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- Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 10:22:49 +0100
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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@afgj.org
For more information about April 27:
Web - http://www.InternationalANSWER.org
Email - ANSWER@afgj.org
r call New York 212-633-6646, Washington 202-543-2777,
San Francisco 415-821-6545, Chicago 773-583-7728