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Out of Afghanistan,
NOW:
Join Grandmothers Against the War in a "Reach Out" at Union Square
in San Francisco,
every Thursday from
12:00-1:00 pm. We talk to - and leaflet - passers-by, Bay Area
residents on lunch breaks and tourists who are in town en masse, about
the need to leave Afghanistan.
We meet at the corner of Powell and Geary at Noon and afterwards have
lunch, either in the Westfield Centre or another local site. We'll
have the leaflets and banners and Grandmothers
Against the War signs;
all
we need is YOU!
Please
read Bob Herbert's NY Times June 11, 2010 column, "The
Courage to Leave Afghanistan"
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/12/opinion/12herbert.html
For more information contact us at info@gawba.org or phone (510) 845-3815.
Sample Leaflet:
CALL President
Obama, Your Congressional Representative,
and Senators
THE
MESSAGE IS SIMPLE:
OUT OF AFGHANISTAN NOW
California taxpayers have spent $37.9 billion on the Afghanistan
conflict since 2001. The same amount of money would have provided for
491,969 elementary school teachers or 405,844 police/sheriff’s
patrol officers or 4,534,351 scholarships for university students for one
year. ( http://www.nationalpriorities.org/tradeoffs
has statistics for all states)
Your representatives
need to hear that this situation is unacceptable.
Phone: President Obama
1-202-456-1111 (between 9 am-5 pm EST)
Congressional
Switchboard (toll-free) 1-877-851-6437 or 1-877-210-5351
(Ask to speak to either of your senators or your congressional
representative)
"The struggle of people against power is
the struggle of memory against forgetting."
Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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