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OFFICIAL RELEASE: Candlelight vigil protesting massacre in Gaza outside Obama's DC hotel begins TONIGHT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jan. 4, 2009
CONTACT Jean Stevens, CODEPINK national media coordinator, 646-723-1781

Candlelight vigil protesting massacre in Gaza outside Obama's DC hotel begins TONIGHT

WHAT:  Nightly candlelight vigil to urge President-Elect Obama to speak out, call for ceasefire and stop killing of innocent Palestinians
WHEN:  5:30 p.m. every evening beginning Sunday, Jan. 4
WHERE:  Begin at 16th and H Streets NW (across from the Hay-Adams Hotel where Obama will be staying), Washington, DC

WASHINGTON -- CODEPINK, other organizations and concerned Americans will gather TODAY outside the Hay-Adams hotel here, where President-Elect Barack Obama is staying before the inauguration, to protest the illegal and brutal Israeli assault on Gaza and demand that he speak out against it and call for a ceasefire. They will vigil outside the hotel each night, while Obama stays there, until he takes a stand.

The call for the vigil comes after Israeli ground troops entered Gaza Jan. 3 eight days after launching an offensive against Hamas Jan. 3.

"Obama is not waiting until inauguration to deal with the economic crisis, so why is isn't he taking a stand on this humanitarian crisis?" said CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin, who has visited Gaza. "He spoke out against the massacre in Mumbai, so why is he silent in the face of this massacre? The suffering Palestinians need him now, not just on January 20."

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I've heard that people thought season 3 was disappointing.  We'll see.

I am so not motivated to work today.  

Some from over the past year at Harry P. Leu Gardens, Orlando.

"They died preparing new acts of terror," said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the agency's actions are secret.

Unnamed sources were rumored to believe that the two men were being personally trained by the long-sought terrorist nemisis Emmanual Goldstein.  However unnamed counterterrorism officials would neither confirm nor deny whether Goldstein was actually in the building at the time of the secret strike.

I have to admit that I didn't think either season 3 and 4 of weeds were as good as 1 and 2.

We have all the premium channels free with our fios tv until february, so we're trying to get through all the previous Weeds seasons and watch Season 4 before the trial period ends.

We watched the Tudors on Showtime too.  It seems like Showtime has more writing talent than HBO these days (which I don't think was true back when Deadwood and Six feet Under and the Sopranos were still on).

Seriously though, the last 4 episodes were so good that someone (ahem) cheated and finished watching them even though I had fallen asleep.

There's lots of action in the second half. It will definitely keep you absorbed.

I've ready seen season 3. I'll be interested in your reactions once you've seen all of it.

We root for Giants here...which is part of the problem with having an Eagles-Giants playoff game.  There's a DL get-together to watch the game on Sunday, but it might be weird to be rooting for the blue team instead of the green team.  :)

I ordered the third season of Weeds on DVD, and that should be here today too, so I think we'll be having a mini-marathon sometime this weekend.

Nothing doing here. I guess I can work in some cheering for the Eagles. :)

What's everyone up to this weekend?  I have the lovely Giants-Eagles football game (on teevee, not in person) to look forward to.  Oh, and the taking down of the Christmas tree ( we didn't put it up until the 23rd, so we're entitled to the extra week of tree.)  Big fun.