[Peace-discuss] March to Protest More War in the Middle East

[Karen Aram]

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Sun 5 PM CDT · Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center<https://www.facebook.com/ucimc/> · Urbana, IL

Answer Coalition Champaign-Urbana added an event.

Just a few weeks ago on April 13th the US led the UK, France, and other western NATO powers in the airstrikes bombing Syria's capital of Damascus. This followed unsubstantiated claims from the US of a chemical attack by the Syrian government on Syrian citizens. Despite a continued lack of evidence, the warmongering around Syria persists.

This week in Israel, the US's primary ally in the Middle East, president Benjamin Netanyahu gave an alarmist presentation about Iran's capability to produce nuclear weapons. It featured 10+ year-old news about Iran's ability to redirect their nuclear energy program to a nuclear weapons program. This was an attempt to stir outrage against the Iranian government and to set the stage for US intervention. There is no evidence that the Iranian government is pursuing a nuclear weapons program or has any desire to do so.

It's more than a little ironic that the only country to have ever used nuclear weapons presumes to dictate to any other country how they should handle their nuclear programs.

The false claims of "weapons of mass destruction" preceding the US's invasion of Iraq in 2003 stand out as preposterous accusations to create a pretext for war. The ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) Coalition here in Champaign-Urbana understands the similarity between chemical attack claims in Syria and nuclear programs in Iran to be as ridiculous as the "weapons of mass destruction" claims about Iraq in 2003.

Therefore we are staging a march to protest further war and warmongering against all countries in the Middle East, which the United States has no business interfering in.

Join us at 5pm on Sunday at the IMC in Urbana for a march through downtown Urbana to oppose war. You can find us near the circle drive on the west side of the IMC building off of Elm street.

Co-sponsored by the Young Democratic Socialists of America and Party for Socialism and Liberation
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