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Great Neck SANE/Peace Action and the LI
Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives
On this 63rd Commemoration of Hiroshima Day
Invite you to join us in saying
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Say no to HR 362 - No attack on Iran. Talks not Bombs. Ackerman's office on July 9, 2008 - . |
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The Shelter Rock Forum, Social Justice
Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at
Shelter Rock, Islamic Center of Long Island, and the Long
Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives
Present BRINGING THE WAR BACK HOMEKristofer
Goldsmith
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NASSAU COUNTY DAY OF ACTIONS MARKING THE
5th
ANNIVERSARY OF THE IRAQ WAR A GREAT SUCCESS
People holds signs at Old Country Road during the
Five Years In Iraq rally in Garden
City on Wednesday, March 19, 2008. (Newsday/Ana P. Gutierrez /
March 20, 2008)
In
Nassau County, our day of actions to mark the 5th anniversary
of the Iraq war began with a press conference at the Supreme Court
Building in Mineola. Margaret Melkonian, co-director of the Long
Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives, opened with a statement
about the war and its tragic costs in terms of lives and dollars.
She was followed by Ed Ciaccio, Queens/Nassau MoveOn Council,
who read a statement from MoveOn's New Priorities Campaign; Sue
Donnelly, Code Pink Long Island, who spoke about what she witnessed
at the Winter Soldier hearings; and Sister Mary Beth Moore, Pax
Christi Long Island, who read the “LI Clergy and Religious
Against the War” statement, which has thus far been signed
by more than 100 local religious leaders. Reverend Ben Bortin
of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock and
Habeeb Ahmed of the Islamic Center of Long Island also spoke.
The press conference was covered by News 12 Long Island, WCBS
radio, a photographer from Newsday, and the Regional News Network
(RNN).
In the afternoon groups of people visited the offices of Reps.
Steve Israel (CD 2), Peter King (CD 3), and Carolyn McCarthy (CD
4) They met with staff to deliver the message, “End the
war and bring the troops home now.” The delegations left
packets of information for the representatives, including facts
and figures about the cost of the war to taxpayers in each of
LI’s five Congressional districts. Later in the day Rep.
Gary Ackerman (CD 5) joined us at our peace vigil in Garden City.
[Suffolk groups plan to visit Rep. Tim Bishop (CD 1) within the
next few weeks.]
At 5 p.m., more than 200 Long Islanders came out in the rain to call for an end to the war and for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. We gathered on Old Country Road in Garden City, in our raincoats or under umbrellas, in a peaceful vigil to mark the 5th anniversary of the war. There were 8-year-olds and 80-year-olds; students from several local colleges and universities; and citizens from the North and South Shores as well as places in between. As people stood with soggy signs, an occasional song or chant would break out. There were many honks of support from cars and buses passing by. Congressman Gary Ackerman joined us for awhile— the first LI representative to stand with us against the war. The mood was serious, yet hopeful. On Long Island, we are resolved to step up our efforts to end the war and bring the troops home—now.
The Nassau County actions were coordinated by
the Stop the War Coalition: Long Island Alliance for Peaceful
Alternatives, Code Pink LI, Great Neck SANE/Peace Action, LI Veterans
for Peace, Pax Christi LI, Shelter Rock Forum, and the Social
Justice Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at
Shelter Rock.
| The Long Island Alliance for Peaceful
Alternatives 19th Annual 2007 KAIROS HONOREESReach Out AmericaFrances
Reid and Shirley Romaine,
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Protestors brave rain at Manhattan anti-war rally Despite a midday downpour, thousands of anti-war activists marched from Union Square to lower Manhattan Saturday in one of 11 coordinated protests from Orlando to Seattle to New Orleans.. "Stop the war! Stop the rain!" said Sahai Hiwot, 42, of Jersey City, as she paraded down Broadway. |
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NYS Peace Action 50th Anniversary
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Almost 200 Long Islanders gathered at a peaceful demonstration on Old Country and Glen Cove Roads in Garden City (across from Roosevelt Field Mall) yesterday, September 25, from 5 to 6 p.m......
We come together as LI Clergy and Religious for Peace to express our moral opposition to the war in Iraq.
We call for an end to the war in Iraq and the withdrawal of U.S. troops.
We seek to encourage a broad dialogue and a discernment process among Long Island clergy, congregations and communities that will promote a new U.S. foreign policy based on moral values, human dignity, nonviolence and the rule of law.
(August 2007)
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Please sign on and return to:
LI Alliance, 38 Old Country Road, Garden City, NY 11530
- (516)741-4360/lipeace@broadview.net
The Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives is proud to announce that it is one of ten not-for-profit organizations that have been chosen by Thirteen/WNET and WLIW21 for induction into their Community Hall of Fame.
LI ALLIANCE CALLS ON LI REPRESENTATIVES TO CONTINUE SUPPORT FOR TIMETABLE FOR WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ
President Bush has vetoed the troops and the American people in his refusal to end the war and to bring the troops home. The Bush Administration lied us into war and launched an illegal war and occupation in violation of international law. Congress must heed the demands of the majority of Americans who want this war to end as quickly as possible.........
Long Islanders Rally Across Long Island
In the November elections we gave the 110th Congress a mandate for peace to end the war. Let's make sure they follow through.
CALL YOUR CONGRESSPERSON. Tell your representative
to:
1. Oppose any escalation of troops in Iraq.
2. Support the immediate withdrawal of troops.
3. Vote against the $100 B supplemental appropriation that will
fund the continuation of the war.
NOT ONE MORE DEATH. NOT ONE MORE DOLLAR. BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!
Congressional Switchboard: 202-224-3121
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LI ALLIANCE FOR PEACEFUL ALTERNATIVES STATEMENT ON IRAQThe LI Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives and millions of people around the world opposed the war in Iraq on grounds of international law and the assessment that the invasion of Iraq would have disastrous consequences: the deaths and injury of Iraq civilians and soldiers; the deaths and injury of American troops; billions of dollars in costs of war and reconstruction; chaos in Iraq in the aftermath of war; destabilization of the Middle East; and the breakdown of multilateral security institutions, particularly the United Nations. Given the urgent need for ensuring the safety and well-being of the Iraqi people, for Iraqi reconstruction, for the restoration of Iraqi sovereignty, and for multilateral security cooperation, we urge that: 1. Interim authority over civilian affairs
and reconstruction should be handed over to the United Nations. Moreover, mindful of the costs of war both at home and abroad and of the dangers of war profiteering, we urge transparency and accountability of corporations awarded contracts in Iraq. We also call on the Administration and Congress to heed the warning of President Eisenhower: "Every gun that is fired, every warship that is launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold, and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, and the hopes of its children."
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www.ourfuture.org also highlights broader issues and groups within progressive politics.
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Margaret
Melkonian, Co-director, Long Island Alliance for
Peaceful Alternatives and Camillo Mac Bica, Coordinator,
Veterans for Peace LI.
Signs
listing some of the major points of The People's
Agenda for 2008
People
lined up along Hempstead Turnpike.
