by
Linda Pascatore on 17 Spetember 2005
Kauai
Peace Rally: Saturday, September 24
End
the War on Iraq--Bring the troops home now
Leave no military bases behind
End the looting of Iraq
Stop the torture
Stop bankrupting our communities
No military recruitment in our schools!
Bring posters and signs!
There will be an island wide rally for Peace on Kauai
on Saturday, September 24th. The rally will begin at KCC (Kauai
Community College) from 10:00 to 10:45 am, and continue at the State
Building in Lihue from11:00 to 11:45 am, then to the Airport from
12:00 to 12:45 pm, then to Kapaa Ball Park from 1:15-1:45 pm (location
may change--but somewhere in Kapaa along the highway), and finally
in Kilauea from 2:15 to 3:00 pm.
The rally was inspired by United
for Peace. They are sponsoring a major rally in Washington,
D.C. for the 24th. The following info is taken from their website:
More
than two years after the illegal and immoral U.S. invasion of Iraq,
the nightmare continues. More than 1600 U.S. soldiers have died,
at least another 15,000 have been wounded; even the most conservative
estimates of Iraqi deaths number in the tens of thousands. Iraq,
a once sovereign nation, now lies in ruins under the military and
corporate occupation of the United States; U.S. promises to rebuild
have not been kept and Iraqis still lack food, water, electricity,
and other basic needs.
A majority of Americans believe that this war never should have
happened, but our elected representatives in Washington continue
to rubber-stamp the Bush Administration's disastrous Iraq policies.
They have given military recruiters nearly unrestricted access to
our schools -- and the Pentagon nearly unrestricted access to our
tax dollars. At a time when our vital social programs are eroding
or completely decimated, an overwhelming majority in Congress recently
approved Bush's request for an additional $82 billion in war funding,
and there's already talk of another $50 billion appropriation this
fall.
It's time to hold all pro-war politicians accountable for the deaths,
the destruction, the lies, and the toll on our communities! Join
us for the rally, which will send a clear message to the White House
and Congress: The Iraq war must end. It's time to bring all the
troops home, leaving no U.S. military bases behind, and to stop
the corporate theft of Iraq's resources. Instead of draining our
national treasury for endless war, we demand that our tax dollars
be used to repair the damage done to Iraq and to fund services in
our communities. We call for an immediate end to our government's
assault on immigrants, the unethical pressures on our young people
to join the military, and the undermining of democracy through relentless
attacks on everyone's basic rights.
Our mobilization will coincide with the meetings of the International
Monetary Fund and World Bank, whose economic policies place corporate
profits ahead of basic human needs worldwide. We will speak out
against the corporate theft of Iraq's resources and the decimation
of the Iraqi economy through privatization and "free trade."
Join us at the Kauai rally!
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