A.N.S.W.E.R. in Washington Sat 29th September

Chris Burford cburford at gn.apc.org
Sun Sep 23 12:02:26 PDT 2001


National March against War and Racism in Washington DC, Saturday,

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

Please join us in signing this call: On-line Endorsement and

Mobilizing Form

To make a financial donation please go to: www.peoplesrightsfund.org

International A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism)

National Office:

39 W. 14 St., #206,

NY, NY 10011; (212) 633-6646;

info at internationalanswer.org;

www.internationalanswer.org

Washington DC Office:

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Washington, DC 20003

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