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

[Odile Hugonot Haber]

WoW very impressive, good work Yvonne, Pat, Georgia
Portland is on the move!
Odile

On 12/1/06, Libby or Mort Frank <lmfrank1 at verizon.net> wrote:
> 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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