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A week-long encampment
directly in front of Congress
A giant billboard and round-the-clock political challenge to
Congress to STOP funding the war.
Actions every day and resistance music and culture every
evening. We are open to many displays and actions. Just contact
us with your ideas.
ACTIONS ALL WEEK
People from around the country will start arriving on Saturday,
September 22 and Sunday, September 23. The Encampment will
expand to major actions on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday,
culminating in a mass march on Saturday, September 29.
Schedule
Saturday, 9/22 & Sunday 9/23
Help erect scaffolding for a giant billboard demanding: 'Congress:
Stop Funding the War - Fund Peoples' Needs.' Music and work
at the site on tents, canopies, and displays. Crews will be
doing outreach throughout neighborhoods in the DC/Baltimore
area with sound cars and leafleting brigades.
Monday, 9/24 & Tuesday, 9/25
Actions demanding:
Impeachment of Bush & Cheney for War Crimes
Stop War on Iran
Action and a strategy meeting on Emergency Network to focus
on the growing threat of a U.S. attack on Iran
Wednesday, 9/26 - Turn up the heat
Actions TBA in the halls and offices of Congress to confront their political complicity in the war - Funding the war is a war crime.
Thursday, 9/27 - Stop the War at Home Day
Katrina survivors from New Orleans & Immigrant Rights activists from around the country organizing actions challenging FEMA & ICE. Events at the Encampment focusing on funding people's needs, not war.
Friday, 9/28
Youth actions challenge military recruiters, war funding & police repression. 'Money for Education, NOT War.'
Join Evening Vigil with SiCKO cast members at the Lincoln
Memorial to remember those who died because they were denied
health care.
A concert of hip-hop and spoken word at the Encampment with BAYAN Philippine Alliance to oppose U.S. military in the Philippines.
Other actions & meetings TBA. Set up, banner & sign making,
outreach & organizing all day.
SATURDAY, 9/29 Noon
Mass March to demand: Stop the War at Home &
Abroad
More than 100 buses, along with vans and car caravans arriving
at the Capitol.
Troops Out Now Coalition
55 W. 17th St. #5C
NY NY 10011
www.TroopsOutNow.org
212.633-6646
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