Feb 4th, 3pm Minneapolis: National Solidarity protest war with Iran.

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National Day of Action Anti-War Protest: “No War on Iran”

Saturday, February 4, 3:00 p.m. Mayday Plaza, 3rd Street and Cedar Avenue South, Minneapolis.


There is a growing danger of yet another U.S. war; this time on Iran.
There is already a covert war on Iran underway, including assassinations of Iranian scientists and escalating economic sanctions.
This is all accompanied by growing talk of Iranian "nuclear weapons," and concern for "human rights" in Iran.
The history of Iraq shows that when the U.S. government starts talking about "nuclear weapons," "weapons of mass destruction," and "human rights," the bombs and cruise missiles may start to fly at any time.

February 4, 2012, will be a national day of local anti-war actions to say "No War on Iran!"

An indoor public forum will follow protest. Initiated by: Minnesota Peace Action Coalition (MPAC), Veterans for Peace Chaper 27, Military Families Against the War, Iraq Veterans Against the War. FFI: Call 612 522-1861 or 612 827-5364.


Come early and check out the co-op bookstore May Day books.. great place to get anti-war, civil rights, history, labor, women's rights, Native American..etc books.
It is just below the co-op Bike Shop and near Midwest Mountaineering. nearby are great restaurants and shops

I'll have postcards to send to our Senators to ask them for diplomacy and not war.

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1. from FNCL

Right now, most of Congress seems to think that Iran needs to be punished and isolated. New Iran sanctions just went into effect last week, and more sanctions are coming out of the Senate Banking Committee today. These are headed for a vote on the Senate floor in the next few weeks. Please urge your senators to oppose these new sanctions as ineffective foreign policy and to speak out in favor of diplomacy, not war, with Iran.

Three decades of sanctions have not persuaded Iran to agree to full transparency of its nuclear program. Continued pressure could have the effect of pushing Iranian leaders to demonstrate their power. As Princeton Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter argues, the current course of sanctions piled on sanctions "leaves Iran's government no alternative between publicly backing down, which it will not do, and escalating its provocations."1 This kind of escalation is a "dangerous game of…chicken" that could lead to violent conflict