the latest figures from CNN.
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●A
one hour film Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the War in Iraq
is available in DVD or VHS to borrow on DVD or VHS. 
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