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[NOTE: This is an email I received from ANSWER. I have edited the email, mostly to remove their gratuitous begging for money.] Over 200 cities are organizing buses, vans, car caravans and peace trains to bring people from across the country to the September 24 National Demonstration in Washington, DC initiated by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition. Tickets for buses from New York City can still be purchased now online - the final deadline for online tickets is this Friday! Huge numbers will come from every major city on the East Coast, Midwest and South - New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston,...

Tracking Down A Fifth Column FrontBy Edward ImmlerFrontPageMagazine.com | September 18, 2002 Vietnam-era anti-war protestors continue their demonstrating today, most recently in San Francisco against a potential Iraq war, but the sponsorship, partnerships, and funding of these groups raise questions about their real purpose. They are very organized, have a significant Internet presence, and actively raise large amounts of money. This all started when I saw the name of a protest group listed in an AP wire story. I wondered a bit about this and tried to find out about this group via the Internet. I found that I could...

Boston: Tuesday, September 13, Faneuil Hall, 6:30pm Tickets available at Ticketmaster for $10 http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/event/EventListings?orgId=10553 Ticketmaster by Phone - 1-866-468-7619 ask for the George Galloway, MP Tour Boston event co-sponsored by Traprock Peace Center Seating is limited to first 900! Contact:   amehta@chickering.com for info  New York: George Galloway and Christopher Hitchens Debate: The Iraq War Moderated by Amy Goodman, Host of Democracy Now! Wednesday, September 14 @ 7pm Mason Hall, Baruch Performing Arts Center 17 Lexington Avenue at 23rd Street 6, N, R, F to 23rd Street Tickets: $12 Available through Ticket Central Ticket may be purchased at Ticket Central’s...

The Tucson Fire Department and Golder Ranch Fire District will be deploying firefighters to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina, officials said. Four Golder Ranch firefighters were the first to be sent out this morning at 6, said Battalion Chief John Sullivan. Tucson Fire will follow with six firefighters next week, according to spokesman Capt. Paul McDonough. Both agencies are responding to a request from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is asking city fire departments to send a total of 1,000 two-person teams. Golder Ranch will be providing medical attention as well as canvassing areas to assist people who have...

Scramble, scramble, scramble! Freepers man your planes! Fifth columnist forces are inbound to your sectors! Tomorrow, three separate bus tours will leave Crawford and carry Cindy Sheehans worshippers all over our fair land to denigrate our troops in many new venues. Only you can stand up against the sort of people who call Al-Qaeda in Iraq "freedom fighters." The schedule appears in post 1. I will post new information as I find it. I would also like to take this opportunity to announce the launch of Operation Hero. This Operation is an effort by FREEPNORAD to ensure that all attempts...

WASHINGTON - Organizers are planning what they say will be the largest anti-war demonstration in the nation's capital since the Iraq war began in March 2003. The ANSWER Coalition and United for Peace and Justice detailed their plans Thursday for the Sept. 24 protest. They plan to bus in people from across the country for a march past the White House. Other major protests are planned that day in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Cindy Sheehan, whose 24-year-old son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, was killed last year in Iraq, is on a 25-state bus tour that will end at the...

Dana Milbank wrote a snarkfest on the Heritage Foundation's John J. Tierney Jr. and his new book titled "The Politics of Peace: What's Behind the Anti-War Movement?" In the article, Milbank reaches for the obligatory "McCarthy card" offered by a communist who Milbank fails to identify as a communist. Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, an official with ANSWER, said: "Sounds like he's channeling Joe McCarthy, basically. That's a pretty heavy-duty résumé of redbaiting." Click here to see the entire WP article. Click here to see that Ms.Verheyden-Hilliard of A.N.S.W.E.R. is also Ms.Verheyden-Hilliard of the National Lawyers Guild. Click here to see Senate testimony...

Dana Milbank and Alan Cooperman do a pretty good job of making John J. Tierney look like an alarmist nut based on their report of his presentation at the Heritage Foundation yesterday. His upcoming book apparently researches the funding and momentum behind the burgeoning anti-war protest industry and finds a lot of evidence that it primarily consists of unreconstructed communists. The Washington Post report of the event has Tierney painting a pretty broad brush on this score, however, and starts out by using what it believes to be a killer emotional rebuttal: Cindy Sheehan: anti-American communist? That was the accusation...

In an introductory speech in Madison for antiwar British politician and author George Galloway, actress Jane Fonda is making her first public statement against the occupation of Iraq. Fonda is scheduled to give her 20-minute introduction to Galloway, a Member of Parliament, at the Wisconsin Union Theatre Sept. 18 at 7 p.m. She is also scheduled to speak the following night in Chicago as Galloway continues his national speaking tour. Chris Dols, the local organizer for Galloway's tour, said that these two speeches are the only that Fonda will give with Galloway, who was expelled from the Labor Party after...

The Hidden Agenda Behind the "Peace" Rallies..... As evidenced by the throngs of people attending the recent anti-war rallies in cities across America and around the world, the contemporary "peace" movement is one of the truly significant social phenomena of our time. It has organized a number of massive, synchronized demonstrations -- attended by millions -- in hundreds of cities all over the globe. On 15 February alone, simultaneous protests against US military action in Iraq were held in more than 600 cities. Though virtually unreported by the mainstream press, the organizers of every major rally to date have deep,...

FOR American activist Preston Wood, many may view the Mindanao conflict involving the Moro people and the Philippine government as just an internal issue. But concerns over the growing involvement of the Bush administration in the ongoing peace talks between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the Philippine government amid the West's "war on terror" campaign, have reached levels that these have warranted the conflict's inclusion in the agenda of the huge September 24 rally scheduled for September 24 in Los Angeles... ...Wood, a member of Act Now to Stop the War and End Racism (A.N.S.W.E.R) that is organizing the...

Did you know that back in June of this year a “world tribunal” was held to put the United States and its allies in Iraq on trial for their actions in that country? It’s true. They held it in Istanbul.You know what one of their findings were? That the terrorist insurgency in Iraq was and is justified in its murder of Iraqi civilians and coalition troops.It was finding number eleven in the tribunal’s “overview of findings:” 11. There is widespread opposition to the occupation. Political, social, and civil resistance through peaceful means is subjected to repression by the occupying forces....

Cindy Sheehan just finished her morning media event. When asked by reporters, Sheehan said she believes that while she supports the continued hunt for Osama bin Laden she believes the U.S. should withdraw from Afghanistan and “stop bombing innocent people.” She also described Osama bin Laden as being “allegedly” behind the attacks of 9/11. To those who have criticized her political stance, which includes allegations that the war in Iraq was “done for Israel” that George Bush is “the world’s biggest terrorist” and that al Qaeda may not be behind attacks on America, Sheehan said, “I know my son better...

The past four years since 9-11 has seen several important and contentious elections. In the West, where the peaceful transfer of power can often be taken for granted, voters returned to power statesmen like Bush, Blair and Howard, who's War Against Terror is being waged also in support of global political liberty. Elsewhere, entire nations selected their own leaders for the first time. In Iraq, where political liberty remains under threat, many died exercising their right to vote while eight million succeeded in spite of the danger posed by terrorists and the disapproval of Western elites. But in the United...

A coalition of far-Left organizations that includes avowed “revolutionary communists,” Islamists, marriage-abolitionists, and cop-killer advocates has launched a crusade against the U.S. military – and San Francisco school children could get caught in the crossfire. An organization known as “College Not Combat” seeks to place a resolution before Bay City voters on the November ballot, declaring “that the people of San Francisco oppose U.S. military recruiters using public school, college and university facilities to recruit young people into the armed forces.” The non-binding measure would encourage the city’s high schools to deny military recruiters access to their student directories, from...

Bereaved anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan...is scheduled to come to the Roaring Fork Valley as part of a series of talks next month. Sheehan is expected to speak at the First United Methodist Church in Glenwood Springs on Friday, Sept. 16 as part of a three-day tour of the area that will also take her to Grand Junction and Paonia. Sheehan may also visit area schools to speak to students about military recruitment and the war in Iraq, said Gary Handschumacher, a Crawford, Colo.-based anti-war activist who arranged the visit. "She's probably the most famous person on the planet," he said....

Nationwide STUDENT STRIKE!!! Reply-To: codepinkaustin@yahoogroups.com START SPREADING THE WORD!!!!! UT CodePink will have a great campaign to jump in on as they get started!---Backed by Noam Chomsky and more than 100 other professors so far... [a fabulous guy in OR, Brian D. Bogart, has called] for a student strike on Sept. 26.....nicely coordinated with the D.C. action so students can have more leeway to BE in DC that weekend. The brainchild of this effort puts this in line with Cindy's efforts, but seeks to begin to transfer the focus "from Texas to the nation's 300-plus Pentagon-dependent universities." (see bottom--and I'm...

The two major antiwar coalitions that have initiated and organized for a massive antiwar March on Washington for September 24 have agreed to organize a joint rally followed by a joint march. Both coalitions will organize under their own banners, slogans and with their own literature for the September 24 demonstration. The joint rally will begin at 11:30 am at the Ellipse in the front of the White House. We urge everyone around the country to unite and come out for the largest possible antiwar demonstration on September 24. Signed by: A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalitionon behalf of theSeptember 24 National Coalition United...

BISBEE - More than 50 people Wednesday night ignored the steady rain in their candlelight vigil that was held at Grassy Park to support Cindy Sheehan. Sheehan is a mother who lost a son in Iraq, and she has been camped out near President George Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch in hopes she will get to speak to him again. Valerie Stephens, one of the organizers of the vigil, said it was held to support Sheehan. "We need to make people aware of this incredibly brave person, a grieving mother who has finally managed to focus interest on what is happening...

One of the truly entertaining (and educational) things about watching C-SPAN live coverage of Leftist events is seeing the flat out nutcases crawl out of the woodwork and take the center stage. Such is the case with the Communist A.N.S.W.E.R. They don't put on a phony "concerned progressive" face as many other leftwing groups do. They let it ALL hang out in all their lunacy. This is why the MSM usually avoids showing the A.N.S.W.E.R. speakers in favor of some motherly types. However, it is impossible to avoid the A.N.S.W.E.R. extremists when viewing these events on C-SPAN which is...