[IMC-Boston-Dispatch] MFSO: SENATOR KERRY TO APPEAR today IN CAMBRIDGE

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From: "Joseph G. Ramse" <joseph.ramsey at tufts.edu>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:24:52 -0500
Subject: [BostonMarch20] URGENT- SENATOR KERRY TO APPEAR today IN CAMBRIDGE MA FRIDAY MARCH
 10

          
  Please see the Military Families Speak Out message below, forward 
  widely and come out to put the heat on Kerry this evening if you can.  
  While MFSO, IVAW, and VFP are coordinating a last minute protest, other 
  activists should come out as well.  Let's call him out in public 
  tonight.
  
  Joe
  -- 
  Joe Ramsey
  PhD. candidate in English
  Tufts University
  Instructor of Literature
  
  
  "Every tool is a weapon if you hold it  right"                            
                   -Ani DiFranco
  
  "Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even 
  though the thing one is fighting is abominable."     -Michel Foucault
  
  
  
  Dear Military Families in Massachusetts and Neighboring States
  
  Tomorrow (Friday, March 10) John Kerry will make a personal appearance 
  at the Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street in Cambridge, MA 
  (near Harvard Square) at 5:45 p.m. for a "meet and greet" with a group 
  called "Harvard Democrats". WE WOULD LIKE TO FORM A GREETING PARTY  OF 
  MILITARY FAMILIES SPEAK OUT, IRAQ VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR and VETERANS 
  FOR PEACE WITH OUR SIGNS, PICTURES OF OUR LOVED ONES AND OUR PERSONAL 
  MESSAGES ABOUT WHAT SENATOR KERRY COULD AND SHOULD BE DOING TO END THE 
  WAR,  BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW, AND TAKE CARE OF THEM WHEN THEY GET 
  HERE.
  
  As you know, a group of MFSO members and a member of Iraq Veterans 
  Against the War met with Senator Kerry last week in Washington, D.C. It 
  was a repeat of the meeting we had with him in September, 2005. In 
  September he said to us: 'give me two months -- if things haven't 
  changed after the vote on the Constitution in Iraq in October and the 
  election in December -- I'll be right with you.' When we met with him 
  last week he said.....'give me six to eight weeks. The installation of 
  the new government has to kick into place...." We told him there aren't 
  two more months in a war based on lies; there aren't two more months 
  for an untold numbers of troops and Iraqi children, women and men who 
  are in harm's way right now.
  
  He told us that if there was civil war in Iraq and we walked away, we 
  would have blood on our hands. We told him this nation has blood on its 
  hands now; that our troops aren't there preventing civil war -- that 
  the occupation of Iraq is part of the problem, not the solution.
  
  The bottom line is that Senator Kerry does not feel sufficient pressure 
  yet to do the right thing and speak out to end this war. We believe 
  military families, Iraq Veterans and Veterans from Vietnam and other 
  conflicts have an important role to play now in encouraging Senator 
  Kerry to show some leadership. He, along with many Members of Congress 
  and Senators, is too comfortable ducking and covering. Senator Kerry 
  should have to face us, to look us in the eyes -- as often as possible!
  
  WE WILL GATHER AT 79 JFK STREET AT 5 P.M. WITH OUR BANNERS, SIGNS, 
  PICTURES AND SELVES. Please let us know if you will be able to join 
  this "welcoming" contingent -- send us an email to mfso at mfso.org asap.
  
  Sorry for the late notice here, but we just found out about this!
  
  In Peace and Solidarity,
  Nancy Lessin and Charley Richardson
  for Military Families Speak Out
  www.mfso.org
  www.bringthemhomenow.org
  
  
  
  
  
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                      Dear Military Families in   Massachusetts and Neighboring States
     
  Tomorrow  (Friday, March 10) John Kerry will make a personal appearance at the  Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street in Cambridge, MA (near  Harvard Square) at 5:45 p.m. for a "meet and greet" with a group called  "Harvard Democrats". WE WOULD LIKE TO FORM A GREETING  PARTY  OF MILITARY FAMILIES SPEAK OUT, IRAQ VETERANS AGAINST THE  WAR and VETERANS FOR PEACE WITH OUR SIGNS, PICTURES OF OUR LOVED ONES  AND OUR PERSONAL MESSAGES ABOUT WHAT SENATOR KERRY COULD AND SHOULD BE  DOING TO END THE WAR,  BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW, AND TAKE CARE OF  THEM WHEN THEY GET HERE.
   
  As  you know, a group of MFSO members and a member of Iraq Veterans  Against the War met with Senator Kerry last week in Washington, D.C. It  was a repeat of the meeting we had with him in September, 2005. In  September he said to us: 'give me two months -- if things haven't  changed after the vote on the Constitution in Iraq in October and the  election in December -- I'll be right with you.' When we met with him  last week he said.....'give me six to eight weeks. The installation of  the new government has to kick into place...." We told him there aren't  two more months in a war based on lies; there aren't two more months  for an untold numbers of troops and Iraqi children, women and men who  are in harm's way right now.
   
  He  told us that if there was civil war in Iraq and we walked away, we  would have blood on our hands. We told him this nation has blood on its  hands now; that our troops aren't there preventing civil war -- that  the occupation of Iraq is part of the problem, not the solution.
   
  The  bottom line is that Senator Kerry does not feel sufficient pressure yet  to do the right thing and speak out to end this war. We believe  military families, Iraq Veterans and Veterans from Vietnam and other  conflicts have an important role to play now in encouraging  Senator Kerry to show some leadership. He, along with many Members of  Congress and Senators, is too comfortable ducking and covering.  Senator Kerry should have to face us, to look us in the eyes -- as  often as possible!
   
  WE  WILL GATHER AT 79 JFK STREET AT 5 P.M. WITH OUR BANNERS, SIGNS,  PICTURES AND SELVES. Please let us know if you will be able to join  this "welcoming" contingent -- send us an email to mfso at mfso.org asap.
   
  Sorry for the late notice here, but we just found out about this!
   
  In Peace and Solidarity,
  Nancy Lessin and Charley Richardson
  for Military Families Speak Out
  www.mfso.org
  www.bringthemhomenow.org
   
   
   
   



			
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