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June 5, 2004 Gather 12 noon - White House Mass Mobilizations in San Francisco & Los Angeles Bring the Troops Home NowAll foreign troops OUT of Iraq End the Colonial Occupation of PalestineSupport the Right of Return U.S. OUT ofHaiti, Korea, Afghanistan,Philippines, Colombia, Cuba, Venezuela Money for Jobs, Education, Housing & Healthcare - Not for War! Defend Civil Liberties & Civil Rights Call initiated by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition CALL TO ACTION The U.S. war and occupation of Iraq is a disaster for the people there and here, a disaster that the Bush administration wants to escalate. In the first three...

NEW YORK - A growing list of potential protesters — including abortion-rights supporters, anti-war activists and even off-duty police officers — wants permission to hold demonstrations during the Republican National Convention, police officials said Friday. About 17 organizations have contacted the NYPD so far about permits that would allow them to legally march and rally outside the convention at Madison Square Garden and at other sites around Manhattan. More are expected to apply before a June 15 deadline. Authorities say the applications could overlap and conflict in demands for times and space. One request by an anti-war group has been...

U.S. OUT OF IRAQ Bring the Troops Home Now Money for jobs, education and healthcare - Not for wars of aggression Nationally-coordinated demonstrations, rallies, teach-ins, and forums on the anniversary of George W. Bush's declaration of the end of major combat operations in Iraq. May 1 was the date that George Bush dressed up like a soldier, flew onto the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, and posed for that disgusting photo op where he could claim credit for the conquering of Iraq. Far from having ended major military combat, the war in Iraq only intensified. More U.S. soldiers have been...

Borrowing a page from North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap, Osama bin Laden is making the US and European "peace" movement an instrument of his strategy. The al Qaeda leader's most recent tape, aired on Al Jazeera April 15, "appeared to mark a new strategy of trying to manipulate antiwar sentiment in Europe to bring pressure on governments that support the United States," according to the Washington Post. Spanish voters' election of an anti-American socialist in the days following the March train bombings in Madrid encouraged al Qaeda. In his tape, the Post reports, "Bin Laden refers to demonstrations in...

GLOBAL JIHAD Berkeley lecturer urges 'uprising' against U.S. Muslim scholar declares at rally 'you haven't seen radicalism yet!' © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com A University of California at Berkeley lecturer speaking at an anti-war rally Saturday called for a Palestinian-style intifada, or uprising, against the United States in response to American actions in the Middle East. Hatem Bazian, a native Palestinian with a Ph.D. in Islamic studies, stirred up the San Francisco crowd, asking three times, to resounding affirmations, "Are you angry?" U.C. Berkeley lecturer Hatem Bazian The comments at the outdoor rally held at United Nation's Plaza were caught on a...

Eighty-five years ago, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes authored the Supreme Court's opinion condemning a man named Debs for causing and inciting "insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny and refusal of duty in the military and naval forces of the United States and with intent so to do delivered, to an assembly of people, a public speech ..."[1] Under the Espionage Act of 1917[2], it mattered most that Mr. Debs prosecuted his anti-war message while his countrymen were fighting World War I in Europe. Mr. Debs gave his speech on June 16, 1918, three months after the U.S. joined Allied Forces heavily engaged in...

http://www.indcjournal.com/archives/000248.htmlGreat photos and commentary

"When I showed up, a few moonbats were slowly circling around the stage, gathering their righteous energy for the impending rage against the machine. The crowd included button-hawkers, LaRouche supporters, some misguided college gals and a couple of hippy booksellers. When I took the picture of the books, I was questioned by the lady behind the table as to whether I was a journalist. I told her "no, more of a freelance hobbyist," at which point I got a barrage of questions from her and her friend, who seemed acutely sensitive to the possibility that someone may be taking photos...

(snip)Between 2,000 and 3,000 people came to United Nations Plaza and marched down Market Street. Police reported no problems or arrests. International A.N.S.W.E.R. organized the "emergency" action last week after a new wave of fighting began in the Iraqi city of Fallujah. (snip) "The only way the United States is going to leave Iraq, which is very unfortunate, is if the Iraqi resistance militarily wins," said Joshua Deutsch, 22, a public health student at UC Berkeley with a "Long Live Fallujah" sign. Deutsch said he hoped as few U.S. troops are killed as possible, but "There is a right side...

WASHINGTON -- Thousands of people are expected to rally this weekend to call for the U.S. to pull out of Iraq. Protestors plan to gather at Lafayette Park Saturday. The protestors are then expected to march through several commercial and residential areas in the district, News4 reported. The group A.N.S.W.E.R, or Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, has organized dozens of protests, which began Friday in Los Angeles. Demonstrations are planned through Monday in more than 50 cities around the country, News4 reported. Members urged the administration to use the money spent fighting the war on education and...

Media coverage of so-called "anti-war" demonstrations has gotten so bad that many reporters don't even mention the names of the communist fronts that organize them. Such was the case with the New York Times coverage of a rally in New York City on March 20 that drew several thousand people. The official sponsors, International ANSWER and United for Peace and Justice, weren't even mentioned. The communists behind these groups were even more anonymous

*EMERGENCY IRAQ PROTESTS* NATIONALLY-COORDINATED DAYS OF ACTION Friday, April 9 - Monday, April 12 To demand: - U.S. OUT OF IRAQ - Bring the Troops Home Now - Money for jobs, education and healthcare - Not for wars of aggression *Call initiated by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition* See below for details of protests in New York City, Washington DC, San Francisco and Los Angeles, downloadable flyers, and a link to a form to list your city's action on the website and in future emails. * * * * * IRAQ AT THE BOILING POINT The Iraqi revolt against occupation is spreading...

From: Vets4Bush.com Mailing List To: Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 7:56 AM Subject: Kerry Watch Reporting Bush Veteran Supporters, (forwarded message from Bush Campaign) John Kerry and his shadow campaign of Democrat third-party organizations are making daily attacks against the President's positive vision for America. We need your help to respond. Whenever you hear, see, or witness attacks or organizational efforts in your community against the President, please let us know by emailing this exclusive account: KerryWatch@GeorgeWBush.com The kinds of attacks and organizational efforts we would like to know about include: Events and rallies Door-to-door lit drops that attack the...

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Rebecca: Hi everybody! I want to talk today about how we’re actually going to stop the Occupation. (jeers) I don’t have a plan, but I think there’s some key strategies that we need to adopt, that are gonna make this more successful. And the first thing is that we need to support the Resistance of Iraqis in Iraq. (applause) Right. These are people who are risking their lives to get the United States out of their country. And we have to see them as our allies. We have to see them as our main...

There has been much good work done by FReepers this past weekend. Although I was unable to directly participate, I thought that compiling a summary of all the threads on the counter-protests would be a worthwhile endeavor, and might redeem me for my lack of participation. And Bravo! to all you FReepers who participated and otherwise helped.

International ANSWER has been outstanding at masking its true, totalitarian goals. The Workers World Party front group, which has ties to North Korea, saw itself in the vanguard of last year's "peace" marches. And ANSWER sought to regain that position last Saturday, March 20, with a worldwide series of marches designed to protest the liberation of Iraq one year ago. A bulk email sent by International ANSWER a couple of days before the front group’s March 20th “mass mobilization” [in conjunction with other groups, notably the Communist-led “United for Peace and Justice”] to “stop occupation and war in Haiti, Palestine,...

March 20, 2004 Rally for "Peace" sponsored by the UPJ and ANSWER We FReeped it! Several NE area Freepers make the trek down to NYC. Myself, bostonianrightist, jacket, djjava, and tohellwithpoverty all met in Madison Park to mingle with the crowds. We were joined by three native New Yorkers including a soldier home on leave from Iraq. We were a total of eight in all. Walking around in a parade of 30,000 people (NYPD estimate). With our signs we were easy targets for verbal attacks. The worst of which was directed at BR who was holding an American flag. The...

To whom it may concern, How do you call your organization tolerant when you are so anti-Semitic? Your signs and website messages calling for a "Free Palestine" are abhorrent! You want to end racism, but you are discriminating against Jews? Here is a question for you to ponder: why is it that the "Palestinians" (I use quotes because there is no longer any such thing as Palestine) left Israel (notice I use Israel, because that is the proper name of the country) a wasteland. Then World War II ravaged the Jewish population, and the English gave ISRAEL to the Jews...

What these two "Patriotic" Americans' sign says:Support the Only Position with Successful Historical Precedent Call for the Mutiny of U.S. FORCES in Iraq as in Vietnam! U.S. Regime withdrew from Vietnam in 1975 only after Mutiny in Ranks: Mass Shootings of Officers by Enlisted Men and Refusal of Recruits to Even Get on Troop Ships! Mutiny at an earlier date would have saved the lives of 2 Million Vietnamese and over 58 Thousand Americans!

Click photo for large versionSouthern California Members of Free Republic Rally at Hollywood and Highland in Hollywood, California in Support of President George Bush and The Members of Our MilitarySaturday - March 20th, 2004 RonDog and company planned this event and did an excellent job.  Early on Ron discussed issues on site with the police in advance of the full rally. There was a very large police presence on scene.  They were friendly and helped out several times. All photos below have blowup links proved just below.  Reasonable and obscene fairly accurately describes what you'll get with a click of...