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ANSWER and NOT IN OUR NAME will be holding a rally/protest on October 7th (next Tuesday) to protest military recruitment. They will be rallying at Union Square at noon with a protest outside the military recruitment center in Times Square to follow at 3pm. Anyone up for a little counterprotesting? I've already contacted people at protestwarrior, we are looking to expand the group. Pat (sophomore at CCNY) ps: does this mean i can have a rally to protest Greenpeace recruitment on my campus? :o)

<p>Media organizations prepared Tuesday to oppose any efforts by the Justice Department to subpoena journalists and their notes to learn who leaked the identity of an undercover CIA agent to columnist Robert Novak.</p> <p>Subpoenas could be challenged on the basis of First Amendment guarantees of freedom of the press, said Bill Felber, editor of The Manhattan (Kan.) Mercury and freedom of information chairman for the Associated Press Managing Editors. But they could also be challenged, he said, if they were too broad or if the information could be obtained in other ways.</p>

Thanks to Little Bill, for the record of what happened check out: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/991202/posts But I just wanted to share some of the things that happened to me on Sunday while the Communists were out marching. They're not in any particular order, but I'm trying to be as complete as possible. If anyone else has an incident they'd like to add, please share. I want the world to know how classless these animals are!!! * got The Bird from an 80 year old woman who was yelling "f-ing Israelis" * got The Bird from a woman in her 60s. She was...

UPDATE(9/24/03): OCTOBER 25, 2003 MARCH ON WHITE HOUSE & PENTAGON Our arch nemesis International A.N.S.W.E.R. is planning a hatefest Saturday, October 25, in our nation's capital. They plan on marching past the White House right up to the Pentagon to protest American 'imperialism' and 'occupation', and a full rostrum of the Left's leaders are assembled to speak. You better believe the mainstream media is going to cover this as some sort of proof that American public opinion is turning against our mission in Iraq.

Our arch nemesis International A.N.S.W.E.R. is planning a hatefest Saturday, October 25, in our nation's capital. They plan on marching past the White House right up to the Pentagon to protest American 'imperialism' and 'occupation', and a full rostrum of the Left's leaders are assembled to speak. You better believe the mainstream media is going to cover this as some sort of proof that American public opinion is turning against our mission in Iraq. We have to decide if we're going to let that happen.

The ProtestWarrior guys are mounting a counterdemonstration to the International A.N.S.W.E.R. people's demonstration at the Pentagon on October 25, 2003. This is the email that is circulating.

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS CANCEL PALESTINE CONFERENCE Statement from the Organizing Committee of the Third National Student Conference on the Palestine Solidarity Movement at Rutgers University *** This is an Urgent Call to Action! Your immediate solidarity is needed! *** (Press release follows this Call to Action) Today, Rutgers University officials have CANCELLED the Third National Student Conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement, scheduled for October 10-12, 2003 at Rutgers University. Yet, the students at Rutgers University are determined to hold the conference as planned. In canceling this widely supported conference throughout North America, the university administration has trampled on constitutional...

The utter hypocrisy of the ''anti-war'' movement's members--who never met a dictator they didn’t like--has been exposed yet again. After trying desperately to keep both the Taliban and Saddam Hussein in power, they now claim to be too busy fighting U.S. ''imperialism'' to help Iranian democracy activists. James Taranto, writing for the Wall Street Journal’s ''Best of the Web,'' sheds light on the shenanigans of A.N.S.W.E.R. How's This for an Answer? Blogress Karol Sheinin reports that an Iranian democracy activist named Banafsheh contacted the most prominent ''antiwar'' group asking them to take a stand against Tehran's thuggish theocracy. In an...

I mentioned a few months ago that I met with some people (including Ken and Yevgeny) who are interested in supporting the democratic movement in Iran. We've been in touch since then and have slowly begun thinking of some things we can do. Today I got an email from one of the guys in the group. He forwarded an email from an Iranian girl who is very involved in the democracy movement. The email literally took the wind out of me. I realize that I should not be surprised by the unbelieveable hypocrisy of the biggest anti-war group, ANSWER, but...

WASHINGTON - Protesters plan to return to the nation's capital next month to oppose the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq, demonstration organizers said Wednesday. The International ANSWER coalition, whose name stands for Act Now to Stop War and Racism, brought thousands of anti-war protesters to Washington in January, March and April. Organizers predict the Oct. 25 march from the Justice Department to the White House and the Pentagon will attract tens of thousands of people. The group is seeking a protest permit for 10,000 people, the National Park Service said. "We're getting people never touched by politics, but who...

WASHINGTON - Next week will see the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States, which also spawned a whole new branch in international anti-Semitism. A survey published this week by the Anti-Defamation League finds that "hateful conspiracy theories" - claiming that Jews and Israel were behind the attacks in which 3,000 people were killed - are still being disseminated. In fact, these theories are gaining strength rather than dying out. "The 9/11 attacks have fueled an entire new genre of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories leading to an environment where rumors about Jews are finding acceptance in the...

<p>Antiwar protesters down under are finally getting some recognition. Australia's Daily Telegraph quotes a man named simply Sawad, who helped mix the explosives used in last year's Bali nightclub bombing, as saying: "I want to thank the Australian people who supported our cause when they demonstrated against the policies of George Bush. Say thank you to all of them."</p>

WHY WE ARE MARCHING ON WASHINGTON OCTOBER 25, 2003 There are times when a progressive demonstration, even a large activity, is little more than a symbolic protest. There are other times when a mass demonstration can function as a catalyst, a trigger unleashing new political energy; or serve as a vivid expression of a new genuine grassroots movement capable of stirring the country and changing the political landscape. When the A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition one year ago initiated the October 26, 2002, mass demonstrations in Washington DC and San Francisco there was no way to know that hundreds of thousands would participate...

August 21, 2003 Dear ANSWER supporter: We are forwarding the following email on behalf of Mumia Abu-Jamal, an African American revolutionary journalist who has been languishing on death row in Pennsylvania for 21 years. Mumia is known and loved worldwide as the "voice of the voiceless" because he has defended the rights of the poor, the oppressed and working people everywhere. Mumia has supported every anti-war demonstration and you have probably heard some of his solidarity messages played at many rallies. Mumia needs the support of all of us as he continues to fight for his freedom and more immediately,...

Charity gears up for 1st campaign since its scandal A coalition of labor unions vowed Wednesday to help the Capital Area United Way with "unprecedented support'' in an upcoming fund-raising campaign. The charity soon will launch its first drive since a $2 million embezzlement discovery late last year. Official campaign goals have not yet been set, but board leaders appear focused on at least equaling the $6.9 million pledged in 2002. That could prove difficult in a sluggish economy, coupled with fallout from the embezzlement by the former finance chief - likely the largest ever from one of the United...

SARASOTA, Fla. - A retired schoolteacher who went to Iraq (news - web sites) to serve as a "human shield" against the U.S. invasion is facing thousands of dollars in U.S. government fines, which she is refusing to pay. The U.S. Department of the Treasury said in a March letter to Faith Fippinger that she broke the law by crossing the Iraqi border before the war. Her travel to Iraq violated U.S. sanctions that prohibited American citizens from engaging in "virtually all direct or indirect commercial, financial or trade transactions with Iraq." She and others from 30 countries spread out...

* UPDATE * Oct. 25 Mass March on Washington - Bring the Troops Home! - End the Occupation of Iraq! *New leaflet and sticker now available for Oct. 25 *Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation calls for feeder march to defend civil liberties and civil rights, and in opposition to racial and religious profiling on Oct. 25 NEW LEAFLET AND STICKER NOW AVAILABLE A beautiful two-color leaflet and sticker for the Oct. 25 March on Washington has been printed in mass quantities. The flyer and sticker are also available in PDF format. Space is available at the bottom to add in...

In June, Pacifica Radio's Los Angeles station, KPFK-FM, hosted a thirty-hour marathon of Dr. Kwaku Person-Lynn's anti-Semitic "Afrikan Mental Liberation Weekend."  It was the first time this once-annual program appeared for almost a decade. It had been banned by station management in 1993, after a long, hard-fought pressure campaign to remove it.  Afrikan Mental Liberation Weekend typically includes claims that the Jews disproportionately participated in the slave trade and persecuted blacks; in the past, he responded to criticism by calling the regional director of the Anti-Defamation League a "psychotic, idiotic, European Jew."   He has regularly played tapes by Nation of...

The effort to recall Gov. Gray Davis of California is like a runaway train, fueled by voter anger and political aspirations. But as we race toward the Oct. 7 election date, the public and the courts should take time to consider the major flaws of the process. If the recall vote goes ahead as planned, it will plow over the United States Constitution and the fundamental rights of voters. The problem stems from this rather circuitous phrase in California election law: "no vote cast in the recall election shall be counted for any candidate unless the voter also voted for...

Washington Post reporter Evelyn Nieves has delivered at least her third story in the last eight months touting the growing momentum of the anti-liberation of Iraq movement, an effort led by groups which she tagged as "mainstream." Her July 22 polemic trumpeted: "The letters are pouring in like a water main break -- fast and yes, furious" to join the ranks of activists of "antiwar groups, almost by definition anti-Bush." This movement apparently needed no outside analysis, since the only experts she quoted were five left-wing, Bush-bashing activists. [Tim Graham, the MRC's Director of Media Analysis, contributed this item to...