[HNA] TODAY @ COPLEY- New England-wide Rally Against Wars and Occupation

[Kaveri Rajaraman]

We will have Tito speaking about Honduras as well at this rally - do come!

paz
Kaveri

Eight Years of War, How Many More? New England Rallies Against Wars and
Occupation JOIN THE STUDENT CONTINGENT!!!!!(look for the banner of the
student contingent and let us march together and make this movement happen!)
   *No more U.S. Predator drone missiles!!!*

*All troops home now from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq!*

*End the siege of Gaza and all US support for the occupation of Palestine!*

*Fund Jobs, Health Care and Environmental Protection, not War & Nuclear
Weapons!*

*TOMORROW, Saturday, October 17, noon, at Copley Square, Boston* we will
march and rally to protest the Afghanistan/Pakistan war, the continued
occupation of Iraq, the militarist U.S. policies with respect to Palestine,
Iran, and nuclear weapons, and the impact of the military budget on human
needs at home.

As the Obama administration weighs whether to further escalate troop levels
in Afghanistan, the moment could not be more timely to raise our voices in
protest!

Music starts at noon featuring hip-hop/jazz ensemble Mista Mayday with
Above/Below <http://oct17boston.org/program/mista-mayday-with-abovebelow>,
soul/funk/rockers Bojah and the
Insurrection<http://oct17boston.org/program/bojah-and-the-insurrection>,
and the Constitution Brass Band.

A rally at 1:00 will be addressed by a variety of informative
speakers<http://oct17boston.org/program>including:

   - Afghan women's rights activist
Zoya<http://justicewithpeace.org/afghan-zoya-bio>who is
   lecturing <http://justicewithpeace.org/afghan-zoya> throughout the Boston
   area this week
   - military resister Matthis
Cheroux<http://oct17boston.org/program/matthis-cheroux>
   - veteran and longtime peace activist John
Schuchardt<http://oct17boston.org/program/john-schuchardt>
   - military mom Sarah Fuhro <http://oct17boston.org/program/sarah-fuhro>
   - organizers for immigrants' rights, housing rights, climate change,
   redirecting the military budget, ending the Gaza blockade, and opposing the
   Honduras coup.

The rally will be MC'd by satirical singer-songwriter Roy Zimmerman
<http://oct17boston.org/program/roy-zimmerman>and antiwar activist Marilyn
Levin.

Led by the brass band and the colorful Veterans for Peace contingent, at
3:00 the group will march from Copley Square to the Common and return to
Copley.

The mobilization has eight demands:

   - *All troops home now from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq!*
   - *End the siege of Gaza and all US support for the occupation of
   Palestine!*
   - *Fund Jobs, Health Care and Environmental Protection, not War & Nuclear
   Weapons!*
   - *Ground the Drones!*
   - *Bring the National Guard Home Now!*
   - *No Threats against Iran or North Korea!*
   - *Human and Civil Rights for All– No Torture, Racist Deportations, or
   Scapegoating Muslims.  Repeal the PATRIOT Act!*
   - *Break All Ties With the Honduran Dictatorship!*

[image: Weekend of Peace]
<http://www.grassrootstech.org/2009/node/30>Volunteers
are needed to carry banners, collect donations, and set up tables and
chairs.    Sign in at the Volunteers Table when you arrive at Copley.

For more information visit the mobilization's web
site<http://oct17boston.org>or contact Cole
Harrison <rozziecole at gmail.com> or Shelagh
Foreman<shelagh at masspeaceaction.org>of the UJP Afghanistan/Pakistan
Task Force.

The mobilization is being organized by over 100 peace and justice
groups<http://oct17boston.org/endorsers>throughout New England and
participants will be bused in from Maine, New
Hampshire, and Connecticut.   See the complete
list<http://oct17boston.org/endorsers>of sponsors and endorsers.
UJP initiated the event and is an active
sponsor and promoter of it.

Ask your organization to sponsor or endorse <oct17endorse at gmail.com> this
protest!

The outreach flyer is attached in two formats - please print copies and
distribute widely.

  <http://justicewithpeace.org>

United for Justice with Peace <http://justicewithpeace.org> is a coalition
of peace and justice organizations and community peace groups in the Greater
Boston region. The UJP Coalition, formed after September 11th, seeks global
peace through social and economic justice.

ujpcoalition at gmail.com
 617-491-4UJP www.justicewithpeace.org


 Upcoming Events:
  Eight Years of War, How Many More? New England Rallies Against Wars and
Occupation <http://justicewithpeace.org/oct17>Sat Oct 1712:00pmCopley
SquareBoston Conference
on Climate Emergency and
Re-Localization<http://justicewithpeace.org/node/367>Sun
Oct 189:00amReggie Lewis CenterRoxbury Piano Music for Peace with Russell
Sherman <http://justicewithpeace.org/node/529>Sun Oct 184:00pmHome of Ruth
SchockenCambridge Afghanistan: Resisting Occupation and
Fundamentalism<http://justicewithpeace.org/afghan-zoya-newton>Sun
Oct 187:00pmEliot Church, NewtonNewton Iraqi Peace Activist Visits New
England <http://justicewithpeace.org/node/626>Wed Oct 216:30pmAFSCCambridge The
Bravest Woman in Afghanistan <http://justicewithpeace.org/afghan-joya-mit>Thu
Oct 297:00pmMIT Room 10-250Cambridge


More Peace and Justice Events <http://justicewithpeace.org/upcoming-events>

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