[ECDC Announce] STOP BLACKWATER! REMEMBER NISOUR SQUARE MASSACRE! DEMONSTRATION SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 3-5 P.M.

[Raymond Lutz]

*STOP BLACKWATER PROTEST!!*

*COMMEMORATE THE 17 INNOCENT CITIZENS MURDERED BY BLACKWATER IN NISOUR 
SQUARE!*

* One Year Anniversary Protest and Rally Against  Blackwater

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*Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008   3-5 p.m. *

*at Blackwater's Otay Mesa Training Facility
7685 Siempre Viva Rd., SD CA 92154 (Otay Mesa)*

*BLACKWATER HAS OPENED A NEW TRAINING FACILITY HERE
IN OTAY MESA--RIGHT NEXT TO THE MEXICAN BORDER.*

 

/*FIVE KEY REASONS TO GET BLACKWATER OFF OUR BORDER:*/

 

1. Blackwater Worldwide, a mercenary group, has a history of killing 
innocent civilians. In Nisour Square, Iraq, on September 16, 2007, 
Blackwater "security personnel" shot and killed without provocation 
seventeen Iraqis civilians, including a nine year old boy.

2. Blackwater has taken no responsibility for any of the killings. Erik 
Prince, founder of Blackwater, told Congress one month after the Nisour 
Square Massacre that he had no knowledge of his men hurting innocent 
civilians.

3. Blackwater is not part of the military! It is a business that profits 
from bloodshed and killing.  Its personnel are not accountable to 
military, civil, or criminal law. One year after the killings, no one at 
Blackwater has been charged for any of the killings of innocent civilians.

4. Blackwater used subsidiary business names to apply for its building 
permits to avoid the normal permit process and avoid public scrutiny.  
Blackwater has done everything in their power to stop the right of the 
City Council, the City Attorney, and San Diego residents to say "no" to 
having Blackwater here, including suing the City of San Diego.

 5. Blackwater is a company that profits from conflict. NO CONFLICT = NO 
PROFIT!      Blackwater mercenaries along the US-Mexico border will seek 
to profit from border instability. Any minor difference among ethnic 
groups can easily be exploited by Blackwater mercenaries to intervene 
and make money.

 _/*Only the community can prevent Blackwater from establishing deep 
roots in our neighborhoods. What Blackwater did to innocent Iraqis can 
very well be done to people in our community, if we don't act now! */_

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*We have shown before that we can stop abusive power; we can do it again 
and get Blackwater out of San Diego.
We need your help now!
Join us on September 13!**
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Directions: 805 South to 905 East, Right Britannia, Left on to Siempre 
Viva. (park on the street).** *

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*For more information and a flier please see
Peace Resource Center of San Diego
619-263-9301 or www.prcsd.org <http://www.prcsd.org/>
Spanish 619-270-5470
or www.StopBlackwater.net

Sponsored by the Peace Resource Center of San Diego, Activist San Diego,
American Friends Service Committee US-Mexico Border Project, San Diego 
Coalition for Peace & Justice,
Citizens' Oversight and San Diego Veterans for Peace
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Raymond Lutz, Coordinator
Citizens' Oversight Projects (COPs)
P.O. Box 252             
El Cajon (San Diego Cty), CA 92022 USA
Voice 619-820-5321
http//www.CitizensOversight.org

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