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Thanks to the hard work and perseverance of kristinn and other DC Chapter FReepers, Free Republic got a lot of PUBLICITY all over the nation this weekend. This was due to press releases, faxes and phone calls informing the media of our counterprotests of the bussed-in anti-american leftist scum which polluted the nations capital yesterday and today. Below is a listing so far of where FreeRepublic was IN THE NEWS:ARTICLES: ABCNews.com (Jan 19, '03)Washington Post (Jan 19, '03)Washington Times (Jan 19, '03)New York Times (Jan 19, '03)Kansas City Star (Jan 19, '03)Orange County Register (Jan 19, '03) Charlotte Observer, NC...

<p>A splinter group of more than 200 black-clad protesters broke off from Saturday's peaceful rally and went on a brief romp through the Financial District, smashing windows and news racks before melting away before the eyes of frustrated police.</p> <p>A police spokesman said officers made two arrests.</p>

No War Against Iraq George W. Bush has declared his intention to wage a so-called ‘preemptive’ war against Iraq and is now seeking to strong-arm the international community and the U.N. into support and submission. Congress rushed to rubber-stamp the war against the will of the people. A war of aggression violates the United States Constitution, the United Nations Charter, and the principles of the Nuremberg Tribunal. It violates the collective law of humanity that recognizes the immeasurable harm and unconscionable human suffering when a country engages in wars of aggression to advance its government’s perceived national interests. No Congressional...

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...

DC Patriots Rally Counterprotest begins at 9 a.m. today We have a Freeper volunteer -- Pippin -- who will take reports live from the field and post them on Free Republic for us. So look to this thread for live updates of what is going on in DC. The updates should start around 9 a.m.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s image has been used to protest a potential war on Iraq, denounce a gay rights law and sell wireless phone service. The trouble, of course, is that the civil rights leader "is not here to speak for himself," said the Rev. Richard Bennett, executive director of the African American Council of Christian Clergy in Miami. On the eve of the holiday commemorating King's birth, some scholars and civil rights leaders say that while it's not much of a stretch to assert that King would have opposed war with Iraq -- he was an advocate of nonviolence...

FREE MUMIA. FREE THE CUBAN 5. FREE JAMIL AL-AMIN (that’s H. Rap Brown, the former Black Panther convicted in March of killing a sheriff’s deputy in 2000). And free Leonard Peltier. Also, defeat Zionism. And, while we’re at it, let’s bring the capitalist system to a halt. When tens of thousands of people gathered near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial for an anti-war rally and march in Washington last Saturday, the demands hurled by the speakers extended far beyond the call for no war against Iraq. Opponents of the war can be heartened by the sight of people coming together in...

Menace on the Mall By Joseph J. Sabia FrontPageMagazine.com | October 28, 2002 The long awaited October 26 "anti-war" rally in Washington, D.C., organized by Ramsey Clark's organization "Act Now to Stop War and End Racism" featured the expected suspects — black radicals, disgruntled Arabs, white liberals, and communist college students. Al Sharpton demanded "regime change" in the White House, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney called Rush Limbaugh a draft-dodger, and Jesse Jackson demanded "moral clarity" (after announcing that he had fathered nineteen illegitimate Iraqi children in the backseat of a Mercedes). Tens of thousands of protesters waved placards with such grotesque...

100,000 Communists March On Washington To Give Aid and Comfort to Saddam HusseinBy David HorowitzFrontPageMagazine.com | October 28, 2002 In politics it is important to call things by their right names. Otherwise you are fooling yourself with other people's propaganda. The press is reporting Saturday's "Stop the War" demonstration in Washington as though it was a peace march. Of course it was no such thing. It was a regrouping of the Communist left, the same left that supported Stalin and Mao and Ho. Indeed, this Communist left, organized by Ramsey Clark and his cohorts even supports Slobodan Milosevic, and of...

AMERICAN BY BIRTHMUSLIM BY CHOICE Two female converts explain why they feel liberated by Islam By Katherine Millett. Katherine Millett is an Elmhurst lawyer and free-lance writer who wrote about identity theft in the Aug. 19 MagazinePublished December 2, 2001 In the aftermath of Sept. 11, struggling to understand mysteries of Muslim culture that had suddenly become frightening and dark, I picked up the phone and called Seema Imam, an American woman who had converted to Islam. She had made a strong impression on me two years earlier, when I listened to her tell a civil rights conference about the...

<p>WASHINGTON — Perhaps bolstered by a shift in focus to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, critics of U.S. military policy who had mostly confined their protests to college campuses are suddenly feeling more comfortable in the street.</p> <p>Joining a hodgepodge of interest groups — including those representing anti-globalization and Palestinian solidarity — a coalition of anti-war groups plan to converge on Washington in a show of activist angst this weekend.</p>

From: www.sfindymedia.org/calendarTITLE: March Against War & Racism (Washington DC / San Francisco) START DATE: 4/20/2002 START TIME: 11:00 AM DURATION: 2 hours LOCATION: San Francisco / Mission District LOCATION DETAILS: 11:00 - Begin at 19th & Dolores 12:00 - March to Civic Center 1:00 - Rally at Civic Center TOPIC: War/Militarization TYPE: Protest CONTACT NAME: CONTACT EMAIL: dc@internationalanswer.org CONTACT PHONE: 415-821-6545 DESCRIPTION: On SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 2002, tens of thousands of peace activists, workers, students, labor unionists, and others will converge in Washington, DC for a massive march on the White House to say: MONEY FOR JOBS AND EDUCATION NOT...

International A.N.S.W.E.R. Act Now to Stop War & End Racism http://www.internationalanswer.org PRESS RELEASE - April 5, 2002 Contacts: Tony Murphy, Sara Flounders, Larry Holmes (212) 633-6646 10,000 MARCH IN NEW YORK TO OPPOSE BUSH/SHARON WAR ON THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE ACTIONS IN NYC BUILD FOR APRIL 20TH MARCH ON WHITE HOUSE Protestors Say U.S. Can't be "Neutral Broker" in Conflict PHOTOS OF NYC DEMO: http://www.nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=22093&group=webcast (From New York City Independent Media Center) (April 5, NYC) Today 10,000 people demonstrated in New York City to demand an end to Israel's U.S.-financed war against the Palestinians. Organizers with the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, which called...

APRIL 20 IN WASHINGTON DC GATHER AT THE WHITE HOUSE @ 11 AM !!!! - come to the Ellipse, on the south side of the White House - SPEAKERS TO INCLUDE: - Mumia Abu-Jamal (taped message) - Fadia Rafeedi, representative of Palestinian youth - Elias Rashmawi, Free Palestine Alliance - Tariq Ali Pakistani playwright & author - Rev. Graylan Hagler, Senior Minister, Plymouth Congregational Church - Dr. Helen Caldicott, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee - Ed Brown, Iman Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin?s (formerly H.Rap Brown) brother - Martin Espada, performance artist - Representative from Bayon USA (Filipino organization) - Macrina Cardenas, Mexico...

STOP THE WAR AGAINST THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE Protest the Bush/Sharon Invasion of the Occupied Territories Demonstrate: Friday April 5, 5 P.M. Times Sq 42nd Street & Broadway Called by Int'l A.N.S.W.E.R.

3/31 UPDATE ON APRIL 20 SCENARIO FROM A.N.S.W.E.R. COALITION Last Saturday, March 23, an agreement was reached between the principal coalitions calling anti-war demonstrations on April 20 to hold a unity rally that would be co-chaired and organized following the convergence of the respective marches on April 20. The International A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism) considered the decision to have a joint unity rally at the conclusion of a unified march to be a major step forward for the progressive movement. We were disappointed to learn that the A20 Stop the War Coalition [also known...

National Mobilization Against the Butcher Sharon April 22, 2002 - Washington, DC The Free Palestine Alliance, USA calls on all people to join in a national mobilization in Washington, DC, on April 22, against the Butcher of Qibya, Sabra and Shatila, and the commanding general of the ongoing mass-murder of Palestinian children, Ariel Sharon. Sharon, the embodiment of brutal Zionist aggression, together with George Bush, are scheduled to address the strongest of the Zionist organizations in the US, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), in an attempt to further the policy of systematic repression and subjugation that has collectively...