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ACT AGAINST WAR RECRUITMENT!: FRI SEPT 23, 4PM
WHAT IS THE NOBLE CAUSE
OF WAR FOR EMPIRE?
OF WAR FOR EMPIRE?
WHAT IS THE NOBLE CAUSE
OF WAR FOR EMPIRE?
No Recruitment, No Draft.
Support GI Resisters: An Army of None!
FRI SEPT 23
4pm: Speak Out & Performances
Chevron Gas Station
Telegraph Ave and Grand Ave, Oakland (19th St. BART)
5pm: March, Demonstrate and Nonviolent Direct Action
Armed Forces Recruiting Center
2116 Broadway, btwn 21/22nd Sts
"As long as our young people are being lied to and used so dishonorably
in an unjust invasion and occupation of another country; as long as they are
fighting for a corrupt government...as long as they are being sent to kill
innocent people; military service should be opposed. Let's affirm life in
the fullest for everybody: the unfortunate, uncounted people living Iraq
who are "acceptable" collateral damage to the war hawks, and our own
indispensable loved ones. The only way to support our troops is to bring
them home from this mess --now."
Cindy Sheehan, Gold Star Families for Peace
"Have you heard the name of the little girl Hannan Salih Matrud? Or of
the boy Ahmad Jabir Karim? Or Sa'id Shabram? Yes, our dead have names
too. They have faces and stories and memories. ... They had a tomorrow
awaiting them. But today they sleep among us with no tomorrow on which
to wake. Stop your war against our people! Stop the daily killing that your
troops commit! End your occupation of our homeland!"
Iman al-Saadun, Iraqi woman
This action supports people power campaigns that are building to stop the
Iraq war and occupation, and policies of empire behind it. If the
government won’t listen to the people, we will stop the war ourselves by
organizing campaigns to remove the pillars of support on which the war
depends; troops, corporate profiteers and corporate media. We're working
to uproot the system behind the war, to replace racism and poverty with
economic and racial justice!
Supporting counter recruitment, GI resistance and draft resistance is key
to stopping the war. Recruiters grow desparate as more civilians,
especially African-Americans and women, are refusing to enlist. At the
same time, more and more enlisted soldiers are refusing to fight this war
for empire.
Recruiters are intensifying their campaign of lies upon our youth, and
especially on working-class neighborhoods and communitites of color. Over
$185 million a day goes to maintain the occupation of Iraq,
while here in California money goes into prisons instead of schools.
Here, working class youth and youth of color are told "you can go into the
military or to jail," and then once enlisted, soldiers refusing to kill
are imprisoned.
"All of the politicians that want to fight a war are free to trade
places with me at any time. I will gladly learn war no more."
Sgt. Kevin Benderman, serving 15 months in military prison for
refusing to fight in Iraq
How can we step up our support for youth to find alternatives to the
military, for those already enlisted who are refusing orders to kill or
going AWOL, and for Iraqis who are fighting for their lives under U.S.
occupation? Please join us on the 23rd, spread the word and bring your
friends. There will be arrestable and nonarrestable ways to participate.
If you plan on risking arrest, please come to the nonviolent direct
action/civil disobedience preparation training.
***********************************************************************
Training for Nonviolent Direct Action/People Power Strategy to Stop the War
Saturday September 10: Power to the Peaceful, Speedway Meadow, Golden
Gate Park, SF: 12 noon and 2pm Locat tba
Sunday September 18, eve time and location tba
Thursday September 22, 6pm location tba
Artmaking for the Action (with Art in Action):
Saturday September 10: Power to the Peaceful, Speedway Meadow, Golden Gate Park,
SF exact
location tba
*********************************************************************
Have you ever heard the sound of taps played at your brother's grave?
They say he died so the flag will continue to wave,
But I believe he died because they had oil to save.
Have you ever heard the sound of taps played at your brother's grave?
Have you ever heard the sound of a Nation Rocked to Sleep?
The leaders want to keep you numb so the pain won't be so deep,
But if we the people let them continue, another mother will weep.
Have you ever heard the sound of a Nation Rocked to Sleep?
From A Nation Rocked To Sleep/For Casey Sheehan
By Carly Sheehan
***************************************
People Power Can End the War Collective
An ad hoc collective of youth, students, people of faith, veterans,
military families and counter recruitment and military resistance support
organizations working to support people power strategy to end the war and
occupation.
strategyproject [at] riseup.net
OF WAR FOR EMPIRE?
No Recruitment, No Draft.
Support GI Resisters: An Army of None!
FRI SEPT 23
4pm: Speak Out & Performances
Chevron Gas Station
Telegraph Ave and Grand Ave, Oakland (19th St. BART)
5pm: March, Demonstrate and Nonviolent Direct Action
Armed Forces Recruiting Center
2116 Broadway, btwn 21/22nd Sts
"As long as our young people are being lied to and used so dishonorably
in an unjust invasion and occupation of another country; as long as they are
fighting for a corrupt government...as long as they are being sent to kill
innocent people; military service should be opposed. Let's affirm life in
the fullest for everybody: the unfortunate, uncounted people living Iraq
who are "acceptable" collateral damage to the war hawks, and our own
indispensable loved ones. The only way to support our troops is to bring
them home from this mess --now."
Cindy Sheehan, Gold Star Families for Peace
"Have you heard the name of the little girl Hannan Salih Matrud? Or of
the boy Ahmad Jabir Karim? Or Sa'id Shabram? Yes, our dead have names
too. They have faces and stories and memories. ... They had a tomorrow
awaiting them. But today they sleep among us with no tomorrow on which
to wake. Stop your war against our people! Stop the daily killing that your
troops commit! End your occupation of our homeland!"
Iman al-Saadun, Iraqi woman
This action supports people power campaigns that are building to stop the
Iraq war and occupation, and policies of empire behind it. If the
government won’t listen to the people, we will stop the war ourselves by
organizing campaigns to remove the pillars of support on which the war
depends; troops, corporate profiteers and corporate media. We're working
to uproot the system behind the war, to replace racism and poverty with
economic and racial justice!
Supporting counter recruitment, GI resistance and draft resistance is key
to stopping the war. Recruiters grow desparate as more civilians,
especially African-Americans and women, are refusing to enlist. At the
same time, more and more enlisted soldiers are refusing to fight this war
for empire.
Recruiters are intensifying their campaign of lies upon our youth, and
especially on working-class neighborhoods and communitites of color. Over
$185 million a day goes to maintain the occupation of Iraq,
while here in California money goes into prisons instead of schools.
Here, working class youth and youth of color are told "you can go into the
military or to jail," and then once enlisted, soldiers refusing to kill
are imprisoned.
"All of the politicians that want to fight a war are free to trade
places with me at any time. I will gladly learn war no more."
Sgt. Kevin Benderman, serving 15 months in military prison for
refusing to fight in Iraq
How can we step up our support for youth to find alternatives to the
military, for those already enlisted who are refusing orders to kill or
going AWOL, and for Iraqis who are fighting for their lives under U.S.
occupation? Please join us on the 23rd, spread the word and bring your
friends. There will be arrestable and nonarrestable ways to participate.
If you plan on risking arrest, please come to the nonviolent direct
action/civil disobedience preparation training.
***********************************************************************
Training for Nonviolent Direct Action/People Power Strategy to Stop the War
Saturday September 10: Power to the Peaceful, Speedway Meadow, Golden
Gate Park, SF: 12 noon and 2pm Locat tba
Sunday September 18, eve time and location tba
Thursday September 22, 6pm location tba
Artmaking for the Action (with Art in Action):
Saturday September 10: Power to the Peaceful, Speedway Meadow, Golden Gate Park,
SF exact
location tba
*********************************************************************
Have you ever heard the sound of taps played at your brother's grave?
They say he died so the flag will continue to wave,
But I believe he died because they had oil to save.
Have you ever heard the sound of taps played at your brother's grave?
Have you ever heard the sound of a Nation Rocked to Sleep?
The leaders want to keep you numb so the pain won't be so deep,
But if we the people let them continue, another mother will weep.
Have you ever heard the sound of a Nation Rocked to Sleep?
From A Nation Rocked To Sleep/For Casey Sheehan
By Carly Sheehan
***************************************
People Power Can End the War Collective
An ad hoc collective of youth, students, people of faith, veterans,
military families and counter recruitment and military resistance support
organizations working to support people power strategy to end the war and
occupation.
strategyproject [at] riseup.net
For more information:
http://www.CouragetoResist.org
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People Power Can End the War Collective
Hurricane Care, Not Warfare!
http://www.CourageToResist.org
Oakland: Hurricane Care, Not Warfare! March
- 200 Youth, People of Color, Military Families, and Veterans Rally and March to Demand an End to the War and Military Recruitment, and Resources for Needs at Home
- Marchers Re-Decorate Recruitment Center, “Shut Down By People Power”; Graveyard Painted in Street
- Momentum Builds for Mass Regional Anti-War Marches in San Francisco, Washington DC
OAKLAND, 9/21/05 – Over 200 of people gathered at a Chevron gas station in Oakland today to speak out against the war in Iraq, and demand money and resources for people who’s lives have been shattered by Hurricane Katrina. The crowd of people from all walks of life was energized by hip-hop and samba music, as people stepped up to the microphone, spoke out against the war and military recruitment, and called for aid for Katrina’s survivors.
The rally was held at a Chevron station to highlight the organizer’s demand that taxpayer dollars be spent on education, social services, and the reconstruction of New Orleans and Iraq.
After rallying, the group marched to an Armed Forces Recruiting Center, located at 2116 Broadway, to step-up their campaign against military recruitment. Although the station was already closed in anticipation of the action, marchers moved in front of the door to symbolically declare the Center “Closed for Business.” Using non-permanent tempera paint, some marchers redecorated the façade of the Center, putting up a sign reading, “Shut Down by People Power.” Other slogans painted on the Center include, “Stop Recruitment,” “Resist the Draft,” and, “Support GI Resisters.”
After redecorating the Recruitment Center, marchers moved into the street; on the road they painted a cemetery, using gravestones to symbolize those killed in Iraq and in the hurricane zone.
“Its time to step up our resistance to our government’s adventures in war and empire at a time when hundreds of thousands of people have lost their homes and communities,” says Clare Bayard, a member of the People Power Can End the War Collective. “We’re using every peaceful means available to us to spread the message that this war can be stopped with a people-powered campaign based on counter-recruitment and support for war resisters, and we are ready to continue our actions, energized and motivated after shutting down the recruitment center today.”
Dr. Michael Kozart of San Francisco General Hospital, who has been volunteering with Common Ground, a community-run volunteer health clinic in New Orleans, joined in the protest. “Working as a healthcare professional in New Orleans until several days ago, I witnessed the failure of our government to meet the needs of its people," said Kozart. "We need health care, not warfare, from Algiers, Louisiana to Baghdad, Iraq.”
The People Power Can End the War Collective is an Oakland-based, ad hoc group of youth, students, people of faith, veterans, military families and counter recruitment and military resistance support organizations working to build a people-powered movement to end the war and occupation in Iraq.
Endorsers of the Action include Veterans for Peace-Chapter 69, Central Committee of Conscientious Objectors, Courage to Resist, Art in Action, Naked Souls Artist Alliance, Mother Speak, Fr. Louie Vitale.
For more information, visit http://www.CourageToResist.org
For information on the Common Ground Clinic, see: http://www.CommonGroundRelief.org
Hurricane Care, Not Warfare!
http://www.CourageToResist.org
Oakland: Hurricane Care, Not Warfare! March
- 200 Youth, People of Color, Military Families, and Veterans Rally and March to Demand an End to the War and Military Recruitment, and Resources for Needs at Home
- Marchers Re-Decorate Recruitment Center, “Shut Down By People Power”; Graveyard Painted in Street
- Momentum Builds for Mass Regional Anti-War Marches in San Francisco, Washington DC
OAKLAND, 9/21/05 – Over 200 of people gathered at a Chevron gas station in Oakland today to speak out against the war in Iraq, and demand money and resources for people who’s lives have been shattered by Hurricane Katrina. The crowd of people from all walks of life was energized by hip-hop and samba music, as people stepped up to the microphone, spoke out against the war and military recruitment, and called for aid for Katrina’s survivors.
The rally was held at a Chevron station to highlight the organizer’s demand that taxpayer dollars be spent on education, social services, and the reconstruction of New Orleans and Iraq.
After rallying, the group marched to an Armed Forces Recruiting Center, located at 2116 Broadway, to step-up their campaign against military recruitment. Although the station was already closed in anticipation of the action, marchers moved in front of the door to symbolically declare the Center “Closed for Business.” Using non-permanent tempera paint, some marchers redecorated the façade of the Center, putting up a sign reading, “Shut Down by People Power.” Other slogans painted on the Center include, “Stop Recruitment,” “Resist the Draft,” and, “Support GI Resisters.”
After redecorating the Recruitment Center, marchers moved into the street; on the road they painted a cemetery, using gravestones to symbolize those killed in Iraq and in the hurricane zone.
“Its time to step up our resistance to our government’s adventures in war and empire at a time when hundreds of thousands of people have lost their homes and communities,” says Clare Bayard, a member of the People Power Can End the War Collective. “We’re using every peaceful means available to us to spread the message that this war can be stopped with a people-powered campaign based on counter-recruitment and support for war resisters, and we are ready to continue our actions, energized and motivated after shutting down the recruitment center today.”
Dr. Michael Kozart of San Francisco General Hospital, who has been volunteering with Common Ground, a community-run volunteer health clinic in New Orleans, joined in the protest. “Working as a healthcare professional in New Orleans until several days ago, I witnessed the failure of our government to meet the needs of its people," said Kozart. "We need health care, not warfare, from Algiers, Louisiana to Baghdad, Iraq.”
The People Power Can End the War Collective is an Oakland-based, ad hoc group of youth, students, people of faith, veterans, military families and counter recruitment and military resistance support organizations working to build a people-powered movement to end the war and occupation in Iraq.
Endorsers of the Action include Veterans for Peace-Chapter 69, Central Committee of Conscientious Objectors, Courage to Resist, Art in Action, Naked Souls Artist Alliance, Mother Speak, Fr. Louie Vitale.
For more information, visit http://www.CourageToResist.org
For information on the Common Ground Clinic, see: http://www.CommonGroundRelief.org
next time you complain about not enough soldiers or guardsmen around to help in katerina, northridge, whatever, remember your brief moment of glory in closing down a recruiting center
I hope the commie scum are shot dead in the street next time they try this. Police batons are too good for the filth. Death to the Left!
just wanted to thank all of you self-loating, rich white kids for closing down a recruiting center. Just think, if you did that to all of them, we wouldnt have a military and then anyone could invade and kill all of us!!!
woohoo!!! Nice logic!!!
all of you deserve to die
woohoo!!! Nice logic!!!
all of you deserve to die
Another right wing whack job. Indybay brings them out.
I just think it's funny, that so many extreme viewpoints are expressed here. BTW, after vandals are done tearing shit up, that's that much less money that goes to your favorite causes. Keep throwing bricks and tearing shit up.
Funny that the military is taking a non confrontational, pacifist role, while the peace movement crowd gets violent.
Funny that the military is taking a non confrontational, pacifist role, while the peace movement crowd gets violent.
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