4. Here is PeaceHost.net's
Extended Family:
As
President Lyndon Johnson placed the Congressional Medal of Honor around
Charlie
Liteky’s neck, he remarked, “Son, I’d rather have one of those babies
than be president.” Admirals and Generals have been known to salute recipients
of this award, and to stand when one enters a room. A former Catholic priest
and army chaplain, he was awarded the medal for saving the lives of 23
men in Vietnam. The very same man in 2000/2001 served a year in Lompoc
Prison for witnessing his beliefs. Want to meet a real hero? His story
is but a click away.
National Network On Cuba is an umbrella organization for groups all
over the country who support normalization with Cuba. Even the youth
of the Miami Cuban community recognize the stupidity of our policy.
Go to this Website for the latest information.
First
among the Usual Suspects must be Dorothy Granada a 70-year-old RN
from Santa Cruz who has devoted over a decade of her life to the Nicaraguan
people, under the shadow of the Reagan Contra legacy. It is to our shame
that there is such a dire need for such as Dorothy in a country that had
promised universal health care and was on its way to providing it when
we sandbagged their sovereignty. She was nearly forced out of Nicaragua
by former President Aleman, and the clinic closed, when a groundswell of
support from the US forced the President to back off. Here is the Website for her Maria Luis
Ortiz Cooperative & Women's Center:
EPI/CALC
(Ecumenical
Peace Institute / Clergy & Laity Concerned) is a fine and effective
Bekeley-based organization working on behalf of, among other concerns,
the plight of the Iraqi, Haitian, Palestinian and Afghani people.
Guatemala
News & Information Bureau (GNIB) is a San Francisco-based group
which informs the general community of issues, developments and actions
regarding the Guatemalan people. After receiving many informative
E-mails from this worthy group I asked them if they had a Website, and,
if not, would they like me to design one for them. Visit the GNIB 'site
and see just why I give my time to them as a Webster as well. And you will
learn how Guatemalan human rights issues are connected with U.S. adventures,
particularly the venerable "School of the Assassins".
NISGUA.(Network
In Solidarity with the People of Guatemala) is the national organization.
When PeaceHost.net
was born, one of its first thoughts was of the Walnut Creek, Calif.-based
Mt.
Diablo Peace Center. Alas, they had a home, until they were unceremoniously
evicted by the money-grubbing, capitalist pigs that bought out their ISP.
Well, I say, those swine's loss is PeaceHost's gain. The MDPC, under the
peerless leadership of founder, Andy Baltzo, was the first Bay area organization
the Zwickel family hooked up with, joining the Continental Peace Walk with
them in 1976. Check out this little mouse from the sixties that still roars,
big time!
The I
don't get it. Am I missing something, or are not Christians automatically
pacifists, like Quakers are automatically conscientious objectors (Nixon
being the one famous exception)? Well, I found one courageous Christian
who agrees with me. Go to his Peace Church Website for a refreshing
take on pacifism from a Christian perspective.
The people
of Central America first referred to it as the “School of the Assassains”.
Now located at Ft. Benning, GA and re-named the Western Hemisphere Institute
for Security Coopoeration, the former School of the Americas, first located
in Panama, boasted such luminaries among its graduates as drug-lord (to
paraphrase (reportedly) FDR, 'he may have been a drug lord, but, at least
he was our drug lord') and Salvadoran death-squad leader, Roberto
D'Aubisson. While School of the Americas Watch – West and
the national SOAW try to keep tabs on them and hold their feet to
the fire, we continue to finance the training of future terrorists ('they
may be terrorists, but at least they're our terrorists....')
Many a great folk have joined the
PeaceHost family since the above were enumerated, back in the day, and I would be
remis not to include them now, but time is short (computer in the shop, using one at the local library ... on a timer), and memory needs a gentle assist.
Meet the Finn, Harry Siitonen at FINN LABOR
Here's an anti-war Website viewing issues from the perspective of federal and international law, the
WAR & LAW LEAGUE
That's all I have time for for now. Peace, Daniel ben Avram.
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