No New Wars!
Emergency Protest Rally Against the Growing Threat of War * Hands Off Syria and Iran! * End the Drone Wars! * We Need Jobs, Education & Healthcare, Not Endless War! Los Angeles Action: Saturday June 30th at 4:00 PM Westwood Federal Building Corner of Wilshire & Veteran Contact: (323) 306-6240 or: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] During the period from June 23 through July 1, there will be demonstrations, vigils and forums around the country to protest the growing threats of war. Already over 25 cities are planning demonstrations. Using the pretext that North Vietnamese patrol boats had fired on U.S. destroyers, President LB Johnson authorized the funding of a much wider war in Vietnam. Like the recent killing of tens of thousands in Libya due to the latest U.S./NATO war, the lives lost could have been avoided if the anti-war movement had been strong enough to dispel the lies and counter the thrust towards war. Last Friday, amidst growing tensions with Syria due to U.S.-supported Syrian "rebels," a Turkish jet fighter (bought from the U.S.) just happened to violate Syrian airspace and was shot down by the Syrian military. Is this the Gulf of Tonkin incident, then used in Vietnam, again being played by the Pentagon to start a wider war beginning in Syria, while nearly 100 people per month are killed by U.S. drones in impoverished countries around the world. While austerity and cutbacks against basic social services are echoed from Washington to City Hall, no such demands are being made to limit this Administration's aims for endless war. As Martin Luther King Jr said: "The bombs in Vietnam explode at home ... poverty, urban problems and social progress generally are ignored when the guns of war become a national obsession." Build the Movement Against War - Come out to say No to War and Poverty this Saturday! Endorsers of Los Angeles Action: Arab Americans for Syria Union of Progressive Iranians Puerto Rican Alliance Southern California Immigration Coalition ALBA-USA International Action Center Workers World Party Latinos Against the War SOA Watch - LA Palisadeans for Peace International League of Peoples Struggles - US (Los Angeles) ADDICTED To WAR National Endorsers for Week of Actions: Muslim Peace Coalition MI Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice Veterans for Peace VA Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality International Action Center Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report CT United for Peace May 1 Immigrant & Workers Rights Coalition Fellowship of Reconciliation Center for Constitutional Rights Voices for Creative Nonviolence WESPAC Foundation New England United Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace Mobilization for Peace, Jobs & Justice, SF DRUM UAW 2865, UC Berkeley WILPF Code Pink Maine Thomas Merton Center ISO Muslim Peace Coalition Cmty to Stop FBI Repression [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
