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Bisognerebbe aderire dall'Italia, o fare una manifestazione
parallela.
Enrico Peyretti
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 9:39
PM
Subject: Fw: Central Park March 20 - Out
Now! Mass Demonstration
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 7:49 PM
Subject: Central Park March 20 - Out Now! Mass
Demonstration
Emergency Anti War
Conference
Calls for United March on Central Park to End
the Occupation
"Central Park Belongs to the People--March on Central Park on March 20 to
End the Occupation!"
This call for a united effort of antiwar
forces came from organizers and activists at the December 4 Emergency Antiwar
Conference in New York City. It was greeted with thunderous applause and
a renewed determination to be in the streets to fight the illegal occupation
of Iraq. (see below for the text of the call)
The conference,
called by the International Action Center, was supported by a wide variety of
progressive organizations including: New York City Labor Against the War, the
Haiti Support Network, the New York Million Worker March Committee, the Korea
Truth Commission, New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of
Palestine, New School Graduate Program in International Affairs Human Rights
Group, International Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, AMAT -
the Association of Mexican American Workers, FIST - Fight Imperialism - Stand
Together, Queers for Peace and Justice, Democratic Palestine, the No Draft No
Way Campaign, PeopleJudgeBush.org, and more.
Panelists at the
conference raised the need to organize against the draft and military
recruiting, to support resistance inside the military, and to return to the
streets in the continued struggle to stop the occupation. At the
conclusion of the conference, participants broke into planning groups to begin
organizing the next phase of resistance to occupation. Organizing groups
included: Fighting Bush's War Budget, Fighting the Draft and Military
Recruiting, Solidarity with Resistance in the Military, and Action Plan:
Counter-Inaugural and March 20.
OUT NOW!
MARCH TO
CENTRAL PARK ON SUNDAY MARCH 20th, 2005
THE WHOLE WORLD WILL BE
MARCHING AND WATCHING
The world-wide
antiwar movement has called for massive demonstrations against the war on the
weekend on March 19-20 -- the second anniversary of the invasion of
Iraq. We have a responsibility to respond with renewed determination and
commitment in the face of the Bush Administration's launching of a new phase
of the war against the Iraqi people.
A few months ago, Mayor Bloomberg,
the NYPD, and Bush told us that we could not march to and rally in Central
Park. We do not accept this decision and are determined to challenge it
in the courts and by assembling tens of thousands of people to retake Central
Park --our Park. The antiwar movement cannot afford, and must not allow,
this infringement on our rights, especially in a city as important as NYC.
We call on all antiwar and progressive activists, organizations,
and coalitions to work towards building a massive march on Sunday March 20th
to Central Park under the slogan OUT NOW!
We propose to set up an OUT
NOW coalition, open to all individuals and organizations willing to work
together to stop the war. The reason why we are proposing that we call
this movement “OUT NOW!” is because these two simple words convey the absolute
zero tolerance for the occupation of Iraq that must drive our organizing hence
forth. We need everyone to know that the mass movement is re-opening a
full-scale campaign to stop the war and end the occupation and that the
movement means business.
We encourage you to endorse this
call.
The International Action
Center
What you can do to
help build March 20:
1) Endorse
2) Organize local
transportation to NYC
3) Help
get the word out - download flyers from http://www.PeopleJudgeBush.org
4)
Forward this email as widely as possible
THE CHALLENGES FACING
THE ANTIWAR MOVEMENT
The following points are not submitted as the
basis for unity that all must agree to before working together. They are
points of discussion that merit movement-wide attention at this crucial
juncture.
* WE need to demand the Immediate, complete and
unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. occupation troops from Iraq. The
occupation’s sole purpose is to control the natural resources of Iraq and
render the Iraqi people and its institutions subservient to US corporate
interest by military force. The principal function of the occupation is the
destruction of all who dare to resist it, no matter the cost in Iraqi lives,
in the destruction of Iraq’s infrastructure, and the resulting devastation of
Iraqi society.
* The most important thing to know about the January 30
“elections” that are being organized under the US-created Allyawi regime, is
that their purpose is to legitimize the occupation and the objectives of the
occupiers. In the days ahead it will become more important for us to reject
and expose any excuses put forward to justify the continuation of the colonial
occupation of Iraq for even one more day, or the sending of more troops which
is already under way. There is only one issue and that is ending the criminal
occupation - immediately.
* We must support politically, morally and
organizationally members of the U.S. armed services who are resisting the war,
moreover, we must encourage this resistance.
* We must organize to
fight any attempt by the Bush Administration to re-instate the draft and
prepare to support resistance if conscription returns.
*It is time for
the antiwar movement to acknowledge the absolute and unconditional right of
the Iraqi people to resist the occupation of their country without passing
judgment on their methods of resistance. Even the founding charter of
the United Nations clearly affirms the right of an occupied people to resist
by force of arms.
* Bush’s doctrine of preemptive war, the occupation
of Iraq and Afghanistan and the growing threats against Iran and North Korea
make it incumbent upon us to reject that notion that smaller countries must
disarm and leave themselves defenseless at the demand of Bush and the
Pentagon. Such demands are not only hypocritical, irrational and unjust; they
amount to little more than a pretext for more invasions and
occupations.
* We must continue to draw the connections between and
build solidarity all of the people in every part of the world that are
resisting the empire - in Korea, the Philippines, Cuba, Venezuela, Columbia,
Puerto Rico, and Haiti, where the people are actively resisting the
“coupnapping” of President Aristide.
* There must no longer be any
hesitation on the part of our movement regarding our support of the struggle
of the Palestinian people to free themselves from occupation. As a movement we
have made a huge step forward in this regard. There must be no turning
back.
* We must work to facilitate the widest unity between all of the
forces that are seriously organizing against the war and occupation. The world
demands no less of us inside of the US. If there is a will to forge unity,
then those with wide differences in political positions and even a history of
poor working relations will find the basis to unite in the interest of the
struggle to stop the war.
* Now that the election is over, it is clear
more than ever that only a peoples’ mass movement can stop the war. The
antiwar movement should never again sacrifice its independence and demobilize
itself on behalf of a political party that supports the war. The first
and most immediate task of the antiwar movement is to be back in the
streets.
* It is up to us to revitalize the mass struggle against the
war and to insure that it is serious, uncompromising, unrelenting and
supportive of a wide array of tactics from the mass marches to the militant
tactics of the youth, to the tactics that are most effective for the inclusion
of workers, labor unions and people of color.
* One way of
accomplishing greater fusion between the antiwar movement and the working
class and the poor is through linking of the issues that affect the mass of
the people with the struggle against the war in a much more strategic and
substantive way. For example, very soon the Bush administration will ask
congress to approve between $70 and $120 billion more for the war on top of
the more than $200 billion that has already been allocated for it. Congress
will be voting to fund the war and occupation at the same time that students,
workers, single parents, the unemployed and retirees are being hit with the
most sweeping budget cuts in the government programs that they depend on since
the Reagan years. Our challenge: Can we help galvanize those who will be
outraged by the specter of their money being stolen from critical needs to pay
for more death and destruction into a struggle against the war budget vote?
The time frame for this struggle will the period between the
counter-inauguration protest in DC and around the country on Jan.20 - through
the 2nd anniversary of the start of the war on the March 19/20
weekend.
* We propose to strategize and reach out to other forces with
the goal of implementing this perspective. The Million Worker March
Movement has issued a call for all of the various antiwar organizations and
workers struggles to unite on the weekend of March 19-20 and we endorse this
call for broad unity.
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