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Protest on Iraq War anniversary: Fund Jobs, Healthcare & Education!
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Date:
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Time:
12:00 PM
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4:00 PM
Event Type:
Protest
Organizer/Author:
ANSWER Coalition
Email:
Phone:
415-821-6545
Address:
ANSWER office: 2969 Mission St. at 26th St.
Location Details:
12noon, Rally at UN Plaza (7th & Market Sts.), SF
followed by a march to Local 2 boycotted hotels
followed by a march to Local 2 boycotted hotels
National Day of Action on the 8th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq
FUND JOBS, HEALTHCARE & EDUCATION, NOT WAR
Stop the Cutbacks & Layoffs!
END WAR & OCCUPATION
Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Haiti & Everywhere!
STOP THE WAR ON WORKING PEOPLE
Solidarity with Local 2 Workers!
March 19 is the 8th anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Today, Iraq remains occupied by 50,000 U.S. soldiers and tens of thousands of foreign mercenaries.
The war in Afghanistan/Pakistan is raging. Washington is financing Israel’s colonial occupation of Palestine, threatening Iran, stepping up hostility against Venezuela, Cuba and other progressive governments in Latin America, and bringing Korea to the brink of a new war. There are more than 800 U.S. military bases around the world.
While the U.S. will spend $1 trillion+ for war and occupation in 2011, 30 million people in the U.S. remain unemployed or severely underemployed, and cuts in education, housing and healthcare are imposing a huge toll on the people.
Now, new rounds of cutbacks in vital public services and jobs are underway at the federal, state and local level. Public and private sector unions are under severe attack.
12,000 SF hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 2, have been fighting for 17 months for a new contract that protects their healthcare, wages and working conditions. On March 19, we will march to boycotted hotels in solidarity with the Lo. 2 workers.
Endorsers include: ANSWER Coalition, US Labor Against War (USLAW), Unitarian Universalists for Peace-SF, National Council of Arab Americans, Free Palestine Alliance, Al Awda—Palestine Right of Return Coalition, Code Pink, World Can’t Wait, La Raza Centro Legal/SF Day Labor Program, Task Force on the Americas, Arab American Union Members Council, March Forward!, Angola 3 Defense Committee, LEF Foundation, Community Futures Collective, National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, West County Toxics Coalition, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival, Int’l Socialist Organization, Peace & Freedom Party, Justice for Filipino-American Veterans (JFAV), Association of Widows, Advocates and Relatives for Equality (AWARE), Middle East Children’s Alliance (partial list—list in formation)
For more information, to volunteer or endorse, contact ANSWER Coalition—Act Now to Stop War & End Racism.
FUND JOBS, HEALTHCARE & EDUCATION, NOT WAR
Stop the Cutbacks & Layoffs!
END WAR & OCCUPATION
Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Haiti & Everywhere!
STOP THE WAR ON WORKING PEOPLE
Solidarity with Local 2 Workers!
March 19 is the 8th anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Today, Iraq remains occupied by 50,000 U.S. soldiers and tens of thousands of foreign mercenaries.
The war in Afghanistan/Pakistan is raging. Washington is financing Israel’s colonial occupation of Palestine, threatening Iran, stepping up hostility against Venezuela, Cuba and other progressive governments in Latin America, and bringing Korea to the brink of a new war. There are more than 800 U.S. military bases around the world.
While the U.S. will spend $1 trillion+ for war and occupation in 2011, 30 million people in the U.S. remain unemployed or severely underemployed, and cuts in education, housing and healthcare are imposing a huge toll on the people.
Now, new rounds of cutbacks in vital public services and jobs are underway at the federal, state and local level. Public and private sector unions are under severe attack.
12,000 SF hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 2, have been fighting for 17 months for a new contract that protects their healthcare, wages and working conditions. On March 19, we will march to boycotted hotels in solidarity with the Lo. 2 workers.
Endorsers include: ANSWER Coalition, US Labor Against War (USLAW), Unitarian Universalists for Peace-SF, National Council of Arab Americans, Free Palestine Alliance, Al Awda—Palestine Right of Return Coalition, Code Pink, World Can’t Wait, La Raza Centro Legal/SF Day Labor Program, Task Force on the Americas, Arab American Union Members Council, March Forward!, Angola 3 Defense Committee, LEF Foundation, Community Futures Collective, National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, West County Toxics Coalition, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival, Int’l Socialist Organization, Peace & Freedom Party, Justice for Filipino-American Veterans (JFAV), Association of Widows, Advocates and Relatives for Equality (AWARE), Middle East Children’s Alliance (partial list—list in formation)
For more information, to volunteer or endorse, contact ANSWER Coalition—Act Now to Stop War & End Racism.
For more information:
http://www.ANSWERsf.org
Added to the calendar on Tue, Jan 18, 2011 4:15PM
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Another lame permitted protest and a waste of time.
ANSWER is a joke. Your agenda was never to overthrow the social order. You people respect the state too often and no one should trust you. It's not surprising anymore why you people abhor capitalism yet are statist to the fucking core. You people are communists. Both communism and capitalism are evil. GOVERNMENT is evil!
You provide no true alternative to the worlds problems. How about getting rid of the police state? That would require employing a classless stateless society which communists don't stand for. Breaks my heart that this is the best we can do and we're not even trying. Leadership is not the way. Non-hierarchical organization is key to organizing revolution. A non hierarchical system must be built and organized in non-hierarchical fashion.
We need to get rid of all oppressors. No more authority. No more police. No more Bosses. Nobody above. Equality is real democracy. I'll accept nothing else and when this empire falls and communism rises I'll be fighting communism as well for all governments are corrupt.
Hope you have fun taking peoples money for donations. That really helps the cause. We are so close to tearing down the social order because of you, NOT!
ANSWER is a joke. Your agenda was never to overthrow the social order. You people respect the state too often and no one should trust you. It's not surprising anymore why you people abhor capitalism yet are statist to the fucking core. You people are communists. Both communism and capitalism are evil. GOVERNMENT is evil!
You provide no true alternative to the worlds problems. How about getting rid of the police state? That would require employing a classless stateless society which communists don't stand for. Breaks my heart that this is the best we can do and we're not even trying. Leadership is not the way. Non-hierarchical organization is key to organizing revolution. A non hierarchical system must be built and organized in non-hierarchical fashion.
We need to get rid of all oppressors. No more authority. No more police. No more Bosses. Nobody above. Equality is real democracy. I'll accept nothing else and when this empire falls and communism rises I'll be fighting communism as well for all governments are corrupt.
Hope you have fun taking peoples money for donations. That really helps the cause. We are so close to tearing down the social order because of you, NOT!
Somehow it's okay to attack GW Bush for killing innocent people in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq but what ever you do, don't attack Obama, the well spoken democrat. Even if he's a war monger you can;t attack him. He's black for crying out loud.
This is why the anti-war movement is dead. The elites who selected Obama knew what they were doing. They knew with our politically correctness that we'd all want to attack Obama on policy but couldn't because he's black and that's not good to attack a black man even on policy unless you are a republican conservative Tea Bagger.
It was easy to do to Bush for being a white Texas oil dweeb. But look now, Obama is getting away with murder and I bet nobody has the guts to challenge him and call him out on his shit. We're too nice to the guy. For what? It's been 3 years and there's been no change because it can;t be done. No matter who comes to power the system always wins.
It's not that we are dumb. We are just afraid to look racist and that's why the system can use Obama to expand the same policies of the Bush Administration into Pakistan killing innocent civilians. Everyone knows the the tea party people hate Obama but they just hate him because he's black because Bush was spending through the roof and bailing out companies and doing all kinds on things any dictator would do. and the conservative libertarians didn't give a fuck back then.
It wasn't until Bush stepped down and Obama took over that anti-war protesters laid down and republicans stood up. If we're gona go out into the streets, let's get out like it's March 19th 2003. Cut the fucking bullshit already. Time to start giving a fuck about the world once again.
This is why the anti-war movement is dead. The elites who selected Obama knew what they were doing. They knew with our politically correctness that we'd all want to attack Obama on policy but couldn't because he's black and that's not good to attack a black man even on policy unless you are a republican conservative Tea Bagger.
It was easy to do to Bush for being a white Texas oil dweeb. But look now, Obama is getting away with murder and I bet nobody has the guts to challenge him and call him out on his shit. We're too nice to the guy. For what? It's been 3 years and there's been no change because it can;t be done. No matter who comes to power the system always wins.
It's not that we are dumb. We are just afraid to look racist and that's why the system can use Obama to expand the same policies of the Bush Administration into Pakistan killing innocent civilians. Everyone knows the the tea party people hate Obama but they just hate him because he's black because Bush was spending through the roof and bailing out companies and doing all kinds on things any dictator would do. and the conservative libertarians didn't give a fuck back then.
It wasn't until Bush stepped down and Obama took over that anti-war protesters laid down and republicans stood up. If we're gona go out into the streets, let's get out like it's March 19th 2003. Cut the fucking bullshit already. Time to start giving a fuck about the world once again.
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