Letter to Soldiers
We have decided to protest at military bases on our way to Creech AFB where we will protest both DRONES and the upcoming SURGE.
We have this letter we will hand out to whatever soldier we find brave enough to take a letter from CodePINK.
Here is the letter, and below the letter, is the information printed on the back of the letter. Please feel free to copy and pass on to everyone you know.
Dearest Soldiers:
As you are most likely aware, for EIGHT long years, we have been doing everything in our power to END WAR NOW:
• We have protested in the streets
• We have knocked down Congressional doors
• We have gone to D.C. to the White House, Congressional Hearings, the Floor of Congress
• We have campaigned to withhold War Income Taxes
• We’ve boycotted, shamed, challenged War Profiteers
• We have educated, informed, conversed, dialogued with everyone
We have even elected a new President to work to END WAR
And none of it has worked to END WAR.
As we saw most recently at Ft Hood, Camp Lejeune, and wherever returning soldiers are around the country, the violence of war cannot be ‘contained’ in our faraway war and occupation zones but continues to erupt in our homes and communities. We MUST ensure this war violence NEVER happens again, here on our soil or the soil of other peoples, especially Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq – our present targets of military occupation and attack.
We are turning now to you, our soldiers, our fellow Americans, our sister and brother human beings who happen to be in the military.
You are our LAST RESORT! We are turning to you, to beg you, to convince you, to ask you, to demand: DO NOT GO! REFUSE! RESIST! Be true heroes: do all you can do to END WAR NOW!
For a bottom line is:
Without YOUR bodies,
there can be no war!!!
And then on the back:
50 civilians are killed for every one ‘bad guy” killed by drones. We are so deeply concerned and mortified with so much killing, death, and destruction.
What if it was YOUR child that was killed by a drone?
Resources for Drone Pilots
Courage to Resist www.couragetoresist.org
510-488-3559
Winter Soldier
http://www.ivaw.org/wintersoldier
IVAW www.ivaw.org
GI Rights HotLine www.girightshotline.com
877-447-4487
DVD: “Sir, NO Sir”
CodePINK www.codepinkalert.org
510-540-7007
www.nodrones.com
We have this letter we will hand out to whatever soldier we find brave enough to take a letter from CodePINK.
Here is the letter, and below the letter, is the information printed on the back of the letter. Please feel free to copy and pass on to everyone you know.
Dearest Soldiers:
As you are most likely aware, for EIGHT long years, we have been doing everything in our power to END WAR NOW:
• We have protested in the streets
• We have knocked down Congressional doors
• We have gone to D.C. to the White House, Congressional Hearings, the Floor of Congress
• We have campaigned to withhold War Income Taxes
• We’ve boycotted, shamed, challenged War Profiteers
• We have educated, informed, conversed, dialogued with everyone
We have even elected a new President to work to END WAR
And none of it has worked to END WAR.
As we saw most recently at Ft Hood, Camp Lejeune, and wherever returning soldiers are around the country, the violence of war cannot be ‘contained’ in our faraway war and occupation zones but continues to erupt in our homes and communities. We MUST ensure this war violence NEVER happens again, here on our soil or the soil of other peoples, especially Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq – our present targets of military occupation and attack.
We are turning now to you, our soldiers, our fellow Americans, our sister and brother human beings who happen to be in the military.
You are our LAST RESORT! We are turning to you, to beg you, to convince you, to ask you, to demand: DO NOT GO! REFUSE! RESIST! Be true heroes: do all you can do to END WAR NOW!
For a bottom line is:
Without YOUR bodies,
there can be no war!!!
And then on the back:
50 civilians are killed for every one ‘bad guy” killed by drones. We are so deeply concerned and mortified with so much killing, death, and destruction.
What if it was YOUR child that was killed by a drone?
Resources for Drone Pilots
Courage to Resist www.couragetoresist.org
510-488-3559
Winter Soldier
http://www.ivaw.org/wintersoldier
IVAW www.ivaw.org
GI Rights HotLine www.girightshotline.com
877-447-4487
DVD: “Sir, NO Sir”
CodePINK www.codepinkalert.org
510-540-7007
www.nodrones.com
posted by Xan @ 11:48 AM
1 Comments:
At 5/12/09 11:53 AM,
Annegw said…
Good letter. I have just posted it on my Facebook page. Seems to be timely with the NY Times article on the CIA drones: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/world/asia/04drones.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&ref=world
Thanks for all the anti-drone work.
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