let us see what love can do

At 12:00 noon on Inauguration Day 2009 (January 20, 2009, according to the Twentieth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution), Barack Obama will become the 44th President of the United States.

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.

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!

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

Israel backs Georgia in Caspian Oil Pipeline Battle with Russia

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

August 8, 2008

Georgian tanks and infantry, aided by Israeli military advisers, captured the capital of breakaway South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, early Friday, Aug. 8, bringing the Georgian-Russian conflict over the province to a military climax.

Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin threatened a “military response.”

Former Soviet Georgia called up its military reserves after Russian warplanes bombed its new positions in the renegade province.

http://www.consortiumnews.com August 12, 2008
Neocons Now Love International Law
By Robert Parry

It's touching how American neoconservatives who have no regard for
international law when they want to invade some troublesome country have
developed a sudden reverence for national sovereignty.

Apparently, context is everything. So, the United States attacking Grenada or
Nicaragua or Panama or Iraq or Serbia is justified even if the reasons
sometimes don't hold water or don't hold up before the United Nations,

Bush is at the ranch
3 years ago when we were with Cindy and the other Gold Star families, with MFSO, IVAW and VFP-all in the ditches to protest the war in Iraq.
Stop Him before He Kills Again
End the War / No War In Iran / No to Torture
Come to Crawford Texas this weekend
August 15th 16th 17th
Daily actions at the checkpoint
Join
Ann Wright Bree Walker
and
Your friends at the
The Crawford Texas Peace House
and
Camp at Camp Casey 2008
Rally Sunday
Lunch 12:00 Speakers at 1:00
Protest at the check point
e-mail us at crawfordpeacehouse@gmail.com

Air Force Think Tank: Don't Attack Iran!
8/5/2008
"Tone down U.S. policy statements advocating regime change in Iran," recommended a major study prepared for the US Air Force on how the US should redefine its relationship with Iran.

On July 10, 2008, RAND Project Air Force (RAND PAF)--a division of the defense think tank the RAND Corporation--released a major study recommending alternatives to military conflict with Iran.