Dec 1 and 2 Afghanistan War Protests!

Protests on Dec 1st and 2nd, the day of and after the Obama announcement to escalate Afghanistan, are continuing to proliferate. 

See below for the protest near you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://demdan.org/actions/?id=3563 – White House, DC

http://ny4cg.org/actions/index.php?id=3568 – West Point, NY http://ny4cg.org/actions/?id=3590 – NYC

http://mapjen.org/actions/?id=3567 – Boston, MA
http://demdan.org/actions/?id=3570 – Baltimore, MD http://paactionnetwork.org/announcements/?id=708 – Philadelphia, PA
http://calaction.org/announcements/?id=704 – Berkeley, CA
http://calaction.org/announcements/?id=673 – San Francisco, CA
http://calaction.org/actions/?id=3575 – Los Angeles, CA http://icjpe.org/actions/index.php?id=3413 – Chicago, IL
http://wiscaction.org/actions/?id=3533 – Madison, WI http://wiscaction.org/announcements/?id=696 – Milwaukee, WI
http://michiganpeacenetwork.org/announcements/?id=701 – Detroit, MI                                                                                                                              http://michiganpeacenetwork.org/actions/?id=3443 – Saginaw, MI                                                                             

http://ncactionnet.org/actions/?id=3597 – Charlotte, NC
http://ncactionnet.org/actions/?id=3592 – Chapel Hill, NC
http://ncactionnet.org/announcements/?id=689 – Greensboro, NC

http://gpjn.org/actions/?id=3593 – Atlanta, GA
http://vpan.org/announcements/?id=703 – Richmond, VA
http://ohiopeacenetwork.org/actions/?id=3600 – Cleveland, OH
http://cnpjs.org/announcements/?id=710 – Denver, CO http://mpjen.org/actions/?id=3481 – Maine (Bangor & Portland)
http://cripjen.org/announcements/?id=692 – RI & CT (Hartford, New Haven, Prov)

Coming soon..,

 

Cindy Sheehan heads to Martha’s Vineyard to Confront Obama on the War

 

John Conyers and Cindy-Sheehan

Cindy Sheehan will join other like-minded peace activists to have a presence near the expensive resort on Martha’s Vineyard where President Obama will be vacationing the week of August 23-30.

 

From her home in California, Ms. Sheehan released this statement:

 

“There are several things that we wish to accomplish with this protest on Martha’s Vineyard.

First of all, no good social or economic change will come about with the continuation or escalation of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. We simply can’t afford to continue this tragically expensive foreign policy.

 

Secondly, we as a movement need to continue calling for an immediate end to the occupations even when there is a Democrat in the Oval Office. There is still no Noble Cause no matter how we examine the policies.

 

Thirdly, the body bags aren’t taking a vacation and as the US led violence surges in Afghanistan and Pakistan, so are the needless deaths on every side.

 

And, finally, if the right-wing can force the government to drop any kind of public option or government supported health care, then we need to exert the same kind of pressure to force a speedy end to the occupations.”

 

Cindy Sheehan will arrive on the Vineyard on Tuesday, August 25th.

 

For more information, or to request an interview with Cindy Sheehan please contact:

 

Laurie Dobson
lauriegdobson@yahoo.com
(207) 604-8988

 

or
Bruce Marshall
brmas@yahoo.com
(802) 767-6079

 

To donate to help with logistical support, or to help Cindy and other Gold Star Families (families who have lost loved ones in war) get to Martha’s Vinyard please go to:

 

Or go to
www.Paypal.com and put in the email: Cindy@CindySheehansSoapbox.com
or
Mail a check to:
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox, LLC
55 Chumasero Dr STE 5D
San Francisco, Ca 94132
Families who oppose the wars and have lost a loved one during the Obama Regime are especially encouraged to attend.
Please forward this far and wide!

Peace Action | Register your Hiroshima and Nagasaki Events Now

THE PEACE | BAN THE BOMB SYMBOL

From: Paul Kawika Martin | Organizing, Political and PAC Director | Peace Action & Peace Action Education Fund [Formerly SANE/Freeze]

 

Peace Action has been asked by Alliance for Nuclear Accountability to create a website to keep track of upcoming Hiroshima and Nagasaki events for the wider anti-proliferation and progressive communities.

Please go to:
http://www.peace-action.org/nukes/campaigns/hndays

To register your events directly you may go here.

By registering your events before registration “goes public,” you’ll have the opportunity to advertise to others in your community first. Registration will also benefit you by allowing members of your community who aren’t in your organization to connect with you and attend your event. You will also be able to send out e-invites and search for other events across the country with our new tools. Lastly, registration will benefit the entire movement to end the proliferation of nuclear arms by showing just how many people across the country care about this issue.

Soon, Peace Action will send out to our over 100,000 email lists to invite the public to attend events in the area and we are encouraging other organizations to send to their lists. We are also collecting documents to help people organize their own events.   So please send your documents along to Dave Kunes –dkunes@peace-action.org, who put the site together or 301.565.4050 x 316 | 951.217.7285 cell.

If you have any difficulties, please e-mail our great intern, Dave, at Peace Action & Peace Action Education Fund (formerly SANE/Freeze) | 1100 Wayne Ave., Suite 1020 | Silver Spring, MD 20910-5643.

Contact Paul Kawika Martin @ pmartin@peaceaction.org                                                                                                    IM and Twitter:  paulkawika                                                                   http://www.Peace-Action.org                                                                         http://www.PeaceVoter.org                                   http://www.StudentPeaceAction.org                   http://peaceblog.wordpress.com
 

Please fund our important work and join 100,000 other members or sign up for our free action alert list (about one email a week) at http://www.Peace-Action.org.

Additional contact person |
Susan Gordon | Alliance for Nuclear Accountability | 903 W Alameda Street, #505 Santa Fe, NM 87501 | 505-473-1670 sgordon@ananuclear.org | www.ananuclear.org

 

Hiroshima Day~August 6, 2009 | Nagasaki Day~August 9, 2009

Hiroshima Day, August 6, 2009

Screening of Witness to Hiroshima

6:00 PM Nickelodeon

(937 Main St. (803) 254-3433)

Followed by a talk back led by Michele Mason, assistant professor, Department of Asian and East European Languages and Cultures at the University of Maryland and co-producer of the film.

In Kathy Sloane’s sixteen-minute film, Witness To Hiroshima, Japanese citizen Keiji Tsuchiya, using 12 watercolors he painted in 2001, tells of his experiences in Hiroshima as a 17-year-old soldier during the month immediately following the dropping of the atomic bomb, and relates those experiences to his subsequent life-long commitment to saving the Japanese horseshoe crab and its habitat.

Nagasaki Day, August 9, 2009

Vigil in Remembrance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
6:00 PM, Rutledge Chapel

(Horseshoe of University of South Carolina)

Please join us as we commit our hearts, spirits and energy to the achievement of world peace. Let us strive to keep the past from repeating by promising to never forget the misery and destruction that occurred August 6 and 9th, 1945.

For more information call 804-446-2772

Sponsored by Carolina Peace, Columbia Religious Society of Friends, Nickelodeon