PROTEST WITH COMMUNITY LEADERS

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ON THE ANIVERSARY OF THE MARCH 19, 2003
INVASION OF IRAQ,

AT THE OFFICE OF JOHN MCCAIN ,
THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WHO SAID
100 YEARS IN IRAQ "would be fine with me"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFknKVjuyNk

When: 4:30 p.m - 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Where: In front of Senator McCain's Office,5353 N. 16th Street.

(park in the nearby residential neighborhood.)
At 5 p.m. Wednesday March 19 community leaders will speak:

Charles Goyette, daily talk show host at KFNX 1100 News and Talk . In 2004 Goyette lost his Clear Channel KFYI program because of his sharp criticism of the war. www.antiwar.com

Warren Stewart, senior pastor at the First Institutional Baptist Church of Phoenix. Led the coalition which successfully campaigned for the Martin Luther King, Jr./Civil Rights Day in Arizona.

Eleanor Eisenberg, recently retired from serving for eight years as the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona.

Deedra Abboud, executive director of the Muslim American Society of Arizona Freedom Foundation. On January 18, 2008, awarded the Phoenix MLK Jr. “Living the Dream” award.

Antonio Bustamante, immigrant rights attorney and civil rights advocate with Los Abogados, a Maricopa County Hispanic legal organization,

Alfredo Gutierrez, Arizona State Senator between 1976 and 1982, and current Radio Campesina talk show host.

Jeff Farias, daily talk show host at progessive talk KPXH 1480. Founding member of Democracy for America, Maricopa County, dedicated to supporting progressive candidates.

Jarrett Maupin, Phoenix Union High School District Board member and former candidate for Phoenix City mayor

Dennis Stout, during the Viet Nam war, army journalist Stout reported war crimes later described in the Pulitzer Prize winning series "Buried Secrets, Buried Truths." Founder of Phoenix Veterans for Peace and current co-host at KPHX’ s weekly “About Face” talk show.

Music by folk/political duo Dakota & the Black River Bandit, as well as by rock n' funky blues musician Thomas Oliver

Candlelight Vigil starts at 7:00 p.m.

Sign up for the event at http://pol.moveon.org/event/events/attendees/index.html?event_id=44775&id=-2840480-WsO4Uv



ALSO!!
Candlelight vigil on the day after the announcement of the
4,000th U. S. Military Death in Iraq.
Currently 3,975 American soldiers
and up to one million Iraqis
have been killed in Iraq since March 19, 2003.
The candelight vigil will also take place 4:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m,
in front of Senator McCain's Phoenix office.

For more information leave a message at
[phone]
or e-mail [e-mail] or [e-mail].
www.azpeace.org

Sponsored by MoveOn.Org and the End the War Coalition - Arizona Advocacy Network, Code Pink Phoenix, Progressive Democrats of America, Phoenix Women in Black, Arizona Alliance for Peace and Justice, Phoenix Chapter Veterans for Peace, Arizona Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Progressive Democratic Caucus, Arizona Green Party, Grandmothers for Peace and Arizona and Christian Peacemakers.

Come to the weekly End the War Coalition meetings and help plan future events! End the War Coalition meets every Tuesday night at 7:00 p.m. in the Education Center of Grace Lutheran Church, 1124 North 3rd Street, Phoenix.