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Here are a few photos from the ILWU May Day action. 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24880232@N04/

From alternet 

The military adventurers in the Bush administration have much in common with the corporate leaders of the defunct energy company Enron. Both groups thought that they were the "smartest guys in the room" -- the title of Alex Gibney's prize-winning film on what went wrong at Enron. The neoconservatives in the White House and the Pentagon outsmarted themselves. They failed even to address the problem of how to finance their schemes of imperialist wars and global domination.

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From the New York Times

From Tom's Dispach:

Can there be any question that, since the invasion of 2003, Iraq has been unraveling? And here's the curious thing: Despite a lack of decent information and analysis on crucial aspects of the Iraqi catastrophe, despite the way much of the Iraq story fell off newspaper front pages and out of the TV news in the last year, despite so many reports on the "success" of the President's surge strategy, Americans sense this perfectly well. In the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll, 56% of Americans "say the United States should withdraw its military forces to avoid further casualties" and this has, as the Post notes, been a majority position since January 2007, the month that the surge was first announced. Imagine what might happen if the American public knew more about the actual state of affairs in Iraq -- and of thinking in Washington. So, here, in an attempt to unravel the situation in ever-unraveling Iraq are twelve answers to questions which should be asked far more often in this country:

1. Yes, the war has morphed into the U.S. military's worst Iraq nightmare.. Read More

This YouTube <video> was filmed on 3-15-08 in the south park blocks in Portland Oregon

It is the second (tape#2) from this protest that I have published so far... more to come very soon

This protest event was in outrage over the 5 years of bloodshed and occupation in Iraq

This is 10 minutes of film - and takes place before the march walks through downtown

Here are some quick links from the IVAW newsletter to follow up on the important Winter Soldier II testimony given by returning Iraq and Afghanistan veterans earlier this month.

Thanks to Mireaya Medina for these photos from the World Without War!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24880232@N04/sets/72157604260705610/

March 15 2008 - video

 "5 Years of US Occupation in Iraq"

Filmed at the PDX peace rally in the south park blocks in Portland Ore.

Photos from March 20 Student Walkout Against the War in Portland. Yea for youth for an amazing event!

Check em out here