March 1- April 4
Adopt-A-Minefield would like to invite you to participate in our sixth annual Night of a Thousand Dinners initiative. Every year, thousands of caring supporters like you host a dinner with their friends and family to spread the word about the global landmine crisis and help us raise much needed funds to clear landmines and give landmine survivors the assistance they need to rebuild their lives.
There are several ways you can support Adopt-A-Minefield through the 2006 Night of a Thousand Dinners initiative, which runs from March 1, commemorating the date the Mine Ban Treaty entered into force, to April 4, recently recognized by the United Nations as International Day for Mine Awareness.
Visit our website at 1,000 Dinners to:
Sign up to host a dinner for your friends and family. Instead of asking for flowers or wine, ask for a donation. You can hold a tea party, barbeque or wine tasting. Get your school, community group or club involved. We’ll send you a host kit with a DVD and helpful information on how to make your dinner a success. Brochures are also available upon request.
Join us at our inaugural New York Citydinner, to be held on April 4, 2006 at the United Nations, and help us honor Kofi Annan and the United Nations for their commitment to mine action. Call 212-907-1391 to purchase tickets or to place an ad in our special commemorative program book.
Bid on exciting items in our online auction running March 1 – April 18 at Charity Folks. Here are just a few of the one-of-a-kind lots:
“Chef for a Day” at the acclaimed restaurant, Chez Panisse, with Alice Waters
Dinner for four at Fleur de Lys, one of San Francisco’s finest restaurants, with a private tour of the kitchen and a personalized cookbook
Cooking lessons for you and nine friends at the acclaimed AspenCookingSchool, followed by a delectable dinner and wine pairing
The Adopt-A-Minefield Team
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Grand Theft Baghdad
by Charlie Cray, TomPaine.com
For the party of fiscal accountability, Republicans in Congress have dangerously little interest in investigating the contracting scandals of the Iraqi occupation.
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On Force And Fear Alone
by Tom Porteous, TomPaine.com
The U.S. is abandoning its political and moral authority in the Middle East.
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Afghanistan's Notorious Policharki Prison
By The Associated Press
February 26, 2006, 6:13 PM EST
Policharki, the site of an inmate takeover Sunday, is Afghanistan's most notorious prison. Summary executions took place there during the Soviet occupation and the Taliban rule of the country.
Taliban and al-Qaida members are now among the 1,300 inmates held there. Last month, seven mid-ranking Taliban inmates disguised themselves as visitors and escaped.
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Public court' holds Bush guilty of perpetrating terrorism ( 16:57:48 Hrs )
Hyderabad, Feb 26 (IANS) A 'praja court' (public court) here Sunday held US President George W. Bush guilty of "perpetrating terrorism in the name of fighting terrorism and killing people including women and children".
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Number Of Iraqi civilians Slaughtered In America's War 100,000 +
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Slaughtered (Officially acknowledged) In Bush's War
2290
The War in Iraq Costs $243,684,297,720 See the cost in your community
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War In Error
By Andrew J. Bacevich
As far as official Washington is concerned, the nameless, faceless dead of Damadola are already forgotten. Our warrior-president will continue to insist that we have no choice but to press on, seemingly blind to the moral havoc wreaked by his war and oblivious to the extent to which he is playing into the hands of our adversaries.
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The CIA's 'Black Sites'
What are we going to do with the secret prisoners who cannot be tried in our courts?
By Nat Hentoff
The CIA's top counterterrorism official [Robert Grenier] was fired last week because he opposed detaining Al Qaeda suspects in secret prisons abroad, sending them to other countries for interrogation, and using forms of torture such as "waterboarding," [making a prisoner believe he is about to be drowned] intelligence sources have claimed.
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American Government:
Heading Toward Disintegration and Collapse
By Charles Mercieca, Ph.D.
It is very obvious that this capitalistic nation is concerned merely with the financial interests of big corporations and nothing else matters, not even the very health and life of the American people. Its top priority is to cater to special interests.
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Bush's State of Exception
Mark Danner
Interviewed By Tom Engelhardt
INTERVIEW: With the Bush administration, power trumps law and even reality.
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The Spy Who Bills Us
By Patrick Radden Keefe
COMMENTARY: Your telephone company is most likely cooperating with federal wiretapping programs. And guess what? It's illegal.
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TORTURE WARNING OVER UK 'WAR ON TERROR'
(23 feb 2006) London's anti-terrorism policies are sending a "green
light" to other governments to abuse human rights and are increasing
the risk of torture, a new Amnesty report - Human rights: a broken
promise - warns today.
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Serbia to Be First Nation Charged with Genocide
Belgrade will be accused at the International Court of Justice of sponsoring ethnic cleansing in the 1990s that led to the worst massacres on European soil since the Second World War. Previously, only individuals have been charged with genocide, the most serious war crime.
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Anti-Terrorism 'on Collision Course' with Biotech for the Poor
Global efforts to combat bioterrorism are on a potential collision course with legitimate biotechnology activities that hold the promise of improving life for millions of poor people, the Canadian Program on Genomics and Global Health warns in a new report.
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