Fw: [ANSWER]: 500,000 March on Washington Against War With Iraq

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

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Subject: [ANSWER]: 500,000 March on Washington Against War With Iraq


> 500,000 Anti-War Protesters Demonstrate in Washington
> 200,00 March in San Francisco
> Hundreds of Thousands More Demonstrate Around the World
> To Oppose U.S. War With Iraq
> 
> Half a million people marched through the streets of 
> Washington Saturday and 200,000 demonstrated in San 
> Francisco in the largest U.S. demonstrations yet against 
> war with Iraq. 
> 
> Sponsored by the International A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to 
> Stop War & End Racism) Coalition, the protests were 
> endorsed by thousands of organizations. Similar 
> demonstrations were held in at least 30 other countries.
> 
> "Today's demonstrations shattered the myth of consensus 
> for war," said Mara Verheyden-Hilliard of the Partnership 
> for Civil Justice, one of the groups in A.N.S.W.E.R. 
>  "Throughout the whole world, demonstrations today showed 
> the kind of people's power it's going to take to stop the 
> war in its tracks."
> 
> January 18 was a day of global protest based in the U.S., 
> with coordinated demonstrations held in more than 30 
> countries -- including Japan, Ireland, Egypt, Spain, 
> Argentina, South Africa, Jordan, Belgium, Syria, Hong 
> Kong, Russia, Germany and Britain.
> 
> Announcing a week of anti-war protest for the week of 
> February 13-21 -- and culminating with a Student and Youth 
> Day of Action on the anniversary of the assassination of 
> Malcolm X -- organizers of the January 18 demonstration 
> joined the call of the European movement to make Februrary 
> 15 the next step in the worldwide anti-war movement.
> 
> The morning of the demonstration, train and subway 
> stations in D.C. were jammed as hundreds of buses -- 
> including 20 from New York's 1199/SEIU Health and Hospital 
> Workers Union, 20 from Winston-Salem South Carolina, eight 
> from Rochester and six from the Chicago Teachers Union -- 
> arrived in the city for the massive protest.
> 
> The rally featured such speakers as former U.S. Attorney 
> General Ramsey Clark, civil rights activist Mahdi Bray, 
> actors Jessica Lange and Tyne Daly, Representative John 
> Conyers, Reverend Jesse Jackson, former Congresswoman 
> Cynthia McKinney, author and Vietnam vet Ron Kovic, singer 
> Patti Smith, Reverend Herbert Daughtry, and Elizabeth 
> McAllister.
> 
> The program -- with musical performances by British pop 
> group Chumbawumba, singer Patti Smith, and a capella duet 
> Pam Parker and Lucy Murphy -- was opened by Moonanum James 
> of United American Indians of New England.
> 
> Speakers included A.N.S.W.E.R. leaders Elias Rashmawi, 
> Free Palestine Alliance; Peta Lindsay, A.N.S.W.E.R. Youth 
> & Student Coordinator; Larry Holmes and Brian Becker, 
> International Action Center; Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, 
> Partnership for Civil Justice; Marie Hilao Enriquez, 
> BAYAN; Macrina Cardenas, Mexico Solidarity Network; Chuck 
> Kaufman, Nicaragua Solidarity Network; Yoomi Jeong, Korea 
> Truth Commission; Cheri Honkala, Kensington Welfare Rights 
> Union; and Ismail Kamal, Muslim Students Association 
> National. Reverend Lucius Walker read an anti-war 
> statement from Rep. Charles Rangel.
> 
> Also addressing the rally were representatives of groups 
> such as New York City Labor Against the War, Maryland and 
> D.C. AFL-CIO, Colombia Trade Unionists in Exile, Queers 
> for Peace and Justice, United for Peace and Justice, Not 
> In Our Name, and representatives of the Committee for the 
> Rescue and Development of Vieques. Speakers reminded the 
> crowd that the fight against war and racism included the 
> struggles to free political prisoners Mumia Abu Jamal, 
> Leonard Peltier, Jamil Al Amin, and the Cuban Five.
> 
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