“Hands off Iraq” Capital District march and rally. Thursday, July 10, 4:30 to 6 PM, Albany

Albany Rally for Peace:  “Hands Off Iraq”
Thursday, July 10
4:30 PM Gather at Townsend Park, 201 Washington Ave, Albany, NY
5:00 PM  March to the Federal Building,  Clinton St, Albany, NY

Peace and anti-war activists mobilize to let the Obama administration  know that the people of this country  oppose any military action in Iraq.  The U.S. government has threatened to militarily intervene in a religious civil war that instead requires a diplomatic solution.

Join us as we gather to demand “Hands Off Iraq”.  Other signs suggestions:  NO NEW WAR ON IRAQ!   NO BOMBING, NO INTERVENTION IN IRAQ.  STOP THE KILLING. We need jobs, education,housing, healthcare and infrastructure — not another war on Iraq.

Sponsored by Women Against War, Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace, Citizen Action, Upper Hudson Peace Action, Muslim Solidarity Committee, Project Salam, and The Solidarity Committee of the Capital District, with more to be added.

We will rally at 4:30 in Townsend Park and at 5:00 PM, we will march down Washington Ave to State Street, then down N. Pearl to the intersection of Clinton Ave.,  ending up near the 787 off ramp near the Leo O’Brien Federal Building.(This is a 23 minute, 1.2 mile walk.)

Call  Joe at 281-1968 for further information

4 Facts that You Need to Know  (Following from ANSWER Coalition, www.ANSWERCoalition.org):

• The Iraq war killed millions — the politicians responsible are still walking free. From 1991 to 2003, U.S. bombing and sanctions took 1 million Iraqi lives, including 500,000 children. Nearly a decade of war took another 1 million Iraqi lives. 5 million were made refugees. Tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers were killed or wounded. The U.S. policymakers — the war criminals — who carried out this human atrocity are still walking free, giving speeches and raking in millions of dollars in book deals.

• The U.S. invasion and occupation is what caused the present situation. The present civil conflict in Iraq is a result of the U.S. war and occupation, which destroyed the Iraqi government and divided the country along sectarian lines in order to conquer it. This reversed Iraq’s long history of secularism, and the coexistence and intermarrying among its diverse communities. Islamic extremist forces were practically non-existent in Iraq until the Pentagon invaded.

• The Iraqi people OPPOSE U.S. intervention. Huge numbers of Iraqis fought the U.S. occupation. While the sectarian Iraqi government led by Maliki has requested U.S. intervention, that is the last thing that the majority of Iraqi people want.

• The Pentagon and Wall St. want to control Iraq, not help it. Millions of people protested Bush’s war. It was built on lies. Iraq was no threat and had no connection to the 9/11 attacks. It was a war for oil, profit and control. The same war criminals are now calling for new U.S. attacks in Iraq and escalating the war against the independent

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