AJLPP-USA Nationwide Mobilization for March 17 -18 Protests in Four Major US Cities

Los Angeles-- The Alliance for Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines (AJLPP), an alliance of Filipino American and allied solidarity organizations working for peace and justice, anti-war and racism in the United States and a member of the ANSWER Coalition will mobilize for the nationwide mass protests against the 4th year of the U.S Invasion and Occupation of Iraq and the 40th anniversary of the people’s march in Pentagon. March 1967 at the height of the US War in Vietnam.

Los Angeles and Washington DC will be the focus of the anti-war mobilizations on March 17 while Seattle and San Francisco will mobilize tens of thousands of the anti-war protestors on March 18. AJLPP will be present on the four major cities mobilization against the war and racism both in the east and the west coast.

On March 17, there will be a mass, regional anti-war protest in Los Angeles to demand "U.S. Out of Iraq Now!" on the 4th anniversary of the Iraq war. The band-OZOMATLI will give a free concert at the rally on Hollywood and Highland after the march. The LA protest will assemble at 12 noon on the corner of Hollywood and Vine and then march through Hollywood. ??March 17 will be coordinated with a national march on the Pentagon in Washington, DC., and other regional actions.

West Coast Mobilizations, March 17-18

Los Angeles, a broad coalition has been formed to organize March 17. AJLPP is part of the March 17 coalition. Because of the critical importance of the March 17 demonstrations, the March 17 Coalition is urging everyone in Southern California, New Mexico, Arizona and Western Nevada to mobilize buses, vans, carpools and "peace trains" to join the march and rally in Los Angeles. Help make March 17 in LA as big, broad, representative and powerful as possible.?

There are already 40 regional organizing and transportation centers mobilizing for the Los Angeles Protest.

In San Francisco, the rally on March 18 will be held at the 12 p.m.?Justin Herman Plaza March to Civic Center in a mass demonstration to demand: U.S. Out of Iraq Now! 2007 is the 40th anniversary of the historic 1967 anti-war march to the Pentagon during the Vietnam War. The message of the 1967 march was "From Protest to Resistance," and marked a turning point in the development of a countrywide mass movement.

In Seattle, the ANSWER –Seattle is leading the rally at March 18 at 12;00 Noon at the Westlake Plaza, 4th and Pine St. Seattle. Washington State.

East Coast-Washington DC Mobilization, March 17.

For Washington DC, March 17 March Rally to the Pentagon. The march will assemble at the Vietnam War memorial and march to the Pentagon. AJLPP forces and allies in the east coast led by Damayan Workers, NISPOP and UGNAYAN based in New York and New Jersey will be mobilizing for March on the Pentagon.

Over 150 cities are organizing buses, vans, car caravans and anti-war trains to bring people from across the country to March on the Pentagon in Washington DC on Saturday March 17!

The National Office of the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition has received an enormous response from people all around the country who are planning to travel to Washington DC to march on the Pentagon on the 4th anniversary of the start of the criminal invasion of Iraq.

Huge numbers will come from every major city on the East Coast, Midwest and South - New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, Atlanta, Birmingham, Charlotte and elsewhere - and from many smaller cities. Gulfport, Mississippi; Muskogee, Oklahoma; and New Bedford, Massachusetts are just a few of the cities organizing for this demonstration. People will be driving from as far away as Denver, Colorado - a 26 hour drive to DC.

The ANSWER Coalition initiated March 17 nationally; more than 1,500 groups and individuals including the AJLPP and its allied organizations like the DAMAYAhn, UGNAYAN , AJLLP-Seattle, KmB, Mindanao Bangsa Moro Caucus, Ecumenical Fellowship, Pesante-USA, FQSN, CDIR and JFAV have endorsed, including Cindy Sheehan, Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic, Academy Award-winning director Paul Haggis, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, United Teachers Los Angeles, Office of the Americas, Veterans for Peace, African Americans Against the War and many others.?

For more information about the March 17-18 antiwar mobilizations please contact Johneric Concordia@(247=4909 or Al P. Garcia@(213)241-0906.