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Stop the War | Stop the ViolenceMarch and Rally When: Saturday, March 24, 2007, 1-2p Where: 12:00 noon. From Grand and MacArthur @ Lake Merritt to Oakland City Hall
We certainly hope that a lot of you are intending to come to the "STOP THE WAR" demo Saturday that starts at Grand & MacArthur Avenues at 12 Noon, sponsored by Oakland Peace & Justice (
Please join the LMNOP contingent in the march to City Hall. You will be able to find us in the park at Grand & MacArthur by looking for our big LMNOP banner from the first Gulf War. If you've never seen it, don't worry - you can't miss it! As an extra added bonus, one of the featured speakers is Barbara Lee. Also, we didn't know when we sent the first announcement of this event, that Barbara Lee is holding a Town Hall Meeting on the war at the Grand Lake Theater, before the demonstration, 10 AM 'til 12 Noon. Please come, folks. It's not often that we get to march in a big antiwar demonstration down Grand Avenue! ~ Beth & Steve  It was really good to see a bunch of you at the candlelight vigil on Piedmont Avenue last night. There was a good turnout, and we got a good response. For those of you who missed it, you have another chance - and it is conveniently located at our very own colonnade, where our weekly peace walks start. Moveon.org has once again organized a series of candlelight vigils all over the country for Monday night, March 19th, the fourth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.We were intending to sign on to hold a vigil ourselves, when we found at the Moveon web-site that somebody had already planned one to be held at the colonnade at 6 PM. I run into some of you now and then who say that you've really been intending to make it back to a peace walk - so now is your chance to get to the Lake, and you don't even have to walk around it! Please try to make it Monday night - we are hoping for a large LMNOP turnout! Hope to see you there, Beth P.S. For those of you who live in other communities, you can get information about vigils closer to you at moveon.org. It doesn't matter where you go, just GO!!
If you would like to take BART to the big demo in San Francisco on Sunday, March 18, with other LMNOPs meet at the MacArthur BART Station between 11 & 11:30 AM. We will be entering the gate promptly at 11:30. (If you get on at another station, look for us in the last car).
The weekly peace walk at Lake Merritt will not be held so people can go to the big demo in San Francisco. The San Francisco demo starts at Justin Herman Plaza at Noon. (Get off at the Embarcadero BART station - Justin Herman Plaza is just upstairs and a little towards the Bay from there). The demo will march to the San Francisco Civic Center. We hope to see you there! 
Starve War | Feed PeaceMarch and Rally When: Saturday, March 17, 2007 Where: 11:00 AM gathering at Walnut Creek BART and then march to Civic Park at Civic and Broadway in Walnut Creek for a rally at 12:00 Noon. 
The call for peace will be heard across the US on the
weekend of March 16-18. As we grow in concern for our
service personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan we urge our
government to really care for them by bringing them
home to our loving arms. We cry out at the number of
lives that have been lost, the billions of dollars
that have been wasted—dollars needed here at home
and by the poor across the globe.
Violence is never a solution—we must speak out.
The Plymouth UCC Church and the Church of St. Leo the Great invite our neighbors to join us on Friday March 16th at 7 PM on the corners of Piedmont Ave., Ridgeway, and Linda for a 1 hour candle light vigil for peace. Folks will be attending these vigils across the country with many from our local faith communities traveling to DC to vigil at the White House. Bring a sign and a candle—or just your neighbors and join us. For information: Joan MacIntyre 451 2712. Other weekend events are as follows: Sat. 3/17 Mt. Diablo Peace and Justice Center is hosting a march and rally, gather at 11:00 AM Walnut Creek BART Station, march to Civic Park, Civic and Broadway, for a rally from Noon to 3PM. 925-933-7850. Sun. 3/18 Market and Embarcadero San Francisco 12 noon, march to Civic Center for a rally (US Out of Iraq Now). Hosted by ANSWERsf for more information. 
I just came home from a Margaret Cho concert. I laughed and laughed and laughed. Then I turned on my computer and saw 3075 soldiers are x. 75 in 26 days. 3 a day. Ten, twenty or one hundred times that number in civilian deaths "Whose only crime," as Steve Wagner puts it, "Is being born in Iraq." And I cried. It occurs to me for the 1000th time since that fateful 22nd day of October 2002, when the emotionally bankrupt Congress gave a blank check for murder and mayhem to a mentally-teenaged (sorry, teens), regressive, vituperative, cowboy ape (sorry, apes), that we must do everything in our power to Death Of Traumatized Minn. Marine Came After Iraq >> We don't have a system for this. The VA is overwhelmed, and we're rural doctors out here trying to deal with this. Unfortunately, we're going to see a lot of Jonathans. 
...The challenge with this misbegotten adventure is that we simply cannot let it continue.
It is not a matter of whether we will lose or we are losing. We have lost. if Republicans want to continue to rubber-stamp this administration's idiotic "plans" and go against the will of the people, they should be thrown out as soon as possible, to join their recent colleagues. We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell. -Molly Ivins' last column, 1.11.7 We thank you Ms. Molly. Very early on you let us know we were all "Bushwhacked." 
Active Duty, Reserve, and Guard personnel, sign Appeal for Redress >>
As a patriotic American proud to serve the nation in uniform, I respectfully urge my political leaders in Congress to support the prompt withdrawal of all American military forces and bases from Iraq . Staying in Iraq will not work and is not worth the price. It is time for U.S. troops to come home. 
3 2 4 3 ! 2740 Americans died on 9/11/01.
LMNOP mourn the loss of the "Official" number of American soldiers murdered in Bush's revenge-assault on Iraq.
We also mourn the loss of the countless innocent civilian population "Whose only crime," as Steve Wagner puts it, "Is to be born in Iraq."  Pro-Peace Signs by LMNOP Walker Webb Mealy >> 
It takes the ... outrage of the American people to force Washington to do the right thing. We've got to hold more of these ... until our government gets the message -- Out if Iraq immediately. This year. We've got to go. -Rep John Conyers, 27 Jan 7.
Got courage?
Giovanni Giusti of Columbus, Ohio blocks Independence Ave. near the U.s. Capitol as Capitol Police line up on motorcycles to clear the streets after a protest against the war in Iraq on the National Mall Saturday, Jan. 27, 2007 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
Alice, an anarchist from North Carolina, tries to shake hands with Capitol Police officers as they guard the Capitol during a protest against the war in Iraq Saturday, Jan. 27, 2007 in Washington. Alice did not give her last name. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, kisses an unidentified girl after speaking at a protest against the war in Iraq on the National Mall Saturday, Jan. 27, 2007, in Washington. Kucinich is running for the Democratic presidential nomination a second time. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
Molly Klopot is put into a paddy wagon by a New York City Police officer after being arrested in 2005 for blocking the Times Square military recruiting station. Klopot and Betty Brassell came from New York to protest against the Iraq war before the US Congress. Veteran activists, the two women were proud of their untiring plea for peace.(AFP/File/Timothy A Clary)
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