“Five Years Too Many!”
Take Action in the Nation’s Capitol and Around the Country! [2]
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
The Declaration of Peace endorses and encourages your participation in the nonviolent actions that are being organized in Washington, D.C. and across the country during the 5th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
The Declaration of Peace will be sending out a series of e-mails focused on these nonviolent actions to help you prepare for and participate in these important events.
This is the first of these seven weekly “5 Years Too Many” e-mails.
Look for future e-mails every Friday morning.
March 19, 2008 will mark the beginning of the 6th year of the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
5 Years of War and Occupation is 5 Years Too Many!
Take Action in the Nation’s Capitol on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 [3]
United for Peace and Justice [4] calls for creative, nonviolent acts of resistance to the war in Washington, D.C., to interrupt business as usual for those promoting and profiting from war and empire building. Focusing on the pillars of war, our actions will take place at multiple sites, demonstrating the real costs of war and offering visions for a more just and sustainable world, a world at peace.
Five years of war and occupation in Iraq … at what cost?
- Iraq in shambles with 650,000 to 1 million Iraqis dead or wounded, 4 million displaced, families and communities ripped apart.
- Nearly 4,000 U.S. military personnel killed and over 30,000 wounded, many then neglected by our government. All the while U.S. corporations reap huge profits as they plan to control Iraq’s oil.
- Over $1.2 trillion spent on death and destruction, while at home millions of uninsured have no access to affordable healthcare, public infrastructure is collapsing, the home mortgage crisis is growing, and unemployment is rising.
- Addiction to petroleum contributing to extreme climate changes and continued abuses of our natural environment, with corporate greed protected.
- Torture, illegal surveillance, and erosion of civil liberties. A criminal administration with a Congress and judiciary no longer offering adequate checks and balances. The Constitution, with its articles of impeachment, rendered irrelevant and disregarded.
- And now threats of an attack on Iran and escalation of the U.S. military operation in Afghanistan. False claims of weapons of mass destruction, while all along the WMDs have been right here in the U.S.A.
This Is Our Time to Respond. —- We Will Not Be Silent!
Join the Nonviolent Actions in Washington, D.C. [5]
March 19th Local Actions Throughout the Country
We encourage those who are not able to make it to Washington on March 19th to organize local actions. These actions may vary in location or character, but, they will all be tied to the protest in Washington and all sending a message to the policy makers: It is time to end this war and occupation!
United by common demands and organizing principles, groups and individuals are encouraged to participate in nonviolent mass actions and/or organize their own actions in coordination with others.
There could be sit-ins, die-ins, blockades, pray-ins, bike blockades, street theater, poetry readings, puppets, speak-outs and more at government agencies, war profiteers, corporate media, military recruitment centers, or other pillars of war and empire in D.C. and across the country.
Unleash Your Imagination!
Join the Nonviolent Actions in Washington, D.C. [6]
Start organizing affinity groups and local meetings now.
For more information about the D.C. actions on March 19th, see: http://www.5yearstoomany.org [7]
or e-mail dc@5yearstoomany.org