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| MFSO in the News 2005-06-07 |
| Group criticizes Kean for refusal to answer its Iraq questions Thursday, September 21, 2006 By JOSH GOHLKE TRENTON BUREAU When a group of staunchly anti-war military relatives interviewed a mildly pro-war U.S. Senate candidate last month, they did not expect to like all his answers. But they did expect answers. Instead, Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Tom Kean Jr. declined to respond to several questions that local members of the national organization Military Families Speak Out put to him on the subject of Iraq, according to representatives of the group. Kean promised to put his answers in writing later, but his campaign finally told the group he would not be replying that way either. Click here to read more. |
| August 18th, 2006 11:28 pm War foes mark 1st anniversary of weekly protests in Teaneck By Brian Aberback / North Jersey Record TEANECK -- U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez joined protesters outside the Teaneck Armory calling for an end to the Iraq war on Wednesday. Click here to read more. |
| Why We Must Take All Our Troops Out of Iraq by Congressman Steve Rothman February 23, 2006 Pictured: Congressman Rothman answers questions after his speech calling for the withdrawal of all troops. More than 2,200 American servicemen and women have been killed in Iraq. 16,000 have been wounded. More than 100,000 innocent Iraqi civilians have lost their lives. $250 billion of U.S. taxpayer dollars have been spent. Saddam sits in prison, but the pacification and reconstruction of Iraq have been a failure. Click here to read more. |
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| COLUMNISTS PICTURE THIS Picture this: Wednesday Night Protest Monday, November 14, 2005 By THOMAS E. FRANKLIN THOMAS E. FRANKLIN / THE RECORD Listen to audio from the protest They're out there by the Teaneck Armory each Wednesday night at rush hour, as sure as the traffic that inches along Teaneck Road. Click here to read more. |
| NEWS TOP NJ/REGION 350,000 join growing chorus Sunday, April 30, 2006 By SONI SANGHA STAFF WRITER NEW YORK -- Steely blue eyes fixed straight ahead, Jo Ann Sohl stepped onto Broadway just above Union Square and began walking south. "The most dangerous place is between a mother and her child," she said. Her son, a Marine, doesn't know that his mother has lost 20 pounds since he arrived in Iraq last year or that she spends too many nights home in Palisades Park waiting in vain for sleep. Click here to read more. |
| U.S. SENATE Hopefuls focus on security, Iraq war Home News Tribune Online 09/27/06 By TOM BALDWIN and LAUREN O. KIDD GANNETT STATE BUREAU tbaldwi@gannett.com TRENTON — The two main candidates for U.S. Senate maintained familiar campaign themes yesterday, focusing on the Iraq war and homeland security. U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., the appointed incumbent, welcomed the decision by President Bush to release conclusions from a national-intelligence assessment that says the threat from Islamic extremists has spread, not decreased, since 9/11. "The war in Iraq is not making the United States more safe. It is making the United States less safe," said Menendez. He came to Trenton with JoAnn Sohl, an anti-war activist mother whose son is serving in Iraq and has had his stay extended. The senator, who had voted against invading Iraq, makes this an underpinning of his campaign, linking the war and the Bush administration to Republican challenger state Sen. Thomas Kean Jr., R-Union. Kean has criticized the execution of the war but not the decision to invade and doesn't support a timetable to vacate Iraq, an argument he repeated at a campaign stop in East Rutherford. "Horrendous mistakes (have been) made in the conduct in the war in Iraq," Kean said, calling for "a bipartisan solution to the war in Iraq that gets our troops out of harm's way as quickly as humanly possible." Menendez wants the U.S. forces to name a withdrawal date and then remain in the region, as he says, "over the horizon." Kean said public-private partnerships are key to improving homeland security. Speaking at the Bergen County headquarters of Info- Cop. He said a senator must "understand and embrace the need for public-private partnerships in our national strategy for homeland security." Info-Cop allows private sector employees, such as security guards, to send information to local police departments over a wireless network. The police departments search law-enforcement databases, and inform the private employee if a security risk is found. Over 85 percent of critical infrastructure in the United States is privately owned, Kean said. The 9/11 Commission said "private- sector preparedness is not a luxury. It is a cost of doing business in the post 9/11 world," Kean said. Kean bashed Menendez, saying the incumbent failed to get Congress to rely on risk-based funding in distributing homeland-security dollars. New Jersey needs a senator "who is not going to fail," Kean said. |
| Honk For Peace By Joshua E. Eiseman Teaneck, NJ--- On Wednesday May 30, approximately 275 Iraq War protestors gathered around the Teaneck National Guard Armory to hoist a 3,100 foot–long banner that featured the names of every US soldier that has died in Iraq. People from all walks of life—Iraq and Vietnam Vets, Students, and Families—stood together sporting piece signs and encouraging the traffic on Liberty Road and Teaneck Road to “Honk for Peace.” From 4:30 to 6:00pm, not a second passed without the sound of a car horn. click here to read more |
| Bands Play on at the Clearwater Festival by Tom Fayre MFSO members tabled alongside Veterans for Peace at the Clearwater Folk Festival in June, 2007. click here |
| COLUMNISTS LAWRENCE AARON Standing up for the troops The Record Friday, August 24, 2007 By LAWRENCE AARON RECORD COLUMNIST IT'S BEEN a great year for the Nygards. Walt and Nancy Nygard of Teaneck welcomed their first grandchild March 1 and had about three months to spoil him before his dad came home from the war. click here to read more |
| The Record Several causes on peace rally menu ELIZABETH FITCH August 26, 2007 Lucas Sanchez of Englewood said immigrant rights and the Iraq war were among his reasons for braving Saturday's daunting heat at a peace rally in the Newark's Lincoln Park. click here to read more |