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Student Peace Action Network

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

About Me

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We Are NOT Your Soldiers!

Check out this new flash film - and spread the word!! SPAN is a co-sponsor of the Not Your Soldier project , which empowers youth to resist military recruiting to "starve the beast" of the war machine! Want to learn more about Counter-Recruitment? See www.StudentPeaceAction.org for more info and to register.For a powerful story of young people's resistance to war from within the military, check out "Sir! No Sir!" when it comes to your community!

My Interests

ending war (Iraq, Afghanistan, Congo, Sudan, etc.)!
countering military recruitment in our schools!
stopping new nuclear weapons!
stopping war profiteers!
challenging funding to our universities and colleges for weapons and technology research used for war!
world peace!

I'd like to meet:

counter-recruiters, students, activists, people peeved about the military industrial complex and wanting to flunk the war machine!

Movies:

Citizens Protest in Senate against Iraq War & for Impeachment: 14 Arrested


WHYNotNews captures dramatic Historical moments in the Senate as Citizens demonstrate opposition to the Iraq war, and demand impeachment. In this political action, 'Funeral for the Next Soldier', Reverend Lennox Yearwood (Hip Hop Caucus & former military chaplain) holds a solemn funeral service honoring the next family and the next soldier to be swallowed by this war. Citizens fill the atrium with cries of "Impeach!!" Rev. Yearwood and 13 others are arrested.Video documentation: Kathleen Gabel and Alex Zeese Editing: Kathleen Gabel Producers: Alex Zeese, Tyler Westbrook, Kathleen GabelWHYNotNews.org provides witness for modern day peace actions...sit ins...citizen congressional visits...Marches on Washington, and more.anti-war, Adam Kokesh, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Tina Richards, Kevin Zeese, Linda Schade, Carol Moore, Jennifer ellingston, Artists Against the War, votersForPeace, DemocracyRising, CODEPINK, Gael Murphy, Medea Benjamin, Pete Perry, Washington Peace Center, peace movement, Guantanamo, impeach, Hart building, arrest, Congress, Bush, We Will Not be Silent, Peace Action, United for Peace and Justice

Citizens Protest in Senate against Iraq War & for Impeachment: 14 Arrested


WHYNotNews captures dramatic Historical moments in the Senate as Citizens demonstrate opposition to the Iraq war, and demand impeachment. In this political action, 'Funeral for the Next Soldier', Reverend Lennox Yearwood (Hip Hop Caucus & former military chaplain) holds a solemn funeral service honoring the next family and the next soldier to be swallowed by this war. Citizens fill the atrium with cries of "Impeach!!" Rev. Yearwood and 13 others are arrested.Video documentation: Kathleen Gabel and Alex Zeese Editing: Kathleen Gabel Producers: Alex Zeese, Tyler Westbrook, Kathleen GabelWHYNotNews.org provides witness for modern day peace actions...sit ins...citizen congressional visits...Marches on Washington, and more.anti-war, Adam Kokesh, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Tina Richards, Kevin Zeese, Linda Schade, Carol Moore, Jennifer ellingston, Artists Against the War, votersForPeace, DemocracyRising, CODEPINK, Gael Murphy, Medea Benjamin, Pete Perry, Washington Peace Center, peace movement, Guantanamo, impeach, Hart building, arrest, Congress, Bush, We Will Not be Silent, Peace Action, United for Peace and Justice

Not your killing machine


JIMMYTHEWEED-Garage Jam .....

The Occupation Project: Sen. Barbara Mikulski


Camera/Editing Kathleen Gabel Producer Tyler H WestbrookContact Tyler Westbrook for more info at [email protected] BEFORE YOU ENLIST...Sir, No Sir!Peace PatriotsThe Ground Truth

Books:

Catch-22
Johnny Got His Gun
Speak Now Against the Day

Heroes:


Iraq Vets Against the War

National Youth and Student Peace Coalition

My Blog

Help Support Peace Action in the Peace Primary

The Ploughshares Foundation will be sponsoring a "peace primary" with 12 organizations participating. Individuals can vote for an organization by donating to them through their peace primary page. Eac...
Posted by Student Peace Action Network on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:48:00 PST

Iraq Moratorium Pledge

Take the Iraq Moratorium Pledge:On Friday, September 21 & the third Friday of every subsequent month, I will break my daily routine and take some action, by myself or with others, to end the War i...
Posted by Student Peace Action Network on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:48:00 PST

September 15 End The War Now Mass March & Die-In

On Saturday September 15 as General David Petreaus reports to Congress there will be mass march from the White House to the Capitol.After the march there will be two events taking place simultaneously...
Posted by Student Peace Action Network on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:15:00 PST

STUDENTS MARCH FOR PEACE FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO WASHINGTON, DC

Peace Marchers of the Loneliest Kindublished on Monday, July 9, 2007 by the Chicago Tribune by Colleen Mastony LOVELAND, Colo.  Against the majestic backdrop of the Rocky Mountains, in ...
Posted by Student Peace Action Network on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:40:00 PST

Philadelphia call to action

Subject: Call To Action- Declare Our Independence Famous peace and justice activist, Cindy Sheehan recently sent out an open letter to the Peace Community about Democratic Party complicity in the war ...
Posted by Student Peace Action Network on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:17:00 PST

How to end the war

With the Iraq Study Group Report released last week (acknowledging how bad the situation is in Iraq, but giving no strong recommendations to drastically change the existing policy), an administration ...
Posted by Student Peace Action Network on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:28:00 PST

DC March for Immigrant Rights

It was AMAZING. There were at least 100,000 people there, if not 200,000 or more. The Mall was totally full with lots of families, little kids and all sorts of folks. It was beautiful. I'm short of wo...
Posted by Student Peace Action Network on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:42:00 PST

April 10th Immigrant Rights March

On April 10th people will take to the streets to stop a racist anti-immigrant bill (HR 4437) and demand the immigration reform we need. Join us! Find a local event by checking out Immigrant Solidarity...
Posted by Student Peace Action Network on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 02:51:00 PST

April 29 Antiwar Mass Mobilization

Hosted By: www.April29.orgWhen: Saturday Apr 29, 2006 at 11:00 AMWhere: The StreetsNew York City, NY 10001USDescription: www.April29.orgA war based on lies Spying, corruption and attacks on civil libe...
Posted by Student Peace Action Network on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 11:08:00 PST