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No End in Sight: Free online

I'm just reposting this from the GreenCine Daily:

Charles Ferguson's Oscar-nominated documentary No End in Sight, winner of the Documentary Special Jury Prize at Sundance in 2007, "is being made available free to the public to reveal the facts about the Bush Administration's invasion and occupation of Iraq to voters concerned with the issues of national security and the adverse economic impact of the war when making decisions in this crucial election."

The doc's got its own YouTube channel where, again, it'll be viewable for free from Monday through November 5. Ray Pride's posted the full press release at Movie City Indie.

Tell Bush and McCheney (er, McCain) to Support Our Troops

A message to me! (okay, and thousands of others I'm sure) from New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson:

You and I both know that no matter how we feel about this war we're 100% behind our men and women in uniform. We need to stand with them when it counts - especially when they come home. Unfortunately, George W. Bush and John McCain are actively fighting AGAINST the New G.I. Bill introduced in the Senate by Senator Jim Webb and co-sponsored in the House by my good friend, Congressman Tom Udall.

      

Join Tom and me by signing Tom's letter calling on George W. Bush to support our troops. Help ensure that when they come home they can afford a four-year college education.

 

This New G.I. Bill will modernize the Montgomery G.I. Bill so that our troops who today so bravely and honorably serve our country in Afghanistan and Iraq will have access to benefits on par with veterans of World War II. And yet, George W. Bush doesn't want to sign it. Tom has the integrity to very publicly call on the President to sign the bill - and you can too.

Click here to add your name, and send a message to George W. Bush telling him to SUPPORT our troops - and not play politics with their future.

This bill provides important educational and health benefits to our troops and it is far too important to leave unsigned. 

Sign Tom's letter and make Bush put his money where his mouth is.

All the best,

Governor Bill Richardson

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Update: Bush signed Jim Webb's GI bill into law, so that's good news.

Meeting Resistance documentary on DVD

Out tomorrow (May 20) on DVD: Meeting Resistance, Molly Bingham and Steve Connors' documentary attempts to show the "other side" (not that there's just two sides), showing the Iraqi insurgency "by meeting face to face with individuals who are passionately engaged in the struggle, and documenting for the very first time, the sentiments experienced and actions taken by a nation's citizens when their homeland is occupied."

It's a mixed bag of a documentary, frankly, but well worth seeing anyway for giving us yet one more dimension of the war in Iraq.

"It provides a more detailed and perhaps more reliable picture of the early movement's motives and practices than anything I've seen in the mainstream media," wrote JR Jones in the Chicago Reader.  It's also, as another reviewer pointed out, both enlightening and frustrating.

The Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq

A comprehensive strategy endorsed by 50 congressional candidates, two generals, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense, and netroots activists across the progressive blogosphere. And, as the plan gains momentum, it is provoking a predictable reaction from the right-wing, pro-war crowd and their sympathetic stenographers in the traditional media.

Endorse the "Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq"

Why Won't McCain Support Our Vets?

Why Won't McCain Support Our Vets?