September 29; Rally 12 noon at Lafayette Park MAJOR
VICTORY – PERMITS ISSUED for Sep. 29
Please join us in signing this call for a new anti-war coalition:
On-line Endorsement and Mobilizing Form
We join with people all over the world in condemning the horrific
killings of thousands of persons in the September 11th attacks on the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Our most heartfelt sympathies and
condolences are with those whose loved ones were lost or injured on
September 11, 2001. At this moment, we would all like to take time to
reflect, to grieve, to extend sympathy and condolences to all. But we believe
that we must do more. We must act now.
We are assembling International A.N.S.W.E.R. to call for worldwide
rallies against war and racism. On September 29, there will be a national
march and rally at the White House in Washington DC, as well as
marches on the West Coast of the U.S. and around the world. We call on
all people of conscience and progressive organizations to take up this call
and organize rallies around the world.
Unless we stop President Bush and NATO from carrying out a new, wider
war in the Middle East, the number of innocent victims will grow from the
thousands to the tens of thousands and possibly more. A new, wider U.S.
and NATO war in the Middle East can only lead to an escalating cycle of
violence. War is not the answer.
We must also act against racism. Arab American and Muslim people in the
United States, in Europe and elsewhere, as well as other communities of
color, are facing racist attacks and harassment in their communities, on
their jobs and at mosques. Anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racism is a poison
that should be repudiated.
The U.S. government is attempting to curb civil liberties and to create a
climate in which it is impossible for progressive people to speak their
mind. The Bush administration is attempting to take advantage of this
crisis to militarize U.S. society with a vast expansion of police powers that
is intended to severely restrict basic democratic rights.
On September 29, tens of thousands of people had planned to demonstrate
against the Bush administration's reactionary foreign and domestic policy
and the IMF and World Bank. In light of the current crisis, with its tragic
consequences for so many thousands of people, we have refocused the call
for our demonstration to address the immediate danger posed by increased
racism and the grave threat of a new war. We call on people to demonstrate
around the world on that day.
Now is the time for all people of conscience, all people who oppose racism
and war to come together. If you believe in civil liberties and oppose racism
and war, demonstrate on September 29 in front of the White House and
around the world. October 12-13 will be International Days of Action
Against War and Racism. We urge all organizations internationally to
join together at this critical time and take action.
Initial Signers:
Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General
Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Auxiliary Bishop, Catholic Archdiocese
of Detroit
Teresa Gutierrez, Co-Director, International Action Center
Al-Awda, New York and New Jersey
Barbara Lubin, Exec. Director, Middle East Children’s Alliance
Jews Against the Occupation
Rev. Lucius Walker, Pastors for Peace
Karen Talbot, International Center for Peace & Justice
Committee for a Democratic Palestine
Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics, U. of Ottawa
Howard Zinn, Historian, Author
Michael Parenti Ph.D., Author of Against Empire
Ben DuPuy, former Deputy Ambassador-at-Large, Haiti
Nania Kaur Dhingra, Sikh Student Organization, GWU
Martin Espada, Poet
Sakhi for South Asian Women
Women for Afghan Women
Michele Naar-Obed, Plowshares activist, Jonah House, Baltimore
Pam Africa, International Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Michel Collon, author and journalist, Belgium
Heidelberg Forum Against Militarism and War, Germany
Italian Tribunal on NATO Crimes in Yugoslavia
Elmar Schmaehling, Retired Admiral, German Navy
Kadouri Al Kaysi, Committee in Support of Iraqi People, NY
Wolfgang Richter, President, European Peace Forum
Green Party, Maryland
Sally Davies, President AFSCME Local 1072
Craig Newman, Chief Steward, AFSCME Local 1072
Eric Easton, Vice President of National Action Network
Rev. David Carl Olson, Minister, Community Church, Boston
Baltimore Coalition Against the War
Campaign Against Plan Colombia, Barcelona, Spain
Women's International League for Peace & Freedom, Baltimore and
Catonsville Chapters
Ricardo Juarez, Pasamontañas
Nino Pasti Foundation, Rome, Italy
Information-Post on Militarism, Tobias Pflueger & Claudia Haydt,
Germany
New Communist Party of the Netherlands
African Immigrant and Refugee Coalition of N. America
Dominican Workers Party, NY
Chuck Kaufman, National Co-Coordinator, Nicaragua Network
Ray LaForest, Labor Organizer, 1707 AFSCME
Heidi Boghosian, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild
Tom Hansen, Mexico Solidarity Network
Kriss Worthington, Berkeley City Council
Leonora Foerstal, Women for Mutual Security
Congress for Korean Reunification
Asha A. Samad, Human Rights Center
April 25 Movement of the Dominican Republic, NY
Vieques Support Campaign
John Kim, Veterans for Peace, NYC Chapter
SEIU Local 1877, Bay Area, CA
Njeri Shakur, Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement
Michel Shehadeh, Los Angeles 8 Case Respondent
Muslim Student & Faculty Association
Marco Frucht, Editor and Publisher, Activist Times
Leslie Feinberg, transgender author, Rainbow Flags for Mumia
Minnie Bruce Pratt, writer and ant-racist activist
Steven Gillis, Exec. Bd, USWA Local 8751, Boston School Bus
Drivers
Susanne Kelly, Secretary Treasurer, Local 334 OPEIU
Garibaldi Collective, Barcelona, Spain
Batasana, Euskal, Basque
Helena Papadopoulos, Center for Comparative Study of Law and
Society, Lebanon
All Peoples Congress, Baltimore
Unity for Action, Baltimore
Sharon Ceci, shop steward, United Food & Comercial Workers
Union, Local 27
Mitchel Cohen, Green Party USA, Brooklyn Greens
Milos Raickovich, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Carlos Eden, Raweshrar Project for Indigenous People--Chile
Jamie York, Cuba Advocate Newsletter, MT
Brian Barraza, Association of Mexican American Workers
Justin Vitiello, Professor, Temple University, Philadelphia
Mahtowin Munro & Moonanum James, United American Indians of
New England
SAFRAD Somali Association
Monica Moorehead, Workers World Party
Arab Cause Solidarity Committee, Madrid, Spain
Korea Truth Commission
Struggle Against War Coalition, Italy
Trades Union International of Building and Wood Workers, Finland
LEF Foundation, St. Helena, CA
Vanguard Public Foundation, San Francisco
Consuela Lee, musician
Bohemian Grove Action Network, Sonoma County, CA
Sonoma County Free Press (CA)
Nadine Rosa-Rosso, General Secretary, Workers' Party of Belgium
Karim Lopez, Institute for Mass Communications
Oklahoma Socialist Cooperative, Oklahoma
Arab Women's Solidarity Association, San Francisco Chapter
Susan E. Davis, co-chair, NY Local, National Writers Union, UAW
Local 1981
James Lafferty, National Lawyers Guild, Los Angeles
Freedom Socialist Party
Johnnie Stevens, People’s Video Network
Campaign Against Racism & War, Oberlin, Ohio
Vietnam Veterans Against the War Anti-Imperialist
Dr. Pol De Vos, President, Anti-Imperialist League, Belgium
Refuse and Resist
Klaus von Raussendorff, Anti-Imperialist Correspondence, Germany
Dr. Bert De Belder, Coordinator, Third World Medical Aid, Belgium
Dr. Jean Pestieau, Professor, Catholic University of Louvain,
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment,
California
Klaus Hartmann, President of World Union of Freethinkers, Germany
California Prison Focus
Anuradha Mittal, Executive Director, Food First/Institute for Food
and Development Policy
Radical Women
Sandra Robertson, Georgia Citizens Coalition on Hunger
Al-Awda Massachusetts (Palestinian Right to Return Coalition)
Radio Arabiyat, Boston, Mass
Vanessa Marques, Portuguese-American Relief for Palestine
Rima Anabtawi, Al-Awda Coordinating Committee
Committee to Defend Amer Jubran and Palestinian Free Speech
Rights
Gloria La Riva, Western Reg. Co-Director, Intl. Action Center
Richard Becker, Western Reg. Co-Director, Intl. Action Center
Falco Accame, former president, Defense Commission, Chamber of
Deputies, Italy
Gerry Scoppettuolo, Dir. of Educ., So NH HIV/AIDS Task Force
Media Monitors Network Southern, CA, mediamonitors.net
Athos Fava, Secretary for International Relations, Communist Party of
Argentina
Patricio Echegary, General Secretary, Communist Party of Argentina
Bay Area CISPES
Leila Sansour, TV producer, London
Marina Drummer, Community Futures Collective
California Prison Focus
Muna Hamzeh, Author and Journalist
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Mobilizing Form
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