Iraq Moratorium Day # 7 March

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Actor Sean Penn, Gold Star Mother Cindy Sheehan, Rev. Gregory Stewart and other peacemakers will speak. Join us to remember American and Iraqi dead and wounded. A time for reflection and renewal. End the occupation now, and hold responsible those who started the war. Suggested contribution $5 to $10, but no one will be turned away. [More info,_Contact,_Updates,_Comments_and_Reports]
03/16/2008 5 p.m., Unitarian Universalist Church, Franklin @ Greary Event #739

We will read the names of the more than 600,000 Iraqis and 4,000 Americans killed in the senseless war as we leaflet commuters during the morning. We invite everyone to join us in a nonviolent spirit as we set a solemn tone. Bring flowers. Poets and musicians are encouraged to blend their work with the reading of the names. Join us for part or all of the morning and into the afternoon. At some point during the lunch hour, numbers of us will take nonviolent direct action and invite you to join us.

Despite Sen. Feinstein's words of criticism against the war in Iraq, she has consistently voted to fund the war. She has an additional level of implication: Although the spokesman for investment banker Richard Blum (Sen. Dianne Feinstein's husband) insists "he's not a billionaire. " (San Francisco Chronicle, 5/11/03), he may be now after five years of the occupation of Iraq. As revealed by journalist Peter Byrne of the North Bay Bohemian on 1/24/07, Sen. Feinstein was the chairperson and ranking member of the Military Construction Appropriations (MILCON) subcommittee from 2001 through the end of 2005, and "supervised the appropriation of billions of dollars a year for specific military construction projects. Two defense contractors whose interests were largely controlled by her husband, financier Richard C. Blum, benefited from decisions made by Feinstein as leader of this powerful committee...

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03/19/2008 7:30 - the lunch hour, McKesson Building, next to Montgomery BART station, Event #752

A brief interfaith prayer service on the steps of Center Church (featuring AFSC’s “Cost of War” banners and boots representing CT’s soldiers who have died) will be followed by a procession to the Federal Building, stopping in front of United Technologies headquarters along the way.

Participants are encouraged to wear black and to bring one or more stones to add to a pile, making visible the destruction and human cost of the war. On each stone, please inscribe the name of an Iraqi civilian who has died in the war (one list is available at IraqBodyCount.org . Stones should be large enough to write on with a permanent marker but small enough to carry five blocks. Clergy are asked to wear visible signs of their office. [More info,_Contact,_Updates,_Comments_and_Reports]
03/19/2008 Noon, Center Church, 665 Main Street Event #744