Peace Action

Keep Our National Guard at Home

The NJ State Senate and Assembly have introduced legislation to defederalize the NJ National Guard. The bills are SJR55 and AJR89. Please contact your state senator and assemblyperson for cosponsorship and support. Pennsylvania also has a bill and a national coalition has formed, called "Bring the Guard Home (It's the Law)." Including hard copies, the petition currently has more than 3500 signatures.

Let's keep going!

Visit our webpage or our affiliate New Jersey Peace Action for information on how to get involved in GI Outreach, this effort to defederalize the guard, and other actions coming soon. For relevent materials for your own organizing please visit the Peace & Justice Coalition peaceandjusticecoalition.org.

To:  New Jersey Governor Corzine

Stop the Deployment 3,000 NJ National Guard Troops to Iraq.
Repeal Sec 333 DoD Appropriation -- 2006.

Governor Corzine, please do not sacrifice one more young man or woman to the War in Iraq. This war has been mismanaged from the beginning and continues to spin out of control. Do not send one-half of the NJ National Guard to Iraq in June, (3,000 of 6,000 people). Do not acquiesce to a lame-duck administration that has consistently operated in secret, persisted in illegal war, spawned the destabilization of Iraq and promoted illegal incarcerations and torture, endangering our troops.

The Bush administration has flagrantly ignored the will of the American People to end this war. Rather than deploy NJ National Guard, join at least eight other states to de-federalize the National Guard, and work to establish immediate international negotiations to end hostilities.

Governor Corzine, stand up to George W. Bush for the people of New Jersey. Don't sacrifice even one more of our neighbors to this illegal war that continues to bleed our budgets, our people and to ruin life for Iraqi children and civilians.

Adults everywhere need to take action to end this war. Governor, take the lead and resist the deployment. The people of New Jersey will support you and our troops will be grateful to you for protecting their best interests.

Also, please work for the immediate repeal of Sec. 333 of the Dept of Defense Appropriate of 2006 that allows the President to seize control of the National Guard during any state-specific emergency.