Beyond War: A New Economy is
Possible, Yes We Can!

March April 4 on Wall Street!

Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his courageous (and still urgent)
Beyond Vietnam speech on April 4, 1967 at Riverside Church in New
York. Exactly one year later he was assassinated.

This year, in commemoration of Dr. Kings legacy, peace, civil rights
and labor organizations are calling for a massive national march on
Wall Street to highlight the connections between the wars abroad and
the deepening economic crisis in our communities. United for Peace
& Justice is organizing the march and demonstration for Saturday
April 4, 2009 on Wall Street in Manhattan.

The theme
of the march is ‘Beyond War: A New Economy is Possible, Yes We Can!’

With the historic election of President Obama, the new administration
and Congress needs a strong grassroots movement, built on the tenets of
racial and economic justice and an end to U.S. militarism, to struggle
for a new set of national priorities rooted in the Dr. Kings vision of
a world without poverty, racism, or war.


Now is the time to
mobilize the peace majority to support a call to dramatically cut
military spending! The march will give voice to the urgency to refocus
our governments spending priorities.

The struggle to pass the Employee Free Choice Act is another struggle
that the peace movement must and will mobilize for in the same way that
we have mobilized to end the war in Iraq. Justice, as Dr. King defined
it, included the basic right to form unions and bargain collectively
for a better life. April 4 will be a day that connects the rights of
working families with the need for a more peaceful world.

An economy based on corporate greed and lawlessness and a foreign
policy based on war and aggression must end. Help fulfill Kings
legacy, join us.

Yes we can build a
new world of justice, equality and peace!

Visit the
website of United for Peace & Justice for details, flyers in
English and Spanish and for local organizations to endorse

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