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DESCRIPTION:"No Thanks Bechtel!"\n\n...for the Iraq war\n...for undermining 
 democracy\n...for sick Iraqi children\n...for destruction of the 
 environment\n...for nuclear weapons\n\nJoin us! Wednesday, Sept 27, 4:00 
 PM\nBechtel Corporate Headquaters, 50 Beale St, San Francisco\nHalf a block 
 east from Embarcadero BART\n\nPlease join us for a mock thank-you ceremony 
 in which we say "no thanks" to top war profiteer Bechtel Corporation. We 
 will be presenting cards and flowers to Bechtel for its various 
 less-than-great deeds. Participants are asked to dress in business-casual 
 attire (if they wish) and can expect to see flowers, balloons, and colorful 
 graphics. Speakers will discuss Bechtel and participants can expect to 
 learn about the corporation and what we can do to put an end to war and war 
 profiteering.\n\nNo civil disobedience or risk of arrest is planned for 
 this event.\n\nBechtel Corporation is the second-greatest profiteer from 
 the war in Iraq, coming in just behind Halliburton. They are the builder 
 and/or manager of most of the world's nuclear facilities, and the world's 
 largest construction company. And their international corporate 
 headquarters are right here in downtown San Francisco.\n\nBechtel's top 
 executives maintain a revolving door into the government. They go from 
 being corporate executives to being high-level government officials, then 
 go back to cushy positions at the top of the corporation. Bechtel 
 Corporation profits from this arrangement in the form of lucrative 
 government contracts being dropped into its lap. \n\nFrom their high-level 
 government offices, Bechtel execs such as Jack Sheehan, George Schultz, and 
 CEO Riley Bechtel advised President Bush to invade Iraq, provided the 
 ideological basis for it, and even gave advice to the Pentagon on how to 
 wage war. Afterwards Bechtel made a fortune squandering taxpayer money to 
 rebuild the same facilities it had advised the military to bomb. \n\nThe 
 American people deserve better than this. We together can declare peace, 
 and stop wars and war profiteers like Bechtel. We demand this corrupt 
 behavior be put to a halt. We demand a better world.\n\nThis event is part 
 of a week of events being planned in coordination with Declaration of 
 Peace. The week of events will be Sept 21-29 and is the culmination of a 
 national campaign to call upon Congress to act with moral authority to end 
 the war. Since early this year, people all over the country have been 
 lobbying their Senators and Representatives to enact meaningful legislation 
 that includes eight steps to end the war and occupation, and prevent future 
 wars in the Middle East.\n\nFor more info on Declaration of Peace, 
 including a full calendar of events, please visit:\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/14/18311740.php
SUMMARY:DECLARE Peace @ War Profiteer HQ, "No Thanks Bechtel!"
LOCATION:50 Beale St, San Francisco. Half a block from Embarcadero BART, walk east 
 down Beale St from Market St
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/14/18311740.php
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