Harlem grandmas hit the warpath over Iraq

[kpete]

Harlem grandmas hit the warpath over Iraq

BY STEPHEN STIRLING
DAILY NEWS WRITER

Fed up with a war they call "unjust," grandmothers in the city are taking to the streets.
Armed with canes and loudspeakers, a crowd of more than 40 grandmothers, great-grandmothers and even a few grandfathers gathered outside an Army recruiting station in Harlem yesterday to protest the war in Iraq.

The Harlem Grandmothers Against the War in Iraq chose tax day specifically to protest, citing that the war has already cost U.S. taxpayers more than $26 billion. That's money, they say, that could and should be used to fund community health care, housing and education programs.

"It is unconscionable that most of our tax money goes to killing people in other countries while our community in Harlem lacks the bare essentials of housing and medical care," said Vinie Burrows, a great-grandmother. "The war in Iraq translates itself into a war against the poor."

more at:
http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/story/409623p-346692c.html

[RethugAssKicker]

1. couldn't agree with Grandma more !

[adigal]

2. Alright, Grandmas!!

I may join them next time, if there is info ahead of time.

[JohnyCanuck]

3. Right on Grandmas. It's an obscenity what they spend to kill people.

The link below is for a flash presentation from truemajority.org. Check out the stack of cookies representing the military budget to the stacks of cookies representing other federal spending. It's really mind boggling when you see a visual representation of how much is spent on the Pentagon and the military to enable the waging of war on behalf of PNAC megalomaniacs compared to how much is spent meeting all other US federal government responsibilities.

The average person is probably aware that the US spends a lot on its defense war budget compared to other countries and other federal spending, but when you are just talking numbers you don't really get the true import of what a true obscenity the war budget represents as when you can see it graphically represented as in the following presentation.

http://www.truemajority.org/oreos/

[gizmo1979]

4. Go Nana Go.

I'm glad to see people are starting to say they have had enough.

[Change has come]

5. K&R n/t

[JohnyCanuck]

6. K & R N/T