KEEP THE PRESSURE ON–NEXT WEEK: ALL OUT FOR AUGUST 12, 2006

WASHINGTON DC

Los Angeles

1 pm on Olympic & Broadway (Join the International Action Center's contingent. We'll be making signs and placards on Friday at 5:00 pm for the demonstration. Please call (323) 936-7266 to help.)

San Francisco

San Diego

Please join the International Action Center and all progressive San Diegans this coming Saturday: The National Council of Arab Americans (NCA ) San Diego Chapter Al-Awda San Diego Chapter And Muslim American Society (MAS) Freedom Foundation San Diego Chapter Invite all of you to come out and join us in opposing the war crimes that are being committed by Israel in Palestine and Lebanon Saturday August 12 ,2006

Meet at the fountain in Balboa Park at 12:00 noon and then march over the bridge to 6th and Laurel .

Denver

After this weekend of nationwide protest, Keep the pressure on, Get on the bus to Washington D.C. next Sat., Aug. 12 for the national protest. Local protests on Aug.12 are planned for California, and Colorado as well.

Get your bus tickets
for August 12 now:
Troops Out Now Coalition
NYC 55 W. 17th St. 5th Fl.,
212 633-6646

Boston: 617 522-6626

Philadelphia: 215 724-1618

Baltimore: 410 235-7040

Detroit: 313 680-5508 or 313 869-8383

Chicago: 773 381-5839

Atlanta: www.iacenteratlanta.org

Los Angeles: 323 936-7266

San Francisco: 415 561-9752

Denver: iacinfo@iacdenver.org

San Diego: 619 692-4422

The August 12th Protest initiated by ANSWER, National Council of Arab Americans (NCA), and Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation.

U.S./Israeli Troops Out Now
NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!
U.S. OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST!

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 is 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!

Troops Out Now Coalition 55 West 17 St. 5th Fl., NYC 212 633-6646

Labor Union Donated 8/6

www.TroopsOutNow.org