Happy Peacester! | Re-legalize cannabis and hemp (Soapbox Re-Broadcast 4/20/14) | On 4/20, Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox is re-broadcasting a show about re-legalizing hemp and cannabis, with young activist: Alex Fidel

Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox April 20, 2014
Happy Peacester! Re-legalize cannabis and hemp (Soapbox Re-Broadcast 4/20/14)  On 4/20, Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox is re-broadcasting a show about re-legalizing hemp and cannabis, with young activist: Alex Fidel CLICK HERE FOR SHOW LINK Break Co-dependency with the Empire by Cindy Sheehan "Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every wo(man) a conscience, then? I think that we should be wo(men) first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious wo(men) is a corporation with a conscience. Law never made wo(men) a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice." Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience When my children were young, my oldest Casey was 10; I transferred from Cerritos Community College in Norwalk to UCLA. Although I was familiar with the work of Henry David Thoreau, I was assigned On Walden’s Pond and Civil Disobedience in one of my classes.  Read Full Blog... Cindy on KPFK's Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod Apr 16, 2014 Click on Player to Listen Support Cindy's Campaign for California Governor www.cindy2014.org	Click on Image to Donate In the News   Ludlow Massacre: April 20, 1914 Zinn Education Project by Howard Zinn Howard Zinn first learned of the Ludlow Massacre from a song by Woody Guthrie, which Zinn says, “nobody had ever mentioned in any of my history courses, which no textbook of mine had ever mentioned.” To help future generations of students learn about Ludlow in their history courses, we offer here an interview with Zinn about the significance of Ludlow and his description of the history from A People’s History of the United States. Read More...   Air strike kills 13 suspected militants in central Yemen: sources Reuters Apr 19, 2014 by Mohamed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) - An air strike killed 13 suspected al Qaeda militants in the central Yemeni province of al-Bayda on Saturday, security and tribal sources said. "An air strike targeted cars that suspected al Qaeda militants were in and killed 13 of them in the Sawma'a area of al-Bayda," a security source told Reuters. Read More... The U.S. Is Not a Democracy, It Is an Oligarchy Global Research Apr 14, 2014 by Eric Zuesse A study, to appear in the Fall 2014 issue of the academic journal Perspectives on Politics, finds that the U.S. is no democracy, but instead an oligarchy, meaning profoundly corrupt, so that the answer to the study’s opening question, “Who governs? Who really rules?” in this country, is: Read More... US, Russia gearing up for war over Ukraine: Analyst Press TV Apr 19, 2014 “We are preparing for war. The increase of [US] troops on the eastern border [of Ukraine with Russia], more troops, more planes to the Baltic States, to Romania, [and] to all of the countries bordering Russia at the same time that the Russians are maintaining their own defense capability [show that], we are really in something of a prewar situation,” he added. Read More...