Students and youth: Join the Youth Anti-War March / Funk the War Dance Party

[annm4peace]

*THIS SATURDAY, MARCH 21ST ...
On the 6th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, join us for a rally and
march to demand:*

*END THE OCCUPATIONS OF IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN
BRING TROOPS HOME NOW!
MONEY FOR HUMAN NEEDS
FUND Jobs, Education, Housing, Veterans' Benefits, and Health Care - NOT
WARS!
MILITARY RECRUITERS OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS*

Saturday, March 21st
Students and youth: Join the Youth Anti-War March / Funk the War Dance Party
Meet up @ 11am outside Central High School, corner of Marshall & Lexington
in St. Paul
Bring drums, instruments, and your voices and be ready to make some noise!!!
Organized by Youth Against War and Racism and Macalester Students for a
Democratic Society
Contact: [email protected] / 617-599-3026
On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=54274756187
www.yawr.org

We'll be marching to ...
Citywide Anti-War Rally
Starting at noon at MLK Park, 270 Kent St., St. Paul
Main march starts at 12:30pm, to the State Capitol
(Main march and rally sponsored by the Iraq Peace Action Coalition and over
a dozen groups throughout the Twin Cities)

---------------------------------

*Why We're Protesting on the 6th Anniversary*

March 21 marks 6 years since the brutal U.S. invasion of Iraq. It comes at a
time when there are massive hopes all over the world that President Obama
will reverse Bush’s foreign policy and inaugurate a new era of peace.

Yet even as Obama promises to close down Guantanamo Bay and vows to remove
combat troops from Iraq over the next 19 months, he has issued orders to
send another 17,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan to continue the bloody
occupation there, while also expanding bombings in Pakistan. Further, 50,000
troops will remain in Iraq indefinitely even under Obama’s withdrawal plan
(For more, see Jon Stewart's clip "Mess O'Potamia: The Iraq War is
Over?"-
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/stewart130309.html). And the U.S. will
continue to spend more on its military than the rest of the world combined,
and $4 billion a year on recruiting youth, who have fewer and fewer options
in this time of economic crisis, as cannon fodder for these unjust wars.

We say: not another dollar, not another day, not another death for the wars
for oil and empire in Iraq and Afghanistan!

It is our job to pressure the politicians to end the occupations of Iraq and
Afghanistan – leaving not a single soldier or military contractor behind –
and redirect the money currently spent on the military toward human needs,
like providing decent jobs, housing, and a good education for all. On March
21st, we are taking to the streets to show our solidarity with the people of
Iraq and Afghanistan and all those around the world who want peace and a
better world, free from the fear of having bombs rain down upon their
families courtesy of the world’s largest military superpower.