No Funds For The Iraq War -No U.S. Intervention In Iraq

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Dear All, 

Today, the House is taking up its version of the National Defense Appropriations Act for Fiscal year 2015 (HR 4435).  This is one of the few time that Congress votes on peace issues.  Votes may start as early as this afternoon and continue through Friday afternoon.

Please call (202) 224-3121 and ask for your Representative (or give the operator your zip code to be directed) and say:

"My name is _______ and I am a constituent.  I am calling to request that Rep. _______ support amendments to the 2015  Defense Appropriations Bill (HR 4435) that cut Pentagon spending, bar the use of funds for combat troops and air strikes in Iraq, and that end the Afghanistan war as soon as possible. If these amendments aren't included I want my Representative to vote against the bill.  Thank you.”

This bill gives nearly half a trillion dollars to the Pentagon.  And that doesn’t include money for the Afghanistan war, or funding from an $80 billion slush fund called the Overseas Contingency Operation (OCO) account.  Nor does it include most of the budget for nuclear weapons.  All combined, the U.S. spends almost as much as ALL OTHER COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD COMBINED on Pentagon related programs. Does that represent our values?

Take a moment now to call your Representative. Please call (202) 224-3121 and ask for your Representative (or give the operator your zip code to be directed)

We expect amendments that will:

• End the Afghanistan War at the end of this year — it’s time to bring all troops and contractors home and to not leave any behind.
• Bar sending combat troops into Iraq — we’ve been down that horrible road.
• Cut the F-35 — the most expensive plane and Pentagon project in history.
• Cut the Littoral Combat Ship — experts say it will cost over three times the original estimate.
• Cut fighter jet research — the U.S. has already wasted enough tax payer money on over-priced planes that don’t work.

Again please take time NOW to CALL your Representative to cut the Pentagon budget so we can afford other priorities like job creation, education and infrastructure.  Please call (202) 224-3121 and ask for your Representative (or give the operator your zip code to be directed), and then use the script above.

For peace, Shelagh Foreman Program Director

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NO NEW U.S. WAR ON IRAQ

 

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1. The Iraq war killed millions — the politicians responsible are still walking free.

From 1991 to 2003, U.S. bombing and sanctions took 1 million Iraqi lives, including 500,000 children. Between 2003-2011 the U.S. war took another 1 million Iraqi lives. 5 million were made refugees. Tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers were killed or wounded. The U.S. policymakers—the war criminals—who carried out this human atrocity are still walking free, giving speeches and raking in millions of dollars in book deals.

2. The U.S. invasion and occupation is what caused the present situation.

The present civil conflict in Iraq is a result of the U.S. war and occupation, which destroyed the Iraqi government and divided the country along sectarian lines in order to conquer it. This reversed Iraq’s long history of secularism, and the coexistence and intermarrying among its diverse communities. Islamic extremist forces were practically non-existent in Iraq until the Pentagon invaded.  

3. The Iraqi people OPPOSE U.S. intervention.

Huge numbers of Iraqis fought the U.S. occupation. While the sectarian Iraqi government led by Maliki has requested U.S. intervention, that is the last thing that the majority of Iraqi people want.

4. The Pentagon and Wall St. want to control Iraq, not help it.

Millions of people protested Bush’s war. It was built on lies. Iraq was no threat and had no connection to the 9/11 attacks. It was a war for oil, profit and control. The same war criminals are now calling for new U.S. attacks in Iraq and escalating the war against the independent government of Syria. Don’t fall for their lies!

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No U.S, Intervention In Iraq! Rally In Boston

Rally - No Military Intervention in Iraq

When: Saturday, June 21, 2014, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Where: Park Street MBTA Station • Tremont & Park Sts. • Boston

NO BOMBS!  NO TROOPS! NO DRONES!
Despite spending a trillion dollars on the Iraq war from 2003 to 2009 that cost the lives of 4500 U.S. soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and despite providing billions of dollars worth of training to the security forces of our brutal ally in Baghdad, Iraq faces the prospect of a horrible civil war.
Former U.S. Marine veteran of the Iraq war in Fallujah, Ross Caputi, minces no words when he speaks of U.S. policy: “The Maliki regime has been waging a genocide against the Sunni population of Iraq for the past six months with US weapons. Any further support for Maliki, be it troops on the ground or more weapons, is absolutely unacceptable and immoral."
But as the situation in Iraq deteriorates, the “Never Learn” caucus is demanding more US military intervention in the form of ground troops, air strikes, Special Operations and weapons deliveries. The same leaders who lied to us to get us to go to war, now expect us to follow them down that same path again. And President Obama appears to be preparing for more military action.
But the unfolding tragedy in Iraq is a direct consequence of the illegal and brutal American invasion and occupation of that country. That invasion tore Iraqi society apart, setting off sectarian tensions that had not existed and giving rise to an extremist group that had never had a base in Iraq before.
It is pure lunacy to continue a policy that has caused so much suffering and turmoil. Whatever form it takes, U.S. military intervention will inflame the situation in the Middle East and drain more resources from our communities that need jobs, education and vital services.
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Rally - No Military Intervention in Iraq	Sat Jun 21	1:00pm	Park Street MBTA Station	Boston
Iran Lobby Day: Give Diplomacy a Chance!	Mon Jun 23	10:00am	Congressional Offices

 

No U.S, Intervention In Iraq!

U.S. No Troops -No Drones -No Bombs No Planes -No Mercenaries- No Materials To Iraq

CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST IN IRAQ

 

Tell President Obama "Don't Try to Put Out the Fire in Iraq With Gasoline!"

Have they learned nothing?  Please take action: Tell President Obama not to try putting out the fire with gasoline – no U.S. military intervention in Iraq, invest in diplomacy and international cooperation instead.

In the 1980’s the US supported Saddam Hussein when he was using poison gas against Iran and his own Kurdish population; in the 1990’s we starved Iraq with a punishing embargo, while at the same time looking the other way when the regime repressed uprisings by Kurds in the north and the mostly poor Shi’a majority in the south; after the 2003 invasion US troops stood by while Iraq’s cultural patrimony was looted and destroyed; we first installed a subservient regime under a US pro-consul, then cultivated a Shi’a-dominated government after elections boycotted by much of the Iraqi population; we looked the other way when “our” Iraqi government and its supporters emptied Baghdad’s Sunni neighborhoods under the noses of  US occupying troops; then we allied with Sunni tribal leaders to fight “al-Qaeda” but continued to look the other way when the new Iraqi government oppressed and disenfranchised non-Shi’a Arabs; now we seem to be trying to maneuver regime change in Baghdad to remove the same government we once empowered..

There was no “Al-Qaeda in Iraq” (or Syria) before our invasion. And, it must be noted, funding for the religious fanatics comes from “our” allies Turkey and the Gulf petro-monarchies – Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and others -- along with US-allied Pakistan in the background.  Just like the “Freedom Fighters” in Afghanistan during the 1980’s, where Osama bin-Laden came to prominence.

Amazingly, there are now rising voices from our DC elites for US airstrikes against the Iraqi insurgents, to send US military trainers for the Iraqi army or even to deploy US troops on the ground. Very few seem to have learned the lesson that US intervention is the cause of the present nightmare in Iraq, not the solution.

The catastrophic outcomes of neo-colonial “divide and rule” have a lineage extending back throughout the 20^th century in the Middle East and beyond.  Once it was the British and French empire builders sowing chaos; now it is US neo-conservative and neo-liberal “democracy promoters.”  Same chickens, different roost.

 

Black Flags Over Mosul

An army of Sunni fighters affiliated to al Qaida crossed the Syrian border into Iraq on Tuesday, scattering defensive units from the Iraqi security forces, capturing Iraq’s second biggest city of Mosul, and sending 500,000 civilians fleeing for safety. The unexpected jihadi blitz has left President Barack Obama’s Middle East policy in tatters and created a crisis of incalculable magnitude. The administration will now be forced to focus its attention and resources on this new flashpoint hoping that it can prevent the makeshift militia from marching on Baghdad and toppling the regime of Nouri al Maliki.  Events on the ground are moving at breakneck speed as the extremists have expanded their grip to Saddam’s birthplace in Tikrit and north to Baiji, home to Iraq’s biggest refinery. The political thread that held Iraq together has snapped pushing Iraq closer to a full-blown civil war.   More

 

OBAMA: ALL OPTIONS OPEN ON IRAQ

US President Barack Obama says his government is looking at "all options", including military action, to help Iraq fight Islamist militants. But the White House also insisted it had no intention of sending ground troops. The remarks came after the cities of Mosul and Tikrit fell to Sunni Islamist insurgents during a lightning advance.The US has begun moving defence contractors working with the Iraqi military to safer areas. More

 

Congress divided over US military action in Iraq

Several Republicans urged military intervention following reports that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has called for US strikes by drones and manned aircraft. "There is no scenario where we can stop the bleeding in Iraq without American air power," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told reporters after a closed Armed Services Committee briefing with Defense Department officials. House Foreign Affairs Committee member and Iraq war veteran Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., has been one of the most vocal proponents in the lower chamber. "We've got to get involved with airstrikes, stiffening the spines of the Iraqis," Kinzinger told Al-Monitor. "If Baghdad falls, it's really hard to imagine a Middle East that looks like that." …House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters at her weekly press conference that there is "no appetite in our country to be engaged in any military activity in Iraq." "I don’t think this is our responsibility," Pelosi said.  More

 

MALIKI'S MOST SOLEMN HOUR

Some analysts said during the Second Gulf War that al Qaeda would be trading up from Afghanistan if it secured a base in Iraq. It was a prescient thought, but perhaps premature: between 2007 and 2010, Iraqis by and large rejected that fate for their country and dealt a body blow to the foreign Sunni jihadists who entered the country. But then the Syrian Civil War began... The most significant of these "new" groups has been the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), which over the past year has spent as much time fighting other Syrian rebels groups as the Syrian Arab Republic's forces. ISIS was once aligned with al Qaeda's central command, but has since gone its own way… Sunni grievances against the government are real and legion: job discrimination, undue prosecution of activists, human rights violations by the police, welfare cuts that "punish" the Sunnis for their collaborationist role in past dictatorships. Well before this uprising, "the Sunnis [had] lost faith in the political process and the jihadists were once again able to make inroads among them."  More

 

The Fall of Mosul and the False Promises of Modern History

The fall of Mosul to the radical, extremist Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a set of historical indictments…  Integrating Mosul into British Iraq, over which London placed Faisal bin Hussein as imported king after the French unceremoniously ushered him from Damascus, allowed the British to depend on the old Ottoman Sunni elite, including former Ottoman officers trained in what is now Turkey. This strategy marginalized the Shiite south, full of poor peasants and small towns, which, if they gave the British trouble, were simply bombed by the RAF. (Iraq under British rule was intensively aerially bombed for a decade and RAF officers were so embarrassed by these proceedings that they worried about the British public finding out.)  To rule fractious Syria, the French (1920-1943) appealed to religious minorities such as the Alawites and Christians.  More

 

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U.S. No Troops -No Drones -No Bombs No Planes -No Mercenaries- No Materials To Iraq

CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST IN IRAQ

 

Tell President Obama "Don't Try to Put Out the Fire in Iraq With Gasoline!"

Have they learned nothing?  Please take action: Tell President Obama not to try putting out the fire with gasoline – no U.S. military intervention in Iraq, invest in diplomacy and international cooperation instead.

In the 1980’s the US supported Saddam Hussein when he was using poison gas against Iran and his own Kurdish population; in the 1990’s we starved Iraq with a punishing embargo, while at the same time looking the other way when the regime repressed uprisings by Kurds in the north and the mostly poor Shi’a majority in the south; after the 2003 invasion US troops stood by while Iraq’s cultural patrimony was looted and destroyed; we first installed a subservient regime under a US pro-consul, then cultivated a Shi’a-dominated government after elections boycotted by much of the Iraqi population; we looked the other way when “our” Iraqi government and its supporters emptied Baghdad’s Sunni neighborhoods under the noses of  US occupying troops; then we allied with Sunni tribal leaders to fight “al-Qaeda” but continued to look the other way when the new Iraqi government oppressed and disenfranchised non-Shi’a Arabs; now we seem to be trying to maneuver regime change in Baghdad to remove the same government we once empowered..

There was no “Al-Qaeda in Iraq” (or Syria) before our invasion. And, it must be noted, funding for the religious fanatics comes from “our” allies Turkey and the Gulf petro-monarchies – Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and others -- along with US-allied Pakistan in the background.  Just like the “Freedom Fighters” in Afghanistan during the 1980’s, where Osama bin-Laden came to prominence.

Amazingly, there are now rising voices from our DC elites for US airstrikes against the Iraqi insurgents, to send US military trainers for the Iraqi army or even to deploy US troops on the ground. Very few seem to have learned the lesson that US intervention is the cause of the present nightmare in Iraq, not the solution.

The catastrophic outcomes of neo-colonial “divide and rule” have a lineage extending back throughout the 20^th century in the Middle East and beyond.  Once it was the British and French empire builders sowing chaos; now it is US neo-conservative and neo-liberal “democracy promoters.”  Same chickens, different roost.

 

Black Flags Over Mosul

An army of Sunni fighters affiliated to al Qaida crossed the Syrian border into Iraq on Tuesday, scattering defensive units from the Iraqi security forces, capturing Iraq’s second biggest city of Mosul, and sending 500,000 civilians fleeing for safety. The unexpected jihadi blitz has left President Barack Obama’s Middle East policy in tatters and created a crisis of incalculable magnitude. The administration will now be forced to focus its attention and resources on this new flashpoint hoping that it can prevent the makeshift militia from marching on Baghdad and toppling the regime of Nouri al Maliki.  Events on the ground are moving at breakneck speed as the extremists have expanded their grip to Saddam’s birthplace in Tikrit and north to Baiji, home to Iraq’s biggest refinery. The political thread that held Iraq together has snapped pushing Iraq closer to a full-blown civil war.   More

 

OBAMA: ALL OPTIONS OPEN ON IRAQ

US President Barack Obama says his government is looking at "all options", including military action, to help Iraq fight Islamist militants. But the White House also insisted it had no intention of sending ground troops. The remarks came after the cities of Mosul and Tikrit fell to Sunni Islamist insurgents during a lightning advance.The US has begun moving defence contractors working with the Iraqi military to safer areas. More

 

Congress divided over US military action in Iraq

Several Republicans urged military intervention following reports that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has called for US strikes by drones and manned aircraft. "There is no scenario where we can stop the bleeding in Iraq without American air power," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told reporters after a closed Armed Services Committee briefing with Defense Department officials. House Foreign Affairs Committee member and Iraq war veteran Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., has been one of the most vocal proponents in the lower chamber. "We've got to get involved with airstrikes, stiffening the spines of the Iraqis," Kinzinger told Al-Monitor. "If Baghdad falls, it's really hard to imagine a Middle East that looks like that." …House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters at her weekly press conference that there is "no appetite in our country to be engaged in any military activity in Iraq." "I don’t think this is our responsibility," Pelosi said.  More

 

MALIKI'S MOST SOLEMN HOUR

Some analysts said during the Second Gulf War that al Qaeda would be trading up from Afghanistan if it secured a base in Iraq. It was a prescient thought, but perhaps premature: between 2007 and 2010, Iraqis by and large rejected that fate for their country and dealt a body blow to the foreign Sunni jihadists who entered the country. But then the Syrian Civil War began... The most significant of these "new" groups has been the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), which over the past year has spent as much time fighting other Syrian rebels groups as the Syrian Arab Republic's forces. ISIS was once aligned with al Qaeda's central command, but has since gone its own way… Sunni grievances against the government are real and legion: job discrimination, undue prosecution of activists, human rights violations by the police, welfare cuts that "punish" the Sunnis for their collaborationist role in past dictatorships. Well before this uprising, "the Sunnis [had] lost faith in the political process and the jihadists were once again able to make inroads among them."  More

 

The Fall of Mosul and the False Promises of Modern History

The fall of Mosul to the radical, extremist Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a set of historical indictments…  Integrating Mosul into British Iraq, over which London placed Faisal bin Hussein as imported king after the French unceremoniously ushered him from Damascus, allowed the British to depend on the old Ottoman Sunni elite, including former Ottoman officers trained in what is now Turkey. This strategy marginalized the Shiite south, full of poor peasants and small towns, which, if they gave the British trouble, were simply bombed by the RAF. (Iraq under British rule was intensively aerially bombed for a decade and RAF officers were so embarrassed by these proceedings that they worried about the British public finding out.)  To rule fractious Syria, the French (1920-1943) appealed to religious minorities such as the Alawites and Christians.  More

 

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No U.S. Intervention In Iraq

worldcantwait.net Thu, Jun 19, 2014 08:40 AM

View this message in your browser. Day of / Day After Protests When the US Starts Bombing Iraq. IN THE EVENT of U.S. bombing of Iraq, choose the best protest location in your city/town, and call on people to go there at 5:00 pm the day of the attack, or, in the case of an evening attack, the next day at 5:00 pm. Post your event on Facebook. Post your event at worldcantwait.net. Stop the U.S. from doing what it's threatening! U.S. bombs, military aid in support its Maliki government will surely make things worse. This is the message World Can't Wait is distributing: NO MORE War on Iraq! U.S. bombings, economic strangulation through sanctions, and occupation over 23 years are responsible for uncounted deaths – possibly over 1 million – leaving a third of the population displaced, in need of emergency aid or dead. Above: protests against more war on Iraq Watch video by Stan Heller from protest in NYC Tuesday in front of an Obama fundraiser. The current problem is NOT that the U.S. finally withdrew military forces in 2012, but its illegitimate invasions in 1991 and 2003. The USA's occupation of Iraq was conducted in a lawless way, destroying their education, legal, medical, water, sewage, security and electrical systems. When Iraqis rebelled, Bush's “surge” in 2007 handed out arms to Sunni and Shia, supporting death squads on both sides to set them against each other. The U.S. withdrawal in 2012 left what had been a relatively secular country split along sectarian lines, with a weak puppet government, and a huge opening for Islamic fundamentalists to push for religious rule. No party in this fight, not Islamic militias, not the Maliki government — paid for by the U.S. — and certainly not the war machine of the U.S. itself, has "right" on its side. Tomahawk missiles fired from US carriers in the Persian Gulf, drone strikes and bombs can only bring unimaginable suffering to the Iraqi people. We in the U.S. must speak out against any U.S. attacks on Iraq. By exposing and standing against the lies and crimes of our government, whether by Bush or Obama, we can make a difference in how people see what's going on. Saturday is Day 500 of the Guantanamo prison hunger strike, begun February 2013.  Thanks to Center for Constitutional Rights: 779 men and boys, all of them Muslim, have been imprisoned over time at Guantánamo since January 2002. 86%* were sold to the United States during a time when the U.S. military was offering large bounties for capture; commonly, $5,000 offered per man. 629 men have been transferred. 149 men remain detained. 88 of them are from Yemen. 78 have been cleared for release for years but remain imprisoned. 58 of those who are cleared for release are Yemenis, but they continue to be detained because of their citizenship. There have been 0 transfers to Yemen since June 2010. Reprieve, who is representing prisoner Abu Wa'el Dhiab in a federal lawsuit against the government, to stop its force feeding of prisoners, reports: Last week, an affidavit from a fellow prisoner, Ahmed Rabbani, revealed that the prison authorities had confiscated Mr Dhiab’s wheelchair and, when he was unable to walk to force-feeding sessions, dragged him forcibly to the feeding chair. Last week, he said, staff beat Mr Dhiab “so badly, he had blood in his faeces. I heard him vomiting for much of the night.” It also surfaced that during the same period - and after the judge's order to disclose taped evidence - Guantánamo authorities stopped videotaping forcible cell extractions for what is believed to be the first time in over nine years. More from Andy Worthington in The Latest News on the Guantanamo Force-Feeding Videotapes, and the Prisoners' Ongoing Legal Challenges. Our friend L. Michael Hager contributed an excellent New York Times letter to the editor on the force-feedings: Re “U.S. Judge Decides ‘Anguishing’ Case on Force-Feeding” (front page, May 24): Americans need to know what is being perpetrated in their name. Judge Gladys Kessler of Federal District Court, in her decision (reversing an earlier order) regarding the Guantánamo Bay hunger striker Jihad Ahmed Mujstafa Diyab, effectively allowed force-feeding, a painful procedure internationally condemned as torture. To excuse such a procedure as lifesaving ignores a more likely political reason: to keep a prisoner’s starvation from attracting the world’s outrage. Americans should see force-feeding for what it is: another example of Guantánamo’s shameful abuses. L. MICHAEL HAGER Eastham, Mass., May 24, 2014  The writer is co-founder and former director general of the International Development Law Organization in Rome. Share this message: World Can't Wait Conversation TONIGHT Thursday, June 19 10pm Eastern / 7pm Pacific Topic for discussion: Iraq, Syria -- What is going on? What are the "interests of the United States" as defined by Obama, and what are our interests in this situation?  What questions & opinions are you encountering, and how are you answering? Register for dial-in info. Real history lessons:  Watch Iraq: War Against the People, The Hidden Story of the Gulf War by Larry Everest, covering the terrible effects of the first U.S. war on Iraq.  — CALENDAR — Thursday June 19 Washington, DC Thursday June 19 at 1pm The National Press Club, Lisagor Room 529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor Press Conference: Iraq Veterans Warn Obama Against Military Action with Ross Caputi, Matt Southworth, Tim Kahlor, Ray McGovern Philadelphia, PA Thursday, June 19, 1PM 15th and Market St. New York THURSDAY June 19 at 7pm An Evening for Chelsea Manning TheaterLab (357 W 36th St, 3rd Floor) Friday June 20 Chicago, IL Friday, June 20, 5 pmWater Tower Michigan Ave. & Pearson St.(1 block north of Chicago Ave.) New OrleansFriday June 20 4:00 to 5:30 Protest at Duncan Plaza in front of City Hall at 1300 Perdido Street Albuquerque, NM Fri., June 20, 6PM UNM Bookstore (intersection of Central & Cornell) New York, NY Friday, June 20, 6pm Harlem Armed Forces Recruitment Center 76 W. 125th St (2/3 trains) Saturday June 21 Washington, DC Saturday June 21, 1pm White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave Los Angeles, CA Sat., June 21, 1PM Pershing Square (Corner of 5th & Hill) Downtown LA San Francisco, CA Sat., June 21, 12noon Corner of Powell and Market Sts Sacramento, CASat., June 21, 1PM Arden Way & Heritage Ln. Eureka, CASat. June 21, 12 Noon County Courthouse, 5th & I St.  Fresno, CA Saturday, June 21 10am - 1pm Peace Corner - Blackstone & Shaw Auburn, CA Sat., June 21, 5PM At the Fire Pit Corner of Lincoln Way & High St. Tallahassee, FL Sat., June 21, 12:30PM Florida State Capitol 400 South Monroe Street New Haven, CT Saturday, June 21, 11AM College & Chapel Streets Boston, MA Saturday, June 21, 1PM Boston Common outside Park St. Station Sunday June 22 Seattle, WA Sunday, June 22, 1PM Westlake Center 400 Pine St. Austin, TX Sunday, June 22, 3-5PM Texas State Capitol 1300 North Congress Monday June 23 Raleigh, NC Monday June 23 at 4pm Morgan St. side of Capitol Building Debra Sweet, Director, The World Can't Wait If you were forwarded this message and would like to subscribe directly, sign up here. 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15 Now Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Meeting June 21st 1pm  JP Public Library - Connolly Branch 433 Centre St

Over the last few weeks, 15 Now has been collecting signatures to put a $15/hr minimum wage on the ballot in several districts in Massachusetts, including JP and we've had neighborhood meetings all over the city of Boston. This Saturday, please join us at a JP neighborhood meeting, where we will talk about what we're doing but where JP workers and youth like you can express your ideas and questions surrounding 15 Now. The only way to win $15/hr is through building a movement of and by ordinary working people. Help us build 15 Now in your neighborhood! See you Saturday! Click here to RSVP on Facebook We Need $15/Hour NOW! 15 Now was launched in January of 2014 by Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant and her organization Socialist Alternative with the support of unions, community organizations and low-wage workers. Within six months our grassroots campaign won a historic victory in Seattle, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. The first major city in the US to do so!   The victory of the campaign in Seattle marks a major turning point for working people. During a time when workers and unions are on the defensive from a seemingly unstoppable attack from big business, working people stood up to corporate power and won an estimated $3 billion wage increase for the lowest paid workers over the next 10 years, lifting 25% of the workforce in Seattle out of poverty. the message is clear: we can take on big business and win! 15 Now is an open grassroots organization that anyone can join who wants to help organize working people into a mass movement to win a $15 an hour minimum wage.    With over 30 chapters, 15 Now is spreading across the country like a prairie fire. From putting $15 on the ballot in Boston to pushing efforts forward in Chicago, the Bay Area, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, and New York City -15 Now is a leading force in the struggle against the great scourge of our time - inequality!   Contact us:  15NowNewEngland@gmail.com Facebook.com/15NowNewEngland 910-639-3948

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