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Students for a Democratic Society is calling for students across the country to protest the U.S. government’s plans for a massive escalation of the war in Afghanistan. President Obama will announce his plans next week to mobilize 30,000 to 40,000 more combat troops in Afghanistan. We must respond with protest. A majority of people in the U.S. oppose the occupation; we must make this opposition visible. Take action by holding a street protest, a film screening, a teach-in, or anything you can do to demonstrate public opposition to this unjust war.

We categorically reject U.S. wars, occupations, and bombings of the people of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq. The Afghan people have a right to self-determination, to control their own resources, and take care of their own affairs. It is not the place of the U.S. to bomb Afghanistan into submission and control its destiny. The only way for Afghanistan to be free is for the bombings to halt, and for all U.S. and NATO troops to leave the country immediately. We support the people of Afghanistan in their struggle for liberation and freedom from foreign occupation and domination.

Funding for education, not for war and occupation! U.S. out of Afghanistan and Iraq NOW!

SDS Antiwar Working Group
November 29, 2009

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Contact the SDS Antiwar Working Group if your campus is organizing, or if you’d like help in getting something going:
sdsantiwar.wg@gmail.com | http://sdsantiwar.wordpress.com

SDS is supporting the National Day of Action for Education Rights on November 10, part of the" Education is NOT for $A£€ - Global Week of Action '09". The following press release is from organizers of the November 10 Education Rights action in the U.S.

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The SDS News Bulletin Working Group is proud to bring you our eighth issue. From front cover to articles to action reports to poetry to art, we loaded this issue up for maximum pleasure, and once again you made it all possible by sending in your work, thoughts, ideas and love.

The SDS Anti-War Working Group is calling on students nation-wide to protest and demonstrate in opposition to President Obama's Feb. 17 approval to send an additional 17,000 troops into Afghanistan.

In this time of economic despair, we students will not sit idly by as our country deepens itself into a war that is taking place merely to rob the Afghan people of their resources and their sovereignty and to further line the pockets of the super-rich here in the United States. We stand with the Afghan people against this brutal war and occupation. We believe the money being used to fund this war is desperately needed here at home. Over the next two weeks, SDS chapters nation-wide will organize protests, sit-ins, walk-outs, discussions, and whatever else they can to denounce the latest surge in Afghanistan.

The SDS Anti-War Working Group exists to help coordinate national SDS anti-war activity, and has also called for nation-wide demonstrations against the war in Iraq for the week of March 16.

U.S. Out of Afghanistan Now!
Fund Education, Not Occupation!