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Saturday March 18, 2006
New Haven
Details Under Development Probably 11:00 PM

This march and rally will connect the dots to highlight the linkages between this illegal and immoral war and many of the injustices and domestic neglect that arise.

The Call:

Major Demands:
Bring the Troops Home Now! 
End the Occupation of Iraq!
Money for the Reconstruction of the Gulf Coast, not War! 
The subordinate demands
No War on Iran, 
World Nuclear Disarmament Now, 
Justice for the Palestinian People, 
No to the Attacks on Arab-Americans, Muslims, and the immigrant community: 
Civil Liberties for All!

Overview:

To Be Developed

Speakers:

To Be Developed

Related Educational Events:  
A series of workshops will be held following the march and rally to learn about the connections 

To Be Developed

Sponsoring Organizations:

Al-Awda, Palestine Right to Return Committee, CT
American Friends Service Committee, CT
Bridgeport Teachers For Peace
Colombia Action/CT
Connecticut Coalition for Peace and Justice
Connecticut Peace Coalition, New Haven
Connecticut Communist Party USA
Central Connecticut State University Progressive Student Alliance
Danbury Committee for World Peace
Genesis Internet Café
Greater Hartford Coalition on Cuba
Greater New Haven Peace Council
Green Party, New Haven
Hartford Catholic Worker
Hartford Bring the Troops Home Now
International Socialist Organization

Justice for Palestinians Committee, Danbury
LaBOR aRT & MuRAL PRoJECT
La Paloma Sabanera Coffeehouse & Bookstore
Latinos Contra la Guerra, Hartford
La Voz Latina, Trinity College
Manchester Peace Coalition
Middle East Crisis Committee
National Organization of Women, CT Chapter
People of Faith-CT wwwfaithCTorg
Regional Coalition For Immigrant Rights

Southern Connecticut State University Campus Anti-War Network
Todo Connecticut Con Vieques
We Refuse to Be Enemies
World Can't Wait, Danbury chapter
World Can't Wait, New Haven chapter
World Can't Wait, Stonington chapter
University of Connecticut Progressive Student Alliance
UConn Free Press
Unidad Latina en Accion, New Haven
United Students Against Sweatshops -- UConn
Vecinos Unidos
 

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Directions:  

To Be Developed

Contacts:

To Be Developed

Connecticut Opposes the WAR!
Sunday March 19, 2006
Old State House, 800 Main St., Hartford
2:00 PM

This march and rally will conclude the weekend events and will emphasize the loudest demand of them all Bring the Troops Home Now! End the Occupation of Iraq!

The Call:

$250 BILLION spent on the war so far! This money could fund Jobs, Health Care, Education and Housing; Take Care of Our Vets and Fight Violence in our Cities!

Overview:

March from the State House to Senator Lieberman’s Office
Remind Senator Lieberman that Connecticut Opposes the War! He Should Too!

Speakers:

To Be Developed

To Be Developed

Sponsoring Organizations:

CT AFL-CIO;
CT American Federation of Teachers;
CT Citizens Action Group (CCAG);
CT Coalition forPeace & Justice;
CT Labor Against the War;
CT National Organization of Women (NOW);
CT State Representatives
    Andy Fleischmann,
    Evelyn Mantilla,
    David McCluskey,
    Melissa Olson,
    Brendan Sharkey,
    Toni Walker;
CT State Senator
    Jonathan Harris;
Charter Oak Cultural Center;
Congress of CT Community Colleges Peace Caucus;
District 1199,SEIU;
Episcopal Peace Fellowship;
Greater New Haven Peace Council;
Inter-faith Coalition for Equity & Justice;
Peace Action of Greater Hartford;
Reclaiming the Prophetic Voice;
W.Hartford Citizens for Peace & Justice;
Veterans for Peace, Central Connecticut

Directions:  

To Be Developed

Contacts:

Sign on for more information at: www.groups.yahoo.com/groups/CTOW

Email: CTopposesWar@yahoo.com

Does our lifestyle depend on war? Then let's change it! On Wednesday and Thursday of the week leading up to the anniversary, we encourage single drivers to break with routine and either carpool or take the bus. We will be at Sheldon Field (Bridge Street just west of I-91) to organize commutes during the morning rush (7:30-9:00 a.m.).

Beyond these two days, No Go Solo is an ongoing campaign to combat the culture of single-occupancy automobiles and to encourage the alternatives. Please visit its dedicated web site, where you will find rideshare and bus information.

Join the youth of Springfield for music, poetry, speakers -- Let's End War!

Rally will be immediately followed by Town Hall Meeting (see next entry).

http://wmass-3years.org

Hear Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr. talk about what our national priorities should be: funding for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, not for the Iraq War. There will be a speak-out following Rev. Yearwood's talk.

http://westernmassafsc.org/calendar/calendar.html

Former head of the Department of Homeland Security Tom Ridge will be given this year's Holyoke St. Patrick's Day Parade JFK Award at a church service. Picket outside the church before the service.

Help leaflet the Holyoke St. Patrick's Day Parade to stop the war! Meet at 10:45 in Holyoke Community College parking lot to carpool to the parade. (Use main HCC entrance off Homestead Ave; go in main entrance, go left, go to parking lot at top of hill.)

[Map to HCC] [Map of HCC Campus]

We will mark the anniversary as a community with a large-scale candlelight vigil.

http://wmass-3years.org

Protest the poverty and race draft!

http://wmass-3years.org

12:30 pm, Mournfully and solemnly gather outside of Rep. Simmons office 2 Courthouse Square, Norwich, CT  06360

1:30 pm          Funeral procession with coffins to Norwich Military Recruiting Center

2:15 pm          Arrive at Norwich Military Recruiting Center 

2:30-4 pm      Activist mourning witness at the Recruiting Center

4:00 pm          Die-in and other nonviolent actions by those willing to risk arrest

http://sectpeaceandjustice.net/events.htm

Bring the Troops Home Now! Demonstrate at Cong. John Olver's office to demand the immediate withdrawal of US troops from Iraq.

http://wmass-3years.org

Your presence in Chicopee is important! Discuss torture, spying, and secret arrests with Rep. Richard Neal (D- MA), former Rep. Bob Barr (R-Georgia), and Carol Rose, Director, Mass. ACLU.

http://wmass-3years.org

The State Campaign to Bring the Troops Home Now is working to collect the necessary signatures to place the following referendum on the ballot in every district in Massachusetts: "Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to vote in favor of a resolution calling upon the President and the U.S. Congress to end the war in Iraq immediately and bring our troops home." [More info]

http://wmass-3years.org

http://www.waronokepeace.org