Students & Youth: Protest the NATO Summit in Chicago MAY 20, 2012 IMPORTANT
UPDATE: Recently, the Obama Administration decided to split the NATO/G8
Summit - the G8 will now be meeting at Camp David the 17-18 of May. NATO
remains in Chicago, but they will be holding their meeting the 20-21 of
May. At a recent press conference, CANG8, the coalition SDS is a part of
mobilizing for these major demonstrations, announced its intentions to make
SUNDAY, MAY 20TH the major day for protests. Please note this important
update, and we'll see you on the streets of Chicago in May!

As students and youth of the United States, we see our economy, side by
side with other nations across the world, deteriorating. While jobs are
being slashed and social services are cut, the cost of education only
continues to grow. While students are forced to work and go to school
full-time just to pay for books, our government is pouring trillions of
dollars into wars and occupations abroad that result in thousands of
deaths, claiming that there is no money to be found for social services
like: education, housing and health care. Ending the wars would mean
trillions of dollars of savings annually that could be spent on human needs
here in the United States! *We want money for EDUCATION not for war!*

At the invitation of the White House, military and civilian representatives
of the 28-nation US-commanded and largely US-financed North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) are meeting in Chicago on May 20th, 2012.

On MAY 20TH, representatives of NATO will be meeting in Chicago to
determine global policies that will affect OUR future. Students for a
Democratic Society, alongside other students, is mobilizing to spread the
message that the people's needs come before corporate profit.
*
Will you join the student contingent in Chicago on May 20th to protest NATO
and lift the following demands?*

WE DEMAND that U.S./NATO begin an immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan.
WE DEMAND that money be spent for education, not for global conflict.
Education is the future of a democratic society.
WE WILL PROTEST the NATO meeting in Chicago and join the student contingent
on Sunday, May 20th.

*Sign the pledge
online<http://www.newsds.org/2011/9/15/petition-students-protest-nato-summit>
*

*Students for a Democratic Society is circulating the below call to action
from the Coalition Against NATO and the G8 War & Poverty Agenda: *

  [image: UNAC]

 (please forward widely)

[image: NATO G8]Sunday, May 20, Chicago. SAY NO to the WAR and POVERTY
AGENDA. Noon rally at Petrillo Bandshell (corner of Jackson and Columbus),
then march to McCormick Place. (people's Summit on May 12 & 13)

Join Jesse Jackson, SEIU Health Care Illinois/Indiana (HCII), UNAC, Chicago
Teachers Union, Kathy Kelly of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, National
Nurses United, United Electrical Workers Western Region, Malik Mujahid of
the Muslim Peace Coalition, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Veterans for
Peace, Glen Ford of Black Agenda Report, Derrick O’Keefe of the Canadian
Peace Alliance, Reiner Braun of the No to War, No to NATO Network, Germany,
Occupy Chicago, CANG8(Coalition Against NATO and the G8 War and Poverty
Agenda) and many others to oppose the NATO and G8 war and poverty agenda.

 Mass demonstration on Sunday, May 20, the opening day of the NATO summit

  9 am, march with veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars who will
return their medals to
NATO<http://www.ivaw.org/blog/ivaw-granted-permit-nato-summit-march-justic...>.
the march will start at Grant Park.

  Noon, join the permitted mass march and rally against the NATO and G8 war
and poverty agenda. Noon rally at Petrillo Bandshell (corner of Jackson and
Columbus), then march to McCormick Place. <http://cang8.org/>

 Speakers will include:

Jesse Jackson - Operation PUSH

Malalai Joya – former member of Afghan Parliament

Reiner Braun – No to War, No to NATO Network, Germany

Kathy Kelly – Voices for Creative Nonviolence

Vijay Prashad – author of Arab Spring, Libyan Winter

    and more

  People Summit, Saturday, May 12 and Sunday May 13 at Occupy
Chicago.<http://www.peoplessummitchicago.org/>

  There will be plenary and workshop sessions and panels. Speakers will
include:

 Malalai Joya – former member of Afghan Parliament

 Reiner Braun – No to War, No to NATO Network, Germany

 Malik Mujahid – Muslim Peace Coalition

 Kathy Kelly – Voices for Creative Nonviolence

 Col. Ann Wright – Quit army in protest of Iraq War

                        Medea Benjamin – Code Pink

                        Mumia Abu Jamal (message)

                           and more

for more information on the Peoples' Summit, click
here<http://www.peoplessummitchicago.org/index.html>

 <http://www.peoplessummitchicago.org/index.html>

 Click here to hear Jesse Jackson speaking about his support for the May 20
NATO demonstration.<http://www.wbez.org/news/jackson-backs-anti-nato-march-%E2%80%98our-a...>

<http://www.wbez.org/news/jackson-backs-anti-nato-march-%E2%80%98our-a...>

 Click here for Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Mairead Maguire’s rebuff of
U.S. State Department on the upcoming NATO
summit.<http://www.accuracy.org/release/nobel-peace-prize-laureate-rebuffs-u-...>

 click here to donate to UNAC<https://nationalpeaceconference.org/Donate.html>

Click here for the Facebook UNAC
group.<http://www.facebook.com/#%21/home.php?sk=group_157059221012587&ap=1>

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