------------------------- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Jan. 30, 2003 issue of Workers World newspaper -------------------------
JAN. 19, WASHINGTON, D.C.: YOUTH SEND ANTI-WAR MESSAGE TO WAR MAKERS Over a thousand students and youth marched through the streets here on Jan. 19 to protest threats of a war on Iraq. Outraged that the youth of this country--primarily from oppressed communities--would be sent to fight a war on the people of Iraq in the interests of Big Oil, they shouted: "Hell, no! We won't fight for Texaco!" At an opening rally between the Justice and FBI buildings, Peta Lindsay, an 18-year-old first-year student at Howard University and one of the organizers of Student and Youth ANSWER, which called the demonstration, told the crowd: "This is the center of all the racist attacks on people of color." The FBI and Immigration and Naturalization Service have been targeting Arab students and demanding access to college records. "We will defend ourselves and our brothers from these racist witch hunts," said Lindsay. The students and youth marched to the White House, President George W. Bush's "Presidential Palace," where they held a speak-out against his endless war plans and demanded, "Fund education, not occupation!" High school and college students came from all around the country and from as far away as Japan and the Nether lands to let Bush know that youth all around the world are saying no to war and racism. --Michelle Quintus - END - (Copyright Workers World Service: Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document, but changing it is not allowed. For more information contact Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011; via e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe wwnews- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Support the voice of resistance http://www.workers.org/orders/donate.php) ------------------ This message is sent to you by Workers World News Service. To subscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
