Credit: CodePink Chicago

Camp Hope: Countdown to Change

Three week presence in President-elect Obama’s

neighborhood calls for eight bold steps

On a cold and windy New Year’s Day, about 200 people came together in hope and peace to kickoff Camp Hope 2009: Countdown to Change.

From New Year’s Day until Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (Jan 19) peace activists from across the Chicago area will be at Camp Hope to encourage President-Elect Obama to take 8 bold steps during his first month in office:

    * War in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan
    * Global Climate Change
    * Nuclear Weapons
    * Guantanamo and Torture
    * Immigrant Rights
    * Unemployment and the Prison-Industrial Complex
    * Housing Foreclosures
    * Universal Health Care

See report and pictures from CodePink Chicago here

See the Camp Hope 2009 website