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JOIN US IN DC ON CAPITOL HILL FOR STOP-LOSS CONGRESS ACTION Start: 9:00 am End: 9:00 pm JOIN US IN DC ON CAPITOL HILL MARCH 10TH TO 12TH WWW.STOP-LOSSCONGRESS.ORG free housing and food by donation THIS MARCH WHILE THE SUFFERING, DEATH AND DESTRUCTION GOES ON IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN, CONGRESS WILL BE ON A SPRING BREAK, IGNORING THE KILLING AND SUFFERING THEY HAVE ENABLED, SUPPORTED AND FINANCED. TO INTENSIFY THIS IRONY, CONGRESS HAS CONDONED A WIDESPREAD STOP-LOSS POLICY IN THE MILITARY WHICH REQUIRES SOLDIERS TO INVOLUNTARILY EXTEND THEIR TOURS OF DUTY. IT IS TIME TO STOP-LOSS CONGRESS! ON MONDAY, MARCH 10TH AND TUESDAY THE 11TH, IRAQ TAKE ACTION--CALL IN MARCH 12TH TO RESIST AFRICOM Start: 9:00 am Resist AFRICOM is a campaign comprised of concerned U.S. and Africa-based organizations and individuals opposed to the new U.S. military command for Africa (AFRICOM). AFRICOM expands of the role of the U.S. military in Africa—potentially shifting humanitarian resources from civilians to military personnel. We reject this militarization of foreign aid. Instead, our vision is a comprehensive U.S. foreign policy grounded in true partnership with the African Union, African governments, and civil society on peace, justice, security, and development. WOMENS HISTORY MONTH--event at the University of Southern Maine Start: 7:00 pm End: 8:30 pm Wednesday, March 12 7-8:30 UER, Glickman Library, USM Women’s History Month Keynote Speaker: Dorothy Sue Cobble “LABOR FEMINISM AND THE FUTURE OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS” Dorothy Sue Cobble is the author, most recently, of The Other Women’s Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America (Princeton, 2004) and The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor (Cornell, 2007). Her books challenge the conventional story of US women’s history and reveal an alternative and vibrant tradition of American feminism led by working women and their allies. Labor feminists

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