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NO WAR IN IRAQ
Tens of thousands will converge in Washington DC
January 18-19, 2003 for a MASS DEMONSTRATION
and the Convening of the GRASSROOTS PEACE CONGRESS
As momentum builds for the upcoming January 18-19 mass
demonstration and People's Peace Congress to oppose a new
U.S. war on Iraq, the urgency to take massive action has
never been greater. Today (Nov. 21), the Financial Times
quoted former Secretary of State George Shultz as saying
"there will be military action. I would be surprised if we
have not acted by the end of January." Yesterday (Nov.
20), top Bush security advisor Richard Perle told a
meeting of Labour Party MPs in England that the
administration was determined to go to war. MP Peter
Kilfoyle, based on Perle's comments, reported: "President
Bush intends to go to war even if inspectors find nothing"
(Mirror/UK, 11/21).
We do not accept the logic of these war-mongerers that a
war against Iraq must happen. In fact, the people of the
world oppose this war. Each and every person must take
action now to prevent this catastrophe. We will not be
passive observers while the Bush administration attempts
to carry out a war for Big Oil and the domination over the
people, land and resources of the Middle East.
Join the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, Ramsey Clark, Cynthia
McKinney, New York City Labor Against the War, Dr. Hans
Christof von Sponeck, Rev. Graylan Hagler, the Muslim
American Society Freedom Foundation, Bishop Thomas
Gumbleton, Rev. Herbert Daughtry, Global Exchange, Rev.
John Dear, Patti Smith, Charles Barron, and almost 1,500
more who have endorsed the January 18-19 Call to Action.
There are now buses being organized from 100+ cities to
be in Washington DC or San Francisco on those days.
Please read the following email to find out how you can
get involved!
THE INITIAL LIST OF ENDORSERS & INITIATORS OF THE JANUARY
18-19 ACTIONS INCLUDES: (updated 11/21/02):
- A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
- Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general
- Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, Dem. Georgia
- New York City Labor Against the War
- Dr. Hans Christof von Sponeck, former director of the UN Oil for Food Program
- Rev. Graylan Hagler, Senior Minister, Plymouth Congregational Church
- Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation
- Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Auxillary Bishop, Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit
- Rev. Herbert Daughtry, National Pastor, House of the Lord Pentecostal Church
- Global Exchange
- Rev. John Dear
- Patti Smith
- National Lawyers Guild
- Brenda Stokely, President, District Council 1707 AFSCME; Co-Convener, New York City Labor Against the War
- Charles Barron, NYC City Councilmember
- IFCO/Pastors for Peace
- Free Palestine Alliance
- Partnership for Civil Justice - LDEF
- Nicaragua Network
- Muslim Student Association of the US/Canada
- Korea Truth Commission
- International Action Center
- Kensington Welfare Rights Union
- Middle East Children's Alliance
- Bayan USA-International
- Mexico Solidarity Network
- Howard Zinn, Peoples' Historian
- Michael Letwin, Co-Convener, New York City Labor Against the War
- Michael Tarif Warren, attorney
- Chuck Turner, City Councilor, Boston, MA
- Ron Kovic, author (including "Born on the 4th of July")
- Michel Chossudovsky, Professor
- National Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression
- Dr. James Tate, Executive Director, National Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression
- Cleveland Peace Action
- Committee in Support of the Iraqi People
- Strategic Pastoral Action Network (SPAN)
- Green Party USA
- SALAAM - South Asian League of Artists in America
- The Vanguard Coalition, Pace University
- Texas A&M University Campus Greens
- Coalition for Peace and Justice, Charlotte, NC
- Students Taking Opposition Peacefully
- Sag Harbor Coalition Against the War
- High Country Citizens for Peace and Justice
- College Voice, College of Staten Island - City University of New York (CSI/CUNY)
- Terre Haute Stop War on Iraq
- Student Voices for Peace, New Mexico State University
- Alaska Action Center
- Sudanese American Society
- Brown County Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
- Yullah.com - National Arab American Event Directory
- Southwest Washington Institute for Peace and Social Justice
- Central Vermont Coalition for PEACE
- Vietnam Veterans Against The War Anti-Imperialist
- Citizens for a Peaceful Response (CPR) Detroit
- Student Coalition for Peace and Equality, University of Maryland at Baltimore School of Social Work
- St. Stephen Catholic Student Center, University of Northern Iowa
- Metro DC Committee of Correspondence
- Women in Black - Salem, Oregon
- Women in Black - Gulfcoast, Florida
- Office of the Americas
- No Blood For Oil
- Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America
- United Church Of Christ/National Office
- Centre for Research on Globalisation
- Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists' Social Justice Committee
- CLASP (Caribbean & Latin America Support Project)
- Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement
- International Association of Democratic Lawyers, India
- Islamic Society at TCNJ
- Al-Qalam, Institute of Islamic Scienses
- Modesto (Ca) Committee for Peace in the Middle East
- CGIL University and Research Trade Union (Florence)
- West Virginia Peace
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Mary Wood branch, Springfield IL
- Campaign Against War at the University of Iowa
- North Texas Coalition for a Just Peace
- West Virginia University Students for Economic Justice
- West Virginia Antiwar Coalition
- Ohio Fair Trade Campaign Network
- Conscience International
- Students' Administrative Council - University of Toronto
- Radical Student Union of UMass Amherst
- Filipino Workers Action Center, Seattle
- Northeast Wisconsin Peace Network
- Coalition Against War & Racism (Toronto)
- Anti-War Committee
- Students for Peace & Humanity - SUNY at Stony Brook
- Stony Brook Coalition Against War - SUNY at Stony Brook
- Women Against War
- NO WAR South Australia - Network Opposing War and Racism
- Peace Coalition of Southern Illinois/Fellowship of Reconciliation
- Kansas City Iraq Task Force
- Global Coalition for Peace
- Committee for Peace and Human Rights - Boston, MA
- Bay Area Iranians for Peace & Social Justice
- Hoboken Food Not Bombs
- Coalition for Peace and Justice
- South Jersey Campaign for Peace and Justice
- Justice for Palestinians
- Reno Anti-War Coalition
& many more!
For the initial list of endorsers and initiators, go to:
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/j18/endorsers.html
To ENDORSE the January 18-19 Mass Actions in DC, fill out
the easy-to-use form at:
http://internationalanswer.org/campaigns/j18/j18endorse.html#endo
(if this link does not take you directly to the form,
please scroll down)
WHY YOU SHOULD BE IN DC JAN. 18-19:
When Congress rejects the will of the people, the people
must act themselves. Congress has rubber-stamped Bush's
criminal war that seeks to conquer the oil, land and
resources of the Middle East. Bush and Congress have shown
that they represent the interests of Corporate America
rather than the people of the United States.
A people's movement is growing to stop them. On January
18 and 19 tens of thousands of people will participate in
mass protest activities on the Martin Luther King Jr.
anniversary weekend.
Dr. King publicly condemned the U.S. war in Vietnam,
providing a powerful connection between the civil rights
movement and the anti-war movement. In his "Beyond
Vietnam" speech at Riverside Church in 1967, he stated,
"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today [is]
my own government. . . [F]or the sake of the hundreds of
thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be
silent."
Dr. King believed that it was impossible to successfully
wage a war on poverty at home while waging a war of
aggression in Vietnam. The same can be said today about
George W. Bush's global war drive. Social programs and
services are being looted as Bush and Congress provide
record-breaking sums for weapons of mass destruction and
war. Bush has signed into law Congress's new defense
budget that transfers a billion dollars a day from the
people into the hands of the military-industrial complex.
The thousands who are coming to Washington, D.C., honor
Dr. King and his legacy by opposing a criminal war in Iraq
-- this time not in Vietnam, but in the Middle East -- and
by demanding instead that these hundreds of billions of
dollars earmarked for war instead be spent on jobs,
education, housing, health care and to meet human needs.
The grassroots Peace Congress will be comprised of
delegations from all communities who are coming together
in the streets and in a People's Congress to forge the
opposition necessary to stop the Bush Administration's war
drive: labor, students and youth, fighters for civil
rights and women's rights, the LGBT community and people
of faith.
Join with others around the country by bringing a diverse
delegation from your community to participate in the
January 18 mass march and the January 19th People's
Congress.
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To ENDORSE the January 18-19 Mass Actions in DC, fill out
the easy-to-use form at:
http://internationalanswer.org/campaigns/j18/j18endorse.html#endo
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please scroll down)
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http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/j18/j18contacts.html
If you plan to ORGANIZE TRANSPORTATION from your area to
be in DC January 18-19, fill out the form at:
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http://www.VoteNoWar.org
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