from: William Hughes

On Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009, Antiwar activists dressed all in black, with white death masks, paraded in a steady rain and in single file, past the U.S. Supreme Court, and around the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., as the new 111th Congress convened inside. The “March of the Dead” participants wore around their necks the names of those killed in conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Israeli Occupied Gaza. The U.S. Congress has
repeatedly voted hundreds of billions of dollars to support those two wars. Check out: http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home. In addition, Congress continues to subsidize, to the tune of billions of taxpayers’ dollar a year, the state of Zionist Israel. See, http://www.wrmea.com/. For background and updates on this protest action, please go to: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/.

from: William Hughes

On Friday, Jan. 2, 2009, Human Rights activists staged a demonstration and march, in Washington, D.C., in solidarity with the beleaguered Palestinian people of Israeli-Occupied Gaza. The rally began at the Israeli Embassy. One of the speakers was Ibrahim Ramey. He is the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation’s Civil and Human Rights Director. For background, please see,
http://www.masnet.org/news.asp?id=3729
and http://masnet.org/. In his remarks, Mr. Ramey urged the large crowd of activists to “stand up” for the suffering people of Gaza and to work “by nonviolent means” for peace and justice. He directed some of his remarks to President-Elect Barack Obama. For related videos on the demonstration at the Israeli Embassy, check out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=788fxH2ccjI&feature=channel_page
and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWRX_OFOV08&feature=channel_page
and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUtMFyhqjNo&feature=channel_page
For the latest updates on the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, please see: http://www.pchrgaza.org/;
http://www.phrmg.org/; http://www.wrmea.com/;
http://justiceandaccountability.org/Home.html; and,
http://www.endtheoccupation.org/.