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No Answer by Peter Beinart Post date: 07.11.03 Issue date: 07.21.03 For an article last week on Salon.com, Laura McClure did something mischievous: She called the leaders of International answer (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) and asked why they don't care about Congo. ANSWER, you may remember, coordinated this winter's protest against the Iraq war. But its agenda is far broader than that. As the preeminent umbrella organization of the hard left, ANSWER directs its outrage across the globe. This September, for instance, it plans "International Days of Protest against Occupation and Empire, from Palestine to Iraq...

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 INTERNATIONAL MARCH ON WASHINGTON DC CALL TO ACTION MASS MARCH ON WASHINGTON TO SAY: - Bring the troops home now - End the occupation of Iraq - Money for jobs, education & healthcare - Not war To ENDORSE the October 25 International March on Washington, fill out the easy-to-use form at http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/o25/index.html#endo The people in Iraq want the U.S. occupation to end. The U.S. soldiers in Iraq want to come home. On Saturday, October 25, tens of thousands of people in the U.S., joined by delegations from countries around the world, will go back into the streets...

Clueless at the Constitution CenterBy Michael P. TremoglieFrontPageMagazine.com | July 8, 2003 They were not so much a coalition of protesters as they were a coalition of the clueless. At least that was my impression after speaking with them. There were two events in Philadelphia on Independence Day. One was the dedication of the first and only museum devoted to the United States Constitution-the National Constitution Center (NCC). Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was the honored guest at the dedication ceremony for the NCC. Several thousand observed those ceremonies, which included speeches by O’Connor, Senator Rick Santorum, and Ray...

In what looked like a mini dress rehearsal for the cacophony of dissent that's expected to hit the streets of New York City during next summer's GOP convention, nearly 3,000 demonstrators gathered on Seventh Avenue to protest President Bush as he presided over a $2,000-a-plate fundraiser inside midtown's Sheraton Hotel on Monday. Vowing to deliver Bush a hearty unwelcome, the demonstrators clamored inside the metal pens that police had strung up along the west side of Seventh Avenue between 49th and 54th streets, denouncing everything from the war in Iraq and tax cuts for the rich to the Bush administration's...

The communist opposition to President George W. Bush has begun. On Friday, June 27th, President George W. Bush arrived in Burlingame, California for a fundraising lunch, and the communist Workers World Party was there to protest, with the help of their allies in the labor unions and on the far-left of the Democratic Party. It's a scene we'll see again and again in the next year and a half - through their anti-war International ANSWER, the Workers World Party has vowed to follow President Bush wherever he goes. Supporters of Democrat Dennis Kucinich and the leaders the Service Employees International...

View From The Left: Peace KooksBy Michelle GoldbergSalon.com | October 17, 2002 On Oct. 6, an antiwar movement seemed to have blossomed in New York. A sea of people -- newspaper estimates ran from 10,000 to 20,000 -- filled Central Park's East Meadow to protest a possible U.S. invasion of Iraq. And yes, there were the usual suspects, like the girl from the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade who donned a kaffiyeh and hurled red-faced imprecations against capitalist tyranny. But there were many more average people, the kind who don't usually spend their sunny Sunday afternoons demonstrating against government policy --...

In the early evening of the 27th of June 2003, Freepers gathered in Century City, near the Century Plaza Hotel, to express support for President Bush, his liberation of Iraq, and other issues. Freepers came out in force - at its peak, we had a few hundred people enthusiastically waving signs, banners and - most of all - American flags. Unfortunately, since I was coming from the Valley, I arrived late, around 5:30. Worse, I accidentally dropped my Canon XL1, which is currently recuperating in the video camera hospital. You can send it your cards and letters :-). By the...

Imagine you are standing in a sweltering hot subway car next to a man who badly needs to take some Gas-X. The people around you begin to crowd closer and closer, morphing into hormone deprived menopausal women with Turret’s Syndrome. Satan pops up and says, “Welcome to the ride from hell” and sucks the light and oxygen out of the car. That is what it was like standing on the curb across the street from the Jefferson Hotel in downtown Richmond yesterday. Our Vice President gave a speech at a $1,000 a plate Republican Fundraiser. The Left responded with a...

The "Don't touch Saddam" lobby has transformed into a hunting party to chase British Prime Minister Tony Blair out of office. The claim is that Blair (and President Bush) "lied" about the reasons for the war against Saddam. A few months before the war, Blair published a dossier on Saddam's weapons of mass destruction (WMD). At the time, some of us realized that the dossier contained many flaws. But that didn't mean that there was no justification for going to war against Saddam. His WMD program was only one of many issues between Saddam and the United Nations. From August...

http://www.internationalanswer.org/news/update/061803bushprotests.html Read above... Commies plan major protest of Bush in several days in NYC... also planning major protests against our President in October... FReep alert! -sdk

More information about the previous post IAC/ A.N.S.W.E.R. New York City Local Actions and Events 39 W. 14 St., #206, NY, NY 10011 (bet. 5th & 6th Aves.) 212-633-6646 The International ANSWER Office is located at: IAC, 39 W. 14 St., #206, NY, NY 10011 (bet. 5th & 6th Aves.) The office hours are: Mon.-Fri.: 10 am-8 pm; Sat.: 12 noon-7 pm) Come to the next Volunteers Meeting, which are held every Tuesday, 6:30 pm at 39 West 14 Street #206. For more information, call 212-633-6646 or check out the International ANSWER Coalition Web site: www.internationalANSWER.org PROTEST BUSH IN NYC...

Tony Murphy, Workers’ World Party 15-05-2002 Sisters and Brothers: In any political forum anywhere in the world, the question more and more is: What about the United States? What is the economic and political trend? After September 11, the question weighs heavily, with so much war and destruction againt the world's people, emanating from the Pentagon and Wall Street: What is going on in the United States? Are the people really supporting the war? Are they going to finally act against their government's wars? Many statistics abound on the state of the U.S. economy, on numbers of unemployed, the cost...

The Muslim American Society and International A.N.S.W.E.R. organized a rally in Washington, D.C. today “to protest (the) Bush attack on Muslims, immigrants, civil rights and civil liberties.” The event, called Muslim Solidarity Day, was held at Freedom Plaza on Pennsylvania Avenue between the White House and the Justice Department--the main targets of the protesters wrath. Though thousands were expected to turn out, barely two hundred and fifty Muslims and Godless commies came out to hear speaker after speaker denounce President Bush, Attorney General John Ashcroft, America and Israel. The Memorial Day weekend weather was cool and overcast, but dry. The...

I was just speaking with Kristinn. He and tgsltakoma went to Freedom Plaza to observe the left wing anti-war rally, especially to see if Al Sharpon and some other invited Democrats would speak. Well first thing that happened was a not so veiled threat from Brian Becker of the Workers World Party against tgsltakoma. From the stage he pointed her out, called her a government agent and a "cock roach". Then he said, You know what you can do about a coack roach, you can ignore it or do something else." Even the National Lawyer's Guild volunteers in the green...

September 29By Gerry DalyPublished September 26, 2001In any social movement there is a vanguard and a mass. On one side, the vanguard, are groups of people who are more resolute and committed, better organized and able to take a leading role in the struggle, and on the other side, the mass, are larger numbers of people who participate in the struggle or are involved simply by their social position, but are less committed or well-placed in relation to the struggle, and will participate only in the decisive moments, which in fact change history. The Marxist theory of the vanguard, in ...

You’ve got to admire the tenacity of leftists. The same people who were colossally wrong about the war on terror (in both Afghanistan and Iraq); who clamored for America to sheathe its sword when America itself was under attack; who defamed America and its supporters as enemies of freedom even after the wars that led to liberation - these same people, now that history has thoroughly embarrassed them and refuted their claims, are … on the attack! They have not taken a moment to reflect on their treacherous antics, which would have kept the Iraqi oppressors in power and anti-American...

Say NO to Bush & Ashcroft's attack on MUSLIMS, IMMIGRANTS, CIVIL RIGHTS, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, WORKER'S RIGHTS STAND FOR PEACE & JUSTICE Muslim Solidarity Day MAY 24th, 2003 The Ellipse (across from the White House) Washington DC Sponsored by MAS Freedom Foundation (202) 496-1288 www.masnet.org ********* FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 13, 2003 Contact: Mahdi Bray (202) 496-1288 THOUSANDS TO PROTEST BUSH ATTACK ON MUSLIMS, IMMIGRANTS, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND CIVIL LIBERTIES (Washington, DC) -- Thousands are expected to come to the nation's capital on May 24th to protest the Bush-Ashcroft policy of discrimination and persecution of Muslims and immigrants, and its blatant...

[In case IAC changes the source URL, here is link to front page of their site.] We invite you or a representative from your organization to attend an important meeting on Thursday, May 15th, 2003, at DC33 Union Hall, 3001 Walnut St., 5th Fl., Rm. 2, from 7-9pm to begin planning for a National March on July 4th in Philadelphia. The meeting is being called by an ad hoc committee that includes Philadelphia ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism, PRAWN (Philadelphia Regional Anti-War Network), Minority Experience Network, Unite for Peace, and others. For information call 215-724-1618. The...

The following email contains several important announcements: - MAY 19-20: Nationally coordinated local actions protesting Bush's new attacks on Cuba - JULY 4 in Philadelphia: Thousands will march to protest George W. Bush - MAY 17-18 in New York City: National Conference Against War, Colonial Occupation & Imperialism - Important story in today's Washington Post - Ramsey Clark on C-Span --------------------------------------------------------- SAY NO TO U.S. AGGRESSION AGAINST CUBA! PROTEST BUSH'S SPEECH ATTACKING CUBA MAY 19-20: Days of nationally-coordinated local actions protesting Bush's new attacks on Cuba On May 20, President Bush is scheduled to speak in Miami, announcing a new...

(CNSNews.com) - The drafters of the U.S. Constitution would be "nauseated" by the "shock and awe" strategy used by the American military in the opening stages of Operation Iraqi Freedom, according to former U.S. Attorney General and current anti-war activist Ramsey Clark. Clark, who directs International A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), spoke to journalists and others at the National Press Club in Washington Monday. "Do we really believe a phrase like that?" Clark asked the press club audience. "Do we really want people to submit to shock and awe?" International A.N.S.W.E.R. has been criticized by some...