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Stories from 2003-02-11
"Antiwar demonstrators may not march past the United Nations complex on Saturday, or anywhere else in Manhattan, a federal judge ruled yesterday." The judge agreed with city police that "it could not maintain safety at a traditional, peaceful protest march, [but this] was rejected yesterday by a number of First Amendment experts who found the court's decision a bad precedent." [more]
"Iran is also a signatory to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, and has rejected claims that it is trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction.
It says that nuclear plants are needed to help increase its electricity generation.
'We are ready to accept inspectors to check our [nuclear] activities in order to reveal the lies told by others,' Mr Khatami said on Sunday." [more]
A crisis was triggered when NATO members France, Germany and Belgium blocked a plan to begin shipping defensive equipment to Turkey for a possible war with Iraq. [more]
"Specifically, Haight's ruling expands the department's investigatory powers, allowing all branches to investigate suspected political activity. Under the Handschu guidelines, such investigations were limited to one unit, the Public Security Section." [more]
"Top federal officials yesterday issued their most pointed advice since Sept. 11, 2001, on precautions the public should take against terrorist attacks, warning that every home should be stocked with three days' worth of water and food in case of a strike with chemical, biological or radiological weapons." [more]
"Fears that Iraq will inflict heavy casualties on British and American troops intensified yesterday when it emerged the Pentagon had ordered almost five times the number of body bags it requested before the last Gulf War. " [more]
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(IHT, Apr 30)
"In just five years, Bush has challenged more than 750 new laws, by far a record for any president, while becoming the first president since Thomas Jefferson to stay so long in office without issuing a veto." [more]
(Interactivist Info Exchange, Jul 26)
"Horizontalism is not an ideology, however, it is a relationship — a way of relating to one another in a directly democratic way while at the same time creating through the process of discovery. What has resulted is the creation of an amazing complex of movements, all linked." [more] |
This website is a tribute to Why War?, one of the nation's first and most innovative post-9/11 student antiwar organizations. Born on October 22, 2001 at Swarthmore College, we were a handful of freshmen and sophmores who vocally opposed the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. And now, seven years later, we are retiring this website as we focus our efforts on new directions. We hope that it continues to serve future activists and we remain confident that humanity is on the verge birthing a better world.
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