Jackson
Debra Sweet 866-973 4463
www.worldcantwait.org
Support Vigil for Berkeley CA
City Council’s Letter Against Marine Recruiters
When:
Monday February 11 7:00 pm until 7:00 pm Tuesday City Council Meeting
CODEPINK
organized encampment with World Can’t Wait
Tuesday February 12
5:00 am
World Can’t Wait & CODEPINK counter-protest right-wing press event
12 noon protest coalition press
conference/rally led by CODEPINK
7:00 pm
City Council Meeting
Where: Berkeley City Hall lawn, 2134 MLK Jr. Way at Allston Way, Berkeley
CA
A months-long
effort to close a new Marine recruiting office near Berkeley High School
moves to City Hall tonight. Supporters
of the City Council’s January letter that the office “is
not welcome in the city, and if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited
and unwelcome intruders,” have gathered thousands of support messages
for the council members, and tonight will begin a 24 hour support vigil.
“Everyone who supports
the Berkeley City Council’s courageous stand against this immoral, illegitimate
war and occupation of Iraq
must make our support public, loud, and real.
The whole country is watching. We
are the majority, in Berkeley,
in this country, and in the world,” said Giovanni Jackson, youth organizer for the
Bay Area chapter of The World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime.
Pro-war
U.S. Senators, led by Senator
Jim DeMint, and California Republican politicians are threatening to take federal
and state education and transportation money away from Berkeley. Pro-war protesters are criticizing
the council’s stand against the war, planning a 5:00 am Tuesday picket at
City Hall.
Jackson said that World Can’t Wait will
continue to join with Code Pink for Peace and anti-war groups to protest the
recruiting station, located hear Berkeley
High School. On Friday, February 15, as part of a national
Iraq Moratorium, The World Can’t Wait and other groups will be at the Shattuck Avenue recruiting
center all day.
“We
do not support a military that is engaging in war crimes and crimes against
humanity. When U.S. soldiers
sign up for the military, they give up all their rights. They can be executed for disobeying orders. Think about what they are being ordered to
do. We are learning more every day about
the U.S. military carrying
out orders to torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. But the great majority of people in the United States
are against torture, against this war, and the Bush administration launching
this war based on lies.”
For additional information about World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the
Bush Regime actions around the United
States see www.worldcantwait.org.