Fw: [ANSWER] March on the Pentagon: June 5

["nello margiotta" <nellomargiotta55 at virgilio.it>]

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Subject: [ANSWER] March on the Pentagon: June 5


> A CALL FOR EMERGENCY PROTESTS:
> SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 2004
>
> MARCH ON THE PENTAGON
> (assemble at the White House at 12 noon)
>
> MASS MOBILIZATIONS in SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES
>
> *call initiated by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition*
>
> To ENDORSE:
> http://www.ANSWERcoalition.org/campaigns/j5/endorse.html
>
> The U.S. war and occupation of Iraq is a disaster for the
> people there and here, a disaster that the Bush
> administration wants to escalate. In the first three weeks
> of April alone, more than 1,000 Iraqis, most of them
> civilians, and at least 110 U.S. soldiers have been
> killed. It is not only U.S. troops that are dying but
> those from Latin America and from other countries in
> Bush's "coalition of the willing." Thousands more have
> been wounded. The war is costing more than 300 million
> dollars ($300,000,000) every day, money that is
> transferred from working people in the U.S. to the pockets
> of arms manufacturers and corporate war profiteers.  It is
> a war that is destroying an entire country and the lives
> of the Iraqi people - already victimized for more than a
> decade by sanctions.
>
> Now the White House and the Pentagon are calling for more
> troops, more death and destruction, and even more money
> for a war that is based on lies and deception. The Iraqi
> people, U.S. soldiers and reservists, and all those who
> are casualties in Iraq are dying for the sake of the real
> agenda: Corporate America's drive to dominate the oil-rich
> and strategic Middle East.
>
> While Bush imposes a murderous occupation in Iraq, the
> administration has given its full backing to the Sharon
> government in Israel which continues to carry out routine
> assassinations and land expropriation, placing an entire
> population within the confines of a prison wall. The Bush
> administration has recently announced that it too is
> committed to the denial of the Palestinian people's right
> to return 56 years after being violently expelled from
> their homeland.
>
> As public opinion here and around the world turns more and
> more against war and occupation, the Bush administration
> has announced a phony "turnover of sovereignty" in Iraq on
> June 30. In reality, it will only be a transfer of
> authority from one U.S. overseer, L. Paul Bremer, to
> another, John Negroponte, the newly proposed U.S.
> ambassador (dictator) in Iraq. More than 150,000 troops
> from the U.S. and countries dependent on the U.S. will
> continue to occupy Iraq after June 30. The "turnover of
> sovereignty" is just propaganda meant to deceive people
> here into believing that the situation is getting better.
> In fact, the Bush administration is growing ever more
> isolated and exposed as other countries, including Spain,
> Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic, are
> withdrawing their troops in the face of growing public
> outrage within their own countries.
>
> It is time to bring an end to occupations and
> dispossession of people.
>
> On June 5, we will march to demand a real end to the
> occupation of Iraq by bringing the troops home now, and we
> will demand that all foreign troops be removed from Iraq.
>
> June 5 is the anniversary of the 1967 war in which Israel,
> with full backing from Washington, conquered the West
> Bank, Gaza Strip and the Syrian Golan Heights. We will
> march to call for an end to the colonial occupation of
> Palestine, and to support the Palestinian people's right
> to self-determination, including their right to return to
> their homeland.
>
> We will stand in solidarity with the Haitian people who
> are living under foreign military occupation following the
> February 28/29 U.S.-coup against the democratically
> elected government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. President
> Aristide must be returned to office and U.S., French and
> other occupation forces must withdraw. Having overthrown
> the government of Haiti, the Bush administration is
> renewing its efforts to carry out a coup against the
> democratically elected President of Venezuela, Hugo
> Chavez. Likewise the Bush administration is growing ever
> more threatening towards the people of Cuba, in their
> continuing efforts to reinstate a neo-colonial regime on
> the island. The people of the Caribbean and Latin America,
> having endured more than a century of U.S. military
> intervention and forcible "regime change," are united in
> their opposition to U.S. overt and covert aggression.
>
> The Bush administration is waging war on the people here,
> attacking civil rights and civil liberties at home under
> the pretext of the war on terrorism. At the same time,
> hundreds of billions of dollars are being diverted for war
> and war contractors, while the administration is slashing
> desperately needed funds for jobs, education, housing,
> healthcare and other vital programs.
>
> Now is the time to act! Join us in national emergency
> protests on June 5!
>
> BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW - ALL FOREIGN TROOPS OUT OF
> IRAQ!
>
> END THE COLONIAL OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE ­ SUPPORT THE
> RIGHT OF RETURN!
>
> U.S. OUT OF HAITI, AFGHANISTAN, PHILIPPINES, COLOMBIA,
> VENEZUELA, KOREA & CUBA!
>
> MONEY FOR JOBS, EDUCATION, HOUSING AND HEALTHCARE - NOT
> FOR WAR!
>
> DEFEND CIVIL LIBERTIES AND CIVIL RIGHTS!
>
> To ENDORSE fill out the easy-to-use form at
> http://www.ANSWERcoalition.org/campaigns/j5/endorse.html
>
> A downloadable flyer for the March on the Pentagon is
> available at
> http://www.ANSWERcoalition.org/pdf/j5/dc.pdf
>
> If you are organizing transportation from your city, fill
> out the form at
> http://www.ANSWERcoalition.org/campaigns/j5/transportation.html
>
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