Subject:  Peace Rally October 26th |
Author:
Tim Stasevich
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Date Posted: 15:43:31 10/08/02 Tue
THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT'S RESPONSE TO TONIGHT'S
TELEVISED SPEECH BY GEORGE BUSH:
Here's a message I received today. I thought I'd pass it on...
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS WILL MARCH AGAINST WAR WITH IRAQ
ON OCTOBER 26 IN WASHINGTON D.C., SAN FRANCISCO &
CITIES AROUND THE WORLD
Make no mistake about it, the Bush administration has
taken a giant step towards war with tonight's
televised address to the country.
For months Bush has presented an ever-changing set of
rationales for war with Iraq, switching from one to
another when the falsity of the argument becomes too
obvious. Tonight Bush simply strung all these lies
together into an argument for a war that is becoming
increasingly unpopular.
It would be the height of folly to take seriously
Bush's assertion that a U.S. war against Iraq is an
option of last resort or that he is a "patient man."
Bush is simply trying to put a new public relations
face on his plan for unprovoked war against Iraq -- a
country that poses absolutely no threat to the
security of the United States or the people of the
United States.
U.S. warplanes bomb Iraq almost every day. Iraq has
not bombed the United States. Bush and his team of
ultra-militarists and hawks have created an "Alice in
Wonderland" version of reality. Seeking to establish
that the coming war is a "just war," Bush tonight
continued his strategy of generating a hysteria around
the so-called threat posed by Iraq's potential for
developing chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.
The problems Bush's speech sought to address is the
widespread opposition that exists among the American
people to his war plans. Now what was previously
sentiment against war is becoming mass action, with
tens of thousands of people across the country
demonstrating against the war in rapidly increasing
numbers.
As Washington prepares to spend 100 to 200 billion
dollars on war, with 40 million people without
healthcare, rising homelessness and mass layoffs, a
movement is growing that is determined to prevent
young people from the U.S. to be sent overseas to kill
and be killed in a war for oil profits.
The true goal of the Bush administration's war is the
establishment of corporate and banking domination over
Iraq's 100 billion barrels of oil reserves, the
second-largest in the world. Posing no obstacle to
these plans, Congress is poised to rubberstamp this
war, despite the fact that their own constituents are
against it and are calling their offices to say so. If
this war is going to be stopped, it will be by the
mass movement of people in the streets, already
growing larger by the day, who want money spent on
human needs and jobs, not war.
On October 26, hundreds of thousands of people will
march against a new war against Iraq in Washington
D.C., San Francisco and cities around the world --
including Mexico, Japan, Spain, Germany, South Korea,
Belgium and Australia -- under the banner Stop the War
Before It Starts. The Washington D.C. demonstration
will start at 11 a.m. at Constitution Gardens adjacent
to the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial (21st St. and
Constitution Ave. NW).
The momentum in the U.S. against war has increased
dramatically, and is expected to grow larger in the
weeks leading up to the October 26 National March on
Washington. Tens of thousands protested war with Iraq
Sunday in mass demonstrations in New York, Portland,
San Francisco and other cities, in demonstrations
called by the Not In Our Name Coalition. The next step
for the anti-war movement will be the national
mobilization focused on October 26.
Speakers and participants of the October 26 rally will
include Reverend Jesse Jackson, who has been promoting
the demonstration in speaking engagements around the
country; former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark;
Representative Cynthia McKinney; Reverend Al Sharpton;
Bishop Thomas Gumbleton; Mahdi Bray, Muslim American
Society Freedom Foundation; and others who have added
themselves to a growing endorsers' list of over 3,000.
Organizers of the March on Washington say momentum for
this demonstration has already surpassed that of the
100,000-person march they organized in April in
support of Palestine -- as well as any previous
anti-war mobilization.
For a Partial List of Endorsers, see
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/o26/endorsers.html
To endorse, go to
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/o26/o26endorse.html#endo
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