[SDCPJ] photos of Vets for Peace mark 6 yrs at War in Iraq

Vets for Peace gathered and bannered at Horton Plaza March 19 ... 6 yrs and counting ....

Peace Up,
Michael

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[SDCPJ] Rally/Protest/Media event tonight time change

[SDCPJ] Veterans for Peace rally/protest Thursday, March 19

Iraq - 6 Years

Promote Peace & Justice in the Middle East

End the Wars in Iraq & Afghanistan

End U.S. Support for the Occupation of Palestine

Healthcare Jobs & Education - No More War & Occupation

Veterans For Peace will be hosting a rally & protest on the exact date of the sixth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, on March 19th, 2009 4:30pm to 7:00pm at Horton Plaza.  This will be from 4:30pm to 7:00pm, and will be held near the NBC 7/39 studios.  We will have banners & signs, and hope to get some media attention.

The Thursday event will be Veteran themed, and will also precede and help to announce a larger rally & protest on Saturday, March 21st:    Demonstrate  beginning at 1 p.m. at 5th and Broadway (Hillcrest);  March at 2 p.m. from 5th and Broadway to the War Memorial Building on Park Avenue for 2:30 p.m. Rally featuring Cindy Sheehan and other speakers.  Info:  www.sdcpj.org, 619-263-9301

[SDCPJ] FW: Join us to honor the war dead

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday March 21  1 to 2:30 PM Join Ground Zero Players  in a haunting, sacred honoring of the war dead on the 6th Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq   We are looking for up to 40 people to participate in a silent street theater production. You will represent one of the victims of this senseless war.  Please RSVP so we know how many people we will have. When we hear from you, we will send specific parking and staging area information.   This will be more effective if we have a significant number of people so please join us and bring friends! Wear white -- we'll provide accessories for all participants. This will be in the form of a tableau vivant –  a living painting -- standing silently in respect and honor of the victims. We will not speak or interact with the peace march participants who will arrive as we perform   RSVP to groundzeroplayers@yahoo.com   We will perform at the War Memorial Building area in Balboa Park, the location where the SDCPJ march will end for a 2:30 rally. The War Memorial Building is at the north end of Balboa Park at Park Blvd. and Zoo Drive, across from Roosevelt Middle School.   GroundZeroPlayers - in the streets and in your face since 1987 www.gzplayers.org

 

[SDCPJ] March 21 - 1pm - 5th & University - Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine - End the wars and occupations - Pass it on

Join with the San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice (SDCPJ) on the sixth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq for a march and rally.

Saturday, March 21, 2009, 1 pm

5th and University (Hillcrest, San Diego)

 

END THE WARS ON
IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN

MONEY FOR JOBS, HOUSING, HEALTH CARE
EDUCATION AND PENSIONS
NOT FOR WARS AND OCCUPATIONS

END U.S. SUPPORT FOR THE
OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE

PROMOTE PEACE & JUSTICE FOR ALL
IN THE MIDDLE EAST

 

March to War Memorial, Balboa Park, for a 2:30 pm rally

Keynote Speaker: Cindy Sheehan

Music by Danielle LoPresti

Iraq: 142,000 US troops and 100,000+ mercenaries still in Iraq. President Obama says he intends to withdraw the troops. We need to let him know that we want all the troops and mercenaries out now.

Afghanistan: 35,000 US troops + 17,000 more on the way. 7+ years of war with no end in sight. We need to bring the troops home now.

Palestine: 1400 Palestinians killed in December/January, Gaza in ruins, the blockade continues, all made possible by US aid to Israel. We need to end US aid to Israel.

War spending: $1 trillion a year and growing, while teachers get pink slips and the depression deepens. We need money for jobs, healthcare and education, not for war and occupation.

Be there! Bring your friends, fellow activists, coworkers, and fellow students. Bring your signs and banners. Spread the word. Forward this email as widely as possible (or write and distribute your own).

Endorsers: Activist San Diego; Border Angels; Coalition for Justice in Palestine, San Diego; Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft; Communities of Conscience; International Socialist Organization, San Diego (ISO); Iraq Veterans Against the War San Diego (IVAW); Middle East Cultural and Information Center (MECIC); Military Families Speak Out, San Diego; National Lawyers Guild; Network of Spiritual Progressives; Peace Resource Center; Plan of Action in a Changing Era; Progressive Democrats of America, San Diego; Progressive Grandmothers for Political Action; Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities; Rouge Forum; San Diego Alliance for Marriage Equality; San Diego Area Pride at Work; San Diego Puppet Insurgency; Vets for Peace, San Diego; Vietnam Vets Against the War (VVAW) San Diego Chapter

San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice

www.sdcpj.org

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[SDCPJ] Mon, Mar 16 @ 7PM: Resist the War- 2 SPECIAL GUEST FROM CANADA! Peace Rally March 21st; Blackwater update

Activist San Diego General Meeting ~  FOCUS ~ Resist the War - End the Occupations! Support Robin Long and all War Resisters! Stepping up the Pressure for Peace and Prosperity! Blackwater Out of San Diego! Monday, March 16th at 7 PM Joyce Beers Community Center Everyone welcome - Please join us. Activist San Diego's general meeting will focus will be on mobilizing for peace; Building Support for War Resisters by members of the US Military (a speaker on Robin Long's situation).  Local Vets for Peace and Robin Long supporters will discuss the campaign along with 2 SPECIAL GUEST FROM CANADA! Blackwater - An update on BW & Southwest College and their relocations in SD and their name changes. Building-up to March 21 rally/demonstration in San Diego:  Let's get organized and get the word out.  Help us phone bank too. SPECIAL GUESTS: Two prominent peace Parliamentarians from Canadian, Olivia Chow M.P. (NDP) and Borys Wrzesnewskyj (Liberal), critics of the war in Iraq, and Canada's immigration policies, will be in San Diego.  they will have just visited visit may correspond with the Mon. March 16th meeting- in which case they will certainly be attending. This meeting is endorsed and co-sponsored by: Vets For Peace - San Diego Board MFSO (Military Families Speak Out) - San Diego Peace Resource Center SD Coalition for Peace and Justice Activist San Diego Monthly Meetings are now the THIRD Monday each month, 7pm - LOCATION:  Joyce Beers Community Center, 1090 Vermont, one 1/2 blocks north of University, (just east of Trader Joe's in the Hillcrest Shopping Center.) Call ASD early on at 619-528-8383 or cell 619-871-9354 if no answer. Everyone welcome Please join us.

Reflections on9-11 by Cindy Sheehan

Reflections on 9-11
Cindy Sheehan

The 7th anniversary of September 11, 2001 is approaching and it seems like a good time to reflect on what our nation has lost since that tragic day and what we can do to go forward.

I do not think that anyone alive on that day will forget the shock that struck our nation when the symbols of US capitalism and militarism were struck out of the clear blue sky. I was in panic mode for a few days, because I did not hear from Casey who was stationed at Ft. Hood on that day and his base went into lock-down and he was too busy to call. Even though we mourn with our fellow Americans, the loss of over 3000 innocent people and the pain their families have had to deal with, the attacks of 9-11 have touched every American.

There are several ways to look at 9-11:

•    9-11 was planned and executed by the US government.
•    BushCo did not plan 9-11, but they knew it was going to happen and did nothing to prevent it and, in fact, may have allowed it to
     happen.
•    9-11 was planned and executed by a group of 17 terrorists (14 of them from Saudi Arabia) without the fore knowledge of the US 
     government and we were attacked because the terrorists "hated our freedoms and democracy."

Whichever of the theories is true, one thing is for sure: the Bush regime's response to 9-11 was woefully inept and criminal and many people have been killed, wounded, displaced or destroyed because of the Bush regimes' exploitation of the tragedy to use ultra-violence against the innocent people of two nations in response to a criminal act perpetrated by a few. Watching the recent RNC was a reminder of 9-11 hysteria used to justify implementing the Project for a New American Century and excusing BushCo for the crimes they have committed on the non-existent graves of our brothers and sisters who perished that day and whose remains were never recovered.

Instead of taking a hard and critical look at the corporate-imperialistic policies of our government and trying to objectively figure out why we were attacked, we set off on a nationalistic flag waving fervor of mass fear that was only to be cured by shopping, traveling and allowing George and Dick to make a demented response to it. After 9-11 our country lost a real opportunity to search our souls and make amends to the world for our greed and violence. An apt response would have been to punish the perpetrators of the crime in a court of law and not by rabidly seeking the first country to destroy. Attacking Afghanistan was like bombing Sicily to oblivion for the crimes of the Mafia. Attacking Iraq was just for neocon kicks.

George Bush was handed a Presidential Daily Briefing in Crawford, Texas on August 6th, 2001, that read: "Osama bin Laden determined to strike in the United States." According to journalist Ron Susskind, Bush told the agent who delivered the message: "Okay, you've covered your ass." Instead, our collective asses are twisting in the wind of the abuses and excesses of the last 7 years.

Our economy is being destroyed by 7 years of seemingly endless occupations that have made Dick and his cronies wealthy, but have harmed the rest of us. The price of gas has almost tripled since 9-11, thus causing all other consumer goods to skyrocket. People are losing their jobs and homes because this war economy cannot be sustained with Monopoly money printed and devalued to cover our rising deficits. We have become the worlds' worst debtor nation and our treasury is trillions in debt.

Our famous "freedoms" that the terrorists "hated" have been eroded due to the PATRIOT ACT, the Military Commissions Act and the violent response to protest from our robo-clad police state. We can be guaranteed that any call, email or text message that we send or receive is being read and if we dare protest we will be pepper-sprayed, maced, tear gassed, tasered, or beaten with a Billy club by our employees: law enforcement; authorized by our other employees: government.

My opponent, Nancy Pelosi, has cooperated and collaborated with the Bush regime to allow torture and incarceration without due process and NSA spying on Americans without warrants. She opens her Gucci bag and doles out billions for his War OF Terror while sitting in her mansion, children and grandchildren out of harms way, while our country implodes and Iraq and Afghanistan burn. She has legitimized BushCo's crimes and refuses to hold them accountable for the destruction they have unleashed upon our world.

It's not only time for new leadership in our government, but it's time for a new 9-11 Commission that has subpoena power and is not facilitated by the crooks who either perpetrated the crime and/or collaborated with it. Government abuses cannot be credibly investigated by government commissions: A citizen's investigation that is independent from the federal government and where people like George and Dick will actually have to give their testimony in the light of day, under oath and not holding hands, must be empowered and empanelled.

If you agree with me that a new 9-11 investigation is warranted, please contribute to my campaign to unseat Vichy-Pelosi who would never agree to investigate her buddy Bush for any crimes, much less the crime of our new century.

But most importantly, Cindy for Congress sends our deepest condolences to those who lost family member on 9-11 and anyone else on this planet who have lost their jobs, homes, or lives due to George's tragic response to the tragedy of 9-11.

My son is one of the ones whose life was ended prematurely. I mourn deeply for him each day, but the way forward is towards healing, peace, accountability, environmental sustainability, and economic equality and away from the violence and greed that has colored every aspect of our lives since that sad day.

www.CindyforCongress.org