...for a fall mobilization, in particular the October 25 demonstration:
At 7:56 AM -0400 7/19/03, Diane S Schurr wrote:
>Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 07:56:02 -0400
>From: Diane S Schurr <carolandiane at juno.com>
>Subject: [ufpj-disc] Follow up on the call for a Unified Anti-War
>action in the Fall
>X-Sender: carolandiane at juno.com
>To: ufpj-disc at yahoogroups.com
<snip>
>We are writing you now to urge that you accept ANSWER's invitation
>to cosponsor the October 25 demonstration as stated in their
>communication to you: "We would propose that there be an equal
>sharing of responsibility for logistics and mobilization and for the
>creation of the program on the day of the demonstration."
The dominant approach in Ohio is not to give a damn about the ideological baggage of left-wingers calling for a national mobilization in D.C. or NYC or whatever as long as it's for a good cause, such as the cause of Bringing the Troops Home and Ending the Occupation of Iraq, and to make efforts to maximize the turnout.
At 1:47 PM -0400 7/20/03, Chuck0 wrote:
>Like why is everybody waiting until October to do a big anti-war protest?
There was the July 4 mobilization in Philadelphia: <http://www.justiceinjuly.org/issues.html>. The turnout was in the thousands, I think. Bush decided not to make his appearance in Philly, and it's usually hard to get a lot of people out on a big holiday when families get together for cookouts, parades, and the like.
The July 27th Armistice to Peace Campaign will be holding a protest in D.C. on July 27: <http://www.july27.org/>. This protest has been endorsed by UFPJ, but I'm not sure if UFPJ has done much more than put it on its home page <http://www.unitedforpeace.org/>. Why don't you support it if you don't find anything objectionable in the program?
UFPJ might get around to issuing a call to action against the Occupation of Iraq on August 9. A lot of organizations must be already incorporating the Iraq angle into their annual Hiroshima & Nagasaki commemorations on August 6-9 anyway. -- Yoshie
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