The money spigot needs to be turned off, and We The People need your help.

[unhappycamper]

http://vcnv.org/the-occupation-project-a-campaign-of-sustained-nonviolent-civil-

Voices for Creative Nonviolence is organizing the Occupation Project, a campaign of sustained nonviolent civil disobedience aimed at ending the U.S. war in and occupation of Iraq. The campaign will begin the first week of February 2007 with occupations at the offices of Representatives and Senators who refuse to pledge to vote against additional war funding.

We invite your participation and your organization’s endorsement. To become involved with this campaign, please contact us via phone at 773-878-3815 or via email,

Read the campaign’s foundational document: The Occupation Project: A Campaign of Sustained Nonviolent Civil Disobedience to End the Iraq War.


Just in case you were wondering about $$$ for the continued occupation of Iraq, never fear. There's plenty o dollars for Halliburton and friends thru June 2007.



Brother Can You Spare a Dime? Iraq War Spending in Fiscal Year 2007
By Jeff Leys
[e-mail]
December 29, 2006

$99.7 billion dollars. That’s what the Pentagon is seeking in additional “supplemental” war funding for 2007—for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and for the so-called “global war on terror”.

The Pentagon submitted this request to the White House on December 7. After reviewing the request, the White House will submit a new supplemental spending bill to Congress in early 2007—most likely during the first week of February.

This $99.7 billion is on top of the $70 billion already approved by Congress for Fiscal Year 2007 (which runs from October 1, 2006 through September 30, 2007). At least $75 billion of the $99.7 billion will be for the war in and occupation of Iraq.

Now is the time to lobby Senators and Representatives to vote against the supplemental spending bill. Now is the time to prepare for civil disobedience—an extralegal form of lobbying—in the offices of those Senators and Representatives who do not publicly pledge to vote against the supplemental spending bill. Voices for Creative Nonviolence is organizing one such effort of sustained nonviolent civil disobedience to end war funding, called the Occupation Project. The Declaration of Peace is also continuing to organize nonviolent civil disobedience to end Iraq war funding.

Supporters of the supplemental spending bill are certain to argue that these funds are necessary to ensure that U.S. soldiers in Iraq have the weapons, body armor and other supplies necessary to ensure their own safety and well-being. Let us begin to break down this myth by digging into the raw numbers of past supplemental spending bills which have funded the war in and occupation of Iraq.

a good read on your tax $$$ at work

[babylonsister]

1. Recommend. nt

[lonestarnot]

2. K & R Bookmarking

And on edit: On my desk I have my pledge card for money. Just waiting for the money. Heh.

[unhappycamper]

3. Kick to get off page 3.

Last one. I promise!

[Jcrowley]

4. Kicking

for it must be done by the people.

"I am glad has realized the need for increasing the size of the armed forces... but this is where the Democrats have been for two years," commented Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the new House Democratic Caucus chairman.) The Democratic leadership promptly pledged to make such an expansion one of its top reform priorities in the New Year.

What Cindy and the other activists did is what we all need to do. Left to itself, the government is going to continue to rubber-stamp the war machine. They will do their job of representing We The People only when We The People make it clear we will let them do nothing else.

Forget "Free speech zones". Take the protests right into the legislative chambers. Be polite, be firm, AVOID VIOLENCE, but get in there and get your message across.

No More War! No More War Funds!

Troops Home NOW!

[GuvWurld]

5. We need a national tax strike

Forget about waiting for Congress to stop funding war or anything else. We have to stop the funding ourselves. Watch Aaron Russo's movie Freedom to Fascism. You will understand that there is no law requiring us to pay income tax. So don't pay.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4312730277175242198

Now let's organize and help everyone understand they don't have to pay. It is called a national tax strike and it is a gigantic way that we can withdraw our complicity and withdraw the Consent of the Governed, the only legitimate source of government power.

That said, I also support the idea of confronting Congressmembers and shutting down their offices. I don't think the goal of that should be limited to issues of funding, however, and the real benefits of such an action are to stop the machine from functioning and to exert the power of the People.

[GuvWurld]

6. Kick (eom)