Democratic alliance plans peaceful protest

To the Editor: On May 26, Dick Cheney is the featured speaker at the West Point Graduation. As residents of Orange County and the Hudson Valley, we feel morally obligated to continue to protest the war in Iraq and to show this administration that people in this region will not accept the perpetuation of this war. We are assembling before the future leaders of the American military to say that in their best interests, and in ours as a nation, and as a people, we will not allow Cheney’s dire prophecy to be fulfilled. Allowing Vice President Cheney to appear in our region without protest is tantamount to support of this war. As we refuse to be complicit, we will be heard. Help us organize the largest action the Hudson Valley has seen - unify in concerted opposition to this war. We will assemble at 8:30 a.m. at the Veteran’s Park, on Main Street in Highland Falls. We will march to, and we expect, through Thayer Gate into West Point and then re-assemble for a rally. Please voice your endorsement for this peaceful rally and, most critically, organize your own members, your own community, to join us and demonstrate massive opposition to this President’s war. Michael H. Sussman, Barbara Bonham, Steve Greenfield, Leslie Simons, Ben Weiss, Charlie Serra, Art Ahr and George Figueroa Organizing Committee Democratic Alliance 294-3991