Gregory William Pope was born at 7:10pm Eastern Standard Time. He weighed 6 lbs even. Now begins a new chapter of my life – grandparenthood.
Human Rights Education Center of Utah
United Nations Human Rights Day Website
AfterDowningStreet.org’s Human Rights and Impeachment Day
Human Rights Watch
Impeach for a change!
Meet and discuss ways to recruit others in our community to sign the petition to have Bush and Cheney impeached for the crimes that they have committed.
2:00 PM until 3:00 PM
451 East 400 North Reeves Building, Room 250
Directions
Locate the College of Eastern Utah Campus in Price, Utah and go to the Reeves Building. Come to room 250 at 2:00pm.
Amnesty International Holiday Write-A-Thon
1-5pm
4th Floor of the City Library (SLC)
Join us in this nationwide event to write letters on behalf of individuals at risk of urgent human rights abuses and send letter and cards of hope to prisoners of conscience around the world. You are encouraged to bring writing materials and stamps to this event, or drop off materials beforehand. Coming together to write holiday greetings to prisoners of conscious.
More information
In Honor of UN Human Rights Day
Salt Lake City Public Library
210 East 400 South, Main Auditorium
1:30 pm “The Iron Wall”
A must see documentary recommended for anyone concerned with the quest for a just and peaceful resolution of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict – a film that takes a clear stand while showing genuine empathy for both
2:30 pm Anna Baltzer “Witness in Palestine”
Anna is a Jewish American, grand daughter of a Holocaust survivor, Columbia University graduate, Fulbright scholar and volunteer with the International Women’s Peace Service. Anna is currently touring the US with her first book: “Witness in Palestine: Journal of a Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories.”
Sponsored by Utahns for a Just Peace in the Holy Land
|
||||
|
|
||||||
|
||||||
|
||||
|
|
|
|
|
||||
|
|
||||
|
from Peace Buttons
Just got the word – my grandson is making his way out into our world! I’ll post here when it’s official.
| You Are 73% Peaceful |
 You are a very peaceful person. All is good in your world, no matter what’s going on. Occasionally you let your problems get to you, but you generally remain upbeat. Your inner strength is inspirational – much more so than you may realize. |
Utah Senator Chris Buttars, originator of legislation last session that would require schools to incorporate “Intelligent Design” theory alongside evolution in classrooms, says that
Today is the day that many people worldwide remember “Pearl Harbor Day”, 1947. Here is some reading for the occasion:
The Truth Behind Pearl Harbor
Revealed after 63 years: the truth behind Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor: The Facts Behind the Fiction
Pearl Harbor Historiography: A Lesson in Academic Housecleaning
Hatch: We can’t go home losers
Even though an Iraq Study Group’s report has concluded that the president’s Iraq policy has failed and must be changed and has assessed the situation in Iraq as bleak until changes for withdrawal are implemented:
Sen. Orrin Hatch cautioned that America needs to stick with the fight, saying “we can’t go home losers.”
Hatch said it was worthwhile to have the bipartisan panel study the issue, but reserved judgment on some recommendations, particularly the study group’s key suggestion that combat troops be withdrawn by early 2008.
“Losing is not an option,” Hatch said. “This is not just an Iraq war, this is a war against worldwide terrorism where Iraq is one area of conflict. We can’t ignore it’s an important area of conflict and we can’t just pick up and leave because the Democrats want to.”
Meaning if we can’t have total control over the resources there, those that are financially benefiting from that control “lose”.
The rest of the article delves into the rest of Utah’s delegation’s responses to the report. No member of Utah’s delegation is making a commitment to U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.
Yet a recent survey conducted by the The Iraq Center for Research & Strategic Studies shows that Iraqis want the Troops to leave
See the video here.
The Salt Lake Tribune has a piece today regarding the eviction of residents in a Midvale Mobile Home Park, resembling the simlar continuing saga of the Cottonwood Heights Mobile Home Residents being evicted. A developer has bought the land (sound familiar?) and plans to build townhomes on it. Residents have until January 31 to leave. Many are on fixed incomes and cannot afford to move their mobile homes. And they don’t know where they will be able to find housing.
What a travesty. I think that if developers are going to be permitted to purchase such land, there should be a clause that requires the developer to provide aid to the residents to move into affordable housing instead of leaving residents “out in the cold”, so to speak.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 