[NukeNet] Anti-DU/Anti-War RALLY in Jonesborough -- 1 of 11 United for Peace & Justice OCT.27 MOBILIZATIONS

[Linda Modica]

Peace be with you,

United for Peace & Justice -- a national coalition of 1500+ peace &  
justice groups (including First Tennessee Progressives) -- is  
coordinating eleven END THE WAR NOW rallies around the country on  
October 27th, and one of them will be in JONESBOROUGH, Tennessee.   
Why Jonesborough?  Because we are the home to one of the last  
remaining military contractors making uranium weapons -- Aerojet  
Ordnance Tennessee.

Working with UFPJ & hosting a regional anti-war rally in Jonesborough  
offers us a hugh opportunity:  to apply intense pressure on Aerojet  
to end production of Depleted Uranium munitions in Jonesborough.

But on October 27th, we can accomplish even more!  Together, and in  
solidarity with our troops, we will expose the outrageous treatment  
of our soldiers who, due to repeated 15-month deployments in DU- 
contaminated battlefields, are forced to breathe more and more of the  
toxic, radioactive uranium dust from exploded DU weapons.

Once the public understands that DU is AGENT ORANGE ALL OVER AGAIN,  
the cry to bring our troops home will start to come from the South --  
the area of our nation most dedicated to our soldiers, and still most  
supportive of the war.

Not only are our troops suffering leukemia at young ages, but birth  
defects are rising in their families at alarming rates.  In the  
civilian populations in Iraq & Afghanistan -- as well as in Iran,  
caught in the cross winds -- childhood cancers have risen 500%.  For  
more on DU, please spend a few minutes learning from Catholic Sister  
Rosalie Bertell, PhD at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgQ79-oDX2o .

The October 27th Rally will start at Noon at Mill Spring Park, with  
speeches by the following DU experts and peace advocates:
+++Major Doug Rokke, PhD. (Army DU Expert-Retired) coming in from  
Illinois;
+++Richard Cook, Chemist (Army Medic-Retired) coming in from Rhode  
Island;
+++Sonia Santiago (Madre Contra la Guerra & Committee for the Rescue  
& Development of Vieques) coming in from Puerto Rico;
+++Father John Rausch (Director-Catholic Committee of Appalachia &  
Pax Christi's 2007 Teacher of Peace) coming in from Kentucky.

Others being approached are Cynthia McKinney & Ann Wright, among others.

If you would like to add a prominent speaker or musician to the  
program, please contact me at Linda.C.Modica at mac.com or call (423)  
676-2925.  No offer to do some of the legwork for the Oct. 27th event  
will be refused!

The link to the www.unitedforpeace.org flyer for the Jonesborough  
event can be found at http://www.oct27.org/node/650.

Donations can be made through the www.Oct27.org/jonesborough site or  
directly to First Tennessee Progressives at the following mailing  
address:
Anthony Pittman, Treasurer-FTP
712 Wilson Avenue
Johnson City, TN   37604

The event insurance alone is likely to cost at least $500, and there  
will be bills from the Town of Jonesborough too.  So please be as  
generous as you can.

In solidarity,
Linda.

Linda Cataldo Modica, Co-founder
FIRST TENNESSEE PROGRESSIVES
266 Mayberry Road
Jonesborough, TN   37659
H:  423-753-9697
C:  423-676-2925
Linda.C.Modica at mac.com

"The continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual  
danger, will compel nations...to resort...to institutions which have  
a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights." -- Alexander  
Hamilton, FEDERALIST PAPER #8, 1787

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