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April19-22 •Protest APRIL19-22 •PROTEST IN WASH___ ~ TON DC Throughout our country's history there We know our government can and have been times when it was necessary must take the initiative to reduce the for citizens to gather to proclaim their threat of nuclear holocaust. It is possible vision of a just and peaceful nation. for the contending powers to agree to This is again such a time. As Ronald take their disputes to the negotiating Reagan and his administration enter a table rather than the arms factories second term, we call upon people from and battlefields. We envision a world in every corner of our country to join us in which the hungry are fed, the homeless four days of protest and witness in are housed, the unemployed have work, Washington DC from Friday, April 19 workplaces are safe, railroads and to Monday, Apfll 22, building on our highways are repaired, and our children local activities on Tax Day, April 15. find quality education in our public We will go to Washington DC, our schools. We want to live free of the nation's capital, with a clear vision and threat of violence, whether from bombs, a unified message: chemical disasters, police brutality or 1) Stop U.S. military interven­ the hatred of racism and sexism. These tion in Central America. Support are modest goals for a wealthy country human freedom and dignity by also end· such as ours. ing intervention in the Caribbean, the Treasuring our heritage of liberty, Middle East, Asia, the Pacific and freedom and human rights, we stand Europe. proudly together: Black, Latino, Asian, 2) Create jobs; cut the military Native American and White, young and budget. Provide for human needs and old, women and men, lesbian, gay and challenge racism and discrimination straight, and proclaim that nothing based on sex and sexual orientation. justifies the denial of full equal rights 3) Freeze and reverse the arms for all Remembering the rich and varied race beginning with a halt on the test· history of struggle that we build on, we ing, production and deployment of call for an end to US military intervention nuclear weapons. 4) Oppose U.S. government and corporate suoport for South African apartheid and overcome racism at home. in £1 Salvador, Nicaragua and the rest skin, their gender or sexual orientation, of Central America, an end to support their physical capabilities or age. for brutal dictatorships such as those Our actions this April will articulate of Pinochet in Chile and Marcos in the our increased awareness of the links Philippines, and a new beginning for a between our various concerns. We see free and democratic South Africa with that the cruelty our government inflicts majority rule. on other nations reflects our own daily Like others before us, we can exercise domestic experiences. We organize at power and change history. We will home and go to Washington unified in make it known that there is no national our commitment to strengthen the mandate for war and injustice, for popular, democratic and nonviolent poverty and militarism, for racism and movement for peace and justice. We go violence. We are clear in our call for an to Washington demanding that our tax end to policies that include daily threats dollars no longer be used for war and and attacks against the people of £1 death but rather, to help build a safe Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala, and loving world. Our goals are broad policies that will inevitably lead us into because we be#eve they can only be a regional war in Central America, and achieved together. the danger of greater military conflict Ten years ago this April the War in in the Middle East and Southern Africa. Vietnam ended. We recall that war We urge non-military solutions to the and what it took to stop it. We know real and deep problems in those regions. our protests make a difference, and We oppose the introduction of nuclear when we stand with the struggling weapons into new areas, and are deter­ people of the world we have the strength mined to rid the world of all nuclear to turn the tide. weapons. We are clear in our demand Join us April 19 to 22 for four days for economic and social justice for all of public protest, action and witness. people, regardless of the color of their Our nation is in grave crisis and through­ out the world people are suffering. If ever there was a time to march on Washington, this is it. Come with deter· mination and hope. Come for justice, come for peace. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee New Jewish Agenda STEERING American Committee on Africa Nicaragua Network American Indian Movement NISGUA (Guatemala Network) COMMITTEE OF Artists Call Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign Asian American Caucus for Disarmament Operation PUSH Casa £1 Salvador Pax Christi, USA THE APRIL Church Women United Peoples Anti-War Mobilization Clergy and Laity Concerned Performing Artists for Nuclear Disarmament ACTIONS FOR · Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Rainbow Coalition Salvador Rainbow Sign PEACE, JOBS Congress of National Black Churches Reformed Church in America Continuations Committee/Emergency National Religious Task Force!MFS Conference SANE AND JUSTICE Coordinadora Salvadorena de Solidaridad Sojourners Democratic Socialists of America Southern Christian Leadership Conference Fellowship of Reconciliation Southern Organizing Committee Gray Panthers STOP Nuclear War International Association of Machinists TransAfrica Inter-Religious Task Force on Central America Union of Democratic Filipinos Jobs with Peace United Church of Christ/Office of Church and League of United Latin American Citizens Society/Commission for Racial Justice Mobilization for Survival United Food and Commercial Workers National Alliance Against Racist and Political United States Student Association Repression US Peace Council National Council of Senior Citizens War Resisters League National Congress of Puerto Rican Rights Washington Office on Africa National Gay Task Force Witness for Peace National Lawyers Guild Women Strike for Peace National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament Committee Women's International League for Peace and Network Freedom APRIL 19-22 • PROTEST IN WASHINGTON DC ------------------------------------------------------ Name (individual) D D Our organization supports the Call for We are actively organizing to mob1lize (Organiza tirm) the Peace & Justice Mobilization and people, please let us know what other wants to add our name to the list of groups are working in our area. Address endorsing groups. City D D Enclosed is a check for $.__ to help State Zip Please send us_copies of this Call. cover organizing costs. Phone Number Return to: APRIL ACTIONS FOR ' PEACE, JOBS AND JUSTICE Box 2598 Washington DC 20013-2598 .
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