Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition
POB 20085 Toledo, Ohio 43620
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Mary Anthony 419-367-4586; Mike Ferner 729-7273
OCCUPATION PROJECT RETURNS TO REP. MARCY KAPTUR’S OFFICE
At 9:30 a.m., Wednesday, February 21, members of the NW Ohio Peace Coalition (NWOPC) will make good on their promise to return to Representative Marcy Kaptur’s office to see if she has signed the pledge they delivered to her staff last week, to vote against the Bush administration’s $93,000,000,000 “supplemental” request to continue funding the war in Iraq.
The group promised that if she did not sign a pledge within five days to vote against further war funding they would return “…with plans to stay until it is signed.”
Mary Anthony, a member of Military Families Speak Out who has a son serving a second tour of duty in the Middle East, said, “This cause is deeply personal to me. We are here today to ask Ms. Kaptur to sign a pledge to cut off the money, stop the war, and bring our troops home. There are currently enough funds available from the spending bill passed by Congress last fall to bring our troops home quickly and safely, with all the supplies, armor, vehicles, ammunition, food and water they need.”
Anthony said she knows Congresswoman Kaptur is in Iraq “but she has had enough time to make this decision. We hope she will have signed the pledge to cut off the money and stop the war, but if not, we are prepared to politely but firmly interrupt business as usual at her office by reading the names of U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians who have been killed. If an apartment were on fire across the street we would bang on every door and interrupt whatever the neighbors were doing and not feel bad about it. That’s exactly what we’re doing but on a much bigger scale.”
The NWOPC’s visit to Kaptur’s office is part of the “Occupation Project,” which is organizing similar actions in local congressional offices in over 20 states in an effort to cut off the money and stop the war.
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