From: mart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fw: Nov. 3rd - TWW-PAC National Day of Action [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: V S C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 4:02 PM Subject: Nov. 3rd - TWW-PAC National Day of Action Vieques Support Campaign http://palfrente.tripod.com E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________________________________ NO TO RACISM & IMPERIALIST WAR! U.S. NAVY OUT OF VIEQUES & ALL OF PUERTO RICO! _____________________________________________________ NO MORE LOST LIVES! ***** THIRD WORLD WITHIN November 3rd Call National Day of Action ***** NO MORE LOST LIVES! NO MORE RACISM & NO MORE WAR Call for November 3rd - National Day of Action Put out by THIRD WORLD WITHIN - PEACE ACTION COALITION (TWW-PAC) Many organizations have developed written statements following the tremendous loss of lives and events of September 11th. As we struggle to come to terms with a time of heightened violence in our communities, city, nation and world, Third World Within - Peace Action Coalition is putting out this call for NO MORE LOST LIVES. ABOUT THIRD WORLD WITHIN - PEACE ACTION COALITION Third World Within - Peace Action Coalition (TWW-PAC) was initiated by the NYC Coalition Against Police Brutality (CAPB), in the aftermath of September 11th. TWW-PAC consists of over 20 NYC-based organizations run by & for People of Color - many that have worked together against police violence, the prison industrial complex, racism, xenophobia, homophobia/transphobia,sexism and other issues. ABOUT NOVEMBER 3RD - CALL FOR NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION NYC-based People of Color organizations are calling on organizations and individuals around the country who agree with our guiding principles (see below) to use November 3rd as a day for unified actions - calling for NO MORE LOST LIVES - NO MORE RACISM - and NO MORE WAR. Because we see racial justice linked to every aspect of the aftermath of September 11th, we ask that all those organizing actions recognize the role and leadership of progressive formations of color in leading these struggles in the US. We also understand that different local/ community conditions will demand different types of actions. Please keep us informed if your organization/city are planning a November 3rd action. CALL FOR SOLIDARITY In addition to letting the nation and world know that communities in New York City, most directly affected by the September 11 attacks are calling for peace, we hope that November 3 can be an opportunity for communities around the world to stand in solidarity with communities in New York resisting racism at home and militarism abroad. Please send your messages, statements, or letters of solidarity to Third World Within Peace Action Coalition at [EMAIL PROTECTED] These messages will be read out and distributed at the New York No More Lost Lives Event. We will also collect them and send them to all participating organizations; and will try to have them placed on the nomorelostlives.org website. TWW - PEACE ACTION COALITION'S GUIDING PRINCIPLES The following summarizes Third World Within/Peace Action Coalition's concerns and analysis regarding September 11th and the aftermath: * Compassion and mourning for lives lost. We must demonstrate compassion for the tremendous loss of lives in New York City, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania from the events of September 11th. We must support families and communities - particularly immigrant, working class and people of color communities in NYC and Washington, DC. Relief must be made available to all who were injured or lost loved ones on September 11th, regardless of immigrant status, marital status (including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender families), national origin, and other factors that are used to discriminate. * Resisting racial/xenophobic backlash. We can not ignore the thousands of reported (and unreported) incidents of racial violence against people of color in the US, particularly those of/perceived to be of Arab, South Asian, Central Asian descent and/or of Muslim faith. Furthermore, racial profiling - along with surveillance,arbitrary arrest, incarceration and indefinite detention - have been re-accepted by mainstream America, as INS detention centers are being readied as modern-day internment camps. More lives are being lost in this climate of fear and hatred. * Safety and peace are not possible without racial and economic justice. We, Third World peoples within and outside of the US,have lived without safety and peace for years preceding September 11th. This is the time to redefine our collective understanding of safety and peace to ensure that it is shared amongst all, and includes freedom from all types of violence (including racial, economic and other forms) - not just physical violence. We recognize that many who were unsafe before September 11th continue to be under attack in these times - whether immigrants,communities of color, women, youth, poor and working-class people, LGBT peoples, or others who oppose institutionalized oppressions. Current government-sponsored attacks on civil liberties and increased criminalization/militarization of our communities will be felt most deeply by communities of color - which have historically borne the brunt of state violence. We believe that safety and peace will not be real until all of us are safe. * Solidarity in a call for peace with justice. We, as communities of color, see it as our obligation to hold the US government accountable for its actions, carried out in the name of people who reside in the US. We believe we must unite with other justice-loving people in this country, and stand in solidarity with those around the world calling for peace and an end to US-sponsored military and economic retaliation (past & present) against Third World nations and their peoples - No More Lost Lives! For all these reasons, TWW calls for an end to violence and NO MORE LOST LIVES. If we are serious about creating safety, it can only come about through peace and justice, not just for ourselves but also for the world community. More and more, our world is connected. It is crucial that the ties that bind us are fair and productive for all - not just a few. **** Third World Within - Peace Action Coalition E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.nomorelostlives.org ________________________________________________________ The V.S.C. is a member organization of Third World Within - Peace Action Coalition ________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
