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March
18, 2010
Dear
CODEPINKer,
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We
know all too well that our government values war above the health
of our communities. It's up to us to take these
rotten apples and make apple
pie by looking within, acting locally, and finding ways
to feed our own communities with ripe opportunities for education,
jobs and healthcare while we continue to urge our government to
nourish our people.
Speaking of rotten apples -- the DC City Council is poised to fork
over a hefty $25m bite to the war profiteers Northrop
Grumman (who, according to their own creepy promotional
video, receive $0.65 from every $1 spent on defense!. This is corporate
welfare at its most bitter! As Gloria Steinem said over a decade
ago, “We can tell our values by looking
at our checkbook stubs." This is true on both a personal
and a cultural level. You can think globally/act locally and push
back on DC City Council Member Jack Evans by sending
him a special version of the postcard above! Do it today,
in an act of remembrance and rage for the upcoming 7th anniversary
of the war in Iraq.
After sending your no-more-war-pie-telegram,
you can join us by protesting the war on the 7th anniversary, either
in Washington, DC from March
18-20 (including an evening with Eve Ensler and Amy Goodman!)
or in your own community. Together, we can walk our talk and bring
money for war back to our neighborhoods! What's happening in
DC is just the beginning!
To join a CODEPINK march near you,
click
here, or to search for a coalition peace event click
here!
Eve
Ensler, who will join us in DC to honor women creating peace
writes “The Iraq war cost nearly $3 trillion/I
can't even count that high/but I know/that money could have/would
have/ended poverty in general/which would have canceled terrorism/How
come we have money to kill/but no money to feed or heal?”
Serving
up heaping portions of luscious peace,
Dana, Emily, Farida, Gael, Gayle, Janna, Jodie,
Medea, Nancy, Prerna, Rae and Whitney
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