Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 12:59:22 -0800 (PST)
From: nowardc@yahoo.com ("International A.N.S.W.E.R.")
Subject: [anti_war_protests_in_arizona] UPDATE ON APRIL 20 A.N.S.W.E.R COALITION SCENARIO
To: nowardc@yahoo.com
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UPDATE ON APRIL 20 A.N.S.W.E.R COALITION SCENARIO
March 3, 2002

We are heartened by the large volume of positive
responses to the announcement issued by the
A.N.S.W.E.R. steering committee (February 27) that the
coalition was shifting the dae of its demonstration
to Saturday, April 20. The change to April 20 was in
turn a response to a large number of requests asking
for a united date for anti-war forces to converge this
spring in Washington DC. The A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition
has been and continues to be in communication with
other groups organizing on the weekend of April 19-22
for a variety of activities.

The demonstration couldnt come at a more important
moment. We are focusing the political protest against
the Bush administrations epanding war against
oppressed peoples all over the world. The Bush program
represents the extreme right wing of corporate
America. It represents a violent assault on peoples
rights at home and abroad and a dangerous assault on
the environment. 

On April 20, anti-war activists, workers, trade
unionists, communities of color, women, lesbian, gay,
bi and trans communities, communities of faith, and
others will take to the streets of Washington DC to
say that Bush cannot speak in our name as his
administration carries out the anti-people,
pro-corporate, militarist agenda.

WE WILL ASSEMBLE AT THE WHITE HOUSE AT 11 AM ON
SATURDAY, APRIL 20 in order to protest against the
real axis of evil: war, racism and poverty.

In the early afternoon of April 20, we will MARCH from
the White House, east on Pennsylvania Ave. directly in
front of the White House, and proceeding on
Pennsylvania Ave. to the Justice Department. At the
Justice Department--directly across the street from
the J. Edgar Hoover FBI building--we will rally in
defense of civil rights and civil liberties and to
demand the repeal of Ashcrofts USA Patriot Act.

Following the rally at the Justice Department, it will
be our goal to link up with the other anti-war
coalition that is planning activities on April 20. We
recognize that the anti-war movement includes people
and organizations from a range of traditions, beliefs,
and political currents. But, we also recognize that
thousands and thousands of people must march shoulder
to shoulder in the streets in Washington DC if we are
to build an anti-war, anti-racist movement strong
enough to dismantle the Bush perpetual war machine.

MASS ASSEMBLY AT THE WHITE HOUSE - 11 AM

At the White House, we will condemn the massive
bombing of Afghanistan that has killed thousands of
civilians. At this moment, U.S. forces have launched a
new offensive in Afghanistan using experimental
thermobaric bombs that suffocate all living things.
During the war, the U.S. has used fuel-air explosives,
cluster bombs and other weapons, the use of which, by
definition, constitutes a war crime. The Bush
administration has used the war in Afghanistan as a
springboard to establish new U.S. military bases in
South/Central Asia. We will demand that these bases be
dismantled and that the troops be brought home
immediately.

At the White House, we will show our solidarity with
the besieged people of Palestine, who are at this very
moment resisting fierce aggression in the Balata and
Jenin refugee camps in the occupied West Bank. Aril
Sharon is giving the orders to carry out these
massacres - but he could not do it without the support
of the Bush administration. U.S.-backed-and-financed
Israeli forces are today bulldozing the homes of
civilians in Occupied Territories, they have
intentionally destroyed the sole source of water into
the Balata camp, and they have deliberately destroyed
the electrical system. These Israeli war crimes are
being sponsored by the Bush administration.

At the White House, we will show our solidarity with
the people of the Philippines and Yemen, where Bush
has already dispatched a growing number of U.S.
Special Operations forces to occupy and wage war in
their countries. In the same manner, we will show
solidarity with the people of Somalia, who fear a
repetition of the murderous U.S. military actions
taken against them in 1993. The Bush administration
seeks to portray these interventions as limited
police actions in the war against terrorism. Let us
never forget that that is precisely how the Kennedy
administration initially explained the introduction of
U.S. troops into Vietnam in the early 1960s.

At the White House, we will condemn the new aggression
waged by the Colombian government and its paramilitary
proxies against the people. The Pastrana government is
giving the orders to cancel negotiations and wage war
- but we well know that the Colombian government would
never dare to have taken this step if it had not been
given the money, the weapons and the political support
for this aggression given by the Bush administration.

At the White House, we will raise our voices to demand
No New War Against the People of Iraq and we will
demand the immediate elimination of all sanctions on
Iraq that in the last decade have taken the lives of
more than 1.5 million Iraqi civilians. 

At the White House, we will stand with the people of
Korea, who reject the new threats delivered by Bush in
his State of the Union message. The Korean people want
the removal of the 37,000 U.S. troops that occupy
South Korea. The Korean peopl must be allowed to
pursue their own destiny, including the right to the
reunification of their divided nation. 

At the White House, we will extend a hand of
solidarity to the people of Iran who too are
threatened by Bushs axis of evil stratagem that
seeks to demonize in advance the potential targets of
U.S. military aggression. 

At the White House, we will demand an immediate end to
the U.S. blockade of Cuba. We will protest the
wrongful designation by the U.S. government of Cuba as
a terrorist state and demand freedom for the five
U.S.-held Cuban political prisoners, who have been
given harsh prison sentences for defending their
country from U.S.-sponsored terrorism.

At the White House, we will demand that the Bush
administration immediately move to extend unemployment
benefits for the millions of workers who are suffering
unemployment. We will tell Bush HANDS OFF SOCIAL
SECURITY. We will demand money for jobs, education,
health care and housing - not for wars of aggression
in the Third World. We will stand against union
busting.

At the White House, condemn the Bush administrations
reintroduction of a form of apartheid in law
enforcement through the USA Patriot Act that strips
non-citizens of essential democratic rights and
legalizes racial and religious profiling. We will make
it clear that we will not allow the Bush
administration to use the war on terrorism to
implement the long-standing agenda of the ultra-right
and corporate America to stifle progressive dissent. 

At the White House, we demand an end to the use f
methods of racist terror in the United States, most
notably the death penalty. George Bush, while governor
of Texas, executed more people than any governor in
U.S. history (152 human beings). He is the face of the
death penalty. The people of the world have let it be
known that they consider the use of the death penalty
in the United States to be an unconscionable
abrogation of fundamental human rights. 

FOR MORE INFORMATION see
http://www.internationalanswer.org, or email
ANSWER@afgj.org, or call New York 212?633?6646,
Washington 202?543?2777, Chicago 773?583?7728, San
Francisco 415?821?6545  

TO ENDORSE, GO TO
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/a27/a27-endorse.html#endo



PARTIAL LIST OF ENDORSERS:

A.N.S.W.E.R. STEERING COMMITTEE
 - IFCO/Pastors for Peace
 - Nicaragua Network
 - Mexico Solidarity Network
 - Partnership for Civil Justice LDEF
 - Committee for Justice to Defend Palestinian
Rights-USA 
 - Bayan-USA 
 - Kensington Welfare Rights Union
 - Internatioal Action Center
 - Middle East Children's Alliance
 - Korea Truth Commission

ENDORSERS
(partial list)
 - Black Voices for Peace
 - Howard Zinn, Author, Historian
 - Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general
 - Al-Awda Palestine Right to Return Coalition
 - American Muslims for Global Peace and Justice
 - Bay Area Anti-War Coalition
 - Students for International Peace and Justice
 - Palestine Aid Society
 - Inglewood Anti-War Coalition
 - Charlotte Coalition for Peace & Justice, North
Carolina
 - Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism
 - International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS)
 - National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in
America (N'COBRA), Brooklyn NY
 - Queers For Racial & Economic Justice
 - Rev. Graylan Hagler, Senior Minister, Plymouth
Congregational Church
 - Bishop Thomas Gumbelton, Auxilliary Bishop,
Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit
 - Chuck Turner, council member, Boston City Council,
District 7, Massachusetts
 - Sally Davies, President, Council 92 AFSCME
 - Prof. Richard Lewontin, Harvard University
 - Rev. Curtis Gatewood, Durham, North Carolina
 - The Feminist Coalition Emmanuel College, Boston
 - Women For Peace, Iowa
 - Anti-Racist Action, Denver
 - Anarchist Action of Rochester
 - Students And Youth Against Racism, Penn State
University
 - Int'l Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu
Jamal (ICFFMAJ)
 - Anti-War Committee, Minnesota
 - High Country Citizens for Peace and Justice, NC
 - Chicago Anti-Bashing Network 
- Simmons College Feminist Union, Boston
 - WESPAC (Westchester People's Action Coalition)
 - Gloria La Riva, President, Typographical Sector,
Northern California Media
 - Bay Area Iranians for Peace and Social Justice
 - Committee on US-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR)
 - Ray LaForest, District Council 1707 AFSCME
 - Prof. Asha A. Samad, Muslims against Racism and War
 - Community Church of Boston
 - Berkeley Women in Black
 - Leslie Feinberg, activist and author
 - Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Penn State
University
 - Collier County Anti-War Coalition, Naples, FL
 - Nicaragua Solidarity Committee of Chicago
 - Rainbow Flags for Mumia 
 - Jim Fennerty, President, Chicago Chapter, National
Lawyers Guild*
 - Colombia Solidarity Committee, Chicago
 - Freedom Road Socialist Organization 
 - Falmouth AntiWar, Cape Cod, Mass 
 - Justice for Political Prisoners in Turkey, Boston
- United American Indians of New England 
 - Womens Fightback Network, Boston
 - Hammerhard MediaWorks 
 - David Sole, President UAW Local 2334, Detroit
 - Moroccans for Peace and Jstice
 - Bus Riders Union, Los Angeles
- Committee to Defend Amer Jubran and Palestinian Free

A.N.S.W.E.R. APRIL 20 CALL TO ACTION:
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/april/call.html

FULL LIST OF ENDORSERS:
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/april/a20-endorsers.html

A.N.S.W.E.R. COALITION ENDORSERS:
http://www.internationalanswer.org/endorsers.html

TO ENDORSE, GO TO:
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/a27/a27-endorse.html#endo



APRIL MARCH ON WASHINGTON UNITY STATEMENT FROM THE
A.N.S.W.E.R. COALITION:
http://www.internationalanswer.org

BUSES, VANS & CAR CARAVANS COMING TO DC FROM AROUND
THE COUNTRY:
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/april/contacts.html

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Email: ANSWER@afgj.org , or call
New York 212-633-6646, Washington 202-543-2777,
Chicago 773-583-7728, San Francisco 415-821-6545.
http://www.InternationalANSWER.org



CALENDAR OF EVENTS

APRIL 19-22
National Colombia Mobilization
http://www.colombiamobilization.org

APRIL 20
NATIONAL MARCH ON WAHINGTON DC
Assemble 11 am at the White House
The people of the world are not our enemy - solidarity
against U.S. world domination!
http://www.internationalanswer.org

APRIL 20
Stop the War at Home and Abroad
http://www.a20stopthewar.org

APRIL 20-21
Protest the IMF and World Bank
http://www.globalizethis.org

APRIL 22
Protest Ariel Sharon and George Bush - 7 pm at the
annual conference of American Israeli Public Affairs
Committee



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