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Date: June 03, 2005 at 09:48:03
From: A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, [ool-18b96746.dyn.optonline.net]
Subject: Endorse Sept. 24 - Build for United Mass AntiWar Action


Endorse Sept. 24
Build for United Mass AntiWar Action

More than 600 endorsers have signed on to the September 24 mobilization in Washington DC, with coordinated actions to take place in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

This is a call for a united demonstration. All antiwar activists work daily at the grassroots level to fight against this criminal war. There are times when it is critical for all of us to unite and come together in mass actions. The Bush administration is trying to remove Iraq from the headlines and the television screens. The people of Iraq do not have the luxury of deciding that they do not want to think about this war or that they can put it off to a more convenient time.

In the last three weeks, nearly 1,000 Iraqis have died and it has become evident that the U.S. cannot militarily defeat the expanding insurgency. U.S. casualties have risen sharply in the same period. The carnage and bloodshed in Iraq - the direct and inevitable outgrowth of the war of aggression and the attempt to impose a colonial-style confessional system in the country - will not end until the Bush administration is forced to withdraw.

Secretary of State Rice's "surprise" visit to Iraq is a clear sign of the new stage of crisis in Iraq and the alarm that it has generated in Washington. At the same time that Rice is pressuring the just-installed puppet government to make changes, she is also issuing new threats against neighboring Syria.

Rice and other U.S. officials assert that the root of the problem in Iraq is "foreign fighters." That is true but not in the way Washington means it. The intensifying resistance in Iraq is entirely attributable to the presence of U.S. and other foreign occupation troops.

Another false claim by Washington is that the occupiers are facing only a "Sunni resistance" in Iraq. This is part of the divide-in-order-to-conquer strategy of the U.S. but today, May 16, a leading Shiite cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, demanded the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. occupiers from Iraq.

This is an emergency situation. It requires immediate action. That's why September 24 Organizing Committees are being formed in cities all over the country. The overwhelming response to the appeal for a united mass demonstration on September 24 is a clear indication that activists from all over the country want to take action.

Thousands will march on Saturday, September 24 in Washington DC. The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition urges the antiwar movement to come together for a united demonstration. We will march and rally starting at the White House.

In addition to endorsing the demonstration at http://answer.pephost.org/site/Survey?SURVEY_ID=2180&ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS, be sure to circulate the September 24 call. Go to http://answer.pephost.org/site/News2?abbr=ANS_&page=NewsArticle&id=6140 to read the Call to Action.

Become a Transportation Organizing Center
to help bring people from your city or town

Organizations and activists from around the country can help spread the word, mobilize and bring people to the September 24 demonstration. If you are interested in organizing a bus, van or car caravan to Washington DC, San Francisco or Los Angeles on September 24, fill out the Transportation Listing Form (http://answer.pephost.org/site/Survey?SURVEY_ID=2200&ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&JServSessionIdr004=ssum2o8fg1.app13b). We will help to spread the word about your travel plans by including them on the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition website and in future emails. If you have questions about organizing transportation from your city, contact the National Office of the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition in Washington DC at info@internationalanswer.org or 202-544-3389.

The demands of the demonstration

While we organize around the demand for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of the U.S. from Iraq, it is essential that the movement show the connection between the war in Iraq and all the other fronts of the U.S. government's war for Empire, including the struggle of working and poor people in the United States. The demands for the demonstration include:

Stop the War in Iraq

End Colonial Occupation
from Iraq to Palestine to Haiti

Support the Palestinian People’s Right of Return

Stop the Threats Against
Venezuela, Cuba, Iran & North Korea

U.S. out of the Philippines

Bring all the troops home now

Stop the Racist, anti-Immigrant and anti-Labor
Offensive at Home, Defend Civil Rights

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