from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subject: Greg: Endorse National March on Washington Sept 29 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Greg Butterfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Cuba SI] Endorse the National March on Washington Sept. 29 NATIONAL MARCH ON WASHINGTON *SEPTEMBER 29, 2001* THE PEOPLE MUST OVERTURN THE BUSH PROGRAM **SURROUND THE WHITE HOUSE** (the first day of the Sept 29-Oct 2 Washington DC convergence against the IMF and World Bank) ENDORSE THE CALL TO ACTION AT http://home.earthlink.net/~npcboston/sep29end.htm. There is growing momentum for the September 29 National March on Washington to Overturn the Bush Program. Hundreds of organizations and prominent individuals have endorsed the call and are beginning to organize for the march, which is timed to coincide with the first day of the September 29-October 2 Washington DC convergence against the IMF and World Bank. The Latin American Solidarity Conference, including many important national organizations, has decided to organize for September 29. They will be conducting a rally focusing on U.S. interventionist policies in Latin America and then march to the White House to join with the other sectors who are uniting to fight back against the reactionary Bush program. Anti-racist and anti-death penalty forces will be mobilizing in force. So will women's organizations, labor unions, lesbian/gay/bi/transgender groups, peace organizations opposed to National Missile Defense and Star Wars and many others. ENDORSE THE CALL TO ACTION TODAY! JUST FILL OUT THE ONLINE FORM AT http://home.earthlink.net/~npcboston/sep29end.htm. CALL TO ACTION: 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. PARTIAL ENDORSERS LIST: 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* The Caribbean and Latin America Support Project Walter Johnson, Secretary-Treas., San Francisco Labor Council, AFL-CIO* Lucius Walker, IFCO/Pastors for Peace Maudelle Shirek, Vice Mayor, Berkeley, CA Queers For Racial & Economic Justice International Action Center Latin American Solidarity Conference Nicaragua Solidarity Network David Dinkins, former mayor NYC Dr. Nadia Marsh, Harlem Hospital* Jahahara Alkebulan-Ma'at, National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America Transgenders United for Equality Dave Welsh, retired exec VP, Golden Gate Branch #214, Letter Carriers Union May d'Marie, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Maggie Coulter, Sacramento-Yolo Peace Action* Professor Richard C. Lewontin, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 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 Millions for Mumia leftbooks.com Korea Truth Commission 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 Workers World Party Moroccans for Peace and Justice-Boston chapter Simmons College Feminist Union Tony Russo, Pentagon Papers Peace Project Richard Hugus, Cape Cod Coalition Against Iraq Sanctions Richmond Action Center RightWatch 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 Larry Lauro, coordinator of the SOA Watch-San Jose. Dr. Janet Collett, U of Sussex Dr. David Walsh, Dept of Philosophy, U of Edinburgh Candice Isphording, Radford University Amnesty International David Gray, Vassar College Student Activist Union Andrew Hartman, Students for Justice, Denver, CO Ron Jacobs, author, The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground; and library worker, Burlington, VT. Instant Antiwar Action Group, VT, Burlington, VT Carol Galione, Press- Woodstock Times Carol Brouillet Co-Founder, The Who's Counting Project Joy Crocker, Church Women United, CA, Civic & Legislative Chair; Quantum Leap 2000, Director Allison Guttu, Street Harassment Project member Alyce Vrba, CEO POORPOWER, Property Rights Power Cheryl Yanek, NYC radical cheerleaders Rev. James D. Findlay, Claremont Graduate University, CALPIRG Stuart F. Chen-Hayes, Ph.D., Counselor Education, Lehman College/CUNY Action Center FXBG, Natural-Mystics store, Fredericksburg, VA Meredith Cabell, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico Anton Borissov, Left wing socialist Dr. John Gilbert, Nat'l Rep, SNUR-CGIL U and Research Trade Union, Rome, Italy Vince Hayner, Circle Greens Peter Doedens, Chair of Mundus Melior Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands Dan Mack, Socialist Party of Milwaukee Claire O'Leary, Citizen of Planet Earth Craig Mazer, Editor/Publisher, IMPACT press Maya del Mar, Sausalito, CA Mickey Huff, Prof. History & Soc Science, Diablo Valley College Advisor for Progressive Student Alliance Jonah Nadir Omowale, Eclipse America Productions Linda M. Velarde, Taos, New Mexico, Director efeminists: queer mehn against patriarchy Dr. Enoch Page, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Carol Brouillet, The Who's Counting Project Terra and Atom Emet Karen Toomey Anna Mojallali, student Gina Gallo, Oakland, CA Susan Beddingfield, Monterey, California Melissa Wingard, Foster City, Ca Michele C. Stewart, Shepherdstown, WV Geneva Jones, Silver Spring, MD Olga JURIC, Paris, FRANCE Marijana Bogdanovic, Australia Zoran Bogdanovic, Australia Betsy Marville, Boynton Beach, Florida Sue Wisner, Great Neck, NY ------------------ 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]> _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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