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Women's March on the Pentagon Community Conference Call Recording September 26, 2018 GUEST: NICK BRANA OF MOVEMENT FOR A PEOPLE'S PARTY REPORTS FROM: CINDY SHEEHAN (GENERAL) BONNIE CARACCIOLO (SAFETY, WEBSITE, SOCIAL MEDIA, LOGISTICS) PAKI AND MALACHY (DC CO-ORDINATORS) (PERMITS, MEETING AT PENTAGON, LOCATION FOR WORKSHOPS, MEET AND GREET, ENTERTAINMENT AT MARCH) Q AND A HIGHLIGHTS WE ARE MEETING AT PENTAGON CITY (NOT PENTAGON) METRO STOP AT 11AM ON 10/21. NO CHARGE FOR EVENTS ON 10/20, BUT WE ARE ACCEPTING DONATIONS FOR SNACKS, ETC. ************ DONATE TO WMOP FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK  

September 2018   https://soundcloud.com/ speaking-truth-to-empire/ 180918-speaking-truth-to- empire-joan-roelofs On Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 FM, Dan Yaseen interviews Joan Roelofs . She is Professor Emerita of Political Science, Keene State College, New Hampshire. She is the author of Foundations and Public Policy: The Mask of Pluralism and Greening Cities . A community education short course on the military industrial complex is on her website, and may be used for similar purposes. The topic of discussion will be the military industrial complex. Her website is www.joanroelofs.wordpress.com ********************************************************************** CINDY SHEEHAN'S SOAPBOX 

Women's March on the Pentagon Community Conference Call Weds, September 26, 2018 TIMES: 4PM: PACIFIC 5PM: MOUNTAIN 6PM: CENTRAL 7PM: EASTERN NUMBER AND CODE: The Number is: 515-604-9541 code: 248354  *** We will have a special guest on this call: Nick Braña from the Movement for a People's Party who will fill us in on the MPP and how MPP and WMOP can work together in the future for our new anti-imperialist  movement free from the bi-partisan War Machine  (Nick at banner holding up the left) Movement for a People's Party Website   NICK INTERVIEWS CINDY SHEEHAN ABOUT WMOP AGENDA FOR CALL: WELCOME CINDY INTRO'S NICK NICK BRANA SPEAKS Q & A FOR NICK FROM PARTICIPANTS UPDATES ON MARCH FROM CINDY SHEEHAN BONNIE CARACCIOLO (GUIDELINES FOR SAFETY, ETC) EMMA FIALA (WEBSITE, SOCIAL MEDIA, ETC)  DC ORGANIZING (SPEAKER TBA) Q & A AND COMMENTS FROM PARTICIPANTS. *** SO OTHER P

America’s 2019 Defense Budget Supports 883 Overseas Bases and is Lethal to Humanity Part 2 of 2:  883 Military Bases Around the World and Growing. ( Click here for part 1 )   (Military Bases outside US borders) Pouring through various documents, publications, books, and research papers, I developed a list of countries with US military bases outside the US.  This list includes US territories (Guam, US Virgin Islands, Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and Puerto Rico) and includes bases in 183 countries, on 7 continents and 7 bodies of water.  Exhibit A-1 identifies the list of countries, totaling 883 sites.  This number does not include US Embassies and may or may not include other sites such as lily pads (smaller, temporary, and/or not authorized sites) and special operations sites. Some publicly available documents, from the US government, contradict one other.  For example, the Army’s most recent average cost per person is just under $100K ($94.3K).  However, other defense document

America’s 2019 Defense Budget Supports 883 Overseas Bases and is Lethal to Humanity by Lynn Marie Petrovich Part 1 of 2:  America’s Toxic 2019 “Defense” Budget My grandfathers were both veterans of World War One. Vincent Coen, my maternal grandfather, was a sailor aboard The SS Leviathan which transported over 119,000 US troops across the Atlantic to France. William J. Reddan, my paternal grandfather, was Captain of Company B, 114th infantry, and was one of 14 survivors of the Battle of Bois de Ormont in France on 10/12/1918, during the Meuse Argonne offensive.  His outrage over orders to take his men into this battle, which annihilated over 200 of his Company, resulted in his war memoir “Other Men’s Lives, (Experiences of a Doughboy 1917 – 1919.)” Although grandpa Reddan died 12 years before my birth, it was during my high school years – while the Vietnam War was raging endlessly on – that I discovered his book, “Other Men’s Lives.”  I picked up the copy he had given to

September 23, 2018 GUEST: CATHERINE MURPHY TOPIC: MAESTRA AND THE CUBAN LITERACY PROJECT TODAY ON THE SOAPBOX, CINDY CHATS WITH  CATHERINE MURPHY, THE DIRECTOR OF "MAESTRA." Maestra is the tale of women who left their homes and families during the Cuban revolution to help bring Fidel's dream of 100% literacy a reality. Catherine Murphy ***** Edward Galleano reading from "Espejos" ************************ CINDY SHEEHAN'S SOAPBOX 

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018 RECORDING OF LIVE COMMUNITY CONFERENCE CALL THUMBNAIL OUTLINE: CINDY WELCOMED PEOPLE PARTICIPANTS INTRO'D THEMSELVES BONNIE TALKED ABOUT LOCAL AND GLOBAL ORGANIZING CINDY TALKED ABOUT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES DISCUSSION ABOUT VIETNAM ANTIWAR MOVEMENT DISCUSSION ABOUT NECESSITY OF PERMITS  CLICK IMAGE TO LISTEN TO RECORDING ***** DONATE TO WMOP VOLUNTEER SIGN UP PAGE  (MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR THE NEXT CALL: WEDS, SEPT 26TH)

Women's March on the Pentagon Community Conference Call Weds, September 12th TIMES: 4PM PACIFIC 5PM MOUNTAIN 6PM CENTRAL 7PM EASTERN The Number is: 515-604-9541 code: 248354 ********* AGENDA WELCOME REPORTS FROM STEERING COMMITTEE BONNIE (LOCAL ORGANIZING/SOLIDARITY EVENTS) EMMA: (WEBSITE SOCIAL MEDIA) WE NEED VOLUNTEERS!!! On the 20th and 21st we will need a team of helpers: March Safety Monitors Sign-in tables Rally Safety Monitors Table to sell shirts and other merch Collection Bucketeers Attorneys to monitor Civil Resistance or ? People to make sure people keep area clean Rally Time Keeper (keep speakers on track with time limit, etc) Rally Director (make sure people are where they need to be when they need to be there, etc) Media Co-ordinator for Rally (Perhaps put together media packet, also)  COME TO THE MEETING PLANNING ON TAKING ON A TASK! CLOSING W/COMMENTS AND Q&A ******** DO

Occupy the Airwaves, Valley Free Radio -  Covering the local, national and global Peoples Movement. 103.3 FM WXOJ-LP Northampton, MA Community Radio - Run by the Community; www.valleyfreeradio.org.   Occupy the Airwaves, Valley Free Radio -  Covering the local, national and global Peoples Movement. 103.3 FM WXOJ-LP Northampton, MA Community Radio - Run by the Community; www.valleyfreeradio.org.   The show focus this week: Cindy Sheehan and the Women's March on the Pentagon  *** Donate to Women's March on the Pentagon  FOLLOW WMOP ON FACEBOOK FOLLOW WMOP ON TWITTER 

September 3, 2018 Two interviews for the price of zero! This week on the Soapbox Cindy chats with Gary Ghirardi from National Network Opposing Militarization of Youth ( NNOMY ) Gary with Selene Rivas and Fabiola Cardoza (NNOMY) AND Community activist Al Osorio about the ongoing prisoner strike and how we can support it! Al Osorio   Phonezap Against Retaliation in North Carolina ( Phone Local Authorities )  *** LEARN MORE ABOUT AND SUPPORT THE PRISON STRIKE *** BAY AREA NATIONAL PRISON STRIKE SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE   *** CINDY SHEEHAN'S SOAPBOX     

Early at the beginning of this year, when we announced that we were organizing a Women's (peace) March on the Pentagon for October 21st, I received many panicked messages from loyal Democrat voters that we couldn't do that because it's "too close" to the midterm elections and we would "harm" the chances of the Democrats. First of all, if you think that a peace march is going to harm your party, maybe that's a hint that you need a new party. However, if peace is not your thing, like it's apparently NOT the thing of the bourgie Women's March, then you wouldn't come to our march, anyway. Secondly, if this millennium of rigged voting, purges, and hanging chads has taught us anything, it's shown us that voting is at best compromised and at worst useless. This quote has been attributed to many people, so I won't attribute it to any specific person, but it rings truer than ever: "If voting changed anything, they wouldn