Seats still available to go to Chicago May 19, 20th. to Protest NATO Leaving Minneapolis

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once again this week NATO mistakenly bombed another house full of innocents.

A mother and her 5 young children killed. How many more?

We the People, we who care about human life, and humanity.. need to get on the Bus!

We still have 30 seats on the 2nd bus! Make your reservation now!


The Coalition Against NATO/G8 War & Poverty Agenda is organizing protests at the NATO and G8 meetings being held in Chicago in May 2012. WAMM and the Anti-War Committee are working together to bring Minnesotans by bus to join the protests.
The current price of $65 per seat is only guaranteed through March. We are fundraising to keep ticket costs low, and to make some tickets available on a sliding scale for those who need it. From this site you can buy your ticket and make a donation to help others make the trip.
If you are need a reduced price ticket, or if you have any questions, contact April from WAMM at 612-823-5989. You can also contact the Anti-War Committee via email - [e-mail] .

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2785594789
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Bus pick up and drop off times are subject to change, but not by much. We will notify you of exact times as soon as they are set. We have not yet set where the busses will load and unload, but that is likely to be somewhere in South Minneapolis.

There are people of all ages going. Some are in the 70's. Some are going but not doing the March but will be there are the rally point. For some this will be their 1st bus ride to an event (like me).

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1. NATO Occupies Chicago, Key Moment for Afghanistan

NATO Occupies Chicago, Key Moment for Afghanistan
Tom Hayden
Peace movements in every country are raising their voices against the war in Afghanistan in advance of the May 18-20 NATO summit in Chicago. American combat veterans are expected to throw their medals at NATO officials, just as John Kerry and many others did as a heroic gesture in the final stage of Vietnam. Some will converge on Chicago, while others will march in other NATO capitols. Around two-thirds of the public in NATO countries now opposes the war, and most of their governments are anxious to withdraw if a face-saving path can be found. Australia, not a NATO member, announced this week it will withdraw all troops by 2013.

The Obama administration and its allies are scrambling to showcase an announcement of progress in advance of the Chicago summit gathering, which thousands of journalists are planning to cover. The administration already has relocated the G-8 summit on the world fiscal crisis, originally planned at the same time, to the secure seclusion of Camp David...
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http://tomhayden.com/home/nato-occupies-chicago-key-moment-for-afghanistan.html

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2. The G8 and NATO: The 1 % Threat to the World

http://www.worldwidewamm.org/newsletters/2012/0512/g8.html

The G8 and NATO: The 1 % Threat to the World

By the Minnesota CANG8 Committee

The two most powerful organizations in the world—one that divides up the resources and the other the enforcer—roam the earth, stealing and killing with impunity. We cannot allow inaction to make us complicit in their schemes.

The two most powerful organizations in the world—one that divides up the resources and the other the enforcer—roam the earth, stealing and killing with impunity. Growing ever larger and more dangerous, blazing new trails of death and destruction, they decide who eats and who doesn’t, who lives and who dies. The Group of Eight (G8) holds the economic strings. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) provides the military might to ensure that the decisions of the G8 are enforced. Both of these sociopathic entities are spearheaded by the US. Profit and power are their gods and anyone and anything, no matter how young or old, new or ancient, fragile or stable, can be mowed down in their path.

The G8 and NATO are not democratic bodies: we cannot call our representative; the proceedings are not on CSPAN. They operate in secret with heavy security to protect their insular agenda.

This year, in May, the G8 had planned to meet with NATO in Chicago. It would have been the first time that the G8 and NATO met together—a natural confluence of world finance and military power in light of NATO’s recent Libya campaign. However, a decision was made suddenly to move the G8 meeting to Camp David in Maryland, near Washington, D.C. Perhaps the world powers thought that a combined meeting of the G8 and NATO would make the link between finance capital and military conquest too evident to the public. And, of course, they feared the massive protests that such a meeting would provoke as the only way the public can let its views be known is by protesting in the streets.

Now only NATO will meet in Chicago on May 20. This won’t stop the protests. Organizers with the Coalition Against NATO and the G8 (CANG8) have said that people will shout so loud that the sequestered participants will hear the roar of outrage all the way to Camp David.
But how did what affects so many lives in the world come to reside in the hands of so few?

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This is no time for despair. We cannot allow our inaction to make us complicit in these schemes.

The G8 and NATO are monsters that must be stopped before they destroy the whole world.

It is crucial that the antiwar movement seize the opportunity of this historic time when these two entities gather and conspire.

People in Minnesota (and all across this world) cannot tolerate having their tax dollars used to kill people and destroy whole countries on the other side of the world.

We cannot tolerate seeing our own families, here, increasingly denied access to quality education, health care, a clean environment, and other human needs.

That’s why we will join tens of thousands of others in Chicago on May 20 to demand an end to NATO warfare and G8 enforced poverty.

We are the 99 percent.

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3. Coalition Against NATO/G8 War & Poverty Agenda

http://cang8.wordpress.com/