HURRICANE CARE, NOT WARFARE RECRUITMENT!!; FRI SEPT 23

FRI SEPT 23
4pm: Speak Out & Performances
Street Theatre, Spoken Word, Hip Hop & Samba,
Destiny Arts, Art in Action and more!
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
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MAKE ART, TAKE ACTION!
If you want to support the upcoming action
and/or participate in nonviolent civil disobedience
take note of the dates:

***Saturday, September 17th ****
ART BUILD FOR THE ACTION
3 – 6pm
Come make banners and signs
in the picnic area by the Berkeley Art Center
1275 Walnut St. in Live Oak Park (across the creek from Levana’s
“house”)
North Berkeley. Veggie BBQ – bring something to throw on the grill!
Directions: From Downtown Berkeley, go north on Shattuck till it
appears to end, turn right on Rose, then left right away on Walnut and go
down about a block. You will see the Berkeley Art Center on your right.


***Sunday, September 18th***
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE PLANNING MEETING
6 – 8pm
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
344 40th Street between Broadway and Shafter, Oakland


***Thursday, September 22nd***
If you plan on risking arrest, please come to the nonviolent direct action
training and orientation.
NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION TRAINING & ORIENTATION
7 – 9pm, Nonviolent Direct Action and People Power training
The Spot, 1629 Telegraph Ave. between 16th and 17th, 5th floor


HELP TO SPREAD THE WORD!
DISTRIBUTE POSTCARDS FOR THE ACTION – THIS WEEK
Pick up at the Sat Artbuild(above), Destiny Arts (Beginning Monday)or
download
from website: http://www.CourageToResist.org
3900 Telegraph between 40th and MacArthur
Beebe Memorial Cathedral
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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.
By supporting counter recruitment, GI resistance and draft resistance, we can
strategically cut off the supply of compliant troops. This action supports
these people power campaigns that are key to the resurgent movement to
stop the
Iraq war and occupation, and policies of empire behind it.

While over 200 billion a year of our money is spent on the Iraq war and
occupation, money was cut from flood control projects that could have
helped
avert much of the disaster. Large numbers of National Guard troops that might
have helped are in Iraq. The resources that are spent for hurricane care
dwarf
next to that wasted on warfare. We're working to uproot the system behind the
Iraq war in the Persian Gulf and the government made disaster in the Gulf
Coast. It is time to replace racism and poverty with economic and racial
justice!

Recruiters grow desperate 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 communities 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.

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 a safe zone for those not risking arrest.
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From A Nation Rocked To Sleep/
For Casey Sheehan

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?

By Carly Sheehan

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People Power Can End the War Collective
An ad hoc group 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.

Supported by: Veterans for Peace-Chapter 69, Central Committee of
Conciencious
Objectors, Courage to Resist, Art in Action, , Naked Souls Artist
Alliance,
Mother Speak, Fr. Louis Vitale