Please make generous donations (and have whatever organizations to which you belong make generous donations) to Military Families Speak Out <http://www.mfso.org/> and its Bring Them Home Now campaign <http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/>. The campaign is now off the ground; they need money -- badly! -- to expand it (the steering committee of United for Peace and Justice unanimously approved a motion to make a donation of $1,000 to MFSO, but that is hardly enough to cover all its costs).
***** Bring us home': GIs flood US with war-weary emails
An unprecedented internet campaign waged on the frontline and in the US is exposing the real risks for troops in Iraq. Paul Harris and Jonathan Franklin report on rising fears that the conflict is now a desert Vietnam
Sunday August 10, 2003 The Observer
Susan Schuman is angry. Her GI son is serving in the Iraqi town of Samarra, at the heart of the 'Sunni triangle', where American troops are killed with grim regularity.
Breaking the traditional silence of military families during time of war, Schuman knows what she wants - and who she blames for the danger to her son, Justin. 'I want them to bring our troops home. I am appalled at Bush's policies. He has got us into a terrible mess,' she said.
Schuman may just be the tip of an iceberg. She lives in Shelburne Falls, a small town in Massachusetts, and says all her neighbours support her view. 'I don't know anyone around here who disagrees with me,' she said. . . .
. . . Susan Schuman . . . is planning a protest. This week she plans to join members of a new group, Military Families Speak Out, who will travel to Washington to make their case for their sons, daughters, husbands and wives, to be brought home from Iraq.
<http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1015684,00.html> *****
BTW, UFPJ needs an office space in NYC ASAP (the union that has hitherto provided it with an office now needs it for itself) -- if you know of any organization that can make an office space available to UFPJ at no or low costs, please contact Leslie Cagan at (212) 603-3700. -- Yoshie
* Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/> * Calendars of Events in Columbus: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html>, <http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php>, & <http://www.cpanews.org/> * Student International Forum: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/> * Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio> * Solidarity: <http://solidarity.igc.org/>