Posted on 09/26/2001 4:12:18 AM PDT by VaMarVet
Latest E-mail from the IAC:
International A.N.S.W.E.R.
www.internationalANSWER.org
202-543-2777 - 202-544-9355
UPDATE ON PERMITS FOR SEPT. 29 MASS MARCH IN WASHINGTON D.C.
- ALL PERMITS OBTAINED FOR SEPT. 29 MARCH & RALLY
*ASSEMBLY LOCATION CHANGED*
The national march on September 29 in Washington DC in opposition to war and racism will assemble for a rally at *Freedom Plaza - 14th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. NW*. The rally will be followed by a march to the Justice Department, the Navy Memorial (both located on Pennsylvania Avenue) and conclude with a rally in Upper Senate Park across from the Capitol building.
The change in the assembly site from Lafayette Park in front of the White House to Freedom Plaza at 14th and Pennsylvania prevents an eleventh-hour effort by the Bush administration to disrupt the demonstration. The Bush administration used the Secret Service to announce a ban on demonstrators using Lafayette Park for peace and anti-war protests during the next thirty days. The International A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism) obtained all of the necessary permits last Wednesday for a rally at Lafayette Park and on the sidewalk in front of the White House, which would be followed by a march down Pennsylvania Ave. and concluding at the Capitol.
The Secret Service and the National Parks Service notified I-A.N.S.W.E.R. late today, Tuesday, September 25, that they were revoking the permits in Lafayette Park and the Ellipse. The Secret Service is unconstitutionally using the pretext of security for political purposes, just as Richard Nixon tried to use the Secret Service to bar demonstrations in front of the White House during the Vietnam War.
One of our main messages to anti-war activists right now is this: Our mass anti-war mobilization on the 29th in the DC has not been stopped. Thousands of people will take Freedom Plaza on Sept. 29th, and this will allow the mass organizing for Sept. 29 to go on unimpeded and without uncertainty in these last critical days before the demonstration.
The Sept. 29 march and rally has gained great support from across the country. Thousands of people are coming from as far away as California, New Mexico, Texas, Florida, Maine and everywhere in between, including thousands from New York City.
As an endnote, the ban on demonstrations by Secret Service is for a 30-day period and the language of the banning order would allow the Secret Service unfettered discretion in renewing the ban on demonstrations for months and years to come. The I-A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition will carry out a legal challenge in the near future to the Secret-Service-imposed ban on demonstrations at Lafayette Park and the White House sidewalk.
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These ' activists' can't even be accurate to their own base. I guess lying doesn't ever count. Maybe it is the mean old Secret Service fault.
I hope to come but transportation is iffy.
Hope we can make it.
Just be careful you folks don't get caught in any pictures implying you support racism! :) Just kidding, of course.
HUH?? What the heck is that supposed to mean? I suppose it doesn't mean that these people are planning to protest Osama bin Laden's prejudice AGAINST NON-MUSLIMS, or to protest the fact that HE started a war on US, not the other way around.
That's why we have Freepers. I wish I lived a little closer to Washington D.C.
“I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
[Thomas Jefferson, letter to Benjamin Rush, 1800.]
I would also like to to see if someone can contact the J.W. Marriott hotel, which is right at Freedom Plaza, and ask them to please put up the biggest damn American flag in the country on the side of their building. Also perhaps we can rent a room or two there and hang some signs out the windows. I would be willing to chip in for this.
I hope someone will have the "No Tear Gas Necessary, We're Conservatives" sign!
Be careful with these low class leftist terrorist goons .. Their objective is to seek and destroy property .. they don't care about liberty or justice ..
Argh! These cretins really believe this crap! The utter nerve! I cannot stand these Anti-American commies! it is hard to believe they were in the same city as I was on 9/11/01! They are cold to the bone!
Best of luck with Operation Infinite FReep!
Houston Bump, Wish I could be there.
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