[Peace-discuss] Fwd:[ANSWER]: C-Span coverage of A.N.S.W.E.R. forum

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C-Span to broadcast A.N.S.W.E.R. event:
IRAQ - GEORGE W. BUSH'S "VIETNAM"?
Panel Discussion on the National Campaign to End the 
Occupation and Bring the Troops Home Now

Today - Wednesday, September 3 - the A.N.S.W.E.R. 
Coalition held a Panel Discussion/Press Conference 
entitled Iraq: George W. Bush's "Vietnam"? at the National  Press Club in Washington DC. The panel featuring former  U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Catholic Bishop Thomas  Gumbleton, family members of U.S. GIs, and other leaders  of the anti-war movement discussed the growing mood in the  United States to bring U.S. troops back from Iraq and to  end the occupation. Mr. Clark and others called on the 
people of the United States to come together in massive  numbers at the October 25 National March on Washington,  D.C.

*C-SPAN COVERAGE*

C-Span plans to broadcast this event several times. You  can look at C-Span's schedule at 
http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/fullschedule.csp  for broadcast times (you should press "refresh" or 
"reload" on your browser to make sure you have the current  schedule).

It is currently scheduled to run at approximately 6 am EST  (3 am PST) on C-Span 2 on Thursday 9/4 (tomorrow). Please  check the full schedule regularly for additional planned 
broadcast times and note that the schedule is subject to  change.

The program is called "U.S. Policy Toward Iraq" sponsored  by Act Now to Stop War & End Racism (A.N.S.W.E.R.) and  featuring Ramsey Clark and Thomas Gumbleton.

*REUTERS COVERAGE*

American Casualties in Iraq Stir U.S. Peace Movement
By Laura MacInnis

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Peace activists said on Wednesday  that increasing concerns about American casualties in Iraq  had spurred the U.S. anti-war movement back into action  after months of relative quiet.

The ANSWER Coalition, headed by former U.S. Attorney 
General Ramsey Clark, said it planned to stage a protest  in Washington on Oct. 25 to demand the withdrawal of 
American troops from Iraq.

More U.S. soldiers have died occupying Iraq since 
President Bush declared major combat over on May 1 than  were killed during the war itself. Hundreds more have been  wounded.

"That is affecting the mood of the country," ANSWER 
spokeswoman and civil rights lawyer Mara 
Verheyden-Hilliard told a Washington press conference. "It  is creating this very strong sentiment in the United 
States of people saying, 'That's enough. It has got to end  now."'

President Bush, responding to growing concerns over the  failure to bring security to post-war Iraq, this week 
began a campaign to involve the United Nations more deeply  in the task, hoping for more foreign money and troops.

Clark, who served as U.S. attorney general under President  Lyndon Johnson, said he wants the United States to pull  its troops out of Iraq. "On October 25, let's be together  and say 'bring those troops home in Iraq,"' he said.

ANSWER, which stands for Act Now to Stop War and End  Racism, organized a series of demonstrations in 
Washington, San Francisco and other U.S. cities before the  U.S. invasion in March, drawing hundreds of thousands of  people to the streets.

Organizers declined to predict how many people would 
attend the Oct. 25 demonstration, but said more than 100  groups had endorsed the event.

*ASSOCIATED PRESS COVERAGE*

Anti-War Protest Planned for Washington

WASHINGTON - Protesters plan to return to the nation's  capital next month to oppose the presence of U.S. troops  in Iraq, demonstration organizers said Wednesday.

The International ANSWER coalition, whose name stands for  Act Now to Stop War and Racism, brought thousands of  anti-war protester