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> Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 22:18:10 -0500
> From: "A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition"
> <ANSWER at InternationalANSWER.org<mailto:ANSWER at InternationalANSWER.org>>
> To: dave at seattleactivist.org<mailto:dave at seattleactivist.org>
> Subject: Actions Against War, Racism, and
> Exploitation
> 
> Coming Actions Against
> War, Racism, and Exploitation
> 
> December 5, 2004
> Indoor Solidarity Rally with Haiti in NYC
> initiated by the Emergency Campaign to Support the
> Haitian People,
> the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition and the Haiti Support
> Network
> 
> January 20, 2005
> Counter-Inaugural Demonstration in Washington DC
> initiated by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
> 
> March 19/20, 2005
> Global Day of Coordinated Actions
> on the 2nd Anniversary of the "Shock and Awe"
> Invasion of Iraq
> initiated by antiwar organizations worldwide
> including the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition in the United
> States
> 
> October 16, 2004
> Immigrant Rights March in Los Angeles
> call supported by A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition
> 
> October 17, 2004
> Million Worker March in Washington DC
> call supported by the A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition
> 
> We will demand:
> 1) US Out of Iraq Now, End the Occupation - Bring
> the Troops Home Now
> 2) End Colonial Domination from Palestine to Haiti,
> and Everywhere
> 3) Health Care, Education, Housing, and a Job at a
> Living Wage Must be
> a Right!
> 
> The people of this country, in cooperation with the
> people of the
> world, have built a mass worldwide movement since
> October 2002, when
> the first massive antiwar demonstrations took place.
> In that movement
> lies the hope that the imperialist war drive can be
> challenged. Do not
> count on the politicians who contest with each
> other, not about
> principle, but about who would be more effective in
> winning the war of
> aggression against Iraq. The antiwar movement must
> be in the streets
> in the coming weeks and months - building a
> politically independent
> movement. It is this movement of global solidarity
> that poses the only
> real obstacle to the forces of militarism and
> corporate domination,
> and that prioritizes meeting human needs and
> embraces
> self-determination.
> 
> Bush's monstrous invasion and occupation of Iraq is
> now entering the
> appalling next stage. A reign of terror has been
> inflicted on Najaf,
> Sammarah, Sadr City in Baghdad, Fallujah and other
> areas outside of
> the political control of the occupying forces.
> 
> Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell and others are guilty
> of war crimes.
> The world is disgusted as the carnage is unleashed
> from AC-130
> gunships and by missile attacks on densely populated
> city streets.
> Wedding parties destroyed by air attack, the grim
> pictures of the
> bodies of children and other civilians being removed
> from the rubble
> of buildings destroyed by what the Pentagon press
> office always calls
> "precision bombings against known terrorist
> hideouts," torture and
> brutality. This is the essence of Bush's plan to
> proceed with
> "democratic elections."
> 
> And what is Kerry's response on Iraq? "We are
> talking about winning,
> not leaving," Kerry told us in the first
> presidential debate. We,
> along with a growing number of military families and
> soldiers, are
> insisting that the troops be brought home now. More
> than 1,050 GI's
> are dead and thousands wounded - many with
> horrendous life-altering
> injuries - in this criminal war.
> 
> In Palestine, more than 100 Palestinians have been
> massacred in a
> matter of days by Ariel Sharon's offensive in
> refugee camps in Gaza.
> You'd hardly know about it from the U.S. mass media.
> Do Bush and Kerry
> have a different view about this U.S.-financed
> slaughter? They only
> try to compete with each other by their
> grandiloquent declarations in
> support of Israel's actions - including the
> construction of the
> hideous apartheid wall. We must stand with the
> people of Palestine
> including support for their right of return.
> 
> In Haiti the death toll has risen to more than 3,000
> from the
> aftermath of Hurricane Jeanne. The Bush
> administration's stooge
> government did nothing to help the people. They did
> not prepare for,
> order or assist in an evacuation of people at risk.
> Instead they have
> focused their energy on arresting hundreds of
> supporters of deposed
> President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The disaster
> caused by the Hurricane
> is "man-made." It is the consequence of decades of
> neo-liberal
> policies imposed on the country by the U.S. and the
> IMF that have
> resulted in, among other problems, massive
> de-forestation, leaving the
> country vulnerable to catastrophic flooding. What
> has Kerry done to
> provide an alternative to Bush on Haiti? Absolutely
> nothing.
> 
> The massive outpouring of the renewed antiwar
> movement needs your
> continued help to support these upcoming activities.
> Organizing buses,
> printing hundreds of thousands of leaflets and
> posters, phonebanking,
> mass mailings - these vital tasks take funds. The
> generosity and
> self-sacrifice of those who believe in the
> importance of building this
> movement has made all the difference in the past
> years. We are
> creating the only real, viable force that can
> challenge the political
> stranglehold exercised by the warmakers.
> 
> You can make a donation online through a secure
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>
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> make a tax deductible credit card donation, call
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> also make a tax deductible donation by writing a
> check to
> A.N.S.W.E.R./AGJ and sending it to A.N.S.W.E.R.,
> 1247 E St. SE,
> Washington DC 20003.
> 
> Reminder
> 
> Next weekend - Saturday, October 16 & Sunday,
> October 17 - is the
> weekend of action for immigrant and labor rights.
> The A.N.S.W.E.R.
> Coalition is supporting both of the demonstrations
> taking place this
> weekend.
> 
> Regional March and Rally for Immigrant Rights: On
> Saturday, October
> 16, gather at 12 noon at Olympic and Broadway in Los
> Angeles - Nearly
> ten years ago, on October 16, 1994, the Latino
> immigrant community and
> its allies convened and held the largest ever mass
> march and rally by
> Latinos in the history of the United States. The
> main issue then was
> the movement to defeat Proposition 187, which aimed
> to deny basic
> human services and constitutional and labor rights
> to immigrants. That
> historic march united the Latino community and their
> allies like never
> before and unleashed a rise in the political
> consciousness of millions
> of people in California and throughout the rest of
> the country. To
> commemorate that historic march is important. We
> must also elevate the
> level of struggle to win full rights for
> undocumented workers and
> their families at this critical time. This call for
> a demonstration on
> October 16, 2004, was initiated two years ago by a
> pro-immigrant
> coalition led by Latino Movement USA & Hermandad
> Mexicana Nacional
> on October 22, 2002, during the rally held at the
> Immigrant Rights
> March in downtown Los Angeles.
> 
> Million Worker March: On Sunday, October 17, gather
> at 12 noon Lincoln
> Memorial in Washington DC - According to the Million
> Worker March
> Committee, "This mobilization is being proposed in
> response to the
> attacks upon working families in America and the
> millions of jobs lost
> during the Bush administration and with the
> complicity of Congress."
> The march is also calling to Bring the Troops Home
> Now. It was
> initiated by The International Longshore and
> Warehouse Union, Local 10
> and endorsed by many labor, community and activist
> organizations.
> Visit
>
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> for logistical information (directions, maps,
> housing,
> etc.).
> 
> War Crimes in Iraq
> 
> From the Independent UK
> 
> Take them out, dude: pilots toast hit on Iraqi
> 'civilians'
> 
> By Andrew Buncombe
> Washington DC
> October 6, 2004
> 
> The Pentagon said yesterday it was investigating
> cockpit video footage
> that shows American pilots attacking and killing a
> group of apparently
> unarmed Iraqi civilians.
> 
> The 30-second clip shows the pilot targeting the
> group of people in a
> street in the city of Fallujah and asking his
> mission controllers
> whether he should "take them out". He is told to do
> so and, shortly
> afterwards, the footage shows a huge explosion where
> the people were.
> A second voice can be heard on the clip saying: "Oh,
> dude."
> 
> The existence of the video, taken last April inside
> the cockpit of a
> US F-16 fighter, has been known for some time,
> though last night's
> broadcast by Channel 4 News is believed to be the
> first time a
> mainstream broadcaster has shown the footage.
> 
> At no point during the exchange between the pilot
> and controllers does
> anyone ask whether the Iraqis are armed or posing a
> threat. Critics
> say it proves war crimes are being committed.
> 
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