Candles for peace surround the Washington Monument.

Baltimore May Join 65 Cities and Towns in Passing a Resolution Countering Certain Provisions of The Patriot Act. Resolution 03-1046 requires the City Council to resist enforcing aspects of the Patriot Act, such as local police enforcing immigration laws and surveilling groups involved in dissent.

Sunday Edition of Our Historical Crisis....

...an FBI summary of a wiretap on the Israeli Embassy
in which Richard N. Perle, an aide to Senator Henry Jackson,
was overheard discussing classified information
that had been supplied to him
by someone on the National Security Council staff.

Student teach-in this Thursday, March 20 beginning at 4:30 PM at the Emmanuel church on the corner of Cathedral + Reed streets. Diverse range of speakers including many anti-war speakers as well as speakers who support Bush.

American woman peace activist killed by IDF bulldozer in Gaza. Send email to the media: cover this story!

Photos and review of Code Pink rally and anti-war rally in DC the past two weekends.

...Avert U.S. Iraq War. Interview with Rev. Jim Wallis, editor of Sojourners magazine, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris

Articles have appeared during the past week --
including one on German television -- warning that an attack on
Iraq carried out without UN Security Council authorization would
be in violation of the UN Charter and international law, and that
President Bush and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld could eventually
find themselves charged with war crimes before the
newly-inaugurated International Criminal Court (ICC).

Corporate directors are nearly always called on to make important and sometimes difficult decisions regarding the personnel and policy of the business that they are directing. What standards apply to this seeming "conflict of interest," where Perle, who heads an important federal advisory panel, is also a director of a company which owns a media outlet in a foreign country ??