APRIL 20: MARCH in WASHINGTON AGAINST WAR & RACISM!

[Changed from 27th to the 20th]

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CALL TO ACTION

SATURDAY, APRIL 20
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!


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 ).*

The April 20 National March on Washington was
initiated by International A.N.S.W.E.R. -- Act Now to
Stop War & End Racism. A.N.S.W.E.R. 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. The
A.N.S.W.E.R. steering committee includes Nicaragua
Network, Mexico Solidarity Network, IFCO/Pastors for
Peace, International Action Center, Partnership for
Civil Justice LDEF, Kensington Welfare Rights Union,
Middle East Children¡¯s Alliance, Committee for
Justice to Defend Palestinians, Bayan USA (Filipino
community) and the Korea Truth Commission.

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PARTIAL LIST OF ENDORSERS:

A.N.S.W.E.R. STEERING COMMITTEE
 - IFCO/Pastors for Peace
 - Nicaragua Network
 - Mexico Solidarity Network
 - Partnership for Civil Justice LEFD
 - Committee for Justice to Defend Palestinian Rights
 - Bayan-USA
 - Kensington Welfare Rights Union
 - International Action Center
 - Middle East Children’s Alliance
 - Korea Truth Commission

ENDORSERS
(partial list)
 - Black Voices for Peace
 - Howard Zinn, Author, Historian
 - Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general
 - Al-Awda Palestine Right to Return Coalition
 - American Muslims for Global Peace and Justice
 - Students for International Peace and Justice
 - Palestine Aid Society
 - Inglewood Anti-War Coalition
 - Charlotte Coalition for Peace & Justice, North
Carolina
 - Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism
 - International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS)
 - National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in
America (N’COBRA), Brooklyn NY
 - Queers For Racial & Economic Justice
 - Rev. Graylan Hagler, Senior Minister, Plymouth
Congregational Church
 - Bishop Thomas Gumbelton, Auxilliary Bishop,
Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit
 - Chuck Turner, council member, Boston City Council,
District 7, Massachusetts
 - Sally Davies, President, Council 92 AFSCME
 - Prof. Richard Lewontin, Harvard University
 - Rev. Curtis Gatewood, Durham, North Carolina
 - The Feminist Coalition Emmanuel College, Boston
 - Women For Peace, Iowa
 - Anti-Racist Action, Denver
 - Anarchist Action of Rochester
 - Students And Youth Against Racism, Penn State
University
 - Int’l Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu
Jamal (ICFFMAJ)
 - Anti-War Committee, Minnesota
 - High Country Citizens for Peace and Justice, NC
 - Chicago Anti-Bashing Network
- Simmons College Feminist Union, Boston
 - WESPAC (Westchester People’s Action Coalition)
 - Gloria La Riva, President, Typographical Sector,
Northern California Media
 - Bay Area Iranians for Peace and Social Justice
 - Committee on US-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR)
 - Ray LaForest, District Council 1707 AFSCME
 - Prof. Asha A. Samad, Muslims against Racism and War
 - Community Church of Boston
 - Berkeley Women in Black
 - Leslie Feinberg, activist and author
 - Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Penn State
University
 - Collier County Anti-War Coalition, Naples, FL
 - Nicaragua Solidarity Committee of Chicago
 - Rainbow Flags for Mumia
 - Jim Fennerty, President, Chicago Chapter, National
Lawyers Guild*
 - Colombia Solidarity Committee, Chicago
 - Freedom Road Socialist Organization
 - Falmouth AntiWar, Cape Cod, Mass
 - Justice for Political Prisoners in Turkey, Boston
- United American Indians of New England
 - Womens Fightback Network, Boston
 - Hammerhard MediaWorks
 - David Sole, President UAW Local 2334, Detroit
 - Moroccans for Peace and Justice
 - Bus Riders Union, Los Angeles
- Committee to Defend Amer Jubran and Palestinian Free

FULL LIST OF APRIL 20 ENDORSERS:
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/a27/a27-endorsers.html

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