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RESIST MILITARY RECRUITING! MON. MAY 15 4pm Dowtown Oakland

by Courage to Resist (courage [at] riseup.net)

RESIST MILITARY RECRUITING FOR WAR AND OCCUPATION!
The War is Illegal, Human Beings Are Not!
CELEBRATE INT’L CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION TO WAR DAY!

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Monday May 15

4pm: Spoken Word, Music, Theater
Oakland City Center, 12th & Broadway

5pm: March to & Nonviolent Direct Action at
Military Recruiting Station
Broadway & 21st St., Oakland



MAY 15: INT’L C.O. DAY

For over 20 years May 15 has been celebrated as International
Conscientious Objectors' Day. Each year activities are focused in a
country where war objectors are being harassed or persecuted—and this year
the internation focus is on the United States denial of the right of
soldiers to object. Conscientious Objectors, GI resisters and dissent
within the military deserve our support as they stand up for human rights
and dignity, democratic rights, and international law. Widespread public
support and pressure can help protect these courageous individuals from
feelings of isolation and from repression of them and their rights.
This year coordinated activities are being planned in the U.S. in New York, Washington DC and the SF Bay Area.

PEOPLE POWER CAN END THE WAR

This mobilization is in support of ongoing campaigns to support GI objectors, resist military recruitment and a possible draft, and end the war and occupation in Iraq and global policies of empire. While the government wages war and occupation abroad, it also sponsors a domestic “war at home,” including attacks on immigrant rights, and cuts in education, healthcare and housing. This action is part of a people power strategy to assert our power to end the war ourselves by supporting objectors in the military and cutting off the supply of recruits.

Intitiated by Courage to Resist and the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO)

Supported by Grandmothers Against the War, CODEPINK,Int'l Capoeira Angola Foundation-Oakland, Not in Our Name

If your group would like to support this action pleae send an e-mail to courage@riseup.net
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by wondering
On a normal business day, is that recruiting center open at 5 PM? I´m all for shutting down recruiting stations but to have an impact you have to do it when they´re open.
by Until Military Serves Citizens Not Plutocracy
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How can our military be a volunteer military when there is so much poverty, lack of opportunity, and poor education in this country?

If someone wants to join today it should be mandatory to ask them:

"Are you joining the military because you are seeking to avoid serving WalMart, Starbuck's or McDonald's ?

Can you locate Iraq on a map?"
They need all the cannon fodder they can get. They're in 2 wars already and are planning fora 3rd.
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