Attention FReepsearchers: What do we know about "United for Peace & Justice"?

http://www.igc.apc.org/ ^ | 2/14/03 | self

[TPartyType]

I realize the organizers of the "possibly 10 million anti-war protestors" are the usual suspects, er, socialists, but I wonder if FReepers keep tabs on any of the groups listed below? Thanks for your help.

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United for Peace & Justice is a new national campaign that brings together a broad range of organizations throughout the United States to help coordinate our work against a U.S. war on Iraq. At an initial meeting in Washington, DC on October 25, more than 70 peace and justice organizations agreed to form United for Peace & Justice and signed on to the following statement:

The demand placed on us by world events is to deal with the Iraq crisis and to work to stop the war that is being planned. This is unfolding in a global context where other crises can and will erupt in connection to the Iraq crisis and they too will demand our action. In addition, we will oppose new repressive measures at home. We can and will work together now, focused on stopping this war, and as we go forward we will discuss other issues and the larger context. Unite for Peace & Justice and say NO! to war.

United for Peace & Justice welcomes the participation of any and all national, regional and local groups who share our goal and wish to work with others. Decisions are made at meetings of the coordinating committee, which is open to representatives of all participating groups. A smaller administrative committee helps to make sure decisions are implemented. If you are interested in being a part of United for Peace & Justice, contact andrea@globalexchange.org.

Since October 25, United for Peace & Justice has decided to promote the following calendar of anti-war events. In addition, we will be discussing other ways we can work together to build the broadest and strongest anti-war movement.

• November 20: UFP endorsed the "Not In Our Name" call for a national day of student and youth protest
  
• December 10: UFP is calling for a national anti-war day of action
  
• Jan. 18-20: UFP endorsed the Black Voices for Peace call for peace and justice events to be held during the MLK Jr. Memorial weekend
  
• Feb. 15 or 16: UFP is calling for a mass anti-war mobilization in New York City
  
• March 8: UFP endorsed the Women's Peace Vigil's call for women's peace actions on International Women's Day
  
• April 5: UFP is calling for a national mobilization in Atlanta, GA on the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (4/4/68) to strengthen the link between justice and peace issues.

We invite you to join us and become part of this new effort.

Following is a partial listing of the groups involved in United for Peace & Justice:

Aaron Patterson Defense Committee
Academics For Justice
African-American Women?s Clergy Association
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
American Friends Service Committee
American Muslims for Jerusalem
American Renaissance
Americans for Social Justice
An Absurd Response to an Absurd War
Anti-Capitalist Convergence
Antiwar.com
The Arab-American Forum
Arab Student Union, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Arizona Green Party
Asian American Movement E-zine
Black Radical Congress
Black Voices for Peace
Brockport Students Against War (BSAW)
CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities
Campus Greens
Center for Community Change
Center for Constitutional Rights
Center for Immigrant Families (CIF)
Center for Religion, Ethics, and Social Policy at Cornell University
Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment
Central Nebraska Peace Workers
Change the Game
Church Women United
Citizens for Participation in Political Action (CPPAX)
Citizen Works
Coalition Against Global Exploitation (CAGE)
Coalition Against the War on Civil Liberties
Coalition for World Peace
Code Pink for Peace
Committee on Women, Population and the Environment (CWPE)
Committee to Free Pedro Pacheco
Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
Concerned Families of Westchester
Concerned Students and Faculty of St. Augustine Prep
The Connected Collective
Council of Churches of the City of New York
Democracy Rising
Disarm
East End Women in Black
Ecological Options Network (EON)
Education for Peace in Iraq Center (EPIC)
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Feminist Peace Network
Food Not Bombs, San Francisco and East Bay
FootPrints for Peace
Frontlines Newspaper
Georgetown Peace Action
Global Exchange
Grassroots International
The Greater New York Labor-Religion Coalition
Green Alliance
Green Party of New Jersey
Green Party of NYS
Green Party of the United States
Greenpeace
House of The Goddess Center for Pagan Wombyn
Houston Coalition for Justice Not War
Idaho Green Party
Independent Progressive Politics Network
International Socialist Organization
Institute for Policy Studies, Peace Working Group
Iraq Pledge of Resistance
A Jewish Voice for Peace
Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel
Jews for Racial & Economic Justice
KhaYUMbia
Konscious Media
Lamorinda Peace and Justice Group
Left Party
Left Turn
LOKOJ ? Bangladesh
Long Beach Area Peace Network (LBAPN)
Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives
Middle East Children?s Alliance
Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP)
Military Families Speak Out (MFSO)
Mobilize New York
Mothers Acting Up
National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
National Coalition for Peace and Justice
National Council of Churches
National Lawyers Guild, NYC Chapter
Network in Solidarity with the People of the Philippines (NISPOP)
National Network to End the War Against Iraq
NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby
New York City Labor Against the War (NYCLAW)
Nukewatch
Not In My Name
Not In Our Name
Nowar Collective
Occidental Anti-War Coalition
Palestine Right to Return Coalition
Pax Christi USA
Peace Action
Peace and Justice Committee of Capital District Greens
Peace and Justice Task Force, Rocky Mountain Conference, United Church of Christ
The PeaceMongers Society
PeaceNoWar
PeaceRoots Alliance
Peninsula Peace and Justice Center
Pennsylvania Lesbian and Gay Task Force
People Against Oppression and War
Peoples NonViolent Response Coalition (PNVRC)
People's Organization for Progress
Pride At Work, AFL-CIO
Progressive Business Network
Psychologists for Social Responsibility
Queers For Racial & Economic Justice
Raging Grannies (Peninsula, CA chapter)
Rice For Peace
Rouge Forum
Ruckus Society
St. Luke's Evangelical Fellowship
San Mateo County League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
San Miguel Peacewalkers
September 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
Shalom Center
Shepherd College Green Party
Shobak.Org (Outsider Asian Voices)
SOA Watch
Socialist Action
Socialist Party USA
Sojourners
Speak Out
Speak Truth to Power Tour: Generation Hip Hop Says No to War
Strategic Pastoral Action
Students Against Social Injustice (SASI), McKendree College
Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC)
Student Peace Action Network (SPAN)
Students Take Action for New Directions (STAND)
Students Transforming and Resisting Corporations (STARC)
Taking Aim
Texans for Peace
Thomas Merton Center
The Thomas Paine Project
Tikkun Community
TransAfrica Forum
TrueMajority
Undisputed Truth
United for Justice with Peace
US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
United Students Against Sweatsops (USAS)
University of Maryland, College Park Peace Forum (UMCP Peace Forum)
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
US Peace Council
United Students Against Sweatshops
Veterans for Peace
Vietnam Veterans Against the War
Vukani Mawethu
War Resisters League
War Times
Washington Peace Center
West Sonoma County Women?s Peace Group
Women?s Action for New Directions (WAND)
Western States Legal Foundation
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, U.S. Section
Vanguard Public Foundation
Working Assets
Z Magazine and ZNET

[TPartyType]

Thanks for any insight. This should be instructive.

[Capitalism2003]

Know your enemy, and know yourself, and you will never lose."--Sun Tzu

[iamright]

All Commies.

[TPartyType]

Right. Understood. Any experience or knowledge of specific groups?

[medic]

"House of The Goddess Center for Pagan Wombyn"

I don't have any knowledge about these groups, but I almost split my side laughing at the NAMES of some of them.

[lonewacko_dot_com]

One of globalexchange.org's directors (or the only director) is Susan Medea Benjamin. I vaguely recall some newspaper editorial or similar written by a young female college student, and it turned out she was also a member of globalexchange and had gone on one of their trips to Cuba, or something like that.

[debg]

add this to your list: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/843702/posts

[goodnesswins]

Just do some googles....there's probably oodles of stuff out there.....I randomly chose PeaceRoots Alliance....they're out of Tennessee....and look to be the typical anti-war, idiotic "give peace a chance" group.

[El Gato]

Pride At Work, AFL-CIO

Wonder what the NY construction workers who searched and then cleaned up the World Trade Center think of their union dues or effectively manadatory PAC contributions being used for this kind of stuff?

[damncat]

Aaron Patterson Defense Committee

http://www.cuadp.org/pris/people/Patterson,_Aaron.html

I'm not inpressed by this signatory, but their cause for the Paterson guy may have its merits. At a quick glance, evidence appears prejudicial against the state. Common by Chicago's standards But still, they're still capitol punishment haters. That by definition makes them left wingers. And their associates are a who's who, of ultra extremists.

Academics For Justice?

http://www.academicsforjustice.org/pMachine/articles.php

"Colin Powell's UN speech, designed obviously to outrage the American people and bludgeon the UN into going to war, seems to me to have been a new low point in moral hypocrisy and political manipulation."

nuff said

African-American Women?s Clergy Association?

Boring, lets skip this one (-:

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee?

Huh? Me no speak iranian,lets skip this one too.

American Friends Service Committee

http://www.afsc.org/

Where do all these psychopaths come from? Talk about having to much time on your hands. They are however organized, these anti everything crowd. Don't bother linking, it'll just make him think he's becoming important.

One more for kicks nad giggles.

American Muslims for Jerusalem?

More muslims? We'll take a pass.

American Renaissance?

Let me guess? Gay artists?

http://www.amren.com/rapsheet.htm

That ones freaky, not intended for anyone under the age of consent. And I mean it!

This could drive me isane, but one more because they suck so infinitely.


Americans for Social Justice?

Skipped because the next one looks more interesting. But I'm quite sure they're also lame.

An Absurd Response to an Absurd War?

At least they sound humble. Yeah right, gay actors, but funny (-:

song

IF YOU'RE GREEDY AND YOU KNOW IT, BOMB IRAQ

If you're greedy and you know it, bomb Iraq (clap clap)
If you're greedy and you know it, bomb Iraq (clap clap)
If you're greedy and you know it,
George Bush will surely show it
If you're greedy and you know it, bomb Iraq.

If your equities are falling, bomb Iraq
If your equities are falling, bomb Iraq
If your equities are falling,
and your losses are appalling
If your equities are falling, bomb Iraq.

If the euro keeps on climbing, bomb Iraq
If the euro keeps on climbing, bomb Iraq
If the euro keeps on climbing,
put your trust in W's timing,
If the euro keeps on climbing, bomb Iraq.

You get the ideal, Each one nuttier than the last. I've done my duty for freedom and justice.

Freep or Die!

[lonewacko_dot_com]

Here's what I was referring to: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/johnleo/jl20020802.shtml

"On his site, The Politburo, blogger Michael Moynihan noted that the Times' source for the toll of 812 dead was Marla Ruzicka, identified as a field worker in Afghanistan for Global Exchange, "an American organization." What the Times didn't say, Moynihan wrote, is that Global Exchange is a "far-left" group that opposes globalization and the U.S. military. Ruzicka, he said, is a fan of Fidel Castro's Cuba and the winner of an award from "the Marxist group Refuse and Resist."

[TPartyType]

Thanks! Exactly the information I was after.

[Blue Scourge]

National Council of Churches

traitors to the faith....These are the same churches who believe that abortion is a good thing.

[chnsmok]

When you find their websites with Google, use http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois to get contact info and site admin info. Interesting on the few I did. Would like to do the complete list to look for overlaps. Maybe tomorrow.

[Sparta]

All Commies except for Justin Raitmando's Antiwar.com, a "Libertarian" website.

They're all anti-American scum regardless of ideology.

[visualops]

bump

[Tamzee]

How does the Revolutionary Communist Party fit in? I found their link to NION but I can't find any firm type of proof that there is financial or organizational support. What scared the living daylights out of me was finding this tonight.
Their main site is this http://rwor.org
The URL for the following is here http://rwor.org/a/v23/1120-29/1129/editorial_1129.htm
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WANTED: A Powerful Anti-War Movement
Revolutionary Worker #1129, December 2, 2001, posted at rwor.org

McWorld or Jihad?!? There must be another way.

How can we fight against the unjust bombings and military interventions of the U.S. government and the intense repression and profiling of Arab and Muslim people?

How can people around the world deal with reactionary forces and ideologies in a way that does not end up strengthening global exploiters and oppressors?

How can people in the U.S. communicate to the people halfway across the planet that there is a difference between the U.S. power structure and the great majority of the people in the U.S.-- who have no fundamental interest in oppressing and ripping off the people of the world?

How can we help give "air to breathe" to the kind of movements that can really liberate people from the global oppressors--and create societies where poverty, unjust violence, ethnic hatred, and the oppression of women can be eliminated?

Thinking about these problems--and the need for proletarian revolution in the U.S. and around the world--RCP Chairman, Bob Avakian wrote:

"We must bring forward the vision of a movement against the war acts and repression of 'our own' U.S. government that is so powerful that it cannot be hidden from the masses of people all over the world--including in the countries and areas that are targets of U.S. imperialist aggression and are, justifiably, 'hotbeds' of hatred 'against America.'

"Imagine, what it would (and will) mean to those millions and millions of people when they see hundreds of thousands and ultimately millions of people in America itself, taking on the aggression (and repression) of their own government and standing with the people of the world against all that this government stands for and is doing and enforcing in the world. Imagine the questions that will raise in those people's minds, the "dialogue" (even if indirect) it will give rise to, among people all over the world with people in the U.S. itself.

"Imagine the inspiration it will provide and the potential realignment it will contribute to--with ordinary people worldwide finding common cause against the oppressors and bullies of the world, first and above all the rulers of America--who, it will be more and more clear, do not speak and act in the interests, or in the name of large, and growing, numbers of American people themselves...."

Imagine...
Strategize...
Unite all who can be united...
Realize the vision...
The whole world is watching.

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