Anti-war protest focuses on dollars over deaths

[struggle4progress]

By Carey Gillam
Reuters
Saturday, July 28, 2007; 5:19 PM

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - First they tried lines of empty boots, then ribbons bearing the names of the more than 3,000 dead U.S. soldiers. Now anti-war protesters are trying a fresh tactic: appealing to American worries about their wallets.

Proclaiming that one day of the Iraq War costs $720 million, or $500,000 a minute, the Quaker pacifist group American Friends Service Committee is taking the money-focused message to a dozen U.S. cities in a series of seven-foot .. banners.

The banners stress what could be bought with the war dollars: one banner says that the tax funds spent in Iraq each day could pay for 84 new elementary schools, while another says it could pay for health care for more than 163,000 people.

A variety of anti-war groups are displaying the banners on downtown street corners, festivals and at campaign stops around the country, including in Kansas City on Friday and Saturday. ~snip~

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/28/AR2007072800881.html

[rodeodance]

1. good for them.---It's the $$$ stupid!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Good idea

It's given me an idea for a flyer to pass out to all those who say they hate taxes--Tell them this is what their tax money is being used for--to lower taxes, leave Iraq!

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. But the war is off the budget. That means our taxes are not paying

for it. It's free, right?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. Suuuure.

And I have a bridge to Brooklyn that I'll be glad to sell you cheap.

[Raine]

5. Dollars is what people in the US

understand the most. When you can't get people to "get it" any other way talk about money that'll get them everytime...SERIOUSLY. :think: