Bring ALL the Troops Home Now!
March on the Pentagon - March 21
March on Wall Street - April 3 & 4
Bring ALL the Troops Home Now!
End War and Occupation - Iraq, Afghanistan & Palestine!
Money for Human Needs - NOT War!
The Troops Out Now Coalition condemns the announcement today that
Washington plans to keep an occupying force of 50,000 troops in Iraq
indefinitely.
In November, the people voted overwhelmingly for an end to war and
occupation. The majority of the people of the U.S. - and the world are
demanding an end to the war and occupation in Afghanistan,
Iraq, and Palestine.
The war against the people of Iraq was launched based on lies about
weapons of mass destruction, as a pretext to seize control of the vast
oil reserves of the region for the benefit of Wall Street. The Cost
of War website estimates that the Iraq war has cost $341.4 million
every day - $4,681 per household. On Thursday, the White House
announced that it will ask Congress for an additional $75.5 billion
this year to pay for war and occupation in Afghanistan and Iraq. This
would raise the budget for war for 2009 to $141 billion and increase
the Pentagon's 2009 spending to $513.3 billion. This is in addition to
the billions of dollars given to Israel every year to continue a brutal
war against the Palestinian people.
Right now, more than ever the people need
the
billions of dollars that are being spent on the illegal occupation of
Iraq to be spent on meeting human needs, like jobs, affordable housing,
education, and health care. Each day
brings news of tens of thousands of layoffs, foreclosures, and
evictions. Working people are facing a crisis of historic proportions
- we must organize to demand a real bail out for people, not bloated
Pentagon budgets and trillion dollar handouts to corrupt CEO's.
Join the Troops Out Now Coalition
and many other
groups at the March on the Pentagon, Saturday March 21
and then...
National
March on Wall Street!
Friday, April 3 - when Wall Street is open for
business; continuing to Saturday, April 4 - at the
Intersection of Wall & Broad Streets (The Stock Exchange).
Join us in the streets to demand:
- Bring ALL the Troops Home Now!
- No new troops to Afghanistan!
- Money for Human Needs Not War!
- End Occupation - Iraq, Afghanistan
& Palestine
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