WHEN:  Thursday, August 16, 1 PM

WHERE:  City
Hall Park ,
East side of park, Park Row and Lafayette Streets, facing the
Brooklyn Bridge

WHAT:  READING
OF WAR AT HOME,
A NEWLY-RELEASED REPORT BY MOVEON.ORG.
(PART OF OVER 100 SUCH EVENTS NATIONALLY)

FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE EFFECTS OF THE HALF-TRILLION-DOLLAR COST OF THE IRAQ
WAR TO EACH NEW YORK CITY
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT WILL BE DETAILED.

PHOTO OPP: 1) GIANT CHECK DISPLAYING LOCAL
COST OF WAR.
         
            
2)  Speakers include an Iraqi schoolteacher, and Kevin Powell,
best-selling author of Who’s Gonna
Take The Weight? Manhood, Race, and Power in America, and Someday We’ll All Be Free, on the
2004 presidential election.

BACKGROUND:  On Thursday, August 16, members of MoveOn.org will release a
new report, "War at Home,” compiled
by Moveon.org from the National Priorities project, highlighting the
enormous cost of the Iraq War to residents in every
New York City congressional district since
the war began.  Over 100 Moveon councils nationally will release the
report on the same day.  There are separate reports for each Congressional
district, detailing the economic effects and deprivations of the war on that
area.

Since the Iraq
war began, Congress has spent almost a half-trillion dollars on an unwinnable
civil war. New York City ’s
contribution to this has been almost 41 billion dollars. This has taken funds
away from other national and international priorities, but also local
priorities in each district, which will be detailed.

Each local representative will be named, and the cost to his/her district.
After the event, local MoveOn members will deliver the report to local
representatives at his/her office in each of the five boroughs. ###