U.S. Out of Iraq Now! Military Recruiters Off Our Campus and Out of Our Community!

UNC-Chapel Hill Students for a Democratic Society is organizing a demonstration against the continued U.S. war on Iraq and military recruitment on November 15, 2007.

Since the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, more than 1.2 million Iraqi civilians and nearly 4,000 U.S. troops have died. More than $465 billion has already been wasted on this war and the Bush administration has just requested an additional $190 billion to continue the war. Meanwhile, the Democrat-controlled Congress refuses to offer any real challenge to the war and fulfill the mandate to end the war that brought them to power back in November 2006. We are sick and tired of these games. While the people of Iraq continue to suffer under U.S. occupation, people here at home are suffering too. The Gulf Coast still isn't rebuilt, the cost of education continues to rise and become less accessible for millions of this country's young people, and many people don't have access to healthcare. This war has got to stop.

Last November, the Army opened a new recruiting station in Chapel Hill. This station, the first of its kind to open in town, gives recruiters easy access to the area's youth, high schools, and colleges. It is clear why this facility was built: in the face of the failing war on Iraq, the military is desperate for more young people to continue the occupation and be able to wage new wars on people throughout the Middle East and around the world. Military recruiters use deceptive practices, ranging from promises about money enlistees will receive to the length of enlistment, and specifically target youth of color and working class youth. If we refuse to enlist, the war cannot continue.

On the first anniversary of this station's opening, join us a we renew our call for military recruiters out of our schools and communities, and U.S. troops out of Iraq NOW!

We refuse to kill and be killed--No to military recruitment!
Iraq for Iraqis--U.S. Troops Out Now!
Shut the War Down!

UNC-CH Students for a Democratic Society
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