[Peace] A disgusting pro-Obama Democratic front operation

[C. G. ESTABROOK]

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> From: Lauren Weiner <Weiner at americansunitedforchange.org>
> Date: December 15, 2011 2:25:45 PM CST
> To: Lauren Weiner <Weiner at americansunitedforchange.org>
> Subject: FYI: Activists From Across the Nation to Gather in Chicago-- 
> Friday, 12/16 10:30 am
>
> FYI
>
>
>
> NEWS ALERT: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>
> Contact:
> Marilyn Katz
> MK Communications
> 312-822-0505
> 312-953-1225
> mkatz at mkcpr.com
>
>
> Activists From Across the Nation to Gather in Chicago at
> 2002 Rally Site to Mark Iraq War End
> “Determination of a few can change the world”
>
> (CHICAGO) Nine years and two months after the first large protest  
> against the then impending war in Iraq, organizers of the now-famous  
> rally will return there with anti-war leaders from throughout the  
> nation to mark the end of what they predicted to be and has turned  
> out to be an ill-conceived and costly war.
>
> “On October 2, 2002,” said Marilyn Katz, “to the surprise of  
> themselves and a nation still reeling from the events of 9/11,  
> thousands of people gathered in Federal Plaza to voice our  
> opposition to an impending war that we felt was built on lies and  
> would cost both the people of Iraq and America thousands of lives  
> and billions of dollars. Among the speakers that day was a  
> relatively unknown state senator – Barack Obama, who added a strong  
> voice in opposition when it was not yet a popular position.
>
> “What began as a few thousand people in Federal Plaza and places  
> like it grew to a movement of millions who opposed a war and became  
> a critical force in electing a president who promised to end the war  
> he had long opposed.  That movement has continued.  The promise has  
> been kept.  We return to Federal Plaza to mourn the losses all have  
> endured and  to celebrate the difference that citizen action can  
> make in creating and changing  history – and to honor those whose  
> word is their promise.”
>
> Among those joining Among those joining Bettylu Saltzman, Marilyn  
> Katz and others who founded Chicagoans Against War and Injustice  
> (CAWI), the group that called the demonstration, will be Cook County  
> Board President Toni Preckwinkle; Alderman Joe Moore, president of  
> Cities for Peace; labor leader Tom Balanoff, SEIU; anti-war stalwart  
> Tom Hayden, Progressive Democrats of America; Chuy Garcia,  
> commissioner, Cook County Board; Bill Zimmerman, media consultant to  
> MoveOn.org and author of Troublemaker, a memoir of the Vietnam  
> antiwar movement; Ryan Canney, Move On.org; Juan Andrade, United  
> States Hispanic Leadership Institute; Julie Hamos, director, state  
> of Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services; David  
> Cortright, Win Without War; Bill MacInary, Lynda Deforge, William  
> McNary, Citizen Action; Carl Davidson, Progressive Democrats for  
> America; Adele Simmons, former president the John D. and Catherine  
> T. MacArthur Foundation; representatives from VetVotes; and Ilya  
> Sheyman, candidate for U.S. Congress.
>
>
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