[Peace-discuss] flyer for Main event -- backside part two

[Karen Medina]

Illinois National Guard Troops are On Their Way to Afghanistan. 
* The largest deployment of Illinois National Guard since World War II.
* 2,700 soldiers shipped out over the past week. About 200 of the Illinois 
brigade's soldiers were already in Afghanistan in early September. Two died 
September 17 in a roadside-bomb attack. The rest are at Fort Bragg in North 
Carolina and Fort Riley in Kansas, and should be in Afghanistan by the 
beginning of next year. 
* The Illinois National Guard will help train the Afghan national police force.
* They will be in Afghanistan for 10 months.
* Violence in Afghanistan is up about 30 percent in 2008 over 2007. 
* More American soldiers - 112 - have died in Afghanistan so far this year than 
in any year since the 2001 invasion.
* Sexual abuse is rampant in the military. Males, as well as females, are victims.
* Veterans make up almost 25% of the homeless population in the United States. 
The government says there are as many as 200,000 homeless veterans; About 
2,000 served in Iraq or Afghanistan.
* 28% of all veterans experience mental health problems. More Iraq and 
Afghanistan veterans suffer post-traumatic stress disorder than veterans of 
previous wars. The government says PTSD is one of the leading causes of 
homelessness among veterans.
* Veterans commit suicide at the rate of between 18.7 to 20.8 per 100,000, 
compared to other Americans, who did so at the rate of 8.9 per 100,000. 
* Veterans aged 20 through 24, those who have served during the war on terror, 
have the highest suicide rate among all veterans -- between 22.9 and 31.9 per 
100,000.
* Composition of the Illinois National Guard, Urbana Brigade: Aurora, 
Bloomington, Carbondale, Champaign, Chicago, Crestwood, Dixon, Effingham, 
Elgin, Galva, Kankakee, Kewanee, Litchfield, Machesney Park, Marion, Marseilles, 
Mattoon, Mount Vernon, Pontiac, Salem, Springfield, Sycamore, Urbana, West 
Frankfort, and Woodstock Illinois.

---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri,  3 Oct 2008 15:42:06 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Karen Medina <kmedina at illinois.edu>  
>Subject: [Peace-discuss] flyer for Main event -- backside part one  
>To: peace-discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
>
>start on the backside of the flyer for the Main Event tomorrow,
>
>About the 700 Billion Dollar Bailout of Wall Street that passed this week:
>* The bailout of Wall Street is driven by fear.
>* Why did they not explore alternatives?  
>* We should stop speculators, but the bailout rewards them and does nothing 
to 
>stop them from doing things like this again.
>* Regulations that are in place need to be inforced. (McCain thinks there needs 
to 
>be even more deregulation).
>* Change the rules. The bailout keeps the rules intact.
>* Trickle down does not work. Too much money goes too few people.
>
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