Action!

There will be a rally and speak-out in support of Students for a Democratic Society member and Chapel Hill activist Tamara Tal on Monday April 14, 2008 in front of the Chapel Hill Post Office/Courthouse at 11 am. Tamara Tal was arrested on a public sidewalk November 30, 2007 at the Burger King protest in Chapel Hill and on Monday, April 14, she will plead "not guilty" to the charge of "failure to disperse" (blocking free passage of a walkway-- C.H. town ordinance 11-6).

At the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 450 students attended an antiwar rally at noon and 300 marched through campus and into the community, occupying the main intersection in town before ending with a closing rally on the steps of the administration building. SDS, thirteen other student organizations, members of the newly-founded UNC Coalition Against the War, six community organizations and members of Iraq Veterans Against the War led the demonstration.

WHAT: Demand Peace, Stop Violence and End the Iraq War!
WHEN: March 19, 2008 at 12:30pm
WHERE: Gather in the Pit for a Rally and March
WHO: Students, Faculty, Staff and Community Members

Join the UNC Coalition Against the War.

We are: Students for a Democratic Society, Black Student Movement (Political Action Committee), Feminist Students United, Young Democrats, Arab Student Organization, Student Action with Workers, Solidarity with Palestine through Education and Action at Carolina, the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender/Straight Alliance, Criminal Justice Action and Awareness, Muslim Organizations Actively Integrating Carolina, Advocates for Human Rights, Prochoice USA, Native Health Initiative, and Animal Rights Collective.

This Wednesday will mark a grim milestone: the U.S. occupation of Iraq will enter its fifth year. That means five years that the people of Iraq have been forced to live under the daily violence of the U.S. occupation of their country resulting in the deaths of over 1.2 million Iraqis and nearly 4,000 U.S. troops.

UNC-Chapel Hill Students for a Democratic Society, in solidarity with over 75 other Universities and High Schools across the country (http://www.newsds.org/), is working shoulder-to-shoulder with the UNC Coalition Against the War to call on all students and community members stand up, walkout and speak out against the brutal war on Iraq. We will gather in the Pit at 12:30pm on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 for a rally and march.

The rally will include speakers from member organizations of the UNC Coalition Against the War and Iraq Veteran Against the War, Joe Gill. We hope that you will break from your daily routine on this day to join us in struggle against violence in all of its tragic forms.

The march will feature giant puppets, beats by Cakalak Thunder, radical cheer leading and more!

ALL OUT FOR MARCH 20, 2008

This March will mark a grim milestone - the fifth anniversary of the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq. Despite the clear mandate from the American people to end the occupation, the U.S. government continues to wage war upon the Iraqi people. Bush’s mocking response to dwindling public support for the war has been the “troop surge,” or simply more of the same, while simultaneously threatening neighboring countries like Iran. For their part, the Democrats refuse to commit to a clear anti-war stance, even as they try to posture as the opposition party. Meanwhile, the threat of domestic recession looms, racist attacks increase, and millions lack decent housing, jobs, education, and health-care.

WHAT: Demonstration Against the War and Military Recruitment
WHEN: November 15, 2007
WHERE: 3:30pm--March from the Pit (on UNC's Campus, near the Student Union)
4:30pm--Rally and Creative Action at Chapel Hill Recruiting Station (1502 E. Franklin St.)

UNC-Chapel Hill Students for a Democratic Society is organizing a demonstration against the continued U.S. war on Iraq and military recruitment on November 15, 2007.

Since the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, more than 1.2 million Iraqi civilians and nearly 4,000 U.S. troops have died. More than $465 billion has already been wasted on this war and the Bush administration has just requested an additional $190 billion to continue the war. Meanwhile, the Democrat-controlled Congress refuses to offer any real challenge to the war and fulfill the mandate to end the war that brought them to power back in November 2006. We are sick and tired of these games. While the people of Iraq continue to suffer under U.S. occupation, people here at home are suffering too. The Gulf Coast still isn't rebuilt, the cost of education continues to rise and become less accessible for millions of this country's young people, and many people don't have access to healthcare. This war has got to stop.

With funding for the criminal war on Iraq set to run out on October 1, this September will be a crucial time for the those who oppose the war to take action! UNC-Chapel Hill Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) will be organizing buses to Washington D.C. to join both the Youth and Student Day of Direct Action Against the War on September 28 and the Mass March to Stop the War at Home and Abroad on September 29. If you would like to come with us to one or both of these actions in D.C., let us know!

There are two buses leaving Chapel Hill to join the Youth Day of Action: one will leave the night of Wednesday, September 26 and one will leave in the late afternoon of Thursday, September 27. The bus to join the march will be leaving early in the morning on Saturday, September 29. All of the buses will be coming back to Chapel Hill on Saturday night.

Dear Anti-War Friends and Allies—

Representative Price has failed to represent the will of the people and lead us out of Iraq. Instead, Price is trying to appease the growing anti-war movement which is sweeping through North Carolina and the rest of the country with empty rhetoric and failed promises of action. On February 16 2007, six students, as part of a larger coordinated national effort, visited Price's Chapel Hill office to share our grave concerns about his supposed commitment to end the Iraq War. David Price's political advisor, Rose Auman, would not allow us to speak to Price by phone. Instead, Auman called the Chapel Hill Police Department to intimidate and silence us. The David Price Six were arrested and charged with first degree trespassing for the 'crime' of exercising our first amendment rights to seek a redress of grievances from our Congressperson. When we invited Congressman Price to come to our trial to testify as to his position about our country's invasion and occupation of Iraq, he wrote to District Attorney James Woodall and asked him to drop the charges against us. Woodall declined.

Dear friends and allies,

On Friday, February 16, six students were arrested in the Chapel Hill office of Rep. David Price demanding that he vote against more war funding to continue the criminal war on Iraq. On Monday, March 26, the six entered a plea of 'not guilty' in the Orange county courthouse.

On Monday, May 7th at 2 PM, the David Price Six go to trial for their efforts to publicly condemn the Iraq Occupation and Representative Price's complicity in the ongoing violence.

650,000 Iraqi civilians and over 3,200 U.S. service people have been killed in this illegal war. Every day that passes claims the lives of over 100 Iraqis and 3 American soldiers. This bloodshed continues despite the fact that the majority of Iraqis, Americans, and active military personal want the troops out now! David Price and the rest of Congress are not responding to the demands of the people. It is they who should be on trial, not us! We, the youth and students of the 4th district and beyond, are resisting this occupation and those who prolong it with all of our might! Join us on May 7th as we say: Iraq for Iraqis—Troops Out Now!

By David Dixon

On Saturday, April 21 over 400 hundred people marched and rallied in Greensboro against the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan, against torture & for the impeachment of Bush & Cheney. Groups that took part and/or spoke included Action Center For Justice, Chapel Hill Students for a Democratic Society, CodePink Charlotte, Grassroots Impeachment Movement (GRIM), Greensboro Peace Coalition, Justice at Smithfield Campaign, NC Labor Against The War, UNCG Campus Anti-War Coalition, Cakalak Thunder drummers, the World Can't Wait, ANSWER & Troops Out Now Coalitions, musical performances and others.

In 2002, Bush named Iraq , Iran and North Korea as the ‘axis of evil’. Since then, U.S. forces have invaded and occupied Iraq and Afghanistan. The war drums continue to beat against Iran and Syria , and an attack against Iran is now seen as inevitable.

As a strong anti-imperialist state, Iran is a direct obstacle to U.S. control over the region. The U.S. government and corporate media are creating an atmosphere of mass hysteria against Iran’s nuclear energy program. This is seen daily in the media’s portrayal of democratically elected President Ahmedinejad as a “new Hitler” leading a nation of “fanatical Islamists”.