let us see what love can do

The Holy Land Foundation provided humanitarian services to families in Palestine and surrounding areas through Zakat (charity) committees when their assets were frozen in December 2001 by an executive order. Zakat, or charity, is one of the five pillars of faith in Islam.

Like many Americans, we have put off that conclusion, waiting for a sign that President Bush was seriously trying to dig the United States out of the disaster he created by invading Iraq without sufficient cause, in the face of global opposition, and without a plan to stabilize the country afterward.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2007/0707.Sorensen.html
Published on Thursday, June 28, 2007 by The Washington Monthly

Aircraft carrier USS Enterprise departs Norfolk for 6-month Mediterranean-Persian Gulf tour, a deployment DEBKA-Net-Weekly 300 first revealed exclusively on June 1

July 8, 2007, 11:48 AM (GMT+02:00)
USS Enterprise carrier

To help raise awareness of global climate change, The Crawford Texas Peace House, will join with thousands of other house party screenings of the LIVE EARTH 24 hour worldwide concert from beginning through the end of the concert Saturday afternoon, July the 7.

Join us anytime during the show and for a vegetarian meal on Saturday, served after the concert. Climate change is a growing problem. The United States is a leading contributor to global warming, and we should be leading in efforts to raising awareness and finding solutions. We will be open for the weekend for all of you Camp Caseyites who might want to blog, do some laundry or just visit.

In the spirit of community, The Crawford Texas Peace House offers a special welcome to Bree Walker, the new owner of the Camp Casey 3 property in Crawford who will be coming to town on the 6th to meet with the Camp Casey Community and formally take possession of the property she purchased from Cindy Sheehan.

Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) Senate Floor Speech Calls for Course Change in Iraq

Connecting our Iraq Strategy to our Vital Interests
Monday, June 25, 2007
Mr. President, I rise today to offer observations on the continuing involvement of the United States in Iraq. In my judgment, our course in Iraq has lost contact with our vital national security interests in the Middle East and beyond. Our continuing absorption with military activities in Iraq is limiting our diplomatic assertiveness there and elsewhere in the world. The prospects that the current “surge” strategy will succeed in the way originally envisioned by the President are very limited within the short period framed by our own domestic political debate."

We will have another chance to end the war. The Senate will soon have an opportunity to try again to change U.S. policy in Iraq. FCNL lobbyists have learned that bipartisan legislation to require the U.S. to engage in diplomatic talks to end the war and to set a date for withdrawal of U.S. forces will be introduced and could be voted on in June as part of the military authorization bill. Your senators need to hear from you and from other people in your community that you want them to support this legislation for a date certain to withdraw and diplomacy.

Take Action

Tell your senators not to vote more money for war in Iraq. Urge them to
insist on a new policy in Iraq
(http://capwiz.com/fconl/utr/1/GCPNHEWONP/AUEOHEWQMT/1215346506), and ask two of
your friends
(http://capwiz.com/fconl/utr/1/GCPNHEWONP/NCRVHEWQMU/1215346506) to do the same.
Urge your senators to support the
Iraq Study Group Recommendations Implementation Act when it comes to a
vote in the Senate.

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