Wednesday, 5 PM: Protest President Obama's Escalation of Syria-Iraq Civil Wars!
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Andy Thayer
Sep 9, 2014, 8:20:36 PM9/9/14
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"Obama to Push to Widen Attacks" --Wall Street Journal, 9/8/14
The United States is getting ready to bomb yet another country, this time Syria.
Monday's Wall Street Journal reported that "Obama [is] to Push to Widen Attacks" in meetings with Congress on Tuesday, and then push further in a speech to the nation on Wednesday, Sept. 10th.
Besides bombing Syria, the Journal reported that "The President is widely expected to press Congress to quickly authorize his proposal last spring for an additional $500 million to arm and train pro-Western rebels in Syria. He will also detail his plan for a still-emerging international coalition that he wants to include allies in Europe and the Middle East."
Throughout the region, more than a half century of U.S. military and diplomatic intervention has caused untold misery to millions of people. Waves of refugees now risk death at sea to flee a civil war in Libya escalated by President Obama's bombing campaign a few years ago. Many thousands of political prisoners face torture in Egyptian prisons since his support of the military coup there. More than 2000 people died in the recent Israeli pulverizing of Gaza as the Obama administration re-supplied munitions to Israel mid-battle.
U.S. bombing and arms shipments to fuel the civil wars in Syria and Iraq will once again be pouring gasoline on a raging fire. Only a full pull-out of the U.S. from the Middle East, and reparations for the countless horrors it has caused there, offers any real hope for lessening the violence.
Please join us for an emergency 5 PM, Sept. 10th protest / press conference at the Kluczynski Federal Building, 230 S. Dearborn Street, Chicago to denounce President Obama's escalation of the wars expected to be announced in his 8 PM (CST) speech to the nation.
Please join and share widely the Facebook event, and then show up! Rain or shine, we will be underneath the eaves of the Kluczynski Building, just south of Federal Plaza.
Please forward this email to other list serves.
Co-sponsors include: 8th Day Center for Justice, ANSWER Coalition, Anti-War Committee, Chicago Area CodePINK, Chicago Area Peace Action, Chicago Coalition to Shut Down Guantanamo, Gay Liberation Network, International Socialist Organization, La Voz de los de Abajo, Near West Citizens for Peace and Justice, Veterans for Peace NW Indiana Chapter, Voices for Creative Non-Violence, and World Can't Wait Chicago (list in formation). To add your organization to the list of co-sponsors, please email LGBTlib...@aol.com
The United States is getting ready to bomb yet another country, this time Syria.
Monday's Wall Street Journal reported that "Obama [is] to Push to Widen Attacks" in meetings with Congress on Tuesday, and then push further in a speech to the nation on Wednesday, Sept. 10th.
Besides bombing Syria, the Journal reported that "The President is widely expected to press Congress to quickly authorize his proposal last spring for an additional $500 million to arm and train pro-Western rebels in Syria. He will also detail his plan for a still-emerging international coalition that he wants to include allies in Europe and the Middle East."
Throughout the region, more than a half century of U.S. military and diplomatic intervention has caused untold misery to millions of people. Waves of refugees now risk death at sea to flee a civil war in Libya escalated by President Obama's bombing campaign a few years ago. Many thousands of political prisoners face torture in Egyptian prisons since his support of the military coup there. More than 2000 people died in the recent Israeli pulverizing of Gaza as the Obama administration re-supplied munitions to Israel mid-battle.
U.S. bombing and arms shipments to fuel the civil wars in Syria and Iraq will once again be pouring gasoline on a raging fire. Only a full pull-out of the U.S. from the Middle East, and reparations for the countless horrors it has caused there, offers any real hope for lessening the violence.
Please join us for an emergency 5 PM, Sept. 10th protest / press conference at the Kluczynski Federal Building, 230 S. Dearborn Street, Chicago to denounce President Obama's escalation of the wars expected to be announced in his 8 PM (CST) speech to the nation.
Please join and share widely the Facebook event, and then show up! Rain or shine, we will be underneath the eaves of the Kluczynski Building, just south of Federal Plaza.
Please forward this email to other list serves.
Co-sponsors include: 8th Day Center for Justice, ANSWER Coalition, Anti-War Committee, Chicago Area CodePINK, Chicago Area Peace Action, Chicago Coalition to Shut Down Guantanamo, Gay Liberation Network, International Socialist Organization, La Voz de los de Abajo, Near West Citizens for Peace and Justice, Veterans for Peace NW Indiana Chapter, Voices for Creative Non-Violence, and World Can't Wait Chicago (list in formation). To add your organization to the list of co-sponsors, please email LGBTlib...@aol.com
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