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Stop US Colonial Wars at West Point
September 26, 2016 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
WEST POINT ANTI-WAR PROTEST SET FOR MONDAY, SEPT. 26
A “Stop the U.S. Colonial Wars” protest will be held Monday, September 26, 2016 at 11 a.m. at the West Point United States Military Academy’s Thayer Gate in downtown Highland Falls, NY.
The protest is in solidarity with an anti-war protest being held the same morning at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, by the National Campaign for Non-Violent Resistance (NCNR). This protest will be the culmination of the international “No-War 2016” conference being organized by World Beyond War.
http://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2016agenda/
The West Point protest is calling on the United States to totally disengage militarily from wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Iraq, Syria and Libya and for a halt in all U.S. drone attacks.
“We are protesting at West Point because students are being trained there to fight dishonorable wars of aggression and domination solely to the benefit of wealthy interests,” said Nick Mottern, Coordinator of Knowdrones.com, an organizer of the protest.
Mottern said that U.S. drone attacks violate due process and privacy and together amount to wars of aggression that violate international law.
The protest is endorsed by NCNR, Knowdrones.com, WESPAC Foundation, World Beyond War.
For more information contact: [email protected] or call (914) 806-6179