A New Year's message from IAC founder Ramsey Clark

Dear friends:

The year 2006 has seen the Bush administration's lawlessness and brutality exposed before the world. President Bush has so outraged people everywhere that massive protests appear whenever he or his representatives show up anywhere in the world. The U.S. military has failed to stop the growing Iraqi resistance and civil war. The deaths mount-hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and thousands of U.S. GI's while more young people from this country and elsewhere are being sought to fight and die in Iraq. And still the U.S. government has no plans to withdraw its troops and end this criminal war.

Millions of people in the U.S. passionately oppose this war. Millions voted against the war in the recent elections, removing Bush cronies from Congress. Massive numbers of people are appalled by this war and the criminal acts called for by the White House, including torture, kidnapping, unlimited detentions without charges, the celebration of prisons like Quantanamo and widespread acts to suppress political dissent of all forms at home. Yet, Bush remains intransigent and will stop at nothing to continue this criminal and immoral war, flouting the will of the people.

Only strong, bold massive protests from the people right here can compel the Bush Administration to withdraw all U.S. forces from Iraq NOW!

What we do in the next few months can make a real difference.

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For 16 years the International Action Center (IAC) has been one of the major forces mobilizing opposition to criminal and inhuman U.S. military adventures. It has worked hard and gained worldwide respect for opposing U.S. war, militarism and interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, from Venezuela to Haiti, Colombia and Cuba, from Palestine, the Philippines, Sudan and Lebanon to Yugoslavia and now Iran and Korea.

In 1991, the IAC organized to oppose the U.S.-led Gulf War, which led to the IAC's founding. The IAC conducted unprecedented war crimes hearings in 21 countries and 16 U.S. states in 1991. That evidence presented to a panel of judges from 17 nations resulted in unanimous verdicts of guilt against U.S. leaders. Your Support is Vital

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Since that time, this principled organization has stood up when others feared demonization and isolation for opposing horrendous U.S. policies, from genocidal economic sanctions to the use of depleted uranium weapons. The IAC was vital in organizing the first major demonstrations against the war of aggression against Iraq in March 2003, and again convened a War Crimes Tribunal in 2004 which found the Bush team guilty for its aggression and atrocities in Iraq.

The IAC has taken on struggles against racism, injustice, and much more-from standing with Hurricane Katrina survivors in their quest for justice, to supporting immigrants' rights, to opposing the death penalty, and police brutality and challenging military recruitment. IAC meetings, rallies, protests, teach-ins, and other public activities number in the thousands.

Wherever the IAC is needed, it's there!

The IAC's many publications are an invaluable contribution to the struggle. They include major books on the Gulf War, the genocidal sanctions against Iraq, Haiti's slave rebellion and continuing fight for freedom, U.S. corruption of Columbia's sovereignty, the U.S. and NATO Balkanization of Yugoslavia, War Crimes and the best single volume on the criminal uses of depleted uranium in warfare.

Now, the tide has clearly turned against the war. But we must do more!

Our New Year's Resolution for 2007 must be to work together in unrelenting efforts to end this criminal war and bring all U.S. troops home from Iraq NOW!

We must pledge to work to end all military interventions abroad, to stop the use of force and economic power to dominate others and to begin new efforts at friendship, cooperation and sharing with the world, with the underpinning of true respect for humankind.

This war will by ended by the people! People of conscience must take action in unprecedented numbers to stop this war. The next war will be prevented only if we demand accountability for the last war and impeachment of President Bush and his remaining advisors, guilty of this "supreme international crime."

Let's work everyday on this-and march together in unity and strength on March 17, 2007, in Washington, D.C.-a global day of action on the fourth anniversary of this most criminal war.

Together we can end this war NOW and prevent the next!

Ramsey Clark

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