Kucinich Weekly Update
The following email was sent from the Kucinich site on June 14, 2005.
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Kucinich Solicits Your Input on Reasoning for Iraq Withdrawal
In his June 10th Report from Washington, Dennis listed some arguments that he and his colleagues have been running into while working to build bi-partisan support for a Resolution to set a timetable for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq. He asked you to share how you would respond. Here in condensed form are some of your responses. Read the rest and add your responses here.
Network of Spiritual Progressives Kick-Off Conference July 20-23
The Spiritual Activism Conference, to be held in Berkeley, CA and sponsored by the Tikkun Community, among others, is intended to help build an organization to counter reactionary thought in America, and to revitalize voices for peace, human rights, love and compassion. Organizing goals include:
* Stopping the appropriation of God by the religious right;
* Building an alliance between secular, religious and spiritual but not religious progressives; and
* Developing a new bottom line that champions love, caring, social justice and ecological sanity over money and power.
Speakers are expected to include Rabbi Michael Lerner (editor of Tikkun), Jim Wallis (editor of Sojourners and author of God's Politics), John Shelby Spong (former Episcopal Bishop), Sylvia Boorstein (Buddhist teacher), Mary Elizabeth Moore, Riane Eisler, Joan Borysenko, Van Jones, David Korten, Michael Nagler, Sheikh Kabir Helminski, John Cobb, Arun Gandhi (grandson of the Mahatma), Carl Pope (chair of the Sierra Club), Welton Gaddy (chair of the Interfaith Alliance), Jeffrey Kuan, Rita Nakashimi Brock, Rabbi Rami Shapiro, Members of Congress Lynn Woolsey and Jim Moran, Ched Meyers, Osagyefu Uhura Sekou and many others with a broad range of spiritual perspectives.
Check online for conference details and a complete list of speakers.
Hearings and Rally on Downing Street Minutes to be Held in D.C. on Thursday, June 16
On Thursday June 16 at 1:00 p.m. in the Wasserman Room of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at 430 S. Capitol St. SE, Washington, D.C., Rep. John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, will hold a hearing on the Downing Street Minutes and related evidence of Administration efforts to cook the books on pre-war intelligence. A rally will be held on the same day at 5:00 p.m. in Lafayette Square Park in front of the White House to support Congressman Conyers in his delivery of a letter signed by over 500,000 Americans and over 100 Members of Congress asking the President to respond to questions raised by the Downing Street Minutes. If you have not yet signed the letter you may do so at johnconyers.com. Click for more information on the hearings and rally.
'Til next week,
Turo Dexter
Webmaster, kucinich.us
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