Hundreds Rally for Peace with Amy Goodman in Maine

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via MichaelMoore.com:



September 14th, 2008 3:42 pm


Hundreds take part in Bangor peace rally

By Dawn Gagnon / Bangor Daily News


BANGOR — With a presidential election less than two months away, it’s more important than ever to hold candidates accountable for involving the nation in a war that a growing number of Americans oppose, protesters declared Saturday.

As many of those taking part in a peace rally at Bass Park saw it, the five-year-old war in Iraq not only isn’t necessary; it is wasting taxpayer dollars that would better be spent on such things as housing, food, fuel, health care and education.

Members of the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine said taxpayers in Maine will pay $364.5 million for President Bush’s request for additional Iraq war spending over the coming two fiscal years.

They said the same amount of money could have been used to provide:

• Nearly 112,000 people with health care for one year.

• Almost 560,000 homes with renewable electricity for a year.

• Almost 10,000 public safety officers for one year.

• Or more than 6,800 elementary schoolteachers for one year.

“We affirm that those who perpetuate war and injustice are not acting in our name, and we affirm that this is really what democracy looks like,” Doug Allen, a member of the Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine and a professor at the University of Maine, said at the start of the rally. ...........(more)

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