Sick of Tea baggers? Become a brown bagger!

[helderheid]

Progressive Democrats of America expands the Healthcare NOT Warfare campaign to include Brown Bag Lunch Vigils.

As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. observed over 40 years ago, “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death,” and “of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.”

And yet here we are, over four decades later, spending what seems to be limitless money for endless wars. We can pay for warfare but not healthcare, for bombs but not books, for weapons but not windmills, for hellfire but not homes. As the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq labor on, with no end in sight, it's become alarmingly clear that they have exacted a staggering human and financial toll on the Iraqi, Afghan, and American people. Something is terribly wrong.

In light of this sad state, Progressive Democrats of America is extending and expanding the http://pdamerica.org/articles/misc/2008-02-29-14-19-42-misc.php "> Healthcare NOT Warfare campaign to raise awareness among the public and our elected officials that the electorate is not being served by current U.S. policies.

PDA and our allies call on the Obama administration and the United States Congress to begin redirecting the money spent on war and death into human needs here at home and abroad. We demand humanitarian and reconstructive aid for the people of Afghanistan and Iraq, not money for troop escalation and permanent bases. We demand that wasteful and unnecessary military spending be directed toward healthcare, jobs, and housing in America. We demand an end to the unjust and illegitimate wars against, and occupations of, Afghanistan and Iraq.

PDA’s Brown Bag Lunch Vigil Campaign is calling on our members, and like-minded individuals and organizations, to gather on the third Wednesday of every month in front of—and in—congressional offices in districts across the country. We’re asking you to spend your lunch hour exercising your First Amendment Rights by holding vigils, rallies, meetings with aides and representatives, pickets, and demonstrations that will serve to educate our elected officials, the public, and the press about the human and financial costs of war and militarism.

Specifically, PDA and our allies call on President Obama and Congress to support http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/issues/bills/?billnum=H.R.2404&congress=111&size=full">HR 2404, calling for an exit strategy from Afghanistan; http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/issues/bills/?billnum=H.R.3699&congress=111&size=full">HR 3699, prohibiting any increase in the number of U.S. Armed Forces in Afghanistan, and to establish improved and expanded Medicare for All to residents of the United States. We cannot let them forget that we are watching and waiting for the next election.

Here's how to get involved:

http://pdamerica.org/articles/misc/2009-11-13-12-49-50-misc.php

[helderheid]

1. Your recs are appreciated. Thanks you guys. :)

:hi:

[lbrtbell]

2. K&R

I'm tired of the war machine being a money pit while people starve and die.

[helderheid]

3. Thanks for both the kick and the rec!

[Starry Messenger]

4. Oh hai!

kick :D

[helderheid]

7. kthxbai!

:hi:

[lib_wit_it]

5. Kick and heartily recommend! Especially knowing Blackwater/Xe and such scumbag companies are getting

rich off these wars. Third Wednesday, OK.

[helderheid]

8. Thanks, lib_wit_it

:hi:

[helderheid]

6. THANKS EVERYONE!!!