Progressive Democrats Sonoma County

March 2, 2011
by Tom Hayden
The Nation

The Democratic National Committee—whose leader, after all, is President Barack Obama—passed a resolution at last weekend’s Washington, DC, conference calling for an acceleration of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan more rapidly than the president’s current 2014 timeline. The policy resolution demands a “swift withdrawal” of troops and contractors starting with a “significant and sizeable reduction [of troops] no later than July 2011.”

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August 8, 2010
Published by Tom Hayden.com.

The White House stepped up its campaign against WikiLeaks [Wednesday] by calling for the whistleblower organization to turn over the secret Pentagon documents still in its possession.

Meanwhile a petition supporting WikiLeaks began national and European circulation. See Defend WikiLeaks—End the Secret Wars at http://www.gopetition.com/petition/38165.html . The petition has been endorsed by Daniel Ellsberg, who was prosecuted by the Nixon administration for releasing the Pentagon Papers a generation ago. Other signers include Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Rev. George Hunsinger of Princeton Theological Seminary, and Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink.

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Tom Hayden
May 11, 2010

Take Action: Eat lunch for peace — become a brown-bagger

Published by the Peace and Resource Center

American antiwar sentiment is consolidating, according to a new Washington Post/ABC poll, despite months of official fanfare promoting the US military offensive in Afghanistan.

The news comes as the US military prepares its summer offensive in Kandahar, as Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai is welcomed to the White House, and Congress considers $33 billion for the troop escalation on top of $159 billion for another year of war.

Tom Hayden
May 7, 2010

Connect the dots — Join a Brown Bag Lunch Vigil

Published by The Nation.

The need for greater linkages between the environmental, peace and Wall Street reform movements grow by the day in the face of the epic oil spill caused by British Petroleum, a multinational firm tied to Goldman Sachs and Halliburton in oil wars from the Gulf of Mexico to the Persian Gulf.

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Tom Hayden, PDA Advisory Board member
February 3, 2010

Take Action: Sign the Afghanistan Peace Petition .

I want to thank PDA for continuing to pressure against the pillars of power supporting the Long War in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. You are making military escalation more difficult and building a political obstacle to the Pentagon and White House plans through 2012. A long war demands of us a long peace movement.

Thirty one Americans lost their lives in Afghanistan last month, which is more than twice the number killed in January 2008 and January 2009. The fighting in Afghanistan is intensifying even in the winter.

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Message from PDA:

Please Join Congresswoman Barbara Lee

at a noon press event to discuss
H.R. 3699 and an exit strategy
to end the war in Afghanistan

Confirmed speakers include:
• Danny Glover, actor and peace activist
• Tom Hayden, former State Senator and
peace activist
• Paul Cox, veteran and founder of Veterans
for Peace, Chapter 69

Location

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July 5, 2009

Join us in growing the peace movement!

In a recent article posted here, Tom Hayden discusses a strategy for the peace movement, and David Swanson offers an organizing plan here.

What’s clear is that we can expect war and more war. The peace movement must come together behind a cohesive and effective strategy to promote peace and end wasteful military spending.

We invite you to join us this Tuesday for the next End War and Occupation Issue Organizing Team (IOT) conference call featuring Healthcare NOT Warfare co-chair Norman Solomon. Norman has been a powerful voice for peace and an end to US imperialism. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from Norman on the eve of his departure to Afghanistan!

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by Tom Hayden
The Nation.com – May 26, 2009

The most powerful grassroots organization of the peace
movement, MoveOn, remains silent as the American wars
in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan simmer or escalate.