Evergreene Digest A Journal of Progress for the Rest of Us

• It doesn't matter the commander or the strategy, these occupations are wrong, immoral, unjust, illegitimate.  And you have a role in stopping them.
• So what can you do?

Debra Sweet, the World Can't Wait

99 to 0!  And it would have been 100 Senators to 0 if Robert Byrd had been alive to vote to confirm General Petraeus on Wednesday.  Thursday the House voted money to keep the occupation going with $37 billion.  Afghanistan gets chewed up for going on ten years.

Petraeus rushed to Afghanistan yesterday (July 2) for work on a planned "surge" on Kandahar.  But the conflict over how to proceed there which was revealed in Defense Secretary Gates issued detailed "rules of engagement" for the military...for the press...so that no one in the military speaks frankly again about the war.

Controversy, not over whether the U.S. war strategy is "working," but whether it's justified at all, should be challenging a lot of people, who should hear our answer.  It doesn't matter the commander or the strategy, these occupations are wrong, immoral, unjust, illegitimate.  And you have a role in stopping them.

This July 4 holiday should be making a lot of people question wars for empire, the "promise" of democracy, tyranny, and basic justice.

So what can you do?

6 New Items including:

• Pelosi and Hoyer Trying to Pass War Escalation Funding
• The Cost of Making War – A Spiritual Perspective

David Culver, ed., Evergreene Digest

Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Coleen Rowley

Pelosi and Hoyer Trying to Pass War Escalation Funding, Coleen Rowley, Evergreene Digest

• Call your Representative through the Capitol Hill switchboard: (202) 224-3121 and send them an Email here
• If We Don't Stop War Funding, They'll Slash Social Security and Medicare
• "We’re f'ing losing this thing.”

Coleen Rowley, Evergreene Digest

Jim Morin