Find Conscientious Objector Resources at Peace-Out.com
You can get out of the military as a conscientious objector, even if you enlisted.

Service Women's Action Network (SWAN)
The Service Women’s Action Network supports veterans and young women considering military service, works to solve problems facing women in uniform, and provides services that are healing to women after their military service experiences.

The ACLU-NC filed a lawsuit in September 2008 charging that the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department and the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have been collaborating beyond the law to target, arrest, and detain Latino residents of Sonoma County. For three years sheriff deputies and ICE agents have stopped and searched people who appear to be Latino, interrogated them about their immigration status, and detained them in the county jail without lawful authority. The lawsuit charges that the actions by the local sheriff and ICE violated constitutional guarantees of due process, equal protection, and freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures, and that the Sheriff’s Department acted beyond its authority in enforcing federal immigration law. Read more on the ACLU site.

The national debt went over 10 Trillion dollars early in October. That amounts to about $86,000 per household. Learn more.

For more information on alternatives for spending the estimated 3TRILLION DOLLARS that the Iraq war will cost, watch the Three Trillion Dollar Spending Spree video.

Some 300,000 U.S. troops are suffering from major depression or post traumatic stress from serving in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and 320,000 received brain injuries, a new study estimates. Learn more

New Jersey Peace Action, Paula Rogovin, Anna Berlinrut and Iraq veteran William Wheeler have sued the President for unconstitutionally sending them to war without a Congressional declaration of war. From the preliminary statement in their complaint:

"Plaintiffs seek a Declaratory Judgment that the current
war in Iraq is being waged in violation of Article I, Sec. 8 of
the United States Constitution (“Congress shall have the power to
declare war”) because Congress has enacted neither a Declaration
of War nor an explicit, intentional and discrete authorization of
war prior to hostilities; because Congress may not transfer its
constitutionally mandated duties to the Executive; and because
the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) of
October, 2002 deprived American citizens of the opportunity to
vote for or against their elected representatives based upon how
their representatives voted on the issue of going to war in Iraq,
a right protected by Article I, Section 5(3) of the Constitution
as implemented by the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment."

Download the full complaint document (a 40 KB PDF) and learn more.

Too often we gaze enviously upon those who are richer than we are, but we seldom think about those who have less than we do. Are you curious to know where you stand in the continuum of wealth world wide? Want to know how you rank on a list of the richest people in the world? Find out using the global rich list calculator.

Burma's monks are leading the struggle of the Burmese people against an oppressive military dictatorship, despite the risk of beating, torture and death. Click on a monk above to learn more or to help the monks in their courageous opposition to a brutal regime.

The figures on the left include reported civilian deaths only. The figure in the center represents an estimate of civilian casualties based upon a study by public health experts in 2006.
Read the 2006 article.

New WHO study:
40 months of war, 151,000 Iraqis dead by violence through June, 2006. Violence now leading cause of death in Iraq. 3,775 violent deaths per month.
Read the new study.

** A Life, Wasted. **
Click below to read an open letter from Paul E. Schroeder, the father of a soldier killed in Iraq:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/02/AR2006010200974.html