From: "Action Center" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 12:33:10 -0500 To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [IAC] APRIL 27: MARCH in WASHINGTON AGAINST WAR & RACISM! - please post widely - SATURDAY, APRIL 27 NATIONAL MARCH IN WASHINGTON AGAINST WAR & RACISM! (preceded by a week of mass actions) -West Coast mobilization in San Francisco- Tell President Bush: * WE DEMAND MONEY FOR JOBS, EDUCATION, HOUSING & HEALTHCARE - NOT FOR WAR & CORPORATE GIVEAWAYS! * STOP THE RACIST ATTACKS! * DEFEND CIVIL LIBERTIES, CIVIL RIGHTS & IMMIGRANT RIGHTS! TO ENDORSE the April 27 National March in Washington DC, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] . The U.S. corporate and banking establishment seeks to maintain U.S. domination throughout the globe for their own benefit. It is these corporate and banking elites who profit from the exploitation of oil and natural gas resources in the Middle East and South Asia, from bloated military contracts and from Bush administration bailouts and tax breaks. With skyrocketing unemployment, evictions, foreclosures, and slashing of welfare and healthcare benefits at home, people in the U.S. need billions to create jobs, improve our schools, and provide quality health care. Instead the Bush administration is spending billions on bombing civilians and military aggression. Record layoffs continue and the U.S. government’s response is billions of dollars in bailouts to corporations and insurance companies while cuts in social programs continue. The immediate response of the Bush administration after September 11 was a $15 billion package for major airlines, while they have refused to increase unemployment insurance for 100,000 travel industry employees and 400,000 workers in other sectors who lost their jobs. The Bush-proposed $100 billion “economic stimulus package” that is under consideration would not only repeal the corporate minimum tax, but would refund to the big corporations of the U.S. fourteen years of taxes, and would provide more permanent tax cuts for the wealthiest individuals. As the U.S. war and occupation in Afghanistan continues and that country lies in ruins, the Bush administration is preparing to widen its war against other countries. Many in the Bush administration would like to greatly intensify their 11-year-long war against Iraq. Eleven years of U.S.-led UN sanctions and bombing of Iraq have already left over 1.5 million Iraqis dead and many more ill and malnourished. Almost 700 special forces and “advisers” have been sent to the Philippines, and talk continues of military exercises involving 2,000-4,000 U.S. troops. The U.S./Israeli war against the Palestinian people is intensifying as the U.S. continues to give billions in aid and political support to the Israeli government, which is brutally oppressing the Palestinian people. There can be no lasting peace in the Middle East until the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and a homeland are secured. Other countries targeted for possible attack include Somalia, Sudan, Indonesia, Yemen, North Korea and Cuba. The U.S. is intensifying their aid to countries such as Colombia and the Philippines who are attempting to suppress people’s struggles. At this moment, the U.S. is using Plan Colombia as a wedge to intensify its intervention, threatening a Vietnam-type war in Latin America. As the war abroad threatens to expand, the war at home against Arab, Muslim, South Asian and all working people continues. So-called “anti-terrorism” legislation has legitimized and legalized racial profiling as more than 5,000 young Arab men have become the targets of FBI investigation, over 1,200 people have been detained and college administrations have been asked by the FBI to turn over names and records of Arab, Muslim and international students. Bush and Ashcroft are reorganizing federal law enforcement into a domestic surveillance police state that gives the government license to listen to the public's phone calls, read the public's e-mail, execute covert searches, and target political and religious groups. On SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2002, tens of thousands of peace activists, workers, students, labor unionists, and others will converge in Washington, DC for a massive march on the White House to say: MONEY FOR JOBS AND EDUCATION NOT WAR! STOP THE RACIST ATTACKS! DEFEND CIVIL LIBERTIES AND CIVIL RIGHTS! *The April 27 national march on Washington against racism and war will be the conclusion of a week of mass actions. We call on people to join the National Colombia Mobilization April 19-22 (http://www.soaw.org/colombiaMobilization.html ).* International A.N.S.W.E.R. Act Now to Stop War & End Racism - is a coalition that was formed in response to the headlong rush to war and racist attacks following the horrific events of September 11. A.N.S.W.E.R. has the support participation of more than 500 organizations and prominent individuals and has scores of organizing centers across the U.S. and around the world. TO ENDORSE the April 27 National March in Washington DC, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (please put “April 27 endorsement” in your email.) For more information about April 27: Web: http://www.InternationalANSWER.org , Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] , or call New York 212-633-6646, Washington 202-543-2777, San Francisco 415-821-6545, Chicago 773-583-7728. http://www.InternationalANSWER.org ------------------ Send replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the IAC activist announcement list. Anyone can subscribe by sending any message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
