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Oklahoma City's Union Station – Petition – 1000 sign in 3 days!

Oklahoma City’s Union Station – Petition – 1000 sign in 3 days!
Source: bit.ly
We, the undersigned, support efforts to ensure the future of public transportation for Oklahoma City, Central Oklahoma and the state of Oklahoma. As residents of Oklahoma, we specifically ask the Oklahoma …
    * LAST CALL!!* to Sign the Petition to *“SAVE UNION STATION RAIL YARD”*!!!

http://bit.ly/usokc

If you haven’t signed, PLEASE do so and then forward
to your friends.

We’ll let you know when the Petition will be submitted LIVE! to the
Oklahoma City Council, so that you can join in.

Thank you!!!!

PS: We have 1,500 signatures so far.    

Politics and law

Understanding and treating the hidden wounds of war

Documentary video explores the hidden wounds of war
Date: Wednesday, 7/21
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: Joy Mennonite Church, 504 NE 16th, OKC
The Oklahoma Center for Conscience and Oklahoma GI Rights Hotline invite you to a screening of the film “PTSD: Invisible Wounds of War” on Tuesday, July 21 at 6:30 pm at Joy Mennonite Church in Oklahoma […]

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Daily Kos: The cost of no public option

Daily Kos: The cost of no public option
Source: www.dailykos.com
There’s a lot of arguing about the cost of the public option. The plan put forward by the HELP committee, is expected to cost $600 billion. The numbers (plucked from extremely well researched thin air) by the GOP insist the final number will be well above a trillion.
    VERY good argument — with clear facts and statistics and a simple cost comparison formula — to use with your Republican friends and family who are screaming about the expense of a public plan.    
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Rules of Disengagement:The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent

Rules of Disengagement:The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent
Source: p3books.com
Rules of Disengagement examines the reasons men and women in the military have disobeyed orders and resisted the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It takes readers into the courtroom where sailors, soldiers, and Marines have argued that these wars are illegal under international law and unconstitutional…
    A good friend of mine is co-author of this book. If you are interested in learning about resistance in the military and in supporting those resisters, you should buy it.     
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McNamara's "Moron Corps" – Salon.com

McNamara’s “Moron Corps” – Salon.com
Source: dir.salon.com
HBO’s “Path to War” leaves out some of the most shameful brainstorms of the Vietnam War’s masterminds — including a little-known recruitment program that turned the mentally and physically deficient into cannon fodder.
    McNamara’s Project 100,000 was a heinous idea, and is echoed in today’s lowered recruitment standards of the “volunteer” Army.