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Sun Mar 18 12:53:38 CDT 2007

         To: "troops out now" <campaign at pjw.info> 
Subject: CAMPAIGN: Tuesday in Salem, Wed. in Council,
News from Eugene! 

Hello all
1) Reminder: Tuesday morning HJM 9 in Salem 10:00 AM
2) Reminder: Wednesday morning Iran Resolution at
Council 10:15 AM
3) Great news from Eugene! Resolution to bring the
troops home passes

1)
The Oregon house will debate and vote on House Joint
Memorial 9, 
calling 
for the troops to come home and condemning the
escalation in Iraq, on 
Tuesday morning, March 20 at 10 AM.
While the public can't speak, we can pack the
"gallery" to show our 
support for bringing the troops home (and, perhaps,
speak to our 
Seantors 
about strengthening the langauge when it gets to their

chamber...there's a 
benefit in letting the Memorial move forward without
further amendments 
for time's sake, but at least it's worth registering
concerns.)
Again, if you can offer a ride, or want to hook up
with a ride, contact 
us 
here or at 503-236-3065.

2)
Portland City Council will be voting on a resolution
against 
US military action in Iran this Wednesday, March 21,
at 10:15 AM. City 
Council is located at 1221 SW 4th Ave in Portland.
This resolution 
actually contains specific language opposing the
"surge" in Iraq.

"The City Council of Portland challenges the
possibility of a new war 
in 
Iran, and urges the Congress of the United States to
maintain pressure 
on 
the administration against both an escalation of
troops within Iraq and 
a 
geographic expansion into Iran while continuing to
call for a complete 
and 
immediate end to the war in the region"

The full text of the Iran resolution is is pasted in
below the news 
from 
Eugene.

3) 
News from Eugene:

Eugene City Council Passes Iraq Resolution

On Monday, March 12 the Eugene City Council voted 5-3
to pass a 
resolution 
calling for the U.S. Government to immediately
commence a withdrawal of 
United States military personnel from Iraq. The
resolution calls for 
Congress to use its "power of the purse" to vote
against further 
funding 
of the Iraq occupation by U.S. forces -- except for
funds necessary to 
carry out a safe, rapid and orderly withdrawal that
fully protects 
American troops from harm and to support Iraqi
reconstruction efforts.

Eugene joins with Portland, Corvallis and over 200
other municipalities 
that have passed similar resolutions.

A standing room only crowd witnessed moving testimony
from 15 people 
who 
made a compelling case for passing the resolution.

According to Michael Carrigan of CALC who led off the
testimony, "We 
need 
to invest our human and financial resources in the
futures of our 
children, not in the deaths of Iraqi children. The
more than $107 
million 
in taxes Eugene taxpayers have paid to support the war
and occupation 
in 
Iraq, could have provided four years of Head Start for
nearly 3,500 
children; four years of medical insurance for more
than 15,000 Eugene 
children and four years salary for nearly 450 Eugene
public school 
teachers."

Other speakers in favor of the resolution included
Iraq war veteran 
Noah 
Mrowczyski,Suzanne Swift's mother Sara Rich, Eugene-
Springfield 
Solidarity Network staffer Bayla Ostrach who read a
moving letter from 
a 
friend serving in Iraq, Terry Holvey who read a
statement of support 
from 
her husband State Rep. Paul Holvey and spoke of the
emotional anguish 
she 
experienced while her son served in Iraq, and other
peace and justice 
activists.

In addition to Rep. Paul Holvey, Senator Vicki Walker,
Lane County 
Commissioner Pete Sorenson and the following
organizations endorsed the 
resolution:

Military Families Speak Out, Veterans For Peace Eugene
Chapter 929, 
Veterans Against Torture, Oregon Physicians for Social
Responsibility, 
Lane County Democrat~Rs Peace Caucus, Eugene-
Springfield Solidarity 
Network, SEIU Local 085, Whiteaker Community Council,
CALC, Justice Not 
War Coalition, WAND, Code Pink, Eugene PeaceWorks,
Oregon PeaceWorks, 
CISCAP, American Friends Service Committee, Oregon
Action, Helios 
Resource 
Network, Rural Organizing Project, Committee for
Countering Military 
Recruitment, Oregon Toxics Alliance, Pan Asian
Community Alliance, 
Taxes 
for Peace Not War, Faith in Action, Lane County Bill
of Rights Defense 
Committee, EQuality Network, Springfield Peace Action
Network, 
Springfield 
Alliance for Equality and Respect (SAfER).

  Michael Carrigan
  CALC
  Development Director
  Progressive Responses Community Organizer
  calcdev at efn.org
  541-485-1755

---------- ----------

RESOLUTION No.

Urge the federal government to seek positive
diplomatic relations 
between
Iran and the United States of America instead of
escalating tensions
(Resolution)

WHEREAS, President Bush has called for dual escalation
of troops to 
increase their numbers inside Iraq and potentially to
expand into Iran; 
and

WHEREAS, the Bush administration has expanded its
concerns about Iran 
to 
include nuclear ambitions without showing any evidence
that can be 
considered an imminent threat to the US security; and

WHEREAS, it has not been demonstrated that Iran has a
nuclear weapon 
and 
has not verbally or actually threatened to attack the
US; and

WHEREAS, the U.S., in threatening to use low yield
nuclear weapons 
against 
Iran, is directly undermining the no-first-use
doctrine that has 
prevented 
nuclear war since the bombing of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki; and

WHEREAS, a preemptive nuclear attack, or even the
threat of such an 
attack 
on Iran is an explicit violation of the NPT, the UN
Charter, and the 
U.S. 
Constitution; and

WHEREAS, the National Academy of Sciences has
determined that the use 
of 
such weapons would "create massive clouds of
radioactive fallout that 
could spread far from the site of the attack," and
become deadly for 
hundreds of thousands Iranians and citizens of
surrounding countries; 
and

WHEREAS, the long-term instability generated by such a
strike would be 
against long-term United States interests in the
region; and

WHEREAS, independent polls show that more than 70% of
Iranians support 
better relations with the US; and

WHEREAS, there is a significant population of Iranians
from all 
professions and expertise who call Portland home, and
have brought a 
broad 
mix of cultural and artistic talents into the cultural
mosaic of the 
City 
of Roses; and

WHEREAS, there are historic relations between
Portland, "the City of 
Roses" and Shiraz, Iran, "the city of Roses and
Nightingales" as 
reflected 
in works of Portland's own story teller the late
Terrance O'Donnell; 
and

WHEREAS, a group of Americans and Iranians have come
together in order 
to 
foster the friendship between the two countries by
advancing Human to 
Human relations;

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that the city Council of the
city of 
Portland, on
behalf of the people of Portland urges the United
States government to
change the course in escalating the tensions with
Iran; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Council of
Portland challenges 
the 
possibility of a new war in Iran, and urges the
Congress of the United 
States to maintain pressure on the administration
against both an 
escalation of troops within Iraq and a geographic
expansion into Iran 
while continuing to call for a complete and immediate
end to the war in 
the region; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Council of
Portland urges support 
for the Iran Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 2007 (H.
R. 770), 
prohibiting the use of funds for "any covert action
for the purpose of 
causing regime change in Iran or to carry out any
military action 
against 
Iran in the absence of an imminent threat, in
accordance with 
international law;" and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Council of
Portland will work 
with 
the local Iranian community to build people to people
ties between 
Americans and Iranian citizens, to foster better
understanding between 
the 
two nations and to embrace a spirit of diplomacy; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Council of
Portland supports 
exploration of a sister City initiative between the
city of Portland 
and 
the city of Shiraz, Iran, in order to strengthen the
friendship 
relations 
between the two cities that started more than forty
years ago by the 
late 
Portland writer Terrance O'Donnell; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a suitable copy of this
resolution shall 
be 
sent to George W. Bush, President of the United
States, the members of 
the 
Oregon Congressional delegation, the leaders of the
Oregon State 
legislature and Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski.

Adopted by Council:				Gary Blackmer
 						Auditor of the City of
Portland
 						By

Deputy

Commissioner Erik Sten
Commissioner Randy Leonard

Prepared by Kathleen Gardipee
March 15, 2007

------------------

Peace

Dan Handelman
Peace and Justice Works
   Iraq Affinity Group
   PO Box 42456
   Portland, OR   97242
   (503) 236-3065  (Office)
   iraq at pjw.info
   http://www.pjw.info/Iraq.html

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