<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="">In view of the anti-war
march noted below, the AWARE meeting scheduled for this Sunday 5-6pm at
Hammerhead Coffee should be canceled.</p><p class=""> =======================================<span class="text_exposed_show"><br class=""> MAY 6 - March to Protest More War in the Middle East<br class=""> Sun 5 PM CDT · Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center · Urbana, IL</span></p><div class="text_exposed_show"><p class=""> Answer Coalition Champaign-Urbana added an event.<br class="">
Just a few weeks ago on April 13th the US led the UK, France, and other
western NATO powers in the airstrikes bombing Syria's capital of
Damascus. This followed unsubstantiated claims from the US of a chemical
attack by the Syrian government on Syrian citizens. Despite a continued
lack of evidence, the warmongering around Syria persists.</p><p class=""> This
week in Israel, the US's primary ally in the Middle East, president
Benjamin Netanyahu gave an alarmist presentation about Iran's capability
to produce nuclear weapons. It featured 10+ year-old news about Iran's
ability to redirect their nuclear energy program to a nuclear weapons
program. This was an attempt to stir outrage against the Iranian
government and to set the stage for US intervention. There is no
evidence that the Iranian government is pursuing a nuclear weapons
program or has any desire to do so.</p><p class=""> It's more than a little
ironic that the only country to have ever used nuclear weapons presumes
to dictate to any other country how they should handle their nuclear
programs.</p><p class=""> The false claims of "weapons of mass destruction"
preceding the US's invasion of Iraq in 2003 stand out as preposterous
accusations to create a pretext for war. The ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War
and End Racism) Coalition here in Champaign-Urbana understands the
similarity between chemical attack claims in Syria and nuclear programs
in Iran to be as ridiculous as the "weapons of mass destruction" claims
about Iraq in 2003.</p><p class=""> Therefore we are staging a march to protest
further war and warmongering against all countries in the Middle East,
which the United States has no business interfering in.</p><p class=""> Join us
at 5pm on Sunday at the IMC in Urbana for a march through downtown
Urbana to oppose war. You can find us near the circle drive on the west
side of the IMC building off of Elm street.</p><p class=""> Co-sponsored by the Young Democratic Socialists of America and Party for Socialism and Liberation</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>