To the media:Rally to End US Intervention; Money for Jobs and Education, Not for War and Annhililation Friday, June 27, 4:00 P.M. Anthony Celebrezze Federal Building East 9th and Lakeside Cleveland, Ohio 44199 Contact: Don Bryant, 216.772.6788, Jerry Gordon, 216.382.4597 or Greg Coleridge, 330.928.2301 Eleven years after the US and Britain launched their onslaught on Iraq as the centrepiece of the terror war, they are once again considering a return to the scene of their strategic humbling, as its gruesome consequences are played out across an already devastated country. Last Thursdays announcement by President Obama that the U.S. will now send up to 300 military advisers to Iraq and that targeted air strikes are very much on the table is obviously a major escalation of U.S. involvement in Iraq. A coalition of Cleveland peace and justice organizations are calling for a diplomatic solution to promote justice and peace in Iraq, and issue a strong rejection of the Obama administrations military advances in Iraq. Labor Fightback Network Secretary Jerry Gordon said, as the Obama administration sends some 300 troops back to a slippery slope towards escalation to war in Iraq, what is urgently needed is more funding for jobs, infrastructure, education and social programs here at home. Gordon continued, in spite of the complex political situation in Iraq, there is overwhelming opposition among the American people for any new involvement in that country. Even some Republicans who wholeheartedly supported George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq in 2003 are now calling it a mistake which should not be repeated. Greg Coleridge, director of the American Friends Service Committee, NE Ohio, declared that, peace and justice groups in Cleveland and across the nation said at the start of the 1990 Gulf war against Iraq, then again at the start of the second Gulf war against Iraq in 2003 that a military solution to political, economic and social problems in Iraq and the region would fail. These groups convey the same exact message now. Sponsored by Cleveland Peace Action, the Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee, the Labor Fightback Network, the Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, and others. END
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 01:14:45 +0000
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