[SDCPJ] Fwd: No Attack on Syria -- San Diego events and more...

The Peace Resource Center of San Diego has compiled this information about community events, actions you might take and various article relating to Syria.  Please circulate/share widely. 

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EVENTS:

1.  San Diego Veterans for Peace -- No Attack on Syria

Thursday, August 29, 4-6 p.m.

VFP is moving their weekly demonstration at General Atomics in Poway to Hillcrest, at the overpass at 6th Avenue and I-5

2. Join with others in San Diego to oppose the looming illegal and unconstitutional war with Syria
Saturday, August 31, Noon
Balboa Park Fountain, between Space Museum and Natural History Museum
https://www.facebook.com/events/154427298090014/

3. Overpass Light Brigade
Sunday, September 1, 7:15 p.m.
Come join us hold large illuminated signs over busy I-5 in opposition to an unconstitutional war in Syria.

Gather in one of our favorite spots, just west of Clairemont Drive next to I-5.

https://www.facebook.com/events/428850910558944/


ACTION:

Take Action on Syria: Suggestions from FCNL
http://fcnl.org/issues/middle_east/take_action_syria/

Prevent an Attack on Syria Now!  RootsAction letter to your representative

http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8463

Tell President Obama: Don't bomb Syria--Sign the Petition
http://act.credoaction.com/sign/obama_syria/?sp_ref=8755464.4.519.f.2170.2&referring_akid=8762.5945871.kegdSN&source=fb_share_sp


ARTICLES:

Syria Needs Real Help, Not American Bombs

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/world-report/2013/08/27/what-the-us-can-do-to-prevent-more-violence-in-syria

Even if Assad used chemical weapons, the west has no mandate to act as a global policeman
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/28/chemical-weapons-west-global-policeman

San Diego's Marjorie Cohn nails it again

Killing Civilians to Protect Civilians in Syria
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marjorie-cohn/syria-civilians-violence_b_3826961.html

Bomb What Exactly in Syria?

Looks like the U.S. is once again reverting to its foreign-policy default position: bombing.

http://fpif.org/bomb-what-exactly-in-syria-2/

Moral Obscenities in Syria

Phyllis Bennis and David Wildman

http://www.thenation.com/blog/175928/cui-bono?fb_action_ids=705692212781273&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582#axzz2dIuPjlL9

Lockheed Martin shares up amid news of chemical weapons pretext for war in Syria
http://21stcenturywire.com/2013/08/27/lockheed-martin-shares-up-amid-news-of-chemical-weapons-pretext-for-war-in-syria/

War on Syria: Twenty Pounds of Stupid in a Ten-Pound Bag
http://truth-out.org/news/item/18416-war-on-syria-twenty-pounds-of-stupid-in-a-ten-pound-bag