[Peace] Fwd: Counter-Inaugural Protest This Saturday!

[Alfred Kagan]

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> From: Red1pearl at aol.com
> Date: January 12, 2005 12:25:50 PM CST
> To: chi-labor-against-the-war at yahoogroups.com,  
> chicagodan at yahoogroups.com, chicagomayday at yahoogroups.com,  
> chicap at lists.riseup.net, chicagoworkermarch at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: Counter-Inaugural Protest This Saturday!
>
>
> In a message dated 1/12/2005 2:04:13 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
> response at zinester.com writes:
>
> Next week people from across this nation will gather in Washington, DC  
> to protest the second installation of George Bush as U.S. president.
>  
> We gather for a sweeping range of reasons, from support for affordable  
> health care and immigrant rights to our opposition to the war in Iraq.
>   
> One thing above all else unites us - our opposition to the Bush regime  
> and its congressional supporters - and our diversity is our strength.
>   
> At 2 pm, Saturday, January 15th, our ad hoc group, the Chicago  
> Organizing Coalition -- Counter-Inaugural (COCCI) will begin a protest  
> at Senn High School, 5900 N. Glenwood Avenue, followed by a march to  
> the Broadway Armory, 5917 N. Broadway Avenue, for a cultural/political  
> program.  Our featured speakers will be Barbara Porchia and Fernando  
> Suarez De Solar, each of whom has lost sons in Iraq and courageously  
> spoken out against the war and occupation.
>  
> To get as many people as possible to directly counter the inaugural  
> hoopla in Washington, COCCI is organizing buses leaving Chicago at 5  
> pm, Wednesday, January 19, returning at approximately 9 am on Friday,  
> January 21st. To get bus tickets ($80 round-trip) or more information  
> about them, call 773-878-0166 or email ccawr at aol.com or  
> cocci-info at chicagoactions.org
>  
> Current endorsers of the events include:
> Albany Park, North Park, Mayfair Neighbors for Peace and Justice
> ANSWER Coalition, Chicago
> Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism
> Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights
> Chicago Socialist Party
> Evanston Neighbors for Peace
> Gay Liberation Network (formerly Chicago Anti-Bashing Network)
> Hyde Park Committee Against War and Racism
> International Socialist Organization
> International Solidarity Movement, Chicago
> Logan Square Neighbors for Peace
> Palestine Solidarity Group, Chicago
> Party for Socialism and Liberation, Chicago
> Southsiders for Peace
> Students for Social Justice
> (list in formation)
>   
> Please join us at 2 pm this Saturday for the protest march beginning  
> at Senn High School, 5900 N. Glenwood, and then get on the bus to DC  
> next Wednesday.  A downloadable flyer for both events is available at  
> http://chicago.indymedia.org/usermedia/application/4/1-05portrait1-20 
> -05cocciflyer.pdf
>
>  
>
Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliogrpaher and Professor of Library Administration
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801

tel. 217-333-6519
fax 217-333-2214
akagan at uiuc.edu
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