| MANDATE FOR PEACE The people have spoken out through the 2006 mid-term election. We have repudiated war policies and issued a mandate for new policies that promote peace and international cooperation. I/we insist that the newly elected Congress, in its earliest days in office, pass legislation requiring the prompt removal of all US troops from Iraq and discontinue funding for military purposes in Iraq except for the safe withdrawal of all U.S. forces. In addition, funds should be allocated for the reconstruction of Iraq. Print name of individual or organization______________________________________ Title, if any _______________________________________ Address__________________________________________________ Teaneck, NJ 07666 Phone_______________________ E-Mail__________________________ Return this to: Teaneck Peace and Justice Coalition. c/o St. Marks Church. 116 Chadwick Road. Teaneck, NJ 07666, or e-mail to BergencountyMFSO@hotmail.com, or press reply if you received this by e-mail. |
| August 16 - Bring the Troops Home NOW! Vigil/Car Caravan/Press Conference Wednesday, August 16, 2006, will mark the 1st anniversary of the weekly Bring the Troops Home NOW vigil in Teaneck, NJ. It will mark the “debut” of the newest Support our Troops. Bring them home. NOW! billboard in Hackensack. Unfortunately it will also mark the death of more than 2600 US troops. Here are special events planned for that day: Vigil: Support the troops. Bring them home NOW! Take care of them when they get here. Never, never send our loved ones to wars based on lies. 4:30 – 5:45 pm National Guard Armory Teaneck Road and Liberty Road, Teaneck, NJ (Please don't park at Foster Village.) Car Caravan: 5:45 pm – A caravan of cars/trucks will go from the vigil in Teaneck to the Hackensack Memorial Park. The new billboard is right across from the park, above 687 Main Street . (Go down Teaneck Road. Turn right onto Cedar Lane. Cedar Lane will become Anderson in Hackensack. At Sears, turn right onto Main Street. Go .6 miles to the intersection of Main/Johnson/Temple. You can park at the Memorial Park, on Fairmont Avenue, or at Target.) Press Conference: 6:15 pm - Hackensack Memorial Park, at the intersection of Main Street, Johnson, and Temple Avenues. The Coalition to Bring the Troops Home NJ will unveil the latest of 16 billboards in four counties in Northern New Jersey. The billboard will say, “SUPPORT THE TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME. NOW!” The new billboard will be at this location for 4 weeks. The speakers and music are listed below. Press Conference: Partial list of speakers: • John Fenton, whose son, Sgt. Matthew Fenton, was killed in Iraq • Statement from Senator Frank Lautenberg • Nancy Nygard, Military Families Speak Out, MFSO – Bergen County • Statement from Senator Robert Menendez (who will speak in person at the vigil in Teaneck earlier in the evening) • Brenda Allen, United for Peace and Justice, Episcopal Peace Fellowship • Statement from Congressman Steven Rothman • Amanda Schroeder, whose brother, Lance Cpl “Augie” Schroeder II, was killed in Iraq • State Senator Loretta Weinberg • Assemblyman Gordon Johnson, District 37 • Hackensack Police Chief Ken Zisa • American Muslim Union • Joe Vasquez, Iraq Vets Against the War • Al Zappala, whose son, Sgt. Sherwood Baker, was killed in Iraq, Gold Star Families Speak Out • Assemblywoman Valerie Huttle, District 37 • Richard Kearney, Teaneck Peace and Justice Coalition • Ken Dalton, Veterans for Peace, Chapter 21, NJ • Tom Urgo, Vietnam Veterans Against the War • Zoe Baldwin, Bergen Peace and Justice Coalition Music: Members of Soul Finger: Jeanie Marri, JB Lessin, and Paul Simione Event sponsors: Military Families Speak Out, MFSO - Bergen County chapter (bergencountyMFSO@hotmail.com. www.mfsobergencounty. org.) and the Teaneck Peace and Justice Coalition, TPJC (www.Teaneckpeace.org). The press conference is co-sponsored by MFSO, TPJC, The NJ Coalition to Bring Troops Home NOW (www.BringTroopsHomeNJ.org.), and the Bergen Peace and Justice Coalition (www. bergenjustice.net.) . Call (201) 836-5834 for information and rides. The sound system has been donated by Boulevard Pro, out of Oradell, NJ. More information about the NJ Coalition to Bring the Troops Home NOW: This is a New Jersey organization of 17 peace groups. The billboard is one of 16 in our four-County (Bergen, Essex, Morris, and Union) effort to have road and highway billboards to end what organizers call the “illegal and immoral war” that has claimed the lives of more than 2,601 American troops, has seen 20,000 seriously wounded, and has cost uncounted hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives. The first billboard sponsored by the NJ Coalition to Bring the Troops Home NOW appeared for 50 days near Penn Station in Newark. The group’s statement says: “We must not allow any more brave Americans to sacrifice themselves in a war that should never have been fought, a war that is not in the interests of the people of the United States or the people of Iraq.” “Empty talk of ‘staying the course’ is a betrayal of our responsibility to the troops, to our country, and to the people of Iraq,” The group does not want any U.S. troops or bases to remain in Iraq, and opposes the continuation of an air war. “No U.S. oil companies should dominate the Iraqi economy and its resources.” The coalition has a website, www.BringTroopsHomeNJ.org, with information on the groups involved, the full text of their policy statement, and plans for future actions and demonstrations. The groups involved are: Bergen Grassroots; Bergen Peace and Justice Coalition; Bloomfield Peace Action; BlueWave NJ; Gold Star Families Speak Out; Highlands Peace Action; Military Families Speak Out, Bergen and Essex Counties; Montclair Campaign for Peace & Justice; NJ Peace Action; North Jersey Paterson/Wayne Impeach Bush Group; People’s Organization for Progress; Teaneck Peace & Justice Coalition; Union-Somerset-Middlesex Counties Pax Christi; Veterans for Peace; Voices for Peace Passaic-Essex; Voices United of Passaic- Essex, Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom Essex County Branch. |
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