On Sunday, March 19, at 1:30 p.m., faith and secular communities in Tacoma will join in a rally and march to call attention to how the cost of war is hitting social programs American communities need. -- Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.'s Apr. 4, 1967, statement that "A nation that continues to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death," the Cost of War Hits Home march will converge on Peoples Park Tacoma, Martin Luther King Way & S. 9th St., Tacoma, for a rally with speakers and music. -- The Cost of War Hits Home march and rally are sponsored by Fellowship of Reconciliation-Tacoma, Miles Memorial CME Church, Pax Christi Tahoma, People for Peace Justice & Healing, Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War (SNOW), South Sound Peace and Justice Center of Associated Ministries, St. Leos Peace & Justice Commission, Tacoma Catholic Worker, Tacoma First United Methodist Church, Tacoma Veterans for Peace #134, Washington State Jobs with Justice, United for Peace of Pierce County, and Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace, and will bring people from Pierce, King, and Thurston counties together for a powerful demonstration of public concern. -- Make plans to be there! ...
WHAT: Cost of War Hits Home march and rally
WHO: Dexter G.
Gordon, professor of African-American Studies at the University of Puget Sound;
Jeannie Darnielle, State Legislator from the 27th District and Executive
Director of the Pierce County AIDS Foundation; and Lietta Ruger, a woman who has
two Iraq-war veterans in her family and who has joined Military Families Speak
Out.
WHEN: Sunday, March 19, 1:30 p.m.
WHERE: People's Park
Tacoma, MLK Jr. Way & S. 9th St., Tacoma, WA
Flyer available here!
[From Sallie Shawl]
COST OF WAR HITS HOME
** Faith and Secular Communities to Rally and March Together **
On February 9, the Associated Press released a list of the programs that President Bush has proposed be eliminated or cut in his 2007 budget. A month earlier, the Christian Science Monitor reported on a new study by Columbia University economist Joseph E. Stiglitz, who won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2001, and Harvard lecturer Linda Bilmes concludes that the total costs of the Iraq war could top the $2 trillion mark.
A nation that continues to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death --Martin Luther King Jr. April 4, 1967.
I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live --Deut. 30: 15, 19.
MARCH AND RALLY
Sunday, March 19 -- 1:30 p.m.
People's Park
Tacoma
Martin Luther King Jr. Way & South 9th St., Tacoma
Shift $$ from war to:
Health Care ** Education ** Jobs ** Housing ** Veterans Benefits ** Gulf Coast Levees
Info at 253-238-2292 or www.uffpc.org
Note from the organizers: In respect for all participants, signs should focus on what we stand for and not what we oppose.
--Sponsored by: Associated Ministries -- South Sound Peace & Justice Center, Church Council of Greater Seattle, Fellowship of Reconciliation -- Tacoma, Micah Project -- Tacoma First United Methodist Church, Miles Memorial CME Church, Pax Christi Tahoma, People for Peace Justice & Healing, Socialist Alternative, Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War (SNOW), St. Leo's Peace & Justice Commission, Tacoma Catholic Worker, Tacoma Dominicans, Tacoma Veterans for Peace #134, Washington State Jobs with Justice, United for Peace of Pierce County, Youth Against War & Racism, and Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace.
FOR PEOPLE COMING FROM KING COUNTY:
Sound Transit Express Route 594 leaves downtown Seattle every 30 minutes on Sundays and takes just under 1 hour to get to Tacoma. Transfer from Rt 594 in downtown Tacoma to Pierce Transit Rte. 2 to People's Park at S. 9th and Martin Luther King Jr. Way.
Driving directions:
I-5 south to Tacoma
Merge onto Hwy 16 via exit 132 toward Gig
Harbor/Bremerton/Sprague Ave.
Get in right lane immediately.
Take the
FIRST exit: Sprague Ave.
Follow Sprague to South 9th.
Turn right on S.
9th St
Go 8 blocks to People's Park on S. 9th at MLK Way.