What's Going On?
Yesterday, August 13, 2005 was the annual 'Day of Creative Women' event. It was held in downtown SLO at the Misson Plaza. There were locals and tourists roaming around the various booths.
The The SLO CHAPTER of Code PINK, Women for Peace booth, draped in HOT pink colors, strewn with pink merchandise and information was a busy place! We had so many people, of all backgrounds coming up to our booth. They wanted to sign our Declaration to bring the California Guard Home. They wanted information on military in the schools. The bought all of our PINK shirts and hats! The talk was bold, the common theme was OUT OF IRAQ NOW and everyone was energized by the actions of Cindy Sheehan, including our dear friend Bill Mitchell, as well as our sisters and brothers from Veterans for Peace, Code PINK chapters all over America, Iraq Veterans Against the War and many other groups.
We felt validation from all walks of life, from the tourists from Arizona to the Dads and Grandfathers, young families and ladies out shopping - all coming by to show solidarity with our efforts.
Since the start of the invasion of Iraq, I have never seen mainstream America respond to our anti-war, anti-Bush message like yesterday. America has no more patience for "political correctness" as the day of reckoning has come. We must pull out of Iraq now. We must hold the Bush Administration accountable for a number of crimes against humanity as well as the fiscally irresponsible actions of harming our national security.
Code PINK is in this for the long haul. We have each other and we continue to grow in numbers. We had a mother visit our booth that broke down crying because her son was in Iraq. He had joined the military for the money to pay for his university education. He was almost done, but had created large debt and was worried about it. His mother tried to talk him out of it, but he said he didn't want her to worry about the money and he received a signing bonus. She was so overwhelmed with sadness that he had done this - and now- she fears for his life.
We at Code PINK are very, very tired of having mothers come and tell us that due to the cost of higher education, their children are enlisting to "hopefully" pay for their school as they see no other choices to become educated. This is an outrage and a national disaster. The money to educate our citizens is available. We just have to tear it away from Lockheed Martins, the Kellogg, Brown & Root and Halliburtons of the country. These entities have their greedy snouts prominently placed in the trough of the DOD, funded by our tax dollars. WE WANT IT BACK NOW. AND WE WANT THE DEATH MACHINE TO STOP.
The The SLO CHAPTER of Code PINK, Women for Peace booth, draped in HOT pink colors, strewn with pink merchandise and information was a busy place! We had so many people, of all backgrounds coming up to our booth. They wanted to sign our Declaration to bring the California Guard Home. They wanted information on military in the schools. The bought all of our PINK shirts and hats! The talk was bold, the common theme was OUT OF IRAQ NOW and everyone was energized by the actions of Cindy Sheehan, including our dear friend Bill Mitchell, as well as our sisters and brothers from Veterans for Peace, Code PINK chapters all over America, Iraq Veterans Against the War and many other groups.
We felt validation from all walks of life, from the tourists from Arizona to the Dads and Grandfathers, young families and ladies out shopping - all coming by to show solidarity with our efforts.
Since the start of the invasion of Iraq, I have never seen mainstream America respond to our anti-war, anti-Bush message like yesterday. America has no more patience for "political correctness" as the day of reckoning has come. We must pull out of Iraq now. We must hold the Bush Administration accountable for a number of crimes against humanity as well as the fiscally irresponsible actions of harming our national security.
Code PINK is in this for the long haul. We have each other and we continue to grow in numbers. We had a mother visit our booth that broke down crying because her son was in Iraq. He had joined the military for the money to pay for his university education. He was almost done, but had created large debt and was worried about it. His mother tried to talk him out of it, but he said he didn't want her to worry about the money and he received a signing bonus. She was so overwhelmed with sadness that he had done this - and now- she fears for his life.
We at Code PINK are very, very tired of having mothers come and tell us that due to the cost of higher education, their children are enlisting to "hopefully" pay for their school as they see no other choices to become educated. This is an outrage and a national disaster. The money to educate our citizens is available. We just have to tear it away from Lockheed Martins, the Kellogg, Brown & Root and Halliburtons of the country. These entities have their greedy snouts prominently placed in the trough of the DOD, funded by our tax dollars. WE WANT IT BACK NOW. AND WE WANT THE DEATH MACHINE TO STOP.
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