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NATIONAL CONFERENCE
AGAINST WAR, COLONIAL OCCUPATION
& IMPERIALISM

MAY 17-18
New York City

Activists and organizers will be traveling from across the  East Coast, Midwest, South and West Coast to attend the  May 17-18 National Conference Against War, Colonial 
Occupation & Imperialism. (The date has been changed from  what was announced at the April 12 demonstration -- please  note new date.)

This is an extremely important meeting for organizers and  activists. It will include analysis, assessment, 
evaluation and strategizing, both in workshops and in full  plenary sessions. This will be the first opportunity for 
the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition and its affiliate organizers to 
meet since our conference that was held in New York City a  year ago (June 1, 2002). Activists and organizers with the  A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition have been at the forefront of the 
struggle against the Bush administration's 
ultra-militaristic foreign policy as well as its assault 
on civil rights and civil liberties at home.

The invasion and occupation of Iraq has created a U.S. 
military dictatorship in a country that possesses 10 
percent of the world's oil supply. This occupation is 
meeting widespread resistance throughout Iraq.

A.N.S.W.E.R. and others around the country and the world  have been at the center of a new worldwide movement  against endless war and imperialist conquest. This global  movement showed its power even after the seizure of 
Baghdad when demonstrations took place on April 12 in over  60 countries in response to a call issued by A.N.S.W.E.R. 
and other international coalitions.

Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are aggressively pursuing a  design for World Empire. We believe they will fail not 
because some other force possesses superior military power  to stop them, but instead because of the worldwide 
resistance that will intensify in the months and years to  come.

The purpose of the upcoming May 17-18 conference is to  provide the evaluation, analysis, political program and 
action plan for this coming struggle.

NATIONAL CONFERENCE
AGAINST WAR, COLONIAL OCCUPATION
& IMPERIALISM

MAY 17-18
New York City

Where is Bush going? What's next for our movement?

Join anti-war organizers and activists from around the 
country for
- Strategy
- Analysis
- Evaluation and Assessment
- Plenaries and Workshops

Including:
- U.S. plans for war and occupation: Iraq, Syria, Iran, 
Lebanon, Palestine
- The U.S. and Iraq in Historical Perspective
- The U.S., Israel and the Palestinian National Liberation  Movement
- "National Security Strategy of the USA:" Blueprint for  Global Domination
- Fighting for national liberation and the right to 
sovereignty from the Philippines to Zimbabwe to Colombia - Why working people of all nationalities -- in the U.S. 
and around the world -- have nothing to gain from Bush's  war for Empire

Organizers and activists will travel to New York City from  across the East Coast, South, Midwest and West Coast to  attend the National Conference. If you are planning to 
organize transportation, please fill out the form at
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/m3/index.html#transp A list of cities organizing transportation will be 
available soon.

A flyer (half sheet, available in English and Spanish) for 
the conference is available at:
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/resources/index.html Updated flyers will be available soon.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION:

A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
Act Now to Stop War & End Racism
http://www.InternationalANSWER.org

info at internationalanswer.org
New York 212-633-6646
Washington 202-544-3389
Los Angeles 213-