WMass Indymedia

Nestle is proposing to build water extraction and bottling facilities in Montague to take aquifer water from under conservation land. 150 million gallons per year!!!

[The past few years have seen the annual 4th of July parade in Amherst hosted by a private group of conservative "patriots" using public space and resources to exclude any anti-war presence. Their exclusionary anti-democratic practices have now become too much for the League of Women Voters. -ed]

League opts out of parade
BY Mary Carey
Amherst Bulletin Staff Writer
Published on July 03, 2007

Members of the Amherst League of Women Voters will sit out Wednesday's Fourth of July parade to make a point about free speech.

JOIN US FOR A DAY OF ACTION TO RESTORE LAW & JUSTICE!

TUESDAY, JUNE 26.

A nationwide coalition of ACLU, Amnesty International, Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Center for Constitutional Rights, Leadership Committee for Civil Rights and many others are planning action in Washington, DC to lobby Congress to end torture and restore habeas corpus.

The Pioneer Valley Coalition Against Secrecy and Torture Invites you to join us in grassroots support actions here in the Valley!

a.. Stop Torture.
b.. Restore Habeas Corpus and Due Process.
c.. Shut Down Guantanamo.

Do you want the media to do a better job covering the issues that matter most to you and your community?

Now is your chance to voice your concerns about local media directly to policymakers from Washington.

On June 28, the Federal Communications Commission will hold an official public hearing on media localism in Portland, Maine. This is the fifth in a series of six official hearings on media localism nationwide and the only one in New England -- so it's critical for you to be there:

Date: Thursday, June 28
Time: 4 - 11 p.m.
Location:
Portland High School
284 Cumberland Avenue

dis'n andrew card here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Da-237Cgqc

and here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp4MYii7MqA&mode=related&search=

coverage by national liberal sites:

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/22972

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/26/andrew-card-booed-at-umass-graduatio...

story by socialist worker:

http://www.socialistworker.org/2007-1/634/634_11_UMass.shtml

local press coverage:

http://www.amherstbulletin.com/story/id/44249/

umass activist site:

http://no2card.umassgss.org/

Teacher placed on paid leave
Friday, May 25, 2007
By PATRICK JOHNSON and JEANETTE DeFORGE
Staff writers

CHICOPEE - A Chicopee High School teacher said he was placed on paid administrative leave from his job on Wednesday, one day after he demonstrated outside the courthouse during the arraignment of a friend accused of spray painting anti-military graffiti on the high school.
Gary R. Sroka, a social studies teacher for seven years, called the move punishment for his public opposition to a school policy that allows military recruiters on campus.

Honor Students, Not War Criminals!
NO DEGREE FOR ANDREW CARD
UMass is a Public University: Card Shames Us All!

PROTESTS (for details, see below):
Tuesday, May 22, 12:30: March
Thursday, May 24, 4:30-6:30: Stand-out
Friday, May 25, 12:00-5:00: Commencement

Please join UMass students, faculty, and staff in opposing
UMass's plan to award an honorary degree at graduate
commencement to Iraq War architect Andrew Card. During his
tenure as White House Chief of Staff, Card founded the
White House Iraq Group in order to coordinate efforts to

Friday, May 25, 12:15 p.m.
Mullins Center, UMass

The University of Massachusetts plans to award an honorary degree to Andrew Card, the founder of the White House Iraq Group, which was responsible for "marketing" the Iraq war to the American people.

As a central planner of an illegal war, Card is a war criminal, not a "person of great accomplishment and high ethical standards who exemplifies the ideals of the University of Massachusetts."

The Rising Tide Road Show's Climate Action Tour is coming to Western Massachusetts! Performances will be May 11th at 7 p.m. at Food for Thought Books in downtown Amherst and May 12th at noon on the front steps of the Unitarian Universalist Church between City Hall and Pulaski Park.