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Opt Out event Philadelphia
Monday, May 23, 2005 5:30-8pm
Did you know that Bush's "No Child Left Behind Act" requires schools to
give students' home phone numbers & addresses to the military and that you
have the right to Opt Out - refuse to have the school release that info?
Schools are for learning, not for the military!
$Billions for war & occupation, but there's "no money" for schools &
communities
Be part of a growing national movement to
Opt Out!
A community dialogue to launch a grassroots campaign to let students and
parents know our right to "Opt Out" & to demand that money for war and
prisons go instead to caregivers, youth and communities!
Monday, May 23,
2005 5:30-8pm
Tabernacle United Church, 3700 Chestnut St. W Phila
$3-$10 requested donation l No one turned away l Childcare & translation
available
- Keynote speaker Margaret Prescod, anti-war, women's rights & Black
community activist; part of historic NYC fight for community control of
schools; Pacifica Radio/LA host; US co-coordinator, Global Women's Strike.
- Panel of students, parents, military families, vets & others
featuring Chester parents and students who kicked out Edison Corp. from
running their schools; Students who are organizing Opt Out campaigns in
their schools.
- Video clips from "Military Myths: What the Recruiters Won't Tell
You".
- Speak Out: End the Twin Terrors of Poverty and War Raise your
concerns, find out about saying NO to ROTC & other military recruitment; the
"poverty draft" targeting youth of color, women & other low income
communities; conditions in schools; the criminalization of survival; US
efforts to destabilize Venezuela; US/ UN occupation of Haiti. Get sample Opt
Out forms.
Coordinated by: Global Women's Strike/Phila, Payday Co-sponsors: AWOL
Magazine, Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO), Every Mother
is a Working Mother Network, Survivors Take Action Against Abuse by Military
Personnel (STAAAMP). Endorsers to date: Brandywine Peace Community, PRAWN
Global Women's Strike 215-848-1120 philly@crossroadswomen.net
www.globalwomenstrike.net
Payday: 215-848-1120 www.refusingtokill.net
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