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	Email this page Current News in Context March 22, 2005 Report Backs / Counting the Iraqi Dead (Action Alert) Read accounts and view photos from Stand for Peace events. You will find the reports creative, energetic and inspiring. More will be added throughout the week. Hundreds and hundreds of additional actions were held in other parts of the country as well. A link at the bottom of the report will take you there. * The most powerful critique of last weekend's activities did not focus on how the decentralized and diverse protest activities - an estimated 800 - were underreported, but on the undercounting of the most dramatic loss of life in Iraq: the deaths of Iraqi civilians. Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) issued the following action alert yesterday. Counting the Iraqi Dead 100,000 Deaths in Iraq ************* Lessons Not Laments *************** Danny Schechter makes a couple of important points in this analysis of the peace movement and the anemic coverage in major papers. Rightly observing that the vast majority of activities over the weekend were community based and community directed. That is a power that we have not seen before. It is something to be proud of. Larger outlets missed what newspapers and television stations in regional markets saw. In hundreds of small cities and towns across the U.S. people came out with a call to bring the troops home. Comments: Post a Comment ^ Top of page		Search site Email Updates Sign Up to Have Posts Emailed to You Recent Posts Two Years Later Through the eyes of a child Parliament / War Spending Bill Passes / Troop With... New Government Announced / Car Bombs Lawsuit / Town Hall Meetings / Journalist Released... Stand for Peace Violence / Funding for War / Lack of Reconstructio... Deadly Bombings / Fallujah / Indonesian Journalist... Supplemental Insecurity / Negotiations for Prime M... $82 Billion to be requested for Iraq and Afghanist... Archives October 2003 November 2003 December 2003 January 2004 February 2004 June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 January 2005 February 2005 March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 April 2007 Atom Feed