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A Day Without the Pentagon
BULLIES on the PLAYGROUND
A DAY BULLIES on thePLAYGROUND
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ADDRESS hen President Clinton responded to the school massacre at denied entrance to the Marines. He had wanted to go to be first in line
CITY STATE ZIP W Columbine High School, he told a grief-stricken nation, “We must to fight in Yugoslavia and, as he told a classmate, “shoot everyone.”
PHONE FAX do more to reach out to our children and teach them to resolve their con- National policies that favor militarized solutions ignore
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EMAIL flicts with words, not weapons.” At the same time, cruise human and environmental needs and fuel a deadly spiral of violence.
❐ I want to participate in an action this October. missiles and B-2 bombers were demolishing Yugoslavia. The Commander Persistent poverty and homelessness, the destruction of the social
Let me know about actions in my area. in Chief should heed his own advice: Responding to conflict with safety net, a growing gap between rich and poor, crumbling public
❐ My group is interested in organizing a regional action, weapons not words spawns more killing. NATO's “humanitarian education, and media glorification of violence work together to
please contact me.
intervention” did not build peace, it turned a human rights disaster create the conditions for violence.
❐ I can't commit now, but want to know more about THE
PENTAGON
A Day Without the Pentagon. into a catastrophe! Regular military interventions and increased military spending make
❐ Please send the following materials: Do you think that a schoolyard killing and bombing another violence seem like the most legitimate way to resolve conflicts. When
“Basic Brochure” country are not connected? The Washington Post reported that five days the government acts like an irresponsible bully, how do we expect
“5 Deadly Myths About the Military”
before the Columbine shooting, one of the two students responsible was everyone else to act?
“Arsenal Against Democracy”
“Battered by the Pentagon: How Militarism Equals
Violence Against Women”
“Violence in Our Communities Fueled by the Pentagon” Bullies Around the World:
“Corporate Welfare” ■ The United States refused to sign the treaty banning ■ U.S. artillery tests on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques
“15 Ways to Work for Peace" (mosquito leaflet) landmines that 137 nations have signed and in Panama have created environmental hazards and
“Superpower/Superpolluter – The Pentagon’s Assault
■ The United States Senate rejected the Comprehensive Test harmed many communities
on the Global Environment”
All $15/100 (Postage paid) Ban Treaty ■ The U.S. is responsible for nearly half of all arms sales
Return to: ■ The United States holds 12,000 nuclear weapons, worldwide, enriching multinational corporations and fueling
WAR R E S I S T E R S L E A G U E threatening the world with extinction regional conflicts
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339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 ■ NATO bomb and missiles attacks on Yugoslavia disrupted
On October 15 in communities across the United States, ■ The Clinton Administration wants to deploy a Star Wars
(212) 228-0450 fax: (212) 228-6193 people will organize against military planners. defense system, despite treaty obligations that prohibit its nonviolent efforts at social change, killed 500 fleeing
(800) 975-9688 development refugees, and failed to produce a transition to democracy in
(YouthPeace and A Day Without the Pentagon) Increase Your Knowledge
which respect for ethnic diversity could be established
Learn more about the impact of militarism on our lives. ■ U.S. and British bombers continue to attack Iraq on a
email: wrl@igc.org web site: www.nonviolence.org/wrl
regular basis ■ The United States recently passed the mark of 2 million
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people in prison, a higher incarceration rate than has ever
Organize a training for activists in your community. ■ U.S. cruise missile attacks on Afghanistan and Sudan violated
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benefits and building prisons! The US military does more environ- military or work for a weapons maker to get a job. Imagine a world free We can create a better world through the
mental damage than any other institution. And US military policies of racism, sexism, human exploitation and environmental destruction. power of nonviolence.
defend corporate interests, supporting unfair trade relationships, not
POWER of NONVIOLENCE
creates more problems than it solves, and there are more effective
ways to resolve conflicts and protect human rights.