SEPTEMBER 13, 2005: Protest the Arms Bazaar Tue.Sep.13.2005@6:00PM to Tue.Sep.13.2005@8:15PM PROTEST THE AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION ARMS BAZAAR When: Tuesday, September 13, 2005, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Where: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660 Woodley Rd. NW (Off of Connecticut Ave., Take Woodley Park Metro Stop) From September 12-14, the Air Force Association (AFA) is holding its annual Air & Space convention and Technology Expo--"Arms Bazaar"-- at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. It's motto is "The Force Behind the Force". One Hundred top military contractors are peddling their newest weaponry and technology to Pentagon officials and agents from other nations. These weapons are used to terrorize and kill people in such places as Iraq, Afghanistan, Colombia, Palestine, Haiti and throughout Africa. These weapons fuel the over thirty wars raging around the world today. Top military officials and arms makers, who reap huge profits from weapons contracts,are discussing how the US can maintain global military dominance and control space. To ensure control of nearly half of the earth's resources, the U.S. practices terrorism by acts of military intervention, supplying weapons, military training and aid to corrupt regimes, and by having a preventive war policy. We call for an end to all wwar and terrorism. It is time for the US, the world's leading nuclear superpower and arms dealer, to stop dominating other nations, disarm and develop a foreign policy based on nonviolence and the universal declaration of human rights. It is time for the rich and powerful to stop misuing the earth's resoureces for weapons, war and killing. It is time to alleviate poverty and meet urgent human needs. On September 13, the AFA is having a $200+ per plate banquet while the poor and homeless of D.C. and our world needlesly suffer. Please join us in a nonviolent vigil as we decry this scandal and memorialize the victims of poverty and war. In the name of God who calls us not to kill and to beat all weapons intio plowshares, in the name of the victims killed by weapons displayed at the Marriott, and in the name of the poor and the children, we demand an end to the AFA Arms Bazaar! (Please Bring a Candle) Sponsored by the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker. For more info call or . Location: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660 Woodley Rd. NW (Off of Connecticut Ave., Take Woodley Park Metro Stop) , Washington DC, DC Metro: Woodley Park/Zoo/Adams Morgan