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March 19 War Anniversary Protest UPDATED! Evict the military recruitment station, cage the recruiters! When: Wednesday, March 19 Rally: 6:00pm March: Departs at 6:30pm for the Military Recruiting Station Where: Meet at the dinosaur sculpture in front of Carnegie Library (4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213) This March 19 hundreds of cities across the U.S. will hold events to mark the anniversary of the war in Iraq and remember the tragic toll the world has and continues to pay; nearly 4,000 U.S. soldiers killed, 30,000 wounded, at least 100,000 Iraqis killed, four million displaced, and nearly a trillion dollars squandered.

Leave My Child Alone! A Family Privacy Campaign to Protect Our High School Students From Unwanted Military Recruiting...

A coalition of far-Left organizations that includes avowed “revolutionary communists,” Islamists, marriage-abolitionists, and cop-killer advocates has launched a crusade against the U.S. military – and San Francisco school children could get caught in the crossfire. An organization known as “College Not Combat” seeks to place a resolution before Bay City voters on the November ballot, declaring “that the people of San Francisco oppose U.S. military recruiters using public school, college and university facilities to recruit young people into the armed forces.” The non-binding measure would encourage the city’s high schools to deny military recruiters access to their student directories, from...

Bereaved anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan...is scheduled to come to the Roaring Fork Valley as part of a series of talks next month. Sheehan is expected to speak at the First United Methodist Church in Glenwood Springs on Friday, Sept. 16 as part of a three-day tour of the area that will also take her to Grand Junction and Paonia. Sheehan may also visit area schools to speak to students about military recruitment and the war in Iraq, said Gary Handschumacher, a Crawford, Colo.-based anti-war activist who arranged the visit. "She's probably the most famous person on the planet," he said....

In solving his revenue crunch, Washington Gov. Gary Locke focuses on results, not costs. Table of Contents At a time when the states face a collective revenue shortfall of $80 billion -- the worst fiscal crisis since World War II, according to the National Governors Association -- Washington Gov. Gary Locke has achieved the improbable. In addressing his state's $2 billion budget gap, he has managed to garner widespread confidence in his budgetary leadership among voters and political counterparts alike. That public confidence has been a byproduct of an effort by Locke to invert the standard way of budgeting, in...