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DESCRIPTION:Please bring your friends, family members, neighbors and co-workers to the 
 San Francisco protest on Saturday July 9, 2011, to demand “Stop the 
 Bombing of Libya!” There will be a joint action that day in Washington, 
 D.C. in front of the White House.\n\nContrary to the absurd argument that 
 the bombing of Libya does not constitute a “hostility,” this is fierce 
 and illegal war aimed at carrying out regime change in the country that 
 possesses the largest oil reserves in Africa and the ninth largest in the 
 world.\n\nHundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in Tripoli on June 
 17 against the U.S./NATO bombing and the terrible toll it has taken on the 
 people, economy and infrastructure of Libya. Of course, you didn’t see 
 any coverage of this huge demonstration in the corporate media. That 
 massive outpouring of humanity undoubtedly included many people who have 
 grievances against the current Libyan government. But the people of 
 Tripoli, like people everywhere, stand together against bombing by foreign 
 powers in pursuit of an imperial agenda. Libyans want peace and they must 
 be free to determine their own destiny.\n\nThe people of the United States 
 are adding their voice of opposition on Saturday, July 9 in San Francisco 
 and at the White House. By a margin of 2-to-1, the American people oppose 
 this illegal and criminal war. There is no such thing as a 
 “humanitarian” cruise missile. The U.S. government is spending $10 
 million a day bombing Libya while it bombs Afghanistan and still occupies 
 Iraq with 47,000 troops.\n\nIn the name of “protecting civilians” NATO 
 is killing civilians—and describing them as “legitimate military 
 targets.”\n\nOn June 20, for instance, NATO and the Pentagon pummeled the 
 birthday party of a four-year-old boy with heavy missiles. They killed 16 
 civilians, including the four-year-old and his mom, as well as other 
 children and their parents. The four-year-old was the grandson of Khweldi 
 el-Hamedi, an associate of Colonel Gaddafi who participated in the 1969 
 coup that overthrew the old monarchy.\n\nNATO is killing the civilian 
 family members of the Libyan government in an attempt to break the will of 
 those they have targeted for destruction and overthrow. The Pentagon used 
 the same type of tactic in the 1991 Iraq war.\n\nAt a time when the U.S. 
 government says that it is broke and that tens of thousands of teachers and 
 nurses and other workers are being fired because of the “budget 
 crisis,” there seems to be limitless funds for war, bombing, invasion and 
 occupation.\n\nPlease join us Saturday, July 9!\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/06/27/18683093.php
SUMMARY:PROTEST: Stop Bombing Libya!
LOCATION:Powell and Market Sts. \n(at Powell St. BART)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/06/27/18683093.php
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