"Walkin' to New Orleans" (March 14-19) Veterans For Peace

Links:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022206S.shtml

www.vetgulfmarch.org

"WALKIN' TO NEW ORLEANS"
Veterans' and Survivors' March for Peace and Justice
Mobile to New Orleans
March 14-19, 2006

EVERY BOMB DROPPED ON IRAQ EXPLODES IN NEW ORLEANS
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At the call of the Mobile, Alabama chapter of Veterans For Peace, members of VFP, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Military Families Speak Out will conduct, a six-day, 135-mile march from Mobile across Mississippi to New Orleans. Thousands of hurricane survivors and community residents along the route are expected to walk with us.

The marching veterans and military families aim to build relationships with the surviving members of communities devastated by the Katrina-Rita disaster. Our actions will proclaim our solidarity with them, not only as acute victims of a "natural" disaster but also of structural racism in the United States.
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While the march itself will be made up mainly of veterans, Gold Star and other military families, and hurricane survivors, all concerned citizens are invited and encouraged to attend the final leg, heading into a mass rally in New Orleans on March 19, the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.
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DUers everywhere, but especially in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana:
If you wish to participate, donate funds/goods (they have a long wish list) or help out in any other way with this march, please visit:
www.vetgulfmarch.org

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