JOIN A DELEGATION TO IRAQ: Jan. 2001

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST: January 16, 2001
JOIN A DELEGATION TO IRAQ: Jan. 2001 Iraq Sanctions Challenge IV

JOIN THE DELEGATION TO IRAQ NEXT JANUARY -- A Shipment of Medicine, a Challenge to Genocide

The Iraq Sanctions Challenge (ISC) will defy the U.S./UN sanctions that have killed one million people by taking tons of medicines and medical supplies to Iraq in January 2001 as an act of solidarity with our Iraqi sisters and brothers and of defiance to the genocidal U.S.-led UN sanctions and continued bombing.

This will be the fourth delegation sent by the Iraq Sanctions Challenge. The first Iraq Sanctions Challenge included more than 84 people-- community and religious leaders, trade unionists, students, and activists--in May 1998. Combined with the second and third Iraq Sanctions Challenges in December 1998 and January 2000, more than $8 million worth of medicine was delivered to Iraq.

In January 2001, Ramsey Clark and other prominent leaders and activists will travel to Iraq as a part of an important delegation that will defy the sanctions in an international act of civil disobedience.

January 16 is the tenth anniversary of one of the greatest massacres in history. More than 100,000 Iraqis were killed while the United States lost just more than 100. The U.S. used an integrated strategy of bombing and economic sanctions to permanently weaken Iraq. The U.S. goal has always been to return Iraq to semi-colonial bondage so that U.S. oil monopolies and banks can dominate its vast oil resources.

The U.S. propaganda continues to demonize the Iraqi leadership as a justification for its policy of genocide, military occupation, bombings and CIA covert operations. The U.S. does not want to establish a more “humanitarian” or “democratic” regime in Iraq. It wants a puppet regime, like the governments it supports in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

The Iraqi people are not the enemy of working and poor people and youth in the United States. Help extend a hand of solidarity between the U.S. and Iraqi people next January and take medicine to Iraq in defiance of U.S. sanctions.

In February 1998, 5,000 people marched on the United Nations in New York City to demand “Lift the Sanctions, Stop the War Against Iraq.” The movement against sanctions has grown worldwide.

On January 16, 2001, there will be demonstrations in many cities around the world to demand 1-End the Sanctions, 2-Stop the bombing and covert operations in the Gulf Region, 3-U.S. Troops and War Ships Out of the Gulf.

TO GET INFORMATION about the January 16 protest and the next Iraq Sanctions Challenge delegation, call the New York office at 212-633- 6646, or the West Coast offices in San Francisco at 415-821-6545 or Los Angeles at 213-487-2368.

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