Alert! For Your Immediate Attention and Action:
PEACE ACTION for AUSTIN TEXAS CITIZENS on
MONDAY NOVEMBER 30, 4-6PM
Senator Cornyns’ office building downtown
221 W 6th St
Demonstration and Candlelight vigil!
If you support an end to both of the Wars of Occupation, we are calling for your personal participation- your Body!
The President will make a announcement on this coming Tuesday, the 1st of December, that the USA will increase the number of combat troops in Afghanistan by 30,000 plus combat troops…as the War continues in Iraq.
Across the state of Texas we are organizing actions in a preemptive mode, to address
the obvious——-
TIME TO BRING ALL OF OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!
What can you do? Join us at Senator John Cornyns’ office sidewalk at 221 W.6th St, located in the Chase bank building between 4-6PM on the day before the President announces his decision!
Please, come downtown on Monday, November 30th and add your Voice for Peace, to the national dialogue…
You can also, call the White House comment line and leave a message telling President Obama that you do not support adding more fuel to the ‘fire’ in Afghanistan -
Flood the White House with calls! 202-456-1111
Call today!
Here in Austin, join with us -
Please, make your own signage for peace, now, inform other friends around Austin how important it is to come and participate this coming Monday evening. Bring candles for a short vigil to be held at sunset for those killed in the war, and feel free to wear mourning clothing, and if you know any pro- peace veterans of these wars, please forward this announcement to them and invite their participation.
Thank You,
Peace and Justice!
Sylvia Benini
sylvia.benini@gmail.com
Here you go:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=189242067126
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Coalition of Peace Organizations Calls Press Conference for November 30 near Ft. Hood
*Demand End to War in Afghanistan*
November 29th, 2009
Austin, Texas–A broad coalition of Texas peace and justice organizations will announce Monday, November 30th, at 11 am, at Under the Hood Cafe, (17 S. College St.) Killeen, Texas, that they oppose any escalation of the war in Afghanistan. These groups include the Dallas Peace Center, Texans for Peace, the Crawford Peace House, Austin Center for Peace and Justice, Code Pink, the South Texas Alliance for Peace and Justice, and others, listed below.
Coalition spokespersons will call upon President Obama to completely withdraw all military and paramilitary personnel and announce immediately a plan to rebuild the country.
Contact: Alyssa Burgin
aburgin@texansforpeace.org
210.381.4021
Contact: Sylvia Benini
sylvia.benini@gmail.com
512.579.9114
Interviews available in advance. Press packets onsite.
Contact: Alyssa Burgin aburgin@texansforpeace.org
210.381.4021
Contact: Sylvia Benini
sylvia.benini@gmail.com
512.579.9114
(Note: Listed below are supporting/endorsing groups and contact information for same)
Arlington Peace Center - Len Ellis 972.927.4434 Peace-Center@tx.rr.com
Austin Center for Peace and Justice (ACPJ) – Sylvia Benini 512.579.9114 sylvia.benini@gmail.com
Austin Concientious Objectors to Military Taxation (ACOMT) – Andy McKenna 512.551.8182 peacetax_tx@yahoo.com
Austin Permanent Peace Protest – Banafsheh Madaninejad 979.525.9366 bmadaninejad@gmail.com
Austin GI Rights HotLine – Bernice Hecker 512.452.6245 bernan@aol.com
Campus Antiwar Movement to End the Occupations (CAMEO) Matt Tedrow mtedrow@mail.utexas.edu
Christians for Peace – Larry Egly 254.630.914 legly@hot.rr.com
Code Pink – Austin – Fran Hanlon fran.hanlon@gmail.com
Code Pink – Dallas – Nancy Cunningham codepinkdallas@gmail.com
Code Pink – Fort Worth – Yvette Richardson 817.896.9084 eyerule00@yahoo.com
Code Pink – Houston – Madeline Crozat-Williams magicas@pdq.net
Crawford Peace House – Johnney Wolf wolfishq@gmail.com
Dallas Peace Center – Lon Burnam 214.823.7793 lon@dallaspeacecenter.org
Denton Peace Action – Dan Burnam danburnam@yahoo.com
Houston Peace and Justice Center (HPJC) – Dave Atwood dpatwood@igc.org
Iranians for Peace – Bijan Abadi babadi@sbcglobal.net
Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) – Austin – Hart Viges hartviges3000@yahoo.com
The Interfaith Community for Palestinian Rights – Eileen Lundy 512.786.5969 eileenlundy@yahoo.com
Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) – Houston – Sherry Glover another4peace@yahoo.com
North Texas for Justice and Peace – Rusty Tomlinson (972)551-2364 hftomlinson@yahoo.com
Peace Action Denton – Sammie Haren 940.323.0303 ranchersdaughter@<ranchersdaughter@gmail.com
UNT Campus Antiwar Network - Andrew Teeter 817.455.3787 untcan@gmail.com
Peace Mennonite Church – Ryan Koch 214.902.8141
San Antonio Peace Center – Susan Ives 210.224.4673 suives@texas.net
South Texas Alliance for Peace and Justice – Ann Smith 361.992.1535 smtann@stx.rr.com
Texans for Peace – Charlie Jackson 512.736.8385 charliej@texansforpeace.org
Texas Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) - Dave Collins 830-868-9055 collindave@hughes.net
Under the Hood Café (Fort Hood Support Network) – Cindy Thomas – underthehoodcafe@gmail.com
Veterans for Peace (VFP) – Houston – Stan Merriman stan.merriman@sbcglobal.net
Waco Friends of Peace – Alan Northcutt 254.744.1682 anorthc@aol.com
Willie Nelson photograph and art by Monique Claus, Amsterdam, April 21st, 2008.
From Arcata California, I thank you for your actions down in Austin. Yay Texas & Willie!!
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Yay backatcha Arcata California! Please, join us in the upswell and take action wherever you live, especically today and tomorrow !
President Obama signed the order committing to more troops this morning and has sent it on to the Joint Chiefs of Staff …….
ORGANIZE local demonstrations at high visibility traffic locations and target your federal offices wherever they are in your community … please, call the White House and tell them your demand that these Wars STOP NOW!
here again, is the phone number – 202-456-1111
Peace must be worked FOR and we need everyones’ voice added to the national conciousness on this terrible and unjust uptick – bring all our troops home NOW!
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