[IMC-Boston-Dispatch] 02/25: 4000 dead Tuesday vigil at Park Street, 5-6pm

[Sofia JarrinT]

Abby Yanow <abbyyanow at hotmail.com> wrote: To: <smujp at yahoogroups.com>
From: Abby Yanow <abbyyanow at hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:51:00 +0000
Subject: [SMUJP] 4000 dead   Tuesday vigil at Park Street, 5-6pm

                                
 Dear all,

There will be a solemn  event tomorrow evening, Tuesday, to note the fact that despite widespread opposition to the war, we have reached a new milestone: the death of the 4,000th U.S. service person in Iraq in this criminal war. We will also the focus on this milestone to remind people of the fact that more than 1 million Iraqis have died already and more die each day. 

Meet at the Park Street  T-station, from 5-6 PM. We will form a single line of people near the subway and along Tremont. Signs to say “4,000”.

UfPJ is calling nationally for vigils Tuesday night. Some other national organizations are calling as well for phone calls to Congress, to bring the troops home.  The Congressional switchboard is 1-202-224-3121

Paul Shannon/AFSC is preparing a press release for the Boston region media. Meanwhile we’ve made the following – and other  - comments to the press.
We had hoped to stop this war before the 4000th US service person dead had been reached.  4000 dead is important – but it is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of the terrible impact this war is having on our society. There are more than 40,000 service people wounded, their families are overwhelmed.  And the Iraq Veterans Against the War testified last week in Silver Spring Maryland to their on the ground experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan – and are visibly suffering from the brutal and deadly acts which they have seen and committed, and from our loss of any moral center.  This is a brutal occupation in Iraq; not a helping hand! It is hugely important to get their story out in the media, and in Congress. They are asking to testify in Congressional hearings.

Iraq is devastated.  There are over a million dead.  One half of the entire Iraqi population is in need of emergency care, displaced, wounded or dead.  Much of their infrastructure is destroyed.
 
We need to Bring our Troops home now – not allow a long term occupation, as the Bush administration is pushing for.  And we need to stop an attack on Iran.


 

 
     
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