END THE WAR ON IRAQ BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!

Leave no military bases behind - End the looting of Iraq - Stop the torture - Stope bankrupting our communities - No military recruitement in our schools

More than two years after the illegal and immoral U.S. invasion of Iraq, the nightmare continues. More than 1600 U.S. soldiers have died, at least another 15,000 have been wounded; even the most conservative estimates of Iraqi deaths number in the tens of thousands. Iraq now lies in ruins under the military and corporate occupation of the United States; U.S. promises to rebuild have not been kept and Iraqis still lack food, water, electricity, and other basic needs.

Wear it proudly - Take a Texans for Peace t-shirt with you when you travel to D.C. To order during the next two weeks (while Charlie Jackson is in Iraq) contact Alyssa Burgin aburgin@texansforpeace.org (Large size only)

A majority of Americans believe that this war never should have happened, but our elected representatives in Washington, including most from Texas, continue to rubber-stamp the Bush Administration's disastrous Iraq policies. They have given military recruiters nearly unrestricted access to our schools -- and the Pentagon nearly unrestricted access to our tax dollars. At a time when our vital social programs are eroding or completely decimated, an overwhelming majority in Congress recently approved Bush's request for an additional $82 billion in war funding, and there's already talk of another $50 billion appropriation this fall.

It's time once again to hold all pro-war politicians accountable for the deaths, the destruction, the lies, and the toll on our communities! Join Texans for Peace in Washington, D.C. for three massive days of action against the war: a major march, rally, and festival on Saturday, September 24; an interfaith religious service and day of grassroots trainings on Sunday, September 25; and a large-scale grassroots lobbying day and mass nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience on Monday, September 26.

From every corner of this country, AND FROM TEXAS people will travel to Washington to bring our demands directly to the policymakers responsible for this unjust war. These three days of actions will send a clear message to the White House and Congress: The Iraq war must end. It's time to bring all the troops home, leaving no U.S. military bases behind, and to stop the corporate theft of Iraq's resources. Instead of draining our national treasury for endless war, we demand that our tax dollars be used to repair the damage done to Iraq and to fund services in our communities. We call for an immediate end to our government's assault on immigrants, the unethical pressures on our young people to join the military, and the undermining of democracy through relentless attacks on everyone's basic rights.

Our mobilization will coincide with the meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, whose economic policies place corporate profits ahead of basic human needs worldwide. We will speak out against the corporate theft of Iraq's resources and the decimation of the Iraqi economy through privatization and "free trade."

Take action this weekend to stop this war, and help prevent any new wars!

(NOTE: Charlie Jackson, founder of Texans for Peace, will in Iraq on September 24-26, participating in peace and end the war actions there.)

"War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate." - Lyndon Baines Johnson