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Published by Michael Aparicio.
Nearly nine years after September 11, 2001, the U.S.A. continues to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
So far these wars have “cost” billions of dollars, over a million causalties, at least a hundred thousand lives, and uncounted traumas.
Yet these “costs” continue to be obscured within government reports and, despite confessing its past failures, the corporate media’s reoccuring reliance on sensational war reporting:
All the while we pay for these wars and their consequences. Sonoma County residents already have contributed over $1.9 billion, providing material support for the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars as well as their consequences. Imagine what we could do if we used this money for police services, firefighters, or elementary school education.
Given this, whether or not you have supported the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, each of us faces a pressing question: “Do I support these wars’ continuation?”
If you don’t, keep reading. You have an opportunity to join a growing campaign through the Progressive Democrats of America; and a good place to start is joining P.D.A. members and supporters at their monthly Brown Bag lunch vigils:
Like you, Sonoma County’s Brown Baggers are concerned about these wars’ consequences:
By promoting local vigils, P.D.A.’s Brown Bag campaign provides Sonoma County residents an opportunity to contribute something other than the $1.9 billion we’ve paid. By organizing vigils throughout the country, P.D.A.’s Brown Bag campaign is a means to empower one’s voice through organizing, which increases the odds one will be heard by our government officials:
As someone who opposes our government’s military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, I’m thankful for the opportunities P.D.A.’s Brown Bag vigils provide me; for, as local journalist, Norman Solomon elequently puts it…
We desperately need authentic grassroots energies to burst the political bubble that encloses Capitol Hill. The Brown Bag Vigils give us ways to insist that the realities of war—and the impacts of military spending on the domestic economy—must be understood, and our priorities as a nation must change. Only by organizing and making our voices heard do we have a realistic hope of transforming a warfare state into a humanistic society. In the North Bay, and around the country, our activism gives oxygen to the flames of human warmth, nurturance and solidarity.
To learn about Sonoma County’s upcoming Brown Bag lunch vigils see the Progressive Democrats Sonoma County‘s website.
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