Brooklyn: Over 1,000 Pack House of the Lord Church To Say No War Against Iraq
Rev. Herbert Daughtry, City Council Member Charles Barron and Other Leaders Call For National January 18 March on Washington To Protest War With Iraq
November 21, 2002-- Over 1,000 people crowded into three floors of Brooklyn's House of the Lord Church for New York's first major anti-war demonstration in the African American community.
The church's pastor, Reverend Herbert Daughtry, chaired and spoke on the rally program that also included City Council Member Charles Barron, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, a message from Representative Cynthia McKinney, the December 12 Movement's Viola Plummer, A.N.S.W.E.R.'s Larry Holmes, Reverend Paul Mayer of the NYC Forum of Concerned Religious Leaders and Jasmin Cruz, A.N.S.W.E.R. Student Organizer.
The rally, called by the Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Now Committee and New York A.N.S.W.E.R., was a sign of the growth of the anti-war movement in the weeks following the October 26 demonstrations, in Washington and San Francisco, that together attracted over 300,000 people.
Thursday night's speakers called for a national Washington march against Bush's war on January 18, 2003, to coincide with the convening of the Grassroots Peace Conference called by A.N.S.W.E.R. Organizers also set a New York-area organizing meeting at the House of the Lord church for Sunday, December 15 at 4:00.
"I believe we’ve reached a new level of unity. People have never come together this way," Daughtry told the crowd. "Our next stop is Washington, D.C. on January 18. Together we can win. We can stop this war."
McKinney’s statement, read at the rally, called George W. Bush’s war on terrorism "a stick-up of global proportions." It continued: "The United States wants to submit the world to its form of justice but refuses to submit to the world's justice … In the absence of justice, and in the absence of dignity; we are the ones who must stand up for peace."
Others took on the Bush Administration's bogus war on terrorism. "Want to talk about terrorism?" Barron asked the crowd. "Terrorism is the police firing 41 shots at an unarmed African man and hitting him 19 times," referring to the police murder of Amadou Diallo.
"We must stand up and make the government represent the will of the people," Clark said. "And that means no more war."
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