Valentine's Day Rally Announcement

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VALENTINE’S DAY RALLY!!

MILITARISM AND PRISONS
BREAKING OUR HEARTS, BREAKING OUR BUDGET
Friday, February 14, 2003
Frank Ogawa Plaza, 14th and Broadway
Art-making, performers, information tables: 3-4PM
4-5PM March:
5-6PM Rally and Performers at Frank Ogawa Plaza

Planning Meeting Monday, February 10, 5PM, Mosswood Recreation Center, Macarthur and Broadway

Endorsed by the Oakland Education Association, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Bay Area United Against War, Bay Area Labor for Peace and Justice, Californians for Justice, University of Creation Spirituality, People United for a Better Oakland (PUEBLO), Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, Socialist Organizer, Lake Merrit Neighbors Organized for Peace, African People’s Solidarity Committee, The Organizer Newspaper Prison Focus, Women for Peace, Critical Resistance, Books not Bars, United for Peace, Middle Eastern Children’s Alliance, Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center, All People's Coalition Against U.S. Terror and Occupation, Justice Now, Prison Activist Resource Center, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Bay Area Police Watch, Kids First, Global Exchange, Youth Together, East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, American Friends Service Committee

WE NEED:
1. Your Organization's Endorsement: Send them to Jonah Zern at 510.654.8613 or jzern1 [at] yahoo.com
2. Speakers and Performers. Contact: David Laub at 556.6999 or Caitlin Funk, (h) 925.458.6884, caitlinfunk [at] hotmail.com
3. OUTREACH HELP!! Please distribute information to members of your organization, listservs, calendars, etc. We need your help copying and distributing the flyers we designed, and your creativity and energy in making your own!! Ask for a flyer by e-mailing jzern1 [at] yahoo.com


Stop Militarism Abroad and at Home:
1. Cut funding for prisons and military
2. Stop the war on Iraq
3. Stop attacks on immigrants and youth
4. Defend civil liberties
Tax Corporate Wealth to Fund Our Social Services:
1. No cuts in education
2. No cuts to libraries, recreations centers, and public services.
3. Fund Medicaid and other essential social services

The United States is the wealthiest nation in the world, why can’t it provide all its students and equitable and quality education?

In Fiscal Year 2003 federal spending for military will be double the total of local, state and federal
education spending; Communities of color are more likely to die in war: While Black people represent 10% of the U.S. population, they represent 20% of the U.S. military
Source: Education Spending: Heritage Foundation; Military Spending: War Resisters League
Source: Military Personnel: Center for Defense Information

The total number of inmates in local, state and federal prisons has quadrupled in the past 20 years to more than two million. Communities of color are often targeted: One of every four African-American males between the ages of 20 and 29 is in jail, prison, or on probation or parole; In California children of color are 6.2 times more likely that white youth to be charged with crimes

Source: Platt: Social Justice Journal, 2002