Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:58:52 -0800 (PST) From: nowardc@yahoo.com ("International A.N.S.W.E.R.") Subject: [anti_war_protests_in_arizona] APRIL 27 MARCH on WASHINGTON GAINS MOMENTUM To: nowardc@yahoo.com Reply-To: anti_war_protests_in_arizona@yahoogroups.com APRIL 27: MARCH in WASHINGTON AGAINST WAR & RACISM! - Read the Call to Action (below) - - Endorse online - - Organize! - - Find more information at http://www.internationalanswer.org - ---------------------------- CALL TO ACTION SATURDAY, APRIL 27 NATIONAL MARCH IN WASHINGTON AGAINST WAR & RACISM! (preceded by a week of mass actions) -West Coast mobilization in San Francisco- Tell President Bush: * WE DEMAND MONEY FOR JOBS, EDUCATION, HOUSING & HEALTHCARE - NOT FOR WAR & CORPORATE GIVEAWAYS! * STOP THE RACIST ATTACKS! * DEFEND CIVIL LIBERTIES, CIVIL RIGHTS & IMMIGRANT RIGHTS! The U.S. corporate and banking establishment seeks to maintain U.S. domination throughout the globe for their own benefit. It is these corporate and banking elites who profit from the exploitation of oil and natural gas resources in the Middle East and South Asia, from bloated military contracts and from Bush administration bailouts and tax breaks. With skyrocketing unemployment, evictions, foreclosures, and slashing of welfare and healthcare benefits at home, people in the U.S. need billions to create jobs, improve our schools, and provide quality health care. Instead the Bush administration is spending billions on bombing civilians and military aggression. Record layoffs continue and the U.S. government¡¯s response is billions of dollars in bailouts to corporations and insurance companies while cuts in social programs continue. The immediate response of the Bush administration after September 11 was a $15 billion package for major airlines, while they have refused to increase unemployment insurance for 100,000 travel industry employees and 400,000 workers in other sectors who lost their jobs. The Bush-proposed $100 billion ¡°economic stimulus package¡± that is under consideration would not only repeal the corporate minimum tax, but would refund to the big corporations of the U.S. fourteen years of taxes, and would provide more permanent tax cuts for the wealthiest individuals. As the U.S. war and occupation in Afghanistan continues and that country lies in ruins, the Bush administration is preparing to widen its war against other countries. Many in the Bush administration would like to greatly intensify their 11-year-long war against Iraq. Eleven years of U.S.-led UN sanctions and bombing of Iraq have already left over 1.5 million Iraqis dead and many more ill and malnourished. Almost 700 special forces and ¡°advisers¡± have been sent to the Philippines, and talk continues of military exercises involving 2,000-4,000 U.S. troops. The U.S./Israeli war against the Palestinian people is intensifying as the U.S. continues to give billions in aid and political support to the Israeli government, which is brutally oppressing the Palestinian people. There can be no lasting peace in the Middle East until the Palestinian people¡¯s right to self-determination and a homeland are secured. Other countries targeted for possible attack include Somalia, Sudan, Indonesia, Yemen, North Korea and Cuba. The U.S. is intensifying their aid to countries such as Colombia and the Philippines who are attempting to suppress people¡¯s struggles. At this moment, the U.S. is using Plan Colombia as a wedge to intensify its intervention, threatening a Vietnam-type war in Latin America. As the war abroad threatens to expand, the war at home against Arab, Muslim, South Asian and all working people continues. So-called ¡°anti-terrorism¡± legislation has legitimized and legalized racial profiling as more than 5,000 young Arab men have become the targets of FBI investigation, over 1,200 people have been detained and college administrations have been asked by the FBI to turn over names and records of Arab, Muslim and international students. Bush and Ashcroft are reorganizing federal law enforcement into a domestic surveillance police state that gives the government license to listen to the public's phone calls, read the public's e-mail, execute covert searches, and target political and religious groups. On SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 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 WAR! STOP THE RACIST ATTACKS! DEFEND CIVIL LIBERTIES AND CIVIL RIGHTS! *The April 27 national march on Washington against racism and war will be the conclusion of a week of mass actions. We call on people to join the National Colombia Mobilization April 19-22 (http://www.soaw.org/colombiaMobilization.html ).* The April 27 National March on Washington was initiated by International A.N.S.W.E.R. -- Act Now to Stop War & End Racism. A.N.S.W.E.R. is a coalition that was formed in response to the headlong rush to war and racist attacks following the horrific events ofSeptember 11. A.N.S.W.E.R. has the support participation of more than 500 organizations and prominent individuals and has scores of organizing centers across the U.S. and around the world. The A.N.S.W.E.R. steering committee includes Nicaragua Network, Mexico Solidarity Network, IFCO/Pastors for Peace, International Action Center, Partnership for Civil Justice LDEF, Kensington Welfare Rights Union, Middle East Children¡¯s Alliance, Committee for Justice to Defend Palestinians, Bayan USA (Filipino community) and the Korea Truth Commission. ---------------------------- PARTIAL LIST OF ENDORSERS: A.N.S.W.E.R. STEERING COMMITTEE - IFCO/Pastors for Peace - Nicaragua Network - Mexico Solidarity Network - Partnership for Civil Justice LEFD - Committee for Justice to Defend Palestinian Rights - Bayan-USA - Kensington Welfare Rights Union - International Action Center - Middle East Children's Alliance - Korea Truth Commission ENDORSERS (partial list) - Black Voices for Peace - Howard Zinn, Author, Historian - Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general - Al-Awda Palestine Right to Return Coalition - American Muslims for Global Peace and Justice - Students for International Peace and Justice - Palestine Aid Society - Inglewood Anti-War Coalition - Charlotte Coalition for Peace & Justice, North Carolina - Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism - International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) - National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA), Brooklyn NY - Queers For Racial & Economic Justice - Rev. Graylan Hagler, Senior Minister, Plymouth Congregational Church - Bishop Thomas Gumbelton, Auxilliary Bishop, Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit - Chuck Turner, council member, Boston City Council, District 7, Massachusetts - Sally Davies, President, Council 92 AFSCME - Prof. Richard Lewontin, Harvard University - Rev. Curtis Gatewood, Durham, North Carolina - The Feminist Coalition Emmanuel College, Boston - Women For Peace, Iowa - Anti-Racist Action, Denver - Anarchist Action of Rochester - Students And Youth Against Racism, Penn State University - Int'l Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu Jamal (ICFFMAJ) - Anti-War Committee, Minnesota - High Country Citizens for Peace and Justice, NC - Chicago Anti-Bashing Network - Simmons College Feminist Union, Boston - WESPAC (Westchester People's Action Coalition) - Gloria La Riva, President, Typographical Sector, Northern California Media - Bay Area Iranians for Peace and Social Justice - Committee on US-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) - Ray LaForest, District Council 1707 AFSCME - Prof. Asha A. Samad, Muslims against Racism and War - Community Church of Boston - Berkeley Women in Black - Leslie Feinberg, activist and author - Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Penn State University - Collier County Anti-War Coalition, Naples, FL - Nicaragua Solidarity Committee of Chicago - Rainbow Flags for Mumia - Jim Fennerty, President, Chicago Chapter, National Lawyers Guild* - Colombia Solidarity Committee, Chicago - Freedom Road Socialist Organization - Falmouth AntiWar, Cape Cod, Mass - Justice for Political Prisoners in Turkey, Boston - United American Indians of New England - Womens Fightback Network, Boston - Hammerhard MediaWorks - David Sole, President UAW Local 2334, Detroit - Moroccans for Peace and Justice - Bus Riders Union, Los Angeles - Committee to Defend Amer Jubran and Palestinian Free FULL LIST OF APRIL 27 ENDORSERS: http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/a27/a27-endorsers.html A.N.S.W.E.R. COALITION ENDORSERS: http://wwwinternationalanswer.org/endorsers.html TO ENDORSE APRIL 27, GO TO: http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/a27/a27-endorse.html#endo ----------------------------- WHY YOU SHOULD BE IN DC ON APRIL 27: http://www.internationalanswer.org/news/update/021802whya27.html FOR MORE INFORMATION & TO GET INVOLVED: http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/a27/index.html BUSES, VANS & CAR CARAVANS COMING TO DC FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY: http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/a27/contacts.html DOWNLOAD FLYERS TO GET THE WORD OUT IN YOUR AREA: http://www.internationalanswer.org/download.html FOR MORE INFORMATION: Email: ANSWER@afgj.org , or call New York 212-633-6646, Washington 202-543-2777, Chicago 773-583-7728, San Francisco 415-821-6545. http://www.InternationalANSWER.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com ------------------------ Yahoo! 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