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Sign our petition to end the Afghanistan War: http://rethinkafghanistan.com
Memorial Day is coming up, and we've just passed a grim milestone: 1,500 U.S. troop deaths in Afghanistan. Enough is enough. The war isn't making us safer and it's not worth the cost, and this should be the last Memorial Day when we put military families through this kind of agony. Bring the troops home.Sign our petition to end the Afghanistan War: http://rethinkafghanistan.com... more
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Ever wonder how much you paid to fund the war? Use the Afghanistan War Tax Calculator to find out. We'll give you an I.O.U. for what you paid that you can forward to your Member of Congress. Ask for your money back! http://rethinkafghanistan.com/Ever wonder how much you paid to fund the war? Use the Afghanistan War Tax Calculator... more
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http://goo.gl/5Hl46 Tell us why YOU think it's time to end the Afghanistan War and your comments could appear in an upcoming Rethink Afghanistan video! With violence in Afghanistan still worsening a year after the military push into Marjah--the start of what some call "Obama's War"--it's clear military solutions won't work. It's time to end the war.http://goo.gl/5Hl46 Tell us why YOU think it's time to end the Afghanistan War... more
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Join the fight to end the war: http://facebook.com/RethinkAfghanistan
"The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to end it must be ours."
--Martin Luther King, Jr., speaking of Vietnam.
This week the Pentagon sank to a new low: claiming that Dr. King would "understand" the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. King's legacy is clear: he opposed war and other violence and condemned war as "an enemy of the poor."
Help us stop the Pentagon's lies and attempts to justify the brutal, futile war in Afghanistan. Spread the truth by sharing this video with your family and friends.Join the fight to end the war: http://facebook.com/RethinkAfghanistan
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This is another Tax Day in the middle of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and our country is still in trouble. Many are still out of work. Times are tough. People are hurting.
We don't have hundreds of billions of dollars to waste, but we are wasting them anyway--on the Afghanistan war.
How has the Afghanistan war affected you? What would you want to fix if we could spend those funds here at home, instead of wasting them on a war that's not making us safer?
Tell us your story. Send us a picture or write your story below. We'll pick one community and feature it in a future video to show the world how much better off we'd be if we ended this costly, brutal war.
http://apps.facebook.com/warisnotfree/This is another Tax Day in the middle of the worst economic crisis since the Great... more
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We need your help in letting the administration know that we understand the damage done to Iraq and to our country over the last seven years. We know, as well, that there will be no economic recovery here at home as long as were spending $100 billion a year on another war that isn't making us any safer the war in Afghanistan.
That's why were asking everyone to report the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as an example of waste, fraud and abuse on Recovery.gov today. Simply scroll down to the field marked What and paste this message into the text box:
"I'd like to report the waste of trillions of dollars of our national wealth on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that dont make us safe. Its fraud to portray these as wars that increase our security, and its abusive of U.S. troops and local civilians to drag these wars out any longer. End the wars so we can have real economic recovery."
Take Action: http://rethinkafghanistan.comWe need your help in letting the administration know that we understand the damage... more
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Why watch the speech alone on TV when you can hang out with more than 11,000 people like you who want the Afghanistan war to end? Join the other fans of Rethink Afghanistan and watch the speech on our Facebook fan page [http://facebook.com/RethinkAfghanistan].
* Rethink Afghanistan’s fan page will have a live stream of a part of Rethink Afghanistan (The Cost of War) prior to the speech at 8:30 p.m. Eastern / 5:30 p.m. Pacific.
* Then, we’ll carry a live stream of the State of the Union address.
* Brave New Foundation’s Robert Greenwald will be there for the conversation, and I’ll provide commentary and links to Afghanistan-related information.
* After the speech, our whole mob will head over to the White House’s Facebook page to share our thoughts on his Afghanistan comments.
We hope you’ll join us tomorrow night starting at 8:30 p.m. Eastern / 5:30 p.m. Pacific as our community gathers to rethink the State of the Union.Why watch the speech alone on TV when you can hang out with more than 11,000 people... more
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"What we can't do is think that just a military approach in Afghanistan is going to solve our problems.... There's got to be an exit strategy." - President Obama.
ReThink Afghanistan launches a new campaign to petition President Obama to specify an clear exit strategy from Afghanistan in his upcoming State of the Union Address, as he promised."What we can't do is think that just a military approach in Afghanistan is... more
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Brave New Films, of "ReThink Afghanistan" fame, is seeking support for 100,000 petition signatures by Monday to stop the Afghanistan war escalation. You can stop war. The people have the power. Help Brave New Films. Sign the petition. Thank you so much.
http://rethinkafghanistan.com/?utm_source=fbtBrave New Films, of "ReThink Afghanistan" fame, is seeking support for... more
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Veterans to Obama Don't escalate Afghan War!
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Veterans tell of the horrors of war, breaking down doors, killing the innocent, assuming guilt for every male. We are making enemies there and it only makes things worse.Veterans tell of the horrors of war, breaking down doors, killing the innocent,... more
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A rare heart-warming story out of Afghanistan... take a look.
This summer, Brave New Foundation supporters did something extraordinary: in response to one of our videos, you gave $15,000 to Afghan refugees in need of food and blankets.
This is video shows what a difference a couple thousand people can make.
Brave New Foundation is asking you sign their petition to Congressional hearings on the war. When they reach 100,000 names, they'll bring it to the Capitol.
http://rethinkafghanistan.com/#petitionA rare heart-warming story out of Afghanistan... take a look.
This summer, Brave... more
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The spotlight's on Afghanistan but are we asking the right questions? Even though the declining popularity of the war has been widely cited, very few are talking about withdrawal or seriously rethinking the US role in the region. That is unless you turn to the independent press. Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films has released several installments of his series, Rethink Afghanistan, over the last several months calling for a different kind of dialogue. The film opens as a full-length feature in NY and Washington, D.C. this week.The spotlight's on Afghanistan but are we asking the right questions? Even though... more
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"The activist filmmaker Robert Greenwald has tried for years to speed up the production process for his documentaries. Now, he says, he is creating one he can release almost immediately, in stages.
Mr. Greenwald is showing “Rethink Afghanistan,” a skeptical view of America’s war strategies, in five parts on the Internet, with the implied hope that it will contribute to the foreign policy debate. With the first two parts of the film already online, he arrived in Afghanistan on Sunday to conduct more interviews for what he calls his first “real-time documentary.”
Mr. Greenwald is well known in some progressive circles for his films about war profiteers, Wal-Mart’s corporate practices, and the Fox News Channel. His company, Brave New Films, uses documentary expertise to mount political campaigns, including a YouTube series last year about John McCain and what the company called “the politics of hate.”
“Rethink Afghanistan” is being shaped both as a film and a campaign at the same time. Mr. Greenwald is already posting installments on the film’s Web site, RethinkAfghanistan.com, and also on YouTube. It will eventually be stitched together into a full-length feature. As he has done in the past, Mr. Greenwald will take his finished film to the public using a mixture of DVD sales and house parties. He said he also expected to receive some theatrical distribution.
The first part of the film, a 12-minute section titled “More Troops + Afghanistan = Catastrophe,” reflects the filmmaker’s opposition to a troop escalation. The second part examines the role that Pakistan plays in the region. Editing of the second part continued until moments before it was uploaded to YouTube on Thursday.
Later parts will address the other issues, including casualties and terrorism. Mr. Greenwald said the chapters of the film would seek to raise a series of questions about the war in Afghanistan: “How many troops? How long? How much is this going to cost? What is the end mission?” In Afghanistan he plans to interview Afghan politicians, former Taliban officials and members of the country’s peace movement.""The activist filmmaker Robert Greenwald has tried for years to speed up the... more
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