Iraq Summer

What is Iraq Summer?

Iraq Summer is a campaign organized by Americans Against Escalation in Iraq and the Campaign to Defend America, designed to turn public opinion against the war in Iraq into political pressure on members of Congress who stand in the way of a responsible end to the war in Iraq.

Iraq Summer is focused on causing foundation of congressional support for the President's Iraq strategy to collapse. To achieve this goal, organizers, Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and military families across the country will use field operations, build coalitions, organize paid and earned media strategies, conduct volunteer events and combine nuts and bolts organizing tactics with cutting edge online organizing techniques to turn up the heat on members of Congress who are blocking a safe end to the Iraq war.

100 staff will be working in 15 states (Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia) to target more than 60 members of Congress who are blocking the passage of legislation that will bring a safe end to the war in Iraq.

Working Assets Dials Up the Heat

A successful campaign like Iraq Summer depends on quick, reliable communications. That's why we turned to Working Assets Wireless to connect our activists in 16 states. Working Assets is the one wireless company that supports the same cause we do: ending the war in Iraq. To make it happen, Working Assets is generously donating its services to Iraq Summer. If you want a wireless company that shares your progressive values, go to WorkingAssetsWireless.com to learn more.

Check out these stories about "Iraq Summer"

• U.S. lawmakers get no respite at home on Iraq debate Reuters - Aug 20, 2007
  Anti-war groups knew U.S. Rep. Timothy Murphy was going home to Pittsburgh for this month's congressional recess, so they baked him a cake.
• Iraq Summer' hopes to isolate President Bush The Hill - Washington, DC, USA
  Tom Matzzie, the Washington director for MoveOn.org, said the targets of the campaign will either "help end the war or face political extinction.
• War at Home: The Battleground of Summer New York Times, United States - Jun 15, 2007
  The coalition, Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, plans to send 86 activists to 15 states beginning next week to pressure lawmakers into changing their.
• Reid adjusts antiwar strategy Washington Times | 6/15/07
  The spate of antiwar activity by Mr. Reid follows a drop in the Senate leader's poll numbers and coincides with the start of the "Iraq summer" antiwar campaign. The Americans Against Escalation in Iraq -- an umbrella group of liberal organizations including MoveOn.org and the Center for American Progress Action Fund -- will target Republican lawmakers in 15 states "from Nevada to Maine."
• GOP congressmen face squeeze on war By Editor, Las Vegas Sun
  "For both of them, it'sa life or death issue for their political careers," said Moira Mack, a spokeswoman for Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, a coalition of anti-war groups. "By the time the summer's over it's going to be.