March 14-19th Survior March
I just called Paul, and spoke to him about our four footed surviors! He was very positive about the idea, and wants to adopt one himself! This March is not exclusive, anyone can join in, unlike the email that is going around. But if you feel more comfortable, you certainly can adopt a Katrina Survior to go along! So I am going to spread the word to the doggie world, please help me do so and I will post more updates here about the plans for our four footed friends. -Rachel
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http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=5881
February 16th, 2006 9:10 pm
WAR VETS AND STORM SURVIVORS PLAN EPIC MARCH
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
C/o VFP * 216 South Meramec Ave. * St. Louis, MO * 63105 *
www.vetgulfmarch.org
WAR VETS AND STORM SURVIVORS PLAN EPIC MARCH
February 13, 2006 – Veterans For Peace, the turbulent new Iraq Veterans Against the War, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, and Gold Star Families for Peace – all national organizations demanding a US withdrawal from Iraq – will march with hurricane survivors, beginning March 14, 2006, from the historic Stone Street Baptist Church in Mobile for five days, through three states down coastal Highway 90, and arrive in New Orleans on March 19, the third anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. They are demanding not only an end to the Iraq war, but a large increase in resources to the Gulf Coast, with those resources being placed under “democratic control by the actual survivors, along with an unconditional ‘right of return’.”
“If we can build cities in the desert to wage war on foreigners, why can’t we rebuild the cities of the Gulf Coast for justice?” asks Paul Robinson, president of the Mobile, Alabama Chapter (#130) of Veterans For Peace. For months now, since Hurricane Katrina devastated the coastlines of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, Robinson has been heavily involved in relief and reconstruction efforts, with little response from the federal government. So Robinson put out a call for national antiwar organizations to come to the Gulf Coast to “make the connection between a $2 trillion war and the negligence of the same administration in addressing the needs of disaster victims.”
“Dr. King once said that every bomb dropped over Vietnam explodes in Harlem,” says Vivian Felts, director of the Mobile-based hurricane relief organization Saving Ourselves (SOS). “We are saying that every bomb released over Iraq is exploding from Mobile to New Orleans. And that’s where we will walk.”
On February 2, 2006, the Bush administration indicated it would ask Congress for an additional $120 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but only $18 billion for hurricane relief. This request came on the heels of a respected report from Columbia University economist Joseph E. Stiglitz (former chief economist of the World Bank) and Harvard lecturer Linda Bilmes that estimated the ultimate cost of the Iraq war would be in excess of $2 trillion. At the same time, all recent polls show that the majority of Americans now want the US to withdraw from Iraq.
The “Walkin’ to New Orleans” coalition that is planning the five-day march, which will be exclusively veterans, military families, and hurricane survivors, estimates that over 100 people will walk the entire march, with hundreds more from surrounding communities walking sections of it. They have even set up a web site explaining “the connection to spending on an illegal war and the destruction of social services and disaster relief at home,” at www.vetgulfmarch.org.
“There are two simultaneous crimes being committed here,” says Dave Cline, president of national Veterans For Peace, “and we’re going to highlight the single perpetrator.”
Contact: Paul Robinson, 251-604-1837 or Virginia Rodino, 443-996-5915.
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C/o VFP * 216 South Meramec Ave. * St. Louis, MO * 63105 *
www.vetgulfmarch.org
Latest News
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=5881
February 16th, 2006 9:10 pm
WAR VETS AND STORM SURVIVORS PLAN EPIC MARCH
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
C/o VFP * 216 South Meramec Ave. * St. Louis, MO * 63105 *
www.vetgulfmarch.org
WAR VETS AND STORM SURVIVORS PLAN EPIC MARCH
February 13, 2006 – Veterans For Peace, the turbulent new Iraq Veterans Against the War, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, and Gold Star Families for Peace – all national organizations demanding a US withdrawal from Iraq – will march with hurricane survivors, beginning March 14, 2006, from the historic Stone Street Baptist Church in Mobile for five days, through three states down coastal Highway 90, and arrive in New Orleans on March 19, the third anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. They are demanding not only an end to the Iraq war, but a large increase in resources to the Gulf Coast, with those resources being placed under “democratic control by the actual survivors, along with an unconditional ‘right of return’.”
“If we can build cities in the desert to wage war on foreigners, why can’t we rebuild the cities of the Gulf Coast for justice?” asks Paul Robinson, president of the Mobile, Alabama Chapter (#130) of Veterans For Peace. For months now, since Hurricane Katrina devastated the coastlines of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, Robinson has been heavily involved in relief and reconstruction efforts, with little response from the federal government. So Robinson put out a call for national antiwar organizations to come to the Gulf Coast to “make the connection between a $2 trillion war and the negligence of the same administration in addressing the needs of disaster victims.”
“Dr. King once said that every bomb dropped over Vietnam explodes in Harlem,” says Vivian Felts, director of the Mobile-based hurricane relief organization Saving Ourselves (SOS). “We are saying that every bomb released over Iraq is exploding from Mobile to New Orleans. And that’s where we will walk.”
On February 2, 2006, the Bush administration indicated it would ask Congress for an additional $120 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but only $18 billion for hurricane relief. This request came on the heels of a respected report from Columbia University economist Joseph E. Stiglitz (former chief economist of the World Bank) and Harvard lecturer Linda Bilmes that estimated the ultimate cost of the Iraq war would be in excess of $2 trillion. At the same time, all recent polls show that the majority of Americans now want the US to withdraw from Iraq.
The “Walkin’ to New Orleans” coalition that is planning the five-day march, which will be exclusively veterans, military families, and hurricane survivors, estimates that over 100 people will walk the entire march, with hundreds more from surrounding communities walking sections of it. They have even set up a web site explaining “the connection to spending on an illegal war and the destruction of social services and disaster relief at home,” at www.vetgulfmarch.org.
“There are two simultaneous crimes being committed here,” says Dave Cline, president of national Veterans For Peace, “and we’re going to highlight the single perpetrator.”
Contact: Paul Robinson, 251-604-1837 or Virginia Rodino, 443-996-5915.
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C/o VFP * 216 South Meramec Ave. * St. Louis, MO * 63105 *
www.vetgulfmarch.org
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