Protest The Air Force Association Arms Bazaar!
WHEN: Monday, September 24, 2007, 6:00 – 7:00 p.m., Vigil coordinated by Baltimore Pledge of Resistance
Wednesday, September 26, 2007, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m., Vigil during $200+ per plate banquet.
WHERE: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660 Woodley Rd. NW
(Off of Connecticut Ave., Take Woodley Park Metro Stop-Red Line)
From September 24-26, the Air Force Association (AFA) is holding its annual Air & Space Convention and Technology Expo–”Arms Bazaar”–at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. This year’s convention features the “Global Air Chiefs.” There will be speeches by military officials, lavish meals, parties, and a $200+ per plate banquet. 125 military contractors will peddle their newest weaponry and technology to Pentagon officials and agents from other nations. These weapons are used to terrorize and kill people in such places as Iraq, Afghanistan, Colombia, Palestine, and throughout Africa. These weapons fuel the over thirty wars raging around the world today. Top military officials and arms makers, who reap huge profits from weapons contracts, will discuss how the U.S. can maintain global military dominance and control space.
To ensure control of nearly half of the earth’s resources, the U.S. practices terrorism by acts of military intervention, supplying weapons, military training and aid to corrupt regimes, and by having a preventive war policy. We call for an end to all war. It is time for the U.S., the world’s leading nuclear superpower and arms dealer, to stop dominating other nations, disarm and develop a foreign policy based on nonviolence and the universal declaration of human rights. It is time for the rich and powerful to stop misuing the earth’s resources for weapons, war and killing. It is time to alleviate poverty and meet urgent human needs. It is time to Declare Peace!
Please join us as we decry this scandal and memorialize the victims of poverty and war. In the name of God who calls us not to kill and to beat all weapons into plowshares, in the name of the victims killed by weapons displayed at the Marriott, and in the name of the poor and the children, we demand an end to the AFA Arms Bazaar!
Sponsored by the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker.
For more info call: 202-882-9649 or 202-870-0607
Speakers for AFA Arms Bazaar Protest, Sept. 26:
Luci Murphy (Singer) – Community Coalition for Peace and Justice
Linda Leaks – Empower D.C.
Representative of Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation
Rev. Lennox Yearwood – Hip Hop Caucus
Geoffry Millard – Iraq Veterans Against the War
Erin O’Keefe – Pax Christi USA
Eric LeCompte – SOA Watch
Nadine Bloch – Oil Change International
Orlando Tizon – TASSC International
Sr. Ichikawa – Buddhist Nun
Malachy Kilbride – Community Activist
Ellen Barfield – Veterans for Peace
Representative of Carmelite Sister’s community
Msgr. Ray East – Pastor, St. Theresa of Avila Church (Invited)
Jay Winter Nightwolf – Host of WPFW radio program and activist (Invited)
