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Eight Years in Iraq -- Nine
Years in Afghanistan:
How is the War Economy Working for You?
INFO FOR MARCH 19, 2011
* POSTERS and FLYERS for downloading
for March 19th Rally and
March
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COSPONSORS and ENDORSERS
* VOLUNTEER / COSPONSOR / ENDORSER
* MARCH ROUTE
Calendar Item
For immediate release March 11,
2011
Contact: Dan Handelman, Peace and Justice Works 503-236-3065
Topics to be covered by the event include:
The event will address the connections between the people's uprisings
in the Middle East and the American Mid-West, and the United States'
policies that contribute to the dissatisfaction of so many around the
globe.
Organizations supporting the event include peace, social justice, labor,
faith, environmental and human rights groups, as well as local area
businesses.
Cosponsors include Peace and Justice Works Iraq
Affinity Group, Veterans for Peace Chapter 72, Iraq Veterans Against the
War-Oregon, Portland Peaceful Response Coalition,
Veterans for Peace Chapter 72, Iraq Veterans Against the War-Oregon Chapter,
Portland Labor for Peace and Justice, the Portland Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild.,
Peace Action Group - First Unitarian Church
Portland, Military Families Speak Out-Oregon,
War Resisters League-Portland,
Portland Area Rethinking
Schools, Alliance for Democracy - Portland Chapter, East Timor Action
Network/Portland, pdxjustice Media Productions, KBOO 90.7 FM Community
Radio (www.kboo.fm), Economic Justice Action Group of the First
Unitarian Church, Living Earth, Augustana Lutheran Church, People's
Activist Cafe, Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility, Americans
United for Palestinian Human Rights, Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom-Portland Branch, Families for Peace, American Friends
Service Committee, Casa De Las Palomas/FVTV Vancouver Public Access, and
others.
Endorsers include
Portland Jobs with Justice,
Freedom Socialist Party,
Metanoia Peace Community-United Methodist Church,
Northwest Veterans for Peace, Little Light of Mine Friends Worship Group,
Women in Black, No War Drum Corps, International Socialist Organization,
Sisters of the Road, Jewish Voice for Peace, Flying Focus Video Collective
(media endorser), Shelly's Garden, Oregon Wildlife Federation, Back 2 the
Wall, Recruiter Watch PDX, Mirador, Five Star Cleaners, Al-Nakba Awareness
Project,
Community Alliance of Lane County, Progressive Democrats of America,
Oregon Progressive Party, Las Lomas Project (Portland), Students United
for Palestinian Equal Rights (SUPER), Friends of Sabeel-North America,
Vancouver For Peace, Tom Dwyer Automotive Services, RevComm 2011 w/Cindy
Sheehan, Central Oregon Peace Network, Peace and Social Concerns
Committee of the Multnomah Meeting of Friends (Quakers), Portland Green
Party, Tikkun Olam Committee of P'nai Or, Community Alliance of Tenants,
Street Roots (media endorser), Buddhist Peace Fellowship-Portland,
Social Welfare Action Alliance - Portland Chapter, American Iranian
Friendship Council, and others.
For more information or for your organization to get involved, contact Peace
and Justice Works at 503-236-3065.
• 11x17
(enlarge to 155% when printing-2/21/11)
• full
page - English
(2/26/11)
• full
page - Spanish
(3/10/11)
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1/4 page
(2/28/11)
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Current list of
cosponsors and endorsers (at least 60!--updated 3/17/11)
•
Cosponsors
alphabetical
for March 19th Rally and
March
Check our Volunteer Info
page to find out
how you can help make March 19 a successful day for peace!
(Also includes information on Cosponsoring and Tabling)
Check out the march route for
Saturday's event!
Iraq Affinity Group
PO Box 42456
Portland, OR 97242
(503) 236-3065 (Office)
pjw@pjw.info
http://www.pjw.info/Iraq.html
PORTLAND MARCH & RALLY TO MARK ANNIVERSARY OF 2003 IRAQ INVASION
At least sixty local organizations are coming together to coordinate a
march and rally to mark the 8th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq,
tying the nation's failing economy to the occupations of Iraq and
Afghanistan. "Eight Years in Iraq -- Nine Years in Afghanistan: How is
the War Economy Working for You?" will take place Saturday, March 19,
2011 at Pioneer Courthouse Square (SW 6th and Yamhill) in Portland, OR
and feature music, speakers, and a march through downtown. The rally is
set to begin at 1:00 PM with the march at 1:30 PM; music will begin at
12:30 PM.
March 19, 2011 event to tie the economy to America's ongoing wars
--End the Wars and Occupations--Bring the Troops Home Now
--Fund Jobs, Healthcare and Human Needs, Not the War Machine
--Stand for Civil Rights at Home and Abroad
--Take Action!
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