MN Actions at the Offices of Sen Franken and Sen Klobuchar to End the Funding and Stop the WARS

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Minnesota Actions at the Offices of Senator Franken and Senator Klobuchar
to End the Funding and Stop the War !!!!

FRANKEN APRIL 8

(Sen. Franken’s Office)

Drake Building

60 East Plato Suite 220

St Paul

APRIL 8, 4 PM



(Sen Klobuchar’s Ofc)

1200 Washington Ave S

Suite 250

Minneapolis

APRIL 13, 4 PM




On or around April 15, the House of Representatives and the Senate will vote on the $33 billion dollar supplemental Bill for the war on Afghanistan .

The purpose of our actions is to urge our senators to vote against the war supplemental bill and for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan .

Money needed to withdraw the troops can be taken from the bloated $708 billion defense budget being requested by President Obama for 2011, which is more than the combined defense budgets of all other countries in the world.

***** It is imperative that we speak out at this time against the

escalation of the war in Afghanistan and further assaults on Afghan cities and towns, which can only result in more bloodshed, misery, and death for US soldiers and the people of Afghanistan, one of the poorest countries in the world. *****


Our action will include:
1) the reading of the names of the Minnesotans and civilians killed in the war in Afghanistan;

2) throwing shoes (symbolically) at the occupation; and

3) a die-in. The action is patterned after the action at the White House in Washington D.C. by twenty-four Minnesotans during the last week in January.

Articles and videos of the action are on the Voices for Creative Nonviolence website at http://vcnv.org/minnesotans-for-peace-participate-in-the-peaceable-assembly-campaign-13-arrested-at-white-house (Some of those who participate in the die-ins may risk arrest.)

Initiated by the Minnesota Peaceable Assembly Campaign Committee