Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Time: 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: 200 S Dearborn
The U.S. war in Afghanistan is over 8 years old and a certified disaster for Afghani civilians and Western troops alike. Despite an anti-war majority in the United States, the Obama administration is now getting set to send tens of thousands more troops and urging already reluctant allies to do the same.
Besides causing more death and destruction, this surge will only reinforce Afghanis’ legitimate hatred of the decades of foreign domination that their country has endured. Billions that might have gone for healthcare, jobs, education and housing both in the U.S. and Afghanistan will once again be sucked into the military budget vortex, with Obama escalating the record military spending of the previous administration.
Like another foreign occupation about a half century ago in Vietnam, a corrupt local government awash in the drugs trade will do the bidding not of its own people, but of a foreign government thousands of miles away.
We call on all Chicago area people to join in an Emergency Response Protest on the day after President Obama announces the troop surge into Afghanistan with the demands:
Bring all the troops home now! Funding for human needs, not war!
5 PM – Wednesday, December 2nd Corner of Dearborn and Adams Streets, Chicago
An additional, follow up protest will also be held at 12 noon, Federal Plaza on Saturday, December 5th
Current endorsers of these actions include:
8th Day Center for Justice
Albany Park, North Park, Mayfair Neighbors for Peace and Justice
American Friends Service Committee
ANSWER Chicago
Chicago Area CodePINK
Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism
Chicago Committee to Bring the Troops Home Now
Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights
Chicago Copwatch
Chicago Democratic Socialists of America
Chicago Labor Against the War
Chicago Socialist Party
Chicago World Can’t Wait
Committee on Pilipino Issues (CPI)
Cook County Green Party
Gay Liberation Network
Generations for Peace
Hugh Spector
International Socialist Organization
International Solidarity Movement - Chicago
Logan Square Neighbors for Justice and Peace
Near West Citizens for Peace and Justice
Neighbors for Peace
News and Letters Committees
Nicaragua Solidarity Committee
North Shore Coalition for Justice, Peace and the Environment
Northwest Suburban Peace & Education Project
Pax Christi St. Gertrude
Peace Pledge
Southsiders for Peace
Tikkun Community-Chicago Chapter
US Marxist-Humanists
We Are Change Chicago
Workers World Party
