Greensboro March 17 th rally

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Stop the Wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Hands Off Iran!

Impeach Bush and Cheney
for War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity!

Support Military Resisters!

George Bush and Dick Cheney must be impeached for war crimes and crimes against humanity! Millions are against the war, spying, torture, the abandoning of Katrina survivors, a spreading theocracy and suppression of science—and want the whole disaster of the Bush regime to be brought to a halt. The more we demand impeachment, Bush’s war options will grow more limited; the more his war crimes are exposed, the greater the impetus for his removal and repudiation.
It is time we rise to this challenge in unity with each other. The opposition to the war people feel in their hearts must become something they put on the streets. Resistance to the war from within the military by people like Lt. Ehren Watada and many, many others must be supported and encouraged by people outside of the military. And the invasion of Iran MUST NOT HAPPEN.
The people are on our side, the momentum is on our side, the whole world is on our side. The challenge: are we going to move heaven and earth to remove the criminal Bush regime, ending the war and repudiating the direction they’ve taken this society?

March 17, 11 am
Downtown Greensboro, Governmental Plaza, Greene St.




Ed Kinane from Voices for Creative Non-violence http://vcnv.org/speaker-bio/ed-kinane , a long time peace activist who will be in Iran from Feb 28-March 14th will be joining us along with a local young female military resistor and other speakers, artist and musicians. I will post more information later.

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1. this is a press release concerning Mr. Kinane's trip.

(Mr. Kinane resides in Syracuse- I was really excited to find him via the web site. We used to attend the same UU church there)

AS U.S./IRAN TENSIONS HEAT UP,
LOCAL ACTIVIST ED KINANE RETURNS
TO WARTORN MIDDLE EAST

Veteran peace worker ED KINANE will fly from Syracuse to Iran on Wednesday, Feb. 28. Kinane, 62, will be part of a 14-day civilian diplomacy delegation organized by the international peace group, Fellowship of Reconciliation.

This 25-member friendship delegation is the third in a series of F.O.R. peace missions to Iran. The missions work to build solidarity between the people of the United States and the people of Iran.

Kinane says, "These days saber rattling is bringing the world to the brink of further war. We civilians can't sit by and let governments destroy us all."

During the Cold War F.O.R. coordinated many trips to the former USSR and to Viet Nam during the sixties; to Central America during the eighties and to Palestine/Israel in more recent years. Currently F.O.R. manages regular delegations to war torn Colombia.

A native and resident of Syracuse's southside, Kinane is a graduate of S.U.'s Maxwell School of Citizenship. Since the late seventies Kinane has been active with the Syracuse Peace Council.

In 2003 Kinane spent five months in IRAQ with the human rights group, Voices in the Wilderness. Kinane resided in Baghdad before and during the U.S. invasion. He returned to Baghdad several months later to report on the U.S. occupation.

A veteran of various international peace initiatives, Kinane has worked with Peace Brigades International in Guatemala (1988), El Salvador (1989), Sri Lanka (1991), and Haiti (1993).

In 1996 and in 1999 Kinane spent 14 months in federal prison for his outspoken nonviolent activism against the U.S. Army's School of the Americas -- notorious for training Latin American soldiers the craft of torture and "anti-insurgency"

The F.O.R. Iran delegation will return to the States March 14. To learn more, visit www.forusa.org/programs/iran.

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2. Interesting link concerning Ed's earlier trip to Iraq

http://vitw.org/cat/voices-from-iraq/ed-kinane/

Our hotel, while routinely shaken, was never hit. In early April, however, a US tank shelled the hotel across the street from ours, killing international journalists. I didn’t see the shell hit, but moments later I saw flames consuming a corner of the building. News reports said the shell came from a US tank about a mile up river.

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3. Here is a flyer a friend made I gave out hundreds

between these and another one.

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4. Rally Pics and links fro Greensboro 3/17

Subject: PICS from P&A rally in Greensboro
Message:
Our guest speaker arrived by an overnight bus, and temps that dropped from 80 down to low 40's and very windy, resulted in less attendees and we also had folks that went to the March on the Pentagon and Fayetteville rallies. We also missed the press conference the eve before, BUT our speakers were wonderful, and the 50 or so attendeees were great!
Here are a few pics and links for more.


http://picasaweb.google.com/jarnocan/PeaceAndAccountabi...
Including Rob's signs and Billy's StreetPlane Bike which were great. http://cpcnc.blogspot.com /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jarnocan /