Doing Something About Drone Killing by Dennis DuVall Eight OP’ers drove to Flagstaff to hear a presentation by Robert Naiman, Policy Director for Just Foreign Policy, on a speaking tour promoting the notion that “We can do something about drone strike policy if we focus where it’s politically vulnerable.” Naiman is convinced that if …
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Feb 15
Military Recruiters Leave No Child Behind
Military Recruiters Leave No Child Behind Our local secondary schools receiving federal fund assistance through the “No Child Left Behind Act” (NCLBA), e.g. Prescott High School, must provide military recruiters with students’ names, addresses, and telephone listings upon request by the recruiters, unless the student or the student’s parent expressly requests the school not provide …
Dec 15
Lincoln Movie Night
Lincoln OP Movie Night flyer OccupyPrescott Goes to the Movies: Please, join us Sunday December 16 at 4pm to watch LINCOLN at Prescott Valley Harkins Theaters, and be sure and participate in a Discussion afterward at IHOP (the International House of Pancakes across the street) beginning around 7pm. Bring along a friend, too! If you already have seen LINCOLN, still come …
Dec 15
A Thanksgiving Teach-in and Hunger Strike for Gaza
A Thanksgiving Teach-in and Hunger Strike for Gaza I was looking forward to Thanksgiving with Iris and her cranberry relish and stuffing. The looming possibility of another Gaza massacre changed that. My anger built up over a week of Iraeli air attacks killing Palestinian civilians, women and children, with bombs and missiles made in …
Dec 15
Arizona Republican Form of Government Includes (and needs) Direct Democracy
Arizona Republican Form of Government Includes (and needs) Direct Democracy by Ralph Hess At the end of its Regular Meeting of September 25, 2012, the Prescott City Council denied a petition submitted by local citizen Tom Atkins asking the Council to adopt a resolution supporting a “corporations are not people” amendment to the US Constitution. …