FUTURE ACTIONS AND EVENTS

 

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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