Greetings IHPers:

This Saturday is your chance to demonstrate your feelings about the war in
Iraq -- as well to the currently threatened aggression against Iran.
Please join other UW students and faculty - watch for a large banner that
says "Public Health Workers Say Troops Out Now".

Saturday, Oct 27, 12 noon at Judkins Park

(For directions see http://www.seattle.gov/parks/park_detail.asp?ID=397 )

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This coming Saturday, Oct 27, people from across the city and from
across the Pacific Northwest will be gathering at Judkins Park, at noon.
Judkins Park is just west of 23rd and Dearborn.

We will rally and march to Occidental Park in the Pioneer Square
area. http://www.endthewarseattle.org/ This is part of a national day of
action. http://www.oct27.org/

Marching at the front this Saturday will be 40 Iraq veterans from
IVAW, Iraq Veterans Against the War. http://www.ivaw.org/

In case you hear people say marching in the streets does not
accomplish anything, tell them a story Paul Loeb relates in his book The
Impossible Will Take a Little While (2004), pp7-8.

"In 1969, Richard Nixon's envoy, Henry Kissinger, told the North
Vietnamese that the president would escalate the Vietnam War, and even use
nuclear strikes, unless they capitulated and forced the National
Liberation Front in the South to surrender as well. Nixon had military
advisors prepare detailed plans, including mission folders with
photographs of potential nuclear targets. But two weeks before the
presidents November 1 deadline, there was a nationwide day of protest, the
moratorium; millions of Americans joined local demonstrations, vigils,
church services, petition drives, and other forms of opposition. The next
month, more than half a million people marched in Washington. An
administration spokesperson announced that Nixon had watched the
Washington Redskins football game and that the demonstrators wouldn't
affect his policies in the slightest - thereby feeding the frustration of
far too many in the peace movement and accelerating the descent of a few
into violence. Yet privately, as we now know from Nixon's memoirs, he
decided the movement had, in his words, so "polarized" American opinion
that he couldn't carry out his threat. Moratorium participants had no idea
that their efforts may have helped stop a nuclear attack."