Fw: [ANSWER]: 30,000 demonstrate in DC to say OCCUPATION IS NOT LIBERATION - NO WAR FOR EMPIRE

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

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Subject: [ANSWER]: 30,000 demonstrate in DC to say OCCUPATION IS NOT
LIBERATION - NO WAR FOR EMPIRE


> 30,000 demonstrate in Washington DC to say
> OCCUPATION IS NOT LIBERATION - NO WAR FOR EMPIRE
>
> Demonstrations in sixty countries on April 12 oppose U.S.
> invasion and occupation of Iraq
>
> 30,000 demonstrators marched in central Washington, DC
> today against the invasion and occupation of Iraq by U.S.
> and British forces, according to the Washington DC police
> authorities. The demonstration, called by the
> International A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, coincided with
> coordinated anti-war actions in the capital cities of more
> than 60 countries around the world.
>
> D.C. police forces carried out a series of unprovoked
> attacks against the demonstrators, using clubs and pepper
> spray as they assaulted people who were chanting "Stop the
> U.S. War Machine from Iraq to Korea to the Philippines."
>
> Tens of thousands of people in Iraq have been killed or
> maimed in the onslaught carried out by the U.S. and
> British forces since March 19. The U.S. corporate media
> has portrayed the military actions as the liberation of
> Iraq. We know that the real motivation the White House and
> the Pentagon was to conquer Iraq and to put into place a
> U.S. military dictatorship followed by a proxy or puppet
> regime in Baghdad.
>
> The demonstration today in Washington DC was noteworthy
> because tens of thousands of demonstrators in the United
> States came together to condemn the invasion of Iraq as a
> war for empire.
>
> Iraq possesses 10 percent of the world's known oil
> supplies. The U.S. is moving quickly to plunder the land
> and especially the natural resources of Iraq for the
> benefit of U.S.-based oil and banking corporate elite.
>
> The Bush administration was engaged in a strategy of
> endless war that would further target Syria, Iran,
> southern Lebanon, Palestine, North Korea, the Philippines,
> Colombia, Zimbabwe, and others countries that sought to
> achieve national liberation and independence or sovereign
> control over their own resources.
>
> Although the U.S. corporate-dominated media has proclaimed
> that the U.S.-British invasion of Iraq and accompanying
> slaughter of Iraqis is a victory, people all over the
> world took to the streets today proving the continuation
> the massive peace and social-justice movement that swiftly
> emerged in recent months as a direct response to the Bush
> administration's war drive.
>
> Demonstrations against the war took place in the following
> countries:
>
> Argentina, Australia (April 13), Austria, Bangladesh,
> Belgium, Brazil, Burma (Myanmar), Canada, Chile, Crotia,
> Cyprus, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ecuador,
> Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Haifa,
> Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan,
> Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Mexico, Marocco, Mongolia,
> Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Pakistan,
> Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico,
> Russia, Scotland, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sudan,
> Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Turkey, UK, U.S.,
> Uruguay (April 11), Venezuela, Yemen.
>
> Below are links to articles about and photographs of the
> demonstrations:
>
> - Washington Post article
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14311-2003Apr12.html
>
> - Agence France-Presse (AFP) article on DC demonstration
>
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030412/ts_alt_afp/iraq_
war_us_imf_demos_030412181608
>
> - Agence France-Presse (AFP) article on demonstrations
> around the world
>
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030412/wl_mideast_afp/i
raq_war_demos_030412224853
>
> - Photo Gallery - DC and international demonstrations
>
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?p=news&g=events/wl/102602iraqprotests&i=ind
ex&e=1&tmpl=sl&ns=&l=1&m=&c=
>
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