The Tacoma port militarization resistance movement actions at the Port of Tacoma have given new resonance to "They've Got Guns," a song by singer-songwriters Steve & Kristi Nebel.  --  They can bee seen in a YouTube video performing the song at the Mocha Moo in Lakewood, WA, in a Mar. 9, 2007, concert featuring Joe Debenedictis on keyboard.[1]  --  The signature song of the internationally known duo is "Big Floppy Hats."[2] ...


Tacoma poet Luke Smiraldo's reading of 'The New Math' was a highlight of the ENOUGH IS ENOUGH antiwar rally, or as Smiraldo would prefer to say, peace rally, which kicked off a week of Puget Sound antiwar demonstrations in Tacoma's Wright Park on Sat., Mar. 17, 2007.  --  His performance of "The New Math" led to many requests for the text, which is here published for the first time.[1]  --  UFPPC thanks Luke for permission to post this copyrighted piece, which is also posted on the web site of People for Peace, Justice, and Healing, and is now available for re-reading at other events this week, and later....


”Peace Train,” a 1971 hit by Cat Stevens (now Yusuf Islam), is here the background for a montage by Lucas Gray of images from contemporary Iran, interspersed with some quotations that are intended to help Americans take a break from the barrage of anti-Iranian propaganda to which they are currently being subjected — designed, of course, to prepare them for military aggression in the name of “defense” against a nation that has not attacked another since Nader Shah invaded India in 1738....