[WB-Discuss] Fwd: FRIDAY APRIL 16 EMERGENCY RALLY AND MARCH HALT THE MILITARY ESCALATION IN IRAQI CITIES BOSTON COMMON 5-7PM HOWARD ZINN SPEAKING

[David Rolde]

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>Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:22:26 -0400
>Subject: FRIDAY APRIL 16 EMERGENCY RALLY AND MARCH     HALT THE MILITARY
>	ESCALATION IN IRAQI CITIES    BOSTON COMMON   5-7PM   HOWARD 
>ZINN SPEAKING
>From: Susan Lees <swlees at earthlink.net>
>To: UJP Listserve <swlees at earthlink.net>
>
>Friday APRIL 16    Emergency RALLY AND MARCH
>HALT THE US MILITARY ESCALATION IN IRAQI CITIES
>
>BOSTON COMMON    HOWARD ZINN SPEAKING      5PM - 7PM
>
>HALT THE US MILITARY ESCALATION IN IRAQI CITIES!
>END THE US OCCUPATION OF IRAQ!
>BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!
>Please join in this emergency protest on Friday, April 16 in the 
>Boston Common.
>The rally will be at the Bandstand, near Park St. T.
>Sponsored by the United for Justice with Peace Coalition
>
>This protest will follow a concerted day of phone calls and visits 
>to our Congresspeople,
>many of whom are at home this week.  Please see justicewithpeace.org 
>for information and talking points.
>Phone numbers/addresses follow:
>
>SENATORS
>Edward Kennedy 617-565-3170/ 202-224-4543
>2400 JFK Building, Boston, MA 02203
>
>John Kerry 617- 565-8519 / 202 224-2742
>One Bowdoin Square, 10th Floor  Boston, MA  02114
>
>REPRESENTATIVES
>Mike Capuano 617-621-6208 / 202-225-5111
>110 First St., Cambridge, MA 02141
>
>Stephen Lynch 617-428-2000 / 202-225-8273
>88 Black Falcon Ave., Suite 340, Boston, MA 02210
>
>Barney Frank 617-332-3920 / 202-225-5931
>28 Crafts St., Newton, MA 02458
>
>Edward Markey 781-396-2900 / 202-225-2836
>5 High St., Suite 101, Medford, MA 02155
>
>Jim McGovern 508-831-7356/202-225-6101
>416 Cannon House office Bldg, Washington, DC 20515
>
>Martin Meehan 978-459-0101/202-225-3411
>11 Kearney Square, Lowell, MA 01852
>
>John Tierney 978-531-1669/202-225-8020
>17 Peabody Square, Peabody, MA 01960
>
>William Delahunt 508-771-0666/202-225-3111
>146 Main Street, Hyannis, MA 02601
>
>Talking points from the national United for Peace and Justice Coalition
>
>Calls for peace and an end to the occupation of Iraq are rising even 
>as murderous violence escalates across Iraq. Hundreds of Iraqis and 
>dozens of U.S. and international occupation troops are dying in what 
>the Bush administration calls "liberated" Iraq. The U.S. military is 
>now using massive 500-pound bombs against civilians - including on a 
>Fallujah mosque compound killing at least 62 Iraqis.
>
>Sending in more troops is not the answer. Military occupation is not 
>bringing peace, democracy or sovereignty to the people of Iraq who 
>have already suffered for so long. It is clear that a huge portion 
>of the Iraqi people want the U.S. out. The so-called "transfer of 
>power" to Iraqis on June 30th will be meaningless as long as the 
>U.S. military occupation continues. The escalation of violence in 
>recent days, and the Pentagon's even more violent response -- 
>including collective punishment, killings of civilians and other 
>violations of international law and the Geneva Conventions -- make a 
>new approach to the crisis even more urgent. The entire world has a 
>fundamental interest in ending this war and averting another life 
>lost. We must bring the troops home now.
>
>TAKE ACTION
>1) Call the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask to speak 
>with your Congresspersons. Press them to:
>* act immediately to lift the siege of civilian areas. Both military 
>operations and the cutting off of electricity, water, supplies, and 
>ambulances should end
>* call for an immediate pull-back of occupation forces from Iraqi 
>cities and towns to put both Iraqis and occupation troops out of 
>immediate danger
>* reject any calls for the deployment of more U.S. troops to Iraq
>* support the calls for Congressional hearings to determine why—one 
>year after the fall of Saddam Hussein—the Coalition Provisional 
>Authority has failed to produce a genuine plan that would allow the 
>Iraqis to determine their own political future.
>* immediately convene an emergency joint session of Congress to 
>address the crisis in Iraq and to change the course of U.S. action
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