<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Could Urbana similarly join in?<div>--mkb<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">David Swanson <<a href="mailto:david@davidswanson.org">david@davidswanson.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">February 1, 2012 12:26:08 PM CST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">ufpj-activist <<a href="mailto:ufpj-activist@lists.mayfirst.org">ufpj-activist@lists.mayfirst.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>[ufpj-activist] Cambridge MA Set to Oppose War on Iran</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:david@davidswanson.org">david@davidswanson.org</a><br></span></div><br>
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<h1 class="with-tabs">Cambridge, Mass., to Vote Next Monday on
Resolution Opposing Iran War, Inspired by Resolution Passed in
Charlottesville, Va.</h1>
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<div class="content"><p>In response to passage of <a href="http://www.charlottesvillepeace.org/node/2674">this
resolution</a> opposing a war on Iran and excessive military
spending passed in Charlottesville, Va., Cambridge, Mass.,
City Council will vote next Monday on the following similar
resolution. If you are in or near Cambridge, please be at the
meeting:</p>
<blockquote><p>WHEREAS: The severity of the ongoing economic crisis has
created budget shortfalls at all levels of government and
requires us to re-examine our national spending priorities;
and<br>
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WHEREAS: Every dollar spent on the military produces
fewer jobs than spending the same dollar on education,
healthcare, clean energy, or even tax cuts for household
consumption; and<br>
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WHEREAS: U.S. military spending has approximately doubled
in the past decade, in real dollars and as a percentage of
federal discretionary spending, and well over half of
federal discretionary spending is now spent on the military,
and we are spending more money on the military now than
during the Cold War, the Vietnam War, or the Korean War; and<br>
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WHEREAS: The U.S. military budget could be cut by 80% and
remain the largest in the world; and<br>
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WHEREAS: The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility
and Reform proposed major reductions in military spending in
both its Co-Chairs' proposal in November 2010 and its final
report in December 2010; and<br>
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WHEREAS: The U.S. Conference of Mayors passed a
resolution in June 2011 calling on Congress to redirect
spending to domestic priorities; and<br>
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WHEREAS: The people of the United States, in numerous
opinion polls, favor redirecting spending to domestic
priorities and withdrawing the U.S. military from
Afghanistan; and<br>
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WHEREAS: The United States has armed forces stationed at
approximately 1,000 foreign bases in approximately 150
foreign countries; and<br>
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WHEREAS: The United States is the wealthiest nation on
earth but trails many other nations in life expectancy,
infant mortality, education level, housing, and
environmental sustainability, as well as non-military aid to
foreign nations; now therefore be it<br>
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RESOLVED: That Cambridge City Council go on record as
calling on the U.S. Congress and. President Barack Obama to
end foreign ground and drone wars, refrain from entering new
military ventures in Iran, and reduce base military spending
in order to meet vital human needs, promote job creation,
re-train and re-employ those losing jobs in the process of
conversion to non-military industries, rebuild our
infrastructure, aid municipal and state governments, and
develop a new economy based upon renewable, sustainable
energy; and be it further<br>
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RESOLVED: That the City Clerk be and hereby is requested
to forward a suitably engrossed copy of this resolution to
President Barack Obama and the Massachusetts Congressional
delegation on behalf of the entire City Council.<br>
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<div class="moz-signature">-- <br><p>David Swanson is the author of "<a href="http://davidswanson.org/outlawry">When the World
Outlawed War</a>," "<a href="http://warisalie.org/">War Is A
Lie</a>" and "<a href="http://davidswanson.org/book">Daybreak:
Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect
Union</a>." He blogs at <a href="http://davidswanson.org/" title="http://davidswanson.org">http://davidswanson.org</a>
and <a href="http://warisacrime.org/" title="http://warisacrime.org">http://warisacrime.org</a> and
works for the online activist organization <a href="http://rootsaction.org/" title="http://rootsaction.org">http://rootsaction.org</a></p>
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