WHAT IS THE NOBLE CAUSE
OF WAR FOR EMPIRE?

No Recruitment, No Draft.
Support GI Resisters: An Army of None!

FRI SEPT 23
4pm: Speak Out & Performances
Chevron Gas Station
Telegraph Ave and Grand Ave, Oakland (19th St. BART)

5pm: March, Demonstrate and Nonviolent Direct Action
Armed Forces Recruiting Center
2116 Broadway, btwn 21/22nd Sts

"As long as our young people are being lied to and used so dishonorably
in an unjust invasion and occupation of another country; as long as they are
fighting for a corrupt government...as long as they are being sent to kill
innocent people; military service should be opposed. Let's affirm life in
the fullest for everybody: the unfortunate, uncounted people living Iraq
who are "acceptable" collateral damage to the war hawks, and our own
indispensable loved ones. The only way to support our troops is to bring
them home from this mess --now."
Cindy Sheehan, Gold Star Families for Peace

"Have you heard the name of the little girl Hannan Salih Matrud? Or of
the boy Ahmad Jabir Karim? Or Sa'id Shabram? Yes, our dead have names
too. They have faces and stories and memories. ... They had a tomorrow
awaiting them. But today they sleep among us with no tomorrow on which
to wake. Stop your war against our people! Stop the daily killing that your
troops commit! End your occupation of our homeland!"
Iman al-Saadun, Iraqi woman

This action supports people power campaigns that are building to stop the
Iraq war and occupation, and policies of empire behind it. If the
government won’t listen to the people, we will stop the war ourselves by
organizing campaigns to remove the pillars of support on which the war
depends; troops, corporate profiteers and corporate media. We're working
to uproot the system behind the war, to replace racism and poverty with
economic and racial justice!

Supporting counter recruitment, GI resistance and draft resistance is key
to stopping the war. Recruiters grow desparate as more civilians,
especially African-Americans and women, are refusing to enlist. At the
same time, more and more enlisted soldiers are refusing to fight this war
for empire.

Recruiters are intensifying their campaign of lies upon our youth, and
especially on working-class neighborhoods and communitites of color. Over
$185 million a day goes to maintain the occupation of Iraq,
while here in California money goes into prisons instead of schools.
Here, working class youth and youth of color are told "you can go into the
military or to jail," and then once enlisted, soldiers refusing to kill
are imprisoned.

"All of the politicians that want to fight a war are free to trade
places with me at any time. I will gladly learn war no more."
Sgt. Kevin Benderman, serving 15 months in military prison for
refusing to fight in Iraq

How can we step up our support for youth to find alternatives to the
military, for those already enlisted who are refusing orders to kill or
going AWOL, and for Iraqis who are fighting for their lives under U.S.
occupation? Please join us on the 23rd, spread the word and bring your
friends. There will be arrestable and nonarrestable ways to participate.
If you plan on risking arrest, please come to the nonviolent direct
action/civil disobedience preparation training.

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Training for Nonviolent Direct Action/People Power Strategy to Stop the War
Saturday September 10: Power to the Peaceful, Speedway Meadow, Golden
Gate Park, SF: 12 noon and 2pm Locat tba
Sunday September 18, eve time and location tba
Thursday September 22, 6pm location tba

Artmaking for the Action (with Art in Action):
Saturday September 10: Power to the Peaceful, Speedway Meadow, Golden Gate Park,
SF exact
location tba
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Have you ever heard the sound of taps played at your brother's grave?
They say he died so the flag will continue to wave,
But I believe he died because they had oil to save.
Have you ever heard the sound of taps played at your brother's grave?

Have you ever heard the sound of a Nation Rocked to Sleep?
The leaders want to keep you numb so the pain won't be so deep,
But if we the people let them continue, another mother will weep.
Have you ever heard the sound of a Nation Rocked to Sleep?

From A Nation Rocked To Sleep/For Casey Sheehan
By Carly Sheehan

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People Power Can End the War Collective
An ad hoc collective of youth, students, people of faith, veterans,
military families and counter recruitment and military resistance support
organizations working to support people power strategy to end the war and
occupation.
strategyproject [at] riseup.net