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April 27 Marches Against War & Racism
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Progressive Portal
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Jan 28, 2002 11:48 PST
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[From Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER)
<http://www.InternationalANSWER.org> -- thanks to Leslie B. for
circulating this.]
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Note: The same organization is co-sponsoring a teach-in Feb. 1 and rally
Feb. 2 in New York, coinciding with a meeting in Manhattan of the World
Economic Forum (WEF). Info:
http://www.InternationalANSWER.org/
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SATURDAY, APRIL 27
NATIONAL MARCH IN WASHINGTON AGAINST WAR & RACISM!
(preceded by a week of mass actions)
-West Coast mobilization in San Francisco-
http://www.InternationalANSWER.org/calendar/april/27.html
Tell President Bush:
* WE DEMAND MONEY FOR JOBS, EDUCATION, HOUSING & HEALTH CARE -- NOT FOR
WAR & CORPORATE GIVEAWAYS!
* STOP THE RACIST ATTACKS!
* DEFEND CIVIL LIBERTIES, CIVIL RIGHTS & IMMIGRANT RIGHTS!
TO ENDORSE the April 27 National March in Washington DC, email:
ANS-@afgj.org (Subject: April 27 Endorsement)
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!
TOP 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>.
International A.N.S.W.E.R. -- Act Now to Stop War & End Racism -- is a
coalition that was formed in response to the headlong rush to war and
racist attacks following the horrific events of September 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.
For more information about April 27:
Web: http://www.InternationalANSWER.org
Email: ANS-@afgj.org
New York: 212-633-6646
Washington: 202-543-2777
San Francisco: 415-821-6545
Chicago: 773-583-7728
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