Event Description:

Join us for an international day of solidarity and make the 3rd anniversary of the criminal war & occupation of Iraq the last one.

BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!

From New Orleans to Baghdad

STOP the War Abroad and HERE at HOME!

Money for jobs, health care, housing, schools and veterans benefits – NOT WAR!

Build levees, not bombs
Support the struggle of Katrina evacuees
Stop the illegal surveillance
Overturn the USA PATRIOT Act

NO CUTS IN VA FUNDING
NO WAR FOR OIL & EMPIRE

Hands off Iran & Venezuela
End all colonial occupations - From Iraq & Afghanistan to Palestine & Haiti
From Latin America & the Caribbean, to Africa, Asia & the Middle East – no more interventions

Please bring signs to remind the public about the thousands in the US military (as well as Iraqis) who have been severely wounded, disabled, and who need ongoing help, but who the US government is ignoring.

We want to support the VA Hospital and bring attention to how US funding of the occupation of Iraq is causing tremendous grief to both US and Iraqi families, and demonstrate the hypocrisy of a government that claims to be supporting the troops and hurricane survivors, while it spends money instead on death and destruction.

Keep the Heat in the Street!

Let us unite with Texas activists who are protesting in Austin, Dallas, Denton, San Antonio, and Galveston!

Protests are happening around the world!  See http://answercoalition.org/ and http://unitedforpeace.org/

Houston Actions on Saturday, March 18: 

11 AM – Demonstration & Leafleting at the VA Hospital, corner of OST and Almeda Rd.

1 PM – Rally 1/2 mile north of demonstration, at the southeast corner of Hermann Park, corner of Holcombe Blvd. and Almeda Rd.
Performances by local musicians and poets, open mic for our youth to voice their ideas on "Taking Back Our Future"

 
Parking is available near the rally location, and it's a short walk down to the demonstration.  The Almeda Rd. entrance to the VA medical center may not be open on the weekend.
 

Bring flyers for other upcoming events and candidates that you want to promote.  You can set up tables at the rally location starting at 11 AM, and someone will stay there to watch over everything during the demonstration.  A few picnic tables are also available there.