MDS New York City

STATEN ISLAND, NY – August 28, 2008. This Tuesday, August 28, ordinary people from all over the country are holding MoveOn.org sponsored vigils to tell Congress that the time to stand up to President Bush and redeploy our troops out of this unwinnable civil war in Iraq is NOW. Staten Island is no different.

Organizers from several different organizations are joining together to hold a candlelight vigil at the seat of local government, Staten Island’s Borough Hall. The goal – to prevent the Bush administration from selling the Congress a bill of goods that will cost untold innocent lives.

Where: Borough Hall, Staten Island
When: Tuesday, Aug 28 2007, 7:00 PM
Who: The public, all friends of peace and progress

“Bush is playing three card monte again – telling voters and Congress that the ’surge’ is working. I grew up in during the Viet Nam war, I’ve heard all the lies before. It’s time to get our people home before we lose any more lives in a war based totally on lies,” said Tom Good, an organizer with Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS). “I have a twelve year old son. I want more for him than endless war,” he added.

“The surge is a colossal failure. The religious civil war in Iraq is spiraling out of control and our presence there is exacerbating the situation. We aren’t helping anything and our children are coming home maimed and worse – from a war that has already claimed too many lives,” said Elaine Brower, a World Can’t Wait organizer whose son served with the Marines in Iraq – and may be redeployed.

“The reckless policy in Iraq could drag on for another decade if we sit back and allow a crumbling Republican administration to continue their failed policies,” said Devra Morice, a vigil organizer.

The vigil, being held simultaneously with similar events in Manhattan and Brooklyn, will feature speakers from Peace Action Staten Island, The Staten Island Green Party, Movement for a Democratic Society, The World Can’t Wait and other local antiwar groups. The event is free and open to the public.

Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS) is an education and social action organization dedicated to increasing democracy in all phases of our common life. It seeks to promote the active participation of ordinary people in the formation of a movement to build a society free from poverty, ignorance, war, exploitation, racism and sexism.

A member of MDS NYC (Photo: Thomas Good / NLN)

New York, NY – August 3, 2007. Members of MDS New York were joined by friends from Peace Action Staten Island in a protest calling for the impeachment of Dick Cheney. Protesters stood along busy Richmond Terrace, opposite the Staten Island Ferry terminal, as drivers passing by honked in response to signs saying “Honk For Impeachment” and “Impeach Cheney First.” This was the second impeachment protest outside Staten Island’s Borough Hall this summer and more protests are planned according to MDS. The response from passing motorists was very positive and everyone had a laugh as protesters tooted their own horns, bicycle horns that is, as a means of grabbing the attention of drivers sitting at the traffic light or emerging from the Ferry Terminal.

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