[Peace-discuss] Flyer for regular anti-war demonstration, 2-4pm Saturday 4 May (Main & Neil in Champaign)

[C G Estabrook]

RESIST OUR GOVERNMENT’S WAR-MAKING

Demand all U.S. troops (and weapons) be brought home, U.S. military bases in foreign countries be closed, and social supports - including Medicare for all, free education, and a universal basic income - be provided for Americans made poorer by generations of our government’s wars.
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Although most Americans are not aware of it, the US government is today making war - killing people - in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen. They’re doing so principally to control the flow of oil out of the Mideast and North Africa, which the US uses as a weapon against its economic rivals from Germany to China.
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The ongoing US drone assassination program - called “the most extreme terrorist campaign of modern times” - is killing thousands of people (most of them not the presumed targets), including American citizens and hundreds of children.
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More than a quarter of a million American troops are stationed in a thousand US bases on foreign soil, most of them surrounding Russia and China.
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The 70,000 US troops in the ‘Special Operations Command’ are active in three-quarters of the countries of the world. Their activities have included kidnapping (the US government calls it ‘rendition’), torture, and murder. 
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The U.S. is forbidding countries around the world - including China - from importing oil from Iran. A similar attempt to prevent Japan from importing oil from southeast Asia led to World War II in the Pacific. U.S. sanctions today threaten an even wider - even nuclear - war. 
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The US is torturing the people of Venezuela - the country with the world’s largest reserve of oil - in order to overthrow their government, which isn’t following orders from Washington. 
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Since 1945 the United States has killed between 20 and 30 million people in wars (in Korea, Vietnam, Latin America, the Mideast, and elsewhere) designed to maintain the world-wide economic dominance that the US inherited at the end of World War II - for the American 1%.

It is unfortunately the basis of US foreign policy to use war and the threats of war to retard the economic development of Russia and China as competitors to American control of the world economy - from US support for a fascist coup in Ukraine to US naval provocations in the South China Sea and huge NATO military exercises in eastern Europe.

The rest of the world recognizes that the US government is what Martin Luther King called it long ago - “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” 
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Write your representatives in Congress--
~ Senator Dick Durbin: <https://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/email>
~ Sen. Tammy Duckworth: <https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/content/contact-senator>
~ Representative Rodney Davis: <https://rodneydavis.house.gov/contact/>

AWARE, the Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois

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