WISCONSIN SETS PEACE VOTE

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WISCONSIN SETS PEACE VOTE

Thursday, October 20, 2005 - FreeMarketNews.com

Peace activists around Wisconsin are collecting voters’ signatures for a referendum that would recommend that American forces in Iraq be sent home. The referendum would appear on the spring ballots for the upcoming statewide municipal elections in April. Jeff Peterson of the Green Party of Wisconsin is one of the people coordinating the efforts around Milwaukee. He says that Americans should have a say in whether or not the United States goes to war, and how that war is conducted. “It’s an exercise in democracy, the same thing we’re trying to give Iraqis,” Peterson says in reports.

Currently more than 15 municipalities in Wisconsin are circulating petitions to put the referendum on ballots. These communities range from larger cities like Milwaukee, Racine, Madison, and Oshkosh to smaller communities in rural counties. To get the referendum on the ballot each community must gather the signatures of 15% of the voters who participated in the 2002 gubernatorial election. Another way for the referendum to be put on the ballot is if a group could persuade its local government to put the measure on the ballot. The effort follows a similar action in Vermont where 50 communities voted yes to referendums to end the Iraq War.........