Do Something Good
Kathy Kelly, Electronic Iraq (Feb 23, 2007)
"The Occupation Project is developing, nationally, into a sustained campaign. We welcome participation, and encourage further nonviolent efforts to resist appropriations for military action in Iraq, or against Iran, other than funds to withdraw troops from Iraq. It's wrong to fund killing and destruction in another country because people in that country oppose the Bush administration's political agenda for their country. What is more, U.S. soldiers will be killed in carrying out this agenda, and thousands of Iraqi civilians will be killed in 'collateral damage,' people who may or may not be opposed to the Bush administration's political agenda for their country."
Reprieve for Officer Who Denounced "Immoral War"
Aaron Glantz, Electronic Iraq (Feb 9, 2007)
The court-martial of the first commissioned U.S. military officer to refuse to serve in Iraq ended abruptly Wednesday when the military judge overseeing the proceedings declared a mistrial over a technicality. At issue, according to the judge, Lt. Col. John Head, was an agreement first Lt. Ehren Watada signed admitting that he failed to deploy to Iraq when his unit was sent there, as well as confirming that he gave several antiwar speeches for which the military had charged him with "conduct unbecoming of an officer." In his decision, Col. Head said the agreement amounted to a "confession", but in exchanges with the judge in open court Lt. Watada disagreed.
Officer Who Wouldn't Serve Goes on Trial
Aaron Glantz, Electronic Iraq (Feb 6, 2007)
Supporters of the first commissioned U.S. officer to refuse to serve in Iraq plan to pack the courtroom at Fort Lewis, Washington where First Lieutenant Ehren Watada faced a court martial Monday. "If more officers like Lt. Watada come forward and said they wouldn't order their troops into a war that's morally wrong that means fewer enlisted people like myself will come back injured or killed," former Marine Corp medic Chanan Suarez-Diaz told a packed house of activists Sunday evening in the basement auditorium of the First Congregational Church in nearby Tacoma.
DC Protest Against "The Surge": The eIraq Photo Gallery
eIraq Readers, Electronic Iraq (Jan 29, 2007)
The massive protest in DC on Saturday brought together
Iraq vets, military families (including families of the
fallen), veteran protesters, first-time protesters,
celebrities and politicians. Electronic Iraq readers did a
wonderful job of documenting the event, and we present
their photos here.
Anti-War Groups Plan Surge on Washington
Aaron Glantz, Electronic Iraq (Jan 25, 2007)
Peace activists from around the United States will converge on Washington Saturday for what organizers hope will be the largest demonstration to date against the Iraq war. "We expect a turnout in the six figures," said Tom Andrews, a former Democratic congressman who now runs the group Win Without War, which is organizing the march along with True Majority, Working Assets, the RainbowPUSH Coalition, the National Organization for Women and the national umbrella group United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ). UFPJ's Leslie Cagan told IPS that the level of energy in the antiwar movement has spiked since the November election, when voters ended Republican majorities in both houses of Congress. "The voters of this country figured out that they could use the November elections as a vehicle to voice their opposition to the war," Cagan said. "What happened there was that the voters gave Congress a mandate to end the war in Iraq and bring the troops home." That success at the polls gave antiwar citizens more optimism that a large demonstration might make an impact, she said.
U.S. Soldier Speaks Out From Baghdad
Aaron Glantz, Electronic Iraq (Jan 23, 2007)
More than 1,000 active duty U.S. soldiers have signed a petition to Congress - known as an Appeal for Redress - calling for the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq. Among them is Sgt. Ronn Cantu of Los Angeles, California. He served in Iraq with the 1st Infantry Division from February 2004 until February 2005 and participated in the second siege of Fallujah in November 2004. He started the website soldiervoices.net to give soldiers a forum to speak about the Iraq war. Cantu was redeployed to Iraq in December 2006 and spoke on the telephone with IPS's Aaron Glantz.
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