Posted on 03/14/2010 7:35:18 AM PDT by ETL
Gather at 12noon at the White House (Lafayette Park)
People from all over the country are organizing to converge on Washington, D.C., to demand the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan and Iraq.
On Saturday, March 20, 2010, there will be a massive National March & Rally in D.C. Gather at 12 noon at the White House (Lafayette Park).
There will be coinciding mass marches on March 20 in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
The national actions are initiated by a large number of organizations and prominent individuals. To see a list of the initiators, click this link.
We will march together to say “No Colonial-type Wars and Occupations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Haiti!" We will march together to say "No War Against Iran!” We will march together to say “No War for Empire Anywhere!”
Instead of war, we will demand funds so that every person can have a job, free and universal health care, decent schools, and affordable housing.
March 20 is the seventh anniversary of the criminal war of aggression launched by Bush and Cheney against Iraq. One million or more Iraqis have died. Tens of thousands of U.S. troops have lost their lives or been maimed, and continue to suffer a whole host of enduring problems from this terrible war.
http://www.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=M20_homepage
(Excerpt) Read more at pephost.org ...
From Workers World Party:
"Dear Comrade Kim Jong Il...
With his leadership [Kim Il Sung], the Korean people defeated the Japanese colonial occupation and soon after brought about the first defeat of the U.S. imperialist military machine. ...
Workers World Party values our close, comradely relations with the Workers Party of Korea very highly. We are proud to have known Kim Il Sung as a great leader and a comrade in the international communist movement. ..."
With comradely solidarity, Sam Marcy Chairperson, Workers World Party" (1994):
http://www.workers.org/marcy/cd/sam94/1994html/s940721.htm
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Workers World
55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011
Email: ww@workers.org
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Troops Out Now Coalition
55 W. 17th St. #5C
NY NY 10011
www.TroopsOutNow.org
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Note: the page (on the Workers World Party website) with this photo has recently been removed.
But here's other evidence of his speaking at the event:
"Among the many speakers were elected representatives—U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel and New York City Council members Charles Barron and Margarita Lopez—who have bucked their party to come out against the war. Barron has also introduced a Troops Out Now resolution in the City Council."--Workers World Party
Workers World Party: From Harlem to mayor’s mansion, marchers say, "Bring the troops home now!"
http://www.workers.org/ww/2005/us/harlem-march-0331/index.html
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"ANSWER was established at the initiative of the International Action Center (IAC), which was founded by former United States attorney general Ramsey Clark and the Workers World Party. Many of ANSWER's leaders were members of Workers World Party (WWP) at the time of ANSWER's founding, and are current members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), a Marxist-Leninist organization that was founded in 2004 by people who had left the WWP. When the WWP did function in ANSWER, the coalition was accused of being a front group for the Party, which never took an official role on its steering committee.[10]"
[10] Hull, Dana (2003-01-16). "As big anti-war protests loom, some political rifts surface". San Jose Mercury News. "As big anti-war protests loom, some political rifts surface". Retrieved 2008-02-22.
Cindy Sheehan, Jodie Evans, Hugo Chavez,
Medea Benjamin [co-founder Code Pink]
Code Pink 'Bundles' for Barack, 4/14/2008
"The co-founder of the radical anti-war group Code Pink [Jodie Evans] has “bundled” more than $50,000 for Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, and pro-troops groups are demanding that he return the money."
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=25997
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REVOLUTION: Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA [Maoist]
Revolution interview with ["Peace Mom"] Cindy Sheehan: October 29, 2005:
['Revolution' is the official newspaper of the Revolutionary Communist Party]
http://rwor.org/a/021/cindy-sheehan-interview.htm
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From National Public Radio (NPR):
August 29, 2006
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been visiting countries such as China, Iran and Russia as part of an effort to build a 'strategic alliance' of interests not beholden to the United States. He considers the United States his arch enemy.":
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5729764
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From CBS-News, July 29, 2006:
Chavez Vows To 'Stand By Iran'
After Oil Talks In Tehran, Venezuelan Leader Called 'Brother' By Ahmedinejad
"Chavez pledged that his country would 'stay by Iran at any time and under any condition,' state television reported. Ahmadinejad said he saw in Chavez a kindred spirit." "'We do not have any limitation in cooperation,' Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying. 'Iran and Venezuela are next to each other and supporters of each other. Chavez is a source of a progressive and revolutionary current in South America and his stance in restricting imperialism is tangible.'":
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/29/world/main1847331.shtml
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Code Pink's Jodie Evans embraces Jane Fonda
All out for the March 20th March on Washington!:
http://answer.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ANS_homepage
It looks like a great opportunity to gather this group up and export them to Iran or Afghanistan! ;-)
Just noticed I made an error here. Ramsey Clark was *Attorney General* under LBJ.
June, 1970 -- Kerry joins Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), a national veterans group that is part of the Peoples Coalition for Peace and Justice. The PCPJ is a broad coalition of local and national organizations, including the Communist Party, USA, "committed to conducting demonstrations aimed at ending the war in Indochina, and poverty, racism and injustice at home." The VVAW, CCI and PCPJ all have headquarters at 156 Fifth Avenue in New York City. VVAW Executive Secretary Al Hubbard, a former Black Panther, is also on the coordinating committee of the PCPJ. Hubbard soon appoints Kerry to the VVAW's Executive Committee, bypassing the normal election process.
http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=Timeline
Yes, they are a misguided bunch of jerks.
May Day 2006, Union Square, New York City
"I would think that if you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would someday become communist," and "The peace proposal of the Viet Cong is the only honorable, just, possible way to achieve peace in Vietnam."
http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=Timeline
Thread HERE
And the Jewish communities are also countering ANSWER because the National Council of Arab Americans will also be protesting with ANSWER. They are meeting at 9:20 AM at Connecticut Avenue and M Street and 18 Street intersection.
[Mr] T
This is a stunt run by Obama’s friends, for Obama, to manufacture the myth of some distance between him and them.
They were his best friends before his election, and he was theirs and he presented 96% of a common view with them when he ran in all his election campaigns. He is still their best friend and they know it.
They know that he cannot - for political reasons - do what they are demanding on Iraq and Afghanistan, as much as he may want to, as much as he may in fact agree with them.
His Marxist ideals are coming out in many of his domestic policy preferences.
It’s time the “vanguard” help him and provide some public myth-making of some distance between him and them.
Eagles up...
Prepare to defend local recruiter stations and monuments.
Check out my Post 9, the DC Chapter and GoE are on it.
ANSWER usually march to the Pentagon but are not this year. They relinquished their permits outside of DC.
[Mr] T
Stimulus money paying unions to come out in support of surrender .
Gonna try to get some ‘alternative’ versions to their new posters by Tuesday.
Thanks. I was going to ping you on this but I forgot your screen name.
Coming late to the thread but what a mishmash of “goals” these communists have for the march. I agree it’s to pretend that Zero isn’t their friend,chief,& pseudo-messiah. From their website:
Where and Why We Are Marching
White House (start and end of the march)
The White House is the decision-making center of the U.S. empire, where all high-level decision on war and occupation are ultimately made.
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Faced with few and inadequate services, veterans are increasingly left to cope with the devastating psychological and physical impact of war on their own. Soldier suicides now surpass combat-related deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Halliburton
Once headed by former Vice President Dick Cheney, Halliburton has become synonymous with war profiteering.
Washington Post
This “independent media” has been a staunch supporter of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and continues to operate as an apologist for U.S. aggression. [joyjoy is ROTFL laughing at this claim—they just figure WAPO won’t give them enough column space otherwise!]
National Endowment for Democracy
As NED founder Allen Weinstein put it, the NED does overtly what the CIA used to do covertly. The NED has been responsible for numerous government destabilization operations in Latin America over the past three decades.
Mortgage Bankers Association of America
While war rages abroad, it also wages against working people at home. The housing crisis, driven by speculation from mortgage bankers, made the profits-over-people orientation of Wall Street and Washington clearer than ever.
Thanks. I’ll look at this later tonight when I return home.
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