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Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the March 13, 2003
issue of Workers World newspaper
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TIME IS SHORT: SURROUND THE WHITE HOUSE
ANTI-WAR COALITION CALLS MARCH 15 EMERGENCY MASS ACTION
By Monica Moorehead
As the Bush administration and the Pentagon move ever closer to a war
against Iraq, the International ANSWER coalition is mobilizing for a
March 15 emergency convergence on the White House.
There are now 300,000 U.S. troops massed around the Persian Gulf area.
An unimaginable Pentagon arsenal of weapons of mass destruction is aimed
at a largely defenseless country. Anti-war forces are presented with
their greatest challenge since the war crisis developed last fall.
More than 100 cities in 35 states are organizing buses and other modes
of transportation to go to Washington, D.C., on March 15 to send a
resounding message to the warmongers that the vast majority of people do
not want to see one drop of blood--be it from an Iraqi or a U.S. soldier-
-spilled for oil profits or empire building.
Simultaneous protests are set for San Francisco and Los Angeles. Many
other countries, including Greece, Japan and Portugal, are holding their
own protests on March 15.
Anti-war forces in the U.S. and worldwide are also organizing other mass
protests, work stoppages, direct action, civil disobedience and many
more actions to stop the criminal U.S. war on Iraq before it starts.
Student walkouts are taking place at hundreds of colleges and high
schools all over the U.S. as part of a national March 5 moratorium
against the war. The National Youth and Students Peace Coalition has
called the walkout actions "Books, Not Bombs," to show how the billions
of tax dollars being diverted to war are directly linked to devastating
cutbacks in education.
Both President George W. Bush and Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair
had hoped to begin a war with Iraq in January. They had to postpone it
to February. But their diabolical war plans were temporarily dashed
again when an unprecedented massive outpouring of humanity occurred
worldwide on the weekend of Feb. 15 and 16--more than 10 million people
took to the streets in 600 cities around the world to demand "No war on
Iraq."
Both Bush and Blair are now attempting to push through another pro-war
resolution in the United Nations Security Council in defiance of world
public opinion. The U.S. and Britain are finding it more difficult to
depend on their long-time allies for military support for this war. All
their attempts at bribery and arm-twisting to impose their imperialist
will on the oppressed, underdeveloped countries have not produced the
kinds of results they anticipated.
Most notably, the Turkish parliament voted against the use of its bases
for U.S. troops to launch an attack on Iraq, despite U.S. efforts to
bribe Turkey's beholden, reactionary regime with billions of dollars in
aid and loans. On the same day as the vote, tens of thousands of people
in Ankara, Turkey, marched to parliament to demand no war.
In Cairo, where many protests are repressed by law, 100,000 people
jammed a stadium and hundreds of thousands more rallied outside in
support of Iraq and Palestine on Feb. 27.
Bush has become so defensive and isolated in the world about this war
that he has admitted publicly what so many already knew--that its real
aim is to overthrow the Iraqi government and put Iraq under the
jurisdiction of the U.S. military.
The bottom line is that the real aims of a war against Iraq have nothing
to do with weapons of mass destruction and everything to do with "regime
change" in the interests of conquest.
RESPONSE TO MARCH 15 CALL
Sarah Friedman, a national outreach coordinator of ANSWER in
Washington,
told Workers World, "A movement has to have the ability to switch gears
in terms of mobilizing efforts, especially when the stakes are so
extremely high, like doing everything possible to stop a racist war on
Iraq. We are getting great responses from all over the country--150
cities are organizing to get to March 15 protests on both coasts,
including Minnesota, Florida and the Midwest."
At a jam-packed meeting at Community Church in New York City on March
4,
speakers including former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, ANSWER
spokesperson Larry Holmes and others spoke about how critical the March
15 mobilization is. And they stressed that the people of the world
understand the need for a strong anti-war movement inside the U.S.
People in the audience took stacks of March 15 leaflets and bought many
bus tickets.
Mass leafleting for March 15 is planned for every International Women's
Day protest from New York to Baltimore, Washington to Los Angeles.
ANSWER organizers have called for a gathering of anti-war forces at 12
noon on March 15 at the Washington Monument. After a rally, a march will
proceed to surround the White House, followed by a wind-up rally at the
Department of Justice, which promotes so much injustice at home.
Go to www.internationalANSWER.org to download leaflets, endorse the
protest, make a donation and find a local March 15 organizing center
near you.
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