No doubt Barrack Obama’s inauguration in January was a great moment for all people concerned about ending racism and promoting the equality that Thomas Jefferson wrote about in the Declaration of Independence.
But in the context of the grand struggle to achieve equality for all humans in all areas of life, the President’s inauguration was a mere baby step.
A baby step whose ensuing honeymoon period has ended.
As President Obama continues to prolong a withdrawal from Iraq and actually escalate the occupation of Afghanistan, the need to continue reaching out to and organizing with veterans protesting the occupations has never been greater.
For this reason, The Military Project is working to facilitate a meeting of anti-occupation troops in September.
This meeting is to take place near Fort Stewart in Georgia.
We are aiming to not only to make gains in the Southeast region of the United States, but to boost the profile of outreach to soldiers on a national level.
To achieve this, representatives from Iraq Veterans Against the War from around the country are being invited to lead the discussion and planning to be conducted in Georgia in September.
The Military Project will be present to share opinions and facilitate, but truly The Military Project is interested only in empowering the anti-war veterans movement.
We are asking for a donation to The Military Project that will be used for the sole purpose of transporting veterans to Georgia in September.
Your money will not be used for any sort of overhead cost.
The Military Project is taking care of that.
But we do need help bringing the veterans’ representatives from around the country to this meeting.
No one’s voices and no one’s actions are more important than those of veterans in the struggle to bring home our armed forces from two occupations they should never have been asked to take part in.
President Obama made a lot of popular statements about ending the current “wars” in his historic campaign, but he has made it clear that we cannot count on him to turn those messages into action.
If we want the occupations to end immediately, we are going to have to work for it ourselves.
Please help The Military Project carry out its primary and sole mission of supporting the anti-war soldier.
We cannot possibly transport all of these veterans needed at the Conference in Georgia by ourselves.
Our goal is to take any donation that you make for this cause, and turn it into action that will be more significant than just a baby step in the fight for equality.
Very respectfully,
Fabian Bouthillette, Lieutenant, USNR
Member, Iraq Veterans Against the War
Member, Military Project Organizing Committee
Jeff Englehart, Former Spc., U.S. Army, Iraq Service
Member, Military Project Organizing Committee
Member, Iraq Veterans Against the War
Camilo Mejia, Former Staff Sergeant, Florida National Guard
Member, Military Project Organizing Committee
Member, Iraq Veterans Against the War
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