[Peace-discuss] [Sdas] FW: Tidbits ... Actions Against War and Injustice (fwd)

Fri Dec 7 18:01:24 CST 2001

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[portside often posts announcements of activities that are taking place
in different cities; sorry for this focus on the eastcoast, for future
postings, please send us your announcements - moderator]

* Dec. 5 - Rally for CUNY & Fairness in Rebuilding New York City

* Dec. 8 - 10 National Youth & Student Peace Coalition (Washington, DC)

* Dec. 16 - Call for Peace and Justice - Stop The War - Defend Civil
Liberties - Stop Racist Violence (New York City)

* Report from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and the national "Three
Days of Action" on the Taco Bell Boycott

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From: Peter Hogness / Clarion Editor <psc-editor at att.net>

Rally for CUNY & fairness in rebuilding NYC - Wed. 12/5, 2-4 pm

  * Invest In New York
  * INVEST IN CUNY

  JOIN US/ LINK ARMS AT BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE:

  - Rally together to show solidarity
  - Call on the Federal Government to keep its promise to invest $20
billion for the people of New York

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Why is the Federal Government reducing its promise of funding by almost
half?

  - New Yorkers need that investment.
  - BMCC students, faculty and staff need that investment.
  - CUNY needs that investment.

  Wednesday, December 5th
  2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

  At BMCC-Chambers Street Entrance

The Professional Staff Congress/CUNY is sponsoring this event to
encourage students, PSC members and other New Yorkers to come together
as a community   and show support for additional resources for CUNY and
all the people of New York. Unemployment rates are expected to soar.
Public services will experience significant reductions.  The people of
New York have suffered enough.  We deserve the full support of the
federal government.

Link arms to support BMCC/CUNY
We hope to have enough people to encircle BMCC to show our support and
solidarity.  So mark your calendars and be there!

  Professional Staff Congress
  25 West 43rd Street
  NY, NY 10036
  Phone (212) 354-1252
  Web Site www.psc-cuny.org

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Andy Burns wrote:

ATTENTION ALL IN THE WASHINGTON DC AREA...

SUPPORT THE NATIONAL YOUTH & STUDENT PEACE COALITION THIS WEEKEND!

The National Youth & Student Peace Coalition (NYSPC) is kicking off this
weekend in Washington DC.  The NYSPC will be holding a press conference
to announce its formation and speak out on the potentially unending and
certainly devastating "war on terror" and its affects on student and
youth.  I addition to causing a catastrophe of epic proportions in
Afghanistan and possibly elsewhere, the Bush administration is moving
quickly to limit the freedoms of Muslims, Arabs, immigrants, and anyone
who appears to disagree with them. We must not let the mistakes of the
past be repeated.

Please come out and bring your friends to join the representatives of
the 16 diverse organizations of the NYSPC at their launch press event.
We need your support!!!  Note the coalition membership and points of
unity below...

PRESS CONFERENCE DETAILS:
DATE: Monday, December 10 TIME: 10:30 am EST (press conference will
start a few minutes later)
PLACE: The National Japanese American Memorial, Washington D.C. (located
just north of the US Capitol on a triangular plot bounded by Louisiana
Avenue, New Jersey Avenue and "D" Street, NW)
RSVP: Questions(?) call Kristy 202-347-8772x14 or Joseph at
202-319-7596x12

*SEND DONATIONS TO THE NYSPC
c/o United States Student Association;
1413 "K" Street NW, 9th Floor; Washington, DC 20005

***

NATIONAL YOUTH AND STUDENT PEACE COALITION MISSION STATEMENT
Consensed upon 10/22/01

POINTS OF UNITY

1. We support the victims and condemn the attacks of September 11.

2. We are opposed to a military response to September 11.

3. We believe that U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and elsewhere
are the root causes of the conflict. We believe we must address the root
causes.  We support an international response to the 9/11 attacks,
holding the U.S. government accountable to this response.

4. We oppose attempts to pass opportunistic legislation sacrificing
civil rights, democratic principles, and domestic needs in the name of
"antiterrorism" or "home safety." This includes: threats to civil
liberties, institutionalized racial profiling, anti-immigrant policy,
increased military spending, decreased education and social spending,
fast track trade negotiating authority for the executive branch, and any
steps toward the militarization of outer space.  We are opposed to an
open ended war on terrorism.

5. Since we are youth and students, we will be especially vigilant about
any attempts at high school and college campuses to deny civil liberties
and we oppose disproportionate military recruiting of youth of color and
working class youth.

***MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS***(membership is open to new groups)

180/Movement for Democracy and Education; Black Radical Congress - Youth
Division; Campaign for Access and Reproductive Equity 2000; Campus
Greens; JustAct: Youth Acton for Global Justice; Muslim Students
Association of the US and Canada; National Youth Advocacy Coalition;
"Not With our Money"(project. of Prison Moratorium Project); Student
Environmental Action Coalition; Student Peace Action Network; Students
Transforming and Resisting Corporations; United Students Against
Sweatshops; United States Student Association; Young Communist League;
Young Democratic Socialists; Young People's Socialists League;

Andy Burns
c/o 180/MDE Clearinghouse
31 University Square Madison, WI 53715
Ph: (608) 2567081 Fx: (608) 2651131 <andyburns at tao.ca>

180/Movement for Democracy and Education website:
<www.corporations.org/democracy

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Join Our Call for Peace and Justice

STOP THE WAR  * DEFEND CIVIL LIBERTIES * STOP RACIST VIOLENCE

During this holiday season, we march for Peace on Earth and Good Will
Toward All.

***************
STAND FOR PEACE
***************

Sunday, December 16, 2001 - 1:00 pm

At the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree
Rockefeller Plaza (off 49th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues)

New York Coalition for Peace and Justice  212-228-0450  -  www.nycpj.org
(The coalition that organized the October 7 mass anti-war march and
rally.)

------------------------

OUR GRIEF IS NOT A CRY FOR WAR

During this first holiday season since the horrible events of September
11, a war is raging in Afghanistan. Throughout this country people are
celebrating the spirit of the season, while here in New York we enter
these holidays still mourning the loss of thousands of lives. At the
same time, one of the poorest nations on earth, Afghanistan has been all
but destroyed by decades of warfare and weeks of constant bombing and
intense fighting. As winter begins millions of Afghan people face
starvation and an ongoing war.

Instead of seeking diplomatic measures to decrease terror in the world,
the United States government has mobilized the largest, most powerful
military force in history and unleashed it on the people of Afghanistan.
In the planning for a new government, the women of Afghanistan are still
kept out of the process.  And in Washington there is talk of military
actions against other countries around the world. We must raise our
voices to stop this ever-expanding war now!

DEFEND CIVIL LIBERTIES

Since 9-11, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Immigration and
Naturalization Service has rounded up thousands of Arab Americans and
Muslims. They have been detained without trials, hearings or legal
advice as a result of racial profiling, not because there is any
evidence of wrong-doing.

On November 13, in an unconstitutional action described by the New York
Times as a "travesty of justice," President George W. Bush issued an
executive order permitting the trial by military tribunal of non-U.S.
citizens suspected of terrorism. Military tribunals are held in secret,
without juries, and with none of the protections (limited as they might
be) that the Constitution gives to all residents of this country. If a
president can annul the rights of some with the stroke of a pen, what is
to stop him from suspending the rights of all of us?

STOP RACIAL, ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY AND VIOLENCE

Paralleling the official actions of many law enforcement and other
government agencies, some people have become suspicious of their own
neighbors - cab drivers, students, gas station attendants, doctors,
storekeepers, journalists - merely on the basis of their nationality or
religion. Reports have come in from around the country of assaults
against people believed to be Arab or Muslim, in some instances going as
far as murder.

In a city of people who have come from around the world, we cannot allow
anti-immigrant attitudes and actions to go unchecked. We must uphold our
cherished values of diversity and respect for all. We must say no to
racist attacks.

---------------------------------

As Washington prepares for new military actions in other nations, as the
threat to our civil liberties deepens every day, and as racial profiling
and racist assaults go unchallenged we must make our voices heard.

Please help us build for December 16. Contact us to find out how you can
help:

212-228-0450  -  www.nycpj.org

New York Coalition for Peace and Justice

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Coalition of Immokalee Workers
<coaimmwkr at aol.com>

Hey everyone --  The national "Three Days of Action" on the Taco Bell
Boycott were a huge success!  Lively and highly-effective actions took
place in more than 40 cities across the country, including Los Angeles,
Chicago (with 4 protests in the Chicago area alone!), San Francisco, St.
Louis, Tampa, Knoxville, Austin, Santa Ana (CA), Boulder (CO),
Northampton (MA), Milwaukee, and Tallahassee, just to name a few.

Check out the web site (www.ciw-online.org) for the latest reports and
photos from the protests as they come in.  And don't forget to tell us
your story from the days of action -- write us an email and send any
photos or local press that might be available, so that your protest can
also be part of the history of this growing movement.

Thanks, and stay tuned for more important announcements in the coming
days!

-- Coalition of Immokalee Workers

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