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American Friends Service Committee Connecticut
In This Issue: March 14 2008
• Commemorate the 5th Anniversary of Rachel Corrie's Murder
• March 19: March on the 5th Anniversary of the U.S. Invasion of Iraq.
• March 19th: Lamentation and Protest in Hartford
• Take Action to stop the anti-immigrant Save Act now in Congress
• March 19: Vigil at Senator Joe Liberman's office
Commemorate the 5th Anniversary of Rachel Corrie's Murder
Sunday, March 16th is the 5th Anniversary of the murder of solidarity activist Rachel Corrie in Israel by a bulldozer driven by Israeli solider. There are events in the afternoon at 1:00pm in New Haven and in Hartford that evening at 7:30pm.
Come to a Film About her Life and Learn about What is Being Done to Palestinians.
Rachel Corrie of Washington State was run over by a bulldozer driven by an Israeli soldier as she was standing in front of a Palestinian home in the Gaza Strip. She and other international observers were trying to prevent the home's demolition. Israel was demolishing homes to create a “no man’s land” to help it maintain control of the Strip. The Bush Administration and Congress never protested Rachel’s killing. Her family was never paid a penny in compensation.
Israel’s government is still at it, attacking the Gaza Strip constantly. From Feb. 27 to March 3 it killed 106 people, 54 of whom had no connection to the fighting, one as young as one year old. 1.5 million Palestinians in the Strip live in a virtual prison with less food and necessities day by day. Palestinians on the West Bank are only somewhat better off, divided by walls and checkpoints with much of their land taken by illegal Israeli settlements.
Come learn more
Sunday March 16, 1 PM
Rachel Corrie Commemoration
Peoples Center, 37 Howe Street, New Haven
Sponsors: Palestine American Congress (Connecticut), Middle East Crisis Committee
For more information: (203) 934-2761 mail at TheStruggle.org
Reading of Rachel Corrie's E-mails: "Rachel's Words”
Sunday, March 16th 6 PM
Hartford Friends Meeting
144 South Quaker Lane
West Hartford, CT
Actors and musicians will interpret writings of young American woman who met death in Israeli-Palestinian hostilities
The writings of Rachel Corrie, a 23-year old American human rights worker killed while serving in Palestine in 2003, will be interpreted by readers at the Friends Meeting House in West Hartford on Monday evening, March 10th at 7:30 PM
Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer as she protested the demolition of the home of a Palestinian family in Gaza. Her journal entries and correspondence depict the passion and conviction of a young woman caught up in the human drama of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They illuminate her passage from typical American adolescence to ardent activism, and reflect the concerns of her parents and friends as her priorities took shape. She vividly describes the harsh realities of life in occupied Gaza, documenting exquisitely tender moments as well as the most frightful ones.
“Rachel’s story is an especially poignant reminder that there can be no winners in this war, or any other war. Both sides have suffered greatly from the inhumanity of violence. Rachel’s heroism, and the worldwide attention it has earned, demonstrate both the tragedy and the triumph of this courageous young woman, standing for peace in the midst of brutal conflict.”
www.hopeoutloud.org
March 19th: Lamentation and Protest in Hartford
LAMENTATION and PROTEST
Remember the Dead ♦ Count the Cost ♦ End the War
Wednesday, March 19 at Noon HARTFORD
Interfaith Prayer Service
Center Church
Corner of Gold Street and Main Street
(diagonally across from the Wadsworth Atheneum)
followed by a silent procession, ending with a
Public Witness to the Destruction of War
Federal Building 450 Main Street, Hartford, CT
Reclaiming the Prophetic Voice, a statewide interfaith network of religious leaders and people of faith, will mark this 5th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq by bearing witness to the horrifying costs of war (human, economic, and moral) and to the complicity of silence (by individuals, institutions and corporations).
A brief interfaith prayer service on the steps of Center Church (featuring AFSC’s “Cost of War” banners and boots representing CT’s soldiers who have died) will be followed by a procession to the Federal Building, stopping in front of United Technologies headquarters along the way.
Participants are encouraged to wear black and to bring one or more stones to add to a pile, making visible the destruction and human cost of the war. On each stone, please inscribe the name of an Iraqi civilian who has died in the war (one list is available at www.iraqbodycount.org/database/individuals/). Stones should be large enough to write on with a permanent marker but small enough to carry five blocks. Clergy are asked to wear visible signs of their office.
Contact Rev. Kathleen McTigue (203-288-1807 x202) for info re: an affinity group that may risk arrest.
For general info, contact John Humphries at 860-236-5175.
www.ReclaimingthePropheticVoice.org
March 19: Vigil at Senator Joe Liberman's office
Please join Connecticut Opposes the War at a vigil starting at 11:30am in front of Senator Joe Liberman's Hartford office. 1 CONSTITUTION PLAZA -- (GATHER @ THE CORNER OF MARKET ST & KINSLEY ST) -- HARTFORD, CT 06103. The vigil when then join the march organized by Reclaiming the Prophetic Voice.
March 19: March on the 5th Anniversary of the U.S. Invasion of Iraq.
On the Fifth Anniversary of the Iraq Invasion March Against the War
Three trillion dollars wasted (Newest estimate by Nobel Prize economist).
4,000 Americans dead, 60,000 injured or sick so far.
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi dead.
Five million Iraqi refugees.
An Iraq invasion based on enormous lies.
Collective punishment of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip
Billions sent yearly to Israel to build illegal settlements and an illegal Wall.
Bush seeking war against Iran
Money desperately needed in the US for health care, New Orleans and fighting the recession
End the War NOW
Money for Peoples Needs, Not War and Prisons
Stop the Criminal Siege of Gaza
Join us for a rally and march at the Federal Building, 141 Church St. New Haven at 4:30 on Wednesday, March 19
After 5 we’ll march past Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro’s office (to protest her total backing of Israeli brutality), and around Yale University which has just invited war criminal Tony Blair to “teach” seminars next year.
Initiated by Middle East Crisis Committee; ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism), CT; American Friends Service Committee, Hartford Green Party, Iranians for Peace and Justice, Western Connecticut State University (WCSU) Youth for Justice, People of Faith
For more information contact MECC 203-934-2761, mail at thestruggle.org; or ANSWER, CT 203-606-0319, connecticut at answercoalition.org
People Against Injustice, ANSWER and The Middle East Crisis Committee encourage all marchers to continue on with the march to a 6 pm rally for prisoners' rights initiated by People Against Injustice at the New Haven Correctional Center, 245 Whalley Ave., at the side visiting entrance on County St
Take Action to stop the anti-immigrant Save Act now in Congress
ACTION ALERT: URGE YOUR REPRESENTATIVE TO REJECT THE SAVE ACT
Dear Friends,
On March 11 members of Congress filed a "discharge petition" on the deportation-only SAVE Act (H.R. 4088). If the discharge petition receives 218 signatures, it would force the House of Representatives to vote on the bill without an opportunity for review by a committee or allowing members to offer amendments.
We need to respond now to stop the petition. The discharge petition, which would force the SAVE Act to go to the House floor for a vote, has received 169 signatures. 218 signatures are needed. House offices are receiving a lot of calls & faxes in favor of the discharge petition. They need to hear from you to stop the petition
Please call your Representative today to stop the SAVE Act (H.R. 4088) a deportation-only immigration proposal. Call (202) 225 – 3121
Tell your Representative’s office:
Please say NO to the discharge petition for the SAVE Act (H.R. 4088). Instead, I want humane immigration reform that protects our rights. The SAVE Act (H.R. 4088):
Hurts every U.S. worker by using a faulty verification system for all workers, without safeguarding their labor rights and privacy.
Increases imprisonment of children by expanding family detention space without addressing concerns about the way the government treats those who are already detained, including children and their families.
Wastes taxpayer dollars by putting resources toward ineffective border fencing without addressing the root causes of migration.
At a time when our nation’s economy is frail and weakened, we urge you to support immigration policies that stop the wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars, produce humane and sensible solutions, and keep immigrant families together.
Here is a press statement by Project Voice, AFSC's national immigrant rights program.
“SAVE” IMMIGRATION BILL A REPEAT OF PAST POLICY DISAPPOINTMENTS
PHILADELPHIA (March 13, 2008) – The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), which advocates for constructive and humane immigration policies, considers the Secure America through Verification and Enforcement Act (SAVE) another disappointment because it is grounded in political posturing and rehashes ill-conceived, punitive positions from previous Congressional debates.
“The SAVE Act puts our civil liberties and the privacy of all workers at risk,” says Esther Nieves, director of Project Voice, AFSC’s national immigrants’ rights program. “Political expediency and partisan tactics seem to be the order of the day. It is critical that the public contact legislators and advocate for more evenhanded and sensible policies.”
The Service Committee monitors Congressional discussions and finds the SAVE Act to be unworkable, specifically because it steps up the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border, enacts an impractical national employment verification program, and blurs the line between local police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. It is particularly unfortunate that this bill has support in Congress given the anti-immigrant rhetoric of this election year.
AFSC has issued a national action alert and regional AFSC offices have taken local actions urging the public to press for a bipartisan dialogue leading to achievable immigration legislation. The Service Committee continues to call for feasible solutions that include a path to lawful permanent residency, fair labor laws and policies that keep families together.
The American Friends Service Committee supports the rights and dignity of all people, regardless of their immigration status. Project Voice, the AFSC immigrants’ rights initiative, works to uplift migrant voices and strengthen efforts of migrant-led organizations to set an agenda for fair and humane national public policies. AFSC has 90 years experience working with immigrants and refugees and presently works with immigrants in 18 communities in fourteen states and in 22 countries around the world.
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