NYC: AN URGENT APPEAL TO THE ANTIWAR MOVEMENT: EGYPT IS AN ANTIWAR ISSUE!

IT IS TIME TO TAKE TO THE STREETS!

PROTEST THE U.S.-BACKED MUBARAK DICTATORSHIP

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 4, 

STARTING AT 3:30 PM – 

COME AFTER WORK –

TIMES SQUARE, NYC  

42ND AND 7TH AVE.

MARCH at 5:30 PM to the 

Egyptian Mission to the UN 

44th St & 2nd Ave.

We have marched by the thousands, and sometimes in the hundreds of thousands against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The time has come for us to march in those same numbers with every bit as much purpose and obligation to demand an end to the U.S.-Pentagon backed Mubarak dictatorship.

We must march to support the Egyptian revolution against dictatorship, brutal repression and poverty.

But the struggle to end the U.S-backed Mubarak dictatorship is not only the responsibility of the Egyptian people; it is every bit as much the responsibility of the U.S. antiwar movement.

Why is the White House, the Pentagon, the CIA, the State Department and the entire military, intelligence, and foreign policy apparatus of the US, frantically trying to crush the revolution sweeping the Middle East?

The answer is simple and clearly understood by all who understand what it is that makes U.S. imperialism’s policy of war and occupation from Afghanistan, to Iraq, to Palestine and beyond, possible.

The U.S. war and occupation policy is not sustainable without effective control over Egypt and its military.  The U.S. armed regimes and militaries of Egypt and Israel are the two biggest pillars of U.S policy in the region.

Don’t be confused by the deceptive and false statements uttered by President Obama or Secretary of State Hillary Roddam Clinton suggesting that they have sympathy for Egyptians fighting for liberation and jobs in Tahrir Square. 

Don’t doubt for a moment that U.S. officials who are in close contact with the Egyptian police and military are complicit in the fascist attack on Egyptian demonstrators on Wed., Feb. 1 organized and directed by Mubarak’s hated police with the cooperation of the Egyptian military.

Those of us who consider ourselves informed and serious members of the U.S. antiwar movement cannot afford to be passive at this critical moment.  To do so would only make it easier for the Pentagon to stabilize its control over Egypt, and crush the Egyptian revolution with counter-revolutionary violence.

It’s time for the world to see the U.S antiwar movement in full strength out in the streets in full force demanding an end to the U.S.-backed Mubarak dictatorship and an end to US imperialism’s policy of war and occupation in the Middle East.