5 Years Too Many! Unleash Your Imagination in the Nation's Capital: March 19, 2008

March 19th will mark the beginning of the 6th year of the US occupation of Iraq. Enough is enough! We are organizing creative, nonviolent acts of civil disobedience in Washington, DC, to interrupt business as usual for those promoting and profiting from war and empire building. Focusing on the pillars of war, our actions will take place at multiple sites, demonstrating the real costs of war and offering visions for a more just and sustainable world, a world at peace.

Five years of war and occupation in Iraq ... at what cost?

• A country in shambles with 650,000 to 1 million Iraqis dead or wounded, 4,000,000 displaced, families and communities ripped apart. Nearly 4,000 US service people killed and over 40,000 wounded, many neglected by our government. US corporations reap huge profits as they plan to control Iraq's oil.
• Over $1.2 trillion spent on death and destruction, while at home millions of uninsured people have no access to affordable healthcare, public infrastructure is collapsing, the housing mortgage crisis is growing, unemployment is rising and the Gulf Coast has yet to be rebuilt.
• Torture, illegal surveillance, domestic spying, erosion of civil liberties. A criminal administration with a Congress and judiciary no longer offering checks and balances. The Constitution, with its articles of impeachment, rendered irrelevant and disregarded.
• Threats of an attack on Iran and escalation of the operation in Afghanistan.

United by common demands and organizing principles, groups are encouraged to participate in nonviolent mass actions and/or organize their own actions in coordination with others at government agencies, war profiteers, corporate media, military recruitment centers, or other pillars of war and empire in DC.