Anti-War Strategy Meeting: Troops Out Now Saturday, January 21, 2-4 pm

Anti-War Strategy Meeting: Troops Out Now Saturday, January 21, 2006, 2-4 pm

at 39 W. 14th St. #206 in Manhattan 212.633.6646

To plan national and local coordinated protests on March 18 & 19, the 3rd anniversary of the war.

Targeting Neighborhood Recruiting Offices -- "Shut 'em down!"

Converging on the Times Sq. Recruiting Station

All Are Welcome - Sponsored by the Troops Out Now Coalition (TONC)

REMEMBER DR. KING - FOLLOW HIS EXAMPLE UNITE AND SHUT THE WAR DOWN!

March 18 and 19 will mark the third anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq. This offers all of us a precious opportunity to help transform the rising anger against the war into a human tidal wave of antiwar resistance in the streets. The Troops Out Now Coalition calls on the entire antiwar community, at the local and national level to remember Martin Luther King Jr., by emulating his boldness, conviction, courage, and capacity to rise above the fray and keep his eyes on the prize. We invite activists and organizations to join together to realize the powerful potential of united national days of action on the weekend of March 18 & 19.

UNITY MEANS CONNECTING THE FRONTS IN THE STRUGGLE

Whether it is the struggle for Jobs, Healthcare, Housing, Pensions, and a Living Wage, or the struggle in support of the Katrina Hurricane evacuees or the struggle to defend political prisoners and immigrant rights. These issues are inherently DONATE to help with organizing expenses http://www.troopsoutnow.org/donate.html

Linked to the struggle against the occupation of Iraq, Palestine, Haiti, and the rest of the world. These struggles are different fronts of the same struggle -- the struggle against Empire. Our movement is stronger when it embraces and links all of the fronts in the struggle.

MASS CONVERGENCE ON TIMES SQUARE

In the New York area we propose as a strategy for Saturday March 18 the targeting the neighborhood recruiting offices in the morning, and converging on the most infamous recruiting office in the country, in Times Square, in the afternoon.

SHUT DOWN THE MILITARY RECRUITERS

COAST TO COAST - TONC proposes that the movement jointly target military recruitment offices all across the country on this weekend with coordinated protest, especially neighborhood recruitment offices in poor, and working class communities of color. Over the past year, the counter-recruiting movement has had enormous success, as parents, students and activists confront military recruiters on campus and in communities. Military recruiting is at an all-time low, as young people refuse to be cannon fodder for the Empire. This is a critical weak point --we can shut the war down, and the way to start is by shutting down military recruiting.

LET'S STAY IN THE STREETS THIS YEAR (& every year)

The reasons for working together outweigh those for not doing so by a thousand to one. Especially this year, it's up to us to make sure that the antiwar movement doesn't transfer all of its hope and energy into the Congressional elections next fall. Politicians will use and mislead us, but they are not going to shut the war down and bring the troops home. Our existence as an independent force, our power, our strength, our ability to forge alliances, to grow, and stop this criminal war depends on us staying in the streets.

Troops Out Now Coalition
www.TroopsOutNow.org
212-633-6646