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No War, No Way Ing Feet Still Echoing Around the World, by Brenda Sandburg by Leslie Feinberg the Anti-War Movement Is Already Gear- San Francisco Washington, D.C Washington D.C. San Francisco Jan. 30, 2003 Vol. 45, No. 4 50¢ E.E. U.U. Más de 700.000 personas protestan contra la guerra 12 After massive protests, what next? Turn up the heat By Deirdre Griswold With the thunder of a million march- 700,000 tell Bush: No war, no way ing feet still echoing around the world, By Brenda Sandburg By Leslie Feinberg the anti-war movement is already gear- San Francisco Washington, D.C. ing up for the next round in the struggle with the Bush administration. In one of the largest protests in San Francisco history, The power of the people. You could see it, filling the broad Since the huge marches in 200,000 people filled Market Street from Embarcadero St. to avenues in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 18, stretching for miles. Washington and San Francisco on Jan. Civic Center on Jan. 18 to say “No war against Iraq.” It took four You could hear its thunder: “No war on Iraq!” And as marchers 18 organized by the ANSWER coalition, hours for the entire march to traverse the 1.7 miles. reached the crest of Capitol Hill, looked back and roared in reac- and solidarity actions in 38 other coun- The outpouring of people represented all segments of society, tion to their own sheer strength, a mass of half a million, you tries, White House officials for the first including students and youth, union members, church groups could even taste it. time have had to acknowledge wide- and thousands who had never been to a demonstration before. What a spectrum: all ages and nationalities, ethnicities, reli- spread opposition to their planned At least 50 Bay Area labor unions sent members to the protest. gious beliefs or lack of them, sexes, abilities, genders, sexuali- onslaught against Iraq. But, in the same The Bay Area Rapid Transit system–with an average week- ties, political viewpoints, occupations and walks of life. They breath, those trying to sell the war to the day ridership of more than 300,000 people—added addition- came from diverse regions—from inner city neighborhoods to public speak of their determination to al trains and extended the number of cars on its weekend dairy farms; towns, campuses and reservations. go through with it. trains from four to 10. But the crowds were so dense that pas- Homeowners and apartment dwellers marched with the However, the anti-war forces are sengers throughout the Bay Area had to wait for up to an hour homeless; working people walked shoulder to shoulder with the equally determined to stop this unpro- to board trains. The ferry system also added extra ferries on jobless and under-employed. Some weathered the day fortified voked, premeditated criminal attack on routes from the East Bay and North Bay. by a good meal, others marched with growling stomachs. a people who have already suffered so At least 125 buses traveled from Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Retirees chanted alongside those too young to work. much from U.S. sanctions and war. Cruz, San Jose, Davis, Sacramento, Sonoma, Fresno, Napa, The mercury hovered around 20 degrees. But even though an President George W. Bush’s State of Placerville, Chico, Arcata and other cities, including eight buses arctic front had swept down across the continental United States the Union address to Congress on Jan. from Nevada City, Nev. Others came by plane and car pool from the day before the massive mobilization, it didn’t stop people of 28 is expected to be a bellicose tirade as far away as Montana, Hawaii and Alberta, Canada. all ages from braving the trip to make their voices heard. against Iraq to prepare the public for The San Francisco protest, like the national demonstration in They came from as far away as Texas, Florida, Alabama, war. The ANSWER coalition has called Washington, D.C., which drew half a million people, was spon- Colorado, Vermont, Wisconsin and Minnesota—many traveling Continued on page 10 sored by the International ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and an 18-30 hour bus trip in each direction. At least one bus drove Continued on page 6 Continued on page 6 SUBSCRIBE to Workers Wo r ld WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Special trial subscription: $2 for 8 weeks $25 for one year D.C. based Wilson NAME High School Students ADDRESS march on Jan. 18 CITY/STATE/ZIP WW PHOTOS: LIZA GREENE. PHONE NUMBER ON TOP OF PAGE WORKERS WORLD FROM LEFT TO RIGHT DEIRDRE NEWSPAPER GRISWOLD AND 55 W. 17 St. NY, NY 10011 BILL HACKWELL Page 2 Jan. 30, 2003 www.workers.org Indian trust fund lawsuit: # National Tip of the iceberg After massive protests, what next? . 1 D.C.: Largest U.S. protest yet . 1 By Stephanie Hedgecoke Native American Rights Fund white settlers. This land theft was attorney Keith Harper has said that even glorified on Broadway in the San Francisco: Crowds break all records. 1 On Jan. 6, lawyers acting on behalf the only possibility of fixing the trust Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Indian trust fund lawsuit . 2 of over 300,000 Native Americans is to strip oversight from the depart- “Oklahoma!” Environmental nuclear disaster . 3 made a federal court filing of volu- ment of the interior and put it into Native families’ homes and lands Nilak Butler presente! . 3 minous documentation showing that outside receivership. This is one of were confiscated by white swindlers Leonard Peltier’s tribute . 3 the U.S. government has stolen some the demands of the lawsuit. in transactions based on Native Chicago city council passes anti-war resolution . 4 $137.2 billion of Indian Trust Fund people’s lack of understanding of monies since 1887. Backed by mas- Allotment, assimilation capitalist private property owner- Mumia on Gov. Ryan’s song . 4 sive proof, this is the single biggest and genocide ship. Trust fund money slated for Olympia, Wash., teachers protest cuts . 4 lawsuit ever filed against the U.S. The trust fund was created in the education paid for building the infa- ‘Army of God’ menaces women’s rights . 5 government for fiscal wrongdoing. 1887 Dawes Act, which ripped off mous boarding schools, given over Youth send anti-war message . 5 Elouise Cobell, a Blackfoot woman almost 100 million acres of land— to churches to run—and Native chil- Anti-war sentiment spreads across U.S. 8 from Montana, filed the initial class some two-thirds of the remaining dren were kidnapped en masse to Mass opposition at home grows . 9 action lawsuit in 1996. The United Indian reservation system holdings. distant locations where their lan- States thought the case would fail due Sen. Henry Dawes and other so- guages and cultures were systemat- C-Span coverage generates calls . 9 to insufficient documentation. Since called “friends of the Indians” ically repressed. # International 1996, the Bureau of Indian Affairs planned to forcibly assimilate Native Forced assimilation was a new and the Department of the Interior, people with the idea that private wave of genocide. By 1900, the Native People worldwide rise up against Bush. 8 which oversees the BIA, have sys- property ownership would “civilize” population living on reservations # Editorial tematically destroyed countless them. What Dawes said in 1885 is within the United Statets had shrunk records of evidence. Hundreds more enlightening in this regard: to 237,000. Real numbers . 10 boxes of files were destroyed even “The head chief told us that there # Noticias En Español after presiding Judge Royce was not a family in the whole Nation Theft of Indian land still Lamberth ordered them preserved. [Cherokee] that had not a home of its goes on Declaración de ANSWER. 12 Lamberth has sharply criticized own. There was not a pauper in that Some non-Native commentators the interior department’s actions, but Nation and the Nation did not owe a and government officials have com- his criticisms have not had dollar. It built its own capital and it plained that they do not want their WW CALENDAR teeth. Washington is actively built its own schools and its hospitals. taxpayer dollars spent to settle this obstructing justice in this lawsuit. Yet the defect of the system was lawsuit. But as President Tex Hall of NATIONWIDE. or (617) 522-6626. Lamberth has held three Cabinet apparent . they own their land in the National Congress of American Wed., Jan. 29 officers, under both Presidents common.” Indians says: “This isn’t taxpayer Coordinated nationwide NEW YORK. George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, in Dawes continued: “There is no money. This is our money that the protests the day after Bush’s Thu., Jan. 30 contempt—but no one has actually State of the Union Address. Emergency anti-war mass selfishness, which is at the bottom of government took, and they have to For info on the Web been fined or jailed. meeting. Together we can civilization. Till this people will con- give it back.” internationalANSWER.org or stop the war. Sponsored by The Jan. 7 New York Times report- sent to give up their lands, and divide As large a sum as is documented in phone (212) 633-6646 or the ANSWER coalition and ed, “For generations Indians have (202) 544-3389 or (415) the MLK Peace Now them among their citizens so that this lawsuit, it is only the tip of the ice- 821-6545 or (213) 487-2368 complained of the theft of millions of Committee. At the House of each can own the land he cultivates, berg of what is owed to Native nations or (617) 522-6626. the Lord Church, 415 Atlantic dollars earned on tribal lands.” The they will not make much more by the U.S.
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