[Peace-discuss] FW: [indict-nato] VETERANS for PEACE, NION & OTHERS ENDORSE OCT. 25 INT'L MARCH on DC

Wed Aug 13 18:25:29 CDT 2003

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Betreff: [indict-nato] VETERANS for PEACE, NION & OTHERS ENDORSE OCT. 25
INT'L MARCH on DC

VETERANS FOR PEACE, NION & OTHERS
ENDORSE OCT. 25 INT'L MARCH ON WASHINGTON DC

New endorsers for the October 25 International March
on Washington DC include Veterans for Peace, the Not
in Our Name Project (NION) and Quest for Peace, among
many others. At the end of this message is the
resolution adopted by Veterans for Peace at its
National Convention held the weekend of August 9 in
San Francisco, California.

It is a significant political development that
soldiers, family members, their loved ones and
friends, and veterans are increasingly speaking out
against the occupation of Iraq and supporting the
demand "Bring the Troops Home Now."

A large number of veterans and family members of U.S.
soldiers are expected to participate in the October 25
mass demonstration under the slogans "End the
occupation of Iraq" and "Bring the troops home now."
The demonstration will also demand "Money for jobs,
education & healthcare - Not war," "Defend civil
liberties and civil rights" and "Fightback against the
Patriot Act."

Additional endorsers of October 25 include Ramsey
Clark, former U.S. attorney general; Howard Zinn,
Historian and Author; San Francisco Labor Council
(AFL-CIO); Rev. Graylan Hagler, Senior Minister,
Plymouth Congregational Church; Muslim American
Society Freedom Foundation; Bishop Thomas Gumbleton,
Auxiliary Bishop, Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit;
Rev. Herbert Daughtry, National Pastor, House of the
Lord Pentecostal Church; A.N.S.W.E.R. Youth & Student
National Coalition; Leslie Feinberg, author; National
Lawyers Guild; Free Palestine Alliance; Northeast Ohio
Anti-War Coalition; Voices in the Wilderness; Bay Area
United Against War; Office of the Americas; Muslim
Student Association of the U.S. and Canada; Bayan
USA-International; DC Statehood Green Party; and many
others.

It is noteworthy that a large number of local
grassroots peace, anti-war and anti-racist
organizations, based either in the community or on
campuses and in high schools have announced their
support for the National March on Washington. Just a
few of these groups include Everett Peace Action,
Oswego Peace Council, Savannah Peace Coalition,
Students for Social Justice  in Chicago, Students'
Movement for Justice at Wayne State University, Ann
Arbor Coalition Against the War, Florida Alliance for
Peace and Social Justice, Iowans For Peace, Texans for
Peace, Central NJ Coalition for Peace & Justice,
Central Vermont Peace, Anti-War Committee in
Minnesota, Eastern Upper Peninsula Peace Council,
Peace Orlando, St. Pete for Peace, among the more than
1,700 endorsers.

For more endorsers, go to
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/o25/endorsers.html

Following is the resolution adopted by Veterans for
Peace. We encourage people to forward this resolution
to email listserves in your area.

RESOLUTION OF VETERANS FOR PEACE ENDORSING OCT. 25

Adopted August 9, 2003
San Francisco, California

- Bring the troops home now
- End the occupation of Iraq
- Money for human needs, not war
- Repeal the Patriot Act

Whereas, the people in Iraq want the US occupation to
end, and the US soldiers in Iraq want to come home. We
ask: Who is benefiting from this war, and who is
paying the price?; and

Whereas, every day, people are dying as a consequence
of this illegal occupation... Every day human misery
expands in the drive for world Empire and corporate
globalization... Every day, jobs are lost and vital
social programs that serve and protect working people
are being looted and destroyed, as the Bush
administration cynically manipulates the so-called
"war on terrorism" to carry out the social transfer of
wealth from the bottom to the top; and

Whereas, the Bush administration lied to the people,
to the Congress, and to the United Nations as it raced
to wage war against Iraq. Now tens of thousands of
Iraqis and many hundreds of GIs have been killed or
maimed - by Rumsfeld's count over 1000 attacks on US
forces since May 1st. As the anger of the Iraqi people
inevitably grows, the body count on both sides will
sharply increase; and

Whereas, as the anti-war movement predicted, the Iraqi
people view US forces as colonial occupiers, not
liberators. American soldiers are killing and being
killed in a war that serves only the interests of U.S.
oil monopolies and corporate elites - George W. Bush's
real constituents. Soldiers and their families are
realizing that high government officials, mostly
millionaires who shuttle between corporate boardrooms
and government posts, are using U.S. troops as a
private security detachment for the multinational
corporations' plunder of Iraq's oil riches; and

Whereas, the Pentagon now admits they will have
150,000 troops in Iraq for the "foreseeable future,"
at a cost of nearly $4 Billion a month - on top of the
cost of maintaining US troops and bases in 130 other
countries - and this rapid rise in the power and reach
of the military is closely linked to the unprecedented
assault on the civil rights, union rights, benefits
(including veterans' benefits), and living standards
of working people going on right now in the United
States; and

Whereas, the Bush administration - which only came to
power due to massive racist disenfranchisement and
voting fraud - has used the excuse of their "endless
war" to sponsor a wholesale assault on the Bill of
Rights, institutionalize racial profiling, assume
extraordinary powers for the Executive branch, and
adopt new repressive laws like the Patriot Act; and

Whereas, on October 25, 2003 the anti-war, civil
rights, social justice and labor movements - joined in
ever increasing numbers by family members of military
personnel and veterans and international delegations -
will march on Washington, D.C. to demand an immediate
end to the US war and occupation in Iraq, repeal of
the Patriot Act, and money for human needs, not for
war; therefore be it

RESOLVED, that Veterans for Peace, meeting in
convention, 8/9/2003, demands: 1) an immediate end to
the US/British war and occupation in Iraq - Bring the
Troops Home Now; 2) repeal of the Patriot Act and
other repressive laws; 3) reordering of national
priorities toward the human needs of our people. We
need jobs and real security, not militarism and
empire-building; and be it further

RESOLVED: that Veterans for Peace endorse the October
25, 2003 International March on Washington, D.C.
behind the banner: Bring the Troops Home Now...End the
Occupation of Iraq...Repeal the Patriot Act...Money
for Human Needs, not for War and Empire.

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*MORE INFORMATION*

To read the Oct. 25 CALL TO ACTION, go to:
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/o25/index.html

For view a list of ENDORSERS, go to
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/o25/endorsers.html

TO ENDORSE, fill out the easy-to-use form at
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/o25/index.html#endo

To DOWNLOAD FLYERS & STICKERS, go to
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/resources/index.html

IF YOU ARE ORGANIZING TRANSPORTATION from your area,
fill out the form at
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/o25/index.html#transp
so your information can be listed on the website

To find an initial LIST OF CITIES ORGANIZING
TRANSPORTATION, go to
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/o25/oct25transp.html

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