Los Angeles: Thursday, September 22 at 7pm

Immanuel Presbyterian Church

The views expressed by the participants are not necessarily those of Immanuel Presbyterian Church.

3300 Wilshire Blvd.

Tickets available at www.ticketweb.com or at 1-866-468-3399.

$12 tickets sold at the door (first come, first serve)

Contact: gallowaytourla@yahoo.com or nca-la@arab-american.net

Media Sponsor: KPFK 90.7

George Galloway is Respect party MP for Bethnal Green and Bow in East London. He recently electrified the United States with his appearance at a Senate Permanent Subcommittee on

Investigations hearing on May 17, when he turned the proceedings into a condemnation of the war in Iraq. CNN's Wolf Blitzer described Galloway's speech in the Senate as "a blistering attack on US senators rarely heard" in Washington.

Anti-war activists and members of the Arab community will join British MP George Galloway at Immanuel Presbyterian Church at 7pm on Thursday, September 22 to demand money and resources for hurricane relief, not war. This event will accept donations to be sent to New Orleans with a delegation from the Campus Anti-War Network.

Galloway blasted President Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina, saying:

“The scenes from the stricken city almost defy belief. Many, many thousands of people left to die in what is the richest, most powerful country on earth.

In the most terrible way imaginable they show to the whole world that it is not only the lives of people in Baghdad, Fallujah and Palestine that Bush holds cheap. It is also his own citizens — the black and poor people left behind with no food, water or shelter.

This is not simply manslaughter through incompetence, though the White House’s incompetence abounds.

It is murder — for Bush was warned four years ago of the threat to New Orleans, as surely as he was warned of the disaster that would come of his war on Iraq.”



Also appearing in Los Angeles:

Pablo Paredes, Navy petty officer who refused to ship out to Iraq, currently serving 3 month hard labor sentence

Michel Shehadeh, LA 8, Palestinian rights activists framed by the government

Galloway's new book is Mr. Galloway Goes to Washington (The New Press) and will be published and timed for national release in bookstores in conjunction with the tour. Mr. Galloway will be available to sign books after the event.

National Tour sponsored by: The New Press, International Socialist Review, Center for Economic Research and Social Change, the National Council of Arab Americans

Los Angeles Local Co-sponsors/Endorsers: US Labor Against War (USLAW), Mexican-American Political Association (MAPA), Coalition Against Militarism in Our Schools (CAMS), Frank Dorrel, Publisher of Addicted to War, ANSWER LA, Committee for Justice, Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace (ICUJP), Topanga Peace Alliance, Peace and Freedom Party, Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains, Fellowship of Reconciliation

To become a local sponsor or request table space at the event, email gallowaytourla@yahoo.com or nca-la@arab-american.net

For National Tour information email ToddChretien@comcast.net

To arrange interviews with Mr. Galloway, contact Ina Howard at The New Press, 212-564-4406 or email: ihoward@thenewpress.com

I heard jane fonda is doing the tour with george galloway.