Fw: [ANSWER]: JAN. 18-19 MASS ACTIONS in DC: No War in Iraq!

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

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Subject: [ANSWER]: JAN. 18-19 MASS ACTIONS in DC: No War in Iraq!


> NO WAR IN IRAQ
 
 Tens of thousands will converge in Washington DC
 January 18-19, 2003
 for a MASS DEMONSTRATION
 and the Convening of the GRASSROOTS PEACE CONGRESS
 
 We wanted to let everyone know that momentum is growing 
 for the January 18 Mass March and the January 19 
 Grassroots Peace Congress to say "No War in Iraq."  Buses, 
 vans and car caravans are being organized from 
 communities, high schools and campuses all over the East 
 Coast, South and Midwest.  More than 150 cities organized 
 transportation to be at the protest of 200,000 in DC on 
 October 26 -- and those organizers left the protest 
 pledging to continue to mobilize for an even larger 
 turnout on January 18-19.
 
 Millions of people outside of DC watched the rally on 
 C-Span or listened to it on Pacifica Radio's live 
 coverage.  Many more found out about it through other 
 media coverage -- including a major article that appeared 
 in the October 30 edition of the New York Times (a much 
 better article than the biased article that appeared on 
 October 27 after the Times received thousands of angry 
 phone calls and emails) -- and are now beginning to 
 organize.  50,000 people have registered on the 
 VoteNoWar.org website.  This is in addition to the tens of 
 thousands who have filled out paper ballots/petitions on 
 October 26 and in the days since. A.N.S.W.E.R. offices 
 around the country are daily being contacted by organizers 
 and volunteers whose commitment to mobilize makes us 
 confident that January 18-19 will be a massive outpouring 
 of opposition to war in Iraq.
 
 To ENDORSE the January 18-19 Mass Actions in DC, fill out 
 the easy-to-use form at:
 http://internationalanswer.org/campaigns/j18/j18endorse.html#endo
 
 If you plan to ORGANIZE TRANSPORTATION from your area to 
 be in DC January 18-19, fill out the form at:
 http://internationalanswer.org/campaigns/j18/j18endorse.html#transp
 
 WHY YOU SHOULD BE IN DC JAN. 18-19:
 
 When Congress rejects the will of the people, the people 
 must act themselves.  Congress has rubber-stamped Bush's 
 criminal war that seeks to conquer the oil, land and 
 resources of the Middle East. Bush and Congress have shown 
 that they represent the interests of Corporate America 
 rather than the people of the United States.
 
 A people's movement is growing to stop them.  On January 
 18 and 19 tens of thousands of people will participate in 
 mass protest activities on the Martin Luther King Jr. 
 anniversary weekend.
 
 Dr. King publicly condemned the U.S. war in Vietnam, 
 providing a powerful connection between the civil rights 
 movement and the anti-war movement. In his "Beyond 
 Vietnam" speech at Riverside Church in 1967, he stated, 
 "The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today [is] 
 my own government. . . [F]or the sake of the hundreds of 
 thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be 
 silent."
 
 Dr. King believed that it was impossible to successfully 
 wage a war on poverty at home while waging a war of 
 aggression in Vietnam. The same can be said today about 
 George W. Bush's global war drive. Social programs and 
 services are being looted as Bush and Congress provide 
 record-breaking sums for weapons of mass destruction and 
 war. Bush has signed into law Congress's new defense 
 budget that transfers a billion dollars a day from the 
 people into the hands of the military-industrial complex.
 
 The thousands who are coming to Washington, D.C., honor 
 Dr. King and his legacy by opposing a criminal war in Iraq 
 -- this time not in Vietnam, but in the Middle East -- and 
 by demanding instead that these hundreds of billions of 
 dollars earmarked for war instead be spent on jobs, 
 education, housing, health care and to meet human needs.
 
 The grassroots Peace Congress will be comprised of 
 delegations from all communities who are coming together 
 in the streets and in a People's Congress to forge the 
 opposition necessary to stop the Bush Administration's war 
 drive: labor, students and youth, fighters for civil 
 rights and women's rights, the LGBT community and people 
 of faith.
 
 Join with others around the country by bringing a diverse 
 delegation from your community to participate in the 
 January 18 mass march and the January 19th People's 
 Congress.
 
 To ENDORSE the January 18-19 Mass Actions in DC, fill out 
 the easy-to-use form at:
 http://internationalanswer.org/campaigns/j18/j18endorse.html#endo
 
 If you plan to ORGANIZE TRANSPORTATION from your area to 
 be in DC January 18-19, fill out the easy-to-use form at:
 http://internationalanswer.org/campaigns/j18/j18endorse.html#transp
 
 *** Register your opposition to the war at 
 http://www.VoteNoWar.org ***