>From International Action Center - LA: iacente...@peoplesmail.net
No War On Syria Protest Wednesday, July 10th, 5:00 PM at Wilshire & Western (Metro Station Corner) United Statement & Call for Action to Oppose U.S./NATO & Israeli War on Syria No More Wars - U.S. Out of The Middle East! CONTACT: (323) 306-6240 or: iacente...@peoplesmail.net Join Arab Americans For Syria, ANSWER-LA, International Action Center; United National Antiwar Coalition-LA; LA Peace Council, SOA-Watch-LA, BAYAN-SOCAL, Union of Progressive Iranians & more. The White House's June 13th announcement that it would begin directly supplying arms to the opposition in Syria is a dramatic escalation of the U.S./NATO war against that country. Thousands of U.S. troops and intelligence personnel are training opposition forces and coordinating operations in Turkey and Jordan. Israel, the recipient of more than $3 billion annually in U.S. military aid has carried out heavy bombing raids against Syria. The Pentagon has developed plans for a "no-fly" zone over Syria, threatening a new U.S. air war. The pretext for this escalation is the assertion, presented without any actual evidence, that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons in the conflict that has been raging for more than two years. Like their predecessors, President Obama and other top U.S. officials pretend to be concerned about "democracy" and "human rights" in Syria, but their closest allies in the campaign against Syria are police-state, absolute monarchies like Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Once again the so-called 'Responsibility to protect', R2P, is used as a pretext for NATO to dominate this region. Just as the false claim of "weapons of mass destruction" was used as justification for the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, the allegations that chemical weapons were used by the Syrian military is meant to mask the real motives of Washington and its allies. Their aim is to carry out "regime change," as part of the drive to create a "new Middle East." The invasion of Iraq in 2003, the U.S.-backed Israeli war in Lebanon in 2006, the 2011 NATO bombing of Libya, the now-escalating war in Syria and the growing threats against Iran are part of a coordinated regional effort by the United States, Britain and France to dominate this oil-rich and strategic region. The U.S. government cuts basic services and has eliminated hundreds of thousands of public sector workers jobs in the last three years i n the name of a discredited austerity which has destroyed the economy, but has unlimited billions available for wars of aggression and NSA surveillance of almost every American. We join together to call for National Days of Action, June 28- July 17, 2013, to demand: * Stop the U.S./NATO/Israeli war and all forms of intervention against Syria! * Self-determination free from outside intervention for the Syrian people! * Fund people's needs, not the military! * U.S.A Out of the Middle East! Organizations in Los Angeles signing this statement are: (In alphabetical order) ANAKBAYAN Los Angeles and San Diego; ANSWER-LA; Arab Americans for Syria; BAYAN-SOCAL; Habi Arts; International Action Center; Los Angeles Peace Council; Puerto Rican Alliance-LA; School of the Americas Watch - LA (SOA Watch-LA); SiGAw-GABRIELA USA; Southern California Immigration Coalition (SCIC); Union of Progressive Iranians; United National Antiwar Coalition-LA Complete List of National and Local Signers: * United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) * ADDICTED To WAR * ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism) * United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) * International Action Center * Veterans For Peace * World Can't Wait * U.S. Peace Council * Progressive Democrats of America * Green Party of the United States * Voices for Creative Nonviolence * Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general * Kathy Kelly * Cynthia McKinney * David Swanson, RootsAction * Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report (organization for identification purpose only) * Heidi Boghosian, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild * Jill Stein * Cheri Honkala * Margaret Flowers * Kevin Zeese, * AFI3RM * All-African People's Revolutionary Party (GC) * Alliance for a Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines * Arab Americans for Peace * Arab Americans for Syria - AA4S * BAYAN USA * CRI-Panafricain * Freedom Road Socialist Organization * Global Network Against Nuclear Power in Space * Honduras Resistencia USA * International Coalition to Free the Angola 3 * Iran Working Group VFP * KmB Pro-People Youth * March Forward! * May 1 Workers and Immigrant Rights Coalition * Pakistan USA Freedom Forum * Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) * Revival of Panafricanism Forum * SI Solidarity with Iran * Socialist Action * Syrian American Forum * The Green Shadow Cabinet * Workers World Party * U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) * Ugnayan (Linking the Children of the Motherland) * Akbar Muhammad, International Representative, Nation of Islam * Ardeshir Ommani, President, American Iranian Friendship Committee (AIFC) * Jim Lafferty, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild/Los Angeles * PopularResistance * Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report (organization for identification purpose only) * John Parker, West Coast Coordinator, International Action Center * Nada Khader, WESPAC * Prof. Jared Ball, radio host * Ron Jacobs, journalist * Sami Ramadani, journalist and scholar * Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival * ANAKBAYAN Los Angeles and San Diego * BAYAN-SOCAL * Bob Carter, Justice for Palestinians, Houston (organization for identification purpose only) * Coalition to Stop $30 Billion to Israel * Community Futures Collective * Eugene E Ruyle, Peace and Freedom Party * Habi Arts * Kevin Akin, California State Chair, Peace and Freedom Party * LEF Foundation * Los Angeles Peace Council * Maine Code Pink * Peace and Freedom Party, Santa Cruz County * Peoples Video Network * Puerto Rican Alliance-LA * RI Peoples Assembly * RI SOS Save Our Schools Coalition * RI Unemployed Council * Sabah Jawad, Iraqi Democrats Against Occupation * School of the Americas Watch - LA (SOA Watch-LA) * SiGAw-GABRIELA USA * Southern California Immigration Coalition (SCIC) * Stop the War Machine, New Mexico * Teach Peace Foundation, Sacramento, Calif. * The Dream Team 2013, RI * Union of Progressive Iranians * West County Toxics Coalition, Richmond, Calif. * Alliance for Global Justice * Campaign for Labor Rights * Nicaragua Network * Project Censored/Media Freedom Foundation * Voices for Justice in Palestine * Women Against Military Madness * United for Justice with Peace Coalition (Boston) * Workers World Party * Action LA Network * Chelsea Uniting Against the War * Take Back America for the People * The St. Petersburg Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends * Columbus Campaign for Arms Control/For Mother Earth * Idaho Peace Coalition * Rev. Dr. Bruce Wright, Refuge Ministries * Matahari Music * Fr. Bob Bossie, SCJ * Anarchy in Action, Buffalo, NY * Antiwar.com * Information Bureau for Peace Work * Philly Against War * Centre for Cultural Educational Economics and Social Studies, India * IWW - Madison GMB * Ismael Hossein-zadeh, Professor Emeritus, Drake University * Mary & Rev. Robert Reader * Ann Arbor Coalition Against the War (AACAW) * UFAA United Front Against Austerity * Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action * American Party of Labor * Uniting for Peace * Peace Village * March 19th Antiwar Coalition (Chicago) * Anti-war Committee (Chicago) * Center for a Stateless Society [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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