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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">A Call for a Mass Mobilization to Oppose NATO, War & Racism</span></b></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;" class="">Protest NATO, Washington, DC, Lafayette Park (across from the White House)</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;" class="">1 PM Saturday, March 30, 2019.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;" class="">Additional actions will take place on Thursday April 4 at the opening of the NATO meeting<br class="">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="">April 4, 2019, will mark the 51st anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., the internationally revered leader in struggles against racism, poverty and war.</span><span class=""></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="">And yet, in a grotesque desecration of Rev. King’s lifelong dedication to peace, this is the date that the military leaders of the North American Treaty Organization have chosen to celebrate
NATO’s 70th anniversary by holding its annual summit meeting in Washington, D.C. This is a deliberate insult to Rev. King and a clear message that Black lives and the lives of non-European humanity really do not matter.
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="">It was exactly one year before he was murdered that Rev. King gave his famous speech opposing the U.S. war in Vietnam, calling the U.S. government
“the greatest purveyor of violence in the world” and declaring that he could not be silent.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="">We cannot be silent either. Since its founding, the U.S.-led NATO has been the world's deadliest military alliance, causing untold suffering and
devastation throughout Northern Africa, the Middle East and beyond.</span><span class=""></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Hundreds of thousands have died in U.S./NATO wars in Iraq, Libya, Somalia and Yugoslavia. Millions of refugees are now risking their lives trying to escape the carnage that these wars have
brought to their homelands, while workers in the 29 NATO member-countries are told they must abandon hard-won social programs in order to meet U.S. demands for even more military spending.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Every year when NATO holds its summits, there have been massive protests: in Chicago, Wales, Warsaw, Brussels. 2019 will be no exception.</span><span class=""></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="">The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) is calling for a mass mobilization in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, March 30. Additional actions will take place on April 4 at the opening
of the NATO meeting. </span><span class=""></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="">We invite you to join with us in this effort. As Rev. King taught us, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="">No to NATO!<br class="">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">End All U.S. Wars at Home and Abroad!<span class=""></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">Bring the Troops Home Now! <span class=""></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">No to Racism! <span class=""></span></span></p>
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