Top Pun’s PUN OF THE DAY
Saturday, September 30th, 2006
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Psychedelic 1960s PEACE SIGN OF THE DAY
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This Day in Peace History
Saturday, September 30th, 2006
September 30, 1946
22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg.
September 30, 1962
Hundreds of Ku Klux Klan members and white students and others tried to keep a black student, James Meredith, 29, from attending classes at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. They were supported by the Governor, Ross Barnett. In spite of the efforts to block his court-ordered registration, a deal to allow Meredith to register had been made between U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Gov. Barnett. Meredith was secretly escorted onto campus; deputy U.S. marshals, border patrolmen and federal prison guards were stationed on and around the campus to protect him. Those standing guard were assaulted throughout the night with guns, bricks, Molotov cocktails, and bottles. Tear gas was used to try and control the crowd. Federal troops arrived, bringing the total to 12,000 (Pres. Kennedy had activated soldiers or national guardsmen totaling 30,000), and the mob finally retreated.
In the end, two were dead, 160 people marshals were injured (28 shot), 200 others injured and 300 arrested.
On the morning of October 1, 1962, James Meredith registered (on his fourth attempt) at Ole Miss, the first African American to do so. Meredith would go on to graduate in 1964. Chief U.S. Marshal James P. McShane, left, and Justice Department attorney John Doar, right, escort James Meredith to his first class after registration on Oct. 1, 1962.
September 30, 1970
In Puerto Rico, 1,400 draft cards were burned in an anti-Vietnam war protest.
September 30, 2003
The FBI began a criminal investigation into whether White House officials had illegally leaked the identity of an undercover CIA officer, Valerie Plame, wife of diplomat Joseph C. Wilson, IV. In early 2002 the CIA had sent Wilson to look into the claim that Saddam Hussein had sought to acquire yellow-cake uranium from the African country, Niger. Ambassador Wilson found nothing to support the claim, and some of the documents later cited as evidence were clearly shown to be forgeries. President Bush, nonetheless, repeated the claim in his January, 2003, State of the Union address as part of his argument for war in Iraq. Wilson wrote a column in the New York Times in July, 2003, entitled “What I Didn’t Find in Africa.” Columnist Robert Novak later published Plame’s identity following conversation with Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage. Plame, who previously had worked on counter-proliferation, had been in charge of operations for the CIA’s Joint Task Force on Iraq, formed the summer before 9/11.
Note: Top Pun’s This Day in Peace History material is adapted from This Week in Peace History, a publication of www.peacebuttons.info, and This Week in Peace & Justice History from the San Antonio Peace Center.
Great PEACE QUOTE OF THE DAY
Friday, September 29th, 2006
In Politics Stupidity Is Not a Handicap
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Top Pun’s PUN OF THE DAY
Friday, September 29th, 2006
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Friday, September 29th, 2006
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This Day in Peace History
Friday, September 29th, 2006
September 29, 1943
Six war objectors imprisoned at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, began a hunger strike against censorship of mail and reading material by federal prison authorities.
Birthday of Polish labor leader, president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Walesa.
September 29, 1963
2,000 welfare protesters take over the state capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin.
September 29, 2002
A London crowd estimated at 200,000 to 500,000 protested British and U.S. plans for a “preemptive” invasion of Iraq.
Note: Top Pun’s This Day in Peace History material is adapted from This Week in Peace History, a publication of www.peacebuttons.info, and This Week in Peace & Justice History from the San Antonio Peace Center.
Bush Attacks Own Intelligence in Iraq, Causes Civil War
Thursday, September 28th, 2006
Bush Attacks Own Intelligence in Iraq, Causes Civil War
The war in Iraq has become a “cause célèbre” for Islamic militants, “breeding a deep resentment” of the United States in the Muslim world, according to declassified excerpts from a major intelligence report.
“The Iraqi jihad is shaping a new generation of terrorist leaders and operatives; perceived jihadist success there would inspire more fighters to continue the struggle elsewhere,” the excerpts said.
Vice president Bush suffered a violent reaction to his own intelligence in Iraq, causing “confusion,” or as the rest of the world calls it, “civil war.” In a boldly honest move, Bush had the controversial report declassified as intelligence, citing, “The National Intelligence Estimate is just an estimate, and more often than not I have to live with almost immeasurably small quantities of intelligence. Not reading stuff definitely leads to confusion; trust me, I know. I’ve read most of the three pages of excerpts from the full document, a freakin’ novel at 30 pages. Now, I am less confused than I’ve ever been. Democrats want to ‘de-class-ify’ everything, as if we were talking about some class war here. This is about the permanent war on Islamo-fascism. The American people will now be able to judge if there is any class at all in what we are doing, and I think not!”
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Great PEACE QUOTE OF THE DAY
Thursday, September 28th, 2006
We Suffer From an Incurable Malady: HOPE
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Top Pun’s PUN OF THE DAY
Thursday, September 28th, 2006
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This Day in Peace History
Thursday, September 28th, 2006
September 28, 1850
U.S. Navy abolishes flogging on Navy & merchant marine vessels.
September 28, 1917
166 people who were (or had been) active in the I.W.W. (Industrial Workers of the World, whose members were also known as Wobblies) were indicted for protesting World War I. They were accused of trying to “cause insubordination, disloyalty, and refusal of duty in the military and naval forces” in violation of the Espionage Act. One hundred and one defendants were found guilty, and received prison sentences ranging from days to twenty years, with accompanying fines of $10,000-$20,000. This part of a successful U.S. government campaign to cripple the radical union movement.
September 28, 1943
In Denmark, underground anti-Nazi activists began systematic smuggling of Jews to Sweden. In just three weeks, all but 481 of Denmark’s 8000 Jews had been moved to safety.
September 28, 1994
Indigenous people from around the globe meet to discuss bio-piracy.
Note: Top Pun’s This Day in Peace History material is adapted from This Week in Peace History, a publication of www.peacebuttons.info, and This Week in Peace & Justice History from the San Antonio Peace Center.
Top Pun’s PUN OF THE DAY
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
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Great PEACE QUOTE OF THE DAY
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
If You Want to Make Your Dreams Come True Wake Up
– Keith Ellis
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Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
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This Day in Peace History
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
September 27, 1967
An advertisement headed “A Call To Resist Illegitimate Authority,” signed by over 320 influential people (professors, writers, ministers, and other professional people), appeared in the New Republic and the New York Review of Books, asking for funds to help youths resist the draft.
The range and accuracy of the Pershing II pushed the Soviet Union to negotiate the Treaty on Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) which completely eliminated all nuclear-armed ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 kilometers (about 300 to 3400 miles) and their infrastructure. The INF Treaty is the first nuclear arms control agreement to actually reduce nuclear arms, and the signatories destroyed almost 2700 nuclear weapons (including 234 Pershing II) by May of 1991.
Note: Top Pun’s This Day in Peace History material is adapted from This Week in Peace History, a publication of www.peacebuttons.info, and This Week in Peace & Justice History from the San Antonio Peace Center.
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Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
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Great PEACE QUOTE OF THE DAY
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
If You Want Peace Work for Justice
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Bush Declares Iraq War Will One Day Look Like a Coma
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
Bush Declares Iraq War Will One Day Look Like a Coma
CNN aired an interview with President Bush in which he declared that one day the Iraq war will look like “just a comma.” The National Intelligence Estimate declared that the war in Iraq has increased Islamic radicalism, worsening the overall terror threat, cutting at the heart of the White House defense of its strategy. The assessment “should put the final nail in the coffin for President Bush’s phony argument about the Iraq war,” Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) said in a statement. Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) said that “my feeling is the war in Iraq has intensified Islamic fundamentalism and radicalism.” But the Senate majority leader, Billl Frist, said “we are going to be fighting this battle, this war overseas, or it’s going to be right here in this country.”
Vice president Bush put the controversy to rest when he corrected his statement, “After a good night’s sleep and reflecting on my presidency, what I meant to say was that one day the Iraq war will look like just a coma.”
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This Day in Peace History
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
September 26, 1909
International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union (ILGWU Local 25) began a strike against the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. In November their strike would become part of the “Uprising of the 20,000,” during which 339 of 352 firms would be struck and reach agreements with the union over the following five month but Triangle would not one of them. The strike ended after thirteen weeks that saw over 700 striking workers arrested.
September 26, 1983
Despite international protests, the United Kingdom began a series of atmospheric nuclear bomb tests beginning with Operation Buffalo on aboriginal land at Maralinga, South Australia. The series of tests included dropping a bomb from a height of 30,000 feet. This was the first launching of a British atomic weapon from an aircraft.
Note: Top Pun’s This Day in Peace History material is adapted from This Week in Peace History, a publication of www.peacebuttons.info, and This Week in Peace & Justice History from the San Antonio Peace Center.
Natural Selections Spinach Fails in Breeding Popeye-like Race
Monday, September 25th, 2006
Natural Selections Spinach Fails in Breeding Popeye-like Race
A nationwide E. coli outbreak outbreak was traced to Natural Selection Foods, based in San Juan Bautista, California. Food and Drug Administration officials said that they had received reports of illness in 19 states, and issued a statement saying, “We can’t stands no more,” and ordered supermarkets across the country to pull spinach from shelves and consumers to toss out the leafy green.
Natural Selection’s spokesman, Bluto Brutowski, said, “While we underestimated the wimpiness of the American people, our genetically engineered spinach was designed to weed out the weakest consumers and ultimately would help Americans evolve into a Popeye-like race. Through a grant from The United States Department of Homeland Security and extensive Saturday morning focus group testing, Natural Selection’s Popeye Project determined that ‘E. coli friendly spinach’ was the quickest route to a ‘terrorist resistant populace,’ able to withstand bullying from the biggest of brutes. We first developed a genetically engineered yam called, ‘I yam what I yam, and that’s all I yam,’ but it was lethal to wannabes of all varieties. We really thought that spinach was the route to go, but we may have to fall back to our ‘Swee’Pea‘ line of genetically engineered baby foods. Also, we are negotiating financing with J. Wellington Wimpy Federal Bank for a genetically engineered hamburger. Mr. Wimpy, CEO, seemed particularly impressed with our business plan of ‘I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.’ We have had setbacks before, but we are ready to move forward. Natural Selection’s originally tried taking sailors who had genetically engineered large brachioradialis muscles in their forearms and mating them with females who had genetically engineered ‘Olive Oyl‘ body types. Unfortunately, we learned that Olive Oyl is considered a little to ‘chunky’ compared to the contemporary American males’ idealized female body form.
Vice president Bush expressed surprise that The Popeye Project had taken a beating, and he broke into song, singing “I’m one tough gazookus, which hates all palookas, wot ain’t on the up and square, I biffs ‘em and buffs ‘em, an’ always outroughs ‘em, an’ none of ‘em gets nowhere.”
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Join TrueMajorityACTION and Throw the Bums Out!!
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