{news} REMINDER: Cindy Sheehan in New Haven Today 9/18

[Justine McCabe]

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Subject: [for_rachel] Cindy Sheehan in New Haven Today 9/18


> For info on parking, directions, speakers, what to bring go to
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> www.TheStruggle.org
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>  The weather report is for a sunny day with a high of 80 degrees. 
> Perfect!!!!
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> Bring Them Home Bus Tour
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> Cindy Sheehan to Speak in New Haven Today
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> Sunday, Sept. 18
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> New Haven Green
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> Local groups will host the Bring them Home Now Bus Tour launched by Cindy 
> Sheehan at the close of her encampment near the Bush ranch in Crawford 
> Texas.  .  The tour is sponsored by Sheehan's Gold Star Families for 
> Peace, Military Families Speak Out, Iraq Vets Against the War and Veterans 
> for Peace.
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> Where:  New Haven Green, on the Stage on the Elm St. side between Temple 
> St. and Church St.  ( in case of rain the event will be held in the United 
> Church on the Green on the corner of Elm and Temple Sts.)
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> Program starts at 3 p.m.
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> Bus arrival time is uncertain, hoping for 3:30
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> The Program:

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> 3 p.m   Brief remarks will be made by a number of peace activists  and 
> prominent CT leaders.    Among them are Jorge Perez, the President of the 
> New Haven Board of Alderman, John Olsen, President of the CT AFL-CIO, 
> Roger Vann, Executive Director of the Connecticut branch of the American 
> Civil Liberties Union, Kathleen Sloan, Executive Director of the 
> Connecticut National Organization for Women, Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh member of 
> the steering committee the US Campaign to End the Occupation, Father Jim 
> Richardson of Sacred Heart Church in New Haven, Dawood Yasin, Imam of the 
> Masjid al-Islam, Minister Cornell Lewis, Men of Color Initiative, Marela 
> Zacarias, Latinos Contra La Guerra.
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> Approximately 4 p.m.  speakers from the bus including Cindy Sheehan will 
> make their remarks.
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> The bus that will stop in New Haven is part of a group of 3 buses that 
> left Camp Casey in Crawford Texas on August 31.  The buses planned to 
> cover 28 states spreading the message that military families and vets were 
> urging the troops be immediately recalled from Iraq and urging massive 
> attendance at the September 24 anti-war rally in Washington DC.
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> Local endorsing groups in CT at this time are: CT United for Peace, 
> Al-Awda-CT, American Friends Service Committee Connecticut Peace 
> Coalition(New Haven), Green Party (New Haven), ISO, Greater New Haven 
> Peace Council, Middle East Crisis Committee, Reclaiming the Prophetic 
> Voice
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> More information about the tour can be found at the website
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> www.BringThemHomeNowTour.org
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> For more information contact: Stanley Heller, 203-934-2761  (voice mail 
> #1, Middle East Crisis Committee) or the site www.TheStruggle.org
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