[Peace] Fwd:[ANSWER]: ENDORSE the Oct. 26 Nat'l March in Washington

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OCTOBER 26
NATIONAL MARCH on WASHINGTON DC
with a joint action in San Francisco
to STOP THE WAR ON IRAQ BEFORE IT STARTS!

*** To ENDORSE the Call to Action, go to 
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/o26/o26endorse.html#endo

The Bush administration is rushing towards war. The time  to act is now. The people of the United States can stop 
this madness.

World public opinion and almost every government opposes  Bush's planned war of aggression.  But it will take a mass  peoples' movement--in the streets, workplaces, 
communities, campuses and high schools--to stop the coming  war.

On Saturday, October 26, 2002 -- the first anniversary of  the signing of the so-called Patriot Act -- anti-war, 
civil rights, labor, student and other forces are joining 
together to launch a massive international mobilization in  opposition to a new war against the people of Iraq. Mass  marches and rallies will be held in Washington DC and San  Francisco in the U.S., and in many other countries.

As the Bush administration violates international law it 
has been systematically engaged in a campaign of division  and repression in the United States including a wholesale  assault on the Bill of Rights, institutionalization of 
racial profiling, and aggregation of near dictatorial 
powers to the Executive branch.

In articulating the so-called doctrine of preemptive war,  the Bush administration is preparing to violate all 
existing international law and the UN charter which 
forbids countries to carry out war except in the case of  self-defense. Preemption is merely a slogan to justify a 
foreign policy of armed aggression and military adventure.

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and company are planning  to send tens of thousands of young GIs to kill and be 
killed in another war for Big Oil. Simultaneously, the 
Bush Administration is diverting billions of dollars to 
feed military conquest and away from jobs, education, 
healthcare, childcare and housing.

The so-called debate that is opening now to public view 
from within the political establishment presents a 
necessity for all anti-war forces to become a major factor  in generating an authentic opposition to U.S. war plans in  the Middle East. The October 26 National March in 
Washington DC and joint action in San Francisco come just  one week before midterm Congressional elections. 

There won't be a real national debate on a planned 
invasion of Iraq until the people are in the streets. We 
can't leave it to the military establishment to decide 
when and how they will go to war and to define the debate.  We must tell Bush and his corporate and Big Oil patrons  that we will not allow this to happen.

This war can be stopped. Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz  and company can be stopped.  But the essential element 
must be the mobilization of a massive new anti-war 
movement in the streets. We call for civilians and 
soldiers alike to exercise their political right to speak 
out against an illegal war. On October 26, there will be a  National March in Washington DC, a West Coast march in San  Francisco, and protests around the world.

ONLY THE PEOPLE CAN STOP THE WAR!
JOIN US ON OCTOBER 26, 2002!

*** To ENDORSE the Call to Action, go to 
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/o26/o26endorse.html#endo

*INITIATERS*
- A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
- IFCO/Pastors for Peace
- Free Palestine Alliance
- Muslim Student Association
- Partnership for Civil Justice - LDEF
- Mexico Solidarity Network
- Nicaragua Network
- International Action Center
- Kensington Welfare Rights Union
- Middle East Children's Alliance
- Bayan USA-International (Filipino comm