RALLY FOR
REAL POLICE REFORM
and
Real Accountability Now!
Thursday,
June 25, at
5:00 pm
In Front of Spokane City Hall
808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd at Post
Our community deserves real and lasting change in the
Spokane Police Department. The Police Ombudsman cannot conduct
independent investigations and cannot discipline officers who use
excessive force or otherwise abuse the public. This is not reform, it
is just spending taxpayer money on window dressing.
Rally to demand real reform, real investigations, and real
accountability! Let the city know that we will not be fooled
again. Let Shonto Pete, the family of Otto Zehm, and all of the others
know they are not alone. End police abuse and hold the city of
Spokane accountable!
For more information
contact Liz at
Peace and Justice Action League: 838-7870 or
pjals@pjals.net
or
SHAWL Society 258-8952 or shawlsociety@yahoo.com
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City/County Contacts
Call (509-625-6255) or email City
Council members through the City website:
Mayor Mary Verner
Richard Rush
Joe
Shogan
Al French
Michael Allen
Bob Apple
Steve Corker
Nancy
McLaughlin
Call (509-477-2265) or email County
Commissioners (http://www.spokanecounty.org):
Bonnie Mager
March Richard
Todd Mielke |
Peace
and Justice Action League of Spokane director Liz Moore called for
independent oversight of the Spokane Police Department on Friday.
“Anything less is insulting to the people of this community and won’t
repair the relationship between the Police Department and the people
they’re supposed to protect and serve,” she said. - Spokesman Review, May 30,
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"What
difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of
totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?"
-
Mohandas Gandhi

Noam Chomsky on Gaza
Speaking at MIT January 13, 2009
Click
here to watch his speech
Click
here to read the text

We will not go down
a Song for Gaza
Click
here to listen & see
U.S.
Complicit in
Israel's Crimes
Sources
say over 1,300 people have been killed in Gaza so far. Roughly
one-third
were children and about two-thirds civilians. This is roughly 100 times
the number of Israelis killed, including three civilians. Israel is
preventing international journalists from entering Gaza, making it
impossible to independently confirm casualty figures, which are likely
worse.
It's hard, sometimes, to
grasp what these numbers mean; but the
pictures...oh god!
Iran-Contra II?
In march 2008, The Guardian/UK revealed that the Bush administration
(Bush, Rice and Elliott Abrams) had secretly plotted to overthrow democratically elected Hamas (and
destroy the emerging threat of an Hamas/Fatah coalition government) by
funneling arms and financial support to a more cooperative player in
Fatah, particularly Mohammed Dahlan, once Arafat's security chief in
Gaza and a person with close ties to the CIA. Vanity Fair detailed the crime in
an April 2008 article by David Rose, entitled The
Gaza Bombshell. Then just this January, Norman and Matthew Olsen tell the story
again in the Christian Science
Monitor: An inside
story of how the U.S. magnified Palestinian suffering.
So much for respecting the democratic wishes of these imprisoned and
impoverished people. But then, they are only them and not us.
Listen
to what may have been his most
powerful speech -- still so relevant today.
The speech they
don't want you to hear, ever,
And note how interchangeable become the words
Vietnam - Iraq -
Gaza.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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