Support April 9 Antiwar Rallies

ENDORSE the April 9 Antiwar Rallies at www.unacpeace.org

Dear Friends of the International Action Center,

I have just returned from a delegation led by Ramsey Clark to blockaded and besieged Gaza. During our short visit Israel again bombed Gaza. This is now almost a daily crime.

 

The steadfast determination that we saw in Gaza reinforces the importance of the major national antiwar coalition that is taking shape for April 9, organized by the United National Antiwar Committee - UNAC. 

 

What makes the April 9^th bi-coastal rallies, in New York City and San Francisco truly historic is this coalitions very strong solidarity with the Palestinian people as well as the strong opposition to racism and the wave of anti-Islamic hysteria that has been sweeping the country. The International Action Center has made these issues a cornerstone of our work for many years.

 

This is an especially important time to respond with the greatest possible unity around the most difficult struggles. The Grand Jury subpoenas in Chicago and Minneapolis have especially targeted Palestinian solidarity activists, along with other international solidarity activists. The wave of anti-Muslim attacks, FBI sting operations and preventive prosecutions and racist frame-up must be challenged, along with the growing attacks and raids on all immigrant workers.

 

We must recognize that the targeted assassinations in Palestine, financed by U.S. military and political aid to Israel and the continuing drone assassination attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan have come home to the U.S. in terrible ways - in the shooting of Arizona Congressperson Gabrielle Giffords last Saturday, January 8^th. Six people died, including an 9-year-old child. 

 

In order to divert people’s attention from the economic crisis and endless war the ruling elite is increasingly fanning the flames of division, racism, and reactionary thinking.

 

But something of great hope also took place on Saturday, January 8. The Muslim Peace Coalition, USA organized a powerful meeting of Muslim leaders and youth at the Long Island Islamic Center. It involved training sessions on how to organize and build for a massive, unitedApril 9^th demonstration.

 

The Muslim Peace Summit was especially timely because The Long Island Islamic Center is located within the congressional district of Peter King, the Republican congressman who heads the Homeland Security Committee. King has announced a planned witch-hunt of congressional hearings targeting Muslim communities as terrorists.

 

The Muslim Peace Summit’s program included a special panel, with representatives from religious, antiwar, and solidarity organizations including representatives from UNAC, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the International Action Center, Al-Awda NY, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, immigrant rights organizations and activists, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, Pax Christi, along with Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish religious leaders. The meeting concluded with a talk by George Gresham, president of SEIU 1199, the powerful healthcare workers union. This meeting was a tremendous step forward for building a far more inclusive antiwar mobilization on April 9^th that can help change the prevailing climate of racism and war.

 

On Thursday, January 13^th at the Manhattan Theatre Club at 311 West 43 St at 7:30 PM, the United National Antiwar Committee will launch the mobilizing for the April 9^th antiwar rally in the New York City area. If you live in the New York City area please be sure to attend.

 

Your participation all across the country and your input are essential. Our unity and solidarity can send a powerful message.

 

Please take a look at the massive list of endorsers for UNAC.

Sign on as an endorser and see how you can build for these united antiwar rallies in your area.

 

Solidarity,

Sara Flounders for

the International Action Center

 

For more information on the exciting plans for April 9 and to endorse April 9 see:www.UNACpeace.org

Or send a message to: UNACpeace@gmail.com

ENDORSE the April 9 Antiwar Rallies at www.unacpeace.org

April 9^th Endorser

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* = For Identification only

 

UNAC –United National Antiwar Committee

Center for Constitutional Rights

Muslim Peace Coalition, USA

Voices for Creative Nonviolence

Veterans for Peace

International Action Center

Pax Christi USA

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

Fellowship of Reconciliation

Black Agenda Report

Code Pink

National Assembly to End U.S. Wars and Occupations

World Can’t Wait

Campaign for Peace and Democracy

Islamic Leadership Council of Metro NY

Project Salam

Canadian Peace Alliance

BAYAN USA

Lynne Stewart Defense Committee

Office of the Americas

Committee to Stop FBI Repression

Tariq Ali

Joel Kovel

Dr. Margaret Flowers  PNHP *

Michael Parenti

Ramsey Clark

Adirondack Democracy

Ambassador Syed Ahsani, Former Ambassador from Pakistan

Ahmed Shawki, editor, International Socialist Review Ali Abunimah, Palestinian American Journalist Alice Sturn Sutter, Washington Heights Women in Black * Al-Awda NY: the Palestine Right to Return Coalition

American Iranian Friendship Committee American Muslim Task Force, Dallas/Ft. Worth

Ana Edwards, Chair, Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project - Richmond, Va. Ann Arbor Coalition Against the War Anthony Arnove, Author, “Iraq: The logic of Withdrawal”

Andy Griggs, Co-chair, California Teachers  Association, Peace and Justice Caucus/UTLA-retired* Arthur Daniels, United Federation of Teachers * Artists for Peace

B. Ross Ashley, NDP Socialist Caucus, Canada * Bail Out the People Movement Bay Area United Against War Newsletter Bay Area Women in Black

Barrio Unido, San Francisco

Bashir Abu-Manneh Baltimore Job Is a Right Campaign Baltimore-Washington Area Peace Council, US Peace Council Chapter

Battered Mother’s Custody Conference

Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace Bishop Filipe Teixeira, OFSJC, Diocese of St. Francis of Assisi, CCA Black Voices for Peace, Pittsburgh Blanca Misse, Student Worker Action Team/UC Berkeley, Academic Workers for Democratic Union – UAW 2865 * Blauvelt Dominican sisters Social Justice Ministry

Bob Hernandez, Chapter President, SEIU Local 1021*

Bonnie Weinstein – Bay Area United Against Wars Newsletter BookZen Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights

Boston UNAC Boston University Anti-War Coalition Broome County Peace Action Bryn Mawr Peace Coalition BuxMont Coalition for Peace Action

Café Intifada – Los Angeles Californian Green Party

Camilo E. Mejia, Iraq war veteran and resister

Campaign for a Mass Party of Labor

Carole Seligman – Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal *

Central Jersey Coalition Against Endless War Chelsea Uniendose en Contra de las Guerra Chesapeake Citizens Chuck Anderson, ACLU, Orange County Chapter * Howard Terry Adcock, Colombia Support Network, Austin (TX) , Center for Peace and Justice *

Coalition for Justice – Blacksburg, Va. Codepink Golden Gate Chapter Colombia Action/CT.

Colombian Front for Socialism (FECOPES)

Columbus Campaign for Arms Control

Committee for Justice to Defend the Los Angeles 8 Consultor Independiente Cynthia Papermaster, National Accountability Action Network *

Dave Welsh, Delegate, San Francisco Labor Council David Swanson, WarIsACrime.org

David Keil – Metro West Peace Action (MWPA) * David Macko, Libertarian Party of Cuyahoga County, Ohio

Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality - Virginia

Derrick O’Keefe, Co-chair StopWar.ca (Vancouver)

Detroit Committee to Stop FBI/Grand Jury Repression. Diane V. McLoughlin, The McLoughlin Post

Doug Bullock, Albany County Legislator

Dr. Andy Coates  PNHP *

DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving) – New York Ed Childs, Chief Shop Steward, Local 26, Unite-Here, Cambridge, MA

Elaine Brower  - national steering committee of World Can’t Wait and anti-war military mom Fifth WorldClass Freedom

Fight Imperialism Stand Together (FIST) Fr. Bernard Survil, Pax Christi Greensburg * Free Palestine Movement

Freedom Road Socialist Organization

Freedom Socialist Party Garden Gate Blacksmith Shop

Gilbert Achcar – Lebanese academic and writer Global Peace, Editor: Tim Nolan Grandmothers Against the War Grandmothers Keen

Guilderland Neighbors for Peace Guyanese American Workers United

Haiti Action Committee Haiti Liberte

Hands off Venezuela Hilda Meers, Grampian Senior Citizens * Howie Hawkins, Co-Chair, Green Party of New York State * Humanist Party NYC Chapter IBEW 424 IIan Pappe, Director Exeter University, European Centre for Palestine Studies Impromptu Action International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal

International Socialist Organization International Solidarity Movement – Northern California International support Haiti Network (ISHN)

Iraq Peace Action Coalition – Minneapolis Italo-American Progressive Fraternal Society Jack Hereford, Catholic Worker * Janata Dal (United), India Jane Anne Jeffries, Conversation With Connection *

Jersey City Peace Movement Jim Prentice, Science for Peace * Jimmy Massey, Founding member of IVAW John Pilger, Journalist and Documentary film maker Josh Karpoff, Campus Antiwar Network *

Journal Square Homeless Coalition Juliet Buck, F35insouthburlington.blogspot.com * Justice for Fallujah Project Justice for Palestinians Kclabor.org Karen Schieve, United Educators of San Francisco * Keith Mchenry, co-founder Food not Bombs * Kevin Zeese

Kim Nguyen, Metrowest Peace Action (MWPA)* Kwame Binta, The November Coalition Larry Pinkvey, Black Activist Writers Guild LBC/NVK LEARN Leonard & Ellen Zablow, Union of Concerned Scientists * Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee, NYC Chapter

Lillie “Ms. K” Branch-Kennedy – Director, Resource Information Help for the Disadvantaged (R.I.H.D.), Virginia

Lisa Savage, CODEPINK Maine, Bring Our War $$ Home Coalition * Logan Square Neighbors for Justice and Peace Lok Morcha Punjab

Los Angeles – Palestine Labor Solidarity Committee Luis Vega, Real-Politik

Maggie Zhou – ClimateSOS *

Maine Veterans for Peace Malu Aina, Hawaii

Maria Cristina Gutierrez, Exec. Director,  Companeros del Barrio March For Justice

Mark Roman, Waterville Area Bridges for Peace & Justice

Marlena Santoyo, Germantown Friends Meeting, Philadelphia, PA Mary Flanagan, United Teachers of Richmond * Marxist Update

Masjid As-Salam Mosque, Albany, NY Mazen Almoukdad, Free Iraq Now * Mazin Qumsiyeh

Michigan Emergency Committee Against Wars and Injustice

Middle East Children's Alliance

Mike Alewitz, Central Ct. State University * Mike Malloy Radio Show: Progressive Radio Middle East Crisis Committee Misterboy.com

Mobilization Against War and Occupation  - Vancouver, Canada

Mobilization to Free Mumia

Moratorium NOW Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility Shut-offs MotherSpeeak

Muslim Solidarity Committee Muslimah Writers Alliance

Nancy Murray, Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights* Nancy Parten, Witness For Peace * Nellie Bailey, Harlem Tenants Council *

New Abolitionist Movement New Black Panther Party

New England United New Jersey Labor Against War New Jersey Youth United Against War and Imperialism New Socialist Project New York City Labor Against the War Neil Parthun, Host, Not Another Sports Show Nicholas J. Bisaccia, M.S.Ed., PAX CHRISTI *

No More Victims

Nodutdol for Korean Community Development North Pilly for Peace and Justice Northampton committee to stop Wars

Northeast Peace and Justice Action Coalition Northern California Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism Northfield People for Peace and Goodwill

Northwest Greens

NotMyPriorities.org

Nuestro Norte Es El Sur ((NUNO-SUR) Our North is the South Omar Barghouti, Human rights activist (Palestine) Ometeotl Ministries Pakistan USA Freedom Forum

Pakistani Trade Union Defense Campaign Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People Pax Christi Metro New York Peace Action Maine

Peace Action Montgomery Peace Action of San Mateo County Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County Peace and Justice Online

Peacemakers of Schoharie County, New York Peace and Freedom Party Peace Education Center People of Faith, Connecticut Peace Power Press Peninsula Peace & Justice, Blue Hill, Maine Peninsula Peace and Justice Center – Palo Alto, Ca. Peoples Video Network Peter Eglin, Wilfrid Laurier University * Phil Wilayto, Editor, The Virginia Defender Philadelphia Against War Pledge of Resistance – Baltimore Professor Alice Bach, Case Western Reserve University * Progressive Peace Coalition, Columbus Ohio Prosecute Them Now Protestobama.org Queen Zakia Shabazz – Director, United Parents Against Lead National, Inc. Queer Liberation Front.us Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, cofounder of the Community of Living Traditions Radio Free Maine Ralph Poynter, Lynne Stewart Defense Committee Rev. Bruce Wright, Refuge Misistries * Rev. Ralph Moore, Watershed School * Revolutionary Workers Group Rhode Island Mobilization Committee Roland Sheppard, Retired Business Agent Painters Local #4, San Francisco * Rochester Against War Ron Jacobs, writer Ruth Balter, Granny Peace Brigade, Philadelphia * Saladin Muhammad - Founding Member, Black Workers for Justice Salina People for Peace San Francisco Green Party Sarah Roche-Mahdi, Code Pink Boston* Saratoga Peace Alliance Senior Action Network Seth Farber, PhD., Institute of Mind and Behavior * Sherry Wolf – International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Author Sexuality and Socialism Shomer Shalom Network for Jewish Nonviolence Siege Busters Working Group Socialist Action Socialist Organizer Socialist Viewpoint Solidarity Solidarity Committee of the Capital District St. James Peace & Justice, Johnson City, NY St. Louis Instead of War Coalition Staten Island Council for Peace & Justice Steve Scher, Green Party of NYC 26 AD * Stewart Robinson, Stop Targeting Ohio Poor * Steve Gillis, VP, USW Local 8751, Boston School Bus Union Stop the Wars Coalition, Boston Sue Kelly, Sec.-Treas., OPEIU Local 334 Suffolk Peace Network (Long Island) Tarak Kauff, Veterans for Peace The Blitz: A Progressive Movement The Campaign Against Sanctions & Military Intervention in Iran The Thomas Merton Center Antiwar Committee Twin Cities Peace Campaign United Latina en Accion Upper Hudson Peace Action US Friends of the Soviet People Vancouver Healthcare Now Veterans Fellowship of Reconciliation Virginia Defender War Moratorium, SECT Washington Peace Center West County Toxics Coalition West Hartford Citizens for Peace and Justice WESPAC Foundation Women against Military Madness Women Against War Women in Black, Westchester Women's Fightback Network, Boston Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Pittsburgh Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Santa Cruz Branch Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Santa Barbara, CA Workers Action Workers International League Workers World Party Youth for International Socialism Y-MAD