Lawrence Recruitment Center Littered with Names of Dead

[proud2BlibKansan]

Lawrence Recruitment Center Littered with Names of Dead
5 October, 2006

LAWRENCE, KS- Today at approximately 4pm, a group of six Lawrence
community members entered the U.S. Marine Recruitment Center at the 23rd
and Louisiana shopping center.

They proceeded to empty large bags containing slips of paper all over the
office. The slips of paper listed the names and other information of
Iraqis and U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq. There were around 3500 names on
pieces of paper, which covered most of the center’s floor.

The recruiter seemed flustered and confused, and quite annoyed at the mess
being made of his office. The six left after about thirty seconds, but not
before also dropping their printed statement (the full text is below).

This is one of a series of nonviolent demonstrations that has targeted
this recruitment center, and more are planned.



STATEMENT:

The names on pieces of paper that we leave here today are the names of
people who were once alive and are very real. These lives were destroyed
in the sand and cities of Iraq and Afghanistan. These lives were all
destroyed by recruiters like you.

As military recruiters it is your job to ensure that the U.S. military
has its ranks filled at all times. It is your job to provide the people
to fill the uniforms, and to help provide the bodies to fill its caskets.

We dream of a world where no more flag draped coffins will have to make
their way home because of the lies of a person sitting in an office. We
yearn for a world where a mother will not have pull her child out of the
rubble of a bombed out building because she was born with different skin
color in a different country.

We yearn for a city where military recruiters do not exist to prey on
those that are in economic or social need. We will ensure that your job
is not easy and that you do not claim the life of one more of our
neighbors, or of people we have never met halfway across the world.

We implore you to resign, to quit your current job, to acknowledge that
you do not help nor protect our country, but instead imperil our youth
and help destroy our communities and our world. It is not too late, it is
never too late. You can seek a discharge or duty transfer away from
recruiting, away from sending other people off to die. If you need help
with this, contact the GI Right's Hotline at: 1-800-394-9544


--
Joe Carr
Kansas Mutual Aid
www.lovinrevolution.org
[e-mail]

[ComerPerro]

1. wasn't me. You know I wouldn't do anything like that

Its this aversion I have to getting the shit kicked out of me


But its encouraging.


Funny thing is, there are recruiting offices for all 3 brances in that shopping center. I refer Repigs there all the time

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Do you know Joe Carr?

Neat guy.

[Mabus]

3. Kudo's to Joe

I like it. I hope it makes the recruiters and others think about all the lives that are being lost and destroyed.

:patriot: