Get on the Buses to NYC and protest the RNC on August 29! / BUS INFO
Join with ANSWER at the August 29, 2004 March on the RNC to Demand: Bring the Troops Home Now! End the Occupation of Iraq, Palestine & Haiti! No to War & Racism! Money for Jobs, Housing, Healthcare and Education!
As U.S. fighter jets and attack helicopters bomb and strafe densely populated neighborhoods in the holy city of Najaf, and kill and round-up the citizens of Sadr City, the poorest neighborhood in Baghdad, it has become crystal clear that the capacity of the occupation forces to launch a high tech campaign of murder and destruction has utterly failed to defeat the resistance in Iraq.
Iraq is erupting. The occupiers cannot win and yet they are determined not to leave. The dilemma for the U.S. political establishment, including for both parties of the war machine, is that if the U.S. is driven out of Iraq it will constitute a historical defeat that will make the loss in Vietnam seem minuscule in comparison. The global strategy and stability of U.S. imperialism is premised on control over the Middle East where two-thirds of the world's known oil reserves exist. There is no disagreement among Bush, Kerry or any other power center inside the political and economic establishment that the U.S. must dominate the Middle East and prevail in Iraq.
What the U.S. is achieving is a massacre of Iraqi people. A group of academics and activists inside Iraq has carried out the first and most detailed accounting of the death toll from the U.S. war and occupation and the number is staggering. Throughout the country from large cities to remote villages, interviews were conducted with grave diggers, hospitals and witnesses to killings. Counting only civilians, and not Iraqi military forces, they found that between March 2003 and October 2003 alone a minimum of 37,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed.
The standard of living and conditions for the Iraqi people has deteriorated enormously since the U.S. entered their country. Unemployment is widespread, people are struggling to survive in over 100 degree heat without electricity and clean water. Children are forced to wade through raw sewage running in the streets. Meanwhile, the U.S. occupation government has requested that foreign corporations bid to determine the value of Iraq's oil reserves - the first step necessary to placing a price on the Iraqi people's oil so that it can be privatized to foreign oil interests.
In the last years all of us have built a massive global antiwar movement against the Bush Administration's invasion and occupation of Iraq and its global war drive. Only the resistance of the people in the Middle East and in the streets of the United States and around the world can possibly bring the occupation of Iraq to an end.
At the end of July, thousands of people participated in a demonstration initiated by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. A.N.S.W.E.R., along with scores of other progressive organizations and coalitions, is mobilizing now for massive protests before and during the Republican National Convention.
BOSTON: Buses will depart from Roxbury Community College at 5:00am on Sunday, August 29 and return following the historic mass march on the RNC. Tickets are $25 + $5 voluntary donation for the Transportation Subsidy Fund. Seats can be purchased/reserved online at http://www.answerboston.org/bus/a29 .
BUFFALO: For information on buses to NYC (cost is $40) call or email the Peace Center at 894-2013 or colin@wnypeace.org, or Students for Peace 878-3888 or peacejusticeresolution@yahoo.com
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