5 Years too many: Come Out on March 19th, 2008

Gather 11:30 am at Joe Lieberman’s Office, 1 Constitution Plaza, corner Market and Kinsley St.  

    Then on to

Lamentation and Protest

12:00PM to 01:30PM

Hosted by Reclaiming the Prophetic Voice

 Reclaiming the Prophetic Voice, a statewide interfaith network of religious leaders and people of faith, will mark this 5th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq by bearing witness to the horrifying costs of war (human, economic, and moral) and to the complicity of silence (by individuals, institutions and corporations).

A brief interfaith prayer service on the steps of Center Church (featuring AFSC’s “Cost of War” banners and combat boots memorializing CT’s fallen soldiers) will be followed by a procession to the Federal Building, stopping in front of United Technologies headquarters along the way.

Participants are encouraged to wear black and to bring one or more stones to add to a pile, making visible the destruction and human cost of the war. On each stone, please inscribe the name of an Iraqi civilian who has died in the war (one list is available at www.iraqbodycount.org/database/individuals/). Stones should be large enough to write on with a permanent marker but small enough to carry 5 blocks. Clergy are asked to wear visible signs of their office.

See map below

For more information, to sign up for the event, questions about the event and access to other Connecticut events and National events see. www.5yearstoomany.org.