Not In Our Name

Not In Our Name was an organization that opposed the Bush presidency's stance on defense. They united under these point: no war on the world, no detentions and roundups, and no police state restrictions.

It was founded in March 2002, but closed its national office and related infrastructure on March 31, 2008.

A very good and detailed report on NIONcan be found in the March 19, 2003 column at http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=6722 in "Not In Our Name and the World Wide Terrorism Web" by Michael Tremoglie, a very good investigative journalist.

Subsections of this article are:

• Not In Our Name: What is IFCO - Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (a group of marxist religious radicals led by the deceased (2010) communist sympathizer Rev. Lucius Walker, known for his Pastors for Peace support group for the marxist Sandinistas, Hugo Chavez, the FMLN, and Castro).
• Why is NION not a 501c(3)?
• NION: Castro and Islamist Terror
• NION and Narco-terrorism
• NION: ANSWERs Needed

Affiliated organizations

• Courage to Resist
• Iraq Veterans Against the War
• CODEPINK
• World Can't Wait -Drive Out the Bush Regime
• Longest Walk 2
• United for Peace and Justice
• Revolutionary Communist Party

Affiliated Individuals

• Rev. Lucius Walker - founder of IFCO, affiliated with NION and several key Communist Party USA fronts and causes (See his Blue-Linked page for more information.
• Molly Klopot - NION organizer (also WILPF)
• Abdeen Jabara - NION Advisory Board - Also the American Muslim Council, Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee , Center for Constitutional Rights , National Lawyers Guild , participant in Socialist Workers Party fronts and forums (source: various issues of the SWP newspaper The Militant); etc. A complete list of his far-left and pro-terrorism organizations affiliations will appear at his KW page.
• C. Clark Kissinger - Director of NION; old Students for a Democratic Society organizer; leading member of the Maoist Revolutionary Communist Party ; creator in 2005 of the marxist World Can't Wait organization

• Mary Lou Greenberg - Director of NION; leader of the RCP

NION Newspaper Ads: Signatories and/or Endorses (of Statements often published as ads or on the internet)

(Details will be added here with names and dates of the ads)

• Noam Chomsky
• Howard Zinn
• Michael Parenti
• Gloria Steinem
• Barbara Kingsolver
• Danny Glover
• Jessica Lange
• Tyne Daly
• Martin Sheen
• Ed Harris

Sources for both "Affiliated" and "Newspaper Ads" - FPM, Tremoglie article, 3/19/03

Not In Our Name Statement of Conscience

This "Statement of Conscience" was written and put out for supporting signatures before 3/07/2003 when it was copied from "http://www.nion.us/NION.HTM". It claims that 50,000 people have signed on in support of it. KW got a copy off the internet on March 7, 2003 which contained hundreds of names and the full "statement" which are reproduced en toto here as it appeared in print.

"Statement of Conscience: Not In Our Name"

Let it be not be said that people in the United States did nothing when their government declared a war without limit and instituted stark new measures of repression.

FULL TEXT TO CONTINUE: Page 3 of 10 as printed out:

"The over 55,000 signers include...

• James Abourezk, former U.S. Senator
• Rudolfo Acuna, author of "Occupied America"
• Dr. Patch Adams
• Michael Albert
• Jace Alexander - possible typo and should be the actress Jane Alexander
• Robert Altman
• Aris Anagnos
• Laurie Anderson
• Ida Applebroog
• John Ashberry
• Ed Asner
• Jon Robin Baitz
• Thomas Balanoff, president Local 1 SEIU - Balanoff - KW: there are a group of Balanoffs in the labor movement and several were involved in supporting Communist Party USA (CPUSA) labor fronts
• Russell Banks
• John Perry Barlow, co-founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
• Rev. Willie T. Barrow, Operation Push {KW: Also the SCLC}
• Sue Bauman, Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin Madison
• Rosalyn Baxandall - a possible member of the Baxandall family of CPUSA supporters/members
• Joel Beinen, Professor of Middle East History, Stanford (Ca)
• Medea Benjamin
• Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), New Internationalism Project IPS
• Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen, playwrights, "The Exonerated"
• William Blum, author of "Rogue State"
• Wayne C. Booth, professor emeritus, Chicago {KW: Unknown if this is the Un. of Chicago or not}
• Fr. Bob Bossie, SCJ, and the staff of 8th Day Center for Justice (possibly Chicago)
• Lawrence Brent Brilliant, M.D.
• Oscar Brown, Jr.
• Margaret Burroughs, founder, DuSable Museum (KW: the Museum has had significant CPUSA influence on it and some of its leaders have been CPUSA front supporters for decades)Chicago
• Judith Butler
• Leslie Cagan, chair, Interim Pacifica Foundation Board, Pacifica Foundation
• Kisha Imani Cameron
• Rosemary Carroll
• Sen. Gilberto Cedillo, California State legislature
• Kathlenn (sic) Chalfont
• Kathleen Chalfont - KW provided possibly correct spelling for searching purposes
• Henry Chalfant
• Celia Chang, chairperson, Wen Ho Lee Defense Fund Steering Committee
• Linda Chapman, New York Theater Workshop
• Rep. Maralyn Chase, Washington State legislature Washington State
• Rep. Marilyn Chase Washington State legislature, name spelled in traditional way for KW searching Washington State
• Bell Chevigny
• Paul Chevigny
• Mel Chin
• Noam Chomsky
• Ann Christopherson, president, American Booksellers Association
• Jill Ciment
• Ramsey Clark
• Jill Clayburgh
• Marilyn Clement, Exec. Sec for Economic Justice, United Methodist Women's Division (UMWD)
• Ben Cohen, cofounder Ben and Jerry's Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream
• David Cole, Professor of Law, Georgetown University
• Steve Coleman
• Robbie Conal
• Stephanie Coontz, historian Evergreen State College - for a long time a leader of the Trotskyite Socialist Workers Party (SWP)
• Paula Cooper
• Carlos Cortez, "Koyokuikatal"
• Kia Corthron, playwrite, "Breath, Boom"
• Petah Coyne
• Robert Creeley
• Kimberly Crenshaw, Professor of Law, Columbia Un. and UCLA
• Culture Clash
• John Cusack
• Damen and Naomi, Musicians for Peace
• Kevin Danaher, Global Exchange
• Barbara Dane
• Rev. Herbert Daughtry
• Angela Davis
• Ossie Davis
• Zack de la Rocha
• Sheila DeBretteville, director of studies in graphic design, Yale
• Mos Def
• Tony Del Plato, chef/co-owner, Moosewood Restaurant
• Richard Delgado, Un. of Colorado (Un. of Colorado Boulder School of Law]]
• Rev. Gregory R. Dell, Broadway United Methodist Church of Chicago Chicago
• Rosalyn Deutsche
• Ani Di Franco
• Mark Di Suvero
• Carl Dix, Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP)
• Bernadine Dohrn, director, Children and Family Justice Center, Northwestern University
• Julie Dorf, International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission
• Carol Downer, board of directors, Chico Feminist Women's Health Center
• Roma Downey
• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, professor, California State University, California State University, Hayward
• Sandy Duncan
• Bill Dyson, Connecticut State Legislature Connecticut
• Michael Eric Dyson
• Steve Earle
• Barbara Ehrenreich
• Deborah Eisenberg
• Nora Eisenberg, author of "The War At Home"
• Hector Elizondo
• Daniel Ellsberg
• Brian Eno
• Eve Ensler
• Reva Enteen, National Lawyers Guild (NLG), San Francisco
• Martin Espada
• Michelle Esrick
• Leo Estrada, UCLA professor, Urban Planning
• Robert Falls
• Nina Felshin, author of "But Is It Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism
• James R. Fennerty, pres. National Lawyers Guild, (NLG), Chicago
• Frances D. Fergusson
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti, City Lights Bookstore
• Fifty-three Maryknoll priests and brothers
• Norman G. Finkelstein, author of "The Holocaust Industry
• Laura Flanders
• Jane Fonda
• Henry Foner]], former pres., Fur & Leather Workers Union, Fur and Leather Workers Union
• Richard Foreman
• Thomas C. Fox, publisher, National Catholic Reporter
• Elizabeth Frank
• Mary Frank
• H. Bruce Franklin Bruce Franklin, Professor of American Studies, [{Rutgers University]], Rutgers in Newark
• Michael Franti
• Glen E. Friedman
• Bill Frisell
• Frank Galati
• Peter Gerety
• Terry Gilliam
• Milton Glaser
• Charles Glass
• Jeremy Matthew Glick co-editor of "Another World Is Possible"
• Corey Glover
• Danny Glover
• Danny Goldberg
• Leon Golub
• Juan Gomez Quinones, historian, UCLA
• Vivian Gornick
• Jorie Graham
• Robert Greenwald
• Andre Gregory
• John Guare
• Jose Guerrero, director Taller Mestizarte
• Guerilla Girls
• Allan Gurganus
• Richard Haas
• Jessica Hagedorn
• Sondra Hale,. professor, Anthropology and Women's Studies, [{UCLA)
• Ann Hamilton
• Suheir Hammad
• Nathalie Handal
• Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket)
• Michael Hardt, author of "Empire"
• Christine B. Harrington, Professor of Politics, NYU
• Lyle Ashton Harris
• David Harvey, Professor of Philosophy, CUNY
• Stanley Hauerwas
• Tom Hayden
• Hazel Hernder, author of "Beyond Globalization"
• Edward S. Herman, possibly Edward S. Hermann, Wharton School, Un. of Pennsylvania
• Susannah Heschel, professor, Dartmouth
• David Himmelstein, Harvard School of Medicine

External links

• Not In Our Name website