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Monday, November 30, 2009
A Note From Doug Biviano: Brooklyn Bridge March for Peace Today
Remember Doug Biviano? He's the Brooklyn native who recently ran for City Council in the 33rd District.
Hello friends and especially those in the press,
I will be marching today World Peace Day at 1:00 PM from Borough Hall, over the Brooklyn Bridge to City Hall with Brooklyn for Peace, other peace groups from the region and an international peace team.
It is time NYC elected officials -- especially Mayor Bloomberg -- stand up, lead and tell President Obama that he escalates the war in Afghanistan at the peril of his own great cities like NYC. And frankly, this wholesale bankrupting of our nation and our cities via endless war is exactly what Osama bin Laden ordered.
Juxtaposed alongside BILLION dollar budget cuts and layoffs of untold New Yorkers announced by Mayor Bloomberg after the election, President Obama plans to expand the war and the war budget. It is estimated that each troop in combat abroad costs approximately $1 MILLION per year. The price tag for the planned escalation of 30,000 to 35,000 troops translates to another $35 BILLION of our taxes robbed each year from infrastructure, services and jobs in NYC and cities all over this nation. These TENS OF BILLIONS will be on top of the existing military/war budget that is fast approaching $1 TRILLION per year, a mind boggling amount that our cities lose out. Remember, the war budget is the only budget that keeps going up even in this recession.
Let's give the press something other than shopping to talk about.
It's time cities start kicking Washington politicians around instead of playing patty cakes with them. Washington needs to start listening to cities and it's citizens instead of politicizing generals. Washington will only listen if we force them to by starting the conversation of the real cost of war both morally and economically, keep on pressing and vote them out one war enabler at a time. Local elected officials need to make the connection of war and keep repeating it. Presidents will bow to cities much the same way they do to generals if cities frame the problem correctly and join together.
Doug Biviano
Brooklyn Heights
http://bivforbrooklyn.com
P.S. I doubt Osama bin Laden is anywhere near where our generals think he is nor can they guarantee any meaningful or specific results with this escalation.
I will be marching today World Peace Day at 1:00 PM from Borough Hall, over the Brooklyn Bridge to City Hall with Brooklyn for Peace, other peace groups from the region and an international peace team.
It is time NYC elected officials -- especially Mayor Bloomberg -- stand up, lead and tell President Obama that he escalates the war in Afghanistan at the peril of his own great cities like NYC. And frankly, this wholesale bankrupting of our nation and our cities via endless war is exactly what Osama bin Laden ordered.
Juxtaposed alongside BILLION dollar budget cuts and layoffs of untold New Yorkers announced by Mayor Bloomberg after the election, President Obama plans to expand the war and the war budget. It is estimated that each troop in combat abroad costs approximately $1 MILLION per year. The price tag for the planned escalation of 30,000 to 35,000 troops translates to another $35 BILLION of our taxes robbed each year from infrastructure, services and jobs in NYC and cities all over this nation. These TENS OF BILLIONS will be on top of the existing military/war budget that is fast approaching $1 TRILLION per year, a mind boggling amount that our cities lose out. Remember, the war budget is the only budget that keeps going up even in this recession.
Let's give the press something other than shopping to talk about.
It's time cities start kicking Washington politicians around instead of playing patty cakes with them. Washington needs to start listening to cities and it's citizens instead of politicizing generals. Washington will only listen if we force them to by starting the conversation of the real cost of war both morally and economically, keep on pressing and vote them out one war enabler at a time. Local elected officials need to make the connection of war and keep repeating it. Presidents will bow to cities much the same way they do to generals if cities frame the problem correctly and join together.
Doug Biviano
Brooklyn Heights
http://bivforbrooklyn.com
P.S. I doubt Osama bin Laden is anywhere near where our generals think he is nor can they guarantee any meaningful or specific results with this escalation.
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