From www.enduswars.org

This message, left on our Tikkun home site here, deserves to be more widely read:

Dear Friends,

Our organization, End US Wars, is holding an Emergency Anti-Escalation Rally on December 12 at Lafayette Park at the White House, Washington DC, from 11am to 4pm.

Featured speakers include: Cynthia McKinney, Senator Mike Gravel, Chris Hedges, David Swanson, Kathy Kelly, Betty Hall, Granny D (message), Lynne Williams, Elaine Brower, Mathis Chiroux, Michael Knox, Ron Fisher and others. We are very excited about so many illustrious speakers, with more in the offing. Musical performers include Jordan Page.

We expect to do a lot of action in DC around the time of Obama’s announcement. We also are planning events the evening of December 11th–a Green Party event, authors book signings, and Greenwald’s new movie on Afghanistan.

On Rally Day, December 12th: congregate at Lafayette Park, White House. Speakers are from 11am to 4 pm, with musical interludes. From 3pm to 4pm there is an organizational meeting ‘tea’ with peace movement leaders, to meet up at the rally, location TBA.

Prior to the rally, we are planning a camera ready leaflet, down-loadable from the website, to be distributed at the events coming together between now and then, such as at the Dec. 1st peace vigil at 5 pm at the White House, Amy Goodman’s speaking event in DC on Nov. 30, and other spontaneous activities now being discussed in the peace community. It will be available for local rally organizers to download and distribute during the days prior to the December 12th Anti-Escalation Rally.

We began this effort with our letter ‘Put Obama on Notice Against Afghanistan Escalation’ now with numerous signers, which can be seen on our website. We are calling on Obama to refuse to escalate troop levels. We warn Obama that if he escalates, we have committed to vigorously oppose him, with rallies, actions and by all other possible means. You can email contact@enduswars.org to endorse the letter, which can be viewed on the website.

We are sounding the peace cry, declaring that the Peace Movement is not going to stand for the President’s abdication of the people he was elected to serve. We need to give him the message: We have had enough!

We ask for your strong support and presence at the rally. Please see our website: http://www.enduswars.org. Thank you,

Laurie Dobson

End US Wars

www.enduswars.org/ contact@enduswars.org

“When we are morally right, we must not yield.” Cynthia McKinney

Their website says:

We are a new coalition of antiwar organizations, peace and justice advocates, and citizens of conscience who challenge our elected leaders to end the US wars of aggression in Afghanistan and Iraq and bring our troops home.