Fw: [ANSWER]: APRIL 27: March on Washington vs. war & racism

["Nello Margiotta" <animarg at tin.it>]

From: "ANSWER" <answer.general at action-mail.org>
To: <answer.general at action-mail.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 2:22 AM
Subject: [ANSWER]: APRIL 27: March on Washington vs. war & racism


 MARCH ON WASHINGTON AGAINST WAR & RACISM!
 Mass Mobilization: SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2002
 (preceded by a week of mass actions)
 
 Tell President Bush:
 WE DEMAND MONEY FOR JOBS AND EDUCATION NOT WAR!
 STOP THE RACIST ATTACKS!
 DEFEND CIVIL LIBERTIES AND CIVIL RIGHTS!
 
 The U.S. corporate and banking establishment seeks to 
 maintain U.S. domination throughout the globe for their 
 own benefit. It is these corporate and banking elites who 
 profit from the exploitation of oil and natural gas 
 resources in the Middle East and South Asia, from bloated 
 military contracts and from Bush administration bailouts 
 and tax breaks. With skyrocketing unemployment, evictions, 
 foreclosures, and slashing of welfare and healthcare 
 benefits at home, people in the U.S. need billions to 
 create jobs, improve our schools, and provide quality 
 health care. Instead the Bush administration is spending 
 billions on bombing civilians and military aggression.
 
Record layoffs continue and the U.S. government's response 
 is billions of dollars in bailouts to corporations and 
 insurance companies while cuts in social programs 
 continue. The immediate response of the Bush 
 administration after September 11 was a $15 billion 
 package for major airlines, while they have refused to 
 increase unemployment insurance for 100,000 travel 
 industry employees and 400,000 workers in other sectors 
 who lost their jobs. The Bush-proposed $100 billion 
economic stimulus package" that is under consideration 
would not only repeal the corporate minimum tax, but would 
> refund to the big corporations of the U.S. fourteen years 
 of taxes, and would provide more permanent tax cuts for 
 the wealthiest individuals.
 
 As the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan continues and that 
 country lies in ruins, the Bush administration is 
 preparing to widen its war against other countries. Many 
 in the Bush administration would like to greatly intensify 
 their 11-year-long war against Iraq. Eleven years of 
 U.S.-led UN sanctions and bombing of Iraq have already 
 left over 1.5 million Iraqis dead and many more ill and 
 malnourished.
 
 Other countries targeted for possible attack include 
 Somalia, Sudan, Indonesia, Yemen, North Korea and Cuba. 
The U.S. is intensifying their aid to countries such as 
 Colombia and the Philippines who are attempting to 
suppress people's struggles. At this moment, the U.S. is 
 using Plan Colombia as a wedge to intensify its 
intervention, threatening a Vietnam-type war in Latin 
 America. The U.S. continues to give billions in aid and 
 political support to the Israeli government, which is 
nearly universally condemned for its brutal oppression of 
 the Palestinian people. There can be no lasting peace in 
the Middle East until the Palestinian people's right to 
 self-determination and a homeland are secured.
 
As the war abroad threatens to expand, the war at home 
 against Arab, Muslim, South Asian and all working people 
continues. So-called "anti-terrorism" legislation has 
 legitimized and legalized racial profiling as more than 
5,000 young Arab men have become the targets of FBI 
 investigation, over 1,200 people have been detained and 
college administrations have been asked by the FBI to turn 
 over names and records of Arab, Muslim and international 
students.
 
 Bush and Ashcroft are reorganizing federal law enforcement 
 into a domestic surveillance police state that gives the 
 government license to listen to the public's phone calls, 
 read the public's e-mail, execute covert searches, and 
 target political and religious groups.

 On SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2002, tens of thousands of peace 
 activists, workers, students, labor unionists, and others 
will converge in Washington, DC for a massive march on the 
White House to say: MONEY FOR JOBS AND EDUCATION NOT WAR! 
 STOP THE RACIST ATTACKS! DEFEND CIVIL LIBERTIES AND CIVIL 
 RIGHTS! 

*The April 27 national march on Washington against racism 
 and war will be the conclusion of a week of mass actions. 
 We call on people to join the National Colombia 
 Mobilization April 19-22 ( 
 http://www.soaw.org/colombiaMobilization.html ).*
 
 International (A.N.S.W.E.R. Act Now to Stop War & End 
 Racism) is a coalition that was formed in response to the 
 headlong rush to war and racist attacks following the 
 horrific events of September 11. A.N.S.W.E.R. has the 
support participation of more than 500 organizations and 
 prominent individuals and has scores of organizing centers 
 across the U.S. and around the world.
 
 To endorse email: ANSWER at afgj.org
 
 For more information about April 27:
 Web - http://www.InternationalANSWER.org
 Email - ANSWER at afgj.org
r call New York 212-633-6646, Washington 202-543-2777, 
 San Francisco 415-821-6545, Chicago 773-583-7728