March 19, 2005

Rowan Street Park, Fayetteville, NC
Home of Fort Bragg, 82nd Airborne, Special Forces

On Saturday March 19, thousands of people of conscience from around the Southeast and beyond will join military families and veterans in Fayetteville, North Carolina, for a march and rally against the war on Iraq. Fayetteville, the home of Ft. Bragg- one of the largest military bases in the country- is at the center of the American military enterprise. Nearly 1 in 5 soldiers deployed in Iraq is from North Carolina.

The NC Peace & Justice Coalition joins with Military Families Speak Out, Veterans For Peace, Fayetteville Peace With Justice, Quaker House, Bring Them Home Now, NC Council of Churches, and United for Peace and Justice as the core sponsors for the March 19 mobilization.

The events in Fayetteville will consist of a hip hop concert to mobilize local youth on March 18; a permitted, safe and empowering march and rally on March 19; and a gathering of Southern peace & justice organizers on March 20, held in conjunction with the first national conference of Iraq Veterans Against the War.