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Hey Everyone,

Below is an updated description of Rebecca MacNeice's documentary. She is in the final stages of filming and has some critical things she'd like to tape on election night.

Currently Rebecca is raising funds to complete filming. She needs yoursupport to be able to follow the main character, Colonel Ann Wright,
through this election. She will also need to be able to hire other videographers across the country to capture some of the peripheral characters.

Let's all help support this ongoing work

http://www.macneicefilms.com/crawfordtexas.html

Her work has been featured on Democracy NOW!, Truthout.org, The Nation's website and PBS' Now with David Brancaccio.

I hope you will contribute to her film. I know the kind of effort independent filmmakers have to put in to get their stories out to the public. Let's help out one of our own.

Please click on the pay pal link below and give what you can.

Contributions add up-even $5.00 at a time-so please give what you can and know that this helps bring the film closer to the final stages.

Thanks for your time!

Johnny Wolf

to contribute click on link bellow:

http://www.macneicefilms.com/crawfordtexas.html

The Documentary:

The Good Colonel is a feature-length documentary film focusing on retired Col. Ann Wright and her crusade to bring public attention to the horrors of the Iraq war. Through significant events, sometimes intense, funny and surreal, the film captures her in action-beginning
with her quiet leadership role in Crawford, Texas during the anti-war protests of 2005. I came to realize she was the man behind the curtain during that time. She kept the logistics of potential chaos in order and used her 13 years experience as a diplomat for the State Department to run interference between local law enforcement, pro-war zealots, anti-war protestors, bereaved family members of soldiers
killed in action and some nutty people with no where else to go. All just outside the doorsteps of the President.

You may have already heard and contributed to this film-formerly called Crawford, Texas. I've narrowed the scope to focus on Ann Wright's story. Her willingness to go against the grain politically
and her military code of silence exemplifies the spirit of the film.The Good Colonel is a complex journey through the experiences of a high ranking retired colonel navigating through her unexpected new role as a leader in a protest movement. The Good Colonel follows one women's journey between polar opposites of power through relinquishing her political power and clout to standing outside the gates of the White House-sometimes leaving in handcuffs. The story follows her, and a few others, through the urban and rural landscapes of an America at war in Iraq and with its own concience.

In this political season I know we have all grown weary of capital campaigns. But this film is an example of all that you have supported in the past and look forward to in the future. It is a celebration of
people who went against the tide and stood up for their values during a very uncomfortable time in our history. Ann Wright, and the others featured in this film, deserved the moniker of "changemakers" long
before that became politically acceptable again.

Thank you so much,

Rebecca MacNeice

Here's some background about Ann Wright:

On March 21, 2003, Colonel Ann Wright resigned from the Foreign Service in opposition to the Administration's plans to preemptively
attack Iraq without the support of the UN. On that day she became an anti-war activist with 29 years of military experience and 13 years as a diplomat in the State Department. In the State Department she demonstrated leadership and logistical organizing power in some of the most tumultuous and fragile military situations in recent years. Five years later she is on an FBI watch list for publicly speaking out against the Iraq war and for minor/non violent arrests during protests. Wright has been the target of political intimidation. She was denied access to Canada twice. (yes, Canada.) She has repeatedly found herself on the other side of the barricades-standing alongside the same kind of people who used to protest her presence in places like Managua.

Rebecca MacNeice

MacNeice Films, Inc
13 1/2 Eagle St. Suite P
Asheville, NC 28801
828-281-1341
www.macneicefilms.com
rebecca@macneicefilms.com

From Bailout to Brilliance: The Opportunity in Crisis
Replacing The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
A Measure to Restore the Credit of the Nation to the Service of the People
by Leland Lehrman
leland@mothermedia.org
Reading the newspaper recently, one would never have guessed there was any chance the nation's lawmakers would vote against the banker bailout. But, with so many calls coming in against it, sometimes at 300 to 1, both Republican and Democratic lawmakers, including New Mexico's Tom Udall and Steve Pearce voted against the blank check for the bankers.

All Muslims are terrorists—that’s what prosecutors and a witness insinuated Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008 during the third day of the Holy Land Foundation retrial after the jury left for the day. It quickly became more apparent than ever before that the five defendants are being targeted for the religion they follow.

Individuals who often use statements such as these—By God. Thank God. In the name of God, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. Peace be Upon You. God Willing. May God Bless You. And Praise be to God—are Islamists, which makes them Muslim Brotherhood members, which makes them anti-Israeli, which in turn makes them terrorists, argued government witness Atef Shafik, a senior language analyst for the FBI.

“Persons who speak that way are persons who are Islamists,” prosecutor Jim Jacks told U.S. District Judge Jorge Solis as he pushed to include Shafik’s obviously bias perspective to the jury. “The way we speak gives away who we are.”

When asked to define Islamists, Shafik said, They are devout Muslims who follow the Sharia Law. They refer extensively to religious texts, such as Quran and Hadith. And they call for the destruction of Israel.

His sources for his conclusion, he explained, are the media and the fact that he lived in Egypt the first 27 years of his life.

Defense attorneys made it clear that Shafik, who is Christian, was no expert on Islam. Defense attorney Theresa Duncan said Shafik’s words expressed pure bigotry and were clearly “an attack on Islam.”

Judge Solis said he would make a ruling Thursday morning on whether Shafik’s perspective could be presented to the jury.

http://www.freedomtogive.com/?q=node/140

Veterans Climb Government Building, Call for Arrest of Bush and Cheney
Impeachment movement challenges Bush at every turn

VFP Arrest Bush
The enormous banner hanging from the National Archive building... right now!

Dear Brothers & Sisters,Best Greetings / Assalmo Alykom
/From Waseem Nasrallah

Today Monday September 15, 2008 the Re-Trial of the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) begins. Please keep yourself informed about this important legal case. Also please pray for these brothers during this blessed month of Ramadan.

What is this Case About?

This case is about criminalizing feeding the children, orphans, and widows.

The government is accusing 5 brothers of supporting a terrorist organization “Hamas”. They claim that through feeding the children of Palestine HLF also indirectly supported Hamas.

Why is this case important?

Not only did the government shut down the Holy land Foundation in 2001, they also indicted 5 brothers in 2004 as part of a conspiracy to provide material support to organizations linked to Hamas (not direct support). These organizations are called Zakat Committees in Palestine. The Zakat committees operated legally under Israeli law. Also, the committees were supported by USAID (A US government agency) and the United Nations. So I ask, ‘why was the HLF singled out’?

A lawyer for Holy Land, John Boyd, said, ”The local Palestinian charities that the foundation supported were also getting funds from the American Government, the United Nations, the Red Cross, and others. I won't even speculate now as to why under these circumstances Holy Land Foundation should have to struggle with this idea that somehow by engaging in charitable efforts in Palestine … that the Holy Land Foundation is now having to fend off a theory that somehow charity equals terrorism,".

In addition the US Government filed a brief to the court listing 306 Muslim individuals and Muslim organizations as Un-indicted Co-Conspirators (UCC) as part of the HLF Case. They made the list public.

The Holy Land Foundation Re-Trial: Justice or Politics?
8/7/2008 by Hadi Jawad

The Bush Administration has systematically compromised the neutrality and independence of the U.S. Justice Department. For proof, look at Monica Goodling and Kyle Sampson. These aides of the last two U.S. Attorneys General, Alberto Gonzalez and John Ashcroft, recently admitted to have favored professed loyalists to President George W. Bush for high-level jobs in the Justice Department. To the aides, admiration for the president was more desirable than upholding justice.

Least surprised by these “new” revelations are American Muslims and their organizations, all victims of unrelenting persecution and harassment by the Bush Justice Department since the ill-fated day of Sept. 11, 2001. As proof of President Bush’s arrogant abuse of power, American Muslims point to the continuing saga of the Dallas-based Holy Land Foundation (HLF). In next month’s retrial, federal prosecutors will be desperately seeking the conviction of any one of the five defendants as a present for Bush before he leaves Washington for retirement in Dallas.

While the prosecution did not accuse the five defendants of committing any acts of terrorism, it argued that by providing humanitarian aid to Palestinian children, the HLF indirectly helped Hamas by freeing up its resources to attack Israel. The government admitted, however, that the Palestinian groups the HLF was accused of helping also received aid from US AID and several European Union countries at the same time.

So why is the HLF being singled out?

"It is a political witch hunt to appease an expansionist power in the Middle East. It is a sure sign we are living in Orwellian times when those who provide food, clothing, and shelter to the hungry and destitute are demonized as criminals as if Palestinian children are not worthy of what every child needs," said John Wolf, a Dallas-area human rights activist.

After lasting two months, the first HLF trial ended in a mistrial; the 14-year federal investigation into HLF conducted in concert with international intelligence agencies across three continents yielded no convictions out of more than 200 indictments. For the first time in American history, a national of a foreign country was allowed to "secretly" testify against American citizens in a U.S. court. The accused were not allowed to question their accuser.

Then, months later, it was revealed that hundreds of pages of "un-admitted and demonstrative evidence" allowed during court room proceedings but barred from jury room deliberations were sent by the defense into the jury room. On Sept. 26, 2007, the jury sent out a note inquiring about demonstrative exhibits. With assurances from the prosecution, Judge A. Fish instructed the Jury that all exhibits in their possession were evidence. In October 2001,President Bush shut down HLF’s non-profit charity work. Six years to the month later, the HLF trial ended in a mistrial.

Now, the Bush Justice Department is going after the same men again using essentially the same accusations. But with approval ratings as low as his, one must wonder whether President Bush would have any friends left in a jury pool. Still, the stakes are high: If HLF wins, the Constitution will have survived yet another assault and America will win. If the Bush Justice Department wins, freedom will be worth less than the paper this letter is written. Jury selection for the re-trial begins September 15.

For more information how you can support due process rights of the defendants, please visit: www.hungryforjustice.org

Environmentally friendly power: Bargain or Boone-doogle? Sunday, August 10, 2008

Kay Lucas

Wind power truly is a great resource. We should be using lot’s more of it. And solar, biomass and geothermal, etc.

But, please ask yourself why taxpayers should foot the bill for oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens, so he can connect his intended wind farm to government subsidized transmission line infrastructure? Heck, his financial statement is not bleeding red ink like the U.S. Treasury.

Twin Tragedies.
By Hadi Jawad

Just as the tragic events of September 11 2001 are forever branded in the minds of Americans, Iranians find it difficult to forget
August 19 1953. It is fair to assume that most Americans are unaware of the significance of that day let alone how the two dates
might be historically connected.

On that fateful day in Iran ( 28 Mordad in the Persian Calendar) the CIA engineered the first 'regime change' in US history, overthrowing

DEBKAfile Special Report August 12, 2008,
New America armada around Iran
DEBKAfile’s military sources note that the arrival of the three new American flotillas will raise to five the number of US strike forces in Middle East waters – an unprecedented build-up since the crisis erupted over Iran’s nuclear program.

This vast naval and air strength consists of more than 40 carriers, warships and submarines, some of the last nuclear-armed, opposite the Islamic Republic, a concentration last seen just before the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.