Tulsa Peace Fellowship

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"Out of Afghanistan" Demonstration / Monthly Anti-war Protest

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"Out of Afghanistan" Demonstration / Monthly Anti-war Protest

Time: November 7, 2009 from 12pm to 2pm
Location: corner fo 41st & Yale, on sidewalks, public property
Street: 41st & Yale
City/Town: Tulsa
Website or Map: http://www.peaceforafghanista…
Event Type: monthly, protest, anti-war, demonstration, peace-activism
Organized By: TPF Steering Cttee
Latest Activity: Nov 6, 2009

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Monthly Anti-War Protest@ "Free Speech Corner"
41st & Yale
on-going since 2002, starting in the wake of the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, and with increasing intensity since the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq, and ongoing now in the face of the illegal and undeclared war against Pakistan
from 12 noon to 2pm
HONK FOR PEACE!

Members of TPF and Veterans for Peace brandish signs in the hopes of raising awareness among Tulsans. Donations accepted.

Create your own sign and join us! Or hold up one of our ready-made signs with various pro-peace messages.

(Please park in the shopping mall parking lot, not in the bank parking lot.)

This event repeats every month, on the first Saturday every month.

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Comment by Jean Mcmahon on November 6, 2009 at 2:45pm
Huti will be there this Sat for the demo.I am not sure if he will get on line to confirm...If Judy cannot make it we could pick up the banner if you leave it in Judy's yard(we know where her yard is...See you....Jean
Comment by Tony Nuspl on October 24, 2009 at 1:21pm
NoEscalation.org: Can the Peace Movement Reach President Obama?

by Robert Naiman

Published on Thursday, October 22, 2009 by CommonDreams.org

If there were ever a time when the peace movement should be able to have an impact on U.S. foreign policy, that time should be now. If there were ever a time for extraordinary effort to achieve such an impact, that time is now.

The war in Afghanistan is in its ninth year. McChrystal's proposal could continue it for another ten years, at a likely cost of a trillion dollars, and many more lives of U.S. soldiers and Afghan civilians. The contradiction between domestic needs and endless war was never more apparent. Congress fights over whether we can "afford" to provide every American with quality health care, but every health care reform proposal on the table will likely cost less than McChrystal's endless war. A recent CNN poll says 6 in 10 Americans oppose sending more troops.

Democratic leaders in Congress are deeply skeptical: as far back as June, Rep. Murtha and Rep. Obey voted for Rep. McGovern's amendment demanding an exit strategy, and that was before the Afghan election fiasco, when international forces failed at their key objective of providing security, and before McChrystal demanded a 60% increase in U.S. forces, on top of the 50% increase approved earlier this year. Our troops are "exhausted," Murtha says.

Top Administration officials share the skepticism. Vice-President Biden, Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel, and Afghan scholar Barnett Rubin, an advisor to Ambassador Holbrooke, have all been arguing against a troop increase: the political people on the grounds that the American people and Congress won't support it; Biden on the grounds that it would be a diversion from Pakistan; Rubin on the grounds that it would be counterproductive to reconciliation in Afghanistan.

Elite opinion is closely divided. This is a jump ball. It could go either way. And a decision by Nobel Laureate Obama to send 40,000 more U.S. troops is likely to severely constrain U.S. policy, abroad and at home, for many years.

Such a time calls for extraordinary efforts to mobilize public opinion to move policy.

National peace advocacy organizations, including Peace Action, Just Foreign Policy, Code Pink, United for Peace and Justice, and Voters for Peace, are launching such an extraordinary effort. At the joint website noescalation.org, we're posting the phone numbers of every Congressional office, and what is known so far about where they stand on the proposal to send 40,000 more U.S. troops. We're asking Americans to call Congressional offices and search the media for information on where each Member of Congress stands. And we're asking for that information to be reported back to the website noescalation.org.

The more Members of Congress take a clear stand against military escalation, the more likely President Obama is to reject McChrystal's request. Some Members of Congress are saying, "we're waiting to see what the President decides." But that nonsense is an obvious dodge. The time to affect the President's decision is obviously before he makes it, not afterwards. Of course some Members of Congress are going to avoid taking a position if they can. Our job is to smoke them out.

Call now. The Norwegians are counting on you.

Robert Naiman is Policy Director at Just Foreign Policy

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/10/22-8

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