A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition Call for united mass action

Call for united mass action

Thousands will march on Saturday, September 24 in Washington DC. The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition urges the antiwar movement to come together for a united demonstration.

Mass March on
Saturday, September 24
in Washington D.C.

Stop the War in Iraq

End Colonial Occupation
from Iraq to Palestine to Haiti

Support the Palestinian People’s Right of Return

Stop the Threats Against
Venezuela, Cuba, Iran & North Korea

U.S. out of the Philippines

Bring all the troops home now

Stop the Racist, anti-Immigrant and anti-Labor
Offensive at Home, Defend Civil Rights


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September 24 Call to Action

The anti-war movement must make a precise estimate of the direction of the White House, the Pentagon and Congress as it charts its next steps for mass mobilization.

The people of the United States must mobilize against the global War for Empire that masks itself as the so-called “war on terrorism” and falsely promotes itself as the “march for democracy.”

The people of Iraq are insisting that the United States leave their country immediately. As in Vietnam, the people of the United States must demand the immediate end to this war of conquest. As we fight to end the war in Iraq, we recognize that it is not enough to focus on a single front in this War for Empire. We must unite on a principled basis that recognizes the reality of our epoch. How can this war drive come to an end? People in Iraq, in Palestine, in Haiti, in Venezuela, in Cuba are resisting but the people of the United States must become their allies. Their resistance is part of the universal aspiration to live free from foreign domination or threats of a military or economic character.

The war and occupation of Iraq cannot be seen in isolation. The U.S. is actively attempting to destroy every government that resists the Empire. The Iraq war is not an aberration nor is it a “mistake” of conservative politicians. The war in Iraq is a necessary component in the political program and the institutions of global conquest and exploitation. This is what we must be fighting. We don’t want the troops to be brought home from Iraq only so that they can be deployed in the next front of imperialism. The people of the United States have every interest in renouncing the War for Empire that is directed by the U.S. plutocracy. The plutocrats have the wealth but the plutocracy is in inherent conflict with genuine democracy and with the needs of the people.

This is not just Bush’s war. It is not only a Republican or a neo-conservative campaign. Congress again just rubber-stamped the next $82 billion appropriation to finance the criminal occupation of Iraq. The vote in the Senate was 99-0! The amount spent on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan is now over $350 billion. Likewise, it is the White House and Congress and both big business parties that wholeheartedly support the funding of the ongoing war against the people of Palestine. The occupation of Haiti, carried out by proxy forces, is nonetheless a project of U.S. and French imperialism. The U.S. establishment is preparing to overthrow the government of Venezuela, just as every successive administration has sought, unsuccessfully, to overthrow the Cuban revolution since 1959. While the Pentagon possesses the largest nuclear arsenal on the planet, the White House and Congress and both parties join together with the Corporate-owned media to paint Iran and North Korea as looming nuclear threats. For more than 100 years the people of the Philippines have struggled, and are struggling today, to reclaim authentic sovereign control over their own country, free from endless U.S. interference.

It is time to take to the streets again today, as we have throughout the last few years, to demonstrate the growing opposition inside this country to the War for Empire. Every working person in the United States must know that the corporate, political and military establishment is using our tax dollars, and the lives of our sons and daughters, to wage their global war. It is a war for domination. It is a war for the benefit of U.S. banks, oil monopolies, and transnational corporations. These are the very same corporate entities that are slashing wages, health care coverage, pensions and outsourcing millions of jobs to make super-profits from the super-exploitation of low-wage labor.

The Bush administration cries poverty when it comes to meeting Social Security’s obligations as well as the funding for education, health care and housing. There is no poverty claim, however, for the Pentagon and its corporate contractors: the real military spending level for the next year will be over $600 billion.

Instead of paying for endless war, we demand that the resources be used to meet human needs here and around the world. Instead of acting as shock troops for Empire, we demand that the soldiers and sailors in the U.S. military be provided decent paying jobs at union wages, the right to go to college, and an immediate increase in veterans benefits.

On September 24 we will march and rally starting at the White House in Washington D.C. There will be coordinated actions that day in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

The U.S. government says it is promoting the march for democracy and freedom abroad. What a sham. They pretend to promote freedom abroad but at the same time fan the flames of racism, anti-immigrant discrimination, sexism, homophobia and bigotry of all forms at home.

There is nothing more urgent than to construct unity in the face of Empire. Real unity cannot be built by sacrificing the rights of some but rather it will be forged by embracing everyone’s rights and just struggles for liberation. United we are the majority. United we can fight and win.

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If so, DC is going to be crawling with protestors!

:woohoo:

I am going to try to come to one. Have to find a place for the kiddies (they are too little to come).

It's a little too far ahead for me to commit - I went to a couple rallies in DC leading up to the war and they were awesome.
We have a local peace group in Ann Arbor that usually has a march in coordination with major DC events too...

:patriot:

It's time for massive "March on Washington" style action. The Blair memo, the Ridge revelations, the this, the that - it's time for an IMPEACH HIM march. About a million on the Capitol Mall might get someone's attention, since most of these CRIMES AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION are being ignored.
We march!

:applause:

This is where ANSWER fails. They overreach and end up confusing the issues. Most Americans dislike the war, but when they broaden the campaign, less-well-read people lose interest.

The anti-Iraq war rallies in 2002 and 2003 were one after another speaker on the platform screeching about Palestine.

hello all

fyi
both ufpj/dawn
and
answer
have called for major mobilizations
in
washington d.c.
for
saturday
Sept. 24, 2005

i thought that the decentralized model used for
j20
was quite successful
(code pink at dupont circle/dawn at malcom x
park/answer
and turn your back on bush along the parade
route/electoral at mcpherson/anarchists at franklin
park)
and
would suggest that the same be used for sept 24

the proposal would be
different organizations/interest groups
organize in parks near the white house
(women/globalization/anti-war/electoral/others)
where
organizations can control their stage and message
but
join together as one
in
surrounding the white house

who knows what bush will be doing on sept 24
but
you know it wont be good

this is an excellent opportunity
to
bring together our diversified community
in
a unified action
surrounding the white house

and
the best part would be
after we surround the white house
we dont leave

we get on our cell phones/media
and
ask folks to join us
for
as long as it takes

look to
the brave peoples of
tbilisi/kiev
and
beirut
and lets bring democracy
back
to washington

just a thought
peace out
jose

I think troops out now, and notinourname.net will likely be doing something also;
EEK just noticed Troops Out Now is talking October. I hope they will decide to get together on this-it will be stronger that way. although if things are so bad YOU almost feel like we should just all poir into the streets and stay there till something happens like they have done in some other countries.
Don't wait anyway- act now also. Write, send post cards -congress and the media.