Join the massive united action at the White House on the morning of the 24th.
Here's a partial list of speakers:
- Jessica Lange, actor
- George Galloway, British Member of Parliament
- Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general
- Cindy Sheehan*
- Dolores Huerta, Co-Founder, United Farm Workers of America
- Malik Rahim, New Orleans community activist who survived
Hurricane Katrina
- Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney
- Ralph Nader
- Mahdi Bray, Exec. Dir., Muslim American Society Freedom
Foundation
- Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, attorney/co-founder, Partnership
for Civil Justice, National Lawyers Guild
- Elias Rashmawi, National Council of Arab Americans
- Brian Becker, National Coordinator, A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
- Lynne Stewart, human rights attorney
- Rev. Al Sharpton*
- Anita Dennis, mother of Iraq War veteran / resister
- Clayola Brown, President of the A. Philip Randolph
Institute, Vice President of UNITE HERE**
- Ben Dupuy, Former Ambassador At Large for the government of
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Jos Williams, President, President of the Metropolitan
Washington Council, AFL-CIO
- Michael Berg, father of Nicholas Berg
- Christine Araquel, Alliance for a Just and Lasting Peace in
the Philippines
- Andy Thayer, Equality Campaign
- Curtis Muhammed, Community Labor Union of New Orleans*
- Margaret Prescod, Global Women's Strike
- Hadi Jawad, founder of Crawford Peace House
- Chris Silvera, Teamsters Black Caucus
- Musa Al-Hindi, Al-Awda National
- Michel Shehadeh, L.A-8 defendant, a Palestinian activist
framed COINTELPRO-style
- Nancy Wolforth, Executive Vice President, AFL-CIO
- Manuel Santos, Socialist Front of Puerto Rico
- Brenda Stokely, Million Worker March, New York City Labor
Against the War
- Peta Lindsay, Youth and Student A.N.S.W.E.R. Student, Howard
University student
- Mounzer Sleiman, National Council of Arab Americans
- Macrina Cardenas, Mexicanos Sin Fronteras
- Jeanette Caceres, Spoken word artist from New York
University
- Gloria La Riva, National Committee to Free the Five
- Riya Ortiz, Network in Solidarity with the People of the
Philippines, Campaign for Justice Not War
- Larry Holmes, Troops Out Now Coalition
- Chuck Kaufman, Nicaragua Network
- Women's Anti-Imperialist League
- Representative of Bayan USA
- Eugene Puryear, Youth and Student A.N.S.W.E.R. Student,
Howard University student
- Patti Smith, singer
All speakers confirmed by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition except
those indicated by an asterisk (*) are confirmed by UFPJ and those indicated
by two asterisk (**) are confirmed by USLAW.
ANSWER has secured the permit for a massive march that will go directly on Pennsylvania Ave. in front of the White House for the first time in many years, and then onto the FBI and the Justice Department.
-- Michael Pugliese