Rally: Stop US bombing in Iraq/Syria and Bring Troops Home

When: Tuesday, June 30, 2015, 5:00 pm to 7:15 pm

Where: Harvard Square MBTA entrance • Cambridge

President Obama recently announced that he is sending 450 more U.S. troops to Iraq. These new troops join 3,050 troops already in Iraq and a number of U.S. warships. They are setting up a U.S. military base on Iraqi soil. We have been bombing Iraq since 1991 with a new escalation last August. These actions are called war. Further escalations no doubt lie just down the road.
The US has spent trillions and killed hundreds of thousands, including more than 4,500 US dead  in the decades of war on Iraq. That war destroyed the infrastructure of the country and opened the door to the murderous group called ISIS.   It is a catastrophic disaster for the people of Iraq.
Successive administrations keep the wars going. But war is not the answer to the complicated disasters now occurring in the middle east. ISIS is using our weapons it keeps stealing from the Iraqi army that we keep training and arming.
In addition to arming and fueling conflict in the middle east, the US is moving heavy tanks to border states with Russia and making threatening moves with regard to China (South China sea) in an ominous escalation and reviving of hostilities not seen since the end of the cold war.
Saudi Arabia uses weapons it purchases from the U.S. to commit massive atrocities from the air against the civilian population of Yemen.
Join United for Justice with Peace to protest these dangerous escalations. The rally will take place in Harvard Square and will begin at 5pm. After the rally we will join the 70 days 4 peace vigil at University Lutheran Church on Winthrop St. from 7:00-7:16pm. 

 

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