[Peace] Fwd: Protest the 2015 Chicago Air and Water Show! Sat Aug 15 Chicago - New Action from VCNV (ICJPE)

[Stuart Levy]

In case anyone here might be in Chicago this Saturday, ...


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Subject: 	Protest the 2015 Chicago Air and Water Show! Sat Aug 15 
Chicago - New Action (ICJPE)
Date: 	Thu, 13 Aug 2015 19:00:26 -0400
From: 	ICJPE <icjpe at pjep.org>
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*Action Name:* Protest the 2015 Chicago Air and Water Show! Sat Aug 15 
Chicago

*Action URL:* 
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*Date*: 2015-08-15

*Organization:* Voices for Creative Nonviolence

*Description:* *Join Voices for Creative Nonviolence and Chicago World 
Can't Wait in protesting the Air and Water Show.*

Why protest the Chicago Air and Water Show? We can think of many 
reasons! First, right now the U.S. is financially backing and providing 
the weapons Saudi Arabia is using against the people of Yemen. Thousands 
of civilians have died as either a direct result of the bombings or of 
starvation due to the destruction of their country. This comes on top of 
thirteen years of U.S. wars for empire and occupations in Iraq, 
Afghanistan, Libya and on and on. At our protest, we will challenge this 
attempt to turn war weapons into "entertainment" and a recruitment tool 
for another generation to kill and die for empire. We will expose the 
true costs of these wars - in human suffering, in devastated 
infrastructure that can no longer provide water or power to whole 
countries, and in financial resources devoted to destruction rather than 
meeting human needs.

This August also marks the 70th Anniversary of the U.S. bombing of 
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the first and only time a nuclear weapon has 
been used... and by the U.S. no less! Fast forward 70 years, and the 
U.S. has entered into an agreement with Iran under which the US and 
other powers agree to lift economic sanctions against Iran if it cuts 
its uranium enrichment by nearly 40% and complies with continuous 
monitoring of its nuclear sites. But as Larry Everest, writer for 
Revolution newspaper, points out, "This deal is not about ending the 
danger of nuclear weapons or nuclear conflict, and it won't do so. Iran 
has no nuclear weapons. But the U.S. imperialists do - thousands of them 
- and its close ally Israel has hundreds. Is either of them giving up a 
single nuke? No. Is either submitting to intrusive inspections? No. In 
fact, unlike Iran, Israel has refused to sign the Nuclear 
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) or submit to any international inspection 
or control. Both the! U.S. and Israel have repeatedly declared their 
right to use military force anywhere they see fit. In fact, after the 
agreement was announced, Obama made a point of threatening military 
force against Iran in the event the U.S. decides it hasn't abided by the 
deal."

All these are reasons enough to protest the Air and Water Show, which is 
intended to celebrate the might of the U.S. military. What spectators 
won't see is the terrors that the U.S. military brings upon the people 
of the world. Our protest is an opportunity to present this reality to 
thousands of people who are mainly unaware of it and challenge them to 
demand an end to these wars and an end to the recruitment of our youth 
to kill and die in them.

Join this event on Facebook! 
https://www.facebook.com/events/475499315961928/

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