Kansas City events/items about Syria

[Andrea Whitmore]

Friends,

You might be interested in the items below if you live in the Kansas City area.

1) Missouri Congressman Emanuel Cleaver (D) will conduct a public town hall meeting on Syria at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Metropolitan Community College, Penn Valley Health Sciences Institute, Room 102, at 3444 Broadway.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/09/04/4456762/cleaver-may-be-first-member-of.html#storylink=cpy

2) Kansas Congressman Kevin Yoder (R) is against military intervention at this time.

3 ) American Friends Service Committee is organizing a Thursday vigil against military intervention in Syria. Information follows below.

Many thanks for all you do. Andrea

View this message as a web page "While we unequivocally condemn any use of chemical weapons along with continued indiscriminate killing of civilians and other violations of international humanitarian law, military strikes are not the answer.” ~from a letter signed by AFSC and 24 groups Fellow Peacemakers, Email your Congressperson! Tell Congress that you oppose authorizing the use of U.S. military force in Syria! I encourage you to join us on Thursday, September 5, 5:00-6:30pm, 47th and Main, KCMO for a No U.S. Military Intervention in Syria Demonstration and Vigil. Help stop the madness before it starts. Military action will only escalate the violence and delay possible political solutions to the civil war. The call to war is not a humanitarian action. It is driven by political and economic forces and will do great harm and increase the bloodshed. The facts and proofs about who used chemical weapons are flawed. Al-Qaida linked rebel groups have been caught with saran gas and Saudi Arabian intelligence is suspected by some of providing the chemical weapons.  Instead of military intervention we should support international law, bring the perpetrators to the International Criminal Court. We should work for a cease-fire and arms embargo... There are other actions we can take. We must reorient U.S. foreign policy away from war and toward shared security.  Join us on Thursday, September 5, 5:00pm got, Demonstration- No US Military Intervention in Syria Stand and speak out for peace. Join the demonstration. Thanks for your efforts on behalf of peace. Sincerely, Ira Ira Harritt Kansas City Program Coordinator

American Friends Service Committee
4405 Gillham Road
Kansas City, MO 64110 
http://afsc.org/office/kansas-city-mo