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The NEXT Day When Everything Finally Changed came on September 24 and was instantly forgotten amidst the plethora of Hurricane Rita news coverage. I watched NBC national news on Saturday evening and there wasn't even ONE mention of Pied Piper Pitt's much heralded event on the Washington Mall. It didn't even make the front page of the local Miami Herald. In fact it didn't even get on the second page of that paper. It ended up with a relatively minor blurb on page 3 of that periodical. Most amazingly, there was even little comment from the DUmmies themselves about...

The phony peaceniks who protested in Washington Saturday's demonstration in Washington, in favor of immediate withdrawal of coalition forces from Iraq, was the product of an opportunistic alliance between two other very disparate "coalitions." Here is how the New York Times (after a front-page and an inside headline, one of them reading "Speaking Up Against War" and one of them reading "Antiwar Rallies Staged in Washington and Other Cities") described the two constituenciess of the event: The protests were largely sponsored by two groups, the Answer Coalition, which embodies a wide range of progressive political objectives, and United for Peace...

Well I was going to put this into some other thread but things have been moving so fast that it is going to be lost and I have been encouraged to give it one of its own. So since this is the first time I've posted like this, I hope I do it all right. I was feeling really frustrated by all the conflicting accounts of how many people were at the anti-war/anti-everything related or not related to Bush protest, that I decided to try to get a closer number based on the picture that came from Reuters of the...

Having just embarrassed herself among her fellow crackpots by complaining about losing media attention to hurricane Rita, Mother Sheehan burned the midnight oil to scribe yet another rant for the Howard Dean paid shill site, the Daily Kos.The self-appointed saint didn't mean what she said before about being ignored. Suddenly, Cindy is now "content." After all, she now has the moral authority of the Reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson as her sword and buckler.However, Cindy does admit she is a clown, which would seem to be some progress: We Don't Exist Sat Sep 24th, 2005 at 21:04:25 PDT We...

"Iraqi resistance earns world's respect" [DATED SEPT. 22]... http://www.workers.org/2005/world/resistance-0929/ SEPT. 24TH Images from "anti-war" should read "anti-American" demonstrations... http://www.aim.org/images/protest_sept_24_1.jpg http://www.aim.org/images/protest_sept_24_2.jpg I WATCHED C-SPAN'S COVERAGE OF YESTERDAY'S PROTEST AND LISTENED TO MOST OF THE SPEAKERS. RAMSEY CLARK, JESSICA LANGE AND CINDY SHEEHAN WERE ABOUT THE ONLY ANGLICAN-AMERICANS, THE REST WERE MUSLIM-AMERICANS, AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND OTHERS. THEIR COMMON THEME WAS ANTI-AMERICAN, CALLING ALL OF US RACIST, IMPERIALISTS AND UNCARING CAPITALISTS. THEY EMPHASIZED THEIR "SUPPORT THE TROOPS," BUT NOT "THE WAR ON TERROR." THEIR MOST VOCAL DISPLAY OF HATRED, PUNCTUATED WITH PROFANITY, WAS TOWARD OUR PRESIDENT AND HIS SUPPORTERS, CALLING ALL OF US, INCLUDING...

Promoting worldwide defeat By William Hawkins Published September 22, 2005 Before Hurricane Katrina took center stage, President George W. Bush was making speeches in support of the war in Iraq. While commemorating the U.S. victory in World War II at San Diego Aug. 30, he warned of the al Qaeda strategy in Iraq, "They want us to retreat so they can topple governments in the Middle East and turn that region into a safe haven for terrorism." He posed the question "Do we return to the pre-September 11 [2001] mind-set of isolation and retreat, or do we continue to take...

Media have pushed the idea that the demonstration this weekend at the White House was an "anti-war" gathering. What they didn't say was who was behind it. ..... In fact, ANSWER is a front group for the Stalinist Workers World Party. And any group that qualifies for that epithet in front of its name deserves special scrutiny, since Josef Stalin was responsible for the murder of as many as 25 million human beings. Well, you might ask, does it really matter? It sure does. Imagine for a moment it was a different group that sponsored the demonstration — say, a...

The media have pushed the idea that the demonstration this weekend at the White House was an "anti-war" gathering. What they didn't say was who was behind it. No doubt, many fine, sincere people demonstrated this weekend against the U.S. liberation of Iraq. Being Americans, they're certainly entitled to do so. Maybe they even endorsed the view of those who organized the demonstrations. On Thursday, the organizers ran a two-page ad. On one, they called the Bush administration liars. On the other, they ran the names of all those who have died in Iraq. But we'd be surprised if those...

This is an article by the avowed socialist editor for The Nation, David Corn. In it Corn points out the background of the organizers of today's ANSWER rally on the Mall in Washington, DC. Those speaking at the demonstration today are much the same speakers who are always appear at these ANSWER rallies. Apart from newly arrived star, Cindy Sheehan and her pals, felony ex-con racist Moslem, Malik Rahim, the rapidly anti-Semitic Hadi Jawad, and the convicted terrorist abettor Lynne Stewart -- this is the same roster as has appeared at every other prior ANSWER rally. Such as at Bush's...

Special SUPPORT THE TROOPS EMAIL to email to NON-FREepers to get the truth out on the Net! Copy/Paste/Forward This On by email to everyone you possibly can -- Is Iraq a Vietnam? NO! Murderous Marxist Che Guevara said "Two, Three Many Vietnams" and that's what the anti-American war protesters are up to. * Code Pink has contributed at least $600,000 to the treacherous rebels who are blowing up innocent Iraqi children and adults as well as Iraqi and U.S. soldiers. This group is absolutely an enemy of the United States of America and it is supported by God-hating Communists who...

On this weekend that so many lies are being told about America, let's share this with everyone, get the truth out on the Net! Copy/Paste/Forward This On by email to everyone you possibly can -- GREAT QUOTES: If we wish to be free--if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending--if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained--we must fight! I repeat it,...

WASHINGTON -- Accuracy in Media (AIM) editor Cliff Kincaid said today that one of the leaders of the group organizing Saturday's "anti-war" rally in Washington has posted an article urging "solidarity" with the "Iraqi fighters" and "resistance" killing American troops and innocent civilians in Iraq. This shows, Kincaid said, that the "anti-war" protest has been unmasked by one of its own leaders as a pro-war organization that seeks to kill those struggling for freedom and democracy in Iraq and around the...

The groups gathering in Washington this weekend to protest President Bush and the war in Iraq have ties to radical left-wing groups and communist organizations and have enjoyed the support of the left's biggest financial supporter, George Soros. United for Peace and Justice (UPJ) and International Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) are the two main organizers of the weekend of events -- the first major public protest allowed to surround the White House in more than 10 years -- and expect 100,000 people from dozens of smaller left-wing and liberal organizations. A highlight of Saturday, the...

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...