NO WAR AGAINST IRAN! NO SANCTIONS - NO ASSASSINATIONS - NO INTERVENTION
Two Protests Happening This Saturday, February 4th First Protest: 12:00 Noon at Wilshire & Western Metro Stop in Los Angeles For Information Contact ANSWER Coalition: 213-251-1025 or: <mailto:answe...@answerla.org> answe...@answerla.org Second Protest: 2:00 PM at Westwood Federal Building 11000 Wilshire Blvd. (Corner of Wilshire & Veteran) For Information Contact IAC: 323-306-6240 or: iacente...@peoplesmail.net LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD! NO WAR ON IRAN! Who Is the Real Threat to Peace? Fact: Iran does not possess a nuclear weapon. Fact: Iran has the right, according to international law, to develop nuclear energy for civilian use. Fact: Irans nuclear energy program is regularly monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Fact: Iran has never started a war. Fact: The United States possesses 10,600 nuclear warheads in its stockpile, 7,982 of which are deployed and 2,700 of which are in a contingency stockpile. The total number of nuclear warheads that have been built from 1951 to present is 67,500. Fact: The United States is the only country to have ever used nuclear weapons. It did so when it incinerated hundreds of thousands of Japanese people living in the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Neither city had any military significance. Fact: The United States has spent $7 trillion on nuclear weapons. The U.S. military budget for 2012 alone is about equal to Irans entire Gross National Product. Fact: Israel, the largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid (about $3 billion in 2011), unlike Iran, possesses hundreds of nuclear weapons. Fact: Israel, unlike Iran, refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) into Israel to monitor its nuclear program. Fact: There is active discussion in the Israeli media about whether Israel will carry out military strikes against Irans nuclear energy facilities. Israel bombed similar nuclear civilian energy facilities in Iraq in 1981 (Operation Babylon) and in Syria in 2007 (Operation Orchard). Fact: The United States and Britain used severe economic sanctions and CIA covert operatives to overthrow the democratically elected government of Iran led by Dr. Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953. The Iranian government under Mosaddegh had nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), which became known as British Petroleum (BP), in a campaign to use oil profits to eradicate widespread poverty within Iran. The successful CIA and British Intelligence coup détat put the Shah of Iran (King) back in power. The Shahs dictatorship denationalized Iranian oil and returned it to the ownership of British and U.S. oil companies. The Shah executed and tortured thousands during his 26-year bloody reign, which ended in the 1979 revolution that created the Islamic Republic of Iran. Fact: The United States broke diplomatic relations with Iran and has pursued a policy of economic sanctions against the country since the overthrow of the U.S.-backed Shah (King). Fact: Irans oil reserves are the fourth largest in the worldit has 12.7 percent of the worlds known oil reserves. That makes Irans oil reserves second only to Saudi Arabia in the Middle East, greater than those of Iraq. Fact: The new economic sanctions against Iran include a ban on the import, sale and trade of Iranian oil, which constitutes half of Irans Gross National Product. It forbids any company in the world that does any business with Iran or its Central Bank from having any trade or economic transaction with a U.S. bank or corporation. Fact: The economic sanctions are an effort to create economic suffering in Iran and to deprive the country of the goods and services to sustain life. According to international law, these economic sanctions constitute a blockade or an act of war against Iran even though Iran poses no threat to the people of the United States or Europe. WESTWOOD ACTION ENDORSED/INITIATED BY: * UNION OF PROGRESSIVE IRANIANS * INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER * CISPES * LATINO CAUCUS OF SEIU 721 * BAYAN-USA * ALBA U.S.A * FSLN (SANDINISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT) * SOLIDARITY WITH IRAN (SI) * PUERTO RICAN ALLIANCE * BAIL OUT THE PEOPLE MOVEMENT * SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA IMMIGRATION COALITION * REVEREND DR. LEWIS E LOGAN II * OCCUPY4JOBS * WORKERS WORLD PARTY · The ANSWER Coalition is calling on everyone to join a demonstration or to organize one on the National Day of Action on Saturday, Feb. 4, to demand: No War on Iran, No Sanctions, No Intervention, No Assassinations. In Los Angeles, there will be a protest on Saturday, Feb. 4, 12 noon at the corner of Wilshire & Western, near the Metro Stop (3790 Wilshire Blvd., LA 90010). · The U.S.-led campaign to bring about regime change is escalating. Just today, the European Union announced a complete embargo of Iranian oil. Taken together with the other economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. and its allies, this is a campaign meant to impose maximum suffering on the people of Iran by destabilizing and destroying the countrys economy. At the same time, covert action inside the country, including assassinations, sabotage and drone over flights, is intensifying. U.S. military bases surround Iran, while nuclear-armed U.S. aircraft carriers and Trident submarines sit right off its cost. · The pretext for this aggression against another country in the strategic Persian Gulf region is that Iran is developing nuclear weapons, an assertion that Iranian leaders have denied. The utter hypocrisy of this charge by the worlds leading nuclear weapons power and its nuclear-armed allies, including Israel, Britain and France, could not be clearer. · U.S. seeks to repeat history · Sixty years ago, the U.S. and British imposed a worldwide embargo on Iranian oil in response to the nationalization of the countrys petroleum resources by the Mossadegh government, the first democratically elected government in Irans history. The embargo weakened the government enough so that in 1953 the U.S. CIA was able to carry out a coup, and place the Shah (king) back on the throne. For the next 25 years, the Shah served a extremely brutal agent of the U.S., killing up to 100,000 Iranians in the regimes notorious torture chambers, and turning the countrys resources over to U.S. oil companies and banks. · Twenty-one years ago the U.S. pushed the UN Security Council a total blockade of Iraq. Thirteen years of sanctions killed more than a million Iraqis and severely weakened the country, paving the way for the 2003 invasion and an occupation which killed a million more Iraqis and killed and wounded tens of thousands of U.S. and other occupying troops. · Now is the time to take action to stop the war that has already started against Iran before it escalates. We hope that you will join us in cities where demonstrations are already scheduled, or organize a protest if one is not yet planned in your city, town or campus. NATIONAL ENDORSEMENTS: American Iranian Friendship Committee American Muslim Alliance ANSWER Coalition March Forward! Antiwar.com UPWARD Bail Out The People Movement (BOPM) Cindy Sheehan, National Co-ordinator of Peace of the Action CODEPINK Women for Peace ComeHomeAmerica.us David Swanson, Author, When the World Outlawed War Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality-Virginia Delegations Journey through the Islamic Republic George Phillies, Editor for Liberty for America Granny Peace Brigade International Action Center (IAC) Karla Hansen, Producer/Director Silent Screams Malcolm X Center for Self Determination Minnesota Peace Action Coalition Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS) Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) Peace of the Action Phil Wilayto, Author, In Defense of Iran: Notes from a U.S. Peace Ramsey Clark, Former US Attorney General, awarded UN Human Rights Award Ray McGovern, Veterans for Peace Refugee Apostolic Catholic Church SI! Solidarity with Iran St. Pete for Peace Twin Cities Peace Campaign United National Anti-War Committee (UNAC) Veterans for Peace NYC Chapter 034 Waco Friends of Peace WAMM, Women Against Military Madness We Wont Fly WESPAC Foundation Workers World Party World Cant Wait [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:la...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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