Fw: [ANSWER]: APRIL 27: MARCH in WASHINGTON AGAINST WAR & RACISM!

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

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From: "A.N.S.W.E.R." <answer.general at action-mail.org>
To: <answer.general at action-mail.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 11:34 AM
Subject: [ANSWER]: APRIL 27: MARCH in WASHINGTON AGAINST WAR & RACISM!


 SATURDAY, APRIL 27
 NATIONAL MARCH IN WASHINGTON AGAINST WAR & RACISM!
 (preceded by a week of mass actions)
 -West Coast mobilization in San Francisco-
 
 Tell President Bush:
 * WE DEMAND MONEY FOR JOBS, EDUCATION, HOUSING & 
 HEALTHCARE - NOT FOR WAR & CORPORATE GIVEAWAYS!
 * STOP THE RACIST ATTACKS!
 * DEFEND CIVIL LIBERTIES, CIVIL RIGHTS & IMMIGRANT RIGHTS!
 
 TO ENDORSE the April 27 National March in Washington DC, 
 email ANSWER at afgj.org .
 
 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&#8217;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. war and occupation in 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. Almost 700 special forces and "advisers" 
 have been sent to the Philippines, and talk continues of 
 military exercises involving 2,000-4,000 U.S. troops.
 
 The U.S./Israeli war against the Palestinian people is 
 intensifying as the U.S. continues to give billions in aid 
 and political support to the Israeli government, which is 
 brutally oppressing the Palestinian people. There can be 
 no lasting peace in the Middle East until the Palestinian 
 people&#8217;s right to self-determination and a homeland 
 are secured.
 
 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 in an attempt to suppress the 
 peoples&#8217; 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. 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 private e-mails, 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 the April 27 National March in Washington DC, 
 email ANSWER at afgj.org (please put "April 27 endorsement" 
 in your email.)
 
 For more information about April 27: Web: 
 http://www.InternationalANSWER.org , Email: 
 ANSWER at afgj.org , or call New York 212-633-6646, 
 Washington 202-543-2777, San Francisco 415-821-6545, 
 Chicago 773-583-7728.
 
 http://www.InternationalANSWER.org