Seattle--Spilt Blood At Navy Recruitment Center

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Spilt Blood At Navy Recruitment Center

Offices closed due to unnecessary deaths.

8:45 A.M. Thursday, March 27, 2003
U.S. NAVY RECRUITMENT CENTER, Corner of Denny Way & Broad St.
Seattle, WA

A group of women are blocking and disrupting the entrance to a Navy
Recruitment Center today in Seattle, Washington, to call attention to the
violent effects of war on women and the exploitative nature of recruitment
in poor communities and communities of color. The women announced that the
recruitment center was "closed for business" in honor of the soldiers and
civilians who continue to be placed in harm's way in Iraq.

Women, poor people and people of color are the most affected by war and at
the same time, these communities lack the political power to make decisions
about war. "We have closed the recruitment center because it is through
this doorway that many young women and men from poor communities and
communities of color take their first steps in seeking access to job
training and education money. What they step into is an institution that
does not have their best interests in mind and an international conflict
that will not end quickly."

The real effects of war are death and violence, not 'liberation'. As the
young people from our communities come home in body bags, "we have to ask
ourselves: Is it worth it?"