War/Protest/Civil Rights

War/Protest/Civil Rights/Weinholtz, Don/The Pacifist `Threat'/Hartford Courant/Hartford/CT/USA/15-Jan-2006//... American Quakers. "With the restriction of civil liberties goes surveillance," says Don Weinholtz, a Quaker who lives in Windsor. "It ...

War/Protest/Civil Rights/Bush needs not more power but to make FBI do its job/Palm Beach Post/Palm Beach/CA/USA/1-Jan-2006//... My wife had a Quaker ancestor who was a conscientious objector and had to be hidden in a cave to escape induction into the Confederate army. ...

War/Protest/Civil Rights/Smith, Daniel/Watch what you say: They’re listening/Warrick Publishing/Warrick/IN/USA/6-Jan-2006//Following two investigations in 1975 and 1976, reforms were put in place that barred the CIA and the Pentagon from spying on and maintaining records on U.S. persons residing in the United States. Almost 35 years later, the Army has been caught spying on a new generation (seasoned with a few old-timers) of anti-war and anti-military recruiting activists. Mainstream media obtained a 400-page dossier of some 1,500 “suspicious” organizations or activities the Army labeled “threats,” including a small group of locally known, non-confrontational, part-time counter-recruiting activists who openly gathered in the local Quaker Meeting House. Members of the group were puzzled by the Army’s characterization but not by the

War/Protest/Civil Rights/Activist/The Pentagon's 'thought police'/Online Journal/Lake Worth/FL/USA/10-Jan-2006//... page Defence Department document that proved that the Pentagon had been covertly monitoring peaceful antiwar groups, including a small group of Quaker activists ...

War/Protest/Civil Rights/Further proof of neo-con corruption/Paradise Post/Paradise/CA/USA/5-Jan-2006//... past. As syndicated columnist Mark Shields said, "What kind of tortured logic does it take to spy on a Quaker meeting?" Indeed. ...

War/Protest/Civil Rights/Government spying: Who's next/Tahlequah Daily Press/Tahlequah/OK/USA/5-Jan-2006//... Apparently, last year at a Quaker meeting house in Lake Worth, Fla., a small group of activists met to plan a protest of military recruiting at local high ...

War/Protest/Civil Rights/NSA SPIES ON BALTIMORE QUAKERS/Free Market News Network/Pompano Beach/FL/USA/10-Jan-2006//…. According to the documents, the Pledge of Resistance-Baltimore, a Quaker-linked peace group, has been monitored by the NSA working with the Baltimore Intelligence Unit of the Baltimore City Police Department.
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The documents came as a result of litigation in the August 2003 trial of Marilyn Carlisle and Cindy Farquhar. An NSA security official provided the defendants with a redacted Action Plan and a redacted copy of a Joint Terrorism Task Force email about the activities of the Pledge of Resistance activities.

The NSA, established in 1952 by President Truman, is the largest and most secret of U.S. intelligence agencies. Headquartered between Baltimore and Washington, DC, the agency has two principal functions: to protect U.S. government communications and intercept foreign transmissions. However, the NSA's United States Signals Intelligence Directive 18 strictly prohibits the interception or collection of information about "U.S. persons, entities, corporations or organizations" without explicit written permission from the Attorney General.

The revelation that a Baltimore peace group was spied upon comes in the wake of a news reports that the agency has also been eavesdropping on Americans' international calls and raises new questions about the legality of NSA activities. The agency did not immediately return a request for comment.

The Baltimore Pledge of Resistance is part of the national Iraq Pledge of Resistance, which works with the Baltimore Emergency Response Network and the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) -- part of a national group committed to nonviolent civil resistance to stop the war in Iraq. The Pledge lobbies Maryland congressmembers via letters, phone calls, faxes, emails and face-to-face meetings; members of the group are periodically arrested for peaceable protests. …..

War/Protest/Civil Rights/More Government Spying on Nonprofits Revealed/OMB Watch/Washington/DC/USA/11-Jan-2006//... These included a number of peaceful nonprofit activities, such as a Fort Worth, FL Quaker group planning a protest of military recruitment in area high schools ...

War/Protest/Civil Rights/Enough/South Bend Tribune/South Bend/IN/USA/13-Jan-2006//…President Bush's most recent ethical lapse should chill the blood of even his staunchest supporter. In clear violation of law, he has authorized the military to spy on U.S. citizens inside the United States.
And this doesn't involve al-Qaida members who have somehow obtained U.S. citizenship. One example that recently came to light was a group of average Americans meeting in the basement of a Quaker meeting house to promote peace.
This time his lapse is a very serious offense. And he is not only unapologetic, but vowed to continue his activity. ...

War/Protest/Civil Rights/Watch what you say -- they're listening/Topeka Capital Journal/Topeka/KS/USA/6-Jan-2006//... including a small group of locally known, non-confrontational, part-time counter-recruiting activists who openly gathered in the local Quaker Meeting House. ...

War/Protest/Civil Rights/Further proof of neo-con corruption/Paradise Post/Paradise/CA/USA/4-Jan-2006//... past. As syndicated columnist Mark Shields said, "What kind of tortured logic does it take to spy on a Quaker meeting?" Indeed. ...

War/Protest/Civil Rights/FBI Reverts To Old Tactics/The Ledger/Lake Worth/FL/USA/3-Jan-2006//... The Palm Beach Post and others have reported that a program under the Defense Department has included scrutiny of a group meeting in a Quaker meeting house in ...

War/Protest/Prignitz, Earl J./Danger Ahead - History does repeat itself!/American Chronicle/Huntington Beach/CA/USA/12-Jan-2006//Thirty-five years ago they picked up a few film stars today they are even spying on the Quakers. I happen to be a Quaker so I am likely under surveillance.

War/Iraq/Protest//War Divide Pits Protestors Against Friends/Bremerton Sun/Bremerton/WA/USA/4-Jan-2006//... A Quaker couple huddling nearby wield two signs, one urging prayer for war hostages (and their captors) and one with a dove and the saying, "War is not the ...

War/Torture/Quaker History/From Humboldt to Guantanamo/North Coast Journal/Humboldt/CA/USA/5-Jan-2006//…If for no other reason, they are taken seriously for one simple fact: They are members of the Humboldt Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, or the Quakers. As Quakers, they can call upon the credibility of several centuries of active commitment to international peace and social justice, including a Nobel Peace Prize.

The nature of their commitment is also informed by Quaker tradition. They don't proselytize for any religion or any country. They oppose war and cruelty, but in past conflicts, the victims on all sides had their help, and all sides learned of their value. They aren't just social activists or only spiritual. Their presence and their process is a unique combination of both. ...

War/Iraq///Activist to lecture on life in Baghdad/Fall River Herald News/Fall River/MA/USA/5-Jan-2006//…. According to Voices, the confirmed number of civilians dead since the American invasion is about 30,000, almost half of them in Baghdad. Some 42,000 civilians are confirmed to have been wounded or maimed. Only 30 percent of the deaths came during the invasion. Almost 2,000 Iraqi police have been killed since the new government took office April 28. Bombings in the street are common, as are abductions. Clean water is hard to find, electricity is erratic, and going to and from school can be frightening for children.

Capaccio said after the Persian Gulf War in 1991, there was very little coverage in the media about what was going on in Iraq as a consequence of the war. He said he did some research and, "I was rather shocked to find out the extent of the suffering. I felt compelled to go there. I felt I needed to give witness to that here."

Although a Quaker meeting he attends in Cambridge has been very supportive, Capaccio said he went to Iraq as an individual. He made his first trip in 1997 and he said he now has many friends in Baghdad. ….