Help! We’re being outspent a trillion to one

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WARNING:  Fund-raising appeal ahead.



When a handful of people decided to launch the Iraq Moratorium to take on the Pentagon and the military-industrial complex, we knew it wouldn’t be a fair fight.

We knew we’d be outmanned, outgunned and outspent by those whose interest seems to be to keep this nation at war.

But we didn’t realize that the Pentagon would spend as much on the war every five seconds as the Iraq Moratorium spends in a year to try to stop it.

We’ve done a lot with very little money.  Since September, more than 800 events, from Vermont to California, from Florida to Washington state, have joined under the Iraq Moratorium umbrella to call for an end to the war and occupation.  Tens of thousands have taken individual action as well on the Third Friday of each month.

But we really need your financial help to keep this national grassroots movement alive and growing.

The magnitude of what we’re up against really hit us with recent reports of the war’s cost — $5,000 a second! That’s more than double what we spend in a month.

 

The people are on our side, and that’s worth a lot — but it doesn’t pay the printer or keep the server and the website running.

The Iraq Moratorium is a volunteer organization that operates on a shoestring — when it has a shoestring.  Even that is frayed, knotted and spliced together most months.

Every dollar we raise goes to support the important work of ending this senseless bloodshed and bringing the troops home.

We’re organizers, not fundraisers.  We don’t even like to ask for money.  We wouldn’t if there were any other choice.

But without your help, we won’t even be able to continue to provide the basic services that help organizers across the country as they work to stop the war.

Our website, IraqMoratorium.org, links people across the country and the world who want this war to end.  It provides tools and ideas for organizing Iraq Moratorium events, and allows people and groups to share their experiences, exchange ideas, and inspire others to act.

If you visit now, you’ll find reports, photos and videos from March’s actions, as we prepare for Iraq Moratorium #8 on April 18.

We truly can’t do it without you.  And we can’t ask the core organizers who have worked tirelessly for months to dig any deeper into their own pockets to keep the Moratorium alive.

Can you help?  Will you make a contribution, large or small, to keep this operation afloat?

Please click here to donate online, or mail your check to:  Iraq Moratorium, P.O. Box 67, Hutto, TX 78634.  And please be as generous as you can, with a one-time contribution or monthly pledge.

Our pledge to you is that every dollar you give will be put to immediate and effective use to end this war and bring the troops home.

It’s got to stop, and we’ve got to stop it!