A Call to Peace, Climate and Social Justice Groups for

Greater Boston Demonstration against the U.S. war in Syria and Iraq.

 

Organizing meeting Monday, October 27 at 7pm

Encuentro 5, 9 Hamilton Place, Boston- across from the Park street subway stop

 

The U.S. attacks on Syria and Iraq are a disastrous setback for peace, the rule of law, and for a diplomatic resolution of the upheaval in the Middle East.

These wars divert attention and resources from the economic well-being of U.S. families and the need to address climate change. They undermine the kind of international cooperation that is needed to address urgent needs in the world community.  The new war will consume all the money in Washington – there is no way funding will be available for climate change, housing, or jobs if the U.S. starts a new war.

The devastation of Iraq caused by Bush’s war led to the destruction of the Iraqi state, to heretofore unknown bloody sectarian warfare, to a repressive sectarian government in Iraq, and now to the emergence of ISIS, armed to the teeth with American weapons captured from groups we trained and armed.

No one knows what new horrors our resumption of the Iraq war and our new war in Syria will unleash.   The president tells us these wars will last many years. We need to start to lay the groundwork to stop them.

United for Justice with Peace, a coalition of Eastern Massachusetts peace and justice groups formed after 9/11, calls on all groups committed to peace and nonviolent resistance to meet together on Monday, October 27 to plan an anti-war demonstration that will hopefully launch a new phase in our opposition to these criminal wars.

Over the summer and fall we held 3 emergency rallies at Park Street. Now we need to try to organize a larger event which we can hopefully build on over the upcoming months and years to mobilize anti-war sentiment as we have done in the past. This time we hope to make this antiwar movement a part of a much broader movement for social justice and climate survival.

27 national groups have called for a week of action against the Iraq/Syria war on Nov. 10-14, with a focus on Congress.   Veterans for Peace has an Armistice Day parade scheduled on Tuesday, Nov. 11.  At the Oct. 27 meeting we will consider various options for what we can do.  Please send a representative from your group.   For info, call 617-354-2169 or write info@justicewithpeace.org.