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Press ReleaseWin Without War FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, January 10, 2007 CONTACT: Trevor Fitzgibbon and Alex Howe, Fenton Communications (202) 822-5200 Rallies Against Military Escalation in Iraq Top 500 and Counting as Bush Speech Nears National Coalition Praises House Republicans for Opposing Bush Plan
More than 500 “America Says No!” rallies have been registered in forty-six states in the 24 hours since the Win Without War coalition called on its members and allied groups to host local actions to protest President Bush’s widely anticipated call for the deployment of more US combat troops in Iraq.
Yesterday, the coalition urged citizens to gather tomorrow night after President Bush’s address at local events and upload personal YouTube appeals and photos calling on their member of Congress to say “No!” to the President’s new plan. It is the first in a series of coordinated protest actions being planned for January and February.
“The response has been overwhelming in the first 24 hours since the call was made,” said Tom Andrews, National Director of WWW and former Congressman from Maine. “Event registrations continue to pour in from throughout the country as we get closer to the president’s prime-time address tonight. We have obviously struck a raw nerve”, he said.
The “raw nerve” of opposition is not confined to Democrats. The coalition praised a group of Republican House members for circulating and releasing an open letter to the president today that urges him not to escalate the war.
“We appreciate the principled stand that Congressman Walter Jones and his Republican House colleagues are taking and their efforts to prevent yet another disastrous decision from being made by this administration. We are calling on our members who live in Congressional Districts represented by Republicans to encourage their members to support this bi-partisan effort to stop the escalation.” # # #
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