End These Wars Now
December 15, 2010
ON DECEMBER 16, VETERANS FOR PEACE WILL LEAD A CIVIL RESISTANCE ACTION calling for the end of the wars in occupations in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and Yemen. The group says this will be the largest U.S. veteran-led civil resistance to war. They plan a rally at Lafayette Park in Washington D.C., followed by a silent march, and culminating in a nonviolent action at the White House.
The rally is timed for Thursday’s public release of the Obama administration’s strategic review of the war in Afghanistan, which is now America’s longest. The original date for U.S. troop withdrawal, July 2011, is considered “conditions-based”; officials are also expected to confirm the new time frame as 2014.
Veterans for Peace’s national president, Mike Ferner, requested a meeting with Obama, writing, “Your policies are taking innocent lives, causing untold, lifelong suffering, rapidly destroying our economy, our environment, and ultimately making all of us considerably less safe.”
To find out more about the upcoming action, visit Stop These Wars, and Veterans for Peace.
