Demo: NYC, Fri., Feb 19: Money for JOBS, Education and Health Care -- Not War! Stop the U.S. war on Afghanistan
“The security we profess to seek in foreign adventures we will lose in
our decaying cities. The bombs in Vietnam explode at
home.”
—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Feb. 25, 1967
Dr. King was right. The bombs killing poor people in
Afghanistan also explode at home.
At least $100 billion will be spent this year in occupying Afghanistan. Over
three million jobs at $15 per hour could be created with this money. Instead
it’s being used to kill children thousands of miles away.
Meanwhile the big banks that were bailed out with over a trillion dollars
from us continue to launder drug profits. Afghanistan, occupied by the U.S.,
supplies over 90% of the world’s heroin.
Right now the 75,000 people in Afghanistan’s Helmand
Province are being pounded by 15,000 troops in the war’s biggest
airborne assault. Rockets murdered 12 children in the early hours of this
offensive. U.S. General Stanley McChrystalwar
crime merely “regrettable.” called this
Forty years ago Dr. King said, "the greatest purveyor of violence in
the world today—my own government.” The Pentagon continues to kill
people around the world with its $700 billion war budget. At the same time
billionaire Bloomberg wants to close schools and St. Vincent’s Hospital
may shut down.
Join us to demand an end to occupying the fourth poorest nation on earth.
Stop the Brutal US/NATO war on Afghanistan!
Bring the troops home!
Demonstrate
Friday, Feb. 19
4:30 pm to 6 pm
Herald Square
34th St. & Broadway
