Since before the Iraq War began, Mediamouse.org has provided extensive coverage of local antiwar organizing, protests, and activism. In addition, we have consistently provided analysis of Iraq-related legislation, examined the voting records and statements of legislators representing West Michigan (Ehlers, Levin, and Stabenow, explored the positions of the 2008 presidential candidates on Iraq, analyzed how the West Michigan media covers the Iraq War, and reported on the local costs of war.
As part of this work, we would like to encourage people to attend an upcoming antiwar protest commemorating the fifth anniversary of the United States invasion of Iraq. It is important that we actively oppose the Iraq War, and this protest offers one way of doing so:
“Saturday, March 15 – 12:00pm
Heartside Park
Downtown Grand Rapids
(just south of the corner of Ionia and Cherry)
Join ACTIVATE (Grand Rapids SDS) for a march demanding an immediate end to the United States’ occupation of Iraq. We’ll highlight connections to local institutions that sustain the occupation. Bring signs, banners, drums, noisemakers, etc.
For information on why ACTIVATE calls for an immediate end to the occupation of Iraq:
http://www.activategr.org/news/end-the-occupation/
HELP PROMOTE THE PROTEST:
Please pass this announcement along to your friends, your groups, or other contacts. We have flyers below that we encourage people to print and distribute, as well as a graphic suitable for posting on MySpace, Facebook, and other such sites:
Graphic for MySpace/Facebook/etc
For more information on ACTIVATE (Grand Rapids SDS), visit activategr.org.”
Moreover, as should be clear from the work that Media Mouse has done historically, we would like to remind people that the Iraq War is just one component of a foreign policy that is at its core imperialist and built on domination. There is nothing particularly unique about the Iraq War as it relates to other US military interventions, it is just one of many such wars designed to establish and maintain US hegemony.
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