DEMAND !!!
Justice
& Accountability
for:
Abu Graib - Wiretapping Torture. - Defense Contractors
Illegal War - Eminent Domain Katrina - Illegal Weapons
Funding for:
Education - Renewable Energy - Better
Wages - Infrastructure Repair & Healthcare For All
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South
Jersey Groups Protest 5th Year of the Iraq War
STOP THE WAR,
BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW
A coalition
of several area peace and justice groups will protest the on-going Iraq
War with a rally to be held in Camden City:
Wednesday
March 19th at 4:00 to 5:00 pm
Walter Rand Transportation Center
On
Broadway between Federal St. and Dr. Martin Luther King Blvd
The
coalition is concerned that the patently unjust war has dragged on at a
staggering cost in American and Iraqi lives, wanton
destruction and
continuing damage to America's reputation in the Middle East region and
worldwide.
From
its inception in 2003 to the last valiant US troops that have lost
their lives, the war has been based on a series of bold-face lies,
misdirection and deceptions of the Bush administration and its all-too
supportive Republican and Democratic cronies in Congress.
Consistently
the American people have opposed the war in all its ugly phases,
including the current so-called surge. Five years of injustice, death
and destruction for the purposes of controlling big oil
interests and
US corporations like Halliburton is quite enough already!
Americans
are war weary and are also rightly concerned about the vast billions
being wasted on the war, while their economic needs are not being met
here at home. The current economic crisis could be alleviated if the
funding for war fighting and Pentagon related spending
were restricted
to our real homeland defense needs and the savings used to redevelop
and invest in domestic programs that help with economic recovery.
To
date the war in Iraq has cost New Jersey residents almost $24 billion
of the total $500 plus billion for the whole country. Imagine what
$1
billion would do to turn Camden's fortunes around. We could change
our
decaying, unhealthy water system, save our youth and schools and
create
new jobs while offering real hope to people who now know only
despair.
Since
Vietnam and now with Iraq, the imperialist military ventures we seem to
find ourselves in have not only unnecessarily killed and maimed our
troops, but have unfairly taken needed resources and funding away from
our domestic and human needs agenda.
Groups
forming the coalition are: the SJ Movement for Justice and Peace, South
Jersey Progressive Democrats of America, Greater Camden Unity
Coalition, SJ Healthcare 4 All Coalition, Delaware Valley Veterans for
Peace, the Camden County Green Party and the SJ Peace and Justice
Coalition.