Sunday, September 20, 2009

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March & Rally

8 YEARS OF WAR ON
AFGHANISTAN
HAS NOT BROUGHT DEMOCRACY


END IT NOW!
Bring the troops home!


*Refugee status for asylum seekers fleeing the war
*Genuine civilian based reconstruction aid
*Fund independent women's rights groups in Afghanistan


Life is getting worse for ordinary Afghans, life expectancy is now only 43 years, adult literacy is just 24% and the UN estimates that 4654 civilians have died since January 2007. 65% of Australians oppose sending more troops, and 51% oppose the war. Meanwhile the governments of the world are planning to send more troops to prop up this failed war.

Rally is being held during an international month of action against the war.


Assemble 12 noon Saturday October 10
@ City Square, cnr Swanston & Collins Sts, City


Followed by a march to the Victoria Army Barracks where photos of the real victims of the war on Afghanistan will be displayed.

For information, phone Trent 0407 070 841

troopsoutofafghanistan.blogspot.com


Endorsed by 3CR, Australia Asia Worker Links, Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (Vic Branch), Campaign for International Cooperation & Disarmament, Communication Workers Union, CEPU Communications Division (Victorian Telecommunications and Services Branch), CFMEU (Victorian Mining and Energy division), Electrical Trades Union (Vic Branch), Federation of Australian Muslim Students and Youth, Feminist Peace Network, Freedom Socialist Party, Geelong Trades Hall Council, Global Sisterhood Network, Hills Peace Committee, Japanese for Peace, Maritime Union of Australia (Vic Branch), National Tertiary Education Union (Vic Division), Radical Women, Resistance, Revolutionary Socialist Party, Socialist Alliance, Socialist Alternative, Solidarity, Stand Fast, Victorian Trades Hall Council,




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