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Introduction to Network4peace.org
Hi, welcome to the "Network 4 Peace" website, here to encourage the exchange of ideas, expertise and resources between progressive activist groups in Indiana. Please check front page items and also our Calendar and Campaigns pages for events occurring across Indiana.
Member groups can use several web tools on this site to promote their progressive actions and campaigns and to recruit each other's endorsement and participation, as well as the participation of likeminded people throughout Indiana. A loose network structure allows member organizations to build statewide actions with the greatest possible flexibility but without creating or exacerbating divisions over policy.
"Network 4 Peace" does not currently represent any coalition that could propose or endorse actions the way its member organizations can and do. For the present, you won't see N4P -endorsed items on this site (excepting this one), only actions endorsed by some of its member groups. Should a decision-making coalition of N4P member groups at some point arise, it's hoped this website format, currently at use in many other U.S. states, will adapt well to its needs.
In the meantime, please enjoy and make optimal use of network4peace.org!
Posted on Dec 08, 2008 by Network 4 Peace
Sustainable Footprint
Our fundamental aim is to cooperate in getting our ecological footprints toward and to a sustainable level, including the impact of housing, while conducting quality lives. See www.myfootprint.org to appreciate. We can use our interim and future sites for educating on sustainability. Even our shortcomings are opportunities to teach. For instance, if building codes do not allow us to create straw bale cob buildings we might use that knowledge of code in our promotion of reforming code in support of sustainability.
The website of Campaign for Sustainable Economics provides some reflection of what is sought. Its URL is http://www.sustainableeconomics.org
Ultimately, it would be wonderful to have fully dedicated members with diverse talents, including in art, music, waste reduction, vegetable gardening, landscaping, plant identification, rain water collection, food preservation, building design, interior design, cooking, construction, strategic planning, web design, repair of human powered vehicles, education, activism, and overall resourcefulness.
Since December 21, 2007 we have had three meetings and numerous conversations for getting to know one another and for developing our vision. We have an investor. The initial location (105 Arsenal Avenue, Indianapolis) will be rental housing. At this point residents will need outside income.
Characteristics of this group's current members include respectfulness, creativity, resourcefulness, neighborliness, concerned about personal health and having postsecondary education.
Serious candidates are preferred over those who just need a roommate situation. Both short- and long-term nonsmoking residents are welcome to apply.
Posted on Jan 19, 2008 by
Beyond the Rhetoric of Withdrawal
Beyond the Rhetoric of Withdrawal: Our Unknown Air War Over Iraq
By Ed Kinane
A key element of the drawdown plans, not mentioned in the President's public statements, is that the departing American troops will be replaced by American airpower.
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The American air war inside Iraq is perhaps the most significant - and underreported - aspect of the fight against the insurgency.
-- Seymour M. Hersh, "Up in the Air," Nov. 29, 2005, New Yorker
There's an air war over Iraq. It's invisible (here). It's deadly (there).
The Iraq air war may be the longest such war in history. In one way or another it has been undermining Iraq's sovereignty, destroying its infrastructure, and killing and maiming Iraqis for some 16 years.
Despite global pressure to withdraw, Bush Inc. - and indeed the broader US power structure - has no intention of giving up Iraq. The potential oil bonanza is too huge. And Iran - with its oil bonanza - is next door.
That air war is intensifying. The US dropped five times as many bombs in Iraq during the first six months of 2007 as it did in the first half of 2006. 1
"When the troops are cut, we'll still be bombing the hell out of the place."
to download the entire article: http://www.network4peace.org/uploads/resources/1188222375.doc
This article was copied from www.vcnv.org
Posted on Aug 27, 2007 by
Meeting with Senator Evan Bayh
Indiana Peace Activists met with Senator Evan Bayh at the Lake County Government Center in Crown Point. Fifty peace activists and other interested persons attending the meeting. People came from Bloomington, Lafayette, Indianapolis, and South Bend as well as from Lake County and Newton County.
Go to the Resources section of this website for a recap of the meeting by Nick Egnatz.
Press coverage:
Lakeshore News Channel 56 covered the event on the evening news.
Gary Post Tribune
http://www.post-trib.com/news/520023,bayh.article
NWIndiana Times
http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2007/08/22/news/lake_county/doc9fcfa85a1ba330ac8625733f000c0937.txt[url]
Here is a letter from Sue Eleuterio, one of the organizers or the meeting, correcting the coverage in the Post Tribune:
Dear Mr. James,
Please thank Teresa Auch for her article in today's Post Tribune on Code Pink's meeting with Senator Bayh but please make two corrections. First, I was arrested at Senator Bayh's Hammond office, not in Washington DC and secondly and more importantly to me, I told your reporter that all I could think about when Senator Bayh said it would be 7 months to a year for withdrawal was the American military and the Iraqi families who would lose loved ones if the war continues. Please issue a correction- I do not want the families of our military to think that I only care about Iraqi families- my concerns are for the families around the world who continue to suffer due to this war.
Thanks
Sue Eleuterio
The Post Tribune article also contains some interesting facts about the security measures taken for the meeting!!!
Posted on Aug 23, 2007 by