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ITHACA, N.Y., March 29 — The other night was Joan Baez, and tonight there will be gay and lesbian choruses. But Friday night the main feature at this small city's majestic State Theater was a congressman in the prerequisite gray suit, standing alone at a lectern and talking about geopolitics, oil and war. He wowed them. He said the war against Iraq was wrong, illegal, a tragedy. He said President Bush had deceived people and was stifling dissent rather than embracing diplomacy. He said that he had explored the prospect of impeachment, but that the time was not right, at...

<p>ITHACA -- Author Leslea Newman, best know for the gay-awareness children's book "Heather Has Two Mommies," will speak at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 1, in Muller Chapel on the Ithaca College campus.</p> <p>Her talk, entitled "You Can't Be a Lesbian -- You're Jewish," will consist of readings from her work. The presentation is part of the Jewish Life and Arts Series and is free and open to the public. For more information on Newman, visit www.leseanewman.com.</p>

<p>ITHACA -- U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-22, received a standing ovation from a largely anti-war crowd of about 300 people Friday night at the State Theatre.</p> <p>Hinchey was cheered as "courageous" for a letter he sent to supporters recently that decried the war in Iraq, and which said that history may come to view it as "a massacre."</p>

Last night, Scott Ritter, former United Nations (U.N.) chief weapons inspector, spoke about the current war with Iraq to a packed audience in the Statler Auditorium. Ritter began his lecture by saying that "this is a tough time for us all. A nation at war should never be taken lightly, regardless of the justifications or lack thereof." Although he is opposed to the current war with Iraq, Ritter wanted to make clear that he is not an antiwar activist. He believes that "war is sometimes required if that which you believe is threatened." He felt that if the United States...

<p>EDITORIAL You've got to hand it to Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-22nd Dist.) for his decision to openly question and criticize the Bush Administration while many of his Democratic colleagues stood mute and compliant.</p> <p>It is the right and the duty of members of Congress to needle and question public policies. When they disagree with the majority, they need to let their colleagues and their constituents clearly know where they stand on an issue or policy.</p>

<p>ITHACA-- Just a day after U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey referred to the U.S.-led war in Iraq as "a massacre," the Democrat who represents the City of Ithaca in Congress is hosting a public forum on the war at the State Theatre.</p>

<p>March 27, 2003 -- Democratic Rep. Maurice Hinchey of upstate Saugerties has outdone himself with his quips on the war in Iraq.</p> <p>He told constituents that America is "engaging in what will come to be seen as a massacre in Iraq," under "the 'Bush Doctrine' of pre-emption, which allows the United States to attack any other country any time . . . for whatever reason the president feels is justified."</p>

<p>Many FReepers read the yesterday's thread posting a letter in which NY Congressman Maurice Hinchey accused the US of committting a "massacre" in Iraq.</p> <p>Two papers in Hinchey's district ran articles on Hinchey's letter, in which many residents criticized him, notably including a veteran who told Hinchey to "shut his damn mouth."</p>

<p>"A MASSACRE" is how U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey says history will remember the U.S. attack on Iraq.</p> <p>A Kingston-area veteran called Hinchey "sick" and said the congressman should "shut his damned mouth."</p> <p>Hinchey, D-22nd Dist., said in a recent letter that the current military action -- which has widespread support among the American public but which he opposes -- will result in the United States becoming a "pariah" to the rest of the world.</p>

Forum Focuses on Affirmative Action By BRIAN TSAO Even with many students recovering from sunburns and spring break hangovers, more than 80 students and staff members attended yesterday's Call Auditorium forum, "Affirmative Action at the Crossroads: The Future of Equal Opportunity in Higher Education." The Diversity Council and the Joint Assemblies Multicultural Issues Committee organized the discussion session to address students' concerns regarding the University of Michigan Law School case, Grutter v. Bollinger, which will be heard by the Supreme Court starting April 1. The main purpose of the forum was to present major viewpoints to the student body, said...

ITHACA--With the war on Iraq already underway, a panel discussion called "Women Against War" filled three-quarters of Cornell's Goldwin Smith Hall's Auditorium D last night. The war's consequences on feminism and the international community were the focus of the talk. Opening remarks were made by Amy Levine grad, a member of the Cornell Anti-War Coalition. "The idea for this panel was catalyzed with International Women's Day, March 8," she said. In her welcome address, Levine emphasized the findings of a U.N. study which found that women and children are disproportionately overrepresented in the civilian deaths that seem inevitable with such...

Treason in IthacaBy Joseph J. SabiaFrontPageMagazine.com | March 24, 2003 The Marxist-dominated Catholic community in Ithaca, New York has taken its hatred for America to a new level.  With members of the United States Armed Forces in harm’s way, representatives of the Ithaca Catholic Worker doused a local military recruiting center with human blood and called on our troops to engage in mass desertion.  According to a first-hand account of the event: “[Members of the Catholic Worker] entered the [Cayuga military recruiting] office with jars filled with human blood which they poured upon the walls, door, bay window, on the...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BILL WARREN/Journal Staff Teresa Grady casts a shadow in the blood-stained window of the U.S. Army and Marine Corp recruiting station as she reads a statement along with a group of antiwar protesters Monday in Lansing. Two of the protesters splattered human blood on the walls of the station's entrance. Four people, including Grady, were arrested. LANSING -- Protesters splattered human blood onto an American flag Monday at a military recruiting station in order to draw attention to the anti-war movement. A group of about 20 gathered in front of the U.S. Army and Marine Corps recruiting station at...

<p>3,000 dead at the Twin Towers - terrorism. 100,000 body bags sent to Baghdad - foreign policy. I don't think our foreign policy is any better than their terrorism.</p> <p>I might have a little more respect for President Bush's decision if he had ever served in active duty himself, or if he had enlisted his own daughters in the military and sent them to Iraq along with the other women stationed there to serve their country. Expecting other people and their children to do what you would not do yourself is not my definition of a quality leader.</p>

Local News - Monday, March 24, 2003 Email this story More than 500 march in downtown Ithaca War protest results in 25 arrests; no major injuries By DIANA LaMATTINA Journal Staff BILL WARREN/Journal Staff ITHACA -- An anti-war demonstration which began silently in DeWitt Park Saturday ended hours later with shouts of support as two protesters emerged from Immaculate Conception's bell tower in police custody. "We ring the bell for all the victims of the war. For the Americans, the British and the Iraqis who will die," said Dave Mountin, 48, during a cell phone interview with The Ithaca Journal...

<p>ITHACA -- An anti-war demonstration which began silently in DeWitt Park Saturday ended hours later with shouts of support as two protesters emerged from Immaculate Conception's bell tower in police custody.</p> <p>"We ring the bell for all the victims of the war. For the Americans, the British and the Iraqis who will die," said Dave Mountin, 48, during a cell phone interview with The Ithaca Journal during his more than five hours in the bell tower of the church on North Geneva Street.</p>

What you will find below is not a rant from the Iraq Ministry of Propaganda, or the wailings of a tenured professor at one of our institutions of "higher learning." Rather, it is a statement by a Member of Congress, who represents a moderate district equally divided among Republicans and Democrats. Read it and be enraged. Congressman Maurice D. Hinchey Representing New York's 22th Congressional District March 22, 2003 Dear Friends, We are witnesses to a watershed moment in the history of the American republic. It is too soon to know how this will turn out, but it is very...

<p>I am fasting in solidarity with the Living Wage Coalition and underpaid workers -- especially hotel workers -- in Ithaca and everywhere.</p> <p>Two years ago I was one of those workers. I was hired at a chain hotel off Route 13 downtown for about $6.25 per hour.</p>

<p>Imagine a situation where someone builds a new home with a great panoramic view. Then, after a few years, another person legally builds a house on an adjacent lot, blocking out the entire scene.</p> <p>The first homeowner would definitely be frustrated, but there is little that could be done since the second person had every right to build there.</p>

<p>Protesters splattered human blood onto an American flag Monday at a military recruiting station in order to draw attention to the anti-war movement.</p> <p>A group of about 20 gathered in front of the U.S. Army and Marine Corps recruiting station at the Cayuga Mall in Lansing on Monday protesting a possible war against Iraq. Four protesters who entered the office were arrested by Tompkins County Sheriff's deputies.</p>