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NEW YORK - Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan said Tuesday she was hurt slightly in a scuffle that erupted when police broke up a rally as she was at the microphone. An organizer was arrested and charged with using a loudspeaker without a permit. “I was speaking and someone grabbed my backpack and pulled me back pretty roughly,” Sheehan said, describing the scene at Manhattan’s Union Square on Monday. “I was shoved around.”

[NOTE: I know there is a ban on posting solicitations in the forum. But this is so funny, I hope the Mods will make an exception. (Pretty please?)] We are now five days away from September 24. Our sense, from being in touch with more than 200 organizing centers around the country, is that Saturday's demonstrations will be a massive outpouring of opposition to war, occupation and racism, perhaps the biggest protests since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Since May, the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition has been actively promoting the a united antiwar demonstration on September 24 - now all...

D.C. police have canceled days off and are planning to deploy several hundred officers during an antiwar demonstration next weekend that will include a march near the White House, but officials said they expect no trouble.Saturday's rally, part of a weekend of protests and counter-protests, will be the first demonstration allowed to surround the White House in more than a decade. It is the first major rally to occur since a D.C. law that requires police to give clear warnings before arresting demonstrators took effect. Passed in response to the much-criticized mass arrests of protesters at a downtown park in...

Memorandum of Understanding between United for Peace and Justice and the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition UFPJ-ANSWER Agreement for S24 By reposted from ufpj@lists.mayfirst.org Many of the member groups of United for Peace and Justice have asked about the content of the agreement we reached with the ANSWER Coalition about the joint rally and march on Sept. 24th. Because there is a lot of interest in this issue we are sending you, the groups that are part of UFPJ, a copy of the Memorandum of Understanding between the two coalitions. Please feel free to contact us if you have any additional questions of...

An e-mail from headquarters: HELP! Desperate Housing Shortage for Sept. anti-war/global justice mobe Desperate Housing Shortage for September anti-war/global justice mobilization (forward everywhere) Housing Update All the churches have been called (and are being re-called), numerous housing pitches have gone out to DC residents, activists, students, and others. At this point, we have a huge housing crisis for the anti-war/global justice mobilization. If you can please open up your homes, your couches, your floors, your backyards (I know, pretty scarce in these parts), we need you to post to the housing board at http://www.septemberaction.org/cs/housing . Here is the current situation....

Street theater, panels and workshops are on the agenda of groups participating in a Sept. 24 antiwar rally on the Mall. Several of the groups released details of their plans at a news conference yesterday. Officials with the Mobilization for Global Justice said they will demonstrate against the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, which have their annual meetings in the city that weekend. The group will organize a teach-in on Sept. 22, a theatrical farce at 18th and H streets NW on Sept. 23 and a march from Dupont Circle to the White House on Sept. 24. The...

University of Wisconsin students will drive to Louisiana next Wednesday to deliver food, clothing, medical supplies, hygiene products and money to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. We are activists in the Campus Antiwar Network — a national network of antiwar coalitions such as Stop The War! on this campus — and we’re delivering the relief on our way to Washington, D.C., to protest the Iraq War on Sept. 24. We will launch our collection efforts at the Wisconsin Union Theater in the Memorial Union this Sunday evening, where British MP George Galloway will speak as part of his North American...

[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...