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Out
of Afghanistan, NOW:
Bring our Troops and War Dollars Home
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 about the
need to bring our troops and war dollars home from Iraq and Afghanistan.
We meet at the corner of Powell and
Geary at Noon. We'll
have the leaflets and banners and Grandmothers
Against the War signs; all we need is YOU!
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:
BRING OUR TROOPS and WAR DOLLARS HOME
The war in Afghanistan
began in Oct. 2001; in Iraq,
March 2003. With all the deaths, injuries, and destruction, are we any more
secure?
Also, taxpayers in California
will pay $21.5 billion for proposed total Iraq
& Afghanistan
war spending for
Fiscal Year 2011. That amount
of money could fund:
278,731
elementary school teachers OR
229,936
police/sheriff’s patrol officers
OR
2.3
million military veterans receiving VA Medical care for one year OR
ALMOST
THE ENTIRE STATE DEFICIT OF $25 BILLION
(<http://costofwar.com/en/tradeoffs/> has statistics for all
states)
Your
Representatives need to hear that this situation is unacceptable.
Phone: President Obama 1-202-456-1111
(between 9am-5pm
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)
Other grandmothers/concerned humans are welcome to join
us in leafleting at
Geary/Powell in S.F. on Thursdays, Noon-1pm.
Grandmothers Against the War
P.O.
Box 9476, Berkeley, CA
94709
510-845-3815
www.gawba.org
info@gawba.org
Photos
Flyer
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The
“Jobs Not Cuts” march and rally promises to confront the U.S.
economic crisis, head-on. It has drawn a growing list of major supporters,
including numerous Bay Area labor unions and anti-war, progressive and
community groups in partnership with MoveOn.org and Rebuild the Dream.
Jobs
are disappearing, foreclosures are increasing, cities are falling apart,
young people have few prospects for a good future. Additionally, Social
Security, Medicare and Medicaid are on the chopping block and the so-called
“war on terror” continues on. The stalled economy and massive
budget cuts demand a massive popular movement not seen since the great
depression.
We
will assemble at Laney College on Saturday, Oct. 15, at 1:00
pm and march to Frank Ogawa Plaza for a rally at 3:30. On the
way, we will pass the Federal Building, where participants will
symbolically nail a list of progressive economic demands to the door of
government, including Jobs, Not Cuts; Work, Not War; Clean Energy, Not
Climate Change; Investment in Education and Infrastructure and
Medicare-for-All.
March
with us on Oct. 15th to send this message to Congress: Make Jobs,
Not War! Hands Off Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid! Restore Fair Tax
Rates for the Rich and Giant Corporations! Austerity will increase poverty
and cannot produce prosperity.
You
can volunteer here!
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Protest & Die-In on 10th
Anniversary of Afghanistan
War
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Date:
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October 7, 2011
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Time:
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4:30-6:30pm
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Location:
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New Federal Building
7th & Mission Sts.
San Francisco, California
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Contact:
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ANSWER Coalition at answer@answersf.org or 451-821-6545
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Website:
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http://answersf.org
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END
THE WARS! STOP THE CUTS!
STOP THE ATTACKS ON
WORKING PEOPLE!
End All the Wars
& Occupations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Pakistan, Libya, Haiti...
Money for Jobs,
Healthcare & Education, Not for Corporations & the Pentagon!
Friday, October 7, 2011 will be the exact 10th anniversary of the
U.S./NATO war on the people of Afghanistan. Hundreds of thousands of Afghani people
have been killed, wounded and displaced, and thousands of U.S. and NATO forces killed and wounded. The
war costs more than $118 billion per year— $330 million per
day—at a time when social programs are being slashed. Jobs and
education continue to be cut while the trillion-dollar military budget
increases and corporations make record profits. Millions of people
can’t find a job.
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"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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