Not One More Penny for the War - Cut Off All Funding for the War Now

DETROIT TOWN HALL MEETING

NOT ONE MORE PENNY FOR THE WAR – BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW! MONEY FOR JOBS AND HUMAN NEEDS, NOT WAR

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2007 , 1:00 PM , CENTRAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH , 23 E. ADAMS (at Woodward, Grand Circus Park ), DETROIT

CALL: JERRY GOLDBERG, 313-319-0870

A Town Hall meeting will take place this Saturday, February 17, 2007 , 1:00 PM , at Central United Methodist Church , Woodward at Adams in Detroit .

The meeting will demand, “Not one more Penny for the War”. It will demand that Congress immediately cut-off all funding for the Iraq war and Bring the Troops Home Now. We don’t need symbolic resolutions that will do nothing to stop the war. Instead, the Town Hall meeting will organize support for HR 508, a bill sponsored by 34 House members, which would cut off funding for the war and bring all the troops and military contractors home within 6 months. The Detroit Town Hall meeting is part of a national day of action to demand a cut-off of funding for the war sponsored by the Troops Out Now Coalition.

The Town Hall meeting will also demand that the hundreds of billions of dollars being spent for the war be used instead to fund human needs at home. For example, according to the National Priorities Center , thus far the Iraq war has cost the people of Michigan $9.7 billion. Despite leading the nation in poverty and unemployment, Michigan is among the hardest hit states in the new budget being proposed to Congress. Bush’s new budget request of $640 billion for the Pentagon, is to be funded with deep cuts in desperately needed programs for poor and working people in Michigan , including cuts in Medicaid, Home heating assistance, community block grants, special education grants and social service grants.

At the Town Hall meeting, poor and working people facing evictions, utility shut-offs, lay-offs, school closings and foreclosures will have the opportunity to testify as to the devastating impact of war spending on the people of Michigan. Testimony from the meeting will be submitted to Congress in support of HR 508, for the immediate cut-off of funding for the illegal and immoral war in Iraq , and cessation of the equally damaging war on the poor here at home.

For more information call 313-319-0870 or visit www.mecawi.org.