October 27, 2006 Letters and Announcements to Al-Jazeerah Editor


	A Lebanese car passing over a bridge in south Lebanon, which was damaged (but never repaired) by Israeli attacks in July 2006.


	A Lebanese bus passing over a bridge in south Lebanon, which was damaged (but never repaired) by Israeli attacks in July 2006.

Mark Frarel

* Please join me and my friend, Congressman Danny Davis (Dem.-IL),

at a fund-raiser on Oct. 29, 2006, at the

Wallace's Catfish Corner, 2800 W. Madison (Madison and California), in Chicago, IL – 4 p.m. – 6 p.m. The cost is $100.

* Your donation will assure that a Muslim for the first time in American History sits in the United States Congress. If you are unable to attend, please send your Campaign Contribution.

*Thank you. As-Salaam-Alaikum – The Peace Be Unto You, Keith Ellison for U.S. Congress

Congressman Danny Davis

Mail Check or Money Order Payable to:

Keith Ellison for U.S. Congress,

c/o Jesse Brown for Congressman Danny Davis

3333 W. Arthington St., Suite 130, Chicago, IL 60624;

Phone 773-533-7520

This fund-raiser announcement is for Keith Ellison, a Muslim from Minneapolis who attended masjid in association with Imam W. Deen Mohammed. Keith won the primary election, after a very contested race - much made over him being Muslim.

So support for him is called for from Muslims all over. He will be the first professed Muslim to serve in the U.S. Congress from anywhere. Congressman Danny Davis has befriended him and is sponsoring this fund-raiser for Keith Ellison.

Ayesha K. Mustafa

National Emergency Teach-in, October 30, on War, Torture, Theocracy, and the Assault on Women’s Rights

IT’S WORSE THAN YOU THINK:

Where the Bush Regime is Taking the World and Why They Must Be Stopped

Neither the full magnitude nor the staggering implications of the Bush program are well understood. The administration systematically lies about its actions and agenda, while the major media and leading Democrats allow the Bush program to frame the overall discussion.

As a result, the most crucial issues are not discussed truthfully either in the public arena or in election campaigns. This is why "The World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime," in conjunction with the Bush Crimes Commission and others, have organized this major event October 30.

Featured Speakers:

Dr. Les Roberts, an author of the study in The Lancet that there are a projected 650,000 civilian deaths caused by the war on Iraq, far above the Bush regime’s casual numbers of 100,000. Roberts is an epidemiologist, now at Columbia University. He will speak on the Bush administration’s attacks on science, including their attempts to discredit data pointing to massive deaths in Iraq.

William Goodman, Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, speaking on the incredible changes in law and civil liberties, particularly the implications of the new Military Commissions Act and the legitimization of torture.

Larry Everest has covered the Middle East for over ten years and is the author of Oil, Power, and Empire. He will speak on "what's happening in Iraq, how did we get here, and what should be done about it"

Chris Hedges, Senior Fellow at The Nation Institute and a Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, winning a Pulitzer Prize. He will address the moves toward theocracy and its influence on the threatening moves toward a war on Iran.

Cristina Page, Vice President of the Institute for Reproductive Health Access at NARAL Pro-Choice New York and a prominent reproductive rights activist. Her recent book How The Pro-choice Movement Saved America describes the assault of the Christian right on both abortion and contraception.

This event will be held at: Synod Hall of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
111th St & Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY

7:00pm, Monday, October 30. Suggested donation $10-$20

Delayed national broadcast on the Internet the same evening. See www.worldcantwait.org for details on viewing.

This internet broadcast is a first! Expenses are $3500+. Help make this important program available to the world via the Internet.

Please contribute AND set up a viewing where you are Monday.

Find other teach-ins through World Can’t Wait or organize your own.

Order the Bush Crimes Commission DVDs