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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 13:16:51 -0400
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Subject: [IAC] PROTEST GEORGE BUSH -- THE FACE OF RACISM AND GLOBALIZATION
International Action Center
39 West 14th St., #206, NY, NY 10011
212-633-6646 fax: 212-633-2889
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PROTEST GEORGE BUSH -- THE FACE OF RACISM AND
GLOBALIZATION
*** SURROUND THE WHITE HOUSE ON SATURDAY,
SEPTEMBER 29 ***
(the first day of the Sept 29-Oct 2 Washington DC convergence
against the IMF and World Bank)
The Bush attack on poor and oppressed people in the U.S. is being
neatly coordinated with the forces of globalization, such as the IMF
and the World Bank. The cost of heat and electricity is soaring.
Schools, healthcare and other social services are threatened by
privatization. Bush, who carried out more executions [legal lynchings]
than any elected official in history, wants to step up the racist attack
by pushing back civil rights. He is continuing Plan Colombia, the $1.3
billion aid package passed under Clinton, which is being used to aid
the Colombian military in its suppression of the people's struggle. This
is the NAFTA/FTAA program being carried out with impunity right
here in the U.S. against the people who did not elect him.
The convergence against the IMF/World Bank in Washington, D.C.
on September 29 - October 3 represents a unique opportunity in
Bush's new back yard to merge the struggle against the global
domination of corporations with the fight against Bush's right-wing
policies. Together, these two fronts can unite and multiply the strength
of the movement.
The International Action Center, in coalition with others, is calling for
day of actions on September 29 against Bush and his racist, anti-
worker, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-environment program.
The IAC calls on all progressive forces to SIGN ONTO THE
FOLLOWING CALL TO ACTION (see below for current list of
signers). TO SIGN ON, reply to this email with your name,
organization, address and phone number.
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During the week of convergence against the IMF and World Bank:
A Call for Mass Action on Sept. 29, 2001:
Defeat the Bush Program!
Anti-People, Racist, Sexist, Anti-Gay, Pro-War: Only the Mobilization
of the People Can Stop It!
The reactionary administration of George W. Bush is moving at
record speed to give trillions more to the rich, undermine the labor
movement, rollback civil rights, women's, lesbian/gay and disabled
rights, gut environmental protections, and escalate militarism and the
threat of new wars.
Described as "further right than the Reagan administration," the
Bush team is a collection of pro-corporate pirates and bigots who are
determined to demolish all rights except those of big business to make
unlimited profits. As one newspaper headline put it, "Happy Days Are
Here Again for Business Lobby."
There is only one force that can defeat the Bush program - the
mass mobilization of the people. A united and organized campaign
bringing together all those who will be hurt by the Bush program -
workers-employed and unemployed, people of color, women, lesbians,
gay men, bi, and transgender people, immigrants, disabled people,
environmentalists, everyone who needs heat and light - can succeed
in turning back this massive assault.
We are the majority, but our power can only become real when
we organize and take action.
The Bush government poses a grave danger to the people and the
planet on many fronts. In his first three months in office, Bush has:
*Attacked the labor movement and all working people, throwing out
regulations to protect workers from repetitive motion injuries, blocking
airlines workers from going on strike, and cutting unionized workers
out of federal construction projects;
*Cancelled funding for international family planning and called for
ending women's right to choose;
*Appointed John Ashcroft as Attorney General. Ashcroft has written
of his admiration for the Confederate slaveholders and is a racist
opponent of affirmative action, lesbian, gay and women's rights. Like
Bush, Ashcroft is an avid supporter of the death penalty and building
more prisons.
*Promoted the racist death penalty. We are demanding freedom for
Mumia Abu-Jamal.
*Announced plans to vastly increase military spending, including
building a "missile defense system," really part of nuclear first-strike
strategy. Bush has bombed Iraq, broken off talks with North Korea,
given the green light to Israel to launch new attacks on the Palestinian
people, and escalated hostility toward Russia, China and Cuba.
*While pretending to be concerned about children and education,
called for cutting funding for pre-school, child-abuse and children's
health programs;
*Opposed any limit on what oil, gas and utility monopolies can charge,
leading to a 50% increase in rates in California, soon to be followed
by rates in the rest of the country;
*Proposed opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve and other
federal parks and lands for oil and gas drilling, mining and logging;
*Threatened to start a new Vietnam-type war in Colombia;
*Rejected the Kyoto treaty to stop global warming. Bush has broken
his campaign pledge to reduce global-warming carbon dioxide from
power plants, and rejected lowering the level of arsenic in drinking
water.
*Pushed for a tax cut plan that would make the rich much richer
while giving working people almost nothing.
Initial signers: David Dinkins; Howard Zinn, Historian and Author;
Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general; Ossie Davis; Ga.State
Rep. Tyrone Brooks, President, Ga. Association of Black Elected
Officials; Ruth Holbrook, President, Sacramento Central Labor
Council, AFL-CIO*;Walter Johnson, Secretary-Treas., San Francisco
Labor Council, AFL-CIO*; Maudelle Shirek, Vice Mayor, Berkeley,
CA; Maggie Coulter, Sacramento-Yolo Peace Action*; Professor
Richard C. Lewontin, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard
University; International Action Center; Texas Death Penalty
Abolition Movement; Martha Grevatt, National Secretary, Pride At
Work-AFL-CIO ; Zachary Wolfe, National Vice President, National
Lawyers Guild; Dave Sole, President of UAW local 2443; Rosario
Morales, Puerto Rican Writer; Lucius Walker, IFCO/Pastors for
Peace; Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Auxilery Bishop, Catholic
Archdiocese of Detroit; United American Indians of New England;
Leslie Feinberg, Co-Founder, Rainbow Flags for Mumia; Student
Activist Network, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA; Abayomi
Azikiwe, editor, Pan-African Newswire; Moroccans for Peace and
Justice-Boston chapter; Simmons College Feminist Union; Richmond
Action Center; RightWatch Project; The Caribbean and Latin
America Support Project; Mid-Hudson National People's Campaign;
Writers for Mumia; Professor Richard Levins, Harvard School of
Public Health; The San Diego Coalition to Stop the Execution of
Mumia; Dr. Janet Collett, U of Sussex; Dr. David Walsh, Dept of
Philosophy, U of Edinburgh
International Action Center
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New York, NY 10011
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