May 11, 2006
Cindy Sheehan to Lead Delivery of Petition to White House
Ray McGovern to Lead March to Sec. Rumsfeld's Home
News from DontAttackIran.org:
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Delivery of petition to White House opposing attack on
Iran
When: 1-3 p.m., Thursday, May 18
Where: Lafayette Square Park, in front of White House, Washington,
D.C.
March to Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld's House
When: Departing at 3 p.m., Thursday, May 18
Where: Lafayette Square Park, in front of White House, Washington,
D.C.
A broad coalition of organizations has collected over 40,000 signatures on a petition opposing a U.S. attack on Iran. See the list of participating organizations, the petition, signatures, and comments at: http://www.dontattackiran.org
Cindy Sheehan plans to lead the delivery of the petition and
signatures to the White House between 1 and 3 p.m. on Thursday,
May 18, in
cooperation with a "Pray In" in Lafayette Square Park organized
by the Network of Spiritual Progressives:
http://www.tikkun.org/community/spiritual_activism_conference
Prayer leaders will include: Bob Edgar, Rev.Lennox Yearwood, Rev.
Joan Brown Campbell, Ahmed Ahrar, Holly Near, Rev. Osagyefo Sekou,
Rev.
Jim Winkler, Rev. Penny Nixon, John Dear S.J., Archdeacon Michael
Kendall, and Pledge of Resistance to the Iraq War: Ken Butigan. Also
speaking
in support of the petition delivery will be Cindy Sheehan, founder
of Gold Star Families for Peace, Medea Benjamin, Co-Founder of Code
Pink: Women for Peace, and David Swanson, Co-Founder of the After
Downing Street Coalition.
Following remarks by these speakers and delivery of the petition,
along with boxes of signatures and comments, to the White House,
Ray McGovern,
U.S. Army veteran and retired 27-year CIA analyst, will lead a march
through downtown Washington, D.C., to the home of Donald Rumsfeld,
where protesters will gather to ask Rumsfeld why he lied about the
need for a war on Iraq.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/rumsfeld
Representatives of many of these organizations, which promoted the
petition, will be present and available for comments: Gold Star
Families for Peace, CODE PINK, Progressive Democrats of America, Democrats.com,
Traprock Peace Center, Global Exchange, Velvet Revolution, Democracy
Rising, Truthout, OpEdNews, Backbone Campaign, Consumers For Peace,
Campus Antiwar Network, The Young Turks, Citizens for Legitimate
Government, Counter Punch, United for Peace and Justice, Stop the War
Coalition,
This Can't Be Happening, Voters Evolt, Springs Action Alliance,
Radio
News America, OrbStandard, International Socialist Organization,
Voters for Peace, Thom Hartmann Show, Environmentalists Against War,
U.S.
Peace Council, Grandmothers for Peace, Justice Through Music, Campaign
Against Sanctions & Military Intervention in Iran, World Can't
Wait, The Rational Response Squad, Idriss Stelley Foundation, Bush
Free Zone, Voice International, Foundation for the Development
of Human Resources, Tbilisi, Georgia, Political Cooperative, City
Sites,
Agir
contre la guerre (France), Americans Against the War (France),
Spiritual Activism Conference, Muslims for Peace (Australia), AndrewBurgin.com,
Peace Movement Aotearoa, Not in Our Name Aotearoa New Zealand,
Pixel4Peace,
Liberty News TV, IntelligentFuture, CampUS Strike for Peace
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