Invest in Our Communities! No $54 Billion More for War
Friday, May 12, 2017 - 4:00pm 441 S. Salina St., Syracuse (outside Rep. Katko's office)
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Trump is proposing a $54 billion increase (that’s $54,000,000,000) to the US’ already bloated military budget, while cutting essential programs for our communities. This is an increase of 10%, which would bring military spending to over $600,000,000,000 ($600 billion). This military budget is more than that of the next highest eight countries combined.
Please join us on Friday, May 12 outside Rep. Katko’s Syracuse office (441 S. Salina St.) to demand money for our communities, not for war! Gather at 4pm.
Please help:
- Phone banking and signmaking is Tuesday, May 9, 5:30-7:30pm at SPC
- Download the “No $54 Billion (More) for War” petition and circulate it. Return it to SPC by Tuesday, May 9.
- Groups are welcome to co-sponsor. Contact brian@peacecouncil.net
Nakba Commemoration
Monday, May 15, 2017 - 7:00 - 9:00 PM ArtRage Gallery, 505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse
The Palestinian "Nakba" ("catastrophe" in Arabic) refers to the mass expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians from their homes in 1947-48. The Nakba was a deliberate, systematic act necessary for the creation of a Jewish majority state in historic Palestine.
The Nakba continues today in the form of ongoing Israeli theft of Palestinian land for Jewish-only settlements, the destruction of Palestinian homes and agricultural land, periodic brutal military assaults that result in mass civilian casualties such as the one that took place in Gaza in 2014, and the denial of the internationally-recognized legal right of return of millions of stateless Palestinian refugees.
Guest speakers: Dr Osamah Khalil. Dr. Khalil is Assistance Professor of History at Syracuse University. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkely. He is the author of "America's Dream Palace: Middle East Expertise and the Rise of the National Security State" which was published by Harvard University Press in October 2016. Khalil is also the co-founder of Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network.
Free and open to the public. Refreshments served.
Sponsored by the Justice for Palestine Committee of the Syracuse Peace Council. (315) 472-5479.
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SPC In Action
Over 2,500 people marched through the streets of Syracuse, NY on September 29th to call for Immediate Withdrawal of US troops from Iraq. (Photo: R. Barnabas, T. Forsyth)
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