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

[C. G. Estabrook]

Karen--

This is 300 words.  Cut 50 and send it as a letter to the editor of the N-G.

It will unfortunately still be quite topical for the first Saturday in 
November...  --CGE


Karen Medina wrote:
> 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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