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NEW YORK, NY – Today Jonathan Tasini will take a five-borough tour focused on the human and economic costs of the war in Iraq. Each stop on the tour will highlight a different sector of our society that has been impacted by the Iraq war and occupation. Tasini will visit: the VA Hospital in Manhattan, a postal service facility slated for closure in the Bronx, the Queensbridge public housing complex, Brooklyn College, and recently closed Bayley Seton Hospital in Staten Island.

The Gay City News endorsed Jonathan Tasini in this week's edition of the paper, available here, and also ran a front-page profile piece on him.

Excerpt:

JONATHAN TASINI is a maverick from the word go, a freelance journalist who worked hard to build a labor movement among his fragmented peers. That effort included a successful fight at his parent union, the United Auto Workers, for a sexual orientation nondiscrimination policy that put our issues on the table in labor negotiations.

On a shoestring campaign, Tasini has raised critical questions— most prominently about this nation’s disastrous policy in Iraq. Not incidentally, he is also a supporter of same-sex marriage.

Clinton has ducked fair dialogue on where she stands on the most pressing foreign policy question facing the nation. Just because she can get away with it does not make it the right thing to do. Clinton has also bobbed and weaved this year on gay rights. Activists have pressed her on her opposition to gay marriage— and come away disappointed that did not even speak out on the dignity of gay families on the Senate floor when Congress debated the ugly Marriage Protection Amendment.

For more than a year, Greater Voices, the coalition representing LGBT Democratic clubs in New York, has negotiated in good faith with Clinton’s office to set up a meeting. As early as February, the senator’s office said they welcomed—and expected—to sit down with gay Democrats in an election year.

The primary is five days away and that meeting has not happened.

Hillary Rodham Clinton needs a wake-up call. Help Jonathan Tasini place that call.

NEW YORK, NY: Jonathan Tasini, Democratic Senate candidate in New York, released the following statement on the Senate vote on an amendment by Senators Patrick Leahy and Diane Feinstein limiting the use of cluster bombs. Hillary Clinton voted against the amendment.

"After the loss of more than 1,000 Israeli and Lebanese lives, Lebanese children and their families are returning to their devastated homes only to face the threat of additional maiming or death because of the widespread use of cluster bombs. I applaud the attempt by Sens. Leahy and Feinstein who acted as caring legislators in their attempt to stop future brutalization of innocent civilians. Apparently, the specter of children suffering did not move Hillary Clinton, who refused to vote to restrict the use of cluster bombs by barring their use in civilian areas. To New York voters, it is not clear what level of violence my opponent would oppose: she voted for an illegal and immoral war in Iraq that killed tens of thousands of people and now she is standing in the way of an attempt to protect innocent civilians."

We've been doing some campaigning upstate lately, so I thought I'd share some of the photos. Upstate supporters, if you have photos of yard signs, phonebanks, or other Tasini related events, please send them to us and we'll post them!

At an Irish festival in Kingston

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