Anti-War, Pro-Divestment Demonstration

Date: Friday, May 4th, 2007

Time: 3pm

Location: Outside of North College

Come at 2:15 to make signs!

There will be MUSIC! David Amdur will be speaking about immediate withdrawal.

In addition to applying pressure on our university's administration to divest from weapons contractors to create a Wesleyan community grounded in peace, we must continue to demand peace from the administration of our country.

On Monday President Bush vetoed a bill that mandated a troop withdrawal from Iraq beginning in the fall of 2008. During his speech in which he explained his decision, the president did something out of character; he told the truth. He said the bill would "impose impossible conditions on our commanders in combat" by obliging them to take "fighting directions from politicians 6,000 miles away in Washington, D.C."

Bush is right; timetables are not strategically sound, but neither is the continuation of the US occupation. The violence in Iraq has steadily increased since the occupation began in 2003 and polls have consistently shown that at least 70% of Iraqis believe that US military presence causes more problems than it solves and that the United States should withdraw its armed forces. The military solution is not a solution.

Therefore, if we desire to support our troops and the wishes of the Iraqi people as a self-determining populace we must begin withdraw our military from Iraq now.

Troops out now!

Wesleyan divest from weapons contractors!