For more information about the event contact Lucy Duff at justpeacepg@earthlink.net or 301-577-2350.
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Bill of Rights Defense Coalition
Joining with Broader-Horizons/Counter-Recruiting Prince George's County
Help broaden the horizons of Prince George's County youth beyond those presented by military recruiters. Our Peace & Justice Coalition, Prince George's County, invites the community to help make sure all its young people understand that today's military is probably not their best ticket to a great future. We have begun this campaign from a concern that military recruiters can too easily sway our youth with half-truths, put forth via manipulative, high-pressure approaches.
We know recruiters rank high on their target lists our many local youth from minority groups and low-income families—the ones most prone to an economic draft. We suspect that students who aren’t top scholars or star athletes seldom hear much about other options for funding college or career training. But it lies in our power to end this form of discrimination!
- Demonstrated Against Iraq War on 1st Anniversary
- Met With Sen. Barbara Mikulski's Staff
- Marched in Greenbelt Labor Day Festival Parade
- Lobby Letter
- Patriot Act: Greenbelters are concerned that the U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. ACT threatens our civil rights and liberties, including:
- greatly expanding the government's ability to conduct secret searches
- all but eliminating judicial supervision of telephone and internet surveillance;
- granting unchecked power to the Attorney General and the Secretary of State to designate domestic groups as "terrorist organizations";
- allowing the Attorney General to subject non-citizens to indefinite detention or deportation even if they have not committed a crime;
- giving law enforcement officials broad access to sensitive medical, mental health, library, business, financial, educational, and other records about individuals without first showing probable cause or evidence of a crime, and;
- authorizing the indefinite incarceration of citizens designated by the President as "enemy combatants" without access to counsel or meaningful recourse to the courts
- On Parade
- Hall of Fame
- STOP IRAQ WAR (Pamphlet 2003/02)
People to people working for change
Who We Are -
The Prince George's Peace & Justice Coalition is the county-level chapter of Maryland United for Peace and Justice. The focus of both organizations is legislative and education.