Anyone in Tucson going to the 9/24 rally

[Luna_Chick]

at Catalina Park, or taking part in the march to the Speedway recruiting center? I've got my welding class that morning at the Pima downtown campus but will leave early to join everyone.

[Fridays Child]

1. Is there a Catalina Park in Tucson proper?

Or do you mean Catalina State Park, up off of Oracle?

[Luna_Chick]

4. Tucson Rally Info

I found this on the Tucson Peace Calendar website, after googling to see what Tucson's doing that day (tucsonpeacecalendar.org):

24 Saturday
End the War in Iraq - Bring the Troops Home Now March and Rally - Our Slogans: End the War on Iraq! Bring the troops home now! Leave no bases behind! End the Corporate occupation of Iraq! Stop bankrupting our communities! NO military recruiting in our schools! In solidarity with United for Peace an Justice and others in the US peace movement planning for three massive days in Washington DC Sept. 24-46. 10 a.m. In Tucson, rally at Catalina Park (4th Ave. one block south of Speedway). 11 a.m. March for Peace. Noon to 1 p.m. Marchers arrive and picket Recruiting Center, 2302 E.Speedway- between Campbell Ave.and Tucson Blvd. 10 am - 1 pm. Catalina Park, 4th Ave at 2nd St. Free. (Tucson Peace Action Coalition, [e-mail])

I've emailed to get more info, let's all do the same and give em a good showing!

[Luna_Chick]

5. More info for the 9/24 Tucson rally, participation and planning

Here's some more info I received in response to my email to the Peace Calendar site:

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STAND UP FOR PEACE!
Help plan for September 24-26 massive protests against Bush's war on
Iraq.
Tucson Peace Action Coalition invites peace advocates to join us for
another planning meeting
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Monday, Sept. 12th at 7 pm
Armory Park Senior Center
(5th Ave. one block south of Broadway)
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What we are planning for Tucson:
10:00 AM Rally at Catalina Park
(4th Ave. & 2nd St.)
11:00 AM March for Peace down Speedway to a Noon
to 1:00 pm Picket for one hour at military recruiter's offices on
Speedway between Campbell Ave. and Tucson Blvd.
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Help us plan the local action and help send Tucsonans to march for peace
and to lobby Congress in Washington DC. For more on that go to
unitedforpeace.org
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Sponsors so far include Tucson Peace Action Coalition, National
Organization for Women, Codepink-Tucson, Veterans for Peace, The Raging
Grannies, Prescott College, Turnwind, Sunnyside High School MEChA,
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, The Nuclear
Resister, Casa Maria/Catholic Worker, Pima County Green Party, NW
Unitarian-Universalist Social Action Committee, Educators for Peace, UA
Feminists of Color, Peace Web, Arizona Peace Council, Salt of the Earth
Labor College, Abolish Corporate Personhood $$/Reclaim Democracy, UA
Network of Feminist Student Activists, Tucson Club-CPUSA, and the Tucson
Peace Center
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HOW ABOUT YOUR GROUP? Please vote
to cosponsor and let us
know at [e-mail] Sponsors will have their name on
leaflets and e-mail publicity and are expected to encourage their
members and supporters to turn out.
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Slogans for action include but are not limited to the following: End
the War on Iraq!
Bring the troops home - NOW!
Leave no bases behind!
Invest in our communities
Books not bombs!
Healthcare not Warfare!
No blood for Oil!
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For more information call Joe at 624-4789 or [e-mail]

[Luna_Chick]

8. Tucsonans, please help get the word out

Hoping for a great turnout!

[noahmijo]

2. Thanks for the heads up I will try to attend!

[Wetzelbill]

3. hell I might now

thanks for bringing it up.

[havocmom]

6. WB, go for me, since I am up here in the north!

Will try to think of a good sign for my Wayward Daughter to carry in my stead. Pretty sure she'll be there.

[havocmom]

7. Thanks for the information, Luna_chick.

Knew there was a march/rally in Phoenix, but a lot of Tucson folks just can't get up there, especially with the cost of gas.

Hmm, many probably can't go to Phoenix for the same reason many couldn't evacuate from NOLA, no car or no cash for gas. And with evacuees from NOLA in Tucson, it is especially good that people can get together to exercise their rights to speak freely about their profound disapproval of BUSHCO policies of destruction and death.

Wish I could be there with you folks down in the Baked Apple for these healthy expressions of rejection of bush* policies.

Ah, Catalina City Park... such fond memories of pirates, renegades, and REAL American values in the Fourth Ave. 'hood. ;)

[Luna_Chick]

9. Don't forget!

Here's additional info I received via email from Joe Bernick of the Tucson Peace Coalition. Additional sponsors for the event have been added. Hope to see a great turnout here in Tucson!

- Please Spread this message -

END THE WAR ON IRAQ!

MARCH FOR PEACE

In solidarity with massive mobilization for peace in Washington to tell Bush and Congress that we demand action to end the war on Iraq!

JOIN US -

Saturday September 24th, 2005
10:00 AM Rally at Catalina Park
(4th Ave & 2nd St)
11:00 AM - March for Peace
East on Speedway to the Military Recruitment Center Noon to 1 PM -
Picket at Military Recruiter's offices-2302 E Speedway (Speedway between
Campbell Ave & Tucson Blvd.)

This is planned as a nonviolent family event. We are hoping for a
massive turnout.
Bring DRUMS
Bring signs
Bring flags
Bring your friends
Bring water
We will have sign making 10 to 11 AM at the park especially for
children.
Bring bullhorns, noisemakers, and healthy lungs. We want to be heard all the way to Washington DC.
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS! BRING THEM HOME - NOW!

Leave no bases behind!
Stop bankrupting our communities!
End corporate occupations!
Say no to military recruitment of school children! Let's invest in
education, healthcare, jobs, local communities, Not in killing, torture & destruction

Sponsoring Local organizations: Tucson Peace Action Coalition, Coalicion de Derechos Humanos/Alianza Indigena Sin Fronteras, The Raging Grannies, National Organization for Women,Veterans for Peace, Sunnyside High School MEChA, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, National Lawyers Guild, CODEPINK-Tucson,Green Party of Pima County, The NW Unitarian Universalist Congregation's Social Action Committee, UA Women of Color, Democracy for America, Prescott College, Turnwind, The Nuclear Resister, Casa Maria/Catholic Worker, Arizona Peace Council, Salt of the Earth Labor College, Abolish Corporate Personhood $$/Reclaim Democracy, Ban Depleted Uranium, UA Network of Feminist Student Activists, Tucson Club-CPUSA, Dept. of Peace AZ CD-8, Food Not Bombs, American Friends Service Committee, Educators for Peace, PeaceWeb SW, The Arizona Progressive Council, UA-AZoutreach, Women in Black, Tucson Peace Center.

For more information: [e-mail].

Contributions needed, mail your check to Tucson Peace Action Coalition, P.O. Box 2815, Tucson, Arizona 85702