[antiwar-van] *TODAY* MAWO Rally & Petition Campaign to demand "U.S. AND CANADA HANDS OFF IRAQ!"

[Kira Koshelanyk]

Mobilization Against War & Occupation (MAWO)

MONTHLY ANTIWAR RALLY AND PETITION CAMPAIGN

>> U.S. AND CANADA HANDS OFF IRAQ!
>> NO TO NEW U.S. WAR ON IRAQ!
>> U.S. AND CANADA HANDS OFF SYRIA!
 
SATURDAY September 20
2pm
Vancouver Art Gallery
Robson St. at Hornby St.
Downtown Vancouver, Canada

The
 U.S. government is yet again on the warpath, launching a new war on 
Iraq. Through over 11 years of fueling sectarian divisions during the 
U.S. war and occupation of Iraq, as well as the U.S. funding and arming 
of ISIS in Syria, the U.S. government has essentially created a new 
enemy and a new excuse to yet again attack Iraq. While ISIS is a serious
 threat to the Iraqi people, it is the Iraqi people who can confront 
them, not U.S. forces who with one hand are feeding ISIS and claiming to
 fight them with another.
 
We already know what the U.S. military
 in Iraq looks like. It looks like the bombing invasion of Baghdad, 
infamous night raids, Abu Ghraib prison and detainee torture, 
destruction of infrastructure and the deaths of well over 1.8 million 
Iraqi people. The U.S. government claims of launching airstrikes against
 Iraq to protect the Iraqi people is a hollow one, given the U.S. 
history in Iraq as well as the U.S.-sponsored origins of ISIS.
 
In
 addition to already launching more than 170 airstrikes in Iraq as part 
of this new war, the U.S. government is also expanding this war with 
plans for airstrikes on Syria. Last Tuesday the U.S. government 
announced that they will be training and arming Syrian so-called 
“rebels” to fight ISIS in Syria. This plan doesn’t mention how ISIS 
itself gained strength in Syria with over three years of U.S. funding 
and arming in an illegal attempt to overthrow the government of Syria, 
causing total chaos in Syria! The purpose of this U.S. campaign against 
ISIS is also to reinforce and ramp up the U.S. war against the 
government of Syria.

As this new war drive against Iraq is 
gearing up, the government of Canada has added their forces to the war 
machine. Currently Canada has already sent at least 69 special 
operations forces to Iraq. It is up to peace-loving people here in 
Canada and around the world to demand an end to this new war against 
Iraq!

Join MAWO to demand:

>> U.S. AND CANADA HANDS OFF IRAQ!
>> NO TO NEW U.S. WAR ON IRAQ!
>> U.S. AND CANADA HANDS OFF SYRIA!

END THE BLOCKADE OF GAZA!
SELF-DETERMINATION FOR PALESTINE!
U.S./EU/NATO/CANADA: HANDS OFF UKRAINE!
U.S. Hands Off Venezuela!
Lift All Sanctions Against Iran!
Free Private Manning, Soldier of Humanity!
No to U.S. Drones!
U.S. and All Imperialists Out of Afghanistan Now!
Hands Off North Africa and the Middle East!
Self-Determination for Indigenous Nations and All Oppressed Nations!
Money for Jobs, Housing, Healthcare and Education, Not for War and Occupation!
No to War and Occupation! Yes to Self-Determination!
 
Read MAWO’s statement on the new US war on Iraq here:
http://mawovancouver.org/articles/statements/140720-mawo-iraq-statement.html
 
Join the facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/714490408616977
For poster click: http://www.mawovancouver.org/materials/posters/140920-MAWO-rally.pdf

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