Hopeful Things

YES! Magazine and Positive Futures Network (PFN)
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Our hope lies in the fact that millions of people around the world are creating needed changes in their homes, communities, work places, and nations. Powerful innovations are taking hold within agriculture, businesses, criminal justice, schools--virtually every sector of society. The work of the Positive Futures Network is to give visibility and momentum to these signs of an emerging society in which life, not money, is what counts; in which everyone matters; and in which vibrant, inclusive communities offer prosperity, security, and meaningful ways of life.


The People's Declaration of Peace ...a commitment to take nonviolent steps for a comprehensive plan to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Sign The Declaration of Peace at http://declarationofpeace.org/goal We will take every nonviolent step possible to meet these goals:

• An end to all funding for U.S. military operations in Iraq.
• Safe and rapid withdrawal of all U.S. troops and coalition forces from Iraq, with no future deployments.
• No permanent U.S. military bases or installations in Iraq.
• Support for an Iraqi-led Peace process, including a Peace conference to shape a post-occupation transition.
• Return control of Iraqi oil to the people of Iraq, as well as complete sovereignty in their economic and political affairs.
• Support for reparations and reconstruction to address the destruction caused by the U.S. invasion, military occupation, and 13 years of economic sanctions.
• Establish a U.S. “peace dividend” for job creation, health care, education, housing, and other vital social needs at home.
• Increased support for U.S. veterans of the Iraq war.
• No war against Iran or any other nation.

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Featured Quotes

"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"-Bush's reply, "screamed" at an aide who had said, "There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution." November 2005, reported in Capitol Hill Blue 12/9/05

Overheard on New York subway train...
Hobo: "Attention, attention! I'm playing this saxophone to raise money for my spaceship!"Plays a horrible rendition of "Pop Goes the Weasel."Hobo: "I'm going into space, and I'm taking George Bush with me!"Fellow passengers cheer.

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