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WASHINGTON - The National Park Service has agreed to give thousands of anti-war demonstrators a prime spot along President Bush (news - web sites)'s inaugural parade route that will allow them to protest during the procession. The anti-war group A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition is planning to erect its own bleachers in the space, an open plaza on Pennsylvania Ave., just a few blocks from the Capitol building, said Brian Becker, national coordinator for the group. The bleachers could seat up to 1,000 people and the park service estimates up to 10,000 could fill the space standing shoulder to shoulder. "I don't think...

International ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), a front group for the communist Workers World Party, has released a video that agitates for 'civil war' at President Bush's inaugural parade on January 20 in Washington, D.C.According to reports, the group has received demonstration permits from the U.S. Park Service for at least two positions along the parade route on Pennsylvania Avenue: the Navy Memorial and Freedom Plaza.The release of the video follows on the announcement that Ramsey Clark, a founder of ANSWER and its parent group, the International Action Center (IAC), will be one of Saddam Hussein's...

The D.C. Chapter of Free Republic held a press conference this afternoon at the National Press Club to talk about the issues surrounding President Bush's Inaugural Parade in Washington, D.C. on January 20, 2005 and the controversy over demonstration permits for it.C-SPAN and Fox News were there, as was a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.The Associated Press, which covered the morning press conference by yet another anti-Bush group planning to protest his inauguration, was a no-show at our press conference. So far, the AP has run two stories today about the anti-Bush group. Here and here. This follows the...

News Conference Inaugural Parade Protests Act Now to Stop War & End Racism (A.N.S.W.E.R.) National Press Club Washington, District of Columbia (United States) ID: 184872 - 12/17/2004 - 1:08 - $45.00 Rev. Hagler, Graylan, Minister, Plymouth Congregational Church Bray, Mahdi, Executive Director, Muslim American Society, Freedom Foundation Verheyden-Hilliard, Mara, Co-Founder, Partnership for Civil Justice Kaufman, Chuck, National Coordinator, Act Now to Stop War & End Racism (A.N.S.W.E.R.), Nicaragua Network Mills, Caneisha, Coordinator, Act Now to Stop War & End Racism (A.N.S.W.E.R.), Youth and Student Involvement Becker, Brian, National Coordinator, Act Now to Stop War & End Racism (A.N.S.W.E.R.) Lindsey, Peta,...

Before the W2 ball on Jan 20th, go out and help Protestwarrior protest ANSWER in operation Hail to the Chief, and show these people that they are not in the majority.

WASHINGTON - The park service has given the Presidential Inaugural Committee clearance to erect bleachers along parts of Pennsylvania Avenue where an anti-war group had requested permits to stage a large-scale protest during President Bush (news - web sites)'s parade. The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition had applied for permits to assemble, and in some cases build bleachers, along parts of the historic street that stretches from the Capitol to the White House. The National Park Service has not acted on the coalition's permits. However, angry coalition officials argued Friday that permitting the inaugural committee to build bleachers in several open spaces, such...

The Manhattan attorney Lynne Stewart has been wedded to activist causes since the 1960’s, defending a long train of leftists who have had run-ins with the law. A grandmotherly woman with a wide, jowly pink face and graying hair in a bowl cut, she has represented antiwar demonstrators, aging yippies, and Black Panthers. In one well known display of her skills, she convinced a jury in the late 1980’s that Larry Davis, a drug dealer who had wounded six policemen in a shootout, was himself the victim of corruption and racism, and won his acquittal. When Stewart arrived at a...

The Manhattan attorney Lynne Stewart has been wedded to activist causes since the 1960’s, defending a long train of leftists who have had run-ins with the law. A grandmotherly woman with a wide, jowly pink face and graying hair in a bowl cut, she has represented antiwar demonstrators, aging yippies, and Black Panthers. In one well known display of her skills, she convinced a jury in the late 1980’s that Larry Davis, a drug dealer who had wounded six policemen in a shootout, was himself the victim of corruption and racism, and won his acquittal. When Stewart arrived at a...

WASHINGTON — Anti-war protesters planning to come to town for President Bush's inauguration in January say they remain undeterred despite reports that Washington, D.C., is going to be a virtual fortress, with unprecedented levels of security, including military forces and every relevant local, state and federal agency on alert. While the Department of Homeland Security recently designated the Jan. 20 inauguration a National Special Security Event (search), thus putting into place multi-agency security for the presidential swearing-in ceremony, parade and inaugural balls, protest organizers like Brian Becker of ANSWER (search) (Act Now To Stop War And Racism) say the move...

The fringe leftist group, International ANSWER has intentionally demonized our troops fighting in Iraq. I was informed today that ANSWER's website displays an altered image of our troops in Iraq. John Brose, whom I met earlier this year in New York counter-protesting ANSWER) served in Iraq with the soldiers who have been maliciously misrepresented. He wrote me, I looked up [ANSWER's] website to see what they had to say about Bush's re-election and us fighting terrorists in Fallujah. What I saw is a picture of two guys from my company, pulling security down a road during a raid we did...

For over a year now, an ongoing battle between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel groups has taken place in the streets of San Francisco. Long used to running the show, the anti-Israel crowd is now routinely counter-protested by groups like San Francisco Voice for Israel and Protest Warrior. And judging by the behavior at last weekend’s counter-protest, they’re not too happy about it. The following after-report from San Francisco Voice for Israel provides the details. They say that when a caged rat is cornered, it lashes out. A perfect example of this was the Justice In Palestine rally on Saturday, November 13,...

On November 12, a talk show host of a powerful radio station in Sacramento, California wrote the following as his grand finale punch line about the passing of Palestine Authority President Yasser Arafat: "The appropriate headstone over the stiff would be a working urinal." In the same Sacramento Union article, Williams wrote: “Get this straight: Yasser Arafat was a blood-soaked, sub-human, vile, reprehensible, murderous animal". And added: "If there is a crueler pile of camel manure than Palestine, then it has got to be the total fiction of a Palestinian 'people' ... " There is much more.

January 20, 2005 Counter-Inaugural Demonstration in Washington DC initiated by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition On January 20, 2005, thousands will be lining the inaugural route in mass protest. There will be simultaneous protests in San Francisco, Los Angeles and other cities on January 20. Pledge now to support the January 20 demonstration against the war. Click here to endorse and say Bring the Troops Home Now! If you are planning to organize buses, vans or car caravans to be in Washington DC, San Francisco or Los Angeles on January 20, fill out the Transportation Form to help spread the word. OTHER...

Under banners reading ``Bring the Troops Home Now'' and ``No Blood for Oil,'' a group of 30 anti-war activists protested outside the Park Street T Station yesterday afternoon. ``We're not here because (President) Bush was re-elected,'' said Nancy Genger, an advocate for Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, ``but to fight back.'' The group called for troops to be pulled out of Iraq, and for the military spending in Iraq to go toward national concerns, such as education and health care. The rally was primarily peaceful, with A.N.S.W.E.R. members distributing fliers and answering questions. A group of young...

I guess the answer from the American people to Osama's latest video is: 4 more years of President Bush!

I would like to invite you to join myself and my friends at www.ProstestWarrior.com I am planning a rally to counter the International Answer, Not in Our Name, and other anti-war, anti-America, anti-Israel, pro-terrorist organizations. These usual idiots are having a protest on Nov 3 after the presidential election. The protest warriors are going to meet up around 4:30 pm. The exact time and location will be announced at a later time. I just wanted to give you time to get off work a little early. More info on the anti-war march here: http://www.notinourname.net/~bayarea/ Known groups endorsing: Not in Our...

Next Sunday, 10.17.04, liberty will rise, as PW debuts our new film chronicling our battle against the Left at the RNC. Plans are in the works to have a live premiere using a technology that will allow for quality instant streaming, followed by a video chat with Kfir and me. We're going to encourage local chapters to hold screening parties, so be sure you're registered at HQ if interested. And afterwards of course the film will be available for free download. We're going to let the film speak for itself, but we'll tell you two things about it. First, it's...

"My family is more important to me than my party," declared  Senator Zell Miller, a Georgia Democrat, as he spoke from the podium of the Republican National Convention on September 1. "There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush." [1] Many Democrats howled in outrage at Miller's "betrayal" - former President Jimmy Carter in particular. In an angry personal letter to the Georgia senator, Carter accused Miller of "unprecedented disloyalty" and declared, "You have betrayed our trust. [I]t's quite possible that your rabid speech damaged our party..." [2] But...

After making a splash in the pro-Palestinian stronghold of Berkeley the weekend before, members of San Francisco Voice for Israel (SFV4I) and ProtestWarrior.com returned to their usual San Francisco stomping grounds for the latest round of pro-Israel activism. On Saturday, October 2, around 40 of them gathered across the street from the Horace Mann Middle School in the Mission District to protest a conference being held on the premises. Hosted by the Justice in Palestine Coalition, the conference was titled, "The Struggle for Palestine: 4th Anniversary of the Intifada." Sponsors included International A.N.S.W.E.R., the ADC (American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee), the ISM...

"These people cannot beat us militarily," said George W. Bush, campaigning in Pennsylvania. Neither could the North Vietnamese. What they, and the Iraqis -- Bush was referring to them, I assume, and not the Democrats -- could do is grind us down in a bloody war of attrition that our leaders lack the will to win. This is only the start, maybe. This election isn't about the 1,000 troops who have died in Iraq - nothing can be done abou them now, save going back in time. This election is about not losing 10,000 more soldiers by the time the...