Saturday, August 5th 2006  1-3:30 PM; 4-6PM
Pittsburgh, PA

 

Teach-In: Bechtel and the Military-Industrial Complex. 1-3:30pm.
Friends Meeting House. 4836 Ellsworth Ave. in Oakland. Featuring
Antonia Juhasz and other scholar-activists involved with the
anti-nuclear, anti-war and global justice movements.

 

Poster/Art Making
and Civil Disobedience Training & Orientation. 4-6pm.

 

LOGISTICS

 

Housing for out of town guests is available. Please email
housing@august6.org and tell us what you need.
Tabling space for the Sunday festival is also available. Email
festival@august6.org.
Directions to the Friends Meeting House, CMU’s Morewood Gardens and
West Mifflin Park are available at Pittsburgh.August6.org .
Consider bringing food and beverages to the picnic on Sunday!
Donate online or send checks to Thomas Merton Center – August 6, 5125
Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15224. WHO WE ARE

 

This regional convergence is being organized by the Pittsburgh August
6 Committee, an ad-hoc coalition of groups and individuals who have
come together to organize an anti-war, anti-nuke and global justice
convergence on the anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The convening groups are as follows:

 

Abolition 2000 W PA Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
American Friends Service Committee Pittsburgh
CodePink Pittsburgh
Duncan and Porter House of Hospitality
Physicians for Social Responsibility (Pittsburgh)
Roots of Promise
Rosenberg Institute for Peace and Justice
School of the Americas Watch of Western PA
Thomas Merton Center Anti-War Committee
Womens League for International Peace and Freedom (PIttsburgh)

 

WHY BECHTEL?

 

Bechtel, one of the richest private corporations, helps develop
nuclear weapons, pushed for war with Iraq, and has created ecological
and economic havoc in countries across the globe. Bechtel “connects
the dots” for the anti-war, anti-nuke and global justice movements:
Through its sordid corporate history and 100 years of revolving-door
relationships with government, Bechtel illustrates the connections
between profiteering and war, between nuclear power and nuclear
weapons proliferation, between “free trade” and the exploitation of
indigenous peoples, and between corporate power-brokers and
decision-makers at the highest levels of government.

 

The focus of the Three River’s August protest is the Bettis Atomic
Power Laboratory, a joint Navy and Department of Energy facility
located in West Mifflin for which Bechtel has a $4.2 billion dollar
contract to operate. From developing reactors for the first ballistic
missile submarine, the first commercial nuclear power plant, and the
next generation of aircraft carriers, Bettis “exists to support this
nation’s capability to deploy and maintain a modern nuclear navy.”

 

The United States is the ONLY country that has used nuclear weapons
in war. As the war continues in Iraq, and as the Bush Administration
foments a nuclear crisis in Iran at the same time it pushes for more
nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons here at home, we must say NO
to nukes, NO to wars, NO to profiteers.

 

Contact:
412-461-3022

Sponsored By:
Pittsburgh August 6 Committee

Location:
Friends Meeting House
836 Ellsworth Ave. in Oakland
Pittsburgh, PA