SATURDAY,
APRIL 20 [Changed from 27th to 20th]
NATIONAL
MARCH IN WASHINGTON AGAINST WAR & RACISM!
(preceded by a week of mass actions)
-West Coast mobilization in San Francisco-
Tell President Bush:
* WE DEMAND MONEY FOR JOBS, EDUCATION, HOUSING & HEALTHCARE
- NOT FOR WAR & CORPORATE GIVEAWAYS!
* STOP THE RACIST ATTACKS!
* DEFEND CIVIL LIBERTIES, CIVIL RIGHTS & IMMIGRANT
RIGHTS!
TO ENDORSE the April 20 National March in Washington DC, email
ANSWER@afgj.org .
The U.S. corporate and banking establishment seeks to maintain
U.S. domination throughout the globe for their own benefit. It is these
corporate and banking elites who profit from the exploitation of oil and
natural gas resources in the Middle East and South Asia, from bloated military
contracts and from Bush administration bailouts and tax breaks. With
skyrocketing unemployment, evictions, foreclosures, and slashing of welfare and
healthcare benefits at home, people in the U.S. need billions to create jobs,
improve our schools, and provide quality health care. Instead the Bush
administration is spending billions on bombing civilians and military
aggression.
Record layoffs continue and the U.S. government’s response is
billions of dollars in bailouts to corporations and insurance companies while
cuts in social programs continue. The immediate response of the Bush administration
after September 11 was a $15 billion package for major airlines, while they
have refused to increase unemployment insurance for 100,000 travel industry
employees and 400,000 workers in other sectors who lost their jobs. The Bush-proposed $100 billion “economic
stimulus package” that is under consideration would not only repeal the corporate
minimum tax, but would refund to the big corporations of the U.S. fourteen
years of taxes, and would provide more permanent tax cuts for the wealthiest
individuals.
As the U.S. war and occupation in Afghanistan continues and
that country lies in ruins, the Bush administration is preparing to widen its
war against other countries. Many in the Bush administration would like to
greatly intensify their 11-year-long war against Iraq. Eleven years of U.S.-led UN sanctions and
bombing of Iraq have already left over 1.5 million Iraqis dead and many more
ill and malnourished. Almost 700 special forces and “advisers” have been sent
to the Philippines, and talk continues of military exercises involving 2,000-4,000
U.S. troops.
The U.S./Israeli war against the Palestinian people is intensifying
as the U.S. continues to give billions in aid and political support to the
Israeli government, which is brutally oppressing the Palestinian people. There
can be no lasting peace in the Middle East until the Palestinian people’s right
to self-determination and a homeland are secured.
Other countries targeted for possible attack include Somalia,
Sudan, Indonesia, Yemen, North Korea and Cuba. The U.S. is intensifying their aid to countries such as Colombia
and the Philippines who are attempting to suppress people’s struggles. At this moment, the U.S. is using Plan
Colombia as a wedge to intensify its intervention, threatening a Vietnam-type
war in Latin America.
As the war abroad threatens to expand, the war at home against
Arab, Muslim, South Asian and all working people continues. So-called “anti-terrorism” legislation has legitimized
and legalized racial profiling as more than 5,000 young Arab men have become
the targets of FBI investigation, over 1,200 people have been detained and college
administrations have been asked by the FBI to turn over names and records of
Arab, Muslim and international students. Bush and Ashcroft are reorganizing
federal law enforcement into a domestic surveillance police state that gives
the government license to listen to the public’s phone calls, read the public’s
e-mail, execute covert searches, and target political and religious groups.
On SATURDAY, April 20, 2002, tens of thousands of peace activists,
workers, students, labor unionists, and others will converge in Washington, DC
for a massive march on the White House to say:
MONEY FOR JOBS AND EDUCATION NOT WAR!
STOP THE RACIST ATTACKS!
DEFEND CIVIL LIBERTIES AND CIVIL RIGHTS!
*The April 20 national march on Washington against racism and
war will be the conclusion of a week of mass actions.
We call on people to
join the National Colombia
Mobilization April 19-22
(http://www.soaw.org/colombiaMobilization.html
).*
International A.N.S.W.E.R.
Act Now to Stop War & End Racism - is a coalition that was formed in
response to the headlong rush to war and racist attacks following the horrific
events of September 11. A.N.S.W.E.R.
has the support participation of more than 500 organizations and prominent
individuals and has scores of organizing centers across the U.S. and around the
world.
TO ENDORSE the April 20 National March in Washington DC, email
ANSWER@afgj.org (please put “April 20
endorsement” in your email.)
For more information about April 20: Web:
http://www.InternationalANSWER.org
, Email:
ANSWER@afgj.org , or
call New York 212-633-6646, Washington 202-543-2777, San Francisco 415-821-6545,
Chicago 773-583-7728.
http://www.InternationalANSWER.org
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