On the Line
On the Line No More Fallout Nevada Test Site In February, the Defense Department canceled its plans to conduct a nonnuclear explosion over a desert in Nevada. The experiment, dubbed "Divine...
...The protest kicked off a "Summer of Action" campaign, with anti-war demonstrators putting pressure on Congress to end the war...
...Demonstrators then marched to Capitol Hill...
...The experiment, dubbed "Divine Strake," would have ignited 700 tons of explosives at the Nevada Test Site...
...For more information, go to www.beachimpeach.org...
...For more information, go to www.hiphopcaucus.org...
...Make Hip-Hop, Not War The Hip Hop Caucus, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and the National Youth and Student Peace Coalition organized an anti-war tour that visited college campuses and fifteen cities this past spring...
...The Pentagon called off the initial June date of the Divine Strake blast days after people living downwind and Native American tribes filed a lawsuit...
...For more information, contact Jobs with Justice at www.jwj.org...
...For more information, go to stopdivinestrake.com or www.downwinders.org...
...The tour included rallies, town hall meetings, and stops at basketball courts and shopping malls...
...Hundreds of people rallied in Lafayette Park on Mother's Day to call for an end to the Iraq War...
...Mother of a March Washington, D.C...
...Mayor Adrian Fenty and Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton led the march...
...The police arrested forty people who were blocking traffic...
...Days later, the House of Representatives approved on a 241-177 vote the bill to allocate a House seat to a representative of the District of Columbia...
...Protesters also organized a sixty-mile peace walk from Las Vegas to the Nevada Test Site...
...Students for Justice The Student Labor Action Project, a joint initiative of Jobs with Justice and the United States Student Association, organized the eighth annual "National Student Labor Week of Action," March 27-April 4. Students and community members participated in dozens of events on economic justice issues, ranging from allowing workers to form unions on campuses to paying living wages to university employees and prohibiting the use of sweatshops in the making of college apparel...
...For more information, go to www.grassrootsamericaforus.org...
...The plans prompted widespread protests from people who feared it would kick up radioactive material from previous blasts...
...The bill faces an uphill battle in the Senate, and President Bush has For more information, go to www.dcvote.org...
...Impeachment Day On April 28, five days after Representative Dennis Kucinich filed impeachment articles, protesters in 130 cities signaled their agreement...
...Voting Rights for D.C...
...Thousands of people marched on April 16 for full voting rights for Washington, D.C...
Vol. 71 • July 2007 • No. 7
