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Schedule of Events at the Encampment to Stop the War
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Some housing locations in the DC area

Capitol Hill KOA
Campground
768 Cecil Avenue, N.W
Millersville, MD 21108
1-800-562-0248 / 410-923-2771
http://www.capitolkoa.com
Facilities include space for trailers & campers as well as lots to pitch tents.
Spaces start at less than $40

Cherry Hill Park
Campground
9800 Cherry Hill Rd.
College Park MD
http://www.cherryhillpark.com/
1-800-801-6449 301-937-7116
Transportation into the city is available from the campground multiple times daily.
Spaces for tents, RVs, starting at $40

Hostelling International-Washington D.C.
1009 11th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Tel: 202-737-2333
Fax: 202-737-1508
Web: www.hiwashingtondc.org
Includes continental breakfast.
Individual and Group Rates
Located 3 blocks from Metro Center (blue/orange/red lines).

Motel 6
6711 Georgia Ave. NW
Washington, DC
I-495 AT GEORGIA AVE, EXIT #31/31-B
(202)722-1600
www.motel6.com
Rooms from $75.99
Located 1 mile from metro

Braxton Hotel
1440 Rhode Island Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: 1-800-350-5759 or 202-232-7800
Fax: 202-265-3725
Website: http://www.braxtonhotel.com/
Rooms $79.99 & up
Located 5 blocks from Dupont Circle metro (red line)

Americana Motel
1400 Jefferson Davis Highway
Arlington, VA 22202
Tel: 703-979-3772
Fax: 703-979-0547
Price: $89 for single, $109 for double.
includes continental breakfast.
1.5 blocks from metro
Metro station: Crystal City (blue line)

Days Inn Arlington/Washington DC
2201 Arlington Blvd
US 50 & North Pershing Drive
Arlington, VA 22201 US
Phone: 703-525-0300
www.daysinn.com
Rooms starting at $98

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• This is a legally permitted 24-hour wakeful vigil. While activists are encouraged to pitch their tents as a form of protest against the war, under Washington DC law, there can be NO SLEEPING on federal property. Organizers of the encampment have been told that the Parks Department will enforce this rule. Several alternatives for sleeping arrangements are included in your packet.
• Tents can be staked, up to 18 inches and must have at least one side open at all times.
• Because the encampment will be patrolled by law enforcement, we ask that there be NO alcohol or illegal drugs used under any circumstance, at any time while at the encampment.

• If you are ever approached by a representative of a Law Enforcement agency or the Parks Department with concerns about the encampment, please direct them to a TONC organizer.
• The Troops Out Now Coalition believes the only way to stop the war at home and abroad is by building a militant and diverse grassroots movement. We ask each participant to join us in our commitment to have the anti-war encampment be a political environment that is anti-racist, anti-sexist and free of anti-lesbian, gay, bi and trans bigotry.
• In case of any medical, legal or other emergency, please call TONC DC hotline at 202-821-3686.

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"In virtually every appearance by any and every elected politician that speaks of the current war publicly calls out to “support for our troops” yet refuses to address that which is killing them? The war itself. And roused by these hucksters the pathetically deluded, self-injuring American public adorns their cars with “Support Our Troops” stickers while refusing to understand that they are in fact supporting our troops with lip service as their own government is killing them slowly.

"With more war in the planning as I write this, let me suggest that ruling power, especially the reactionary power of Bush-Cheney, will never relent unless it faces overthrow by democratic, yet undefeatable force. That time has come again. Or again, nothing will change except this time matters will worsen."

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The Forgotten Wounded of Iraq
By Ron Kovic

Wednesday 18 January 2006



Thirty-eight years ago, on Jan. 20, 1968, I was shot and paralyzed from my mid-chest down during my second tour of duty in Vietnam. It is a date that I can never forget, a day that was to change my life forever. Each year as the anniversary of my wounding in the war approached I would become extremely restless, experiencing terrible bouts of insomnia, depression, anxiety attacks and horrifying nightmares. I dreaded that day and what it represented, always fearing that the terrible trauma of my wounding might repeat itself all over again. It was a difficult day for me for decades and it remained that way until the anxieties and nightmares finally began to subside.

As I now contemplate another January 20th I cannot help but think of the young men and women who have been wounded in the war in Iraq. They have been coming home now for almost three years, flooding Walter Reed, Bethesda, Brooke Army Medical Center and veterans hospitals all across the country. Paraplegics, amputees, burn victims, the blinded and maimed, shocked and stunned, brain-damaged and psychologically stressed, over 16,000 of them, a whole new generation of severely maimed is returning from Iraq, young men and women who were not even born when I came home wounded to the Bronx veterans hospital in 1968.

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• Let us know if you are coming to the Encampment. Use the Volunteer form at http://troopsoutnow.org march12volunteer.shtml.

• Volunteer at the Encampment - we will need hundreds of volunteers during the week of the Encampment let us know how you can help (logistics, security, medical, greeter, etc) - http://troopsoutnow.org/donate.shtml

• Donate to to help with the enormous costs of the Encampment - http://troopsoutnow.org/donate.shtml. If you are not able to come to the encampment, help send a youth activist to the Encampment to the week- donate for transportation and housing costs here.

• Get the word out -- forward messages to your email lists, list serves, etc. Download leaflets from http://www.troopsoutnow.org and take them to your school, workplace, union hall, community center, or your church, mosque, or other place or worship.

• Please join us Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 1pm to 6 pm for work sessions at 55 W. 17th St., 5th Floor (in Manhattan, between 5th & 6th Aves.) to prepare materials for the encampment.

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The Democrats' obfuscation and confusion

To use Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi's favorite opening line, "Let me be clear" - The Democrats are hell-bent for war and everyone with brain-1 knows it. All their talk of the non-binding resolution against the war, their newly found, vociferous opposition to the war, their attacks on the Bush regime (internicine fighting for the spoils of war) and of bringing the troops home by 2008 (2 more years of slaughter), their refusal to defund the war to "support the troops", their claim that their hands are tied leaving them helpless to stop the war - all this talk is nothing less than obfuscation intended to make a simple matter a complex and confusing one.

On December 5, shortly after the people voted for the Democrats to end the war in the mid-term elections, Pelosi went on record, “Let me be clear. We will not cut off funding for the troops. Absolutely not!”. Two days ago she repeated that position, stating that the Democrats would not cut off funds arguing incredibly that to do so would put U.S. troops in jeopardy. Yesterday NPR recorded her again, "Let me be clear. We will not cut off funding for our troops."

Nancy Pelosi, Democrat, Speaker of the House

What is it that the Democrats are Refusing to Defund?

Let's take a look at exactly what it is that the Democrats in Congress are refusing to stop:

Recently, the Bush regime has targetted the Iraqi Resistance in Baghdad when he asked congress to give him "one last chance" to win the war. The most recent U.S. tactic to accomplish this bloody affair has been mass-scale bombing of neighborhoods in Baghdad, currently being carried out under the rubric, "Joint U.S.-Iraqi Security Operation", otherwise dubbed by the Pentagon, "Operation Enforce-the-Law" or "Operation Law Enforcement". This "security operation" is certainly not providing security for those dying and fleeing from U.S. bombs in the neighborhoods.

Yesterday (March 1, 2007), Tom Bullock, NPR's mouthpiece in Baghdad, reported that the U.S. military has been carrying out "heavy bombing ... in numerous neighborhoods in and around Baghdad" attempting to wipe out "car bomb factories". Almost immediately after these latest U.S. attacks, Tom Bullock described these neighborhoods as "densely populated". When asked about reports of casualties, the NPR reporter said the bombing continued for about 2 hours and just ceased "so it's too early to know the extent of casualties". True to form, NPR couched this report in terms sypathetic to this U.S. attack on the people of Iraq, citing the numbers of U.S. troops previously killed by IED explosives and a recent bombing of the Iraqi police who serve the puppeteer of the U.S. installed regime. NPR referred to this escalation of the war using the Pentagon's new coinage: "Operation Law Enforcement" intended to bring about "security" in Baghdad. They undergirded their report with references to prior IED attacks by "Sunni Insurgents" rather than the Iraqi Resistance forces against the occupation.

20 minutes after the NPR report cited above, the NPR script was apparently rewritten for Bullock deleting references to the "heavy bombing" in "dense neighborhoods". In the new version, NPR described this as a "security crackdown".

Iraqi victims of the war

Here's an Axis transcript of Tom Bullock's words on NPR:

"Dozens of loud explosions were heard today throughout Baghdad. In a city where explosions are common these stood out. A series of blasts coming in quick succession. A U.S. official ... says the explosions were an artillary barrage targetting predominantly Sunni neighborhoods in and around the city, part of a planned U.S. military operation targeting a car-bomb network in and around Baghdad. A high level military official says the operation will last for days and be followed up with U.S. and Iraqi ground troops. Car bombs remain a serious threat throughout Iraq. At least one exploded on Thursday in the City of Fallujah targetting a police convoy. The blast killed at least 5 Iraqi policemen and wounded at least 10 others. The group was heading to a wedding."

Note the emotional pull at the end of the NPR report: "The group was heading to a wedding party", Bullock stated, with his voice dipping into pity, but no pity for those children, women and men who are being killed and wounded in Iraq today under the current, escalation of U.S. attacks in Baghdad.

Robust Military Response by the Resistance

In the midst of this intensified U.S. bombing of dense neighborhoods in Baghdad, the BBC tells us today (March 2) that the Iraqi Resistance has carried out a successful military operation, killing 14 Iraqi policemen who are working under their employer and paymaster, the United States government. The Democrats will not have to defund the salaries for those "police" - the Iraqi Resistance has done it for them.

The Democratic Congress Supports the War

This aggression and violence being brought down on the heads of the Iraqi people this week is precisely what the Democrats are supporting with their refusal to end the war. Immediately after the Democratic Party was voted into control of both houses of the Congress they began to depict the U.S. occupation in Iraq as "complicated" by "sectarian conflict" and "impending civil war". Upon this "complicated situation" they layered additional "concerns" with predictions of a Shia slaughter of Sunnis if the U.S. were to abruptly withdraw from Iraq. This argument amounts to nothing less than killing Iraqis to save Iraqis ... or to save Iraqis from themselves - burning the village to save the village. Either way, it amounts to murder - not "collateral damage" - not even "killing" - let's not mince our words - the term is mass murder. What else can it be called? Nearly a million Iraqi people have been slaughtered, directly or indirectly by the U.S. government in the last 4 years of war and occupation.

The Democrats join Bush Fear-Mongering

The Democrats have also explicitly and implicitly supported Bush's fear-mongering claim that to leave Iraq now will put the U.S. at risk for future attacks by Al Queda - the same lie that he used to invade Iraq in the first place. When they began to realize they were losing in Iraq the Democrats claimed that they initially supported the war because they were deceived by the Bush regime. The Bush regime claimed they were deceived by the CIA and the CIA blamed the Bush regime and round and round it goes. Most interesting is the fact that while all these parties were "deceived" and "misled" - the U.S. people weren't misled at all. To see that, we only have to go back into the archives published on Axis of Logic and on many other websites during the buildup to the March, 2003 invasion. If we weren't deceived or confused, why were those who should have ALL the "intelligence" at their disposal? There is one answer to that question: They weren't deceived or confused at all. They knew exactly what they were doing and why they were doing it.

The Democrats - Killing U.S. Troops to Support U.S. Troops

Now the Democrats argue that they must continue to fund the war in order to "support the troops". Finally, the Democrats have been wringing their hands in beguilement, telling us their hands are tied and they don't have the power to stop the war. Enough! If the Democrat-controlled Congress wants to stop this war they can tell the Bush regime they will walk out and shut down the government if necessary. Too radical you think? Look at a photograph of a burned or terrified or dead Iraqi baby and think again.

The Democrats Insult our Intelligence

The arguments the Democrats are using are as absurd as they are insulting - to all of us. These insults to our intelligence and morality underscores their patronizing, arrogant attitude toward those whom they view to be their underlings and serfs. If you find yourself reacting with outrage and fury at what they are doing in your name, you are a healthy human being. Those who find the prattle of the Democrats to be palatable need a mental-status exam not to speak of some heavy duty self-examination of their own morality.

The time has come for us to stop kidding ourselves. Anyone who continues to support the Democratic Party must fall into one of two categories:

1. Those who support the U.S. war and occupation of Iraq.
2. Those who support the U.S. war and occupation of Iraq.

The Anti-War "Surge" to Stop the Killing

When the people of the United States voted overwhelmingly against this war last November, Bush put his middle finger in our face and escalated the war by announcing his "surge". Well, thousands of us are now planning our own "surge". We are planning an occupation of a piece of land that was taken away from the people a long time ago. Beginning March 12 we plan to occupy the Washington Mall and demand that Congress defund the slaughter being carried out in Iraq in our name. We will be their all week and continue to be there, night and day for as long as it takes.

If the demands of your life will not permit you to stay for the week or longer, you can join us for one or two days or you can leave and come back. Let us stand together for what we all know is the right thing to do. If you've never been to an anti-war protest before, make this the first. You will be surrounded by others of like-mind, immersed in a peaceful positive, forward-moving force and the sense of futility and powerlessness will be transformed into that empowerment that only comes in solidarity with others who are doing the right thing. We provide more information below.

Deadly Serious March on Washington was a Primer for the March 17 "Stay in Washington Campaign" January 27, 2007 - "The inexorable peoples' movement in the U.S. against the government’s war on the people of Iraq has begun. And it is not a movement of the anti-war leaders. It is a movement of the people. Saturday, January 27 was a beautiful day that will be remembered by a quarter million people who came in Washington DC to take a stand against the war. The Mall was packed shoulder-to-shoulder all the way to the National Monument and people were angry. It was without doubt, the largest anti-war march we have seen since the 1970s and we've seen them all on the East Coast since 9/11/01. I interviewed many who were present and our dialogue followed these lines: (continued)

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Divided Congress Prepares to Debate Financing and Strategy for Iraq War

By JEFF ZELENY and ROBIN TONER
Published: February 28, 2007

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 — The Democratic-controlled Congress on Tuesday entered a critical five-week struggle over the financing of the war in Iraq and the overall mission there, divided over strategy, stymied by ideological divisions, but still hoping to escalate In the Senate, a proposal to repeal the 2002 Congressional war authorization faced skepticism on two fronts. Some liberal Democrats expressed unease at the prospect of approving a new military mission, even a narrower one, while moderate Republicans said they preferred to look ahead rather than revisit the past.

In the House, Democrats debated what conditions should be attached to the nearly $100 billion spending bill for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, scheduled for a floor vote in March. Democratic leaders convened a spirited meeting of their caucus to begin sorting out the lawmakers’ varying views, hoping to defend against Republican charges that they were planning a cutoff in troop financing.

As members of Congress returned to Capitol Hill after a weeklong break at home, Democrats searched for a way to translate a tide of public sentiment against the war into legislation that makes practical — and political — sense.
“Personally, I don’t believe there are any good alternatives in Iraq,” said Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, the Democratic majority leader. Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, Mr. Hoyer and other leaders met with their fellow Democrats for about an hour in a closed session on Tuesday evening. They emerged to say that the military spending bill would place a new emphasis on the war on terrorism and provide additional financing for the American effort in Afghanistan.

They also sought to rebut the Republican charge that the troops would suffer from their efforts to change the administration’s troop buildup in Iraq. “Let me be clear,” Ms. Pelosi told reporters. “We will fund the troops.”
While Democrats have yet to settle on a final spending plan, Ms. Pelosi spoke favorably of a proposal put forward by Representative John P. Murtha, Democrat of Pennsylvania, that would establish strict standards for the training, readiness and equipment of troops about to be deployed to Iraq. Mr. Murtha has said his legislation would protect American forces, yet make Mr. Bush’s troop buildup impossible to sustain.

The new Democratic proposal would allow those standards to be waived, although they would require the president to do it. “He will have to have his name on that,” said Representative Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, the Democratic conference chairman.

The Murtha proposal had come under heavy fire from Republicans, who asserted that it would amount to a crippling financial drain if the Pentagon would fail to meet the standards. Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the Republican leader, scoffed at the new Democratic approach Tuesday night, saying, “Sounds like retreat to me.”

Democratic leaders said their plan would set new benchmarks for the Iraqi government and force the president to be accountable for the condition of the troops. Still, some Democrats pledged not to be silenced in their efforts to reduce military spending.

In the Senate, Democratic leaders temporarily set aside Iraq deliberations to consider a debate on implementing recommendations from the 9/11 Commission. Families of the victims persuaded Senate leaders not to bog down the debate with Iraq amendments.

Michael Luo contributed reporting.

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1. Can you come to Washington for the Encampment to Stop the War? On what day can you join the encampment? For how long? Some are planning to come for a day or two, others are staying longer.
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Then the most remarkable thing happened! We wheeled our stacks of Stay in Washington- March 17 fliers in shopping carts. People responded to the printed announcements with cries of “Yes! We need to do it! ... It’s about time! ... Time for civil disobedience! ... I’ll be there! ... We’ll bring our tents!”.

People, already overladen with paper handouts worked their way to us through the crowd, reaching over the heads of others, asking for our printed material that announced and described the new Stay in Washington mobilization as we passed them out to thousands. Enough with the “symbolic protests”! The people – young and old – of every level of society, ethnic group and color – are ready and want action. People seem appreciate - but have heard enough of the speeches by luminaries lined up by the leaderships of various anti-war coalitions. They want to act.

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An International CALL From The TROOPS OUT NOW COALITION :


Troops Out Now Coalition

The Decisive Battle this Spring - The Challenge for the Antiwar Movement
March on Washington
On Jan. 27 and March 17 (the 4th Anniversary of the War)

WE MUST FORCE CONGRESS TO
CUT OFF WAR FUNDING

And we can if we move from symbolic protest to mass resistance

• Not One More Dollar for War and Occupation!
• Bring ALL the Troops Home Now!

F orcing Congress to vote to cut off further war funding is the defining issue for the antiwar movement this spring and it is a struggle that we can win if we are bold enough to take it seriously.

The Troops Out Now Coalition calls on everyone to join the antiwar march on January 27 ...and come back on March 17 ... and come ready to STAY in DC!

ON MARCH 17, MARCH ON THE PENTAGON --

AND STAY IN WASHINGTON UNTIL THEY CUT OFF WAR FUNDING

An Appeal for Unity in the Antiwar Movement

Our chance of winning are greater if the antiwar coalitions unite!
A crucial factor in our ability as a movement to rise to this challenge is the willingness for all antiwar forces nationwide--especially the national coalitions--to renew a commitment to work for unity with each other. We appeal to all antiwar forces to take the high road and work together this Spring. The time has come for us to coordinate our efforts, and avoid competing dates and plans.
If we work and plan together--our chances of success will be greater.

M ore than at any time since the start of war, the antiwar movement is in a position to force congress to vote no on war funding. The people are on our side, the momentum is on our side, the whole world is on our side; the only question is whether we have the conviction and the courage to take our struggle against the war from the level of symbolic protest to real mass resistance.

Some time between now and early February, Bush is going to ask Congress to approve between $130 to $200 billion more dollars to finance the war to add to the close to a half a trillion dollars in war funding Congress has approved in a series of votes over the past three and a half years.

Sometime between February and May 2007, Congress will vote nay or yea to this request. This vote will be the most important war vote in Congress since a majority of both Republican and Democratic Party members of Congress voted to authorize the war in Oct. 2002.

Clearly, Congress has the authority to cut off spending for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and effectively make it impossible for the criminal carnage to continue. What makes the next war funding vote different from all the previous ones is that on Nov. 7, people voted to end the war.

As a result of the massive antiwar vote, Democratic Party politicians will take control of both houses of Congress on January 4. When that happens, the authority to either carry out the mandate of the elections to end the war and occupation of Iraq by completely cutting off all war funding or to betray the people by approving more funds to continue it, will shift to the leadership of the Democratic party.

The top Democratic Party leaders in Congress have already indicated that they are preparing to betray the antiwar mandate. Some members of Congress say they will support resolutions introduced in Congress that call for a phased redeployment of troops from Iraq or a time table for withdrawing most troops. But such resolutions are little more than symbolic, half- measures that won't end the war. However, the real fight is the war funding vote and we must force Congress to vote NO.

In the past, members of Congress who claimed to be opposed to the war have justified their votes for war funding by claiming they had to keep up the funding to “support the troops”. It's time for us to reject all excuses and rationalizations for voting for war funding. A vote for war funding is a VOTE FOR WAR. Moreover, voting to approve more funds for war will only ensure that more U.S. troops and many more Iraqis will be killed and maimed.

IN MARCH – WE MUST BE READY TO STAY IN WASHINGTON

We will be in Washington on January 27 and we will come back on March 17. And when we come back in March, this time we must be prepared to stay there in the thousands to force Congress to vote NO on more war funding. If Congress tries to rush a vote on war funding before March 17, this time we must be prepared to come to Washington in mass to make sure that the war funding is voted down.

PAY THE PEOPLES' BILLS - NOT FOR WAR & OCCUPATION; BRING YOUR BILLS WITH YOU TO WASHINGTON

We are asking people to bring their medical, rent, heating and utility bills; student loan bills; credit card bills, and food bills that they can't afford to pay as well as shut-off notices, mortgage foreclosures, eviction notices to the march on Washington. It must be made clear to Congress that feeding more money to the war while more and more people cannot pay for their basic living expenses is a crime. The cost of the war is not the only reason why we oppose the war. We oppose the war because it is an imperialist war for colonial conquest and plunder. Yet the cost of the war is important because it's paid for by money stolen from providing social needs. The money that has paid for death and destruction in Iraq could have gone towards reconstruction in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina.

In his famous speech declaring his opposition to the Vietnam war almost 40 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “It is disgraceful that a Congress that can vote upwards of $35 billion a year for a senseless immoral war in Vietnam cannot vote a weak $2 billion dollars to carry on our all too feeble efforts to bind up the wound of our nation's 35 million poor. This is nothing short of a Congress engaging in political guerilla warfare against the defenseless poor of our nation…”

MARCH AGAINST THE WAR AT HOME
STOP RACIST POLICE TERROR - STOP THE RAIDS AGAINST IMMIGRANT WORKERS

As we march to end the war abroad, we must also demand an end to the war at home. We must demand an end to the raids on immigrant workers like the recent massive military raid carried out by thousands of Homeland Security/Immigration and Custom Enforcement police on mostly Latin@ workers at six Swift and Co. meat processing plants. We must demand an end to the racist police brutality and terror that recently killed 23 year-old unarmed Sean Bell in New York City and 93 year-old Kathryn Johnston in Atlanta, both of them African American.

• Immediate, Unconditional, & Complete Withdrawal from Iraq--Out Now!
• End Colonial Occupation & Imperialist Aggression from Africa to Asia, from Iraq to Palestine, to Afghanistan, to Haiti, to the Philippines, to Puerto Rico
• No New Wars Against Iran, Syria, North Korea
• Hands Off Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, & Lebanon
• Solidarity with Immigrant Workers and Katrina Survivors
• Stop the War at Home -- Stop Racist Police Terror -- Stop ICE raids
• Military Recruiters Out of Our Schools and Communities -- No Draft -- Education, Not War

1. Endorse the call for unity for March 17 - http://www.troopsoutnow.org/mar17endorse.html
2. Volunteer - http://www.troopsoutnow.org/mar17volunteer.html
3. Become an Organizing Center - http://troopsoutnow.org/mar17orgcentsignup.html
4. Donate - http://www.troopsoutnow.org/donate.html

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