NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE! U.S. OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST!
GET YOUR BUS TICKETS TODAY for AUGUST 12!
Support the Right of the People of Palestine and Lebanon to Resist!
End the Occupation of IRAQ, PALESTINE and LEBANON ..
Support the Palestinian People's Right to Return
U.S./Israeli Troops Out Now
No More Fighting and Dying for Oil Profits
Join us in Washington DC on Saturday August 12, 2006, for a national Emergency Demonstration called by the National Council of Arab Americans, the Answer Coalition, and the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation.
On Saturday, thousands will rally in Lafayette Park in Washington and march past the White House to protest the U.S./Israeli war against the people of Lebanon and Palestine. The International Action Center bus will leave from 55 W. 17th St. on Saturday at 6:00 am--but you must purchase your tickets in advance. Bus Tickets are $35.00 round trip ($25 for fixed income/students).
Stop by our new office (55 W. 17th St., 5th Floor) today and get your ticket. You can also join us Thursday and Friday for work sessions to help prepare banners, placards, and other materials for the demonstration.
How you can help:
1) Come in today and get your bus ticket (55 W. 17th St., 5th Floor)
2) Donate http://www.iacenter.org/iacdonate.shtml to help with the costs of transportation.
3) Help get the word out - download flyers http://www.iacenter.org/images/aug1206leaflet.pdf
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The obstacles to peace in the Middle East are not Hezbollah, Hamas, Syria or Iran. The obstacle is the U.S. government and its client, the Israeli settler state. Republicans and Democrats alike have united to back the expansionist Israeli war against Palestine and Lebanon. This war is really an extension of the U.S. war and occupation of Iraq.
The expansion of U.S.-backed Israeli aggression in the Middle East is 'justified' through a widespread campaign of demonization against Hezbollah and Hamas. These are the movements of national resistance in Lebanon and Palestine. It is an urgent task, for those of us opposed to war and injustice, to clarify for the people of the U.S. he reality--that the problems of the Middle East are not rooted in a struggle between religions. The wars are driven by greedy imperialist policymakers in the U.S., like Bush and his super rich friends, to dominate, colonize, exploit and rob the natural resources (especially oil) of the people of the Middle East.
The Bush administration has given the Zionist rulers in Tel Aviv the green light to wage all-out war in Lebanon and Palestine, with full diplomatic, political and military support of Washington. Israeli soldiers and bomber pilots may be doing the killing in Lebanon, but this is fundamentally a U.S. war, and the Israeli army is a criminal surrogate for the Pentagon.
The Bush Administration is dangerously laying the basis for a wider war against Syria and Iran. They are ready to crush--by war, shock and awe, torture, mass murder, repression and terror--the dreams of the masses of the Middle East for self-determination and freedom from occupation and colonialism. Together, we must intensify the struggle to get U.S. imperialism out of the Middle East and to free the thousands of Palestinian, Lebanese and Iraqi prisoners held in U.S. and Israeli jails, because this would serve the cause of peace and justice in that region and worldwide. We join with all the peace-loving people and organizations that are mobilizing locally, nationally and internationally around this struggle.
This weekend of August 5th saw protests from coast to coast and around the globe, focused on the theme "No Justice, No Peace: U.S. Out of the Middle East." But we must stay in the streets and mobilized. As the next step we urge full support and all out mobilization for next Saturday, August 12 mobilization in Washington, D.C. In organizing around the issue of justice and peace in the Middle East, we encourage activists to make the connections to other struggles. The racist nature of the U.S. war in the Middle East is part of the same racism behind the treatment of the primarily African American evacuees of Hurricane Katrina, and the racism behind the attacks on immigrant rights.
Now, more than ever, it's vitally necessary for all of us in the U.S. who genuinely believe in peace and justice--whether we be Muslim, Jewish, Christian, atheist, Black, Latin@, Native, Arab, Asian or white--to fully embrace the Palestinian and Lebanese freedom struggle and to forge new bonds of solidarity with all the peoples of the Middle East, so that all the world will know that Bush's war is not our war.
No Justice, No Peace!
U.S. Out of the Middle East!
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