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MONDAY: 24-hour Emergency Peace-In Vigil Outside Berkeley City Hall
Join 24-hour Emergency Peace-In Vigil outside Berkeley City Hall
Calling all peace-loving people!
Join 24-hour Emergency Peace-In Vigil outside Berkeley City Hall
When:
Monday, February 11, 7pm until 7pm
Tuesday, February 12th, when the Berkeley City Council meets (5 pm for 7 pm mtg)
Where:
Berkeley City Hall
2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Berkeley, CA
(at Allston Way, 2 blocks west of the Downtown Berkeley BART).
Why: Our efforts to close the Berkeley Marine Recruiting Station have galvanized national attention. The pro-war forces, represented by the group Move America Forward, are mobilizing to descend on Berkeley on Tuesday, February 12, starting at 5am! They plan to spend the day attempting to intimidate our peace-loving City and City Council.
We need to protect our city from outside pro-war forces. We need to support our elected officials who represent our peace-loving stand.
This struggle is not about the Marines: It’s about the occupation of Iraq. It’s about recruiting our youth to be those occupying forces in Iraq. It’s about the 1.2 million dead Iraqis, the 3,950 dead U.S. soldiers, the trillions of dollars of our taxpayer money. It’s about respecting the right of the people of Berkeley to say no to war!
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Help spread the word. Send this out far and wide.
Come for the whole Peace-In or take a 3-hour shift. Sign up here:
http://volunteerforchange.org/e/1181?refcode=o23
Bring your tent, sleeping bag, all your peace props, and hot pink fabric
Support the campers: bring food, drinks, a song, sign & banner-making materials, your creativity and peaceful, positive energy
Come to the City Council meeting at 7pm: If you can’t make the vigil, please come to the City Council meeting at the same site, where councilmembers will discuss the city's position about the Marine Recruiting Station. It starts at 7pm; try to be there by 5pm (or earlier) to get a seat
For more information, call CODEPINK at 510-524-2776 or see:
http://www.codepinkalert.org/berkeleyrecruiting
Join 24-hour Emergency Peace-In Vigil outside Berkeley City Hall
When:
Monday, February 11, 7pm until 7pm
Tuesday, February 12th, when the Berkeley City Council meets (5 pm for 7 pm mtg)
Where:
Berkeley City Hall
2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Berkeley, CA
(at Allston Way, 2 blocks west of the Downtown Berkeley BART).
Why: Our efforts to close the Berkeley Marine Recruiting Station have galvanized national attention. The pro-war forces, represented by the group Move America Forward, are mobilizing to descend on Berkeley on Tuesday, February 12, starting at 5am! They plan to spend the day attempting to intimidate our peace-loving City and City Council.
We need to protect our city from outside pro-war forces. We need to support our elected officials who represent our peace-loving stand.
This struggle is not about the Marines: It’s about the occupation of Iraq. It’s about recruiting our youth to be those occupying forces in Iraq. It’s about the 1.2 million dead Iraqis, the 3,950 dead U.S. soldiers, the trillions of dollars of our taxpayer money. It’s about respecting the right of the people of Berkeley to say no to war!
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Help spread the word. Send this out far and wide.
Come for the whole Peace-In or take a 3-hour shift. Sign up here:
http://volunteerforchange.org/e/1181?refcode=o23
Bring your tent, sleeping bag, all your peace props, and hot pink fabric
Support the campers: bring food, drinks, a song, sign & banner-making materials, your creativity and peaceful, positive energy
Come to the City Council meeting at 7pm: If you can’t make the vigil, please come to the City Council meeting at the same site, where councilmembers will discuss the city's position about the Marine Recruiting Station. It starts at 7pm; try to be there by 5pm (or earlier) to get a seat
For more information, call CODEPINK at 510-524-2776 or see:
http://www.codepinkalert.org/berkeleyrecruiting
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It's not 1960s anymore. You cannot disrespect, cannot insult the men and women in uniform like you treated the Vietnam Vets back then! Stop using the "opposing the war" as your cause to spread your hatred toward the armed forces. Many people like myself who oppose the war but also know much better to appreciate the service men and women! Everyone knows what the freedom of speech is, but apparently there are people like you who has no idea what it takes to protect it. Stop taking things for granted!!!!
If you take a few minutes to review MoveAmericaForward's site you will discover that they are not pro-war, they are pro military. You and your folks make a strong claim that you are anti-war but not anti-military. I can say that I do not feel that by your actions, but am willing to give you the benefit of the doubt. As far as MoveAmericaForward is concerned, they have a large number of anti-war pro-military folks actively participating in their demonstrations and consistently remain true to that principle. I urge you to look at your actions and to think long and hard on how your message is being received.
In other words, many of us Berkeley residents want the military out of our city.
I tossed all the glossy military recruiting pamphlets out of the student center at my community college. We don't want you in our neighborhoods, in our cities or in our schools preying on poor working class kids to fight wars for the interests of the rich. I live with a Marine Corps veteran. Many of his brothers did not make it home from Vietnam. None of those 58,000 young men should have died and neither should the two million men, women and children of Vietnam. Hardly anyone even defends that war anymore, not even the war mongers who sent them there. What a shame but here we are again.
Just for the record. Thousands and thousands of Vietnam Vets joined the anti-war movement during the Vietnam War. There were so many US soldiers "refusing to show up for formation" that the military could do nothing.
Also free speech rights are for the people to address grievances against their government and the military is the government. Melanie Morgan ought to read her Constitution.
Just for the record. Thousands and thousands of Vietnam Vets joined the anti-war movement during the Vietnam War. There were so many US soldiers "refusing to show up for formation" that the military could do nothing.
Also free speech rights are for the people to address grievances against their government and the military is the government. Melanie Morgan ought to read her Constitution.
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