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Attention Tacoma Area Students!!
Walkout Thurs, Nov. 15th! Gather at Military Recruitment Center at Tacoma Mall (South Side of Tacoma Office Building, 4402 South Steele) at 3pm, Rally at 3:30pm.

Protest to shut down the war machine!
2200 US Soldiers and 100,000 Iraqis have died in this war, a war which is not about terrorism, WMDs or liberating the Iraqi people, but about oil, money, and power. The majority of Americans have turned against the war, and Bush's support is at an all time low. Now is the time for young people to take action to bring this war to an end.

Military recruiters are coming after you!
Your school is being used as a recruiting station for the Iraq war. But that's not all: recruiters have your name, number, address, race and income. They target poor youth and people of color, show up at your house, and call you day after day because they get paid to sign you up. Ladies, they want you too-don't think you're safe. We need to end this racist poverty draft and kick recruiters out of our schools!

Our Lives, Our Voice, Our Power!
Let's send a strong message to President Bush, Congress, and the world that we will not fight and die for this war. The war has cost us nearly $300 billion - a massive debt our generation will carry on our backs for years to come. Meanwhile, our classrooms are overcrowded, our books are outdated, and our schools are crumbling. We also face low-paying jobs, few opportunities, and college financial aid is being slashed. We need money for jobs and education, not war!

Military recruiters out of our schools!
The failing occupation in Iraq means the Pentagon is dramatically stepping up recruitment efforts in our schools. Bush’s “No Child Left Behind Act” forces schools to give students’ personal information to military recruiters. These recruiters have to fulfill quotas and get bonuses for signing us up, so they tend to say just about anything to trick us into joining. Instead of explaining the horrific realities of war, they make exaggerated promises of college money and job training. In reality, two thirds of recruits never get a cent for college and even less receive relevant job training. Recruiters target schools in working class communities, and black and Latino youth in particular. For working class youth faced with a choice between unemployment, dead-end jobs, and enlistment, targeted recruitment amounts to nothing less than a poverty draft!