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<p style="background-color: transparent;
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0px; vertical-align: baseline;">During the Vietnam
War, Martin Luther King called our government “the
greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.”
True then—and even more so today.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A few years before
that, in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/12/02/18631228.php"
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102,
204);">1964 Mario Savio</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>made his
great speech at Berkeley; at the end he says,
“There is a time when the operation of the machine
becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart,
that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively
take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon
the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers,
upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it
stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who
run it, to the people who own it, that unless
you’re free, the machine will be prevented from
working at all!”</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There are children
being orphaned, maimed or killed every day, in our
name, with our tax dollars; there are soldiers and
civilians dying or being maimed for life, in order
to generate profits for the most odious
imperialistic corporate war machine ever, again in
our name.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold;"><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">How
long are we going to let this go on?</em></strong><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Until it
is too late, until this destructive machine
destroys all of us and the planet to boot?</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a
href="http://wikileaks.org/"
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102,
204);">Wikileaks</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has
revealed the documented horror of U.S. war-making,
beyond what any of us imagined. It’s time veterans
and others express our resistance directly and
powerfully by putting ourselves on the line, once
again—honestly, courageously and without one drop
of apology for doing so. It is not we who are the
murderers, torturers or pillagers of the earth.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Profit and
power-hungry warmongers are destroying everything
we hold dear and sacred.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the early
thirties,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkmo4ygPTjc"
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102,
204);">WW1 vets descended on Washington, D.C</a>.,
to demand their promised bonuses, it being the
depths of the Depression. General Douglas
MacArthur and his sidekick Dwight Eisenhower
disregarded President Herbert Hoover’s order and
burned their encampment down and drove the vets
out of town at bayonet point.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We are today’s
bonus marchers, and we’re coming to claim our
bonus–PEACE.<strong style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
font-weight: bold;"></strong></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Join activist
veterans marching in solidarity to the White
House, refusing to move, demanding the end of U.S.
wars, which includes U.S. support—financial and
tactical—<a
href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article165694.html"
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102,
204);">for the Israeli war machine</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>as well.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If we can gather
enough courageous souls, nonviolently refusing to
leave the White House, willing to be dragged away
and arrested if necessary, we will send a message
that will be seen worldwide. “End these wars –
now!” We will carry forward a flame of resistance
to the war machine that will not diminish as we
effectively begin to place ourselves, as<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/12/02/18631228.php"
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102,
204);">Mario Savio</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>said,
“upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the
levers, upon all the apparatus.” and we will make
it stop.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We believe that
the power of courageous, committed people is
greater than that of corporate warmongers. But we
will only see our power when we use it
collectively, when we stand together.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">With courage,
persistence, boldness and numbers, we can
eventually make this monstrous war machine grind
to a halt, so that our children and all children
everywhere can grow up in a peaceful world.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
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0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Join us at the
White House on December 16th!</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
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0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong
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vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold;">For
a world in peace,</strong></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
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0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nic Abramson,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Veterans
For Peace</em>; Elliott Adams,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Past
President, Veterans For Peace</em>; Laurie
Arbeiter,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Activist
Response Team</em>; Ken Ashe,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Veterans
For Peace</em>; Ellen Barfield,<em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Veterans
For Peace</em>; Brian Becker,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">National
Coordinator, ANSWER Coalition</em>; Medea
Benjamin,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Co-Founder,
CODEPINK for Peace</em>; Frida Berrigan,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">War
Resisters League</em>; Bruce Berry,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Veterans
For Peace</em>; Leah Bolger,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Veterans
For Peace</em>; Elaine Brower,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Anti-war
Military Mom and World Can’t Wait</em>; Scott
Camil,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Veterans
For Peace</em>; Ross Caputi,<em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Justice
For Fallujah Project</em>; Kim Carlyle,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Veterans
For Peace</em>; Armen Chakerian,<em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Coalition
to Stop the $30 Billion to Israel</em>; Matthis
Chiroux,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Iraq
War Resister Veteran</em>; Gerry Condon,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Veterans
For Peace</em>; Will Covert,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Veterans
For Peace</em>; Dave Culver,<em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Veterans
For Peace</em>; Matt Daloisio,<span
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style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Witness
Against Torture</em>; Ellen Davidson,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">War
Resisters League</em>; Mike Ferner,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">President,
Veterans For Peace</em>; Nate Goldshlag,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Veterans
For Peace</em>; Clare Hanrahan,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">War
Crimes Times</em>; Mike Hearington,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Veterans
For Peace</em>; Mark Johnson,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Executive
Director. Fellowship of Reconciliation</em>;
Tarak Kauff,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Veterans
For Peace</em>; Kathy Kelly,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Voices
For Creative Nonviolence</em>; Sandy Kelson,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Veterans
For Peace</em>; Ron Kovic,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Vietnam
War veteran and author of<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>Born
on the Fourth of July; Joel Kovel,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Veterans
For Peace</em>; Erik Lobo,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Veterans
For Peace</em>; Joe Lombardo,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">United
National Antiwar Committee</em>; Ken Mayers,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Veterans
For Peace</em>; Nancy Munger,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Co-President,
Women’s International League for Peace and
Freedom</em>; Fred Nagel,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Veterans
For Peace</em>; Pat O’Brien,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Women’s
International League for Peace and Freedom</em>;
Bill Perry,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Vietnam
Veterans Against the War</em>; Vito Piccininno,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Veterans
For Peace</em>; Mike Prysner,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Co-Founder,
March Forward</em>; Ward Reilly,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Veterans
For Peace</em>; Laura Roskos,<em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Co-President,
Women’s International League for Peace and
Freedom</em>; Cindy Sheehan,<em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Founder,
Peace of the Action</em>; David Swanson,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">author</em>;
Debra Sweet,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">National
Director, World Can’t Wait</em>; Debbie Tolson,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Veterans
For Peace;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>Mike
Tork,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Veterans
For Peace</em>; Hart Viges,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Iraq
Veterans Against the War</em>; Father Louie
Vitale,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">SOA
Watch</em>; Jay Wenk,<em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Veterans
For Peace</em>; Linda Wiener,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Veterans
For Peace</em>; Diane Wilson,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Veterans
For Peace</em>; Col. Ann Wright,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Veterans
For Peace</em>; Doug Zachary,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Veterans
For Peace</em></p>
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<p style="background-color: transparent;
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href="http://oregonprogressivenetwork.org/actions/VFP-to-Take-a-Stand-for-Peace-at-the-White-House-Dec-16"
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<p style="background-color: transparent;
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Name:</strong><span
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Take a Stand for Peace at the White House Dec 16</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
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2010-12-16</p>
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vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold;">Location</strong>:
White House<br>
1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW<br>
WASHINGTON, DC, 20500-0003<br>
<a
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<p style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold;">Organization:</strong><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Veterans
for Peace #132</p>
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INFO:</strong><span
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href="http://www.stopthesewars.org/"
target="_blank" style="background-color:
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padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color:
rgb(0, 102, 204);">http://www.stopthesewars.org</a></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
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0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold;">Description:</strong><span
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style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold;">Come
to DC on December 16! VFP led action at the
White House</strong><strong
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</strong><br>
Comrades, Brothers and Sisters,<br>
The following sentence is critical, so please read
on.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold;">On
Dec. 16th, 2010, veterans and others will stage
what will be the largest veteran-led civil
resistance to U.S. wars in recent history.</strong><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>All of us
in Veterans For Peace need to pull together to
make sure those will not be empty words.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Many of us have
grown so used to the state of war being a constant
these past 10 years that people no longer see it
as an emergency the way they did prior to the Iraq
invasion, when millions of us turned out worldwide
to attempt to stop the oncoming war. I want us
return to seeing it as an emergency, a fire that
must be put out and one that we will put our
bodies on the line to extinguish. Many, if not
most of us, engage in anti-war activities of one
sort or another on a regular basis, usually in our
own locales. This action described below is
different. It is not meant to be yet another
anti-war action among many where perhaps a handful
of vets take a stand and get arrested, barely
generating a blip on the screen of world and U.S.
consciousness.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
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0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The purpose of
this action is twofold, direct and simple, yet
profound. By showing scores of U.S. veterans being
literally dragged away from the White House as
they demand peace, we expose the hypocrisy of a
government that is waging (and promoting)
worldwide, endless warfare during a season when we
celebrate “Peace on Earth.” But more important, it
will vividly demonstrate that serious civil
resistance is alive and well in the United States.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This will only
happen if there are more than relative handfuls of
us taking part. What we are asking is that your
chapter support this, preferably by sending some
(or all!) of your members to take part, but if you
cannot do that, by enthusiastically spreading the
word.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Here’s what Doug
Zachary wrote about his participation: “We are at
a critical time in world history. Will the Western
democracies continue to develop along the lines of
Rousseau, Voltaire, Jefferson, King, Chavez and
company? Or does the future hold a feudal world
committed to slavery and fascism? The extent to
which we resist is the extent to which there is
reason to hope. Our witness, even if ignored in
our times, will be on record and will inspire
democratic revolutionaries far into the future.”</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To make sure it is
not “ignored in our times,” we have three top
videographers, and excellent still photographers
committed to sending out a record of our
resistance worldwide. We also have enthusiastic
support from large non-veteran organizations that
will mobilize their members in support (<a
href="http://http/www.stopthesewars.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Peace-on-Earth-poster-8.5x11.jpg"
target="_blank" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color:
rgb(0, 102, 204);">see flyer</a>).</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When you look at
the signatures on the letter below, you’ll see
many names you recognize, quite a few of our
buddies, people who have been VFP stalwarts for
years. What I’m asking is for all of us not to
leave them hanging out to dry (Ferner says
“freeze”). You get the picture. It’s the
season—the more the merrier. Let’s demonstrate
that VFP, when it comes to putting ourselves on
the line, is a force for peace to be reckoned
with.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
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0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you want to be
involved please e-mail<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="mailto:stopthesewars@gmail.com"
style="background-color: transparent;
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204);">stopthesewars@gmail.com</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or
register online at<a
href="http://www.stopthesewars.org/"
target="_blank" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color:
rgb(0, 102, 204);">http://www.stopthesewars.org</a>,
and we will keep you posted. Also, to make this a
powerful reality, there will be expenses for
banners, flyers, posters, legal, etc., so please
make a donation at<span
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href="http://www.stopthesewars.org/"
target="_blank" style="background-color:
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padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color:
rgb(0, 102, 204);">http://www.stopthesewars.org</a><br>
For Peace and Solidarity,</p>
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<p style="background-color: transparent;
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<p style="background-color: transparent;
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0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Here’s an easy
question: would you rather go to jail for a few
hours with a bunch of friends or die?</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
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0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Here’s a poorly
kept secret: the wars that a majority of Americans
want ended are not ending, and the war machine
that a majority of Americans want cut back is
growing.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
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0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Here’s a situation
that is not secret at all but too horrifying for
us to acknowledge: if the war machine continues on
its current course, we will not survive it
economically, environmentally, or with any civil
liberties or representative government intact. If
we do not reach those catastrophes it will be
because blowback or nuclear proliferation takes us
out first.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
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0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You may not die
for the Pentagon, but if you do not it will be
your children or grandchildren. Would you rather
go to jail for a few hours with a bunch of friends
or see your grandchildren killed? Is the question
getting easier?</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Here’s a well kept
secret: many Americans are doing something about
it, and Veterans for Peace is taking the lead.
We’re going to the White House on Thursday,
December 16th at 10 a.m.:<span
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<p style="background-color: transparent;
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0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You may have other
obligations, but do they outweigh what’s at stake
here? How about this question: If you cannot risk
arrest at the White House with us on December 16th
to stop these wars, can you be there in support?
Can you help with transportation or take photos
and shoot videos and write reports? If you cannot
be there in support, can you phone Congress and
the media and demand the defunding of the war
machine and an end to wars opposed by majorities
of Americans in every poll?</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
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0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The last time I
was arrested at the White House we were
“processed” at a table outside a jail and never
entered any jail at all. Yes, it takes hours to do
what could take minutes. Yes, the handcuffs pinch.
But doesn’t the knowledge that we are bombing
families in other countries pinch a little too?</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
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0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Don’t take it from
me. Take it from these people who will also be
there:</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I am shamed by
the actions of my government and I will do
everything in my power to make it stop killing
innocent people in my name.” — Leah Bolger</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“‘….to protect and
defend the Constitution…’ I took that oath as a
sailor, and later as a police officer. I don’t
consider that oath to have an expiration date
because I believe in accountability, justice and
peace. Where I come from, we say: ‘You don’t have
to stand tall, but you’ve GOT to stand up.’ Stand
up December 16, 2010, at the White House.” — Erik
Lobo</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Besides causing
untold suffering and destruction, our futile and
unending wars distract us from addressing
unprecedented humanitarian and planetary crises.
To allow war to even exist dishonors the teachers
of peace who came before us. To fail to oppose war
is to submit to those who make war. I choose to
honor the peace teachers; I choose to oppose and
resist the war makers.” — Kim Carlyle</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“As Obama, the
Nobel Peace Prize winner of a year ago, embraces
war on Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen, he’s
joined by most all the Democratic Party, and
pushed on by the cabal of Republican war-mongers
newly dominant in Congress. Obama was the right
man for the job of expanding US domination
internationally, and domestic surveillance and
police-state measures. He’s not solely responsible
for the system.; neither is he a socialist, or
illegitimate based on his birth. But we are right
to be protesting at the White House now, as we
were right when the Bush regime lived there.
People who want to stop these wars being carried
out in our name have to be visible and vocal about
it, now!” — Debra Sweet</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I strongly and
enthusiastically support these actions! May we
move forward peacefully, nonviolently, and with
great courage.” — Ron Kovic</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I speak and write
a lot about these things; but there comes a time
when if you don’t put your body on the line, then
the speaking and writing becomes posturing. That
time is now. December 16 at the White House. ” —
Joel Kovel</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
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0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Those who know
the full extent of America’s imperial reach have a
unique obligation to let their fellow citizens
know what is being done in all of our names. But
it is more than an obligation for veterans, since
many of us have served in America’s invasions and
occupations abroad. Perhaps it is also a
privilege, another chance to express our love for
this country, this time putting their bodies on
the line to demand that America once again join
the peace loving nations of this world.” — Fred
Nagel</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I listened today
to Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech given at New
York’s Riverside Church in 1967, ‘Why I Oppose the
Vietnam War.’ If any of us don’t know it, make it
a point to hear it. His truth is timeless. When I
hear it, I feel as deeply as possible, the
necessity and the responsibility to be a Veteran
For Peace. My conscience, my refusal to let the
world change me are in the forefront of my
existence. I will be with my brothers and sisters
on Dec. 16.” — Jay Wenk</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“When Barack Obama
claimed that by not prosecuting the war crimes and
crimes against humanity of the previous
administration we would be able to go into the
future with our core values intact, he was
condemning this country to have no moral future.
He was, in effect, saying that our core values
worth defending are imperialism and capitalism and
hypocrisy. All three can only flourish in a
climate of no accountability and a belief in the
necessary ethic of collateral damage. It is our
responsibility to change that.” — Robert Shetterly</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“War for empire,
endless and cruel war, resulting in untold
suffering, destruction and death for millions, a
war economy here at home that steals from ordinary
citizens and makes the few enormously wealthy,
these are powerful reasons for us to put our
bodies on the wheels, the levers, the apparatus of
this vile war-making machine and demand that it
stop. Enough is enough. There is no glory, no
heroism, no good wars, no justification
whatsoever, it is all, all of it, based on lies.
I’ll be in Washington on December 16 with other
veterans, resisting this war mentality, demanding
its end. — Tarak Kauff</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“For what do I
stand? First, I will not stand for: a Democrat, a
Republican, a flag, a border, a government, or a
war of any kind. I will stand for the People, to
protect and defend the Constitution, for peace and
justice. See you in Washington, D.C., December 16,
Twenty-Ten.” — Will Covert</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I could not miss
this manifestation of veterans’ strong
condemnation of the wars, and of Obama for
continuing them. In this season of supposed peace
on earth, we who previously carried out U.S.
foreign policy with our bodies must speak out to
say, ‘NO MORE! Bring the troops home NOW!’” —
Ellen Barfield</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We are at a
critical time in world history. Will the Western
democracies continue to develop along the lines of
Rousseau, Voltaire, Jefferson, King, Chavez and
company? Or does the future hold a feudal world
committed to slavery and fascism? The extent to
which we resist is the extent to which there is
reason to hope. Our witness, even if ignored in
our times, will be on record and will inspire
democratic revolutionaries far into the future. —
Doug Zachary</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The Empire has
met the Resistance and it is us! 12.16.10.
Washington. Be there!” — Mike Ferner</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I have three
granddaughters whose futures will be bleak unless
we can reverse the American slide into endless
war. It’s time to move the resistance up a notch.
That’s why I’ll be joining the veteran-led civil
resistance on December 16 at the White House.” —
Ken Mayers</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I’m joining my
fellow veterans on December 16 because, plain and
simple, it is the right thing to do. I am against
war, murder, and torture. Enough! I have a
beautiful daughter and a very cute goddaughter. I
owe them my best effort towards achieving a more
just world. When we all stand up for peace war
will end.” — Mike Tork</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The trip to
Washington will be an opportunity to stand in
solidarity with fellow engaged citizens who are
paying attention. As much as it will be a
privilege, it is an obligation to add another
voice to the growing chorus objecting to obscene
wars that serve none other than the rich and
powerful. The majorities in the lands subject to
our occupations and wars object to our presence,
and we the people share more in common with the
victims in those countries than we do with the war
profiteers here at home. Though we can expect the
mainstream media to give little notice to our
presence in D.C., that failure will only serve to
make these truths more evident.” — Dud Hendrick</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I will not be
silent. I’m going to the White House to demand an
end to these wars!” — Mike Hearington</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
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0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“All who resist
keep hope alive. All who succumb to fear, despair
and apathy become enemies of hope. They become, in
their passivity, agents of injustice. If the
enemies of hope are finally victorious, the poison
of violence will become not only the language of
power but the language of opposition. And those
who resist with nonviolence are in times like
these the thin line of defense between a civil
society and its disintegration.” — Chris Hedges</p>
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join<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
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204);">Daniel Ellsberg</a>,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?id=51"
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102,
204);">Medea Benjamin</a>,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/pgs/portraits/ray_mcgovern.php"
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102,
204);">Ray McGovern</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and
several military veteran activists outside the
White House to protest the futile and endless wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many of us will, after
our rally in Lafayette Park, attempt to chain
ourselves to the fence outside the White House. It
is a pretty good bet we will all spend a night in
jail. Hope, from now on, will look like this.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hope is not
trusting in the ultimate goodness of Barack Obama,
who, like Herod of old, sold out his people. It is
not having a positive attitude or pretending that
happy thoughts and false optimism will make the
world better. Hope is not about chanting packaged
campaign slogans or trusting in the better nature
of the Democratic Party. Hope does not mean that
our protests will suddenly awaken the dead
consciences, the atrophied souls, of the
plutocrats running Halliburton, Goldman Sachs,
ExxonMobil or the government.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hope does not mean
we will halt the firing in Afghanistan of the next
Hellfire missile, whose explosive blast sucks the
oxygen out of the air and leaves the dead,
including children, scattered like limp rag dolls
on the ground. Hope does not mean we will reform
Wall Street swindlers and speculators, or halt the
pillaging of our economy as we print $600 billion
in new money with the desperation of all
collapsing states. Hope does not mean that the
nation’s ministers and rabbis, who know the words
of the great Hebrew prophets, will leave their
houses of worship to practice the religious
beliefs they preach. Most clerics like fine,
abstract words about justice and full collection
plates, but know little of real hope.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hope knows that
unless we physically defy government control we
are complicit in the violence of the state. All
who resist keep hope alive. All who succumb to
fear, despair and apathy become enemies of hope.
They become, in their passivity, agents of
injustice. If the enemies of hope are finally
victorious, the poison of violence will become not
only the language of power but the language of
opposition. And those who resist with nonviolence
are in times like these the thin line of defense
between a civil society and its disintegration.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hope has a cost.
Hope is not comfortable or easy. Hope requires
personal risk. Hope does not come with the right
attitude. Hope is not about peace of mind. Hope is
an action. Hope is doing something. The more
futile, the more useless, the more irrelevant and
incomprehensible an act of rebellion is, the
vaster and the more potent hope becomes. Hope
never makes sense. Hope is weak, unorganized and
absurd. Hope, which is always nonviolent, exposes
in its powerlessness the lies, fraud and coercion
employed by the state. Hope does not believe in
force. Hope knows that an injustice visited on our
neighbor is an injustice visited on us all. Hope
posits that people are drawn to the good by the
good. This is the secret of hope’s power and it is
why it can never finally be defeated. Hope demands
for others what we demand for ourselves. Hope does
not separate us from them. Hope sees in our enemy
our own face.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hope is not for
the practical and the sophisticated, the cynics
and the complacent, the defeated and the fearful.
Hope is what the corporate state, which saturates
our airwaves with lies, seeks to obliterate. Hope
is what our corporate overlords are determined to
crush. Be afraid, they tell us. Surrender your
liberties to us so we can make the world safe from
terror. Don’t resist. Embrace the alienation of
our cheerful conformity. Buy our products. Without
them you are worthless. Become our brands. Do not
look up from your electronic hallucinations to
think. No. Above all do not think. Obey.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a
href="http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/120"
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102,
204);">W.H. Auden</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none;
font-style: italic;">
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Faces
along the bar<br>
Cling to their average day:<br>
The lights must never go out,<br>
The music must always play,<br>
All the conventions conspire<br>
To make this fort assume<br>
The furniture of home;<br>
Lest we should see where we are,<br>
Lost in a haunted wood,<br>
Children afraid of the night<br>
Who have never been happy or good.</p>
</blockquote>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The powerful do
not understand hope. Hope is not part of their
vocabulary. They speak in the cold, dead words of
national security, global markets, electoral
strategy, staying on message, image and money. The
powerful protect their own. They divide the world
into the damned and the blessed, the patriots and
the enemy, the rich and the poor. They insist that
extinguishing lives in foreign wars or in our
prison complexes is a form of human progress. They
cannot see that the suffering of a child in Gaza
or a child in the blighted pockets of Washington,
D.C., diminishes and impoverishes us all. They are
deaf, dumb and blind to hope. Those addicted to
power, blinded by self-exaltation, cannot decipher
the words of hope any more than most of us can
decipher hieroglyphics. Hope to Wall Street
bankers and politicians, to the masters of war and
commerce, is not practical. It is gibberish. It
means nothing.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I cannot promise
you fine weather or an easy time. I cannot assure
you that thousands will converge on Lafayette Park
in solidarity. I cannot pretend that being
handcuffed is pleasant. I cannot say that anyone
in Congress or the White House, anyone in the
boardrooms of the corporations that cannibalize
our nation, will be moved by pity to act for the
common good. I cannot tell you these wars will end
or the hungry will be fed. I cannot say that
justice will roll down like a mighty wave and
restore our nation to sanity. But I can say this:
If we resist and carry out acts, no matter how
small, of open defiance, hope will not be
extinguished. If all we accomplish is to assure a
grieving mother in Baghdad or Afghanistan, a young
man or woman crippled physically and emotionally
by the hammer blows of war, that he or she is not
alone, our resistance will be successful. Hope
cannot be sustained if it cannot be seen.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Any act of
rebellion, any physical defiance of those who make
war, of those who perpetuate corporate greed and
are responsible for state crimes, anything that
seeks to draw the good to the good, nourishes our
souls and holds out the possibility that we can
touch and transform the souls of others. Hope
affirms that which we must affirm. And every act
that imparts hope is a victory in itself.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Also from Auden:</p>
<blockquote style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none;
font-style: italic;">
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Defenseless
under the night<br>
Our world in stupor lies;<br>
Yet, dotted everywhere,<br>
Ironic points of light<br>
Flash out wherever the Just<br>
Exchange their messages:<br>
May I, composed like them<br>
Of Eros and of dust,<br>
Beleaguered by the same<br>
Negation and despair,<br>
Show an affirming flame.</p>
</blockquote>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
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0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Chris
Hedges is Truthdig columnist and a senior fellow
at The Nation Institute. His newest book is<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Death-Liberal-Class-Chris-Hedges/dp/1568586442%3FSubscriptionId%3D1XWTFJ60BR6QZ1PW9FR2%26tag%3Dtruthdig-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1568586442"
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102,
204);">“Death of the Liberal Class.”</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>More
information on the Dec. 16 protest can be found
at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://www.stopthesewars.org/"
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102,
204);">www.stopthesewars.org</a>.</em></p>
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href="http://www.stopthesewars.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/MargaretFlowers.jpg"
style="background-color: transparent;
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204);"><img class="size-full wp-image-274
alignleft" title="MargaretFlowers"
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<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I am
honored to stand with the veterans on December
16. We who desire peace and social and economic
justice in this nation and world must stand
together to demand an end to all wars; the
external wars that our nation wages on people
around the world and the internal war being
waged against the people of America through
policies that put corporate greed over our needs
for jobs, education, food and healthcare. I hope
that December 16 marks a beginning of the
broader, larger and more persistent movement for
the social change that the majority of us
support and require.”—<strong
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold;">Margaret
Flowers,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">M.D.,
Congressional Fellow,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
title="Physicians for a National Health
Program" href="http://www.pnhp.org/"
target="_blank" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
color: rgb(0, 102, 204);">Physicians for a
National Health Program</a></em></p>
</div>
<div style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline;"><a title="Physicians
for a National Health Program"
href="http://www.pnhp.org/" target="_blank"
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102,
204);"><br>
</a></div>
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vertical-align: baseline;">
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vertical-align: baseline;"><span
class="Apple-style-span"
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-family:
Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; line-height:
24px;"><a
href="http://www.stopthesewars.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/ChrisHedgespic.jpg"
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0,
102, 204);"><img class="alignright size-full
wp-image-275" title="ChrisHedgespic"
src="cid:part6.00070202.06050008@illinois.edu"
alt="Chris Hedges"
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 4px 0px 12px
24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline; border-style: none; height:
auto; max-width: 640px; width: auto;
display: inline; float: right;"
height="270" width="216"></a>“Any act of
rebellion, any physical defiance of those who
make war, of those who perpetuate corporate
greed and are responsible for state crimes,
anything that seeks to draw the good to the
good, nourishes our souls and holds out the
possibility that we can touch and transform
the souls of others. Hope affirms that which
we must affirm. And every act that imparts
hope is a victory in itself.”</span>—<span
class="Apple-style-span"
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-family:
Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium;"><span
class="Apple-style-span"
style="background-color: transparent;
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0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size:
16px; line-height: 24px;"><strong
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;
font-weight: bold;">Chris Hedges,</strong><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style:
italic;">author, philosopher and award
winning journalist</em><br>
</span></span></div>
</div>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a
href="http://www.stopthesewars.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/387px-Ron_Kovic_2-sized.jpg"
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102,
204);"><img class="alignleft size-full
wp-image-170" title="387px-Ron_Kovic_2 sized"
src="cid:part7.08020104.03070504@illinois.edu"
alt="" style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 4px 24px 12px 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
border-style: none; height: auto; max-width:
640px; width: auto; display: inline; float:
left;" height="390" width="252"></a></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I strongly and
enthusiastically support these actions! May we
move forward peacefully, nonviolently, and with
great courage.”—<strong style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
font-weight: bold;">Ron Kovic,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">antiwar
activist, Vietnam War veteran, and author of the
memoir<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>Born
on the Fourth of July</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a
href="http://www.stopthesewars.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Linda-Uruguay-2010.jpg"
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102,
204);"><img class="size-full wp-image-202
alignright" title="Linda Uruguay 2010"
src="cid:part8.09090504.01000000@illinois.edu"
alt="Linda Wiener" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 4px
0px 12px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline; border-style: none; height: auto;
max-width: 640px; width: auto; display:
inline; float: right;" height="267"
width="216"></a></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Dietrich
Bonhoeffer said, ‘Silence in the face of evil is
itself evil…. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act
is to act.’ On December 16, we will speak up; we
will act out. I speak as a mother, sister, wife,
and daughter. I speak for the other mothers and
daughters who cannot speak for themselves. The
strength of the war perpetuators comes not from
their numbers, but from their pocketbooks. Our
strength, the currency we must spend in order to
drown them out and end their tyranny, is
ourselves. We must work to end these wars with our
bodies as well as our words. Join us!”—<strong
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold;">Linda
Wiener,</strong><em style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
font-style: italic;">Co-founder, Surge
Protection Brigade, aka The Seriously Pissed-Off
Grannies</em></p>
<blockquote
cite="mid:330606B0-BD10-430C-A8C6-EF37AF6728E2@gmail.com"
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em;
vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none;
font-style: italic;">
<div style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline;"><span
class="Apple-style-span"
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline;"><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style:
normal;">“I speak and write a lot about
these things; but there comes a time when if
you don’t put your body on the line, then
the speaking and writing becomes posturing.
That time is now. December 16 at the White
House.”</em></span>—<em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;"><strong
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight:
bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Joel
Kovel,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></strong></em><strong
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold;"><span
class="Apple-style-span"
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></strong><span
class="Apple-style-span"
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline;">author of<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style:
normal;">Overcoming Zionism: Creating a
Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine</em></span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;"></em></div>
<div style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline;"><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;"><br>
</em></div>
</blockquote>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Times
New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a
href="http://www.stopthesewars.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/ERD4415-ann-wright.jpg"
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102,
204);"><img class="size-full wp-image-239
alignleft" title="_ERD4415 ann wright"
src="cid:part9.04000305.00060605@illinois.edu"
alt="Ann Wright" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 4px
24px 12px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline; border-style: none; height: auto;
max-width: 640px; width: auto; display:
inline; float: left;" height="259" width="216"></a></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I am proud to be
a U.S. military veteran who will protest the wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan and on December 16. While
many veterans will protest in front of the White
House, I will be there in spirit but will have
protested earlier in the day at the gates of the
U.S. Embassy in Madrid, Spain. These wars have
made our country less safe and have generated ill
will through the world. With a military budget
that is bigger than the combined military budgets
of the rest of the countries of the world, the
wars are breaking our national budget. With over
50 percent of the budget going to defense-related
programs, schools, education, and health care are
pleading for help. The future of our country is at
stake. Come join us on December 16 to say “Stop
These Wars” NOW!—<strong style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
font-weight: bold;">Ann Wright,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">retired
U.S. Army Reserve Colonel</em></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a
href="http://www.stopthesewars.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/ERD8312-FRED-NAGEL.jpg"
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102,
204);"><img class="size-full wp-image-99
alignright" title="_ERD8312 FRED NAGEL"
src="cid:part10.09090800.04020901@illinois.edu"
alt="Fred Nagel" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 4px
0px 12px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline; border-style: none; height: auto;
max-width: 640px; width: auto; display:
inline; float: right;" height="207"
width="194"></a></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Those who know
the full extent of America’s imperial reach have a
unique obligation to let their fellow citizens
know what is being done in all of our names. But
it is more than an obligation for veterans, since
many of us have served in America’s invasions and
occupations abroad. Perhaps it is also a
privilege, another chance to express our love for
this country, this time putting their bodies on
the line to demand that America once again join
the peace loving nations of this world.”—<strong
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold;">Fred
Nagel,</strong><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">radio
host and member,</em><a title="Veterans For
Peace" href="http://veteransforpeace.org/"
target="_blank" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color:
rgb(0, 102, 204);"><em style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
font-style: italic;">Veterans For Peace</em></a></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a
href="http://www.stopthesewars.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Jay-Wenk_ERD3907.jpg"
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102,
204);"><img class="size-full wp-image-94
alignleft" title="Jay Wenk_ERD3907"
src="cid:part11.05060903.07050006@illinois.edu"
alt="Jay Wenk" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 4px
24px 12px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline; border-style: none; height: auto;
max-width: 640px; width: auto; display:
inline; float: left;" height="255" width="194"></a></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I listened today
to Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech given at New
York’s Riverside Church in 1967, “Why I Oppose the
Vietnam War.” If any of us don’t know it, make it
a point to hear it. His truth is timeless. When I
hear it, I feel as deeply as possible, the
necessity and the responsibility to be a Veteran
For Peace. My conscience, my refusal to let the
world change me are in the forefront of my
existence. I will be with my brothers and sisters
on Dec. 16.”—<strong style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
font-weight: bold;">Jay Wenk,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">member,</em><a
title="Veterans For Peace"
href="http://veteransforpeace.org/"
target="_blank" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color:
rgb(0, 102, 204);"><em style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
font-style: italic;">Veterans For Peace</em></a></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;"><br>
</em></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a
href="http://www.stopthesewars.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/leah-bolger-capitolprotest-small.jpg"
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102,
204);"><img class="size-full wp-image-120
alignright" title="leah bolger capitolprotest
small"
src="cid:part12.08000003.01010206@illinois.edu"
alt="Leah Bolger" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 4px
0px 12px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline; border-style: none; height: auto;
max-width: 640px; width: auto; display:
inline; float: right;" height="296"
width="216"></a></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I am shamed by
the actions of my government and I will do
everything in my power to make it stop killing
innocent people in my name.”—<strong
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold;">Leah
Bolger,</strong><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">CDR,
USN (Ret), 1980-2000; National Vice-President,</em><a
title="Veterans For Peace"
href="http://veteransforpeace.org/"
target="_blank" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color:
rgb(0, 102, 204);"><em style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
font-style: italic;">Veterans For Peace</em></a></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“‘….to protect and
defend the Constitution…’ I took that oath as a
sailor, and later as a police officer. I don’t
consider that oath to have an expiration date
because I believe in accountability, justice and
peace. Where I come from, we say: ‘You don’t have
to stand tall, but you’ve GOT to stand up.’ Stand
up December 16, 2010, at the White House.”—<strong
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold;">Erik
Lobo,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">member,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em><a
title="Veterans For Peace"
href="http://veteransforpeace.org/"
target="_blank" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color:
rgb(0, 102, 204);"><em style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
font-style: italic;">Veterans For Peace</em></a></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a
href="http://www.stopthesewars.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/robshetterly-photo.jpg"
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102,
204);"><img class="size-full wp-image-172
alignleft" title="robshetterly-photo"
src="cid:part13.00030901.00050509@illinois.edu"
alt="Robert Shetterly"
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 4px 24px 12px 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
border-style: none; height: auto; max-width:
640px; width: auto; display: inline; float:
left;" height="216" width="171"></a></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“When Barack Obama
claimed that by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold;">not</strong><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>prosecuting
the war crimes and crimes against humanity of the
previous administration we would be able to go
into the future with our core values intacct, he
was condemning this country to have no moral
future. He was, in effect, saying that our core
values worth defending are imperialism and
capitalism and hypocrisy. All three can only
flourish in a climate of no accountability and a
belief in the necessary ethic of collateral
damage.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is our
responsibility to change that.”—<em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;"><strong
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold;">Robert
Shetterly,</strong><a title="Americans Who
Tell the Truth"
href="http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/"
target="_blank" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color:
rgb(0, 102, 204);">www.americanswhotellthetruth.org</a></em></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a
href="http://www.stopthesewars.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Debra-Sweet.jpg"
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102,
204);"><img class="size-full wp-image-197
alignright" title="Debra Sweet"
src="cid:part14.01090101.03070504@illinois.edu"
alt="Debra Sweet" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 4px
0px 12px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline; border-style: none; height: auto;
max-width: 640px; width: auto; display:
inline; float: right;" height="288"
width="216"></a></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“As Obama, the
Nobel Peace Prize winner of a year ago, embraces
war on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen, he’s
joined by most all the Democratic Party, and
pushed on by the cabal of Republican warmongers
newly dominant in Congress. Obama was the right
man for the job of expanding U.S. domination
internationally and domestic surveillance and
police-state measures. He’s not solely responsible
for the system; neither is he a socialist, or
illegitimate based on his birth. But we are right
to be protesting at the White House now, as we
were right when the Bush regime lived there.
People who want to stop these wars being carried
out in our name have to be visible and vocal about
it, now!”—<strong style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
font-weight: bold;"><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Debra
Sweet,</strong><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">World
Can’t Wait</em></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
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0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;"><br>
</em></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img
src="file:///C:/Users/Ellen/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot-3.png"
alt="" style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; height: auto;
max-width: 640px; width: auto;"></p>
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transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
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alignleft" style="background-color: rgb(241,
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204px;">
<dt style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a
href="http://www.stopthesewars.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Tarak-Kauff_ERD7278.jpg"
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0,
102, 204);"><img title="Tarak Kauff_ERD7278"
src="cid:part15.08080605.07030907@illinois.edu" alt="Tarak Kauff"
style="background-color: transparent;
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padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
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height="230" width="194"></a></dt>
</dl>
</div>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“War for empire,
endless and cruel war, resulting in untold
suffering, destruction and death for millions, a
war economy here at home that steals from ordinary
citizens and makes the few enormously wealthy,
these are powerful reasons for us to put our
bodies on the wheels, the levers, the apparatus of
this vile war-making machine and demand that it
stop. Enough is enough. There is no glory, no
heroism, no good wars, no justification
whatsoever, it is all, all of it, based on lies.
I’ll be in Washington on December 16 with other
veterans, resisting this war mentality, demanding
its end.—<strong style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
font-weight: bold;">Tarak Kauff,</strong><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
title="Veterans For Peace"
href="http://veteransforpeace.org/"
target="_blank" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color:
rgb(0, 102, 204);"><em style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
font-style: italic;">Veterans For Peace</em></a></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;"><br>
</em></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a
href="http://www.stopthesewars.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/ERD4218-Will-Covert.jpg"
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102,
204);"><img class="size-full wp-image-122
alignright" title="_ERD4218 Will Covert"
src="cid:part16.08090904.03090306@illinois.edu"
alt="Will Covert" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 4px
0px 12px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline; border-style: none; height: auto;
max-width: 640px; width: auto; display:
inline; float: right;" height="271"
width="216"></a></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“For what do I
stand? First, I will not stand for: a Democrat, a
Republican, a flag, a border, a government, or a
war of any kind. I will stand for the People, to
protect and defend the Constitution, for peace and
justice. See you in Washington, D.C., December 16,
Twenty-Ten.”—<strong style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
font-weight: bold;">Will Covert,</strong><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
title="Veterans For Peace"
href="http://veteransforpeace.org/"
target="_blank" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color:
rgb(0, 102, 204);"><em style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
font-style: italic;">Veterans For Peace</em></a></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;"><br>
</em></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold;">Ray
McGovern,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><strong
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold;"></strong><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">retired<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
class="mw-redirect" title="CIA"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA"
target="_blank" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color:
rgb(0, 102, 204);"><span
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(6,
69, 173);">CIA</span></a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>officer
and former U.S. Army Intelligence officer.
McGovern was a federal employee under seven U.S.
presidents over 27 years, presenting the morning
intelligence briefings at the<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
title="White House"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House"
target="_blank" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color:
rgb(0, 102, 204);"><span
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(6,
69, 173);">White House</span></a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for many
of them. In 2003, together with other former CIA
employees, McGovern founded the<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
title="Veteran Intelligence Professionals for
Sanity"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veteran_Intelligence_Professionals_for_Sanity"
target="_blank" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color:
rgb(0, 102, 204);"><span
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(6,
69, 173);">Veteran Intelligence
Professionals for Sanity</span></a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">VIPS.</em><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;"></em></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;"><br>
</em></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a
href="http://www.stopthesewars.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC7017Ellen-Barfield.jpg"
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102,
204);"><img class="size-full wp-image-121
alignleft" title="_DSC7017Ellen Barfield"
src="cid:part17.04090702.04030905@illinois.edu"
alt="Ellen Barfield" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 4px
24px 12px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline; border-style: none; height: auto;
max-width: 640px; width: auto; display:
inline; float: left;" height="268" width="216"></a></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I could not miss
this manifestation of veterans’ strong
condemnation of the wars, and of Obama for
continuing them. In this season of supposed peace
on earth, we who previously carried out U.S.
foreign policy with our bodies must speak out to
say, ‘NO MORE! Bring the troops home NOW!’”—<strong
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold;">Ellen
Barfield,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><a
title="Veterans For Peace"
href="http://veteransforpeace.org/"
target="_blank" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color:
rgb(0, 102, 204);"><em style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
font-style: italic;">Veterans For Peace</em></a></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;"><br>
</em></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a
href="http://www.stopthesewars.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/ERD4540-doug-zachary.jpg"
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102,
204);"><img class="size-full wp-image-97
alignright" title="_ERD4540 doug zachary"
src="cid:part18.04080309.01050304@illinois.edu"
alt="Doug Zachary" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 4px
0px 12px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline; border-style: none; height: auto;
max-width: 640px; width: auto; display:
inline; float: right;" height="233"
width="207"></a></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We are at a
critical time in world history. Will the Western
democracies continue to develop along the lines of
Rousseau,Voltaire, Jefferson, King, Chavez and
company? Or does the future hold a feudal world
committed to slavery and fascism? The extent to
which we resist is the extent to which there is
reason to hope. Our witness, even if ignored in
our times, will be on record and will inspire
democratic revolutionaries far into the future.—<strong
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold;">Doug
Zachary,</strong><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Austin,
Texas,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em><a
title="Veterans For Peace"
href="http://veteransforpeace.org/"
target="_blank" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color:
rgb(0, 102, 204);"><em style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
font-style: italic;">Veterans For Peace</em></a></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a
href="http://www.stopthesewars.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/ERD4550-mike-ferner.jpg"
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102,
204);"><img class="size-full wp-image-98
alignleft" title="_ERD4550 mike ferner"
src="cid:part19.01040803.03020109@illinois.edu"
alt="Mike Ferner" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 4px
24px 12px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline; border-style: none; height: auto;
max-width: 640px; width: auto; display:
inline; float: left;" height="250" width="194"></a></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The Empire has
met the Resistance and it is us! 12.16.10.
Washington. Be there!”—<strong
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold;">Mike
Ferner,</strong><em style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
font-style: italic;">President,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em><a
title="Veterans For Peace"
href="http://veteransforpeace.org/"
target="_blank" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color:
rgb(0, 102, 204);"><em style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
font-style: italic;">Veterans For Peace</em></a></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;"><a
href="http://www.stopthesewars.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Iraq_Veterans_Against_the_War_by_Latuff-smaller.jpg"
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102,
204);"><img class="aligncenter size-full
wp-image-104"
title="Iraq_Veterans_Against_the_War_by_Latuff
smaller"
src="cid:part20.09050602.03050809@illinois.edu"
alt="" style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px auto 12px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
border-style: none; height: auto; max-width:
640px; width: auto; clear: both; display:
block;" height="264" width="504"></a></em></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;"><br>
</em></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a
href="http://www.stopthesewars.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/KenEMayersatDemo-fixed-up.jpg"
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102,
204);"><img class=" alignright"
title="KenEMayersatDemo fixed up"
src="cid:part21.07050903.01030900@illinois.edu"
alt="Ken Mayers" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 4px
0px 12px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline; border-style: none; height: auto;
max-width: 640px; width: auto; display:
inline; float: right;" height="179"
width="216"></a></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I have three
granddaughters whose futures will be bleak unless
we can reverse the American slide into endless
war. It’s time to move the resistance up a notch.
That’s why I’ll be joining the veteran-led civil
resistance on December 16 at the White House.”—<strong
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold;">Ken
Mayers,</strong><em style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
font-style: italic;">Major, U.S. Marine Corps
Reserves(Ret’d), and member,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em><a
title="Veterans For Peace"
href="http://veteransforpeace.org/"
target="_blank" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color:
rgb(0, 102, 204);"><em style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
font-style: italic;">Veterans For Peace</em></a></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;"><br>
</em></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;"><br>
</em></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a
href="http://www.stopthesewars.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/ERD7283-Kim-Carlyle.jpg"
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<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Besides causing
untold suffering and destruction, our futile and
unending wars distract us from addressing
unprecedented humanitarian and planetary crises.
To allow war to even exist dishonors the teachers
of peace who came before us. To fail to oppose war
is to submit to those who make war. I choose to
honor the peace teachers; I choose to oppose and
resist the warmakers.”—<strong
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold;">Kim
Carlyle,</strong><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
title="Veterans For Peace"
href="http://veteransforpeace.org/"
target="_blank" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color:
rgb(0, 102, 204);"><em style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
font-style: italic;">Veterans For Peace</em></a><em
style="background-color: transparent;
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vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;"><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
title="War Crimes Times"
href="http://warcrimestimes.org/"
target="_blank" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color:
rgb(0, 102, 204);">War Crimes Times</a></em></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I’m joining my
fellow veterans on December 16 because, plain and
simple, it is the right thing to do. I am against
war, murder, and torture.<span
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline;"><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Enough!<span
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline;"><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>I
have a beautiful daughter and a very cute
goddaughter.<span style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>I
owe them my best effort towards achieving a more
just world. When we all stand up for peace war
will end.—<span style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold;">Mike
Tork,</strong><a title="Veterans For Peace"
href="http://veteransforpeace.org/"
target="_blank" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color:
rgb(0, 102, 204);"><em style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
font-style: italic;">Veterans For Peace</em></a><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
title="Vietnam Veterans against the War"
href="http://www.vvaw.org/" target="_blank"
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102,
204);">Vietnam Veterans Against the War</a>,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>Vietnam
1965-1967,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Mobile
Riverine</em></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
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0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a
href="http://www.stopthesewars.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC09976-Dud-Hendrick2.jpg"
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<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The trip to
Washington will be an opportunity to stand in
solidarity with fellow engaged citizens who are
paying attention. As much as it will be a
privilege, it is an obligation to add another
voice to the growing chorus objecting to obscene
wars that serve none other than the rich and
powerful. The majorities in the lands subject to
our occupations and wars object to our presence,
and we the people share more in common with the
victims in those countries than we do with the war
profiteers here at home. Though we can expect the
mainstream media to give little notice to our
presence in D.C., that failure will only serve to
make these truths more evident.”—<strong
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold;">Dud
Hendrick</strong>,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">President,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
title="Maine Veterans For Peace"
href="http://www.vfpmaine.org/vfp.htm"
target="_blank" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color:
rgb(0, 102, 204);">Maine Veterans For Peace</a>,
Founding Chapter</em></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
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0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a
href="http://www.stopthesewars.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/mike-hearington_ERD7313.jpg"
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vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102,
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alignleft" title="mike hearington_ERD7313"
src="cid:part24.09020105.03020709@illinois.edu"
alt="Mike Hearington" style="background-color:
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inline; float: left;" height="246" width="194"></a></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I will not be
silent. I’m going to the White House to demand an
end to these wars!”—<strong
style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold;">Mike
Hearington,</strong><a title="Veterans For
Peace" href="http://veteransforpeace.org/"
target="_blank" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color:
rgb(0, 102, 204);"><em style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
font-style: italic;">Veterans For Peace</em></a></p>
<p style="background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a title="March
Forward statement"
href="http://www.answercoalition.org/march-forward/statements/march-forward-calls-on.html"
target="_blank" style="background-color:
transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color:
rgb(0, 102, 204);">Statement from March Forward!
supporting the December 16 action.</a></p>
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class="Apple-style-span"
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causing untold suffering and destruction, our
futile and unending wars distract us from
addressing unprecedented humanitarian and
planetary crises. To allow war to even exist
dishonors the teachers of peace who came before
us. To fail to oppose war is to submit to those
who make war. I choose to honor the peace
teachers; I choose to oppose and resist the
warmakers.”— Kim Carlyle, Veterans For Peace and
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the White House. We welcome your participation on
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