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Is a Hi-Tech COINTELPRO 2005-2008 Back?
EmpowermentResources.com survives a 4/30/05-5/4/08 FBI Electronic Siege

Webmaster adjusts to severe FBI SID hi-tech electronic harassment/electronic warfare
and occasional FBI/FBI SID agent provocateur harassment.
Ed is still backlogged with personal tasks and FBI SID persecution data (logged and/or recorded)

FBI SID/COINTELPRO agent Jay Pendelton admits hiring and paying hitman responsible for 5/24/03 2003 Takoma Park, MD murder, and openly tries to hire new hitman on 7/25/05 to kill this webmaster.  (Detailed 7/25/05 - 8/6/05 log notes are now posted.)
FBI COINTELPRO/FBI SID 2005-2006 Timeline- Preliminary Draft Version  [1-11-06]
 Electronic/Electromagnetic Warfare Fact Sheet- Draft Version.  [Partially Updated 5-25-06]
StopPsyWar.com and StopCOINTELPRO.com
EdsSurplusForSale.com

Index
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March for Peace and Justice
United for Peace & Justice, MoveOn.org,
International ANSWER, & Win Without War
Also Freedom From Covert Harassment and Surveillance.

             
5/4/08.  Paid and unarrested FBI SID criminal perp Jay Pendelton starts illegal continuing 4 day illegal methamphetamine speed drug-fueled electronic warfare crime spree on May Day.  It began at approx 7:25pm May 1st just after Jay was worried about possible sexual harassment claims when Jay ranted to allegedly electronically sound harass May Day street protesters while also harassing Ed at home.  It included major daily sleep deprivation zap attacks, ranting sound harassment, electronic anti-brain zapping, computer hacking (opposed by anti-hacking work by Ed), and threats to dose Ed with LSD (a CIA mind control drug), death threats, and eviction threats.  Jay and B2, high on the illegal drug speed allegedly supplied on Friday 5/2/08 to Jay by FBI SID manager alias Hitler (who is alleged to be badge 614), and allegedly temporarily partially confiscated on Saturday by a different manager, went ballistic in a major electronic warfare rant attack on Friday, May 2, 2008.  At 8:29pm on Sunday, Ed recovered a day's worth of financial recordkeeping data that Jay trashed between Friday night and Sunday.  Ditsy allegedly intermittently walked off her illegal FBI SID job.  B2 complained about Jay's extreme behaviror but kept working.  Ed's May plans have been slowed and temporarily pre-empted by Jay's extreme electronic harassment.
     Ed continued to use Process Explorer to try to understand and cripple FBI SID computer hacking programs by removing WinXP software components that are specifically essential to FBI SID hacking software.  Ed removed HKCU:Software:Resplendence SP:Reg Bookmarks from Ed's WinXP registry when it looked like it was assigning external Windows Server 2003 values to many definitions in the registry.  Ed also tried disabling one more WinXP service, distributed link tracking client, trkwks.exe, that looked like it might be essential to running a program that has components running on multiple PCs.  (Ed also became frustrated that rpct4.dll is not removable.)  Judging from FBI SID hacker chatter, these changes seemed to at least temporarily reduce FBI SID computer hacking power.  On Friday night, Ed removed susprected FBI SID spyware from one PC's c:\Documents and Settings\Ed\Local Settings\Temp directory.  These files included IMTA.xsl, IMT9.xsl, and IMT2.xsl.  If also included 1c.tmp, 16,384 bytes, that, according to the data displayed on Ed's Internet PC's screen, is probably 2[1].exe, described at prevx.com.
4/25/08.
  Paid and unarrested criminal perps and FBI SID agents Jay Pendelton and B2, routinely high on FBI SID management supplied illegal methamphetamine speed, use illegal hi-tech electronic warfare attacks against Ed to deprive him of enough sleep for 3 days in a row, make death threats against Ed, and use hi-tech electronic anti-brain and anti-computer zapping and audible and subliminal sound harassment to interfere with, reduce, and slow down Ed's brainpower and computer processing power.  Ed is currently focusing on repairing his finances and life, including eBaying more assets at EdsSurplusForSale.com.
3/31/08-4/20/08.
  Ed's progress is dramatically slowed by routine FBI SID brain-disabling electronic warfare zaps and routine ranting or BS verbal harassmet by FBI SID workers Jay and B2, almost always pumped up on illegal methamphetamine speed illegally sold to them by FBI SID management.  FBI SID death threats are routine.  (FBI SID workers even zapped Ed during his tax preparation work.)
     Ed managed to begin to partially cripple the FBI SID software/spyware crippling his computer using a 3 step process.  1. Ed used the free progam Process Explorer to trace what FBI SID spyware is doing to his computer processes (viewing each process using the show lower pane view option and the lower pane view handles option).  2. Ed tried stripping RDP or remote data processing entries (like RDP_MOU and RDP_KBD) from the WinXP registry.  3. Ed tried deleting all rdp*.dll and all rdp*.sys files from WinXP.  Ed also made it a point to delete terminal services registry entries and dll and sys files.
     If you ever deal with hi-tech FBI SID-style hacking and remote-controlling of your computer, in addition to the standard precautions (hardware firewall, software firewall, antivirus software, anti-spyware and/or anti-rootkit software, etc.), you will also want to disable many automatic WinXP services, like secondary logon, fast-user switching, etc.  WinXP is designed to automatically allow authorized remote control acess to your PC in an office environment.  WinXP is not designed to provide maximum security for political dissidents targeted by repressive governments.
9:56am 3/31/08. 
FTP Internet access is restored after Ed loses 10 hours from 5:30pm 3/30/08-3:30am 3/31/08 first coping with FBI SID computer hacking attacks against his computer and then coping with what the FBI SID claims is an FBI SID denial of service attack against Ed's FTP Intenet access.  Conflict starts over Jay's trying to block Ed's posting of ebay sales pictures to EdsSurplusForSale.com and escalates into a presumed FBI SID denial of service attack against Ed's FTP access to both EdsSurplusForSale.com and EmpowermentResources.com, where most of 1 page was knocked off the Internet from 12:27am-9:46am 3/31/08.  FBI SID workers again routinely allegedly resupplied with methamphetamine speed on Saturday 3/29/08.  FBI SID also started daily sleep deprivation zap attacks on 3/27/08 usually limiting Ed to only 5 hours of sleep.
3/23/08. 
FBI SID criminal perp Jay Pendelton, wasted on illegal methamphetamine speed pills resupplied to him on Sat. 3/22/08, launches Easter psywar harassment electronic wafare attack with B2, including a major sleep deprivation attack, anti- TV zaps, a claimed attempt by Jay to lock Ed up under some BS "preventive detention" rule, a false FBI SID claim that Hitler was fired for Easter, FBI SID readmissions of guilt for prior FBI SID crimes of torture, rape, and murder, and claims that 2 FBI  sham "oversight" workers walked off their jobs, 1 on Satuday night and 1 on Sunday, routine FBI SID fake/pirate media sound harassment of Ed's Easter TV viewing of Godspell and Kings of Kings and John Adams, FBI SID computer hacking, and Jay's claim that the FBI SID fake/pirate media dept. no longer wants to work with Jay's psywar team.  3/23/08 logfile notes are now posted.
3/19/08. 
All-day FBI SID electronic warfare and/or gangstalking harassment ends in a heavy zap and gangstacking FBI SID "knockout attempt" against Ed around midnight at a grocery store.
3/16/08-3/18/08 and continuing.
  FBI SID, specifically Jay and B2, launches pre-rally preemptive electronic warfare strike to cripple Ed during his rally prep time and during the Take Back America conference in DC.  FBI SID electronic warfare harassment becomes severe starting on Monday 3/17/08 and includes a major sleep deprivation attack on Monday night, a zapped nightmare, FBI SID death threats, a threat against a family member, a lockup at Guantanamo Bay threat, a FBI SID theft claim, an eviction threat, FBI SID dosing with LSD threats, an overt order from Jay at 2:04am 3/18/08 to dose Ed with LSD, and very light zapped electronic pain torture.  The FBI SID (specifically Jay and B2) also sarcastically mentioned the words "Satan", "devil" and "Lucifer" and B2 did an extremely brief mock Satanic invocation.  B2 claims Ditsy walked off the job at the FBI SID building after Jay did a (very brief) fantasy rape of her at 9:27pm 3/17/08 at their office.  Paid and unarrested FBI SID agents Jay Pendelton and B2, obviously high on FBI SID-supplied illegal methamphetamine speed, are the main criminal perps.  Also, Jay and B2 both earlier claimed that they raped Mooch, a female FBI SID boss, allegedly on 3/11/08.  (Both Jay and Mooch previously claimed they are HIV-positive.)
2/26/08.  FBI SID gets bored and decreases persecution levels while Ed makes slow progress at midwinter chores.  FBI SID death threats continue.  At 11pm Saturday night, 2/23/08, at their FBI SID office, Jay, B2, and Ditsy allegedly illegally buy $5,000 worth of methamphetamine speed at an estimated $5/hit from their boss, alias Hitler #2.  Ed gets a lot of FBI SID pressure to not note that a FBI SID manager nicknamed Hitler #2 is an alleged major FBI SID methamphetamine speed drug dealer.  (Ditsy allegedly swipes a lot of Jay's speed drug stash and it is soon allegedly swiped back.)  Ed decreases logging FBI SID electronic harassment to increase his productivity that is limited by FBI SID electronic harassment and zapping.
2/12/08-2/14/08.  Very heavy FBI SID methamphetamine speed illegal drug-fueled electronic warfare psywar harassment continues, but Ed manages to get some sleep and get some chores done.  FBI SID death threats and lock-up threats continue.
2/11/08. 
FBI SID escalates to heavy "kill routine" electronic warfare attack level with a major sleep deprivation attack, disabling and mean zaps and a ton of almost nonstop FBI SID psywar crap.  FBI SID workers took credit (truely/falsely) for knocking out the electrical power at Ed's house from 3:30pm 2/10/08-2:54am 2/11/08.  Jay and B2 both made explicit death threats against Ed.  2/11/08 logfile notes are now posted.
2/10/08.
  FBI SID paid and unarrested electronic warfare psywar psychological torturers and illegal drug addicts Jay and B2 resume illegal methampethamine speed drug-fueled full-scale electronic warfare psywar attack, crippling Ed's productivity.
2/8/08. 
Blatant FBI SID computer hacking attack from 7:28am-8:17am 2/8/08 by Jay Pendelton, FBI SID speed freak criminal perp, blocks Ed's income-producing work of updating a page at EdsSurplusforSale.com pointing to Ed's ebay auctions at EdsSurplus eBay store.  Jay calls his blatant computer hacking attack "standard Gestapo tactics" at 7:49am 2/8/08.  Jay makes a death threat at 7:20am 2/8/08 and launches a major all-day psywar electronic harassment attack with up to 5 FBI SID harassment workers, including an often strong all-day anger zap and anti-brain focus zaps that slows Ed's progress to a crawl and leaves Ed silently morally and nonviolently furious at Jay's torturing and crippling Ed and slowly strangling the time and money out of Ed's life.
2/6/08. 
Ed posts an initial draft version of
StopPsyWar.com in response to an FBI SID 2:20am-7:50am 2/6/08 electronic warfare harassent sleep deprivation attack and FBI SID death threats.
2/4/08. 
Jay's FBI SID team launches a major all day 8:54am-4:26pm psywar electronic harassment attack on Ed's birthday.
1/13/08-1/24/08. 
Ed fails to reduce FBI SID persecution to code orange levels because FBI SID agent Jay Pendelton, high on FBI SID supplied $4 a hit methamphetamine speed as usual, intermittently escalates his shamelessly illegal wide-ranging electronic harassment of Ed and Ed's computers into red alert levels.  FBI SID persecution included sleep deprivation attacks, computer hacking, death threats, a lot of weird FBI SID psywar crap, and heavy in-person FBI SID gangstalking.  Jay admitted at 5:58pm 1/14/08 that he previously tried to kill Ed electronically and Ditsy admitted at 3:15pm 1/13/08 that she previously planned to kill Ed electronically in the past.  Also, the cumulative cost of their methamphetamine speed drug habit drives FBI SID drug addicts Jay, B2, and Ditsy to consider reducing their speed consumption to save money.
1/5/08-1/12/08 and continuing:
FBI SID Threat Level CODE RED.  FBI SID agent Jay Pendelton, continually high on methamphetamine speed after at least 1 alleged huge FBI SID drug deal around noon on Jan. 4, 2008, repeatedly opts to escalate electronic warfare zap attacks against Ed's computers (and Ed), openly turns Ed's PCs into electronic warfare target practice targets, cripples Ed's computing capability, harasses and zaps Ed, and issues multiple death threats.  Ed tries to regain complete control of his PCs but instead only gets a better understanding of superior FBI SID electronic warfare firepower and remote controlled/wireless/beam computer hacking power.  Ed suspects that a covert.code spyware install was one tool the FBI SID used against him.  (Its install files are STCVTG.EXE and KEYGEN.EXE.)  Also, Jay repeatedly admitted he is HIV-positive, provoking a big argument at his FBI SID psywar office.  (Jay admitted this at 9:42pm 1/1/08, 12:57pm 1/2/08, 7:10pm 1/12/08, and other times.)
12/28/07: Ed discovers 8 FBI SID computer rootkit subdirectories D5F, D6F, D7F, dg5, dg6, dg7, dg15, and dg16, and an apparently FBI SID rootkit/spyware/malware file "INFO2" on Ed's 2 main PCs and/or one portable hard drive on 12/26/07-12/27/07.  FBI SID openly tries to destroy as much rootkit evidence as possible on 12/28/07 and Jay, high on methamphetamine speed, brags of obtaining even more powerful FBI hacking software and issues death threats at 4:33am and 12:34pm on 12/28/07.  FBI SID email theft (of mostly spam) is also routine.  For more detailed info, click here.
12/12/07:
Ed is spending the winter at his current location.  Ed is focusing on personal chores and reorganization.  FBI SID illegal misconduct continues.
12/2/07: FBI SID claims, then denies, responsibility for 32 minute neighborhood power outage from 8:20pm-8:52pm 12/2/07.
11/29/07:
Allegedly abundant cheap FBI SID methamphetamine speed fuels blatantly irresponsible criminal FBI SID electronic warfare/psywar attacks by FBI SID drug addicts Jay and Ditsy.
11/7/07:
Vending sales and generous donations at Power Shift 2007 on Nov. 3-4 provide Ed with some essential funding.  Vehicle trouble after very heavy FBI SID weekend harassment prevents Ed from attending the Nov. 5 Power Shift 2007 rally at the U.S. Capitol.
10/31/07:
Repeated continuing FBI SID speed drug fueled electronic warfare attacks during both night and day prevent Ed from making much progress in accomplishing his goals.  Ed will post again within 5 days.  10/29/07-10/31/07 logfile notes are now posted.
10/27/07 6:05pm:
Ed restores Internet access.  Ed will post again within 5 days.
10/27/07 1:45am: FBI SID Threat Level CODE RED based on Jay's denial of Internet service attack.  This is soon followed by anti-computer zapping, repeated SDAs (sleep deprivation attacks), ranting, psywar crap, and death threats.  Here's the actual FBI SID psywar crap raw data from my 10/27/07 logfile notes
10/24/07: Ed is focusing on economic survival, tight budgeting, reorganization, and repairs.  Ed finally successfully repaired his moped that broke on 10/4/07 on 10/21/07 by installing a good used replacement engine.  Ed also replaced a probably FBI SID sabotaged broken backup digicam on 10/23/07.
     FBI SID persecution including nonstop electronic harassment and routine paid gangstalking continues unstopped despite FBI SID managers' complaints, repeated attempts to fire Jay, allegedly one FBI oversight manager quitting his assignment to monitor Jay, and increased FBI SID psywar harassment worker frustration.  2 1/2 years of overt psywar conflict is apparently starting to wear people out.  Jay, B2, and Ditsy grow reliant on bulk $2/hit speed pills allegedly supplied by FBI SID's boss, nicknamed Hitler, who is himself an alleged speed addict and drug dealer.
     Sept. 15, 2007 and Sept. 29, 2007 peace rallies in Washington DC include open electronic warfare psywar sound harassment that is openly labeled "psywar" by at least one Sept. 15, 2007 rally speaker.  A new COINTELPRO announces its presence with "Join COINTELPRO" comments on Sept. 15, 2007.
9/6/07 2:45pm: Ed settles in after 6 days of moving extra gear to self storage.  FBI SID workers Jay, B2, and Ditsy continue electronic harassment and get very irresponsibly illegally indulgent with sex and drugs.
9/2/07 11:10am:
Ed keeps very busy moving gear to self-storage.  Obnoxious FBI SID electronic warfare harassment intensifies.  Ed will post again within 3-4 days.
8/29/07 11:50pm:
Ed is scrambling to move much of his gear to self-storage after landlord overrules written sublease 9 days after it is signed and instructs Ed to remove much of his gear.  Ed will need to reduce gear to prevent excessive combined rent and self-storage costs.  FBI SID harassment, both electronic and in-person, is surprisingly strong.  Ed will post again within 3 days.
8/23/07 8am:
Moving in a hurry underway.  FBI SID persecution continues.. Ed will post again within 3 days.
8/20/07 3am:
Intensive last-minute househunting underway.  FBI SID anti-househunting electronic harassment continues.  Ed will post again with 3 days.
8/17/07 1am:
Ed plans crunch househunting Friday-Sunday and expects continued heavy blatantly obnoxious criminal FBI SID electronic warfare harassment.  Ed scrambles to set up instant Internet access after being told of an immanent Internet service shutdown.  FBI SID electronic warfare harassment intensifies and includes major daily sleep deprivation attacks.
8/14/07 1am:
Jay brings 150 speed pills from his self-admitted large home stash to fuel increased criminal FBI SID psywar harassment, including major daily time-delaying sleep deprivation zap attacks, computer hacking attacks, rant attacks, and a few death threats.  Ed focuses all available time on last-minute househunting for the fall.  Ed will post again with 3 days.
8/11/07 2am:
Ed's fall househunting begins under time-delaying strong FBI SID electronic harassment.  Ed will post again within 3 days.
8/8/07 2am:
Ed fixes broken PC and restores Internet access but loses critical crunch househunting time.  FBI SID speed and money fueled criminals led by Jay continue anti-computer zap attacks and threats and attempt to block safe Internet access and website posting.  Ed will post again within 3 days if possible.
8/7/07 2am:
40 hours into unending criminal anti-computer zap attacks, FBI SID knocks out 1 computer.
8/6/07: FBI SID Threat Level: CODE RED:
FBI SID Electronic Warfare attacks delay Ed's critical time-crunched house hunting for the fall that will begin ASAP.  Ed regains computing power 37 hours after major criminal FBI SID anti-computer zap attacks.
July 2007: Jay, consistently abusive and high on speed, escalates his criminal anti-computer zap attacks and zap-hack attacks in his attempt to remotely control Ed's PC, crush Ed, and delay Ed at every opportunity.
7/12/07 4pm-after 7/13/07 2am Jay, high on both speed and prozac, launches reckless all-day criminal hacking and psywar attack, including using the trojan horse svcost.exe in an attempt to install/upgrade an FBI SID rootkit on Ed's PC.  Ed is stuck defending his PC instead of selling assets at eBay.7/12/07 4pm-after 7/13/07 2am Jay, high on both speed and prozac, launches reckless all-day criminal hacking and psywar attack, including using the trojan horse svcost.exe in an attempt to install/upgrade an FBI SID rootkit on Ed's PC.  Ed is stuck defending his PC instead of selling assets at eBay.
6/27/07 1:30pm-7/12/07 4pm: Ed is back to personal summer projects, including getting organized, selling assets at eBay, and preparing to look for a new place to live this summer and fall.
6/25/07 8:09pm-6/27/07 1:30pm: FBI SID Threat Level: CODE RED.  2nd FBI SID SDA (zapped sleep deprivation attack) since Sun. night leaves Ed with only 2 hrs. sleep before Tuesday rally.  (Ed was also only allowed 4:45 sleep between Sun.-1pm Mon.)
6/25/07: Ed posted his psywar survival plans and a new brief introduction to psywar info on the Internet.
6/7/07:
Ed has moved into his summer home.  Strong FBI SID psywar persecution continues.
5/28/07 10:40am: Ed is successfully moving.  Jay launches 2:48 sleep deprivation attack after Ed gets 3:50 sleep.  At 9:41am, Jay states "This is Jay's job to torture people to death."  B2 disagrees and complains.  Ditsy disagrees.
5/23/07 3:59pm:
Ed reconfigures his router's MAC and IP addresses to regain reliable Internet access.
5/23/07: 2:20pm :
FBI SID shuts down Ed's Internet access by blocking only Ed's router.
5/22/07 10:40pm-5/23/07 6:45am:
An all night 8 hour FBI SID sleep deprivation attack and at least one death threat from Jay.
5/20/07 9:15pm:
Ed's restores his Internet access after FBI SID criminal hacker Ditsy states at 5:20pm she intends to shut down Ed's Internet connection for a long time.  At 5:51pm Jay/B2 said "...we have to destroy you."
5/20/07 3:43pm:
Jay's FBI SID criminal electronic warfare team attempts to prevent website postings and does so.
5/20/07:
FBI SID speed drug-fueled sound harassment and late-night sleep deprivation attacks eclipse Ed's prime househunting time during weekend and daylight hours.  Additional criminal FBI SID psywar political dirty tricks and anti-renting harassment predicted.  The harassment is targeted at Ed, but Ed's new roommates at his soon-to-be-found summer rental location will probably be subjected to some very survivable obnoxious hi-tech FBI SID sound harassment also.  Your FBI SID tax dollars at work.
5/19/07: Unprecedented very LOUD FBI SID fake media sound harassment from one neighbor's yard from 1:32pm-after 11pm preempts househunting calls.
5/18/07 3:40pm:
Ed managed to sleep for 5 hours between 6:40am-1:10pm.
5/18/07 5:30am:
Jay, still coming down from speed, escalates FBI SID criminal psywar attack with all night sleep deprivation attack, death threats,  and some distractingly weird nuisance/light torture zaps.
5/17/07: 
Ed waits for his persecutors, the speed drug-crazed "psywar" zapping, sound harassing, and ranting FBI SID criminals, to sober up before Ed visits the best housing prospects he has found on the Internet.  Ed also posts a 200dpi 75MB pdf version and a 100dpi 19MB pdf version of Thought Wars (also titled "Mind Games"), a long Jan. 14, 2007 Washington Post article on psywar.
5/16/07:
FBI SID tones down psywar while Ed waits to retry househunting tomorrow.
5/15/07:
FBI SID Threat Level: CODE RED.  Outrageously offensive, blasphemous, slanderous, and threatening FBI SID sound harassment electronic zap attacks (aka "psy war") make Ed's critical househunting extremely difficult.  Ed suspects FBI SID stalkers already moved into his first choice for a cheap and easy local move before him.  Moped probably sabotaged but functional. Internet connection still working.  Heavy duty FBI SID intimidation efforts underway.  FBI SID sleep deprivation zap attacks are now routine.  5/15/07-5-16/07 logfile notes are now posted.
5/13/07: FBI SID criminal Jay Pendelton, high on speed, continues major FBI SID sleep deprivation zap attacks into second evening to sabotage Ed's househunting.
5/4/07:
Ed is almost ready to start househunting again.
5/1/07.
LAPD attacks May Day protesters, according to the International ANSWER website.
4/29/07:
The FBI SID openly electronically harassed the loudspeaker system at the Save Darfur rally in front of the White House.  The rally was sponsored by the Save Darfur coalition and Amnesty International USA.
4/18/07:
FBI SID Electronic Warfare persecution by Jay, B2, and Ditsy, fueled by new abundantly cheap $4/hit speed pills, becomes very vicious today.  Also, B2 casually alleged (probably falsely) at approx. 8:01pm 4/18/07 that "...Jay is raping her [Ditsy], actually."
3/17/07:
FBI SID, aka COINTELPRO, seriously disrupts the March on the Pentagon loudspeaker system from at least around 9:30am-noon using Electronic Warfare or "psywar" technology and probably agent provocateurs.
2/7/07:
Webmaster is settling in to his new 4-month home despite continued blatantly obnoxious around the clock FBI SID electronic warfare sound harassment (and other hi-tech zap harassment).  He is keeping very busy, and expects to attend the March 17, 2007 March on the Pentagon.
NOTE: On 1/14/07, the Washington Post finally ran their first story, Mind Games, by Sharon Weinberger, on hi-tech electronic persecution, now called "psy war" at the FBI SID.  Also, at the national 1/27/07 peace rally, more people noticed FBI SID (aka "COINTELPRO") electronic sound harassment.
1/27/07: The FBI SID electronically harasses the peace march on the Mall sponsored by United for Peace & Justice
1/1/07: Webmaster is now in search of temporary rented shelter, temporary crash space, and/or new home ASAP, after landlord of 3 years provides 7 days' notice to totally vacate rental property or be assessed a claimed $350/day in "daily damage".  Webmaster is first scrambling to crunch move extensive personal property into self-storage to avoid potential predatory landlord money grab of $350/day in claimed "daily damage" if the webmaster tenant doesn't leave by Jan. 8, 2006.
12/31/06-1/1/07: FBI SID Threat Level: CODE RED.  Jay Pendelton, FBI SID electronic warfare/"psy war" team leader (and psychopath), high on speed, restarts major FBI SID sleep deprivation attacks on 12/31/07.  Webmaster has been kept up for more than 30 hours by FBI SID psy war zappng and a personal housing crunch since 2:40pm 12/31/06.
Webmaster is also waiting for Social Security's quality review board to hopefully acknowledge an extensively documented medical disability (both 1996-2006 medical disability and 2005-2006 overt FBI SID electronic warfare/"psy war" victim disability), and begin paying Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) payments.  (FYI, 4 million Americans already receive Social Security Disability benefits.)
1/2/07: Webmaster got a good night's sleep, and is preparing to bug out (i.e., move gear to self-storage).
1/14/07: FBI SID's Jay Pendelton radically increases persecution in response to webmaster's beginning a hopefully quick housing search.  FBI SID persecution includes ranting, multiple death threats, serotonin and spirit-draining fear and depression zaps, limited on-site mostly FBI SID fake media harassment, and limited phone-zapping.  Your U.S. Secret Police tax dollars at work.
1/15/07, Martin Luther King Day: FBI SID persecution peaks with windows smashed at another motel room at 12:43am and a severe zap sleep deprivation attack.  It decreases after webmaster abruptly leaves cheap motel #1.
1/17/07: Househunting underway.  Webmaster hopes FBI SID persecution and harassment will be kept to a minimum.
7pm 10/1/06: FBI SID Threat Level: CODE ORANGE.  Webmaster regains Internet access after escalating FBI SID open computer hacking attacks and electronic warfare attacks and open gang stalking escalates into EMP-style FBI SID knockout of 2 computers and personal portable self-defense digital recording equipment on 9/21/06.  Internet phone service is also down and claimed sabotaged by the FBI SID and 1 recent computer parts order delayed by 7 days.  The FBI SID has repeatedly credibly claimed pre-delivery FBI SID sabotage of replacement computer motherboards earlier.  Today's FBI SID persecution includes psychological torture and death threats and presumed imminent FBI SID gang stalking (and even a possible FBI SID break-in) once the webmaster leaves his home.  Webmaster will post to the Internet again within 72 hours to verify that the FBI SID has not knocked out his computer again.
6:50pm 10/4/06.
  Webmaster still has Internet access.  Webmaster clipped on moped by hit-and-run vehicle at low speed (no fall or injury).  Webmaster purchases new digital recording equipment and also re-establishes home security system using an extra recently purchased old thrift-shop PC modified to run WinXP.  Webmaster will post again within 4 days.
10/8/06.  Strong, sometimes severe, routine around-the-clock FBI SID Electronic Warfare persecution severely limits webmaster's ability to accomplish goals.  FBI SID death threats were made by Jay, B2, and Ditsy on Oct. 6, 2006.  Webmaster will post again within 5 days.
10/13/06.  FBI SID Electronic Warfare persecution is still heavy and includes zapping, FBI SID verbal rant attacks fueled by speed (and probably prozac), and death threats.  The FBI SID claims they stole a missing $60 computer power supply delivered by FedEx to the webmaster's front door at 12:59pm Wed, 10/11/06.  Webmaster will post again within 5 days.
10/18/06.  Webmaster calls cops 10/14/06 in response to brazen audible theft outside his window, declares a code red alert during another FBI SID Jay Pendelton sleep deprivation attack 10/16/06, and deals with at-home harassment 10/16/06 and FBI SID gang stalking and sudden motor vehicle trouble 10/17/06 when he runs to get an unsabotaged replacement digital camera ASAP.  10/18/06 peaceful.  Internet phone service is working again.  Webmaster will post again within 5 days.
10/23/06.  Webmaster survives around-the-clock at times severe FBI SID Electronic Warfare persecution.  This includes FBI SID zap attacks, harassment, ranting, FBI SID fake media harassment, death threats, sleep deprivation attacks, detectable subliminal message prompts/instructions/attempted mind control zap attacks, the first recent disappearance/theft of a few self-defense logbook pages, etc.  Webmaster will post again within 5 days.
10/24/06.  FBI SID worker Jay Pendelton, a self-described torturer, restarts physical pain zaps light torture and he also starts a stupid FBI SID electronic non-physical gang rape of the webmaster at 5:34pm.  At 8:20pm, Ditsy says she is going to kill the webmaster, then quickly retracts her threat.  Webmaster will post again within 4 days.
10/28/06.  FBI SID "psy war" illegal persecution continues.  Jay Pendelton tries increasing its strength with FBI SID electronic non-physical gang rapes and zapping occasional light physical pain torture but he runs into internal FBI SID criticism.  Webmaster will post again within 5 days.
11/2/06.  FBI SID "psy war" conflict increases as webmaster makes slow progress despite irritatingly persistent around-the-clock FBI SID illegal criminal Electronic Warfare persecution.  Webmaster will post again within 5 days.
11/7/06.  FBI SID "psy war" illegal persecution continues.  Webmaster will post again within 5 days.
11/12/06.  FBI SID "psy war" illegal Electronic Warfare persecution continues.  Webmaster will post again within 5 days.
11/17/06.
  FBI SID Electronic Warfare "psy war" persecution continues.  A housemate claims he was mugged, seriously injured, and went to the hospital to recover.  This occurred within 10 days of his appearing in court against John Holland.  Webmaster will post again within 5 days.
11/19/06.  Repeated health draining FBI SID sleep deprivation attacks lead to a brief 3:49am-8:40am red alert, followed by a hopefully one-day only escalation in FBI SID pain/torture zaps to hours-long routine FBI SID very light pain zap torture during this day.  Daily sleep deprivation zap attacks by FBI SID workers on the illegal drug speed remain a daily point of contention.  Webmaster will post again within 5 days.
11/24/06.  FBI SID illegal Electronic Warfare "psy war" persecution continues.  Webmaster will post again within 5 days.
11/29/06.  FBI SID around-the-clock Electronic Warfare persecution continues.  Webmaster will post again within 5 days.
12/5/06.  Webmaster is in personal crunch mode.  FBI SID persecution continues.  Webmaster will post again within 5 days.
12/12/06.  Webmaster is still in personal crunch mode.  FBI SID persecution continues. 
Webmaster will post again within 5 days.
12/17/06.  Webmaster is in extended personal crunch mode.  FBI SID persecution and harassment continues.  Webmaster will post again within 5 days.
12/22/06.  FBI SID drowsiness and then sleep zaps (combined with webmaster's lack of sleep) delay webposting.
12/24/06.  Webmaster is in extended personal crunch mode.  Webmaster makes very slow progress in resolving key issues due to continued FBI SID persecution that overstretches and overburdens webmaster's entire life.  Webmaster ends up staying up all night on 12/23/06 to prepare a full status report and describe some new additional electronic warfare persecution technical info.  FBI SID persecution and harassment continues.  Webmaster will post again within 5 days.
12/29/06.  Webmaster keeps busy and makes slow progress.  FBI SID persecution continues.  Webmaster will post again within 5 days.
Noon 6/15/06-7/15/06: FBI SID Threat Level: CODE ORANGE.  The day after Ed posted his detailed 6/11/06-6/14/06 self-defense logfile severe FBI SID electronic warfare attacks stopped and have not restarted.
7/8/06: Ditsy claims she was raped by Jay and raped by B2.  The FBI SID rape story, true or false, kept changing.
7/15/06: John Holland is arrested.  John Holland is a suspected COINTELPRO goon who threatened Ed's life on 1/22/06.
12:23am-9:37am 6/4/06, 12:40am-4:18am 6/5/06, 11:04pm 6/5/06-11:08am 6/6/06, 12:14am-9:36am 6/7/06, 11:33pm 6/7/06-8:25am 6/8/06, 2:37am-9:10am 6/9/06: FBI SID Threat Level: CODE RED.  FBI SID zaps Ed with late-night sleep deprivation attacks, pain, and torture.  (Ed rests and sleeps during the day on 6/4/06 and 6/7/06.)
6/11/06: FBI SID Threat Level: CODE RED.  Major FBI SID sleep deprivation attacks end, but zapped TORTURE continues and zapped disorientation attacks restart.  Zapped scripted dream attacks restart, subliminal zap attacks continue.  Here is Ed's 6/11/06-6/14/06 self-defense logfile.
Noon 6/2/06: FBI SID Threat Level: CODE ORANGE.  Exhausted and slightly ashamed FBI SID agents refrained from attacking Ed Friday 6/2/06, Friday night, and Saturday morning 6/3/06.  (FBI SID Agents are way too high on speed, so Ed isn't sure if the CODE ORANGE alert level will last.)  [posted 1pm 6/3/06.]
5/20/06-6/2/06: FBI SID Threat Level: CODE RED.  FBI SID agents Jay and Ditsy start painful electronic warfare torture of Ed, and zap him with varying levels of pain/torture from 2:03am-4am and 5:01am.  They restart their torture at 3:04pm and refuse to stop torturing.
4:54am 5/21/06: FBI SID persecution includes painful electronic warfare TORTURE, death threats, and an electronic warfare Sleep Deprivation Attack.   6:40pm 5/21/06: Ed was permitted 5:03 in very interrupted sleep.
1:41am 5/24/06:: After low-level electronic warfare torture, FBI SID restarts and expands painful hours-long electronic warfare torture at 5pm that is still continuing now.  Also FBI SID death threats were issued both last night and tonight.
4:14am 5/24/06::FBI SID sleep deprivation attack and electronic warfare torture.  (Less than 1 hour of total sleep.)
10:29am 5/24//06: Serious FBI SID electronic warfare knockout hit including berserk electronic torture by Ditsy (high on speed and prozac) and FBI SID death threats by B2, Ditsy, and Jay.
9pm 5/24/06: FBI SID berserk attack ended at my first 11am webposting.  (I slept almost 4 hours.)
12:44am 5/25/06: FBI SID sleep deprivation attack (no sleep at all) after a twisted logged FBI SID electronic warfare mind control attempt.
10:23am 5/25/06:: Ed managed to get 6 hours of sleep.
3:04pm 5/28/06: FBI SID, high on speed, attacked almost all night.  Ed rattled off a list of 20 reasons why FBI SID lead attacker alias Ditsy is an evil mean dishonest electronic warfare torturer and outrageous electronic warfare criminal cop.
1:06am 5/31/06:: 2nd round of electronic FBI SID torture zapping underway after all-night all-day electronic sleep deprivation attacks.  Ed got very minimal sleep. 
[delayed posting]
5:50am 6/1/06:: FBI SID electronic torture zapping restarts after FBI SID all-night sleep deprivation attack.
1:54am 6/2/06:: FBI SID agent Jay Pendelton says he is trying to torture Ed to death
[delayed posting]
Click here for more info.  Also, here are Ed's 5/20/06, 5/23/06-5/24/06, 5/28/06, and 6/2/06 self-defense logfiles.
1/26/06-5/19/06: FBI SID Threat Level: CODE ORANGE.  During Feb.-March 2006, FBI SID persecution has mostly remained at the CODE ORANGE level. 
Brief FBI SID CODE RED ALERT levels of persecution.  Ed obtained an arrest warrant against Robin Womer, suspected FBI SID/COINTELPRO goon, on 1/26/06.  One of Ed's mopeds was stolen around 5pm 2/25/06, probably by an FBI SID thief.  (He had to cut through 2 locks to steal it.)  Ed believes FBI/FBI SID agent provocateurs were deployed against him during and after the following events: 1) the 2/4/06 Bush Step Down rally, 2) the 3/18/06 DC DAWN peace rally, 3) the Iraq Pledge of Resistance 3/20/06 rally, and 4) when Ed scouted out the probable location of FBI SID US secret police DC headquarters, probably southeast of Ballston metro, in Arlington, VA, a little north of the west end of (the main) 5th street.  Peace activist Cindy Sheehan was briefly hit by FBI SID electronic warfare during a short 3/20/06 speech, and Iraq Pledge of Resistance peace activists soon thereafter quit using FBI SID electronically sabotaged loudspeakers to avoid further FBI SID sabotage of peace speeches and announcements.  Also, serious FBI SID sound disruption occurred at the 4/10/06 DC Immigrants rights rally, and Ed experienced FBI SID persecution before, during, and after the 4/29/06 NYC peace rally.

People Power Victory in Ukraine inspires activists and prompts Russian crackdown.
Bush locks U.S. into costly occupation of Iraq, drains treasury, wears down U.S. army, neglects America, & loses some support.  Rich get tax cuts while states slash social services.

U.S.-funded Israel builds expansionist wall to control, secure, and seize territory.

Energy conservation, renewable energy, and economic justice ignored while US Washington, DC establishment focuses on Iraq.
Iraqi guerillas, Bin Laden, and Al Qaeda survive to remain enemies for the well-funded US military industrial complex to fight.
U.S. Budget Deficit and Trade Deficits soar as U.S. money and jobs go overseas and foreign loans prop up U.S. budget.

Social change news, more social change news, and more protests.
Note:  There are many more political empowerment resources than are listed here.
The Best Resources
Activist Sites and Resources
Monitoring Corporations
Alternative Media
Human Rights
Public Interest Activism
Peace (Afghanistan fact sheets, commentary and the peace movement)
Ecology
 
Feminism
Unions and Social Justice
Minority Groups and Civil Rights
Protests and Previous Protests

Progressive Website Hosts
Fundraising
Merchandise
Links
International Links

The Best Resources
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     Join an organization.  If you want social change, join an organization you believe in.

     Unions and the
AFL-CIO.  Unions are the key to empowering American workers and enable them to collectively fight for better pay and better working conditions vs. bloated CEO salaries, maximizing corporate profit, downsizing, pension fund draining, and an inflated stock market.  The AFL-CIO, or the American Federation of Labor- Congress of Industrial Organizations, under John Sweeney's leadership, has become much more militant, winning an increase in the minimum wage for America's workers in a Republican-controlled congress, launching Union Summer in 1996, spending 35 million in 1996 in a political election campaign against the radical right in Congress, and is probably the most powerful force on the left today.  In 1998, the AFL-CIO is again spending millions in their anti-radical right political campaign.

    
NOW,  the National Organization for Women.

     Good Internet political empowerment resources include WebActive, with weekly news and descriptions of over 2,200 political websites, and The Electronic Activist, which allows you to E-mail your elected representatives.  There is also the Institute for Global Communication (IGC), including their members directory and PeaceNet, EcoNet, WomensNet, Anti-Racism.Net, and LaborNetIGC is a huge Internet network of social change groups.

    
EmpowermentBooks.com offers books on New Left Politics, the Media, Peace, Feminism, Green Politics, More Left-Green Politics, Political Organizing, Radical History, and Political Music, Movies, and Songbooks.  It also offers over 500 recommended empowerment resource books for sale, over 80 links, and over 3 million books, 400,000 CDs, 100,000 movies, 65,000 audio books, and over 850 magazines to choose from.  Many of these these items are sold at a discount.


Activist Sites and Resources
WebActive.  Weekly news and descriptions of over 2,200 political websites.
Capweb- The Internet Guide to the United States Congress.
The Electronic Activist.  E-mail your elected representatives.
20/20 Vision
Macrocosm USA.

Monitoring Corporations
Corporate Watch monitors transnational corporations.
Multinational Monitor
The Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research tracks the "wise use" movement.
The U.S. Economic Power Structure.

Alternative Media
Common Dreams.  Includes many links to both mainstream and alternative media, and links to over 110 activist organizations.
(
Sample alternative media news stories underreported in the mainstream/corporate media: 3,600 protesters commit mass civil disobedience at a Nov. 18-19, 2000 protest at Fort Benning, GA to shut down the School of the Americas.  Military repression in West Papua in Indonesia could turn into a large massacre as it did previously in East Timor.  President Clinton comes out in favor of decriminalizing marijuana.  And the UFW ended their 16 year table grape boycott on Thanksgiving.)
Working for Change.  You can click here to join.
Fact sheets on Afghanistan provided by the Center for Economic and Social Rights.
More Afghanistan News.  Links compiled by Geov Parrish.
Mother Jones Magazine
The Nation, including info on the New Global Media and the Global Media Moguls.  An intellectual liberal weekly journal.
In These Times. A biweekly left-wing journal.

E Magazine.  An environmental journal.
Z Magazine/ZNet.  A radical left-wing journal with a large website.
Ms. Magazine.  A militant feminist journal.
The Progressive.  A progressive journal from America's heartland that has been publishing for 90 years.

Southern Exposure.  A Southern regional quarterly political and cultural magazine.
The Progressive Review.  From Sam Smith, an independent progressive journalist in Washington, DC.
Independent Media Center.  The global IMC network offers activist and protest news.
IGC, the Institute for Global Communication, has up-to-date political news and action alerts in PeaceNet, EcoNet, WomensNet, Anti-Racism.Net, and LaborNet.
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting is a national media watch group.
Project Censored.
Boycott Action News.  Sponsored by Co-op America.  16-year table grape boycott is ended by UFW on Thanksgiving, PictSweet mushroom boycott underway.
Adbusters.  Ridiculing corporate advertising, which is the cornerstone of consumer culture. 
While I would like to see a less consumption-oriented society, I also applaud those advertisers who promote 1960's, Green, ecological, or peace-oriented values in their ads.
Funny Times.  A monthly publication with left-of-center comics and humor.  A good source of left-wing cartoons.
NPR.  National Public Radio.  They are somewhere between alternative and mainstream media.
PBS.  Like NPR, they are somewhere between alternative and mainstream media.
The Independent Press Association offers a member newsstand and the book Annotations: a guide to the independent critical press.
The Alternative Press Center offers an online directory of periodicals in the alternative press index for 1997 and over 250 links in their list of alternative viewpoints on the Internet.
Free Pacifica Radio
Management at Pacifica (including Pacifica executive director Lynn Chadwick) moved to seize power and push this historically progressive radio network to the political right.  This has triggered major ongoing conflict at the Pacifica radio network.
     Many alternative bookstores carry a wide range of interesting alternative media publications, full of interesting alternative news and viewpoints.
Mike Flugennock's mikey'zine.  Video coverage of protests in Washington, DC, and elsewhere.
On the road with John Tarleton.  Interesting cyber-photojournalism from a traveling radical reporter.


Human Rights
Blue Ribbon Campaign for online freedom of speech, press, and association.
Internet Privacy Coalition
ACLU.  The American Civil Liberties Union.
ACLU Bustcard.   What you can do if you're stopped by the police.
National Lawyers Guild.

Southern Poverty Law Center.  Monitors hate groups, promotes teaching tolerance.
The Interfaith Alliance.  A religious group countering the radical religious right.
People for the American Way.  A secular group countering the radical religious right.
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
PFLAG.  Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.
Amnesty International U.S.A.
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Organizations & Resources
Soros Foundations Network
School of the Americas Watch
See the info under previous protests for additional SOAW news.
Free Leonard Peltier.
 Leonard Peltier is one of America's most famous political prisoners.  He has become painfully ill while in prison and is being denied access to medical care offered by the Mayo clinic.  IGC's Peacenet offers additional information.   Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark is Leonard Peltier's Clemency Request lawyer. [11-15-98]
Stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal.  Mumia Abu Jamal is an American political prisoner who is on death row.  Here is a 1998 fact sheet on Mumia Abu-Jamal. [11-15-98]
Free Lori BerensonLori Berenson is a U.S. journalist who is a political prisoner in Peru.
WACO recently re-emerged as an issue.  Here is a radical libertarian's URL on WACO that I publicly asked for and received during some lively discussions at the Libertarian party booth at the Montgomery County Fair on Sat., Aug. 21, 1999.  In an unusual coincidence, the FBI admitted 4 days later that the precise first claim listed at this URL- the claim that the U.S. government started the fatal WACO fire 6 years ago- may in fact be true, despite prior FBI denials.  I don't claim to know the truth here, but I hope we eventually learn it.  The Washington Post has run a series of articles [search on WACO] on the reinvestigation of WACO beginning on Aug. 25, 1999.  My main concern here is that the government avoids this type of action in the future.  [9-23-99]
Free Howard Mechanic.
See also Minority Groups and Civil Rights.

Public Interest Activism
Guidestar.  A huge searchable database of more than 640,000 nonprofits in the United States.
Idealist.org.  Info for volunteers and nonprofits, including info on 20,000 nonprofit organizations in 150 countries.

Common Cause.  Working on campaign finance reform.
Public Campaign.  Working on campaign finance reform.
The League of Women Voters is focusing on campaign finance reform.  You can call them at 202-429-1965 to get their pamphlet 5 Ideas for Practical Campaign Reform.
Public Interest Research Groups
Public Citizen.  Founded in 1971 by consumer advocate Ralph Nader.
Essential Information and Organizations Using Essential.ORG.  Essential Information was founded by consumer advocate Ralph Nader in 1982.
Kids Campaigns.  What you can do to help kids personally and/or politically.
Children's Defense Fund.  Led by Marian Wright Edelman.
National Education Association
Access: Networking the Public Interest.  Lists nonprofit employment opportunities.
NORML.  National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.  In Dec. 2000, President Clinton came out in favor of decriminalizing the use of small amounts of marijuana.


Peace
(Afghanistan fact sheets, 9/14, 10/8, & 10/29 commentary, and the peace movement)
 

March for Peace and Justice
Peace Protest April 29, 2006 in NYC
MGJ April 21-23 in DC, SOAW April 23-25 in DC
United for Peace & Justice, MoveOn.org,
International ANSWER, & Win Without War

Social change news, more social change news, and more protests.

25 Things We Know: Summing-Up Post-9/11, by Bernard Weiner.  Published 12/21/01 by Common Dreams News Center.

Fact sheets on Afghanistan provided by the Center for Economic and Social Rights.
Afghanistan Fact Sheet #1: Basic Information & Key Indicators.
Afghanistan Fact Sheet #2: A Brief History Focusing on 1979-2001.
Afghanistan Fact Sheet #3: Key Human Vulnerabilities.

Afghanistan, according to the The World Factbook 2001, published by the CIA.

Sept. 14, 2001-- We are all shocked and deeply saddened by the Sept. 11 unprecedented tragic Islamic fundamentalist terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the thousands of innocent Americans killed in this attack.  The outpouring of compassion towards the victims and the rescue efforts of firefighter and rescue workers highlight what is best about America.  However, the outpouring of anger against the attackers is pushing America into a war of unknown size, unknown duration, and an unknown number of future victims of war.  I urge President Bush to be very careful in fighting his new war.
     While TV news and the mainstream media are providing detailed up-to-the-minute reports, if you want a wider range of viewpoints and analyses, see the alternative media and the American peace movement.

Oct. 8, 2001-- The way of Peace has temporarily failed, and America finds itself at war with the Taliban of Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden's international terrorist network.  I hope the war ends quickly, with a minimal amount of additional stress, death, and suffering in America and in Afghanistan.  If you want more than the American establishment's in-depth coverage of the war, I invite you review the alternative media and the American peace movement.
     I expect America to launch a major attack against the Taliban, but I'm not sure if it will lead to quick victory.  If the American government emphasizes our support for the Afghan people (vs. the repressive Taliban) through desperately needed humanitarian aid and the strong backing of rival Afghan factions in addition to the expected aerial decimation of the Taliban and/or the possible cutoff of the Taliban's supply network, I believe America will have a greater chance of quickly defeating the Taliban.  (Defeating a global network of Islamic fundamentalist terrorists and/or Islamic fundamentalists who, if enraged, might become terrorists might be far more difficult.)
     I hope we don't accidentally provoke a wider war or overly anger Islamic fundamentalists, and that we can quickly move on towards trying to implement some long-term solutions.  [Note: In the 1991 U.S.-Iraq war, George Bush senior neglected to either prevent or solve the problems caused by that war, and we're still at low-level war with Iraq 10 years later.]   Here are a few solutions I would like to see: 1) solving Afghanistan's humanitarian crisis by feeding the millions of desperate Afghan refugees, 2) rebuilding a devastated Afghanistan under a more moderate government (and hopefully helping to defuse anti-Americanism in the Middle East), 3) guaranteeing the rights of women in Afghanistan, and 4) defusing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
     Here are a few longer-term solutions I would like to see: 1) a project energy independence to wean America from Mideast Oil, promote fuel efficiency, save money, and start to shift towards renewable energy (particularly wind and solar power).  2) Jubilee 2000, or the canceling of the impoverishing debt of the world's poorest 1 billon people.  3) Empowering women worldwide with affordable and accessible voluntary birth control and a global campaign to limit population growth.  4) A global campaign to shift to building an ecologically sustainable society that also addresses the issue of global warming and climate change.  5) Continued anti-nuclear proliferation efforts and continued peacemaking and conflict resolution efforts.  6) Effective U.S. campaign finance reform that includes full public financing of election campaigns.
     America enjoys a great deal of wealth, freedom, and economic and political and military power in the world today, even to the extent of having power over many less fortunate nations and people.  We need to work to help solve the world's problems in a manner that is as intelligent, helpful, and proactive as possible.  If we instead just hog our own good fortune for ourselves for today, we can expect to see continued population growth, continued ecological destruction and resource depletion, and eventually, more angry people and/or movements in the future armed with who-knows-what weapons ready to crash our private party.
     I know my suggestions are a tall order for social change, and that right now the most we can realistically hope for is to weather and possibly minimize the storm of this war and wait for our future opportunities.  Good luck.
     In solidarity with peace and intelligent progressive social change,
     - Ed Harding
P.S.  Realistically, absent any increases in my very limited budget, don't count on a whole lot more from me personally on this issue in the near future.  For more up-to-date progressive opinions, see the alternative media and the American peace movement.  (FYI, at least a few dedicated peace activists are still holding out for peace now.)  Once again, good luck.

Oct. 29, 2001-- Apparently, America is stuck in a potentially long-term stupid war with Osama Bin Laden's terrorist network and the Taliban of Afghanistan.  I don't understand why 19 kamikaze terrorists attacked the U.S. and brought down the full wrath of the U.S. superpower/empire upon them and their allies.  Afghanistan was a disaster before the war, and it is even more of a disaster now.  (By "disaster" I mean a legacy of war, poverty, landmines, civil war, drought, at least 70% malnutrition, 64% illiteracy, oppression of women, possible mass starvation, and now daily U.S. bombing and millions of refugees.)  Meanwhile, the U.S., used to fighting limited wars overseas, has had to cope with kamikaze terrorists hijacking planes and using them as missiles and bioterrorists using anthrax in New York, Washington, DC, and elsewhere in the first 2 months of this very unconventional war.  I hope we can minimize the damage caused by this war, prevent (or at least minimize) any more terrorism, prevent mass starvation in Afghanistan, end the war sooner rather than later, and move on to constructive solutions like those I previously described.  I also wish U.S. President George Bush and the U.S. government good luck in doing the best they can to manage the U.S. response to this crisis.

Win Without War.  America's largest and wealthiest peace coalition.
United for Peace.  America's largest activist peace network.
International A.N.S.W.E.R.-- Act Now to Stop War & End Racism.  A peace group recently founded by The International Action Center.  An international group based in New York City
Peace Action.  America's largest long-term established peace organization.  (One of their many activities is an annual protest of the Air Force Association's Annual Arms Bazaar in Washington, DC. every Sept.)
The Washington Peace Center.  Coordinating DC peace activism.

War Is Not the Answer.  A recently formed peace group based in New York City.
The Nonviolence Web.  A guide to the contemporary peace movement.
The War Resisters League.
EndTheWar.org, the National Network to End the War Against Iraq--NNEWAI.
The International Action Center.
Founded in 1992 by former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark and many anti-war activists, is a multi-issue organization that is at the forefront of trying to change U.S. policy towards Iraq.  Here are some 2/21/98 peace chants I prepared to share with fellow protesters.  A militant multi-issue activist group that is actively anti-war.
International Solidarity Movement.  Nonviolent resistance to Sharon's new war from international volunteers.
Educators for Social Responsibility-- ESR.
The National Coalition Building Institute-- NCBI.  They offer training in prejudice reduction, conflict resolution, and community building.

Peace Links from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
International Campaign to Ban Landmines, winner of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize.



Ecology
The Greens/Green Party U.S.A.  Long-time consumer advocate
Ralph Nader was the Green Party's 1996 presidential candidate and also their 2000 presidential candidate.  (Note: My personal position is "Think and live Green, vote Democratic to defeat the Republicans.")  In my opinion, this group has a great ideology, but in most of America is currently very poorly organized.  Internationally, in democracies with proportional representation, Green parties [7-29-97] can often be effective.  In fact, the Greens are now part of a left-of-center coalition governing Germany. [2-10-99]
Greenpeace International and Greenpeace U.S.A.
World Wildlife Fund is part of  the World Wild Fund for Nature Global Network.   WWF  has a huge website with 15,000 pages of info.
EarthShare.  An alliance of environmental groups.
Sierra Club.
[Click here to join.]  The Sierra Club appears to be well-organized on a grassroots activist level.
EDF- the Environmental Defense Fund
The EDF Chemical Scorecard provides information about local pollution sources throughout the United States.
NRDC Online.  The Natural Resources Defense Council.
Campaign for Food Safety, including S.O.S.- Save Organic Standards.
Earth First! Journal.  A radical environmental journal.  (Note: this entry is provided for informational purposes only, and is not an endorsement of all Earth First! tactics.)
[7-17-97]
EnviroLink.  A large environmental resource network.
The Animal Rights Resource Site
[7-17-97]
PETA Online.  People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.  Well-known militant animal rights activists.
[7-17-97] 
Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS).  Good anti-nuclear info.


Feminism
NOW.  T
he National Organization for Women.
NARAL.  The National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League.
Feminist Internet Gateway, provided by the Feminist Majority Foundation.
Feminist.com
Feminist Activist Resources on the Net
National Council of Women's Organizations
They sponsored the Women's Equality Summit and Congressional Action Day on March 15-16, 1999.


Unions and Social Justice
AFL-CIO
  T
he American Federation of Labor- Congress of Industrial Organizations. Led by John Sweeney.
Unions Affiliated with the AFL-CIO.
Union Summer
How to Unionize.  (Caution: While it is illegal to be fired for trying to form a union, it is not unheard of.  There are risks as well as potential benefits here.)
How and Why People Join Unions.  Info from the AFL-CIO.
Jobs With Justice
.
IWW.  The International Workers of the World.  A radical labor union.
UAW.  The United Auto Workers went on strike against GM in June 1998.
  UAW Local 659 at the Flint Metal Fabricating facility in Flint, Michigan went on strike on 6/5/98.  UAW Local 651 at the Delphi East plant in Flint, Michigan went on strike on 6/11/98.  The media coverage I read has been mixed. [6-17-98].
The Teamsters won a major nationwide strike against UPS in Aug. 1997.
American Federation of Teachers

United Farm Workers
The UFW ended their 16 year table grape boycott on Thanksgiving.  They are now boycotting PictSweet mushrooms.
Strike Page.
ACORN - The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.  Militant and hard-working low and middle-income community organizers.
National Coalition for the Homeless
DSA: Democratic Socialists of America
United for a Fair Economy.  Documenting and fighting our growing economic inequality.
PosterNation.  Nationwide Saturation Postering campaign.  The year 2000 campaign is Billionaires for Bush (or Gore).

Farm Aid.  An annual benefit concert organized by Willie Nelson and others.  Farm Aid '99 was held on Sept. 12, 1999 near Washington DC.

Minority Groups and Civil Rights
Rainbow/PUSH Coalition.  Led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
NAACP.  The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
National Urban League.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr (1929-1968), a skilled and audacious nonviolent political organizer and advocate of civil rights, racial equality, peace, and social justice, is a hero to many Americans, and the only 60's radical to have a national holiday in his honor.
National Action Network.  Led by the Rev. Al Sharpton.
Sisters of the Million Woman March.  The Million Woman March occurred on Sat., Oct.25, 1997 in Philadelphia, PA.
Dick Gregory is a 60's radical and celebrity who is into holistic health and political change. 
[Link added to notes 1-20-02]
National Council of La Raza.
  America's largest Hispanic organization.


Protests
 

March for Peace and Justice
Peace Protest April 29, 2006 in NYC
MGJ April 21-23 in DC, SOAW April 23-25 in DC
United for Peace & Justice, MoveOn.org,
International ANSWER, & Win Without War

Social change news, more social change news, and more protests.

Current protests.

Protest.net
Independent Media Center
Institute for Global Communication (IGC), including PeaceNet, EcoNet, WomensNet, Anti-Racism.Net, and LaborNet.
The International Action Center.
The Washington Peace Center Calendar
.  Washington, DC political meetings and events.

Previous Protests

Peace Rallies March 19 [2005]

Protest to Close the SOA Nov. 19-21 [2004]
at Fort Benning, GA
Counter-Inaugural Protest Jan. 20 in DC

VOTE! Defeat Bush Nov. 2. [2004]
No Stolen Elections-- Nov3.us.
Million Worker March, Oct. 17,2004 in Washington, DC.

March for Peace and Justice
Protest at the Republican National Convention Aug. 29
More RNC protests Aug. 26-Sept. 2

Caution: NYC Republican Mayor Bloomberg is trying to use unconstitutional Police State tactics.
"Freedom of Assembly First Amendment Right."

Defeat Bush Nov. 2
United for Peace & Justice, MoveOn.org,
International ANSWER Action Plan, & Win Without War


Recent Fall 2002-Spring 2003  protests.

March for Peace and Justice
Sept. 9-11, Sept. 25-29, & Oct. 26
and Vote in the Primary & on Nov. 5, 2002.

Bush Plans U.S.-Iraq War, Not Israeli-Palestinian Peace.
Social change news, more social change news, and more protests.