Tacoma SDS

Nearly 10,000 troops from Fort Lewis will head to Iraq next year, when the post's commanding general and the rest of I Corps take over daily operations in the country and two Stryker brigades fall under its command.

Those numbers don’t include the 81st Brigade Combat Team of the Washington National Guard. Its 2,500 citizen-soldiers have their send-off ceremony in Wisconsin today and within a month will go to Kuwait and ultimately Iraq.

Early this morning at the gate of Fort Lewis three activists using lockboxes stopped Strykers from entering the Fort for over twenty minutes. The action ended up stopping shipments for twenty minutes and cost various law enforcement agencies a great deal of money. The on site street medic said that there were more cops at the action then he had ever seen in one place.

August 2nd: Rally Against Wars in Iraq and Iran (Ft. Lewis)

Saturday, August 2nd, is the National Day of Action against war with Iran. Join your friends and neighbors outside Fort Lewis, for a family-friendly demonstration and overpass rally organized by IVAW, G.I. Voice, and Olympia SDS.

WHERE: I-5 Exit 119 (Outside Ft. Lewis)
WHEN: Saturday, August 2nd, Noon-3pm.

Anti-war rally outside Fort Lewis.

No War on Iraq! No War on Iran!