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6/28-29:
Call for an Open U.S. National Antiwar Conference Stop the War in Iraq! Bring the Troops Home Now!
Cleveland, Ohio
Sponsored by the National Assembly to End the Iraq War and Occupation
This national assembly is scheduled to be in our backyard!
The Northeast Ohio AFSC, NOAC, Howard Zinn and Cindy Sheehan are among the more than 200 people and organizations who have so far endorsed. Please consider your personal and/or organizational endorsement of this important event.
We’ve been part of the planning for this event.
Greg Coleridge to give plenary address on June 28
Open Letter From Greg Coleridge and Marilyn Levin (pdf)
Call Letter (new) (pdf)
Endorsement Form (pdf)
Endorsers (pdf)
PAST EVENT COVERAGE:
February 23, 2008
"Hands Off Iraqi Oil Forum"
Click Here To View More Photos and Video of This Event
Hands Off Iraqi Oil / No Permanent US Military Presence in Iraq Forum Report
Remarks by Joe Mosyjowski, AFSC (pdf)
Remarks by Patrick Carano, Progressive Democrats of America - Ohio (pdf)
Time-Warner Cable Access program will air in Akron on Channel 15 on Friday March 21st and 28th at 11pm. Program will air on Channel 9 in Youngstown on Friday March 7th at 9pm. Please call Rose Wilcher for more details at 338-8904 (cell)
FIRST NIGHT FOR PEACE 2007
First Night For Peace Video: December 31, 2007 at First Night Akron.
First Night For Peace Photos 2007
NOVEMBER 24, 2007 WELCOME SANTA PARADE IN DOWNTOWN AKRON MEDIA COVERAGE:
Voice of the People, Akron Beacon Journal "AFSC wants to bring troops home" Published on Monday Dec 10, 2007
Voice of the People, Akron Beacon Journal "To high a cost" Published on Thursday, Dec 6, 2007
11/25/07 ABJ Article "Holiday parade flies by; huge balloons hover over what officials say is biggest crowd ever" by Malcolm X Abram
2007 ARMISTICE/VETERANS DAY COMMEMORATION
Read and download what our speakers had to say at our Armistice/Veterans Day Commemoration at Waters Park Akron, Ohio November 11, 2007 below:
JOE MOSYJOWSKI (pdf)
TED VONEIDA (pdf)
ROBERT WILLIAMS (pdf)
BERNIE BISHEIMER (pdf)
Join others across the country by posting your photo online in AFSC's National "Friends For Peace" Campaign. See "Friends" from Northeast Ohio who have answered the call!
TAKE ACTION!!!
Contact your US Senators (Voinovich and Brown) and US Representative (either Kucinich, Jones, LaTourette, Sutton or Ryan)
Messages:
- End Iraq War Funding
- Remove the President's Authority for War
- Support resolutions opposing US troop "surge" (i.e. escalating the alien occupation)
Phone numbers:
Senator George Voinovich 216-522-7095
Senator Sherrod Brown 216-522-7272
Rep Dennis Kucinich 216-228-8850
Rep Stephanie Tubbs Jones 216-522-4900
Rep Steven LaTourette 440-352-3939
Rep Betty Sutton 330-865-8450
Rep Timothy Ryan 330-630-7311
Go to our EVENTS
page to find out about upcoming actions and events.
You can download the petition which will
be delivered to U.S. Senators DeWine and Voinovich and area U.S. Representatives
by Veteran's Day. The text of the petition is as follows:To Members of the U.S. Congress:U.S. military personnell continue to
die in Iraq. More than 100,000 Iraqis have died since the U. S. invasion.
More than $200 billion has been spent to fund this war.
Please end the war now by using the power
given to you under the Constitution: Stop the funding, close all U.S.
military bases in Iraq, and bring the troops home. It is time to end
the destruction, and rebuild war-torn Iraq - and hurrican-ravaged
communities in the U.S.
Download Petition (pdf)
