ALL PROGRESSIVES: TAKE THE NJ "PEACE TRAIN" TO NEWARK NJ THIS SATURDAY, DEC. 4T : IMC Print

Please join Jersey City Peace Movement on Sat Dec 4th @ 11:45 am in Journal Square. The JCPM will form a feeder rally to join the "Peace Train" in Newark. (See info below.)

We will take the PATH to Newark at 12:15. There we will join other feeder rallies at the Peter Francisco Park (the back of the Newark PATH station - near IronBound district.)

Please bring a old pair of shoes to help represent lives lost in Iraq since March 03 (see below.)

Hope to see you all,
Peace
Narita Maraj
Erik-Anders Nilsson
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NJ COALITION AGAINST WAR ON IRAQ
Contact: Madelyn Hoffman, Director, NJ Peace Action at (973) 344-7263 (w)
The Rev. Bob Moore, Director, Coalition for Peace Action, (609) 924-5022 (w);
"RIDE THE PEACE TRAIN,"
BRING THE TROOPS HOME!
END THE WAR
WHO: The New Jersey Coalition Against War on Iraq, a statewide coalition co-coordinated by the Montclair-based NJ Peace Action and the Princeton-based Coalition for Peace Action, and local groups in numerous NJ locations, including Bergen County, Morristown, Newark, New Brunswick, Plainfield, Princeton, , Somerset County and Trenton (list in formation). The coalition includes students, ecumenical groups, civil rights organizations and anti-war committees from throughout the state. For local contacts, please call the numbers above.
WHAT: The 4th Annual Peace Train, March and Rally against the war in Iraq. Participants are being asked to bring at least one pair of shoes to represent one of the more than 1200 American troops who have lost their lives since the invasion began in March of 2003. Panels from the Iraq Memorial Wall will also be on display, particularly those representing Iraqi civilian deaths. GREAT PHOTO OPPORTUNITY!

WHERE: Rally at Peter Francisco Park, diagonally across from Newark's Penn Station, followed by March up Market Street to Broad Street, ending up with a rally at Newark City Hall on Broad Street in Newark, where the empty shoes will be displayed. Newark is a critical location for this event – since more money spent on the military means more violence and destruction and less money for schools, health care, education and expanding the local economy.

WHEN: Saturday, December 4th from 1:00pm until 3:30pm in Newark, earlier at local pre-boarding rallies.

WHY: Recent events in Fallujah highlight the problems created by an escalating military response to the situation in Iraq following the illegal, immoral and unjustified invasion in March of 2003. It is very much akin to "destroying the village in order to save it" that was the rationalization for similar attacks in Vietnam. The recent nomination of National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Secretary of State Colin Powell indicates the Bush administration's clear desire to continue to promote their foreign policy agenda of pre-emptive war. To date, over 1200 American troops have lost their lives in Iraq, in addition to tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians. Studies published in The Lancet indicate that there have been 100,000 excess deaths of Iraqi civilians in the period commencing with the invasion.
Co-sponsors of the NJ Coalition Against War on Iraq include: NJ Peace Action, Coalition for Peace Action, Bergen Action Network, Central New Jersey Coalition for Peace and Justice, Central Jersey Coalition Against War on Iraq, Coalition for Peace and Justice (Cape May/Atlantic Counties), First United Methodist Church Greater NJ Board of Church & Society, Jewish Mobilization for a Just Peace, Jewish Voices, Monmouth County Pax Christi, Morris County Pax Christi, National Organization of Women, NJ Chapter NJ Council of Churches, Public Policy Working Group, NJ Green Party, NJ Hiroshima Day Remembrance Committee, NJ Military Toxics Project, NJ Pax Christi, Northwest Fellowship for Peace, Peoples Organization for Progress, Physicians for Social Responsibility, NJ Chapter, Plainfield Friends Meeting House, Rutgers Act for Peace + Justice, Union County Peace and Social Action Committee, Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community, Unitarian Universalists United for Peaceful Alternatives, Veterans for Peace, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Young Muslim Association

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