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DESCRIPTION:In the next few months, the US military intends to send 17,000 new soldiers 
 to Afghanistan. This will increase by one half the size of their hugely 
 unpopular occupation. Vice President Joe Biden himself has gone on the 
 record to say he expects an “uptick” in American deaths in Afghanistan. 
 The CIA and US military have begun bombing civilians in, and even sending 
 in ground troops into, Pakistan, to much popular opposition from the 
 Pakistani people. The current administration is already preparing to 
 escalate and spread military campaign further into Pakistan.\n\nIn the 
 meantime, while Obama talks about removing “combat troops” from Iraq, 
 there is no intention to end the occupation of Iraq by dismantling the US 
 military bases. Only approximately half of the US soldiers in Iraq will be 
 removed under this plan, because the rest are not considered “combat 
 troops.”\n\nIn the past year, a record number of us have lost our homes 
 and jobs as the economy collapses, yet the US government continues to waste 
 our resources in the Military Industrial Complex, making a very small 
 number of rich war profiteers even richer. Some of these war profiteers, 
 set to make huge sums of money off of the increase in American and Afghani 
 deaths, are located right here in Western Washington State. It is time we 
 foreclose the war profiteers rather than the working class.\n\nThe General 
 Dynamics Land System (GDLS) corporation has been awarded a contract to 
 repair military Strykers to send back to occupy Iraq and Afghanistan. The 
 warehouse housing these spare parts is located in Auburn, WA. GDLS' net 
 revenue in 2008 was $29.3 billion, 69% of their net sales coming from the 
 US government! We intend to SHUT DOWN the War Machine, to do everything we 
 can to stop the surge from leaving the United States.\n\nTo this end, we 
 are calling for a day of coordinated, non-violent civil disobedience and 
 direct action to blockade the GDLS facility in Auburn.\n\nPlease attend an 
 information meeting in Olympia, WA, on April 5th 2009 at 1 PM to discuss 
 this plan, our strategy, and building a strong movement to end these wars 
 and occupations.\n\nThe meeting will be at Capitol Theater Offices: 416 
 Washington St. (Between 4th and State, Next to the Painted Plate). Room 208 
 on the 2nd Floor.\n\nEnd BOTH Occupations\n\nForeclose the War 
 Machine—Direct Action to Stop the Surge\n\nNo administration will end 
 these wars—We, the people, need to end them.\n\n-the North West 
 Anti-Imperialist Direct Action Coalition\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/03/28/18584161.php
SUMMARY:Foreclose the War Machine - A Direct Action Coordinating Meeting in Olympia, WA
LOCATION:Olympia, WA. April 5th. 1 PM.\n\nThe meeting will be at Capitol Theater 
 Offices: 416 Washington St. (Between 4th and State, Next to the Painted 
 Plate). Room 208 on the 2nd Floor.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/03/28/18584161.php
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