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Saturday, October 16th
MARCH for Peace & Justice

GLN permalink 10-14-2010

RALLY: 12:30 PM
Michigan Avenue & Congress Parkway
Featuring Black Agenda Report's BRUCE DIXON, Green Party gubernatorial candidate RICH WHITNEY, CodePINK leader and veteran LORI PERDUE, and more!

MARCH: 1:30 PM
On Downtown Chicago's Busiest Streets

Many hoped that the end of the Bush Presidency would mean an end to illegal U.S. wars and a focusing on human needs. Yet nearly two years into the Obama administration, the occupation in Iraq continues, with more private military contractors taking the place of departing soldiers and the world's largest embassy set to squat in the heart of Baghdad.

The "peace president" has dramatically escalated the Afghanistan invasion - at nine years, America's longest war. He's spread war into Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. He's supported a brutal coup in Honduras, is building threatening new U.S. military bases in Colombia, and ignores Israel's war crimes against the Palestinians and those seeking to aid them.

The Bush-era attacks on civil liberties have if anything escalated, with Obama pushing for an even more powerful and unaccountable executive branch, assassinating people abroad at a far greater rate, and greatly increasing the deportations of undocumented immigrants.

Yet while the economy continues to stumble, with ever-higher foreclosure rates, stagnate wages and persistent unemployment, the income gap between the rich and the rest of us gets ever wider. Adding insult to injury, President Obama has pledged a domestic spending freeze at the same time that he's brought U.S. military spending to its highest level ever. 57% of the federal budget is spent on war.

On October 16th on the eve of the 2010 bi-elections, please join us in President Obama's home town to demand:

END the Wars & Occupations NOW!
Money for Human Needs, Not Corporate Greed!

For more information, go to the www.ChicagoMassAction.org website or email CCAWR@aol.com

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