URGENT: Emergency demonstration Wednesday, October 21 near FDU-Hackensack. 4:15 pm. Please spread the word!

[Joanne O'Neill]

 

   Veterans For Peace, Chapter 21, New Jersey

                  Working for Peace, Justice & Veterans Since 1985

 

Vietnam Veterans Against the War, North Jersey

                          Fighting For Peace, Justice and Veterans Since 1967

Tell President Obama,

Out of Afghanistan NOW!

Healthcare NOT Warfare!

 

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Temple Avenue entrance to Fairleigh Dickenson University

Hackensack Avenue and Temple Avenue, just north of Sears in Hackensack

4:15 pm

 

      President Obama will speak at a campaign rally for Governor Corzine this Wednesday at FDU. Military Families Speak Out, Bergen County invited the President to stop at our Wednesday vigil in Teaneck or to meet elsewhere, but his staff member called to say he was unable to meet with us on Wednesday. Members of the President’s staff met with MFSO members last summer at the White House. We believe that it’s a critical time for the President himself to meet with military families, veterans, and other members of the public, as he is considering whether or not to expand the war in Afghanistan. It is our sons and daughters, it is our loved ones in the military whose lives are on the line.

     Taxpayers in Bergen County, New Jersey have paid $1.3 billion for Afghanistan war spending since 2001. For the same amount of money, our government could provide 118, 879 people with health care for one year, roughly $11,000 per person! (www.nationalpriorities.org)  
       881 US troops (www.icasualties.org) and many thousands of Afghani civilians have been killed. Thousands have been injured. According to a CNN poll in September, 57% of the American public now oppose the war in Afghanistan. Speak out against the war!

 

Join military families, veterans, and other residents of North Jersey to say no to the war in Afghanistan! Bring friends and neighbors. Help carry long banners saying “Out of Afghanistan NOW! Healthcare not warfare!”

 

Sponsored by Military Families Speak Out, Bergen County, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, North Jersey and Veterans for Peace, Chapter 21 NJ

 

For more information, call Paula Rogovin at 201 248 3169. Military Families Speak Out. www.mfsobergencounty.org.

The 218^th consecutive vigil will also be held on Wednesday at the National Guard Armory in Teaneck, from 4:30-6:00 pm.