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Get Out of the Military Now
Peace Press February/March 2008

Upcoming Events

Burma Hurricane Relief and Freedom Rally
Friday, May 9th, 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM
San Francisco Federal Building
, 450 Golden Gate Ave.

The Burmese American Democratic Alliance and the Buddhist Peace Fellowship invite you to join us as we stand with Burma on Friday, May 9th from 4:00 - 8:00 PM at the SF Federal Building at 450 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco. At this vigil, there will be speakers, music, meditation and prayers. To learn more, download the flyer (a 534 KB PDF).

Affordable Housing Teach-In
Tuesday, May 13, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
3315 Airway Drive, Santa Rosa


Anyone interested in safe, healthy and affordable housing for everyone in our community should attend this event. Admission is FREE. Learn more: download the flyer (a 181KB JPEG), go to www.hagster.org or email hag@hagster.org.

Sonoma County NOW
(National Organization for Women)

Wednesday, May 21, 6:00 PM
Round Table Pizza, Marlow Center
Marlow and Guerneville Road, Santa Rosa


Arrive earlier if you want to order food. Call 545-5036 for more information.


\ The War Against Iraq is Costing 720 million Dollars Every Day.
$720,000,000 wasted every day.
See some of the things that money could have bought instead.

For more information on alternatives for spending the estimated 3TRILLION DOLLARS that the Iraq war will cost, watch the Three Trillion Dollar Spending Spree video.


John McCain in Dr. Strangelove?
You decide after watching this thought provoking video.

Burma's monks are leading the struggle of the Burmese people against an oppressive military dictatorship, despite the risk of beating, torture and death. Click on a monk above to learn more or to help the monks in their courageous opposition to a brutal regime.


At least 4,071 US military killed,
more than 29,911 wounded & over 1,205,025 civilians estimated dead
in the war against Iraq

Get more casualty figures.

Just Foreign Policy Iraqi Death Estimator The Declaration of Peace
The figures on the left include reported civilian deaths only. The figure in the center represents an estimate of civilian casualties based upon a study by public health experts in 2006.
Read the 2006 article.

New WHO study:
40 months of war, 151,000 Iraqis dead by violence through June, 2006. Violence now leading cause of death in Iraq. 3,775 violent deaths per month.
Read the new study.

** A Life, Wasted. **
Click below to read an open letter from Paul E. Schroeder, the father of a soldier killed in Iraq:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/02/AR2006010200974.html


Hope Art & Poetry – 2007 winners

Not Your Soldier

Attention persons of military age! You must see this powerful movie about resisting the war in Iraq and about the GI movement against the war in Vietnam.


National Priorities Project Database

Check out this mine of information on Federal spending!
Compare money spent on the military and on human needs. Information is available by State, County, School District, High School and even Zip code! Expenditures by category, including housing, military, health, labor and many more. Get information on defense contracts, costs of nuclear weapons, military recruiting and more. The site has decades of stored information. Click here to go there now.


Video and Music Archive

See and hear the best progressive videos and music at the Peace and Justice Center's Video and Music Archive page.


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