Gaza 2009: We Will Never Forget

PROTEST THE SIEGE OF GAZA!

Nationwide Emergency Actions

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End the War! Protest in SLC

Weekly Sidewalt Vigil, Thursdays 5:30-6:30 downtown SLC

End War! Demonstration, Saturday, November 29, 2008

11am – 1pm

100 South State Street – Bring signs!

Join The Impact Demonstration/March for Equality! November 15

Logan: City Hall: 255 N Main Street Logan Ut, 84321 – 11:30am
Salt Lake City: 451 S State St # 304, Salt Lake City, UT 84111 – 11:30am

Posted on the Utah PRIDE website:

Join the Impact is planning rallies at City Halls across the nation (up to 80 cities currently in 49 states).  Let your voice be heard!

What: A demonstration and march

When: Saturday November 15, 2008 @ 11:30A

Where: Salt Lake City & Country Bldg (451 South State Street)

Who: Everyone who stands up for equality FOR ALL

Join us at the Utah Pride Center for a sign making party in Cafe Marmalade at 6P on Friday, November 14, 2008.

Later Saturday evening, from 6:00pm – 8:00pm at the State Capitol Building, Salt Lake City will again be gathering, this time for a Candlelight Vigil – there will be peaceful, uniting music and amazing company, culminating with “EQUALITY” spelled out on the Utah State Capitol lawn with 10,000 candles.

More Info:
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Join the Impact Salt Lake – Equality March
Join the Impact – Equality Vigil

Say NO to Torture 2008 November 15-16 in Arizona

Stop the Torture

Southwest Weekend of Witness

November 15-16, 2008 — Stop Torture!

Say NO to Torture 2008

Southwest Weekend of Witness

HUNDREDS WILL JOIN TOGETHER IN SOUTHERN ARIZONA

to SAY NO TO TORTURE
Save the dates… plan to join us!

Click here to download the event flyer.
And Please Do email, print, and otherwise distribute it.
Spread the word to make the voices against torture heard!

Click here for video
of the 3rd Weekend of Witness, arrest of Fathers Vitale & Kelly and an interview with Tucson activist Jerry Wharton.

Ft. Huachuca is the home of USAICS, the U.S. Army Intelligence Center and School, and has a long history of complicity in U.S. crimes of torture. The torture manuals used at the School of the Americas came from Ft. Huachuca.For several years, in solidarity with the SOA Watch annual vigil and action at Fort Benning, Georgia to close the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas (now the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) there has been a growing grassroots demonstration at the gate of Fort Huachuca to protest our country’s slipping standards on torture, being practiced in our name and with our tax dollars in places like Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. The November 2008 demonstration at Ft. Huachuca will take place the week before the Ft. Benning vigil and action.

All of these events are sponsored by Southwest Witness, Tucson SOA Watch, and Torture on Trial in solidarity with SOA Watch and their annual Vigil & Action at Ft. Benning, November 21-23.

For more information – visit, write or call

• southwestwitness.org
• tortureontrial.org
• southwestwitness@gmail.com
• 520.745.5803

Someone will get back to you as quickly as possible. More info will be posted to this site in the coming weeks so check back here for updates.

To find out more about the annual Vigil & Action at Ft. Benning on November 21-23,
visit School of the Americas Watch

Close the School of the Americas

Nov. 21-23, 2008: Thousands will converge on Fort Benning, Georgia for the November Vigil to Close the School of the Americas (SOA/WHINSEC)
Join torture survivors, community organizers, and social justice activists from across the Americas and converge at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia, to start building the world that we hope for. The annual November vigil to close the School of the Americas will follow the election of President Obama by two weeks. It will be an opportunity for the progressive movement to push for the closure of the SOA/WHINSEC and to set an agenda for a new direction in U.S. foreign policy.

Change is coming and we are going to close the School of the Americas (SOA/WHINSEC)!
Click here for the Schedule of Events

Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans join the homeless

Ethan Kreutzer joined the Army at the age of 17 and fought with the 19th Airborne in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. When he retuned home, he had no money, no education and no civilian job experience. He soon became homeless. He slept in an alley off Haight Street, behind two trash cans.

June Moss drove from Kuwait to Iraq as an Army engineer in a truck convoy. When she returned to the United States, she lost her home, and drove her two young children from hotel to hotel across Northern California.

Sean McKeen, a hardy, broad-shouldered 21-year-old with a wide smile, went to Iraq to clear land mines, and to get money for college. When he returned home, he became homeless in less than a week. He found himself sleeping in a cot in a crowded homeless shelter in San Francisco.

They are all part of a growing trend of homelessness among returning war on terrorism veterans.

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Arlington West Memorial

View the Arlington West Memorial Website
As a reference to the Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, and in keeping with the Veterans For Peace Statement of Purpose, these rows of white wooden crosses, Muslim crescents and stars of David, provide veterans and members of the armed forces, their families and friends, and the general public a place to grieve and honor the more than 4,800 American soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The memorial is also designed to raise public awareness of the real costs and consequences of American militarism and to provide a site that fosters dialogue and reflection.

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