2008 Woodie Awards
Letter to the Editor
Issue date: 3/9/07 Section: Opinion
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Dear Editor,
Since Friday, activists from around the Northwest, including the organizations Tacoma Port Militarization Resistance and Olympia PMR, have been demonstrating at the Port of Tacoma. We have been resisting the military's export of Stryker vehicles and other weapons of war through our port to join the illegal, immoral war in Iraq.
Last year, the military did the same through the Port of Olympia, and experienced mass public opposition, including acts of nonviolent civil disobedience to block the vehicles from entering and exiting the port. Fort Lewis was scared enough to avoid Olympia this year and to export war through Tacoma under the cover of darkness. Yet activists have demonstrated every night since Mar. 2 at the Port of Tacoma. Other demonstrations are planned this week, including a vigil over I-5 Monday and a rally at the Federal Courthouse on Tuesday.
The demonstrators' actions are not against the troops. They are directed at the approximately 300 Stryker vehicles being shipping to Iraq in advance of the deployment of the 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division from Fort Lewis. The 4th Brigade is being deployed earlier than planned, as part of Bush's suicidal "surge." They are being deployed so quickly that they are forced to skip their final desert training in California.
The worst thing that will endanger the troops is to ship them over to Iraq. Our actions are being conducted out of concern for the lives of U.S. soldiers and, equally, the lives of Iraqi people.
Contact your local officials to express your opposition to them allowing the military to use our public facilities to endangers troops' lives and export this illegal, immoral war on innocent civilians.
Sincerely,
Rich McGrew
Tacoma, WA
206-550-6945
Since Friday, activists from around the Northwest, including the organizations Tacoma Port Militarization Resistance and Olympia PMR, have been demonstrating at the Port of Tacoma. We have been resisting the military's export of Stryker vehicles and other weapons of war through our port to join the illegal, immoral war in Iraq.
Last year, the military did the same through the Port of Olympia, and experienced mass public opposition, including acts of nonviolent civil disobedience to block the vehicles from entering and exiting the port. Fort Lewis was scared enough to avoid Olympia this year and to export war through Tacoma under the cover of darkness. Yet activists have demonstrated every night since Mar. 2 at the Port of Tacoma. Other demonstrations are planned this week, including a vigil over I-5 Monday and a rally at the Federal Courthouse on Tuesday.
The demonstrators' actions are not against the troops. They are directed at the approximately 300 Stryker vehicles being shipping to Iraq in advance of the deployment of the 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division from Fort Lewis. The 4th Brigade is being deployed earlier than planned, as part of Bush's suicidal "surge." They are being deployed so quickly that they are forced to skip their final desert training in California.
The worst thing that will endanger the troops is to ship them over to Iraq. Our actions are being conducted out of concern for the lives of U.S. soldiers and, equally, the lives of Iraqi people.
Contact your local officials to express your opposition to them allowing the military to use our public facilities to endangers troops' lives and export this illegal, immoral war on innocent civilians.
Sincerely,
Rich McGrew
Tacoma, WA
206-550-6945
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