{"article":{"id":192888,"heading":"&quot;Oscar for Peace&quot;, an Anti-War Vigil and Awards Ceremony","author":"df","created":"2007-02-07 04:32:06","modified":"2013-11-11 00:47:02","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:47:02","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>&ldquo;Oscar for Peace&rdquo; Rally and Awards Ceremony  <br><br> Military Families Speak Out of Southern California is proud to host an Anti-War Vigil and Awards Ceremony to take place on Academy Awards Day...as a symbolic political statement opposing the continued Congressional funding of war while supporting the PEOPLE&rsquo;S demand to Bring the Troops Home Now!  <br><br> Sunday, February 25, 2007,  <br>  <br> At the corner of Hollywood &amp; Vine,  <br>  <br> Hollywood, CA  <br><br> Time:  <br>  <br> 12 noon  <br><br> Military Families Speak Out will be honoring individuals from the PEACE community for their continued work on behalf of WE, the PEOPLE, in supporting our demands to defund the war and to support the troops by bringing them home now and taking care of them when they get home!  <br><br> Bring creative signs honoring BESTS (or WORSTS): for Peace, for Defunding war, for Anti-War reporting, for Calling for an End to War, for Peace Activism.....Be CREATIVE!  <br><br> There will be reporters and camera crews from all over the world waiting for the Academy Awards ceremony to begin. They will have LOTS OF TIME to interview attendees of our event. If you have a STATEMENT for the WORLD regarding GWB's illegal war, then this \"Oscar for Peace\" Vigil and Awards Ceremony is YOUR opportunity to speak out to the global community!  <br><br> Southern California Military Families Speak Out Chapters,  <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfsooc.org\">http:\/\/www.mfsooc.org<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfso.org\">http:\/\/www.mfso.org<\/a>  <br><br> For more information, call 714-508-8103, <a href=\"mailto:stnd4peace@pacbell.net\">stnd4peace@pacbell.net<\/a>  <br>  <br> <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"","link":"www.mfsooc.org","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"...","numcomment":2,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2007\/02\/oscar4peace.jpg","filesize":"64.9 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2007\/02\/192888.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2007\/02\/oscar4peace.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2007\/02\/oscar4peace.jpgthumb.jpg","medium":"\/uploads\/2007\/02\/oscar4peace.jpgmid.jpg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":193000,"heading":"Military Families say stop funding the Iraq war","article":"It is time for the democrats to take a leadership role and stop the funding of this unjust war in Iraq.  My son has spent over 24 months in two extended deployments in combat the whole time.  Now he is home dealing with the injuries and the effects of being in 4 tanks that were destroyed by IED.  Seeing countless dead and wounded and picking up the body parts of his combat buddies.  \r\n\r\nAs a member of Military Families Speak Out, a group of over 3200 Military Families that oppose the war in Iraq.  It is our loved ones fighting this war and it is our loved ones dying because of this war.  \r\n\r\nMilitary Families Speak Out is calling on Congress to end funding for the war in Iraq, save what is needed to bring our troops home quickly and safely. Over 3,000 US troops and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children, women and men have already died as a result of this war. Funding the war is not supporting our troops. The way to support our troops is to bring them home now and take care of them when they get here.\r\n\r\nTim Kahlor, Military Families Speak Out\r\nwww.mfso.org\r\n\r\n","author":"Tim Kahlor","parent_id":192888,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2007-02-08 22:53:54","modified":"2007-02-08 22:53:54","fileurl":""},{"id":193015,"heading":"Hollywood and Vine?","article":"WTF?\r\nWhy isn't this &quot;vigil&quot; being held outside where the academy awards are supposed to take place, wherever the h*** that is!?","author":"Atheist","parent_id":192888,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2007-02-09 04:43:34","modified":"2007-02-09 04:43:34","fileurl":""}]}