Just Say No to War: A nonviolent vigil on Parliament
Hill
Monday, October 6, 3-5 pm
AND an email campaign to the Prime
Minister's office from wherever you are
While politicians inside the House debate timelines,
benchmarks, exit strategies, and the intent to add Canadian fighter jets as
part of the slaughter from the skies playing out in Iraq and Syria (and fail to
even open a debate on the 1,000+ troops and Canadian bombers that are now near
the Ukraine border), join us in front of Parliament for a nonviolent vigil to Just
Say NO to War. To say no to:
- the macho posturing of those beating the
drums of war.
- the excitement bubbling in the offices of
Canadian weapons dealers whose profits have fueled the current conflicts and
whose instruments of murder are being tested in the new "theatre" of
war.
- the complete failure of imagination of
those in power who label whole groups of people as beyond human and worthy only
of being murdered.
- a perverted mindset that believes in war
as a solution to any problem, even though wars are directly or indirectly
responsible for 190 million 20th-century deaths (90% of whom were civilian).
- the inability of those inside the House to
understand that war is terrorism.
- the Canadian government's role in
brokering the $14 billion weapons deal for General Dynamics of London, Ontario
to supply the regime of Saudi Arabia, which imposes severe repression against
women and regularly beheads people.
- a Canadian war economy that is built on
theft of the poor: while the Harper government refuses to reveal the cost of
bombing Syria/Iraq and occupying Eastern Europe, hundreds of thousands remain
homeless, millions are hungry, wait lists for children with mental health
issues are growing exponentially, money is used for warfare and not childcare,
and overcrowded women's shelters are turning away countless targets of violence
here at home.
War is NOT the Answer
IF YOU CANNOT MAKE IT TO OTTAWA:
1. Consider organizing a vigil wherever you
are
2. Email the Prime Minister to let him know
you oppose war under all circumstances. The Harper government may act like it
doesn't care what you think, but it outspends all previous governments in
monitoring protests, emails, letters, media, etc. So every email counts! You
can email Harper from this weblink: http://pm.gc.ca/eng/contactpm OR write directly to stephen.harper@parl.gc.ca, and cc opposition leaders Mulcair, Trudeau, and May
at thomas.mulcair@parl.gc.ca, justin.trudeau@parl.gc.ca ,
and elizabeth.may@parl.gc.ca
Sponsored by Homes not Bombs: Because Canada
should build homes, not blow them up
(613) 267-3998
Also see: http://rabble.ca/columnists/2014/09/isis-their-barbarism%E2%80%A6-and-ours
"There is nothing as vile as the
arrogance of the military mind. Of all the plagues with which the world is
cursed, of every ill, militarism is the worst: the assumption that war is the
answer to human problems." Rabbi Abraham Heschel
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