Brochure: https://wibailoutpeople.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/march_31_moratorium_brochure_final.pdf
http://nationalmoratorium.org/
March 13, 2012 Milwaukee.
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Emergency Protest TODAY – Wednesday, March 14 – 5 P.M. to 6:30 P.M.
McKeldin Square, Pratt & Light Sts. Downtown Baltimore (rush hour)
Say No to U.S. War Crimes – Product of U.S. Imperialism
U.S. / NATO OUT OF AFGHANISTAN NOW!
We need Jobs, Education & Housing – not wars and occupations!
All justice minded people must seize this moment to say loudly and clearly that the U.S. and NATO must get out of Afghanistan immediately!
The horrific massacre in Southern Afghanistan of 16 unarmed civilians including children who were shot dead in cold blood, cannot be looked upon as an isolated incident.
War crimes are a direct product of imperialist occupations. They flow from a system that uses racism and demonization as a means to dehumanize people and justify attempts to subjugate whole people.
Only the 1%, the bankers, billionaires and generals, who seek to carve up the world for profit, benefit from occupations and war.
The billions of dollars spent on wars around the world need to be spent on jobs, education and health care for all people.
Issued by Solidarity Center
Called by: All Peoples Congress & International Action Center
All groups and individuals invited.
Voice your opposition to U.S. war crimes!
for more info call 443-909-8964
March 13, 2012 Milwaukee.
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Background:
Sign petition here:
http://action.wisconsinjobsnow.org/page/speakout/darling-vos-hands-off-badgercare?js=false
At "Hands Off Badgercare" rally Feb. 16, 2012 in Milwaukee.
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http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.271832159562974.66929.151521811594010&type=3
March 13, 2012 Milwaukee.
March 13, 2012.
Julie Enslow of Peace Action Wisconsin speaking out against the U.S./NATO war on Afghanistan in downtown Milwaukee March 13, 2012.
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http://www.facebook.com/events/371483909549033/?notif_t=plan_user_invited
March 13, 2012 Milwaukee.
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http://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/PPFA/New_Yorker_Birthright.pdf
Check out this recent article by Jill Lepore, “Birthright: What’s Next for Planned Parenthood,” which was published in The New Yorker. It tells the story of Planned Parenthood and the history of birth control.
June 12, 2011 at Milwaukee's Pride march.
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Dr. Luther Castillo
At MATC Downtown Campus Friday, March 16: (all sessions held in S120 in S Building, on State Street, at James Lovell [(7th St])
10:00 am – 11:00 am – Honduran M.D., Dr. Luther Castillo, (of the Garifina Afro-Honduran nationality) presents: Ongoing Haiti earthquake relief; Healthcare development in Honduras; The movement for democracy in Honduras (Dr. Castillo is currently on tour of the Midwest U.S.)
11:00 am – 11:30 am – Garifina Drum Rhythms – African drumming to welcome keynote speaker of the day, Dr. Luther Castillo, led by Dr. Reggie Finlayson, Comm. Skills instructor, and students Jestine Mueller, Joseph Connelly, Kameron Sykes and Demetrus Ford
11:00 am – 1:00 pm – Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony – Presented by Ethiopian students Nardos Gizaw and Amsale Legesse and others, with Culinary Arts Instructor, Chris Liu
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Should Health Care Be a Human Right? Presented by keynote speaker Dr. Luther Castillo, medical doctor for the Garifina people of Honduras, with welcome and introductions by MATC Provost Barbara Cannell, School of Health Sciences Dean, Dr. Dessie Levy, and Dr. Josie Veal, Nursing Instructor, and advisor to Future Black Nurses Assn.
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Film showing: “!Salud!” (“health” in Spanish) about Cuban health care system and Cuba’s international health care program (featuring Dr. Luther Castillo in film) followed by discussion with Dr. Castillo
The blood-curdling action of a U.S. sergeant who stormed into the homes of Afghan civilians and blew away 16 people, including children, is not an isolated one as the Pentagon war makers are projecting. Even President Barack Obama’s “apology” cannot hide the fact that maintaining U.S. troops in Afghanistan is the broader crime.
This heinous act is the culmination of 10 years of U.S. war atrocities against the Afghan people. It’s not that slaughtering unarmed civilians including children up close is more criminal than bombing them from a helicopter or a drone. But this recent massacre has exposed the true nature of the crime of occupation before the world – even before the people of the United States.
So many horrible acts by U.S. troops have been blamed by the Pentagon brass on the individual soldier’s state of mind. But they all fit a tragic pattern rooted in colonial occupations. Soldiers urinating on the bodies of captured Afghans showed the utmost contempt for the people the White House claims to be helping. Burning the Quran showed contempt for their beliefs. And now, breaking into their homes and murdering children breaks down all boundaries to unspeakable horror.
Editorials in the big business press express the trepidation that the people of the U.S. are fed up with this war, and will demand it stop especially in the midst of no jobs; massive foreclosures; closings of schools, health care facilities and more – all caused by a global capitalist economic crisis that only benefits the bankers and bosses – the 1%.
The top generals and politicians are making a desperate attempt to buy more time in Afghanistan by talking about executing the soldier charged with this heinous slaughter.
Mobilize in the streets to end occupation abroad & at home
From Palestine to Afghanistan, racist violence is the lifeblood of any occupation. This truth also holds in the police-occupied neighborhoods in the U.S. – in the Bronx, the south side of Chicago, Miami, D.C., etc. The 99% here are natural allies with the 99% in Afghanistan and all over the world, and we all have the same enemy, whose headquarters are located just south of Zuccotti Park.
The time is now to get out to the people and mobilize them to demand that U.S. and NATO troops leave Afghanistan now.
Washington, pay reparations to the Afghan people!
Statement issued by International Action Center
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