Emergency Protest Against the Growing Threat of War
* Hands Off Syria and Iran!
* End the Drone Wars!
* We Need Jobs, Education and Healthcare, Not Endless War!
During the period from June 23 through July 1, there will be demonstrations, vigils and forums around the country to protest the growing threats of war. Already over 25 cities are planning demonstrations.
Los Angeles Action:
Where: Westwood Federal Building - 11,000 Wilshire Boulevard
When: Saturday June 30th at 4 pm
Contact: (323) 306-6240
Using the pretext that North Vietnamese patrol boats had fired on U.S. destroyers, President LB Johnson authorized the funding of a much wider war in Vietnam. Like the recent killing of tens of thousands in Libya due to the latest U.S./NATO war, the lives lost could have been avoided if the anti-war movement had been strong enough to dispel the lies and counter the thrust towards war.
Last Friday, amidst growing tensions with Syria due to U.S.-supported Syrian \\"rebels,\\" a Turkish jet fighter (bought from the U.S.) just happened to violate Syrian airspace and was shot down by the Syrian military. Is this the Gulf of Tonkin incident, then used in Vietnam, again being played by the Pentagon to start a wider war beginning in Syria, while nearly 100 people per month are killed by U.S. drones in impoverished countries around the world.
While austerity and cutbacks against basic social services are echoed from Washington to City Hall, no such demands are being made to limit this Administration\\'s aims for endless war. As Martin Luther King Jr said: "The bombs in Vietnam explode at home ... poverty, urban problems and social progress generally are ignored when the guns of war become a national obsession."
Build the Movement Against War - Come out to say No to War and Poverty this Saturday! Endorsers of Los Angeles Action:
Arab Americans for Syria
Union of Progressive Iranians
Puerto Rican Alliance
Southern California Immigration Coalition
ALBA-USA
International Action Center
Workers World Party
Latinos Against the War
SOA Watch - LA
Palisadeans for Peace
International League of Peoples Struggles - US (Los Angeles)
National Endorsers for Week of Actions:
Muslim Peace Coalition
MI Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice
Veterans for Peace
VA Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality
International Action Center
Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report
CT United for Peace
May 1 Immigrant & Workers Rights Coalition
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Center for Constitutional Rights
Voices for Creative Nonviolence
WESPAC Foundation
New England United
Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace
Mobilization for Peace, Jobs & Justice, SF
DRUM
UAW 2865, UC Berkeley
WILPF
Code Pink Maine
Thomas Merton Center
ISO
Muslim Peace Coalition
Cmtee to Stop FBI Repression
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