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<h1> Call to Action: Retire NATO, Create Jobs & Fund Peace</h1>
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<p style="text-align: justify">Beginning this past winter, I have been working with a number of US peace organizations which have formed a network* in collaboration with allies in Europe who have been protesting NATO’s intrusive and anti-democratic presence in their countries for years and more recently its wars from Afghanistan to Libya.. Planning is underway for a counter summit and other activities in Chicago when NATO and the G8 meet in May 2012.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">Our goals for Chicago and in the months leading up to the Summit are to help the wider U.S. peace movement to understand and to build opposition to NATO as a nuclear alliance with global ambitions and strengthen grassroots organizing capacity and political engagement to end the US/NATO wars, one which is also sucking our tax dollars and resources that would be better used to create jobs and meet real human needs here at home. We are also committed to bringing home U.S. nuclear weapons and bases home. (A generation after the Cold War, the U.S. maintains hundreds of military bases across NATO.).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">A broad discussion on international collaboration for the 21st century and an alternative vision for global security, peace and economic justice will be the outcome of our organizing efforts.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify"> Below is the call to action: "Retire NATO, Create Jobs & Fund Peace" Please plan to join us in our conference in Chicago, and spread the word via elists and social networking..</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">As rapid as the international and national developments are, much will go on between now and May 2012. Please join the announcement elist <strong><b><font face="Times New Roman"><a title="mailto:chicagomay2012@googlegroups.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:chicagomay2012@googlegroups.com">chicagomay2012@googlegroups.com</a> </font></b></strong>to stay up to date on the planning.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">Please contact me about this exciting project at <a title="mailto:JGerson@afsc.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:JGerson@afsc.org">JGerson@afsc.org</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">If you are a member of an organization, we hope your group will endorse the call, join the network and help plan the activities. For organizations: to sign onto this call or join the network and for additional information contact: Joseph Gerson (<a title="mailto:JGerson@afsc.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:JGerson@afsc.org">JGerson@afsc.org</a>) or Judith Le Blanc (<a title="https://nero.starcafecrm.org/civicrm/mailing/jleblanc@peace-action.org" target="_blank" href="https://nero.starcafecrm.org/civicrm/mailing/jleblanc@peace-action.org">jleblanc@peace-action.org</a>).</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify">For peace and justice,</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">Joseph Gerson</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">*<strong><b><font face="Times New Roman">Network for a NATO-Free World: Global Peace and Justice </font></b></strong>(List in formation): American Friends Service Committee-Peace and Economic Security Program, Code Pink, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, Maryknoll Office of Concerns, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Peace Action, United for Peace and Justice, US Labor Against the War, US Peace Council, War Resisters League. <strong><b><font face="Times New Roman">Chicago</font></b></strong>: American Friends Service Committee-Chicago, Code Pink, Greater Chicago Area Peace Action, New New Deal, US Labor Against the War,</p>
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