The pilot issue of War Times, a new biweekly newspaper opposing the "war on terrorism," will roll off the press on February 14. (See the new list of national endorsers below.) Featuring an exclusive interview with Danny Glover and a letter to President Bush from Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu, the premier of this bilingual, free publication will be distributed in several dozen cities across the country. But we need your help to extend War Times' reach even further and lay a durable foundation for long-term publication.

Please join hundreds ofother activists across the country by contributing in one or more of the following ways:

• Volunteer to distribute the pilot issue to your co-workers, friends, classmates, family and/or members of your organization. Contact us at wartimes@attbi.com, EBC/War Times, 1230 Market Street, PMB 409, San Francisco, CA 94102, 510-869-5156, to let us know how many copies you would like and make arrangements to get a bundle to you.
  
  
• Make a tax-deductible contribution by sending a check to EBC/War Times at the address above, or sign up as a monthly sustainer with a pledge of $10/month or more.
  
  
• Volunteer your writing, photographic, or drawing skills when War Times goes into regular publication.
  
  
• Give us feedback on War Times' pilot issue so we can make changes and improvements for the first regular issue.
  
  
• Pass this message on to others who want to see a regular, accessible and hard-hitting anti-"war on terrorism" message reach hundreds of thousands of people in every community, constituency and region of the country.
  
  
• If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, come to the big War Times launch party, Saturday, Feb. 16, Noon-4pm, Mandela Village/Youth Empowerment Center, 1357 Fifth Street, West Oakland. Discuss and strategize about the current "educational moment" and then fan out to distribute thousands of copies of this free paper all across the northern California (childcare provided but please RSVP; wheelchair accessible).

With your help, War Times can hit the ground with tremendous momentum and make a difference at this perilous time for our country and the world. We hope to hear from you.

Organizing Committee (organizations listed for identification purposes only):

• Jan Adams, former associate director, Applied Research Center
• Linda Burnham, executive director, Women of Color Resource Center
• Jung Hee Choi, Women of Color Resource Center
• Max Elbaum, former managing editor, CrossRoads magazine
• Arnoldo Garcia, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
• Adam Gold, STORM
• Rebecca Gordon, Seminarians for Peace
• Felicia Gustin, co-director, Speak Out
• Van Jones, national executive director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
• Elizabeth (Betita) Martinez, director, Institute for MultiRacial Justice
• Steve Williams, executive director, POWER
• Bob Wing, former executive editor, ColorLines magazine

Partial List of Endorsers (organizations listed for identification purposes only)

• Karin Aguilar-San Juan, author and professor, Macalester College
• Michael Albert, Z/Znet
• Michelle Alexander, ACLU of Northern California
• American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, San Francisco Chapter
• Jane Bai, executive director, CAAAV--Organizing Asian Communities
• Frances Beal, national secretary, Black Radical Congress
• Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies
• Larry Bensky, KPFA
• Blase Bonpane, director, Office of the Americas
• Paul Buhle, author and teacher, Brown University
• Douglas Calvin, executive director, Youth Leadership Support Network
• Sue Chan, M.D., medical director, Oakland Asian Health Services
• Pamela Chiang, environmental justice activist
• Noam Chomsky, professor, MIT
• Kathleen Cleaver, co-director, Human Rights Research Fund
• Chris Crass, writer and activist
• Joy Crocker, Church Women United
• Hunter Cutting, executive director, We Interrupt This Message
• Malkia Cyril, We Interrupt This Message
• Barbara Dane, musician
• Gary Delgado, executive director, Applied Research Center
• Antonio Diaz, executive director, PODER
• Junot Diaz, writer
• Kim Diehl, co-director, Southerners on New Ground
• Hari Dillon, president, Vanguard Foundation
• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author and professor of women's and ethnic studies
• Louise Dunlap, Writing for Social Change
• James Early, board chair, Institute for Policy Studies
• Michael Eisenscher, Labor Committee for Peace and Justice
• Kim Fellner, executive director, National Organizers Alliance
• Bob Forsberg, editor, Sequoia Interreligious Newsmagazine
• Frances Fox-Piven, author and professor, CUNY Graduate School
• Joseph Gerson, organizer and educator
• Fred Goff, Data Center
• Chester Hartman, executive director, Poverty & Race Research Action Council
• Francisco Herrera, cultural worker, Caminante
• Phil Hutchings, racial justice activist
• James Jennings, author and teacher, Tufts University
• Joo-Hyun Kang, executive director, The Audre Lorde Project
• Pam Kelly, director, Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community
• Hany Khalil, New York labor and community organizer
• Mel King, activist
• Yuri Kochiyama, activist
• Chris Kromm, director, Institute for Southern Studies
• Winona LaDuke, Indigenous Women's Network
• Nomy Lamm, queer writer/performer
• Gerald Lenoir, board member, HIV Education and Prevention Project of Alameda County
• Julie Light, managing editor, CorpWatch
• Laura Livoti, managing director, National Radio Project
• Yolanda Lopez, visual artist
• Miriam Ching Yoon Louie, activist and author of Sweatshop Warriors
• Ying Lee, Peoples Non-Violent Response Coalition
• Brutha Los, artist/educator, Company of Prophets
• Barbara Lubin, executive director, Middle East Childrens Alliance
• Eric Mann, executive director, Labor Community Strategy Center
• Esperanza Martell, ProLibertad
• Sharon Martinas, Challenging White Supremacy Workshops
• Stephen McNeil, American Friends Service Committee
• Sara Mersha, executive director, Direct Action for Rights and Equality
• Juana Alicia Montoya, artist
• Richard Moore, executive director, Southwest Network for Economic and Environmental Justice
• Cherrie Moraga, author
• Iris Morales, educator and filmmaker
• Nancy Nadel, Oakland city councilperson
• Gus Newport, former mayor of Berkeley
• Peter Olney, Institute for Labor and Employment
• Samuel Orozco, Radio Bilingue
• Richie Perez, Justice Committee/National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights
• Eric Quezada, SF Mission District organizer
• Colin Rajah, executive director, Just Act
• Adrienne Rich, poet
• Bruce Richard, vice president, 1199 SEIU
• Wilson Riles, former city councilperson and progressive Oakland mayoral candidate
• Luz Rodriguez, co-director, Center to Support Immigrant Organizing
• David Roediger, labor historian
• Loretta Ross, executive director, National Center for Human Rights Education
• Jerome Scott, executive director, Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide
• Seminarians for Peace
• Irwin Silber, writer
• Andrea Smith, Incite! Women of Color Against Violence
• Abdi Soltani, executive director, Californians for Justice
• Dona Spring, Berkeley city councilperson
• Students for Justice in Palestine
• Julia Sudbury, ethnic studies chair, Mills College
• Judy Talaugon, Chumash/Cebuano, Atajes Art & Cultural Resources
• Makani Themba-Nixon, The Praxis Project
• Anthony Thigpenn, Strategy Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education
• Mark Toney, executive director, Center for Third World Organizing
• Walter Turner, board president, Global Exchange
• Karen Wald, journalist
• Tim Wise, anti-racism activist and writer
• Helen Zia, writer and co-author of Wen Ho Lee's story
• Howard Zinn, historian and author of A People's History of the United States

Quote of the Week:
"Just love your brother and drink a good glass of red wine every day." From Antonio Todd who died Friday, January 4 at the ripe old age of 112 in Sardinia, Italy.