A coalition of far-Left organizations that includes avowed “revolutionary communists,” Islamists, marriage-abolitionists, and cop-killer advocates has launched a crusade against the U.S. military... The organizations represent a veritable Who’s Who of the Unholy Alliance. A partial list includes:
• Al-Awda (San Francisco) – A Palestinian organization dedicated to the “right of return,” that Israel will absorb some five million Arabs into its midst. Its members endorse the Hamas statement, “Palestine will be free from the river to the sea.”
• American Friends Service Committee – A putatively Quaker organization with a long history of support for Communist causes, foreign and domestic, its membership often overlapped with that of the Communist Party USA. AFSC refrained from criticizing the Soviet Union and called reports of Pol Pot’s killing fields a “misinformation campaign.” More recently, the Soros-funded organization encouraged city councils to oppose the Patriot Act and joined with other leftist radicals to oppose the liberation of Iraq.
• International ANSWER (Bay Area) – A front for the Workers World Party’s International Action Center headed by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark (who recently volunteered to serve as Saddam’s lawyer), International ANSWER has supported such madmen as Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic, and Kim Jong-il. ANSWER was also the prime sponsor of the large “antiwar” rallies before Operation Iraqi Freedom.
• Code Pink – A far-Left group of faux housewives established by omnipresent pro-Castro activist Medea Benjamin, the founders met while agitating on behalf of Nicaragua’s communist Sandanista government. Benjamin, with Communist Party USA member Leslie Cagan, founded the International Occupation Watch in Baghdad, an organization dedicated to getting U.S. GIs to declare themselves conscientious objectors and get themselves sent home. Code Pink spokesperson “Sand” Brim flew a surgeon into El Salvador to operate on Marxist guerrilla leader Nidia Diaz’s hand shortly after guerrillas under her command murdered American troops. Co-founder Jodie Evans is a Democratic Party fundraiser with ties to eco-terrorists. Late last year, the group traveled to Iraq to donate $600,000 in cash and supplies to the terrorist stronghold of Fallujah. They made headlines this year by bursting into John Bolton’s confirmation hearings. Furthering the Left’s incestuous relationship, Medea Benjamin’s Code Pink is also a member of Leslie Cagan’s United for Peace and Justice, which became the “mainstream” voice of the anti-American Left opposed to the War on Terror.
• Free Palestine Alliance – A leftist Palestinian organization demanding “an immediate end to all U.S. aid to Israel,” it seems to exist only as a member of International ANSWER’s “steering committee.” (Its contact information is the same as the IAC.)
• Global Exchange – Another organization founded by Medea Benjamin, which takes credulous left-wingers on trips to Potemkin villages around the world, to demonstrate the glories of socialism (in places like Cuba) or the evils of U.S. foreign policy (in locales such as Iraq and Afghanistan).
• Green Party – Ralph Nader’s political vehicle in 2000, this Red-Green alliance supports radicalization of the U.S. economy under the guise of preserving the environment. Meanwhile, its foreign policy would have kept Saddam Hussein in power and catered to Kim Jong-il. Their candidate in 2000 for California’s U.S. Senate seat was none other than the ubiquitous Medea Benjamin.
• Gray Panthers – This group of gray Reds denounced the 2004 vote as “the second Presidential election in a row which failed to be free and fair,” implied that America deposed Haitian Marxist Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and fear-mongered last March that President Bush might reinstate the draft (five months after the Republican-controlled Congress defeated a bill to do just that, introduced by leftist Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-NY).
• International Socialist Organization – Despite supporting Trotskyite Communism, the ISO supports (or supported) the USSR, Communist China, Cuba, and North Korea (Stalinist or Maoist nations all), because of those nation’s united opposition to the world’s real enemies: the United States and capitalism. Also a member of UFPJ.
• Lesbian And GAy Insurrection, (LAGAI) – A quite muddled political program seems to revolve around the Communist goal of abolishing the institution of marriage. LAGAI declares, “we feel that the queer liberation position is to oppose marriage as the central institution of patriarchy, not to try to get married ourselves.” “Assimilation is not Liberation!” their flyer shouts.
• Louisiana Activist Network – A radical “antiwar” organization that reproduces a quotation from revolutionary Emma Goldman on its frontpage and links to Lyndon LaRouche’s political organization on its “friends” page.
• Malcolm X Grassroots Movement – A radical black “liberation” organization demanding the release of “political prisoners” like Sundiata Acoli, Robert Seth Hayes, Jalil Muntaquin, Herman Bell and Russell Maroon Shoats – and commemorating those who “died for the cause” (in prison, of natural causes): Teddy "Jah" Heath, Albert "Nuh" Washington. All except Heath were Black Panthers convicted of murdering policemen, and all are justified or excused by MXGM. For instance: “In 1970, along with 5 others, Maroon was accused of attacking a police station, which resulted in an officer being killed. This attack was said to have been carried out in response to the rampant police brutality in the Black community.” The website decries Heath’s “racist” conviction on multiple charges, including kidnapping, because, “The kidnapping ended peacefully and without injury to anyone.” (And they still imprisoned him?) The MXGM opposes U.S. Army recruiting but favors the domestic terrorism of the Black Liberation Army.
• National Lawyers Guild (SF/Bay Area) – Once described by Congress as “the legal bulwark of the Communist Party,” the most violent disagreements within the NLG broke out between Maoists and Stalinists. The NLG has recently whitewashed North Korea’s brutal human rights violations. Convicted terror-enabler Lynne Stewart gave the keynote speech at the NLG’s 2003 national convention, in which she hailed “modern heroes” like “Ho and Mao and Lenin, Fidel and Nelson Mandela…[and] Che Guevara.” Upon her conviction in passing on messages from Blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman to Egyptian terrorists, the NLG called for a “national day of outrage.” NLG is also active in UFPJ and is a vital part of the Open Borders Lobby.
• Not in Our Name (NION) – Founded by Maoiost radical C. Clark Kissinger of the Revolutionary Communist Party – an organization considered extremist and violent even by fellow Maoists – this “antiwar” coalition produced a “Statement of Conscience,” signed by thousands of leftists, condemning America’s “openly imperial policy towards the world.” NION showed its patriotic spirit this year in a Fourth of July rally for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention center, at which it distributed an American flag emblazoned with the phrase, “Torture is immoral and unpatriotic!” (Also present were former detainees, their lawyers, Code Pink, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and feminist idols Gloria Steinem and Eve Ensler.) After Bush’s re-election, NION issued a statement accusing the Bush administration of seeking “unquestioned world supremacy” and laboring to “impose a narrow, intolerant, and political form of Christian fundamentalism as government policy.” It has also supported Sgt. Kevin Benderman, who refused to return to Iraq and stands accused of desertion and larceny, and calls convicted Iraq deserter Staff Sgt. Camilo Mejia “a prisoner of conscience.” NION is a member of UFPJ.
• Peace and Freedom Party – A California-based “feminist and socialist” political party that nominated Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver for president in 1968, Benjamin Spock in 1972, and convicted cop-killer Leonard Peltier in 2004.
• Party for Socialism and Liberation – A party that proudly proclaims, “we aim for revolution in the United States.” The most recent issue of their magazine hails the Iraqi terrorists’ “determination and ability to resist.” And they explicitly wish to play a role in our defeat in the region: “The experience of the Vietnam War proved that the anti-war movement in the United States can gain confidence from the resistance of the oppressed peoples standing up to and defeating the largest military power in the world.”
• Peter Camejo – Ralph Nader’s Green Party running mate in 2004. As a member of the Young Socialist Alliance, California Governor Ronald Reagan named him one of the ten most dangerous revolutionaries in the state. Like Reagan, Camejo ran for president in 1976, Camejo running on the Socialist Workers Party ticket. Camejo is, next to George Soros, perhaps the most prominent far-Left agitator ever to become a professional stock broker.
• Queers Undermining Israeli Terror (QUIT) – A homosexual organization opposed to Israel, as though their fate would be better in an Islamic society. QUIT took part in the attempted 2004 sabotage of the Oakland Port, which ships military material to the Iraqi front.
• Service Employees International Union (SEIU) (Local 790) – The largest union in the AFL-CIO, SEIU President Andrew Stern was a New Leftist protégé of avowed socialist Michael Harrington who studied union organization under former members of the radical Students for a Democratic Society.
• Socialist Action – A Trotskyite “group of revolutionary socialists committed to the emancipation of working and oppressed people everywhere!” that believes in “permanent revolution.”
• Socialist Organizer – Another Trotskyite organization and member of the Fourth International and founder of The Labor Party, SO dedicates a webpage to the writings of such distinguished intellectuals as V.I. Lenin, Karl Marx, John Reed, Eugene V. Debs, and, naturally, Leon Trotsky.
• The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (SF Chapter) – The ADC is a veteran campaigner at the state and local ordinances, having spearheaded the movement to pass city resolutions condemning the Patriot Act or vowing a city’s non-compliance. The ADC also condemned the detention of terrorist detainees and the use of military tribunals, referring to American actions as “disappearances.” A member of UFPJ.
Another prominent resident to endorse the measure is Cindy Sheehan, the founder of Gold Star Families for Peace who demands an “immediate withdrawal of American and Coalition Forces from Iraq.” GFSP, “an affiliate of Military Families Speak Out,” works with UFPJ, September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, and Veterans for Peace.