4 YEARS OF WAR - MORE THAN 1/2 MILLION DEAD!
Cleveland says NOT ONE MORE DEATH!
8-DAY VIGIL TO COMMEMORATE THE DEAD

MARCH 8- 15TH

The Vigil will take place at the Soldiers and Sailor's Monument on Public Square
Vigil BEGINS at 5:00 a.m. on March 8th and ENDS at 9:00 p.m. on March 15th.
Each second of the vigil will commemorate the life of 1 person lost to the Iraq war.

Join the Northeast Ohio Anti-War Coalition (NOAC) and the other are peace and justice groups as we commemorate all those who have died in the illegal, immoral war and occupation of Iraq.

NOAC will begin setting up the vigil site at 5:00 a.m. on March 8th.

We invite everyone to join us at 7:00 a.m. for meditation and a drum circle to the sun at sunrise to officially open the vigil.

Volunteers are needed to take different shifts.

World Can't Wait in Cleveland is taking responsibility for the vigil on Wed, March 14.

Join us by contacting cleveland@worldcantwait.org or 216-633-6200

For more information, contact the Northeast Ohio Anti-War Coalition at 216-736-4716 or go to www.noacinfo.org

And read a new commentary from Cindy Sheehan:

Iraqi's Are People Too

JOIN WORLD CAN’T WAIT - DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME
And a massive coalition of anti-war organizations to
MARCH ON THE PENTAGON
Saturday March 17
End the War NOW! Impeach Bush for War Crimes!

[bus ticket info from Cleveland below]

On March 17, to mark the 5th year of this immoral and unjust war andoccupation of Iraq, JOIN FORCES and march on The Pentagon. Tell the Bush Regime to End the War NOW! No attack on Iran!

George Bush and Dick Cheney must be impeached for war crimes and crimes against humanity! Millions are against the war, spying, torture, the abandoning of Katrina survivors, a spreading theocracy and suppression of science—and want the whole disaster of the Bush regime to be brought to a halt. The more we demand impeachment, Bush’s war options will grow more limited; the more his war crimes are exposed, the greater the impetus for his removal and repudiation.

The Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime says: “YOUR GOVERNMENT, ON THE BASIS OF OUTRAGEOUS LIES, IS WAGING A MURDEROUS AND UTTERLY ILLEGITIMATE WAR IN IRAQ, WITH OTHER COUNTRIES IN THEIR SIGHTS”

It is time we rise to this challenge in unity with each other. The people are on our side, the momentum is on our side, the whole world is on our side. The challenge: are we going to move heaven and earth to remove the criminal Bush regime, ending the war and repudiating the direction they’vetaken this society?

“THAT WHICH YOU WILL NOT RESIST AND MOBILIZE TO STOP, YOU WILL LEARN – OR BE FORCED – TO ACCEPT…”

Now is the time. 2008 is too late. It is unconscionable to allow this carnage to go on. We can and must reverse the entire course we have been forced to accept, or it will be made permanent.

March on the Pentagon and make our voices heard!
Saturday, MARCH 17.
Assemble at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Constitution Gardens) at 12 noon in Washington, D.C. 2 pm March to the Pentagon.
www.worldcantwait.org or (866) 973 4463

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Reserve your seat on the bus from Cleveland.
$50 is the amount to reserve a ticket on the bus to the March 17 demo in DC.
www.noacinfo.org

Buses from Cleveland depart Friday, March 16,2007, 11:30 p.m.,Gordon Square (W.65th & Detroit) returning Sunday, March 18th,early morning. Seats are $50 per person round trip ($60 after March 2nd). Some financial help may be available.

For reservations, call 216-736-4716, or e-mail: noacinfo@aol.com
NOAC Buses to D.C. for March 17th Demonstration
[ ] Please reserve ___ seats for bus at $50 each ($60 after March 2)
(total due $_____)
[ ] I would like to go but need financial assistance.
Name______________________________________ email:_____________
Address_______________________________________________________
Phone___________________
[ ] I am contributing $______ to make it possible for someone else to go.
Check enclosed for $________
Mail to:NOAC c/o Linda Park (Make check payable to NOAC)1848 Beersford, East Cleveland, OH 44112
[ ] I (we) intend to stay in DC after the march

Join the Northeast Ohio Anti-War Coalition (NOAC), A.N.S.W.E.R., and Troops Out Now Coalition in a massive march on the Pentagon, on March 17,to call on Congress to take immediate action to end the war!

**NOAC sponsored buses will return to Cleveland following the march on thePentagon. If you plan to stay in DC after the march, please indicate your intention to travel one-way to DC when you reserve your seat.

Updated Columbus events

Saturday March 17th, 2007: Anti-War March
Assemble between noon and 1:00 p.m.
Corner of Broad & High Streets near the Ohio Statehouse

The march route will be to the U.S. Federal Building at 200. N. High Street at Spring.

Join Central Ohio residents and friends and fellow activists to amplify our individual voices and be change agents by putting 'heat in the street' with our feet!


Sunday, March 18--Benefit for WCW Columbus
"Little Brothers," 1100 No. High St. (in the short north)
2-6:30 pm
Speakers include:
Bob Fitrakis of the Columbus Free Press
member of Military Families Speak Out
Bonnie Awan
General Bruce

Music:
Connie Harris and Victoria Parks, acoustic guitar
Cultural Relativity
Ukelele Man
Baby Lindsey and the Drug Mothers
Johnny G.

Sunday, April 1st-- teach-in and film showing
Alex Jones' "Terror Storm"
2PM TO 4:30 P.M.Northwood High Building
2231 N. High Street (close to Lane Ave.) in conf room #100.
Discussion will follow.
The documentary has a running time of two hours.
free parking available and event is open to the public-donations will be appreciated for more info contact vargo.che@hotmail.com

Cleveland State University

Organizing Meeting for World Can't Wait

Friday, Feb 23

3 pm

Cafe Ah-Roma (next to Trinity Cathedral, across Euclid from CSU)

This spring, the campuses need to transform into centers of resistance, daring to change the whole political landscape in this country. World Can’t Wait has a plan for making this happen!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Feb. 13, 2007
CONTACT: Lynn Cady 740-374-2969

PEACE ACTIVISTS TO GATHER IN NELSONVILLE, OHIO
On February 20, at 4:30 pm, local peace and student groups will gather at the officeof Senator George Voinovich in Nelsonville, Ohio. Members of the Mid-Ohio Valley Peace Initiative, People for Peace and Justice, Codepink, Students for a Democratic Society, and Interact will visit Voinovich's office to deliver petitions and demand a signed pledge from the Senator stating thathe will vote against the upcoming supplemental funding bill for the Iraq war.

Constituents of Senator Voinovich and supporters of this pledge will gather outside the office to send a peaceful, nonviolent, but strong message to the Senator: The war must end and the best way to make this happen is to stop paying for it. During February and March, similar events are taking place across the country aspart of the Occupation Project.

This project is organized by Chicago-based Voices for Creative Nonviolence, and is co-sponsored by CODEPINK and Veterans for Peace,along with many other national organizations working for peace. Actions from Alaskato D.C. have already resulted in arrests as citizens sit down in the offices oftheir Senators and Representatives. The majority of American citizens support the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq.As our elected officials signal their intentions to continue this unjust andun-winnable war, civil disobedience becomes necessary to make the government bend tothe will of the people.

STUDENT STRIKE AGAINST THE WAR...

TOMORROW! THURSDAY, FEB 15

READ MORE

Message from Howard Zinn:

"I would like to endorse the idea of a student strike on campuses all over the country on Feb. 15, to rekindle the flame of protest that flared up all over the world on that date four years ago, as ten million people protested the pending invasion of Iraq by the United States. A student strike at this time would be a great boost to the movement against the war and would send a signal to Congress that it should listen to the American people and act immediately to stop this ugly war.

Bring this Campus Speaking Tour to Ohio...

Mission of a Generation: Stop the War Now!
Drive Out the Bush Regime!

The World Can't Wait is launching a speaking tour to campuses and military bases across the country. We are leaving immediately. This is an emergency. We are counting on everyone who knows that the arrogant escalation of the Bush war is a turning point-- and how we respond will impact the whole world, one way or another, for years to come.

When Nixon said he’d end the war by escalating it to Cambodia in May 1970, campuses across the nation were shut down in the largest student strike in the history of this country. This is something the purveyors of war for empire fear...

In the wake of Bush's recent speech, the campuses are appallingly quiet. But it is an intense calm. This tour aims to lift the lid by bringing the truth, including an eyewitness report on the debacle in Iraq from recently returned Marine, Liam Madden.

"Mission of a Generation" will also take its daring message to military bases around the country. It's an open secret that there are countless soldiers who want to connect with GI's who are refusing to be mercenaries for empire and are saying no …

The "Mission of a Generation: Stop the War Now! Drive Out the Bush Regime!" speaking tour will put out the challenge directly to youth and students:

Will we be remembered as the generation who sat back and allowed illegal wars to spread throughout the Middle East, torture legalized, the rights of women and gays eviscerated, and a fascistic police-state constructed? Or will we refuse to go along with this? Will we lead millions to erupt in political protest and defiant truth-telling? Will we make it our mission to bring the crimes of the Bush regime to a halt!?

The Tour began at New York University and other New York City campuses as part of building for the January 27th anti-war protests in D.C. From there it will travel to Chicago, the Bay Area, the Los Angeles area, Washington State, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Boston, Atlanta, Wisconsin, Texas, Virginia and North Carolina.

If you are in one of these areas and would like to book or help promote an event OR if you would like to bring this tour to another area, contact us immediately at speakingtour@worldcantwait.org or http://missionofageneration.blogspot.com/

There is little else that will have greater impact in bringing millions out into the streets to stop the war and drive out the Bush Regime than rousing a determined political movement among students and young people.

This could be the tour that unlocks our moment, bridging the gap between 70+% who hate where things are going, but are not yet acting.

Speakers on the Tour include:

LIAM MADDEN, a 22-year-old Marine Corps Sgt and co-founder of the Appeal for Redress-- the call signed by more than 1000 active-duty soldiers demanding withdrawal of all troops and bases from Iraq appealforredress.org/







SUNSARA TAYLOR, writer and member of the Advisory Board of World Can't Wait-- Drive Out the Bush Regime. www.worldcantwait.org


ELAINE BROWER is the mother of a Marine recently returned from Fallujah. She is an activist against the war with World Can't Wait - Drive Out the Bush Regime and Military Families Speak Out.