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Daily Fact & Act #31
Sunday, October 20 1991*
LMNOP - Lake Merritt Neighbors Organized for Peace
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*This is 1991, right? Recession, war on Iraq, lower markets, low employment, low job creation, weak dollar, a "president" who is out of touch-- "It's the economy stupid" --with the people, lies and rumors being touted by politicians and the press as truth, government actions causing mass protests in the streets.
Action
1). Join our growing group walking around Lake Merritt in Oakland, the country's largest urban lake, at 3:00 today. Lake Merritt Neighbors Organized for Peace --LMNOP-- walks aroun the lake for a little less than 1 1/2 hours. Join us anywhere along the way. We walk along the outer sidewalk for maximum exposure to the many cars that honk in support.
More details: http://lmno4p.org/where_when.htm
2). Learn how easy it is to become a grass roots organizer in your neighborhood.
http://www.iraqpeaceteam.org/pages/activism.html#demo
Organize an Educational Event in Your Community
http://www.iraqpeaceteam.org/pages/activism.html#educational
Fact
If this is truly the administration's template for The Day After in Baghdad, we Americans are headed for very big trouble.
The Iraq-Japan parallel is so flawed it makes me wonder whether anyone on the Bush team has bothered to read any history. Or if they mean what they say.
...a non-supreme U.S. commander will face a fractured Iraq, in which Kurds, Sunni Muslims, Shiite Muslims and tribal leaders are jockeying fiercely for power, and democratic liberals are few. In such a situation, can U.S. forces override Iraq's history of repression and help a fractured Iraqi opposition install democratic institutions?
Not likely.
Indeed, the Bush team will be caught in a double bind if it hews to the Japan model of occupation. An administration that detests nation-building will have committed itself to the most profound kind of social engineering. But it will be doing so without the tools that MacArthur needed to remake Japan.
Japan is No Model for Occupying Post-War Iraq
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/bayarea/4312824.htm
Deficit Watch
From LMNOP Stockwatch page
In at least two states, Massachusetts and Utah, regulators are close to making cases that investors were defrauded by tainted investment recommendations, people on Wall Street said. These cases would contend that analysts at Credit Suisse First Boston and Goldman Sachs exaggerated the prospects of companies from which their firms either received or sought investment banking fees.
States Talk Tough. Wall Street Sweats
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/20/business/yourmoney/20POSS.html?todaysheadlines
Calendar
From LMNOP Calendar page.
Ongoing
Throughout the day, throughout the Bay
"Bowling for Columbine"
Showtimes
TODAY, Sunday, October 20
3-~4:30p
LMNOP
Peace Walk Around Lake Merrit
http://lmno4p.org/where_when.htm
6p
6:30pm Chani
6:45pm Robert and his Soulfolk Ensemble
8:00pm Wongozi M.A.C.
Alice Arts Center
1428 Alice St at 14th
Oakland. Rudi 510 594 4000 ex 485
ramwongozi@hotmail.com
7p
Phyllis Bennis: "Before & After: US Foreign Policy and the September 11th Crisis" First Congregational Church 2501 Harrison Street (at 27th Street), Oakland
http://lmno4p.org/updates.htm#phy
TOMORROW, Monday, October 21
6p, 8p, 10p
In Shifting Sands
The Truth About UNSCOM and the Disarming of Iraq
A film by Scott Ritter
Roxi - SF
7p
East Bay Coalition Against the War
7p
Phyllis Bennis: "Before & After: US Foreign Policy and the September 11th Crisis"
New College Theater
777 Valencia Street
San Francisco
"Nowhere to Hide"
Ramsey Clark in Iraq Video Screening and discussion.
Walden Pond Bookstore (3316 Grand Ave., Oakland, CA)
7:30p
Jewish Voice for Peace
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