Chicago Anti War and Occupation Protest 2011 HD

Liberation Not Occupation!

March & Rally on 8th Anniversary of the invasion of Iraq
12 Noon, Saturday, March 19, Michigan Avenue & Congress Parkway -- our own 'Freedom' Square! Short rally followed by a march on Michigan Avenue

Funding for Jobs, Healthcare & Education, not for War and Occupation
Iraq, Palestine, Egypt: US Out of the Middle East
End FBI raids, political repression and corporate welfare at home

Why we march:

March 19th marks 8 years of US war and occupation in Iraq, where despite President Obama's claim that combat operations have 'ended', more than 50,000 troops remain, backed by tens of thousands of mercenary private contractors. 4,436 American soldiers and over 1 million Iraqis have died, with millions more maimed and displaced. This war has lasted longer than WW II and cost more than $1 Trillion -- more than $200 Billion this year alone.

The US occupation of Afghanistan has extended into Pakistan, where last year alone the US military dropped more drone bombs than in the last decade combined. The US government continues to back and bankroll Israel's war against Palestinians and the siege of Gaza. While the US government claims to support 'democracy and freedom', it continues to back repressive regimes and right-wing movements across the Middle East, Latin American and beyond. The toppling of US backed Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak has inspired millions the world over, exposing the great gulf between US rhetoric and reality.

Here at home, antiwar activists and whistleblower projects like Wikileaks are targeted for jail or worse. Muslims and immigrants are scapegoated. Undocumented immigrants face deportation and discrimination. Millions are unemployed and uninsured while the government is slashing funds for basic needs like heat and food for poor children. Funding for public education, environmental protection and job safety is being gutted. Workers rights are under attack, while the government continues to pour billions into the coffers of the banksters and corporate predators that created the current economic catastrophe. Our tax dollars are bankrolling a corporate welfare system that funds CEO salaries and war and occupation abroad at the expense of basic human needs right here at home.

We reject war and bloodshed. We demand jobs, healthcare, education, justice and equality -- and the real democracy that puts people before profits and human needs before corporate greed.

Join us on March 19 to demand an end to the US occupation of Iraq. March in solidarity with the great struggles raging from the Mideast to the Midwest and across the world for liberation and self-determination.

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[flyboy7588]

Assholes protesting. Not a whole brain among them.

[Herbymac0811]

@billslover90 Oh of course your right. Becouse the democrats solve all our problems by throwing money at them untill they go away dont they. We've all seen what the democrats have done for the past 4 years and America is sick of it, we are broke becouse of it and still at war becouse of it. We are also sick of the people who put them in office !

[Herbymac0811]

@billslover90 If waged correctly any wars objectives can be sompletled with low cost in lives and money.

When people who have no idea what they are doing call the shots from 10,000 miles away, THEN both costs skyrocket out of control. Look at the first Gulf War, perfect example of good of how to win a war with low cost. Mr. Obama has had 4 years to pull out of our current conflicts...yet he hasnt. I wonder why ...

[billslover90]

@Herbymac0811 conservatives cant end a fucking war, they love war. war wastes money. conservatives are the ones that have no common sense. our economy is fucked up, its taking forever to recover. china doesn't declare war on other countries. at least tupac would be a better president

[Herbymac0811]

@BWeav10 Yes your right. There are former and active military in this march. They just happen to be the ones who have actually earned the right to speak out about it ! The rest of them are just free loaders who dont want to work, care nothing for the constitution, and want everything to be free and have to work for it.

[BWeav10]

@Herbymac0811 A lot of members of these protests are veterans and active duty military. Go on...

[Herbymac0811]

Dumbass collage kids, librals, and anti amercans. The only reason they can protest at all is becouse of young men who swear an oath to a little document called the CONSTITUTION. Belive me if an invadeing army set foot on US soil everyone of these idiots would fall in love with the US Military. But then again NONE of these idiots has ever had to actually fight for anythng important so why should they care about their own country.

[AllDimensionalFilms]

Gave me chills, watching people actually making an effort to stop the tyranny. Many blessings to those who attended.

[jerami101]

Thank you! :)

[BestTits]

this is a protest of Obamas action against Lybia too right?