Dove NESARA Updates

Date: Saturday, March 15, 2003 8:45 p.m. PST

To: Dove Group Members

From: "Dove_of_O" <dove_of_o@fourwinds10.com>

Subject: [doveofo] Millions Support Peace Worldwide; Lawsuit to Block War

Hello Dear Friends and White Knights,

Millions around the world attended rallies supporting Peace today. On Sunday, many people will hold candlelight vigils in support of Peace.

Below are three articles about how various groups are taking action to block the war. There is a group working on a lawsuit and some are even considering doing sit-ins in D.C. this week to protest Bush's warmongering.

Peace is supported and war is cancelled. NESARA's announcement ends the Bush gang's power and warmongering and NESARA's announcement is certain. In the meantime, the Forces are keeping the militaries of all countries from causing war. The millions of people who have called for peace have given authority for massive interventions! NESARA Yes!

Blessings and Love,

Dove of Oneness

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Published on Saturday, March 15, 2003 by the Los Angeles Times

Women Take a Leading Role in Protesting Against War With Iraq

by Anne-Marie O'Connor

In a Venice bungalow crowded with people who oppose the looming conflict with Iraq, longtime activist Jodie Evans was ticking off a list of potential antiwar actions. Would Thursday be a good day for everyone to crowd into the Los Angeles offices of Sen. Dianne Feinstein and deliver a "pink slip" for not doing enough to prevent war with Iraq?

What about a pink carpet outside the Academy Awards on March 23 or smuggling pink umbrellas into the fan bleachers where they would be seen by millions on television?

Evans, a onetime campaign manager for former Gov. Jerry Brown, is one of a number of people working full time with one goal: to stop the war on Iraq before it begins. The 30 people at her house Thursday night were thinking pink -- the name of this national movement is Code Pink -- because the color is being used to symbolize women-led opposition to the war.

Code Pink is one of dozens of groups joining weekend protests in the Southland that will include a downtown Los Angeles march featuring Jesse Jackson and Arianna Huffington today and candlelight vigils Sunday in such communities as Pasadena, La Canada Flintridge, Sierra Madre and Laguna Beach. Other protests will be taking place across the country.

This week, people are meeting around the country in homes like Evans' to try to sway the debate over an attack on Iraq. They're planning vigils, prayer breakfasts and grass-roots public forums in an attempt to affect the issue, far from the White House, the United Nations, or even the network news.

For full-time antiwar activists like Evans, history begins in her living room.

"We don't want the bombs to fall, and that's what this is all about," Evans, a 48-year-old mother of three, told the activists, including a handful of men. They crowded into a living room lined with bookshelves and Eastern art, many of them sitting on the floor.

"The bombs were going to fall in December, January, then February. I think we're succeeding," she said. "Women are answering this call. Women are going to stop this war."

Longtime Activist Evans is a dynamic redhead whose involvement with social issues has led her everywhere from Jerry Brown's Cabinet to documentary film to the "shadow conventions" that provided a populist alternative to the 2000 political conventions. Now she and her fellow activists, such as Medea Benjamin, head of San Francisco-based Global Exchange, have put other things on hold to focus on the threat of war.

Code Pink -- a play on President Bush's "Code Red" security warning system, as well as a reference to the alert that hospitals use to signal a missing baby -- coalesced at a meeting of longtime female activists in Ojai in May.

The movement has grown rapidly as plans have mounted for war, with a Web site -- www.codepink4peace.org -- maintained by Evans and Pilar Perez, who runs a publishing house, Perceval Press, with actor Viggo Mortensen.

White House Vigil "It just kept coalescing and growing and expanding," Perez said. "We didn't know it would mobilize into a full-fledged organization."

The group has held a vigil outside the White House since Nov. 17. According to one alternative press bible, the Utne Reader -- which features a Code Pink button on its current cover -- White House political strategist Karl Rove has remarked: "You pink ladies are everywhere -- didn't I see you in Salt Lake City last week?"

They've also demonstrated in such cities as Anchorage; San Francisco; New York; Portland, Maine; Lincoln, Neb.; and Shreveport, La.

Twenty-five Code Pink members were arrested at a Washington demonstration last Saturday when they refused National Park Service orders to leave the pedestrian mall in front of the White House, where they chanted "Peace, not war" and "Bush says code red, we say code pink." Among the speakers there were authors Alice Walker and Maxine Hong Kingston and nuclear disarmament activist Helen Caldicott.

Sen. Feinstein already has received one pink slip, although her spokesman tried to placate Code Pink by telling its members that, of 50,000 calls her office has received on the war, 48,000 were against it.

On March 7, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) got one of their pink slips -- a piece of lingerie. The senator walked out on the group when Evans tore off the full-length pink slip she was wearing and handed it to Clinton.

"I am the senator from New York," Clinton said, "and I will not put the people's security at risk."

Many of the women gathered at Evans' house are wearing pink. They've got bags full of pink laundry twine, or pink dusters that can be used as props in the street theater of antiwar activism.

Many of them, years ago, protested the war in Vietnam, and they are openly excited at the renewed sense of common purpose and unity they share.

"We are having a worldwide conversation about peace for the first time in history," said Sand Brim, owner of the Culture Shop on Montana Avenue in Santa Monica. "We have to look at this positively. This is a wonderful time to be alive."

Brim and Evans were among 13 women who traveled to Iraq for a 10-day visit in early February.

"We just went to speak and meet with the people," Evans said. "They tried to get us to meet with the government and we refused. We didn't want them to use us. Everything I've heard about [Saddam Hussein] makes me dislike him and his abuse of power."

Fear in Iraq She said the Iraqis they met feared the devastation and bloodshed that war would bring but made it clear they did not hold the group responsible.

"They said, 'We are not Saddam. We are Iraqis. You are not Bush. You are Americans,' " Brim said. "They understand that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Today, Code Pink will meet at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Los Angeles with umbrellas, bumper stickers and buttons. Participants will join a march orchestrated by local and international antiwar coalitions, along with Jackson and Huffington, who says she'll wear a Code Pink button. The Los Angeles march will culminate at the Federal Building, where Huffington, Jackson, Tom Hayden and activist actress Alfre Woodard are to speak.

One white-haired grandmother at Evans' house Thursday night sat near her husband and described a placard she was making for the demonstration. It would have photographs of her children and grandchildren on one side and photographs of Iraqi children on the other.

"We're all mothers," Evans said. "We need to encourage everybody not to stay at home and be against the war -- but to be on the streets."

Copyright 2003 Los Angeles Times

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Published on Saturday, March 15, 2003 by the Boston Globe

Lawyers Hoping to Avert War Plan Push to Reopen Case

by Lyle Denniston

WASHINGTON - Lawyers trying to persuade the courts to stop President Bush from launching a war against Iraq plan to bring a new challenge next week, despite a rejection two days ago in a federal appeals court.

John C. Bonifaz of Boston, the lead lawyer for the soldiers, parents, and members of Congress pursuing the challenge, said the attempt to reopen the case may start as early as Monday, but in any event, as soon as it is clear what the United Nations will do on a second Iraq resolution.

''We are not going to wait until the bombs fall,'' he said. A decision Thursday by the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, in Boston, which dismissed the challenge, ''made it clear that the door is still open for review, in light of further facts,'' he added.

If the Appeals Court allows the case to go forward, it could set the stage for a major constitutional conflict between the president and the courts, and it could force the White House to put war plans on hold, awaiting court action.

This case, said Marie Ashe, professor of law at Suffolk University, ''involves a huge constitutional issue: whether there is a wrongful concentration of power in one person - the president.''

Ashe was one of the 74 law professors who urged the appeals court to rule that Bush cannot send the nation to war against Iraq without UN approval or, failing that, without a formal declaration of war by Congress. Congress has mandated that there be no preemptive strike against Iraq without UN approval or new congressional approval, the challengers argue.

The Appeals Court did not doom the case entirely. It turned aside a request by the Bush administration to erect a categorical bar to any such lawsuit.

The administration had argued that the courts have no role to play in the dispute because the Constitution assigns war-making power solely to Congress and the White House.

The Appeals Court said this is a murky area of constitutional law, so it dismissed the case instead on the ground that the legal controversy was not fully developed. Courts could not review the dispute, it said, ''until the available facts make it possible to define the issues with clarity. ... Here, too many crucial facts are missing.''

The court cited the daily fluctuations in diplomacy at the UN, the ongoing Security Council debate over a new resolution on Iraq, and the open question of what would happen militarily in the event of an impasse.

''These are tough cases,'' Bonifaz said, ''but this decision is a major step forward.'' The legal team decided that the ruling created a premise for seeking a rehearing once the facts needed to bring the case emerge.

''A couple of conditions must be met,'' the lawyer said.

First, the UN Security Council must either vote against authorizing war against Iraq or the request for such endorsement is withdrawn by the United States, Britain, and Spain.

Second, the president would have to indicate that the United States would go forward without UN approval. The attorneys, Bonifaz said, believe that this second condition already has been met, because the president has indicated publicly several times that he does not believe UN approval is necessary.

Once the outcome in the Security Council is clear, Bonifaz said, ''we are prepared to go back to the court. Every indication is that we will then be marching forward toward war.''

One other uncertainty remains, he added. A plea for the Appeals Court to rehear the case must be filed within 14 days after the ruling. If action should be put off at the UN, the lawyers conceivably could run out of time.

© Copyright 2003 Globe Newspaper Company

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Published on Friday, March 14, 2003 by CNN

Dozens of Former Lawmakers Urge Holding

Off On War

by Beth Lewandowski

WASHINGTON - Warning of the potential for more terrorist attacks and a "tarnished reputation" for the United States, 74 former members of Congress sent a letter to the White House Friday urging the Bush administration to "hold off" on any war plans with Iraq.

The signatories, all but four of them Democrats, urged the administration to give U.N. weapons inspectors more time to do their job.

"Let us pull back from the brink of war and give peaceful solutions a chance to work," the letter said.

The former lawmakers said they believed a war against Iraq would kill innocent people, precipitate terrorist attacks, weaken the United Nations, exacerbate conflicts throughout the Middle East and hurt the U.S. standing as a "world citizen."

The letter --released at a news conference Friday -- came as antiwar protesters gathered in Washington for a rally Sunday. Other antiwar protests are scheduled to take place this weekend in cities across the country.

Four Republicans signed the letter: John Buchanan Jr. of Alabama, Paul Findley of Illinois, Paul "Pete" McCloskey Jr. of California, and Charles Whalen of Ohio. "It still remains not a very wise, or safe, or even sane policy to try to liberate a village by destroying it," Buchanan said at the National Press Club, where the group met with reporters.

"The doctrine of pre-emption, the Japanese used it against us. It was called Pearl Harbor," said Democrat Elizabeth Holtzman, who represented New York City in the House.

The letter campaign was organized by former Maine congressman Tom Andrews, who started the Win Without War coalition, which is organizing candlelight vigils for Sunday.

Win Without War said the vigils will be held in more than 2,000 cities and 98 countries. In Washington, the vigil will be held at the Lincoln Memorial and will feature a performance by folk singers Peter, Paul and Mary.

Some rallies are also expected Saturday in cities such as Washington, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Marches are being organized by the ANSWER coalition, which was also responsible for the October and January marches in Washington that organizers said drew hundreds of thousands of people.

In addition, the United for Peace and Justice coalition is calling for acts of civil disobedience in Washington and other cities next week. Monday, dozens are expected to stage sit-ins at the U.S. Capitol.

Friday in San Francisco, police arrested demonstrators who were trying to shut down the Pacific Stock Exchange on Friday.

The blocked a major intersection in the city's financial district before police began making arrests. There were no disruptions to trading, a stock exchange spokesman said.

Copyright 2003 CNN