Fw: [ANSWER]: Brooklyn, NY: 1,000 pack House of Lord Chuch to say NO to war on Iraq

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

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Subject: [ANSWER]: Brooklyn, NY: 1,000 pack House of Lord Chuch to say NO to
war on Iraq


> BROOKLYN, NY:
> OVER 1,000 PACK HOUSE OF THE LORD CHURCH TO SAY NO TO WAR
> AGAINST IRAQ
>
> PRESS RELEASE: November 22, 2002
> International A.N.S.W.E.R.
> Act Now To Stop War & End Racism
>
> Rev. Herbert Daughtry, City Council Member Charles Barron
> and Other Leaders Call For National January 18 March on
> Washington to Protest War With Iraq
>
> November 21 -- Over 1,000 people crowded into three floors
> of Brooklyn's House of the Lord Church for New York's
> first major anti-war demonstration in the African American
> community.
>
> The church's pastor, Reverend Herbert Daughtry, chaired
> and spoke on the rally program that also included City
> Council Member Charles Barron, former U.S. Attorney
> General Ramsey Clark, a message from Representative
> Cynthia McKinney, the December 12 Movement's Viola
> Plummer, A.N.S.W.E.R.'s Larry Holmes, Reverend Paul Mayer
> of the NYC Forum of Concerned Religious Leaders and Jasmin
> Cruz, A.N.S.W.E.R. Student Organizer.
>
> The rally, called by the Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Now
> Committee and New York A.N.S.W.E.R., was a sign of the
> growth of the anti-war movement in the weeks following the
> October 26 demonstrations, in Washington and San
> Francisco, that together attracted over 300,000 people.
>
> Thursday night's speakers called on people to join the
> January 18 National March on Washington against Bush's
> war, which was called by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition and
> will coincide with the convening of the Grassroots Peace
> Conference.  Organizers also set a New York-area
> organizing meeting at the House of the Lord church for
> Sunday, December 15 at 4:00.
>
> "I believe we've reached a new level of unity.  People
> have never come together this way," Daughtry told the
> crowd. "Our next stop is Washington, D.C. on January 18.
> Together we can win. We can stop this war."
>
> McKinney's statement, read at the rally, called George W.
> Bush's war on terrorism "a stick-up of global
> proportions."  It continued: "The United States wants to
> submit the world to its form of justice but refuses to
> submit to the world's justice ... In the absence of
> justice, and in the absence of dignity, we are the ones
> who must stand up for peace."
>
> Others took on the Bush Administration's bogus war on
> terrorism. "Want to talk about terrorism?" Barron asked
> the crowd. "Terrorism is the police firing 41 shots at an
> unarmed African man and hitting him 19 times," referring
> to the murder of Amadou Diallo.
>
> "We must stand up and make the government represent the
> will of the people," Clark said. "And that means no more
> war."
>
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