.                       Update (January 6)

The Dignity, a Free Gaza boat on a mission of mercy to besieged Gaza, was attacked and severely damaged by the Israeli Navy in international waters on December 29, 2008.

December 31 Press Release by the Free Gaza Movement (includes contact information for Israeli government and military officials)

Please read the eyewitness account from Rep. McKinney on the Charleston Peace blog.

News and Opinion was updated January 6
Economic Justice is updated nearly every day
Check the links on Alternatives to Military Service

The next meeting will  be Thursday, January 15, at 7:00 p.m. at the Circular Congregational Church, 150 Meeting Street (upstairs in the back building). For more information, contact bflosue(at)earthlink.net, 843-763-7304.   3096

The breakdown of an entire society is happening in front of us, but there is
little international response beyond UN warnings which are ignored. . . .  How can keeping food and medicine from the people of Gaza protect the people of Israel? How can the impoverishment and suffering of Gaza’s children – more than 50 per cent of the population – benefit anyone?

Read Roy's detailed article, which is to be published Jan. 1, 2009, at the London Review of Books or at Information Clearinghouse. For Background information, please read Stephen Lendman's article, published by the Centre for Research on Globalization.

The shministim are our lamedvavniks-our voice of conscience, our tiny flickering hope of building a society that does not willingly participate in controlling, terrorizing, and killing the Palestinian people-enforcing the checkpoints, demolishing homes, destroying ancient olive groves, building the Wall, confiscating land, enforcing siege and all the other immoral and illegal actions of the occupation.

The School of the Americas (SOA) in Fort Benning, GA has trained over 60,000 Latin American soldiers in interrogation tactics, psychological warfare, and counterinsurgency techniques, and its graduates have tortured, raped and killed union and student organizers, teachers, clergy and others working for human rights in Latin America.

The movement to close the SOA is gaining strength. Read abou the history of the movement to close the SOA and about legislative actions, and see the photos from the November 22-23, 2008 vigil.

Troy Davis' execution, which was scheduled for this Monday, October 27, has been halted, so that attorneys can file a law suit based on the claim that he is innocent of the murder for which he was sentenced to death. 

Peace Vigil at Marion Square
12:00p.m., first and third Saturday of each month 

Come and join us at noon at the fountain in Marion Square on the corner of King and Calhoun.  We welcome support  in handing out flyers on the cost of the war as well as carrying signs for peace. For more details, you can contact Carol at carolgdotterer(at)hotmail.com or call 406-9673 (before 10 pm) or reach Dick at gofigure(at)gowebway.com.

 Notes and Photos from the 15th Annual
Fast and Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty

June 29 to July 2, 2008, Washington, D.C.   3520

1924 poem