<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><B style="RIGHT: auto">The wars and occupations in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region style="RIGHT: auto" w:st="on"><st1:place style="RIGHT: auto" w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> rage on. For ten years the people of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:place></st1:country-region> have suffered US bombing, invasion and occupation of their country. Thousands of innocent people have died. Through our military actions there we are recruiting ever more people to Al-Qaeda and the war on terrorism could continue forever. The wars and <st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region> addiction to militarism are bankrupting the
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> and our government is forced to make drastic cuts in social services including funds for schools, libraries, job training, and programs for the young and elderly. </B></div>
<div><B>We have prayed, we have written letters to our Congresspeople, we have vigiled, demonstrated and gone to jail, but our government has not listened to the majority of American people who want to end these wars. If not now, When, If not us, Who? <BR><BR>NOW is the time to speak with our lives and bodies that this senseless killing and destruction must end. This is the time the American people must DEMAND that we bring the Billions of dollars squandered in these wars home to meet human needs at home. Security is found not through wars, military bases all over the world and a new generation of nuclear weapons, but in building a world in which every person can live with dignity with food, education, healthcare and a home to live in. How much safer we would be if we contributed billions for improving the lives of people all over the world rather than for weapons to kill? </B></div>
<div><B>Now is the time to bring the Spirit of <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Tahrir Square</st1:address></st1:Street> in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Egypt</st1:country-region> to the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> and demand that our government listen to the people instead of the military industrial complex and the corporations. </B></div>
<div><B>We invite you to join thousands of us who will gather in Freedom Plaza in Washington DC October 6 to begin sustained nonviolent resistance to the wars and American militarism and demand that we bring the billions of dollars home to our communities across this country which so badly need these funds. </B></div>
<div><B>Please look at the website <A href="http://www.october2011.org/" target=_blank>www.october2011.org</A> and if the Spirit moves you, join us for a day, a week or as long as you can. Thousands of us will nonviolently demand:</B></div>
<div><B>*End the wars, bring the troops home, cut military spending and bring the billions of $ home</B></div>
<div><B>*Tax the Rich and corporations</B></div>
<div><B>*Protect the Social Security net, strengthen Social Security and Medicare for all</B></div>
<div><B>*End corporate welfare for oil companies and other big business interests</B></div>
<div><B>*Transition to a clean energy economy, reverse environmental degradation</B></div>
<div><B>*Protect worker rights including collective bargaining, create jobs and raise wages</B></div>
<div><B>*Get Money out of politics</B></div>
<div><B>Hope to see many of you in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:State> and please help spread the word!</B></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><B style="RIGHT: auto">Peace,</B></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><B style="RIGHT: auto">Dave and Jan Hart<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>sough<BR style="RIGHT: auto"></div></B>
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<div>A Call to Action from the Oct. 2011 movement: check out the website: <A href="http://www.october2011.org/" target=_blank>www.october2011.org</A><o:p></o:p></div>
<div><B>October 2011 is the 10th anniversary of the invasion of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:place></st1:country-region> and the beginning of the 2012 federal austerity budget. It is time to light the spark that sets off a true democratic, nonviolent transition to a world in which people are freed to create just and sustainable solutions.</B><o:p></o:p></div>
<div>We call on people of conscience and courage—all who seek peace, economic justice, human rights and a healthy environment—to join together in <st1:City w:st="on">Washington</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">D.C.</st1:State>, beginning on Oct. 6, 2011, in nonviolent resistance similar to the Arab Spring and the <st1:place w:st="on">Midwest</st1:place> awakening. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div>A concert, rally and protest will kick off a powerful and sustained nonviolent resistance to the corporate criminals that dominate our government.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">Forty-seven years ago, Mario Savio, an activist student at Berkeley, said, "There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all."<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">Those words have an even greater urgency today. We face ongoing wars and massive socio-economic and environmental destruction perpetrated by a corporate empire which is oppressing, occupying and exploiting the world. We are on a fast track to making the planet unlivable while the middle class and poor people of our country are undergoing the most wrenching and profound economic crisis in 80 years.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div><B>"Stop the Wars! • Create a New World!"</B> is a clarion call for all who are deeply concerned with injustice, militarism and environmental destruction to join in ending concentrated corporate power and taking direct control of a real participatory democracy. We will encourage a culture of resistance—using music, art, theater and direct nonviolent action—to take control of our country and our lives. It is about courageously resisting and stopping the corporate state from destroying not only our inherent rights and freedoms, but also our children’s chance to live, breathe clean air, drink pure water, grow edible natural food and live in peace.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div>As Mother Jones said, "Someday the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!"<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">We are the ones who can create a new and just world. Our issues are connected. We are connected. <B style="RIGHT: auto">Join us in <st1:City style="RIGHT: auto" w:st="on">Washington</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">D.C.</st1:State>, on Oct. 6, 2011, to End the Wars and Create a <st1:place w:st="on">New World</st1:place>!</B><o:p></o:p></div>
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