[Sosfbay-discuss] Greens, activists pressure House Democrats in home districts on war issue...

[Drew Johnson]

Note that since I brought it to Cres' attention Carol Brouillet's
Livermore protest arrest is covered in this release.  - Drew

News Advisory
           THE GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA       www.cagreens.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Contacts: Dr. Robert Vizzard, spokesperson, 916.206 8953,
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              Susan King, spokesperson, 415.823-5524 funking at mindspring.com
              Cres Vellucci, press secretary, 916.996-9170
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                  Sara Amir, spokesperson, 310.270-7106
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Democratic members of House pressed by Greens, others
in their home districts to sign pledge to stop funding
the war; Lawmakers refuse, arrest visitors

SACRAMENTO (August 14, 2007) – California Greens this week continued to
help anti-war activists pressure state Democratic Party congressional
lawmakers to make good on election year promises to bring state military
personnel home by ending the Iraq War, but who so far continue to fund the
war instead of stop it.

All across the state this week, as House members return home to their
districts during the Congressional break, those opposed to the war are
visiting offices of Democrats, demanding they not vote to further war
funding in September. Instead of a sympathetic year, people opposed to the
war are being arrested.

"The death toll in Iraq, for U.S. and Iraqi civilians, continues to climb
and all Democrats can do is claim to be opposed to the it, while funding
it," said Daniel Brezenoff, Green Party in the 37th District Special
Election. He added that the Green Party opposed the Iraq War since before
it began, unlike the Democratic and Republican parties.

Greens were among those at a demonstration last week at the offices of
Orange County Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Santa Ana) in Garden Grove. Six
people were arrested at the protest after Sanchez refused to sign a pledge
to not further fund the war. Sanchez – after saying she was opposed to the
war – said she would still vote for more defense monies for the war because
there was $2.1 billion for California to build the C-17 Globemaster, a
military aircraft.

Tuesday, Greens were among those who organized a People's Town Hall in
Sacramento in front of the office of Rep. Doris Matsui (D), and other
registered Greens were participating or supporting a hunger strike at the
San Francisco home of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D).

Greens also arranged a visit to the office of Rep. Henry Waxman (D-L.A.),
where the lawmaker said he did not believe there was enough "evidence" of
fraud and deception about the war to warrant impeachment proceedings
against Pres. George Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney.

And, in the San Francisco area, 2006 Green Party congressional candidate
(14th CD) Carol Brouillet was arrested along with Daniel Ellsberg and
others at Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab in a peace protest
memorializing the 62nd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

"The war on terror is a fraud. Our best hope is non-violent, widespread
opposition to the threats to the constitution and our civil rights, and the
world, and for Congress to begin impeachment proceedings to halt (the war)
and reverse the policies of the past several years," said Brouillet.
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JamBoi
http://www.greencommons.org/blog/63
"Peaceable: the ability to interact peacefully.  A skill set similar to
social or emotional intelligence that is unfortunately rare in America,
but can be developed by all.  The Green Parties need to lead the way in
Peaceableness."