grassrootspeace.org

November 5, 2007: This website is an archive of the former website, traprockpeace.org, which was created 10 years ago by Charles Jenks. It became one of the most populace sites in the US, and an important resource on the antiwar movement, student activism, 'depleted' uranium and other topics. Jenks authored virtually all of its web pages and multimedia content (photographs, audio, video, and pdf files. As the author and registered owner of that site, his purpose here is to preserve an important slice of the history of the grassroots peace movement in the US over the past decade. He is maintaining this historical archive as a service to the greater peace movement, and to the many friends of Traprock Peace Center. Blogs have been consolidated and the calendar has been archived for security reasons; all other links remain the same, and virtually all blog content remains intact.

THIS SITE NO LONGER REFLECTS THE CURRENT AND ONGOING WORK OF TRAPROCK PEACE CENTER, which has reorganized its board and moved to Greenfield, Mass. To contact Traprock Peace Center, call 413-773-7427 or visit its site. Charles Jenks is posting new material to PeaceJournal.org, a multimedia blog and resource center.

War on Truth  From Warriors to Resisters
Books of the Month

The War on Truth

From Warriors to Resisters

Army of None

Iraq: the Logic of Withdrawal

Winter/Spring, 2005 Archives



   Updates on CAN's Counter-Recruitment   Support SFSU Students (pdf)

National: Antiwar - Disarmament

German Film Exposes US use of
Uranium Weapons in Iraq

New York premier - June 5th

Flyer and Action Steps


Dr. Siegwart-Horst Günther examining cancer victims at hospital in Basra, Iraq. photo © 2004 Telepool

Contact us to co-sponsor a public showing in your area or purchase online (for private, home use only).

Antiwar Movement Debates
Occupation of Iraq

TRANSCRIPT NOW AVAILABLE
Presentations, Rebuttals and Q&A

 

We Can't be Antiwar and Pro-Occupation
Anthony Arnove's (upper left)

 
Anthony Arnove, Erik Gustafson, Alex Ryabov (iwaw.net), and Carolyn Eisenberg (moderator) at debate on whether US occupation of Iraq should continue. Event sponsored by Brooklyn Parents for Peace.
photos © 2005 Charles Jenks

Least we forget:
1 in 4 Marines reported killing Iraqi Cilivians

Our point is not that these Marines are evil; rather, that it is a war against the Iraqi people.

"City College Four" Reinstated
Campus Antiwar Updates


Jake Kornegay photo

CIA Cancels Recruiting Event
in face of CAN protest at NYU

NYU Students Keep CIA at Bay
Amy Odell

Reilly and Kyne in Fayetteville

All We Want is the Truth
Ward Reilly


Ward Reilly and Dennis Kyne
photo © 2005 Charles Jenks

Fayetteville Diary - Kyne

Antiwar Movement Grows at
Fort Bragg
- Reilly

The Trojan Horses of Nuclear War
free download here

Download World Uranium Weapons
Conference reader and
hear presentations.

Jazz Funeral for Democracy


© 2005 Annie Spell
New Orleans, Jan 20
Photo-Album with links to speech and articles

Protesters Win ‘Not guilty’ Jury Verdicts After Actions at “Gene Busting” Weapons Site

Jan. 6 press Release - Closing Argument

Iraq-Analysis

Rick McDowell and Mary Trotochaud, Iraq Country representatives for AFSC (doc) (pdf) Also, Hear their Nov reports

Interviewing the Student Antiwar Movement

 
Monique Dols and Desmond G. at CAN National Conference. Photos and audio. photos by Charles Jenks & Samuel Swenson

Gerard Matthew, Iraq War II vet, contamined by US uranium weapons.


photo © 2004 Charles Jenks

Hear interview on WFCR and with Sunny Miller - MP3 audio - 39:35 minutes; 13.6 mg for broadband and radio airplay; RealAudio for dial-up connections.

Choices for Palestine and Israel

After Arafat: a view from Gaza

Abusada with CAN coordinators Katrina Yeaw and Kathleen Brown, May, 2004.

U.S. Military families depart US to bring humanitarian aid to Iraq
Stop DOD Exemption to Labeling Radioactive Shipments (updated)
Dec 12 Judgment (pdf)
The International Criminal Tribunal for Iraq
(thanks Ross)

Dec 15 - charges dismissed for Dennis Kyne - US Veteran, Patriot


Dennis Kyne at Veterans for Peace Closing Circle, Boston. July 25 photo © 2004 Charles Jenks

D.C. Counter-Inaugural Jan 20
also
New Orleans Jazz Funeral for Democracy
Petition filed against US with OAS for attacks on Fallujah hospital
press release - petition
additional petitioner

Updated Dec 15
100 Student Organizers meet in NYC
for CAN's 3rd annual conference - Audio and Photos


photo© 2004 Charlie Jenks and
Campus Antiwar Network

Call for campuses to mobilize for January 20. Students "Redoubling" national efforts - opposing occupation of Iraq and Palestinian Land.

Campus Antiwar Network website

Israeli Refusnik Speaks


photo© 2004 Charles Jenks
Hear Audio

Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission begins public work
In Memoriam: names and identified victims of Iraq War; 1448 coalition dead (as of 12-15-04)

Hear John Bonifaz
on the Failure of Government:
The War Powers Clause and the Constitution Today

both mp3 and RealAudio

Scott Ritter Interview
on Israel's Nuclear Weapons,
Iraq and US protests


© 2004 Charles Jenks

Letter from Hunger Strikers' Tent Protesting  Israel's Apartheid Wall

Updates on Palestine Occupation

Dismantling the Wall

Glen Rangwala


photo©2004 Charlie Jenks

The legacy of occupation (Iraq)

Glen Rangwala Index
Special
MP3 (20mg) Interview
with Sunny Miller
RealAudio for dial-up

Chris Busby on Uranium Contamination


photo©2004 Sunny Miller

Traprock interviewed Chris Busby of Green Audit at the IPPNW conference in Berlin. In simple language hear how coastal effects have increased cancer rates and why inhaled uranium contamination is not like natural exposures.

Busby at World DU Conf

Hear Diane Henshel, Ph.D. on health dangers of radioactive munitions.


photo©2004 Charles Jenks

Updated Special
by Marc Herold

US 'Precision' Bombing -
Iraq and Afghanistan
download doc or pdf version

Sept 4 update- War as Peace in Afghanistan
download doc or pdf version


Photo © Charlie Jenks

Iraq: Eyewitness Reports


Interview with
Khury Petersen-Smith
Campus Antiwar Network
photo©2004 Charlie Jenks

Khury available to speak (pdf)

read Khury's report
End Occupation (pdf)

On the Brink of Destruction
Michele Naar-Obed

See also CAN statement.

The views published on this website do not necessarily represent those of Traprock Peace Center, its Core Group or its supporters.
Reports - Opinion - Campaigns

This GI is taking a stand against war - will you?


Lewis M. Levine photo

You can help

Getting to the Heart of the Matter
Open letter to her husband's chain of command by Monica Benderman

Traprock Report
Will US Military Apply its own regs on DU? Will it comply with environmental and health care mandates?
Army Handbook
for Recruiters

(pdf) (doc)

Thanks Bonnie Weinstein (www.bauaw.org)
Counter-Recruitment
at GWHS with CAN

Soldiers, Oil & Ongoing State Terror against Anuak & Other Indigenous Minorities of Southwestern Ethiopia

An investigative genocide field report (doc file) by Keith Harmon-Snow

Iraqi Election
"Bait and Switch"
(rtf)
Carl Conetta, Project on Defense Alternatives

Feeling a Draft? - Poor Kids vs. Pentagon - Village Voice

Recruiters leave SCCC when students protest.

One Hundred Thousand and Counting - honoring Iraqi civilians killed in the war.
The Salvador Option
Scott Ritter
more by Ritter
Updated
Holy Land Journal

Memphis Activists help plant olive trees in occupied Palestine

DU on WMAC Radio (Albany) - Susan Arbetter and Alan Chartock interview John Arnason, David Rose, and Sharon Herr about uranium weapons and the National Lead factory in Colonie, NY.

3 Questions to the DOD
on radioactive weapons
Doug Rokke

Special Analyses
The Strange Kidnapping of Margaret Hassan
(pdf) (doc version )

Matt Bojanovic

Targeting Pacifists
in Iraq

Vincent L Guarisco

Televise Funerals of US Soldiers (doc) (pdf)

The Tsunami and Colin Powell David Keppel letter to Sen. Lugar

Vote for Peace
Sign Open Letter to All Governments
Soldiers, Oil & Ongoing State Terror against Anuak
& Other Indigenous Minorities of Southwestern Ethiopia
A Genocide Investigative Field Report (doc)
keith harmon snow
Uranium Weapons
Daily Press 5 part series
Part 5 with links to all parts
Final report on letter of apology to the Iraqi people
US considering assassination or kidnapping teams in Iraq - MSNBC

SPECIAL REPORT
RWANDA'S SECRET WAR
U.S-Backed Destabilization of Central Africa - Special Report from Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
keith harmon snow

Weapons of Self-Destruction
Finally - a mass media article on DU - thanks David Rose, Vanity Fair
Nov 20 - Labor Antiwar Organizing Conference Download Flyer
VA report on Iraq War casualties (doc file) 27,571 vets have sought help; 5375 mental disorder diagnoses

David Keppel

Bush attack on NY Times "familiar tactic of dictators"

Close Vermont
Yankee Reactor
download letters for MA
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): Unrealistic Expectations, Inhuman Conditions (download press release - doc file)
A soldier takes on DoD over radioative weapons.

A People Behind Walls - Christine Lane on Israeli
walling of Palestine (pdf file)

Italian October Surprise (doc)
Matt Bojanovic

Stop DOD Exemption to Labeling DU Shipments
US MD's complicit in
torture at Abu Ghraib

Coalition imprisons Iraqi children
Proxy Wars in Central Africa - Keith Harmon Snow
doc file - 1.75 mb

Report - 3rd International Conference on An End to Occupation, a Just Peace in Israel-Palestine

Israel’s “Mass Robbery” of Palestine Re-Examined but Still Unresolved

Israeli Arms Embargo Urged

By Genevieve Cora Fraser

Military families demand immediate end to war.
To an Unknown Iraqi
Hans-Christof von Sponeck

US and UK must take
immediate action on DU

Doug Rokke

DU Casualties - Care Denied

Atrocities with sexual violence in DRC
Turning a blind eye on Africa again
Keith Harmon Snow

More on Africa

We appreciate JagflyHosting's commitment to our work and its discount for non-profits.
Regional - NYC, New England

Vandana Shiva
Mt. Holyoke College - April 10th

"India Divided: Diversity and
Democracy Undre Attack"


photo © 2005 Sunny Miller

Hear her talk - mp3 and RealAudio.

April 4 - Keene, NH
Jimmy Massey, ivaw.net
mp3 audio 47:15 - RealAudio


photo © 2005 Sunny Miller
Sponsored by mothersuniting.org

Support Tom MacLean - visit or write


Serving Peace, Serving Time for SOAW civil disobedience. photo © 2001 Charles Jenks

Stop the Death Penalty and Jail Expansion

Shujaa Graham was special guest at forum with Russell Neufeld, Robert Meerpool, Holly Richardson and Annie Kiren (Moderator).

Audio and photos.

March 19, 2005
Thousands Protest War In Fayetteville

NEW - Hear and See the Rally
Page 1 - Page 2
with photos and a video treat

 

 

 
Lou Plummer, Nancy Lessin, Mike Hoffman, Felicia Eaves, Camilo Mejia and Medea Benjamin were among many inspiring speakers. Hear the rally, Page 1 - Page 2 - with photos and video clip.
photos © 2005 Charles Jenks

Also

Photo-Album of March
more photos and audio coming


Iraq Veterans Against the War was a prime organizer of the march and rally. Click on image for large size. photo© 2005 Charles Jenks


CAN made the first call by an independent national stdent network for a student contingent to the march. The large student and youth participation formed an exclamation point to the Campus Week of Resistance, Shown here are CAN organizers Christian Wright (GW), Catherine Geary (UNC-Wilmington) and Desmond Gadfrey (GSU). photo© 2005 Charles Jenks

New Youk City Photos

Protests Across Nation - San Francisco
New York, Fayetteville

Burlington Votes to Bring
the Troops Home Now

James Marc Leas, Colleen McLaughlin and Ashley Smith

March 3 - Windham, VT Regional Commission hears citizens object to storing nuclear waste in vulnerable dry casks at Veron Reactor site.

Hear Public Comments and Responses
and see photo album and links

Baby Teeth Needed
to Assess Strontium 90 Levels.
Hear Joseph Mangano. Read former Governor (VT) Philip Huff's letter.


Jonathan Snelling, Sunny Miller, Sumner Gray and Sally Shaw promoting the project at fundraiser for New England Coalition in Brattleboro, VT. photo © 2005 Charles Jenks.

Iraq War II dead honored at site of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination Photo-Album

The Mid-South Peace and Justice Center organized AFSC's Eyes Wide Open exhibition at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis. photos © 2005 Charles Jenks

Bridges for Peace Photos

Franklin County neighbors showed where they stand on the war against Iraq - on bridges over Interstate 91. Jan 16,17,18,20. Pictured: Sunny Miller, Rev. Kate Stevens, John Hoffman and Betsy Corner.
Annie Keough coordinated the schedule.
See Photo-Album

For story on Northampton counter-inaugural march, see WMass IndyMedia

Free Richard Sitcha
detainee from Cameroon.

See story, photo-album and links
photo © 2005 Sunny Miller

Traprock's 25th anniversary
Dec 18th at Deerfield Academy

Click on image for full-size. photo © Charlie Jenks

Stop Bio-weapons Lab in Boston

Help Stop a Meltdown!

Tooth Fairy Project (doc)- study of
Sr 90 exposure rates and correlations with health in communities downwind of VT Yankee nuclear reactor. - Sally Shaw

Citizens give NRC an 'earfull'

photo © 2004 Charles Jenks

Hear NRC presentation on Vernon reactor and public comments.

Also, see special Summary and Critique (doc file) of NRC Engineering Inspection Report on ENVY Uprate. See also pertinent MA lawmakers' contact information (doc)

Recent News
Vernon Nuke makes 'Dirty Dozen' Toxics List



Mailing the award to Entergy Nuclear
photo © 2004 Susan Callahan

Public Service Board urges fine against Entergy

100 attend Conscientious Objector panel on Veterans Day


Two of the many students attending the CO panel Hear audio and see photos of Frances Crowe keynote address and panel presentations© 2004 Charles Jenks

See the audio CO primer by Frances Crowe and Ben Sherman on Conscientious Objection. Start you CO file today!

Rick McDowell and Mary Trotochaud give witness on Iraq


Ann Gibson, Jo Commerford, Randy Kehler and Mary McClintock photo© 2004 Charles Jenks

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