Troops Home Now from Afghanistan!
Stop the Escalation!
President Obama is considering sending more American troops to fight in Afghanistan.
But this war isn’t making Americans safer. It is not bringing development, democracy, security, or women’s rights to Afghanistan. It is killing Afghan civilians and U.S./NATO troops. It is stealing badly needed funds from housing, jobs, health care, and climate protection.
Call the White House Comment line 202-456-1111 and call your Congressperson at 202-224-3121 or 202-225-3121. Tell them NO to escalation and withdraw U.S. troops.
If President Obama announces an escalation of troop levels in Afghanistan, peace and justice activists will protest the next day at 5pm, or at noon Saturday if the announcement comes on a Friday.
If the escalation is announced on the evening of Tuesday, December 1 as indicated by press reports, then the demonstration will take place at 5pm on Wednesday, December 2.Assemble at Boston Common from 5-7 pm for a moving picket line. Meet at the Brewer Fountain, near Park Street Station. Bring banners, signs, costumes, musical instruments, pots and pans. There will be speakers from Veterans for Peace and Military Families Speak Out, and an Afghan-American woman. Musician Simon Rios, just back from his appearance at the School of the Americas Protest at Ft. Benning, GA, will perform anti-war songs.
Community peace groups have also scheduled local protests:
- Dorchester: Tues 4:30-6pm, Fields Corner.
- Worcester: Weds 4:30, Lincoln Square.
- Gloucester: Weds 4:30-6:30, Gloucester Rotary, exit 11 on 128N
- Falmouth: Weds 5-6, Town Hall
- Cambridge: Weds 5:30-6:30, Central Square.
- Andover: Weds 7-8pm, Main St, Old Town Hall.
- Newton: Thurs 5pm, Newton Center.
- Arlington: Saturday 10:30am, Broadway Plaza
- Newburyport: Sunday 12 noon-1pm, Market Square
Elsewhere in New England, protests will also take place Wednesday, Dec. 2, at 5pm, at the following locations:
- Bangor (Margaret Chase Smith Federal Building @ 202 Harlow Street)
- Portland (Monument Square, Congress Street)
- Portsmouth (Market Square)
- Hartford (Federal Building, 450 Main Street)
- New Haven (Federal Building, 150 Court Street)
- Providence (Burnside Park).
Nationally, there were 73 events posted as of Tuesday afternoon. Click here for the list.
Check for updates at http://justicewithpeace.org/stop-escalation, call 617-491-4UJP, or email ujpcoalition@gmail.com.
Sponsors of the Boston event: Greater Boston Stop the Wars Coalition and United for Justice with Peace. Write us to endorse this action!
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