Bring Our War $$$ Home!
Money for Jobs and Education - Not War and Incarceration!
MARCH and RALLY - SUNDAY, OCT. 16
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2pm - HARTFORD, CT
Rally at City Hall + March to the State Capitol
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Nationally Coordinated Days of Local Anti-War Actions
Featuring:
- John Olsen, President of the CT AFL-CIO
- Vijay Prashad, Trinity College Professor
- John Pelto, former legislator, blogger and activist
- Hartford's Mayor Pedro Segarra
- Dan Durso, Teamster local 559
- Mike DeRosa, Hartford Green Party
- Bill Collins, Veterans for Peace, Ch. 18
- LaReese Harvey, A Better Way Foundation
- Imam Kashif Abdul-Karim, The Muhammed Islamic Center of Greater Hartford and more...
- Special Performance by Hartbeat Ensemble
For ten years now US forces have occupied Afghanistan. Iraq is and will remain an occupied territory as the US constructs massive bases in Baghdad. At the same time the government and President Obama have opened new fronts in Pakistan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia. The majority of workers and students in the US oppose these wars. Yet we are continually forced to sacrifice, to make concessions and accept cutbacks to feed the war machine.
Leaving a trail of death and destruction these wars are being justified at home with an unprecedented assault on the civil liberties of Muslims. Frame ups and phony accusations by government provocateurs are now a common threat to the Muslim community.
These attacks have extended to peace, labor, immigrant rights and international solidarity activists who now face subpoenas to appear before a grand jury. All of this is an attempt to intimidate those who speak out against war, US support for the apartheid state of Israel, and the economic assault on workers and students.
We say bring the troops home now, no to war, cutbacks, racism and no to attacks on Muslims and immigrants!
Endorsers list (still in formation): New Haven Central Labor Council, Catholic Workers, CT United for Peace, Hartbeat Ensemble, A Better Way Foundation, West Hartford Citizens for Peace and Justice, Answer Coalition, Manchester Peace Coalition, Middle East Crisis Committee, Civic Trust Public Lobbying Company, Colombia Action CT, Socialist Action, Progressive Coalition of Greater Hartford, Bright Star Vision, Plan C: The People's Budget, We Refuse to be Enemies, National Lawyers Guild, Hope Out Loud, Veterans for Peace Ch. 18 and Ch. 42, Students for a Democratic Society University of Hartford, People's Action for Clean Energy, Socialist Party of CT, CT Green Party, Hartford Green Party, CCSU American Association of University Professors, Minority Construction Council, Council on American Islamic Relations CT, People Against Police Brutality
TO ENDORSE, FOR MORE INFO, OR FOR A RIDE: CONTACT TOKA, 860-680-7247, tokujiokamoto@gmail.com
