For immediate release: Thursday, April 22 (TODAY)
Today, coordinated protests have been carried out at military recruiting centers across the Twin Cities and in Mankato. Zero Recruitment Day will be capped off by the Anti-War Committee, which has plans to carry out disobedience at a St. Paul National Guard recruiting and training center. They will begin with a picket at 3:30 at 12th and Cedar, near the State Capital Building.
Anti-War Protesters Declare 4/22 Zero Recruitment Day Press Conference: Thursday, April 22, 10 a.m. Knollwood Mall, Parking Lot (by the
Read MorePARADE: 12:30 @ Cedar Ave & 24th St, Mpls – look for AWC banner
FESTIVAL: All day @ Powderhorn Park, 15th Ave & 34th St, Mpls
Want to march with the Anti-War Committee? We’d love your help flyering the crowd. You can also stop by our table in the park after the parade and get a Don’t Enlist, Resist! sticker. We hope to see you there!
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We have decided to change the march route and end point for tomorrow, to march to the Republican State Convention at the convention center downtown, before ending in Loring Park for a united rally.
We hope you will join us for the May 1 march for immigrant and workers rights tomorrow starting at 2:00 pm at Martin Luther King Park, 41st and Nicollet Ave S.
Read Moreby the Twin Cities Peace Campaign 1. The invasion and 8-year occupation of the sovereign state of Afghanistan are immoral
Read MoreInterested in learning activist skills? Want to organize against war & occupation? You can volunteer one day a week or more this summer with the Anti-War Committee. The Anti-War Committee is a grassroots progressive organization in the Twin Cities who has a history of fighting against US imperialism towards Iraq, Palestine, Colombia, and Afghanistan. We use demonstrations, civil disobedience and public education to challenge US foreign policy.
Read MoreRepresentative Keith Ellison is holding a public forum, entitled “The Struggle for Israeli – Palestinian Peace” on April 8, 2010 from 6-8 pm at the Zuhrah Shrine Temple, 2450 Park Avenue South, Minneapolis. Guest speakers include a bereaved Gazan doctor who worked in Israeli hospitals, a member of the Israeli military from the politically moderate pro-Israel lobbying organization J-Street, and a Palestinian-American who worked within the official structures of the post-Oslo peace process. Ellis
Read MoreSpeech given by Jennie Eisert of the Anti-War Committee at the Iraq Peace Action Coalition demonstration in Minneapolis on March 20th, 2010.
This is a critical time for the anti-war movement.
Read MoreTuesday, April 13 @ 4:00 pm @ Office of Senator Amy Klobuchar, 1200 Washington Avenue S., Suite 250, Minneapolis
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