[WCUSP] Fwd: NEWS: Portland City Council votes 5-0 to bring the troops home!

[Libby or Mort Frank]

Wow!  Good for you all,

Libby

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "yvonne simmons" <roweenayvonne at yahoo.com>
To: <wcusp at wilpf.org>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 8:03 AM
Subject: [WCUSP] Fwd: NEWS: Portland City Council votes 5-0 to bring the 
troops home!


>>>WILPF members were present. Of the 70 speakers only
> the last speaker spoke to not support the resolution.
> Portland WILPF's co-chair Georgia Pinkel and Yvonne
> Simmons spoke to the city council. For me the
> wonderful atmosphere of hundreds of peace peace, labor
> and community activists in the chambers made for a
> positive feeling. Yvonne.  Today, November 30, 2006,
> on a 5-0 vote, Portland's
>> City Council passed a
>> resolution calling for the troops to come home in
>> order to fund human
>> needs.
> --http://www.pjw.info/finalportlandresolution.html).
>>
>> -----------
>>
>> WE DID IT!
>>
>> A "standing room only" crowd witnessed moving
>> testimony from more than 50
>> people who made the case for the resolution. Those
>> testifying included
>> military families, veterans and Iraqi-Americans,
>> labor and faith group
>> leaders, youth and students and those who work on
>> health care, education,
>> housing, homelessness, environmental justice and
>> other human needs issues.
>> The presenters made a strong case for the many local
>> impacts of the war on
>> the Portland community and why we need to speak up
>> as a city for peace.
>>
>> Thanks to everyone who contributed to this
>> campaign--those who signed the
>> petition, gathered signatures, volunteered, spread
>> the word and showed up
>> for the hearing. This was truly a group effort and
>> it showed!
>>
>> Portland has spoken: now we have to make sure our
>> federal officials act on
>> behalf of our wishes to bring the troops home from
>> Iraq and to change our
>> policies to reflect Portland's priorities.
>>
>> -----------
>>
>> The next steps will include looking to the state
>> legislature to pass a
>> similar resolution. At the hearing, Oregon Rep. Chip
>> Shields announced his
>> intention to introduce a resolution in the house
>> when the legislature
>> convenes in January.
>>
>> (If anyone on this list has a particular connection
>> to any State Rep. or
>> State Senator please get in touch with us here at
>> PJW.)
>>
>> The City resolution was sponsored by Portland City
>> Commissioner Randy
>> Leonard, whose vote against a similar resolution
>> prior to the 2003
>> invasion of Iraq led him to speak about how he felt
>> he had been lied to by
>> the administration, and felt this was a way to make
>> right the mistake of
>> supporting the war in the past.
>>
>
>
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