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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

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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. government—for past and Feb. 13-21 Ave., Brooklyn, between government has failed for decades “to progress.” (Phoenix: The Decline and ongoing theft of lands and resources, Week of anti-war resistance. Nevins and Bond. A&C trains to Hoyt; 2, 3, 4, 5 trains to offer detailed accounts of now much Rebirth of the Indian People, William the continued poverty of Native peo- Teach-ins, rallies, pickets. Coast to coast coordinated Nevins St. For info phone money has been raised from oil and Coffer (aka Koi Hosh)) ple, and the devastation of Native rallies on Feb. 15. For info ANSWER (212) 633-6646 or mineral, timber and grazing leases.” Allotment of Indian land dis- nations. on the Web MLK Peace Now Committee (718) 596-1991. The Dept. of the Interior still refus- solved many Indigenous-held land Ultimately, Native nations need to internationalANSWER.org or phone (212) 633-6646 or es to give a full accounting of the bases. Individual allotments were be able to control their own lands and (202) 544-3389 or (415) Indian Trust Fund. Enron’s account- made so small that there would be resources. Until then, government 821-6545 or (213) 487-2368 ing shred-fests are small potatoes by substantial land left over to give to corruption will be inevitable. comparison. Workers World 55 West 17 Street New York, N.Y. 10011 Join the Workers World Supporter Program Phone: (212) 627-2994 • Fax: (212) 675-7869 E-mail: [email protected] Supporters who contribute $75 a year receive a year’s subscription, a monthly letter and Web: http://www.workers.org/ five free trial subscriptions. Sponsors who contribute $100 also get a book published by Vol. 45, No. 4 • Jan. 30, 2003 WW Publishers. Sustainers also get five books or videos. 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In 1997 a 40-gallon tank of toxic chem- carried water from uranium mines on the duce “Weapons of Mass Destruction” Some 12,067 dismantled plutonium icals (stored illegally at the U.S. govern- canyon’s rims to the floor below, destroy- rings false when the Pentagon has the pre- “pits” are stored at the Pantex Plant in ment’s Hanford Engineer works) explod- ing the homes and farms of the Havasupai ponderance of the nuclear weapons that Amarillo, Texas, according to the U.S. ed, causing the release of 20,000-30,000 and Hualapai people. (Uranium Mining at menace the rest of the nations on Earth. Department of Energy. gallons of plutonium-contaminated the Grand Canyon, Southwest Research The weapons themselves, as well as the The states with the most nuclear water. (www.ratical.org) and Information Center) storage facilities and laboratories for weapons are: New Mexico, with 2,450; Late in the 20th century, it was discov- U.S. tests and nuclear weapon transport them, threaten residents of nearly every Georgia, with 2,000; Washington, with ered that the Southwest contained urani- have led to nuclear accidents in Panama, state in the Union. 1,685; Nevada, with 1,350; and North um and the continent’s richest supplies of the Marshall Islands, France, Germany, According to a 2002 report by the Dakota, with 1,140. (Washington, D.C.: mineral wealth. With the complicity of the and England. U.S. use of depleted urani- Educational Foundation for Nuclear Natural Resources Defense Council, U.S. government the energy companies um weapons has coincided with an Science, the United States has produced March 1998) formed tribal councils, controlled by their increase in cancer and birth defects in 67,500 nuclear missiles since 1951. The corporation lawyers, whose main purpose Iraq, the former Yugoslavia, and Vieques, cost: $5.5 trillion. Costs money and lives was to sign leases for the mineral-rich land Puerto Rico. A Brookings Institution study, the U.S. The cost of maintaining this nuclear of the Hopi and Dineh people. The Bush administration has been Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project, arsenal in the United States is $35 billion The Native people who then worked in pressuring for a renewal of the nuclear reveals that as of August 2002 some 10 per year, the Brooking study shows. (U.S. the uranium mines are now dying of ura- power industry and for upgrades of the million acres of land around the globe Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project.) nium poisoning and cancer at rates much U.S. nuclear arsenal. This means more housed U.S. nuclear weapons. Almost all These funds could be used for food stamp higher than the general population. profits for the uranium mining and that land, 15,654 square miles of it, is in programs or urban schools, Medicaid or Uranium mining pollutes and irradi- milling industry, as well as the nuclear the United States. libraries. ates the Southwest’s water. In 1984 a flash weapons manufacturers and the nuclear In Montana alone there are 50 of the The cost is also in human lives. flood washed four tons of high-grade ura- power industry. W62/Minuteman III warheads, 400 of From 1946 to 1970 approximately the W78/Minuteman III warheads, and a 90,000 canisters of radioactive waste missile field that covers an additional were jettisoned in 50 ocean dumps up and 24,000 square miles in that state. down the East and West Coasts of the Missouri has a missile field that covers United States. 10,000 square miles. The Critical Mass Energy Project of Rally At the Georgia Kings Bay Naval Ralph Nader’s Public Citizen, Inc., tabu- welcomes Submarine Base/Strategic Weapons lated 122 accidents involving the transport Facility Atlantic there are 1,600 of the of nuclear material in 1979, including 17 Chavez W76/Trident I warheads, 400 of the involving radioactive contamination. W88/Trident II warheads and 160 of the In 1979 a dam holding radioactive ura- to NYC W80-0/Sea-Launched Cruise Missiles. nium mill tailings broke, sending an esti- New Mexico is filled with every imagin- mated 100 million gallons of radioactive Supporters of Hugo able nuclear device and installation. Kirt- liquids and 1,100 tons of solid wastes Chávez rallied land Air Force Base and the Kirtland downstream at Church Rock, N.M. outside the United Underground Munitions Storage Com- The Y-12 Nuclear Weapons Com- Nations on Jan. 16 plex hold 85 of the B61-7 gravity bombs, ponents Plant at Oak Ridge, Tenn., has as the Venezuelan 600 of the B61-3, -4, -10 gravity bombs, reportedly released 1,200 tons of mercury, president was 365 of the W80-1/Air-Launched Cruise as well as PCBs and heavy metals into the meeting inside Missiles, 450 of the W56/Minuteman II region’s air, soil and streams. about the crisis in warheads, 60 of the W78/Minuteman III Between 1944 and 1966, the Hanford his country. Braving an icy wind, Latinos and North Americans jumped up and down warheads, 550 of the W69/Short-Range reactors in Washington state discharged for four hours to stay warm, chanting “Uh, ah, Chávez no se va”— Chávez isn’t Attack Missiles, and 400 of the W84/ billions of gallons of liquids and billions of leaving. Speakers denounced the so-called “strike” in Venezuela as economic Ground-Launched Cruise Missile war- cubic meters of gases containing plutoni- sabotage by the rich and their U.S. backers. They urged a deepening of heads. um and other radioactive contaminants Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution for genuine self-determination The Natural Resources Defense Coun- into the Columbia River. The cost of and social justice. —Deirdre Griswold Nilak Butler Leonard Peltier's Tribute PRESENTE! I am deeply saddened by the news I received regarding the passing of my good friend and sis- ter in the struggle, Nilak Butler. ... Nilak was a The following are excerpts from a Free Native Lands Campaign. She strong and courageous woman who was admired Dec. 30 statement issued by the worked with both Native and Pacific by all those who knew her. Indigenous Environmental Network Island communities impacted by I remember those early in tribute to Native activist Nilak radioactive exposure and tribal com- days when she took the Butler, who died Dec. 26 at the age munities threatened with becoming responsibility of placing of 49 from ovarian cancer. Ms. sites for the dumping of nuclear herself out in front on Butler was a member of the Big waste. many issues seeking to Mountain speaking tour in the late Her work as a campaign organizer correct the wrongs and 1980s, which linked the struggles on nuclear issues took her from gain justice for our peo- for national liberation for the nuclear weapons testing issues in the ple. She fought so hard all Indigenous peoples and the Black Mesa in the territories of the Navajo Pacific Islands to the Native Village of her life against these people of South Africa then living and Hopi Nations, to Inupiat commu- Point Hope, Alaska, where the U.S. injustices perpetuated against us. Nilak knew under the racist white apartheid nities in Alaska. military disposed radioactive waste in the meaning of sacrifice as she always put the regime: When she was diagnosed with the homelands of the Inupiat peoples. needs of the people ahead of her personal ovarian cancer, she was coordinating She worked with the Western needs. Her humor and her dedication will Nilak, one of the founders of the the IEN Labor Occupational Health Shoshone and Goshute Shoshone of always stand out. She is one of the finest exam- Indigenous Environmental Network, Program, a partnership between IEN the Great Basin, where years of U.S. ples of the strength and courage of Native dedicated the past 12 years to doing and the University of California nuclear weapons testing took place, women that I know. environmental justice work with Berkeley program. She helped create exposing Shoshone and Paiute peo- We will all certainly miss her presence in the Indigenous communities. For near a worker health and safety education- ples to radioactive contamination. struggle and miss her as a friend. We must 30 years, Nilak dedicated her life to al training program for tribal employ- As a member of the Indigenous honor her life by picking up where she left off. defending the rights of Indigenous ees and tribal grassroots environmen- Women’s Network, Nilak provided We must continue this struggle to ensure the peoples, from the Oglala Lakota com- tal justice organizations. leadership and provided us strength future of the coming generations. munity in South Dakota to the com- During the 1990s, Nilak was a cam- to stand strong in protecting the munities of Big Mountain/Black paigner with the Greenpeace Nuclear sacredness of our Earth Mother. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, Leonard Peltier Page 4 Jan. 30, 2003 www.workers.org

By Mumia Abu Jamal from death row CHICAGO. Gov. Ryan's Song City council passes Illinois Gov. George Ryan, in With a hoarse voice, his ner- the last passing days of his first vousness evident in his fidgety and only term, saved the best for presentation, the one-term gover- anti-war resolution last. nor struck a mighty blow against He sent shock waves across the the Death System in America. By Bill Massey program—be it education, healthcare, housing, nation when he issued four par- Exercising a breadth of vision Chicago programs for the youth or the elderly—is being dons to men sitting on the that is truly remarkable in an put on the butcher’s table for the killing. Condemned Units of the state’s American sitting (albeit depart- The Chicago City Council, by a vote of 46 to It’s the members of the City Council who will prison system, opening the doors ing) politician, Ryan spoke of the 1, passed a resolution on Jan. 16 opposing the be seen on the local level as the knife wielders. of the dungeon for four men, one problems facing not just those Bush administration’s “go it alone” policy of war In better times, they could live with that, but that who sat in the shadow of the gal- condemned to death, but in the on Iraq. It is the largest city in the United States was then and this is now. lows for nearly two decades. processes, prosecutions and judg- to have passed a resolution against the impend- The resolution pointed out that the war will Speaking in a soft Midwestern ments affecting those condemned ing war. cost at least $9 to $13 billion a month, thereby accent, his words were as damn- to “life.” His words were a rare The resolution called for diplomacy, ques- cutting federal programs that benefit Chicago ing as the death sentences that gubernatorial recognition of the tioned U.S. unilateral military action and residents. his orders negated: “The system deficits in the system entire: is broken.” “The system has proven itself to charged that this action would endanger the For the majority of the City Council members With these orders, he ushered be wildly inaccurate, unjust, lives of U.S. citizens. It went on to charge that a to vote for the resolution needed the tacit four men—Stanley Howard, unable to separate the innocent preemptive and unilateral U.S. military attack approval of Mayor Richard Daley. When asked Madison Hobley, Aaron Patterson from the guilty... and racist.” would violate international law and commit- his opinion, Daley said, “Nobody wants war.” and Leroy Orange—from the dark- His commutation of over 150 ments to the UN Charter, and would isolate the The growing economic crisis is eating away at est corners of the land into the death sentences unquestionably U.S. in the world community. public confidence in government at all levels. At light. Quoting a tale of that stays the cold hand of death, but Many Chicago residents were already the same time, there is a growing antiwar move- famed Illinoisan, Lincoln, he it does not address the injustices astounded when the Republican governor of ment reaching into all levels of society. Without recalled the job of the nation’s that led many to Death Row, nor Illinois removed all prisoners from the state’s these factors, even this flawed resolution would chief executive, who, reviewing that keeps them confined on “Life death row. Now, for the City Council to vote a not have been brought forward. execution orders for those who Row,” for those problems, those resolution denouncing the U.S. government’s The resolution has great weaknesses. It says were convicted of violating the deep cracks in the system, military code during the Civil War, remain. war drive is almost a surrealistic experience. that if U.S. troops are sent to war, the City asked one of his generals why one It is tragically true that, as That is, until you consider some very important Council will give them its “unconditional sup- young man had no letters in his Ryan charges, “The system is bro- circumstances. port” in carrying out their tasks, even if there is file from any who wished his life ken.” The bitter truth is that his The passage of this resolution reflects the disagreement over these tasks. It also supports spared. The general, shrugging his efforts, while undeniably noble growing lack of confidence in the Bush admin- inspections of Iraq backed up by “sufficient shoulders matter-of-factly, said, and unquestionably historic, do istration, even from within the chambers of the police force.” “He’s got no friends.” Lincoln, not fix the mess. government. The resolution does not prepare people to lifting his pen, remarked, “He’s To his credit, Ryan assembled a This is particularly true at the level of city and oppose the war once it starts. Nonetheless, it’s got one friend,” and pardoned blue-ribbon panel to examine the state governments, where budget deficits are another sign that the emerging grassroots mass the man from the clutches of the state’s death system, and the piling up even as the Bush administration movement that wants jobs, healthcare and hangman. Ryan said those four commission, after three years, throws billions and even trillions of dollars human needs, not war, is having an impact denizens of Death Row, each hav- came to a political, yet systemat- ing been subjected to police tor- ic, conclusion: “The system is down the rat hole of war spending. Every social throughout this society. ture, falsified confessions, prose- broken.” The commission, com- cutorial misconduct, and judicial posed of prosecutors, judges, blindness to these vile transgres- defense lawyers and scholars, OLYMPIA, WASH.. sions, had one friend, and decid- joined in the report, and issued ed to cut the Gordian knot by some 85 recommendations to issuing full pardons to the four, “fix” the system, including the and proving a friend to men who recording of confessions from Teachers, students protest had few real friends in the dark, beginning to end, the end of deserted abode of death. Before “jailhouse confessions” (which are budget cuts day’s end, three of the four notoriously unreliable, yet influ- walked away from the closed cell ential to unknowing jurors), and a of state repression, into the fresh host of others. The legislature air of a windy Chicago, and free- opted to ignore the recommenda- dom. tions, just as the state’s highest By so doing, Ryan has dealt a judiciary chose to ignore many of serious, crippling blow to the the most blatant injustices, and state system of death, and the Ryan, the “non-lawyer,” felt com- inability of the dignitaries and pelled to act. officials of the system to cure the If the system is broken, how serious problems of the death can the system fix the system? penalty was shown in sharp and Ryan’s very extraordinary act stark relief. seems to suggest that it cannot. It is fitting that Ryan, a one- For while those four men are free term, embattled politico and a of unjust convictions, are they non-lawyer (“I’m a pharmacist,” the “only” four innocents on the he repeatedly explained) would state’s large Death Row, or larger be the one to solve these deep Life Row? That seems unlikely. and troubling problems. It is In another sense, as the under- equally as fitting that the prob- lying system remains tightly lems of the Illinois death system embedded in place, what of those PHOTO :SCOTT EKLUND/ SEATTLE came to light not through the to come? How many years will Demanding funding for education, 25,000 teachers, students and parents POST INTELLIGENCER members of the Bar but through other innocents suffer in the suf- from all over the state of Washington went to the capital of Olympia for 25,000 teacher rally the meanderings of students of focating holds of steel and brick a day of action on Jan. 14. School districts all over the state cancelled in Olympia on Jan.15 journalism, whose investigations slave ships (prisons) before anoth- classes in support of the teachers’ action. In light of a state budget against cuts in led to the ultimate conclusion er scandal threatens the stability deficit, Gov. Gary Locke proposes to cut funding for education, ignoring education. voiced by Ryan some years later: of the system? the will of the people who recently passed two initiatives—for higher “The system is broken.” Like the notorious cycle of salaries for teachers and to reduce class sizes. —Jane Cutter Hours after his unprecedented police corruption cases that announcement of the pardon plagues U.S. cities like New package, Ryan’s office would York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles Racism, national oppression & the right Black farmers demand justice announce another earth-shatter- and—yes—Chicago, the prob- to self-determination Monica Moorehead ing event: the full commutation lem isn’t fixed, but passed on Larry Holmes Greetings from Mumia Abu-Jamal to the of every man on Death Row in the to later administrations. Black labor from chattel slavery 3rd UN World Conference Against Racism, Prairie State. By the end of the It seems an abolition move- to wage slavery Sam Marcy Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia & Related Intolerance week, 167 folks would no longer ment must take this, not as a Reparations & Black Liberation Monica be on Death Row. final victory, but as a first Moorehead Nigerian women take over Chevron Texaco Monica Moorehead Elected as a conservative step of a systematic battle for Harriet Tubman: woman warrior Republican who “never gave a real change. Mumia Abu-Jamal (Guest Commentary) Nigerian women’s takeover ends in victory Monica Moorehead moment’s thought” to the right- We may all agree that the Black labor & the fight for reparations ness or morality of the death system is broken. But that Bill Cecil Causes of turmoil in Jamaica PART I PART II PART III Pat Chin penalty, Ryan would be the last mere agreement does not Alabama’s Black Belt: Legacy of slav- politician one would expect would insure that that which is bro- ery, sharecropping and segregation The driving force behind the land seizures strike down the nation’s seventh ken will indeed be fixed. By Consuela Lee (Guest commentary) Monica Moorehead largest Death Row. Coming soon to Leftbooks.com www.workers.org Jan. 30, 2003 Page 5 ‘Army of God’ menaces women's rights, LGBT communities Boot them out of Buffalo! Bulletin: As WW goes to press Slepian was justified. it was standing-room only.” During the BUC ’99 mobilization, police When the Army of God held their But these right-wing shock troops may Those gathered included many people kept pro-choice forces penned across the much-ballyhooed press conference out- have stepped on a political landmine. of color—African American and Latino— street from the facilities. Women had to side the Erie County holding center Those targeted in their crosshairs are and many youth in addition to gray-head- enter the clinics through cordons of city where rightwing assassin James Kopp mustering their forces. Buffalo United for ed activists. cops, state troopers, SWAT teams, FBI is being held, they were outnumbered Choice—the grassroots coalition known as All the local television stations and the agents and other police forces. four to one by pro-choice forces, in the BUC that led the two earlier efforts to boot only daily newspaper sent reporters and Hiestand took the floor during the dis- middle of a workday in bitter Buffalo the right wing out of the “City of Good camera people. cussion to announce that, “Women who winter weather. Neighbors”—is reconstituting itself to Carol Speser, a local LGBT organizer were active in Buffalo United for Choice For much of the day, pro-choice meet this third onslaught. who had been on the BUC ’99 steering are going to reconstitute the coalition.” forces were at the clinic that the Army And the LGBT community in Buffalo, committee and had helped organize BUC’s perspective, she said, is that “It’s of God had vowed they would shut which was a vital component of the 1992 Rainbow Peacekeepers, explained the very important for pro-choice and pro- down by force. They failed to show and and 1999 mobilizations, is a dynamic force importance of reorganizing the squads LGBT people and our supporters to be it turned into a pro-choice victory. in organizing once again. “for our communities to stand up and be very visible and to show that we are not The LGBT activists vowed to defend During the last mobilization, when anti- proud and provide a watchfulness to pre- going to be intimidated. We are not going their communities later in this evening choice leaders of “Operation Save vent any harm to the community.” to be pushed back into the closet. To be sending the bigots away in total defeat. America” were clearly losing the battle for By law, the police must keep the clinics silent will only embolden the right wing. the hearts and minds of the local popula- open. Police Chief Harold Litwin and We feel we have shown that when we came By Leslie Feinberg tion, they shifted in their rhetoric and Liaison to the Mayor Tom Gleed con- out in strong numbers, they left. The battle in Buffalo, N.Y., is joined. menaced LGBT activists and clubs. In firmed to the rally that the Army of God is “Therefore,” she concluded, “we are Commanders of the Klan-like “Army of response, these communities formed also a threat to the LGBT communities. going to work to create a presence at the God” are vowing to marshal whatever Rainbow Peacekeepers, which protected But the police chief added that he expect- Jan. 22 right-wing press conference, at the force is required to stop women from hav- the clubs with help from BUC’s hetero- ed the community to respond “peaceful- women’s services clinic, and throughout ing abortion procedures in Buffalo, N.Y., sexual clinic defenders. Although ly” to this organization that openly pro- the Kopp trial.” on Jan. 22. That day is the 30th anniver- Rainbow Peacekeepers faced threats of motes right-wing assassins, while noting This vision of organizing was greeted sary of Roe vs. Wade—the hard-won violence and harassment from the right- that the cops would guarantee their “free with thunderous applause. Dozens crowd- Supreme Court decision that legalized wing elements, no LGBT person was speech.” ed around the BUC speaker after the meet- abortion. The anti-woman forces are con- harmed during that week. This kid-gloves treatment of right-wing ing to find out how they could be a part of verging on Buffalo to support James With the Army of God riding into town, terrorists stands in stark contrast to the the progressive mobilization against the Kopp—the man who boasts of having Rainbow Peacekeepers is re-forming, too. arrests of Yemeni men recently in Buffalo right. killed Dr. Barnett Slepian, a respected for sending money home to their families. “We have to be prepared to organize for local obstetrician and gynecologist who Packed town meeting The “war on terror” led by Commander- the duration of the Kopp trial—for as long performed abortions. A coalition of LGBT organizations in-Chief George W. Bush and Attorney as it takes to boot them out of Buffalo once Buffalo police are also reporting threats issued a call on two days’ notice for an General John Ashcroft conveniently dove- and for all,” Hiestand stressed. And, she against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans urgent town meeting in Buffalo on Jan. tails with the U.S. drive to militarily re-col- concluded, the outcome of the struggle in community. 20. The initiating groups included Men of onize the oil-rich Middle East. Buffalo will reverberate around the coun- The “Army of God” claimed responsi- Color Health Awareness Project (MOCHA), try. “An injury to one is an injury to all— bility for a 1998 bombing attack at a Spectrum Transgender Group, Anti- Boot ‘em out of Buffalo, again! that’s the bedrock that the labor move- Birmingham, Ala., women’s clinic that Discrimination Coalition of WNY, the Dana Neitlich, executive officer of ment in industrial Buffalo was built on. A killed one person and left another criti- Dyke March, All About Us, Stonewall Planned Parenthood of Buffalo and Erie victory against the right-wing political cally wounded. The same gang bragged it Democrats of WNY and Rainbow Spirit County, told the Jan. 20 town meeting agenda of anti-abortion, racism and anti- had bombed a lesbian, gay, bi, trans night- Rising, plus Friends and other bars and how her organization has to focus on secu- Semitism, LGBT bashing and book burn- club and an abortion clinic in Atlanta the establishments. rity every day to keep its clinics open and ing is a victory for all, too.” year before. (CNN, Feb. 2, 1998) More than 140 people packed into the protect the lives of women, children and For more information on how to help in Now the armed, reactionary crusaders Unity Church on Delaware Avenue in health care workers. this crucial struggle, contact Buffalo are coming to intimidate progressives in a downtown Buffalo. Her organization’s approach to the United for Choice by downloading city that has twice defeated national anti- “I was amazed how many people were right-wing mobilization was summed up www.buffalounitedforchoice.org , email- abortion mobilizations—in 1992 and there,” observed Beverly Hiestand, a les- as, “We do not want to protest them.” ing [email protected] or 1999. In addition, more “respectable” bian, nursing educator, and a leader of Instead, she said, her group and Pro- calling (716) 857-1965. zealots are calling for a third right-wing BUC in the two previous mobilizations. “A Choice Network are working to hold a pri- Feinberg took part in the 1992 and convergence on Buffalo during the trial of continuous line of people flowed into the vate celebration of Roe vs. Wade and will 1999 clinic defense squads, and was a Kopp, arguing that his murder of Dr. small church. The pews were packed and rely on the police to protect the clinics. Rainbow Peacekeeper. JAN. 19, WASHINGTON, D.C.. Youth send anti-war message to war makers

Arrested protestor with photos of Iraqi woman and child around her neck. Speaking at mike is Peta Lindsay, ANSWER youth and student organizer. PHOTOS: CLAUDE-ALINE NAZAIRE Over a thousand students and youth marched through the Howard University and one of the organizers of Student The students and youth marched to the White House, streets here on Jan. 19 to protest threats of a war on and Youth ANSWER, which called the demonstration, told President George W. Bush’s “Presidential Palace,” where Iraq. Outraged that the youth of this country—primarily the crowd: “This is the center of all the racist attacks on they held a speak-out against his endless war plans and from oppressed communities—would be sent to fight a war people of color.” The FBI and Immigration and demanded, “Fund education, not occupation!” High on the people of Iraq in the interests of Big Oil, they Naturalization Service have been targeting Arab students school and college students came from all around the shouted: “Hell, no! We won’t fight for Texaco!” and demanding access to college records. “We will country and from as far away as Japan and the Nether- At an opening rally between the Justice and FBI build- defend ourselves and our brothers from these racist witch lands to let Bush know that youth all around the world ings, Peta Lindsay, an 18-year-old first-year student at hunts,” said Lindsay. are saying no to war and racism. —Michelle Quintus Page 6 Jan. 30, 2003 www.workers.org 700,000 IN U.S. TELL BUSH: D.C.: Largest

Continued from page 1 all the way down from Nova Scotia. Students from University of Wisconsin- Madison filled five buses. Another 10 buses brought people from around the state. A fleet of 22 buses came from Minneapolis/St. Paul and 35 from North Carolina, including 20 from Winston- Salem. Just some of the cities in New York San Francisco: Crowds break all records State: A minimum of 2,000 people from San Francisco: Crowds break all records New York State’s Hudson Valley. People Continued from page 1 packed 10 buses from Syracuse, eight from End Racism) coalition. Rochester, five from Albany, four from The march started 40 minutes earlier Callicoon, six from Westchester, two from than scheduled to accommodate the Rockland County, two from Warwick, and crowd, which was surging forward and fill- three buses and a van from Buffalo. ing the side streets. First came a large, mil- An armada of more than 100 buses con- itant contingent of ANSWER youth and a voyed from New York City, including 20 Native American contingent led by Floyd from New York’s 1199/SEIU Health and Redcrow Westerman, accompanied by Hospital Workers Union that brought ceremonial drums. Next came hundreds many African American and Latino work- of African American youth from Rich- ers. mond High School, followed by trade The Chicago Teachers Union brought unionists. six buses. ANSWER organizers hired a helicopter The 15 buses—with no empty seats— to take aerial photographs of the protest. that pulled out of Boston’s Roxbury They clearly showed the massive numbers Community College at midnight en route of people filling the Civic Center Plaza, to D.C. were joined on the road by dozens winding up Market Street and pouring of buses, vans and car caravans from onto surrounding streets. These pho- throughout New England. At least 80 percent of those coming tographs refuted the original police esti- WW PHOTOS: BILL HACKWELL mate of 55,000. By Jan. 21, the San S.F. lead banner, from left: Ted Frazier, NAACP; Floyd Westerman, AIM; Joan Baez, from Boston reported that they were going Francisco Chronicle was reporting that singer; Martin Sheen, actor; Rev. Cecil Williams, Glide Memorial Church. to their first national protest. The labor police had upped their estimate to daughter on stage. “When I see the list of the Israeli occupation of their homeland to bus was filled with workers and union 150,000. (See editorial on page 10.) things that are going on between civil lib- the U.S. aggression the Iraqi people face. leaders from hotels, school bus yards, gov- The Jan. 18 protest was the third erties, environmental protection and “If the slaughter against Iraq is allowed, ernment and university offices, the anti-war demonstration organized by reproductive rights, I cannot imagine the so will the slaughter against Palestine Roxbury Workers Association and electri- ANSWER in the last eight months. world that my daughter will inherit,” escalate further and further,” said Husam cal workers hot off the picket line at Richard Becker, West Coast Coordinator Brenneman said. Abu Sneih, of the Free Palestine Alliance. General Electric’s Lynn, Mass., plant. of the International Action Center and a Actor Martin Sheen told the crowd: “We “This is the political position of the U.S.- Latino youth, fresh from marching member of the ANSWER National Steer- want to end our long and shameful silence Israeli alliance—to dominate all, to control against a racist attack on bilingual educa- ing Committee, said that each protest at today and in one strong, clear, unified the access of resources and set up regimes tion, helped organize another bus. least doubled over the previous one. voice say no to death and war and yes to and bases everywhere.” Three buses from Manchester, N.H., “Nothing could be more important life so that we may be worthy of the long- Barbara Lubin of the Middle East were packed with AIDS educators and civil because no force on earth can stop this war promised blessings reserved for the peace Children’s Alliance said the movement rights veterans, Palestinian leaders, union and turn around the deadly Bush program makers.” must not shy away from the issue of Israel organizers, lesbian, gay, bi and trans com- except the intervention of the people in the Walter Johnson, secretary-treasurer of and Palestine. “You cannot walk away munity activists, environmentalists and political process,” Becker said. “Only the the San Francisco Labor Council, which from the suffering of the children of others. Trans youth led a bus; leaders of people really make history. It was the passed a strongly worded resolution Palestine,” she said. “It is intertwined with the local Women’s Fightback Network workers in the 1930s who couldn’t take it against a war on Iraq, said he was writing the children of Iraq. You can’t say no war captained another. any more and by the millions went out and a letter to AFL-CIO President John in the Middle East and ignore what is hap- One woman carried a sign on a pole that organized—not Franklin Roosevelt. That’s Sweeney asking him to call a meeting of all pening in the West Bank and Gaza.” read simply: Mississippi. why we have unions, because ordinary the labor and building trade councils in Tony Gonzales of the International Caravans of cars and buses clogged the people said, ‘No more.’” the United States. Together, he said, they Indian Treaty Council spoke movingly highways and byways of D.C.; the bus sta- Singers Joan Baez and Bonnie Raitt could “send a message of 14 million peo- about his experiences as a Vietnam veter- tion, Metro stops and cavernous Union performed, along with the local band Los ple” in opposition to war. an. While lying wounded in a military hos- train station were teeming with thousands Mocosos. Politicians, anti-war activists Trent Willis, Longshore Workers Local pital, Gonzales spent weeks contemplat- of people wearing anti-war buttons and and other entertainers spoke at the open- 10 business agent, said that labor was unit- ing why he was destroying families, their carrying hand-made signs. Any large ing and closing rallies. ed against Bush and a war on Iraq. homes and way of life. stream of people in D.C. that day led to the “We come together today to say no to “During the 1930s and ‘40s a lot of labor “I was lost for several years like many National Mall. the loss of innocent lives for a war that is and social activists lost their lives to build veterans who suffer the experience of war Many people brought with them the totally unnecessary,” said Congress- what we have today,” Willis said. “Now we and try to come back home and live a nor- sentiments of those who could not make woman Barbara Lee, one of the few mem- have a president in office and an adminis- mal life,” he said. “You can never really do the long journey. A woman from Fargo, bers of Congress to oppose Bush’s war tration that wants to catapult us back to that. You can never really come home the N.D., carried a placard with the signatures resolution. “To say no to wasting hun- the ‘30s and ‘40s, catapult us back to the person that you were.” of all her family and friends, neighbors and dreds of billions of dollars on a war that McCarthy era.” Most of the crowd stayed the four and a townspeople, who were against the war. could go to educating our young people, “I got a message for you, Mr. Bush,” half hours of the rally. Other speakers Next to their names they’d written what that could go towards housing the home- Willis said to loud cheers. “We think included Rep. Lynn Woolsey; John they do for a living: nurse, librarian, less.” you’re part of the axis of evil. We think Burton, president of the California State teacher, auto mechanic. John Parker of Workers World Party you’re a dictator. What do you call inter- Senate; Matt Gonzalez, president of the One man carried a sign with 150 signa- pointed to the source of the U.S. govern- vening in the contract negotiations San Francisco Board of Supervisors; Rev. tures. He said, “These are all the people ment’s drive for war against Iraq. between the ILWU and the PMA [Pacific Cecil Williams of Glide Church; Dolores against the war that I know who couldn’t “Imperialism requires the concentration Maritime Association]? What do you call Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm come. And I got them all in 24 hours.” of wealth in the fewest hands,” he said. waging war against our civil rights? What Workers; Hatem Bazian of Al Qalam Representatives of the Brooklyn-based “That creates a system of injustice that do you call throwing five Cuban national- Institute; and Daniel Ellsberg, renowned Bedford-Stuyvesant Coalition for Peace breeds war. It’s why one million Indo- ists in jail because they wanted to warn for releasing the Pentagon Papers. were there. nesians died, why 1.2 million Vietnamese their motherland about a terrorist act Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal Equally impressive rallies died. If you want to stop war, we have to about to happen in their country?” delivered a taped message to the rally. keep on doing what we’re doing with the Rosa Penate, of the National Commit- Rally co-chairs were Alicia Jrapko, This sea of progressive humanity—from goal of bringing down imperialism and tee to Free the Cuban 5, also spoke about International Action Center; Jess anti-imperialists to those cautious about bringing up a system closer to our hearts the Cuban men being held in U.S. pris- Ghannam, Free Palestine Alliance; Carl the wisdom of this war—had answered a and values, and that system is socialism.” ons. Muhammad, Peace and Freedom Party; call issued last fall by the International Amy Brenneman, star of the television Several speakers also connected the Miguel Molina, KPFA Radio; Gloria La ANSWER coalition, Act Now to Stop War & End Racism. show “Judging Amy,” brought her baby struggle of the Palestinian people against Riva, IAC; and Ted Frazier, NAACP. www.workers.org Jan. 30, 2003 Page 7 NO WAR, NO WAY U.S. protest yet against Iraq war Cynthia McKinney

Jessica Yoomi Jeong Lange Elias Rashmawi Jeremy Corbyn Ron Kovic Rev. Herbert Daughtry Larry Holmes A sister protest of 200,000 was taking Muslim Student Association; Ihab & Mahdi Bray place simultaneously in San Francisco. Darwish, Free Palestine Alliance; There were also local protests. In all, Ghazi Khan Kan, Council on including 38 countries around the world, American Islamic Relations; Imam millions marched to protest Bush and his Mousa, Masjid Al-Islam; and Dr. generals’ drive towards war against Iraq. Mansoon Khan from Peace TV. Jennifer Speakers from organizations that make The Revs. Herbert Daughtry, Wager up the ANSWER leadership addressed the national pastor of House of the Lord Miles Solay from Not In Our Name. Ramsey Clark rally. They are Partnership for Civil Church; Graylan Haglar, pastor of Mara Speakers reminded the crowd about the WW PHOTOS: DEIRDRE Verheyden-Hilliard Justice, IFCO/Pastors for Peace, the Free Plymouth Congregational Church, and war on the domestic front to free political GRISWOLD, G. DUNKEL Palestine Alliance-U.S., Nicaragua Jesuit priest John Dear addressed the prisoners Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard chanting and singing, they brought their Network, Bayan-USA/International, audience. Peltier, Jamil Al-Amin, and the Cuban message “No blood for oil!” to workers Korea Truth Commission, International Anti-war speakers included Charley Five. Jesse Heiwa, from Queers for Peace and passersby along a two-mile route to Action Center, Muslim Student Richardson and Nancy Lessen from and Justice, New York, pointed to the the military shipyard. Association of the U.S./Canada, Military Families Speak Out and Liz growing coalition of lesbian, gay, bi and An hour later, when the head of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union, Mexico McAlister, partner and widow of the late trans organizations against the war. march reached the Navy Yard, tens of Solidarity Network and the Middle East peace activist Phil Berrigan. “No blood for Brooklyn-based activists Viola Plummer thousands had not yet left the rally site. Children’s Alliance. oil!” demanded disabled Vietnam War from the December 12th Movement and The second rally took place from atop a ANSWER brought together an impres- veteran Ron Kovic, author of “Born on the City Councilman Charles Barron raised truck because the D.C. police reneged on sive array of speakers at two rallies—one Fourth of July.” the need for anti-racist solidarity, includ- sound and stage permits. Brian Becker that began at 11 a.m. in the sprawling Speaking out for labor against the war: ing fighting for reparations. concluded that the powerful protest National Mall, and a concluding rally at Brenda Stokely, president of AFSCME British pop group Chumbawamba, with its huge turnout was due to “a the Washington Shipyard. The early rally 1707 and Local 215 as well as a co-con- singer Patti Smith and D.C. cultural artists growing disenchantment with the Bush was seen by millions in the United States vener of New York City Labor Against the Pam Parker and Lucy Murphy performed. administration and an urgent situation, and around the world on C-Span broad- War; Fred Mason, president of statewide The first marchers stepped off close to because Jan. 27 could be a deadline for casts. Maryland and D.C. AFL-CIO; Michael 1 p.m. Accompanied by drumming, war.” Moonanum James, co-chair of United Letwin from U.S. Labor Against War and American Indians of New England and a Dr. Nadia Marsh from Doctors and Nurses Vietnam-era veteran, opened the rally by Against the War. connecting the U.S. government’s ongo- ANSWER speakers included Youth and ing racist war against Native peoples with Student Coordinator Peta Lindsay, Elias their preparations for a racist war against Rashmawi from the Free Palestine Iraq. Alliance. Jennifer Wager from Actors Jessica Lange and Tyne Daly IFCO/Pastors for Peace, Mara addressed the crowd. So did political fig- Verheyden-Hilliard from PCJ and Larry ures, including the Revs. Jesse Jackson Holmes and Brian Becker, both from the and Al Sharpton; former-U.S. International Action Center. Congressperson Cynthia McKinney and Speakers representing other anti-war Rep. John Conyers. The Rev. Lucius coalitions included Bill Fletcher, co-chair Walker read an anti-war statement from of United for Peace and Justice; Damu Rep. Charles Rangel. Smith from Black Voices for Peace; Medea Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark Benjamin from Global Exchange, and got a rousing cheer when he called on those listening to “impeach Bush.” Blase Bonpane, from the Office of the Americas, traveled from Los Angeles to bring greet- ings. International representation included Ashraf El-Bayoumi from the Cairo Conference against U.S. Aggression on Iraq and Jeremy Corbyn from the Stop the War Coalition and a member of the British Parliament. They linked the Jan. 18 mass turnout with the call for worldwide demonstrations on Feb. 15. Abe Tomoko spoke as a representative of the Lower House of the Japanese Parliament. Struggles around the world against U.S. domination were articulated by Teresa Gutierrez and Sara Flounders from the IAC; Hector Castro, director of education, Central Unitaria de Trabajadores, Colombia; Francisco Rivera, Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques; Marie Hilao Enriquez from BAYAN, a mass organization in the Philippines; and Yoomi Jeong from the Korea Truth Commission. At a time when the Bush administration is carrying out mass roundups and demo- nization of Arab, Muslim and South Asian people in the United States, the ANSWER rally demonstrated solidarity in deed and in word. Speakers included Mahdi Bray, Muslim American Society; Ismael Kamal, Page 8 Jan. 30, 2003 www.workers.org

Hong Kong, China Marseille, France McMurdo Sound, Antarctica People worldwide rise up against Bush By John Catalinotto war and the embargo on Iraq took place through the streets of Dam- in Mexico City and at the international ascus, blocking traffic for Demonstrators in at least 38 countries bridge near Ciudad Juárez and hours, shouting, “Down with demanded “No war on Iraq” on Jan. 18 in Chihuahua, where U.S. groups met the United States!” The response to a call for international soli- Mexican protesters. Damascus marchers carried darity actions to coincide with mass rallies In Argentina, a thousand people led banners reading: “Iraq: a his- and marches in Washington, D.C., and by the Mothers of the Plaza del Mayo tory and a civilization, not an San Francisco organized by the marched to the U.S. Embassy in Buenos oil well.” International ANSWER coalition. Aires on Jan. 16. About 1,000 demonstra- The Dec. 18-19 Cairo Conference sup- Mobilizations in other Latin American tors protested in central ported this initiative and the Asian Peace countries included Peru, Ecuador, Cairo, Egypt, against any Forum, the Stop the War Committee in Guatemala and Brazil. U.S.-led strike on Iraq. The England and other anti-war organizations demonstrators called on the spread the call. Middle East, South Asia Egyptian government to pre- The tremendous response of solidarity The main demonstration in Turkey vent U.S. and British war- actions worldwide, with the massive took place in Ankara, where demonstra- ships from using the Suez turnouts in Washington and San Fran- tors gathered in front of a theater show- Canal en route for a possible cisco, dealt a major blow to the Pentagon ing the latest James Bond film. There was assault on Iraq. war machine. also a demonstration in Istanbul. Others in the Arab world Canada had demonstrations in 30 In most of the Middle East, as in joined the international effort cities from coast to coast: 15,000 were Turkey, protesters faced an army of heav- by demonstrating in Gaza and reported in Vancouver, 25,000 in Mon- ily armed riot police. Thousands of Nablus in Palestine, in treal, 5,000 in Toronto, 7,000 in Saska- demonstrators in Beirut, Lebanon, car- Amman, Jordan and in toon and smaller actions elsewhere. ried Palestinian and Iraqi flags. Bahrain. In Amman, hun- In Mexico, mobilizations against the Tens of thousands of Syrians marched Sign in Damascus, Syria says, “No to the Continued on page 11 killing of Iraqi children. Anti-war sentiment spreads throughout U.S.

By Leslie Feinberg to go to the San Francisco march, 100 Twenty local groups in Lincoln, Neb., stayed and took their protest downtown. organized a rally that drew as many Anti-war activists marched, rallied More than 1,200 anti-war protesters as 2,000. and raised their voices in at least 87 U.S. marched in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Astoria, Ore., saw a protest of 300. cities over the Jan. 18-19 weekend. Parade in San Diego. The anti-war con- President George W. Bush was met by Here’s an overview compiled from tingent stretched at least a quarter of a 200 anti-war activists in Scranton, numerous alternative news sources: mile. This was the largest contingent ever Penn., on Jan. 15. Police roughly moved At least 20,000 people rallied against in this military town. demonstrators from pillar to post to try to the war near Portland State University Hundreds more turned out in Houston; keep them away from Bush’s entourage. in Oregon on Jan. 18. Tallahassee and Miami, Fla.; and But protesters with signs were visible to There were 5,000 in Tucson, Ariz.; Portsmouth, N.H. Bush as he passed by in his limousine. 3,000 in Montpelier, Vt.; 1,000 in Some 200 people rallied and marched There were 50 in Minoqua, and sever- Albuquerque, N.M.; 1,200 in Ann on Main Street in Menomonie, Wis., as al stalwart activists on a street corner in Arbor, Mich.; 1,000 in Salt Lake City, passing motorists and truck drivers Wauwatosa, Wis. Utah; close to 2,000 in Spokane and honked their vehicle horns in support. On Jan. 16, Sen. Sam Brownbeck’s office 600 in Bellingham, Wash.; 800 in Organizers “estimated” the crowd at in Wichita, Kan., was the target of a dem- Madison, Wis.; 600 in Reno, Nev.; 6,000—tongues firmly in cheek—so that onstration by about 70 activists. 900 in Charlottesville, Va.; and 300 in when the big-business media characteris- On the eve of the Washington and San Rockford, Ill. tically under-reported the event, the num- Francisco mobilizations, 2,500 marched About 200 took part in Tulsa, and ber would be closer to the truth. in Seattle, and 300 rallied in Albany, N.Y. some 800 gathered at the Murrah (IndyMedia) And on Jan. 20, more than 10,000 peo- Federal Building Memorial in Okla- “No war against Iraq” signs are appear- ple came out to say, “Support the poor, no homa City, Okla.—the site of the right- ing on lawns and porches in Minnesota more war!” at Seattle’s annual Martin wing terrorist bombing attack that left and Wisconsin. Luther King Day march. With a strong 168 people dead. showing from labor, thousands gathered Five hundred people turned out in More protests you probably at Garfield High School for workshops Fayetteville, Ark., and also in Colum- didn’t hear about and a rally, and then took to the streets bia, Mo.; 100 came out in St. Louis. When several youths in Gainesville, and marched to the Federal Building for There were 1,200 in San Luis Obispo Fla., spontaneously marched in the street a concluding rally. and 800 at the Richard Nixon Library in solidarity with the D.C. mobilization on Reports include information from Jane in Yorba Linda, Calif. While at least Jan. 18, within an hour 50 to 60 people Cutter, Independent Media Center and M.L.King Day, Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 20. 200 activists from Fresno got on the bus had joined them. Gloria Verdieu. www.workers.org Jan. 30, 2003 Page 9 As Bush moves towards war Mass opposition at home grows

By Fred Goldstein International ANSWER coalition, were that it is more than an anti-war move- tiatives of the ANSWER coalition. twice the size of the coalition’s large Oct. ment. It is an emerging, strongly progres- Whatever Hans Blix and the weapons 26 protests. These events have shown that sive current in U.S. capitalist society that Movement is broad inspectors tell the United Nations Security no amount of concealment or minimizing has been galvanized by the threat of war. and anti-imperialist Council on Jan. 27, it is clear that the pol- by the big business media can stop the It burst through the surface on Oct. 26 and ANSWER’s hallmark has been to itics and diplomacy of the Bush adminis- development of a deep and abiding grass- again with more force on Jan. 18. broaden and unite the movement by giv- tration and of Britain’s Tony Blair are roots U.S. anti-war opposition. Its manifestation as a national move- ing a platform to every genuine anti-war strictly calculated to bolster their military The pro-war propaganda machine, ment is largely due to the persistent and voice, regardless of political outlook. At plans for an unprovoked war of aggression including all the television networks, news determined organizing of the ANSWER the same time, however, it has guaran- against Iraq. services and newspapers, widely reported coalition and its growing number of allies teed that the voices of the Black, Latino, It is equally clear that the anti-war the Jan. 18 events. They fear losing all and friends in all corners of the progres- Asian and Native peoples, as well as peo- movement must urgently broaden and credibility with the people. Some want to sive and anti-imperialist movement. ple struggling for their liberation against escalate its efforts to stop this catastroph- force the Bush administration and the rest It is important to note that this new the U.S. government all over the world, ic war drive. The menacing buildup of U.S. of the ruling class to take account of the movement, which has grown so rapidly, are heard loud and strong. and British forces in the Gulf area, in the potential anti-war rebellion brewing down has arisen in the face of a solid wall of reac- ANSWER has demonstrated in life face of worldwide opposition, must be met below. tion. The Sept. 11 disaster opened the door that there is no contradiction between with mass mobilization everywhere. National Security Adviser Condoleezza politically for the right-wing militarist giving voice to the struggle against impe- Bush has brushed aside every positive Rice and Secretary of State Colin Powell grouping in Washington to go on a world- rialism and broadening the movement. assertion of the UN weapons inspectors. were both questioned about the demon- wide offensive. They went full force to In fact, for this movement to succeed He has dismissed the opposition of France strations on Sunday morning talk shows implement their long-planned campaign it must ally itself with the workers and and Germany—imperialist allies of the by NBC’s Tim Russert and CNN’s Wolf of expansion. the oppressed of the world, in order not U.S. who nevertheless fear the war and see Blitzer. They politely ducked and said that They waged a criminal air war against to get derailed by reactionary, pro-war no gain in a campaign that will leave Wall the demonstrations were an exercise in Afghanistan; gave the green light for a chauvinism against any people targeted Street and Washington in charge in Iraq. democracy. They then both went on to devastating attack by Ariel Sharon on the by Washington. And it must ally itself He has dispatched officials to relentlessly reassert the Bush administration’s deter- Palestinian national movement; dis- with the workers and the oppressed of promote the war in an effort to overcome mination to go to war. patched troops to the Philippines and this country, who are suffering under the the growing anti-war sentiment in the U.S. Rice and Powell’s glib responses aside, North Africa; and unleashed racist bigot growing capitalist economic crisis that and in defiance of the opinion of the vast the Bush administration and the Pentagon John Ashcroft, the Justice Department brings poverty, cutbacks, layoffs, majority of humanity. have until now been able to totally disre- and the INS in a campaign of racist deficits, racism and repression. gard the opposition in the U.S. as a factor repression and intimidation, trampling The real Achilles’ heel of Washington, A naked quest for empire in the struggle. This is no longer the case. over democratic rights. despite all its military prowess, is right The Bush administration is making it as There is a serious new front in the strug- And they opened up their campaign to here at home. Nothing can protect the clear as it possibly can to the entire world gle, whether Bush knows it or not. reconquer Iraq. Pentagon against a really militant, mass that the White House and the Pentagon The New York Times, which has sup- All of this war and intimidation has anti-war movement that takes hold are on a course of conquest. No amount of ported the war plans and regards itself as been supported, with a greater or lesser among the working class. diplomacy, no international or constitu- an adviser to the capitalist government, degree of enthusiasm, by a monolithic A war of conquest intensifies all the tional legality, nor any truth or facts will flat-out stated as much in its editorial of propaganda machine and the entire polit- reactionary aspects of capitalist society. be allowed to stand in their way. The drive Jan. 20, entitled “A Stirring in the Nation.” ical establishment of both capitalist par- The ruling class tries to make the mass- to conquer Iraq—to seize its oil fields for “A largely missing ingredient in the ties. There have been no cracks in the class es of people fight the war, pay for the the profits of the giant monopolies and the nascent debate about invading Iraq unity of the bosses and bankers and their war and subordinate their demands for military-industrial complex and to set up showed up on the streets of major cities representatives. No dissident section of civil, social and economic rights to the a base in the Middle East—overrides all over the weekend as crowds of peaceable the imperialist bourgeoisie has arisen so war effort. other considerations. protesters marched in a demand to be far to give the slightest encouragement or This is laying the groundwork for a The Bush administration’s plans for the heard. They represented what appears to cover to opponents of the war. genuine mass resistance to the war long-term military occupation of Iraq are be a large segment of the American pub- Thus this grassroots movement has drive, from the community to the work- nothing more than undisguised, pre- lic that remains unconvinced that the grown up pushing back against the entire place to the campus. Anti-war sentiment World War II-style colonialism. This is Iraqi threat warrants the use of military weight of capitalist public opinion during is spreading. Determined organization part of a naked quest for empire. The force at this juncture,” wrote the Times. a very reactionary period. Spontaneous can convert passive sentiment into effec- National Security Strategy document “Mr. Bush,” continued the Times, demonstrations have been organized in tive opposition and militant, widespread issued last September makes clear the “would be wise to see the demonstrators hundreds of cities, towns and campuses, resistance. intention of Washington to rule the world. as a clear sign that noticeable numbers of but the existence of a national movement This is the only way to stop the war. It declares the right of preemptive war. It Americans no longer feel obliged to salute has been indispensably assisted by the ini- warns that no power or combination of the administration’s plans because of the powers will be allowed to challenge U.S. shock of Sept. 11 and that many harbor military supremacy. serious doubts about his march toward In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet war.” C-Span coverage generates Union and retreat of the world national The Times’ tepid understatement about liberation struggles, Washington feels that the demonstration tries to orient the thousands of calls its military might makes it omnipotent. movement towards moderation and patri- The militarists and the ruling class are otism. But the fact is that demonstrators By Mary Owen istan or being shipped out to the region drunk with power and prone to adventure. on Jan. 18 were concerned about the hor- New York said they wanted their loved ones brought They falsely assume that they can remain rendous effects of U.S. aggression upon home. Others said that the Vietnam expe- supreme forever so long as they retain the Iraqi people. While the huge protest was taking place rience contributed to their anti-war senti- nuclear and conventional military superi- in Washington on Jan. 18, a dozen staffers ments. ority over other nation states. More than an at the New York office of the ANSWER “I’ve been a psychiatric nurse in a VA But the Achilles’ heel of the Pentagon anti-war movement coalition answered hundreds of calls from hospital since the Vietnam War,” said a is the people of the world, who will not They were concerned with the genoci- all over the U.S. and Canada from people woman who called from California. “I’ve submit to oppression passively. Wash- dal sanctions; the imperial plans of Wash- who saw the rally and march on CSPAN, seen first-hand what war does. That’s why ington has completely discounted the ington; the racism of the economic draft; CNN, dish TV and other news outlets. I’m voting no war.” mass resistance that its aggression is the sending of poor, nationally oppressed They had picked up the phone to vote “no” Even a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, who sure to provoke. and working class youth to kill and be on the war. called in to say he disagreed with And above all, it has prematurely dis- killed to expand the empire of the oil com- “I was nearly in tears as I watched the ANSWER’s vote no campaign, admitted counted the potential for resistance right panies and the Pentagon. rally on television,” said one caller from his mother was against his being sent to here in the U.S. They applauded calls for an end to U.S.- Wisconsin. “I’m so happy to know I’m not bomb Iraq. supported Israeli aggression against the alone and there are so many people who During C-SPAN’s live coverage of the Mass opposition Palestinian people. They applauded feel like I do about the war.” rally, and later as CNN and other media now indisputable denunciations of the repression of the Callers of every ethnicity and national- carried news stories, all the ANSWER The extraordinary outpouring of hun- thousands of people from the Middle East ity from South Carolina, Alabama, Louisi- office’s many phone lines were lit up for dreds of thousands of people in Wash- and Asia being swept up in dragnets by the ana, Tennessee, Hawaii, Alaska, Mont- four solid hours as staffers logged the ington, D.C., San Francisco and other FBI and the INS. They cheered calls to real, Quebec, Toronto, Canada and other “no” votes. Callers with computer access cities across the U.S. on Jan. 18 was a huge force the U.S. to get rid of its weapons of areas echoed her sentiments. Callers from were sent to the www.VoteNoWar.org setback to all the pundits, poll takers and mass destruction. They were outraged at Texas were particularly eager to disasso- Web site to cast their votes. Many who propagandists who have worked overtime the cost of the war being shifted onto the ciate themselves from the Bush adminis- called had polled friends and family first, to undermine and conceal the massive workers and the poor. tration’s war drive. and wanted to cast more than one vote grassroots opposition to a war on Iraq. In fact, the most important aspect of Some callers with family members in against the war. The demonstrations, organized by the this new emerging anti-war movement is the military who were already in Afghan- Page 10 Jan. 30, 2003 www.workers.org

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Continued from page 1 for emergency demonstrations on the following day, Jan. 29. In New York, the protest will converge on Times Square beginning at 5 p.m. Other cities are planning protests at federal buildings and in crowded shopping areas. Feb. 15 will be the next day of large coordinated actions across the country and around the world. ANSWER sent out an alert explaining that “The European movement, which initiated the call for this day of actions, has sent requests to U.S. peace groups, including ANSWER, to call for actions in the United States. United for Peace has initiated a mass mobilization in New York City, which we support, and we also encourage and support regional and local actions in solidarity with actions that day in Europe and around the world.” Real numbers Estimates of how many will march in Europe, where opposi- Real numbers tion to the U.S.-British war is white hot, run as high as 10 mil-

PHOTO: PETER MAIDEN S.F. INDYMEDIA PETER MAIDEN S.F. PHOTO: lion. The ANSWER Web site—www.internationalanswer.org—has s it possible to diminish the significance of a were lined all the way to Justin Herman Plaza, a information on other activities in New York during the week of day of protests that drew out more than half 200,000 estimate could be accurate, said Feb. 13-21. They include a teach-in and student action on Feb. Ia million people across the U.S. in opposi- Deignan.” 13, the anniversary of the U.S. bombing of the Amariyah bomb tion to a war on Iraq? Is this just a numbers game? Isn’t it good enough shelter in Baghdad; an all-day teach-in on Feb. 14; and a The police authorities and the big-business that the media acknowledge that tens of thousands Coordinated Day of Resistance on Feb. 21, including “student media editors have certainly tried. participated? anti-war walkouts from hundreds of high schools and colleges Take the Associated Press dispatch on the It matters a great deal. The size of the protests and other acts of non-compliance” on the anniversary of the Washington demonstration, by Calvin shows what is happening in the consciousness of assassination of Malcolm X. Woodward. This story went out on Jan. 18 to the people. Is the movement against the war To make sure these events have maximum participation and newspapers all over the country and the world. growing? Is it stagnant? Is it shrinking? input from New York’s large oppressed communities, there will It was worded very carefully: “In Washington, Anyone who has been at the protests since be a planning meeting on Jan. 30 at Rev. Herbert Daughtry’s police said 30,000 marched through the streets, ANSWER called its first demonstrations on Sept. House of the Lord Church in Brooklyn. part of a much larger crowd that packed the east 29, 2001, warning that the Bush administration With each step toward war, new layers of the population are end of the National Mall and spilled onto the would use the Sept. 11 attacks to further its agen- being awakened to the terrible dangers—and to their need for a Capitol grounds.” The number that jumps out, of da of war and racism, knows that they have been strong and united movement that can resist the war while fight- course, is 30,000. growing geometrically. ing for all the things being taken away here at home: decent The protest was actually at least 10 times that Those first protests—also in San Francisco and jobs, healthcare, Social Security, affordable housing and the large. Organizers said between 400,000 and half Washington—brought out about 15,000 and civil right to say no to these criminal policies and the wealthy a million. The vast crowd stretched far beyond 25,000 people, respectively. corporate interests behind them. the huge area of the Mall, in every direction. The number in Washington quadrupled on Of course, the article does say that those who April 20, 2002, when many Arab and Muslim marched were part of a “much larger crowd.” people joined anti-war groups in a protest that But most people looking at the article will focused on support for Palestine and for peoples remember the figure of 30,000. here being repressed under the new racial profil- Furthermore, the vast majority of those at the ing of John Ashcroft’s Justice Department. rally did try to participate in the march to the The number doubled again on Oct. 26 as the Navy Yard. It was the huge size of the crowd that Bush administration began its huge buildup of made it impossible for everyone to march, since troops and materiel for a war on Iraq. The the two-mile route became completely backed protests, again called by ANSWER, brought out up. The front of the march was packed in tight at 100,000 in San Francisco and 200,000 in D.C. the second rally site even before all the people The Jan. 18 protests show that the momentum who were overflowing the Mall had been able to of this movement has not slowed down. Even to march out. the surprise of organizers, who knew that harsh Thus, a crowd many times the police estimate weather in the East could cause many to stay not only attended the rally but marched in the home, more people than ever came out to try to streets. turn back an administration hell-bent on con- quest in the oil-rich Middle East. Aerial photos belie During the Vietnam War, the government also police figures exerted influence on the police and media to min- In San Francisco, the police also tried to mini- imize the size of the opposition. The official esti- mize the size of the protest, even though they had mate of the largest demonstration in Washington, to know better. The first figure they gave, which the Moratorium of Nov. 15, 1969, was a quarter of appeared in many newspapers, was 55,000. a million. However, the ANSWER coalition, which estimat- But here’s what White House Chief of Staff ed the crowd at 200,000, had been able to hire a H.R. Haldeman had to say about it in his diary for WW PHOTO: JOHN CATALINOTTO helicopter to take aerial views. And these pictures, that day: “Mobe Day. The march turned out to be says ANSWER volunteer Bill Hackwell, showed huge. Official estimate 250,000. By our photo- that “while the march route of 1.7 miles was com- count, it was 325,000. Anyway, it was really huge. SUBSCRIBE pletely full, and people were still coming out of E. Krogh and I went out in helicopter to look it Justin Herman Plaza, the Civic Center was over in the morning, very impressive.” already three-quarters full.” The Civic Center Did the White House correct the “official esti- TO WORKERS alone holds 50,000 people. mate,” knowing it was too low? Fat chance. In The police figure was so inaccurate that it fact, the White House told the press that the became the subject of debate in the media. On protest was so insignificant the president didn’t WORLD Jan. 21 the San Francisco Chronicle ran a second even interrupt watching a football game to go to article on the demonstration, entitled, “Protest the window. No mention of his rattled aides cir- SPECIAL TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION numbers don’t add up—Police now say 150,000 cling in their helicopter. $2 FOR EIGHT WEEKS (NEW SUBSCRIPTION) safe guess.” The rest is history. Many, many deaths later, $25 for one year But in the body of the article, the police Nixon had to resign in disgrace. Haldeman went acknowledged it could have been as large as the to jail for Watergate. And it finally was admitted Name ______organizers’ estimates. that the people of this country, including the troops themselves, were overwhelmingly against Said the article, “Police estimates of 55,000 Phone number ______demonstrators came from a counting of people in the war. There’s the official world, the world of govern- Civic Center Plaza and did not include marchers Address______who were backed up along Market Street, said ment releases and of television pundits. And then there’s the real world. In the real world, the anti- Jim Deignan, San Francisco police spokesman. City/State/Zip ______“Aerial photographs show a packed plaza and war forces are growing with every belligerent Workers World Newspaper masses stacked back along streets leading in. 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Heidelberg, Germany Cairo, Egypt Brussels, Belgium People worldwide rise up against Bush Continued from page 8 In Hong Kong, China, about 60 people to protest British participation in versity in the center of town to the U.S. dreds of protesters in the mostly chanted, “Inspections, yes! War, no!” and aggression against Iraq. Embassy, where they burned a U.S. flag Palestinian Nuzha district burned U.S., “Yankee, go home!” as they marched In Scotland on Jan. 19, the Scottish and chanted, “Stop the war.” British and Israeli flags. through the financial district to the U.S. Anglican Episcopal Church joined the On Jan. 18 in Russia, several thousand A protest in Baghdad, Iraq, commem- and British consulates. international initiatives by holding reli- people protested at the diplomatic offices orated the beginning of the Gulf War 12 Demonstrations were also scheduled in gious meetings against the war in its of the United States in Moscow and years ago. Indonesia, Switzerland, Hungary 50,000 parishes in more than 320 cities Leningrad, in response to a call by the Demonstrators in Lahore, Pakistan, and South Korea. and towns. Communist Party. A banner outside the had to face soldiers and police as they tried In Ireland, Jan. 18 actions targeted U.S. Embassy in Moscow declared: “Iraq to march to the U.S. Embassy. Young stu- Europe Shannon airport, which the British Army isn’t your ranch, Mr. Bush.” Slogans dents and human rights activists marched In Spain on Jan. 19, 30,000 people has used in recent months to transport included: “[President Vladimir] Putin, in the eastern city of Lahore, while others marched from Madrid to the nearby U.S. troops to military bases in the Gulf stop kowtowing to Bush.” gathered in the southern city of Karachi Torrejón military base. They demanded, region. In Sweden, more than 6,000 people and in Rawalpindi. “Stop the war against Iraq,” and “NATO In the Netherlands there were anti- marched through the streets of Gothen- Near Islamabad, hundreds of children, no, bases out,” and protested Spanish gov- war actions Jan. 18 in Rotterdam, burg, called out by working-class organi- women and men formed a human chain ernment participation in the war. Nijmegen and Leiden. In Uden, the Dutch zations. and chanted slogans. In Paris, France, 20,000 people joined police arrested 90 people who tried to In Oslo, Norway, 1,000 activists In India, workers were called out by in a united march of diverse social, polit- approach the Volkel military airbase, focused on the Parliament, where a cabi- communist organizations in demonstra- ical and union organizations on Jan. 18. housing U.S. and German troops, to “carry net member and a member of Parliament tions against the Iraq war. Protesters They marched under the slogans: “No to out an inspection of U.S. arms of mass spoke at the rally. burned an effigy of George W. Bush. war against Iraq. Justice, peace and destruction.” The group demanded that In Germany, 2,000 people gathered democracy in the Middle East and in the the Dutch and U.S. governments follow Jan. 18 near the U.S. military headquar- East Asia and Pacific Islands world.” In Marseille, 10,000 chanted, their own advice for Iraq and publicize ters in Heidelberg. Protests also took A series of demonstrations in the “Bush, Blair, Chirac, we don’t want your details of their nuclear programs. place in Cologne and Rostock. More than Philippines protested both the war on dirty war!” Anti-war protesters marched 10,000 5,000 turned out in the small southwest- Iraq and Washington’s attempt to reoccu- In Italy, Jan. 18 protests took place in strong in Brussels, Belgium, demanding, ern city of Tuebingen. There were vigils py Philippine military bases. Perugia, Bologna, Genoa, Naples—and in “Stop the war against Iraq before it starts.” and public meetings all over the country. In Japan, thousands demonstrated in Florence, where U.S. and Iraqi residents The Stop USA! (United States of Aggres- At the poles of the Earth there were Tokyo, Osaka, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Okin- led a human chain of 5,000 people march- sion) Coalition organized the united protests. In Nunavut, in Arctic Canada, awa and other cities on Jan. 18-19. Carry- ing along the Arno river and surrounding demonstration whose march route passed 500 of the 20,000 people in the town of ing toy guns stuffed with flowers and hold- the U.S. consulate. A march of 1,000 peo- the headquarters of NATO and the Euro- Iqualuit held the new Inuit-governed ter- ing banners aloft, anti-war demonstrators ple to the U.S. airbase Camp Ederle, near pean Union. They raised their voices to say ritory’s first-ever anti-war demonstration. marched through downtown Tokyo’s cen- Vicenza, was followed by a march of “10,000 times NO” to the 10,000 U.S. sol- And even in uninhabited Antarctica, peo- tral shopping district. “We want to unite 3,000 to 5,000 through the city. diers scheduled to be transported through ple from the scientific team at the with people all over the world on the same In Britain the biggest demonstra- the port of Antwerp. McMurdo Station joined with the millions issue,” said Takashi Uchiyama. tions took place in London. On the out- In Vienna, Austria, some 1,000 peo- of others around the world by forming a Some 400 protesters turned out in the skirts of London, demonstrators sur- ple, mostly university and high-school peace symbol with their bodies in the New Zealand city of Christchurch. rounded the British Army headquarters students, marched Jan. 17 from the uni- snow.

Buenos Aires, Argentina Shannon, Ireland Sao Paulo, Brazil Declaración de ANSWER sobre protesta en Washington, D.C. 700 mil en E.E.U.U. y cientos de miles más en el mundo protestan la guerra contra Irak Medio millón de personas marcharon Hong Kong, Rusia, Alemania, Bretaña. McKinney, el Reverendo Al Sharpton, el leyó una declaración anti guerra enviada en las calles de Washington, D.C. el día Anunciando una semana de protesta autor y veterano de la guerra en Vietnam por el Representante Congresista Charles Sábado 19 de enero y 200 mil más protes- anti guerra para la semana de febrero 13 Ron Kovic, la cantante Patti Smith, el Rangel. taron en San Francisco, California, al 21—culminando con una Acción del Día Reverendo Herbert Daughtry y Elizabeth También estuvieron representados haciendo de estas las más grandes mani- del Estudiante y los Jóvenes en el aniver- McAllister. grupos como Trabajadores de la Ciudad festaciones hasta ahora en los Estados sario del asesinato de Malcolm X—los El programa—con presentaciones de Nueva York Contra la Guerra, la filial Unidos oponiéndose a la guerra contra organizadores de la manifestación del 18 musicales por el grupo británico, Chum- de la organización laboral AFL-CIO de Irak. de enero se unieron al llamado del bawumba, la cantante Patti Smith, el Maryland y Washington, D.C., Sindica- Patrocinada por la coalición Actuar movimiento europeo para hacer del 15 de dueto Pam Parker y Lucy Murphy—fue listas de Colombianos en el Exilio, Ahora para Parar la Guerra y Dar Fin al febrero el próximo paso del movimiento iniciado por Moonanum James de los Homosexuales por la Paz y la Justicia, la Racismo, (International ANSWER por anti guerra mundial. Indios Americanos Unidos de Nueva organización, Unidos por la Paz y la sus siglas en inglés), la protesta recibió el La mañana de la protesta, los trenes y Inglaterra, Estados Unidos. Justicia, la organización, No En Nuestro respaldo de miles de organizaciones. estaciones subterránea en Washington, Entre otros oradores estuvieron líderes Nombre y representantes del Comité por Manifestaciones similares se llevaron a D.C. se encontraban atascadas ya que de ANSWER, Elías Rashmawi, la Alianza el Rescate y Desarrollo de Vieques. Los cabo en por lo menos 30 otros países. cientos de autobuses llegaban a la ciudad Libertad para Palestina; Peta Lindsay, oradores recordaron a la multitud de “Manifestaciones como estas hacen para la masiva protesta. Entre los auto- Coordinadora de Estudiantes y Jóvenes de que la lucha contra la guerra y el racismo pedazos el mito de unanimidad por la buses que llegaron estaban, —incluyendo ANSWER; Larry Holmes y Brian Becker incluye a las luchas para liberar a los pri- guerra,” dijo Mara Verheyden-Hilliard de a 20 repleto de miembros del sindicato de del Centro de Acción Internacional; Mara sioneros políticos Mumia Abu-Jamal, la organización Partnership por Civil los trabajadores de la salud y hospitales, Verheyden-Hilliard de Parnership for Leonard Peltier, Jamil Al Amin y los Justice, una de las organizaciones en la la local 1199/SEIU; 20 de Winston-Salem, Civil Justice; Jennifer Wager, de Cinco Cubanos. coalición ANSWER “En todo el mundo, Carolina del Norte; 8 de Rochester del IFCO/Pastores por la Paz; Maria Hilao Para más información visite los sitios las manifestaciones de hoy han mostrado norte de Nueva York; y 6 del sindicatos de Enríquez, de BAYAN; Macrina Cárdenas, en el internet o llame a los teléfonos el tipo de poder popular que se necesita maestros de Chicago. de la Red de Solidaridad con México; siguiente: www.International- para detener la guerra.” La concentración escuchó a oradores Chuck Kaufman, de la Red de Solidaridad ANSWER.org, www.VoteNoWar.org, El 18 de enero fue el día de protesta como el ex Fiscal General de los Estados con Nicaragua; Yoomi Jeong, de Comisión [email protected], New York global basadas en los Estados Unidos, Unidos, Ramsey Clark, activista pro dere- de la Verdad de Corea; Cheri Honkala, del 212-633-6646, Washington 202-332- manifestaciones coordinadas tuvieron chos civiles Mahdi Bray, las actrices Sindicato de Derecho a la Beneficiecia 5757, Chicago 773-878-0166, Los lugar en 30 países más—incluyendo el Jessica Lange y Tyne Daly, el Represen- Pública en Kensington; y Ismail Kamal de Angeles 213-487-2368, San Francisco Japón, Irlanda, Egipto, España, Argen- tante John Conyers, el Reverendo Jesse la Asociación Nacional Estudiantil 415-821-6545, Boston 617-522-6626. tina, Sur Africa, Jordania, Bélgica, Siria, Jackson, la ex Congresista Cynthia Musulmana. El Reverendo Lucius Walker MO FOTOS: GREG DUNKEL MO FOTOS: