Posted on 12/20/2001 8:24:59 AM PST by VaMarVet
MARCH ON WASHINGTON AGAINST WAR & RACISM!
Mass Mobilization: SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2002
(preceded by a week of mass actions)
Tell President Bush:
WE DEMAND MONEY FOR JOBS AND EDUCATION NOT WAR!
STOP THE RACIST ATTACKS!
DEFEND CIVIL LIBERTIES AND CIVIL RIGHTS!
The U.S. corporate and banking establishment seeks to maintain U.S. domination throughout the globe for their own benefit. It is these corporate and banking elites who profit from the exploitation of oil and natural gas resources in the Middle East and South Asia, from bloated military contracts and from Bush administration bailouts and tax breaks. With skyrocketing unemployment, evictions, foreclosures, and slashing of welfare and healthcare benefits at home, people in the U.S. need billions to create jobs, improve our schools, and provide quality health care. Instead the Bush administration is spending billions on bombing civilians and military aggression.
Record layoffs continue and the U.S. government’s response is billions of dollars in bailouts to corporations and insurance companies while cuts in social programs continue. The immediate response of the Bush administration after September 11 was a $15 billion package for major airlines, while they have refused to increase unemployment insurance for 100,000 travel industry employees and 400,000 workers in other sectors who lost their jobs. The Bush-proposed $100 billion “economic stimulus package” that is under consideration would not only repeal the corporate minimum tax, but would refund to the big corporations of the U.S. fourteen years of taxes, and would provide more permanent tax cuts for the wealthiest individuals.
As the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan continues and that country lies in ruins, the Bush administration is preparing to widen its war against other countries. Many in the Bush administration would like to greatly intensify their 11-year-long war against Iraq. Eleven years of U.S.-led UN sanctions and bombing of Iraq have already left over 1.5 million Iraqis dead and many more ill and malnourished.
Other countries targeted for possible attack include Somalia, Sudan, Indonesia, Yemen, North Korea and Cuba. The U.S. is intensifying their aid to countries such as Colombia and the Philippines who are attempting to suppress people’s struggles. At this moment, the U.S. is using Plan Colombia as a wedge to intensify its intervention, threatening a Vietnam-type war in Latin America. The U.S. continues to give billions in aid and political support to the Israeli government, which is nearly universally condemned for its brutal oppression of the Palestinian people. There can be no lasting peace in the Middle East until the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and a homeland are secured.
As the war abroad threatens to expand, the war at home against Arab, Muslim, South Asian and all working people continues. So-called “anti-terrorism” legislation has legitimized and legalized racial profiling as more than 5,000 young Arab men have become the targets of FBI investigation, over 1,200 people have been detained and college administrations have been asked by the FBI to turn over names and records of Arab, Muslim and international students. Bush and Ashcroft are reorganizing federal law enforcement into a domestic surveillance police state that gives the government license to listen to the public's phone calls, read the public's e-mail, execute covert searches, and target political and religious groups.
On SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2002, tens of thousands of peace activists, workers, students, labor unionists, and others will converge in Washington, DC for a massive march on the White House to say:
MONEY FOR JOBS AND EDUCATION NOT WAR!
STOP THE RACIST ATTACKS!
DEFEND CIVIL LIBERTIES AND CIVIL RIGHTS!
*The April 27 national march on Washington against racism and war will be the conclusion of a week of mass actions. We call on people to join the National Colombia Mobilization April 19-22 (http://www.soaw.org/colombiaMobilization.html).*
International A.N.S.W.E.R. Act Now to Stop War & End Racism - is a coalition that was formed in response to the headlong rush to war and racist attacks following the horrific events of September 11. A.N.S.W.E.R. has the support participation of more than 500 organizations and prominent individuals and has scores of organizing centers across the U.S. and around the world.
To endorse email: ANSWER@afgj.org
For more information about April 27: Web: http://www.InternationalANSWER.org, Email: ANSWER@afgj.org, or call New York 212-633-6646, Washington 202-543-2777, San Francisco 415-821-6545, Chicago 773-583-7728.
Bulldog1967
Arlington, VA
That's my birthday.
How dare they desecrate a national holiday!
Freak idiot morons (and some dangerous individuals. These guys LOVE Mumia and Castro)
...I mean it doesnt make sense..it isnt even rational just a pack of silly nonsense.
I take it you've never encountered the IAC before; NOTHING these guys are in favor of is rational, but they mean every word of it, and they spend most of their time protesting, fundraising, and recruiting vigorously. I had never heard of them before the inaugural last year, but they are EXTREMELY active of late.
Thank God most people here take them seriously; when you try to tell someone that Communists are still around and involved in the so-called "peace" movement, and that they're dangerous, most people just roll their eyes. They haven't heard what I've heard. Listening to the crap at their rallies will literally make your hair stand on end and your jaw drop to the floor.
The exact address is 40 E 35th, I know because I and a few FReep friends were recently tossed from there!!
BTW, did you get my FRmail?
'Pod
In on the bus trip.
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