[Peace] [IAC] April 27: National DC March Against War & Racism (fwd)

[parenti susan rose]

This might be something to attend, not only to add our numbers, but also
to find out what other activists are doing. Could AWARE support a car-load
of people from here to attend?

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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:50:39
From: Pauline Bartolone <alice_redqueen at hotmail.com>
To: sdas at onthejob.net
Subject: [Sdas] Fwd: [IAC] April 27: National DC March Against War & Racism




>From: "Action Center" <actioncenter at action-mail.org>
>To: <ActionCenter.actgen at action-mail.org>
>Subject: [IAC] April 27: National DC March Against War & Racism
>Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 21:07:30 -0500
>
>MARCH ON WASHINGTON AGAINST WAR & RACISM!
>Mass Mobilization: SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2002
>(preceded by a week of mass actions)
>
>Tell President Bush:
>WE DEMAND MONEY FOR JOBS AND EDUCATION  NOT WAR!
>STOP THE RACIST ATTACKS!
>DEFEND CIVIL LIBERTIES AND CIVIL RIGHTS!
>
>The U.S. corporate and banking establishment seeks to
>maintain U.S. domination throughout the globe for
>their own benefit.  It is these corporate and banking
>elites who profit from the exploitation of oil and
>natural gas resources in the Middle East and South
>Asia, from bloated military contracts and from Bush
>administration bailouts and tax breaks. With
>skyrocketing unemployment, evictions, foreclosures,
>and slashing of welfare and healthcare benefits at
>home, people in the U.S. need billions to create jobs,
>improve our schools, and provide quality health care.
>Instead the Bush administration is spending billions
>on bombing civilians and military aggression.
>
>Record layoffs continue and the U.S. government=92s
>response is billions of dollars in bailouts to
>corporations and insurance companies while cuts in
>social programs continue. The immediate response of
>the Bush administration after September 11 was a $15
>billion package for major airlines, while they have
>refused to increase unemployment insurance for 100,000
>travel industry employees and 400,000 workers in other
>sectors who lost their jobs.  The Bush-proposed $100
>billion =93economic stimulus package=94 that is under
>consideration would not only repeal the corporate
>minimum tax, but would refund to the big corporations
>of the U.S. fourteen years of taxes, and would provide
>more permanent tax cuts for the wealthiest
>individuals.
>
>As the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan continues and that
>country lies in ruins, the Bush administration is
>preparing to widen its war against other countries.
>Many in the Bush administration would like to greatly
>intensify their 11-year-long war against Iraq.  Eleven
>years of U.S.-led UN sanctions and bombing of Iraq
>have already left over 1.5 million Iraqis dead and
>many more ill and malnourished.
>
>Other countries targeted for possible attack include
>Somalia, Sudan, Indonesia, Yemen, North Korea and
>Cuba.  The U.S. is intensifying their aid to countries
>such as Colombia and the Philippines who are
>attempting to suppress people=92s struggles.  At this
>moment, the U.S. is using Plan Colombia as a wedge to
>intensify its intervention, threatening a Vietnam-type
>war in Latin America.  The U.S. continues to give
>billions in aid and political support to the Israeli
>government, which is nearly universally condemned for
>its brutal oppression of the Palestinian people.
>There can be no lasting peace in the Middle East until
>the Palestinian people=92s right to self-determination
>and a homeland are secured.
>
>As the war abroad threatens to expand, the war at home
>against Arab, Muslim, South Asian and all working
>people continues.  So-called =93anti-terrorism=94
>legislation has legitimized and legalized racial
>profiling as more than 5,000 young Arab men have
>become the targets of FBI investigation, over 1,200
>people have been detained and college administrations
>have been asked by the FBI to turn over names and
>records of Arab, Muslim and international students.
>Bush and Ashcroft are reorganizing federal law
>enforcement into a domestic surveillance police state
>that gives the government license to listen to the
>public's phone calls, read the public's e-mail,
>execute covert searches, and target political and
>religious groups.
>
>On SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2002, tens of thousands of
>peace activists, workers, students, labor unionists,
>and others will converge in Washington, DC for a
>massive march on the White House to say:
>MONEY FOR JOBS AND EDUCATION  NOT WAR!
>STOP THE RACIST ATTACKS!
>DEFEND CIVIL LIBERTIES AND CIVIL RIGHTS!
>
>*The April 27 national march on Washington against
>racism and war will be the conclusion of a week of
>mass actions.  We call on people to join the National
>Colombia Mobilization April 19-22
>(http://www.soaw.org/colombiaMobilization.html).*
>
>International A.N.S.W.E.R.  Act Now to Stop War & End
>Racism - is a coalition that was formed in response to
>the headlong rush to war and racist attacks following
>the horrific events of September 11.  A.N.S.W.E.R. has
>the support participation of more than 500
>organizations and prominent individuals and has scores
>of organizing centers across the U.S. and around the
>world.
>
>To endorse email: ANSWER at afgj.org
>
>For more information about April 27: Web:
>http://www.InternationalANSWER.org, Email:
>ANSWER at afgj.org, or call New York 212-633-6646,
>Washington 202-543-2777, San Francisco 415-821-6545,
>Chicago 773-583-7728.
>
>
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