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[Comes A Time]
“A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the sound of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.” - Jawaharial Nehru
This is the moment, and we need your help.
Progressive Democrats of America1, along with Congressman John Conyers and a massive coalition of more than 120 activist organizations and news providers, will be holding a rally this Thursday, June 16th, in Lafayette Park at the gates of the White House. The rally will begin at 5:00pm EST. It will focus on the demand for answers after the revelation of the Downing Street Minutes, and subsequent documentation, which has exposed the Bush administration’s willful manipulation of the American people and the world in their desire for war in Iraq at any cost.
We are putting this together on very short notice, and a great deal of time and effort must be expended to pull together all the groups, information, people and press that will mark Thursday as a day when everything, finally, changed.
This is the moment. After more than two years, after all the lies and the manipulation, after the deaths of more than 1,700 American soldiers and untold thousands of Iraqi civilians, after all the wounded, after all the fear, after watching hundreds of billions of our tax dollars funneled into the pockets of WAR profiteers with umbilical links to the Bush administration, after the discovery of exactly no weapons of mass destruction, no anthrax, no VX nerve agent, no uranium from Niger, after all this and all the rest, the time is now. We march on Washington DC this Thursday, and we shall nail the truth to the White House door.
Speakers at the rally include:
Rep. John Conyers
Ray McGovern
John Bonifaz
Cindy Sheehan
Medea Benjamin
Stephen Cleghorn
Reverend Lennox Yearwood
And more…
At the conclusion of the event, Rep. Conyers will take his letter demanding answers regarding the Downing Street Minutes – a letter which now holds the signatures of more than 540,000 Americans and over 100 Democratic Representatives – and personally deliver it to the White House. Also on Thursday the 16th, Rep. Conyers will chair a hearing into the Downing Street Minutes. The time and room for the hearing will be announced soon.
We can and will make history on Thursday, we can and will expose the lies of the Bush administration that led us to war, we can and will change the course of history that has for too long now run a bloody and violent path over the innocent.
We can and we will, with your help.
Please come to Washington.
Please download the flyer for the rally and give them to your network.
2005-06-02 23:41:10
We will see you in the park.
In Solidarity,
Tim Carpenter, Director
William Rivers Pitt, Managing Editor
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Links:
https://www.pdamerica.org/donate.php
http://www.pdamerica.org
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/rally.pdf
IMAGE courtesy of Paul Combs, Tampa Tribune Newspaper (Florida)