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Title: Next Month: The Third Anniversary of the War and Occupation of Iraq. March 18 & 19 - International Days of Action Against the War
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Axis of Logic
URL Source: http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_21076.shtml
Published: Feb 18, 2006
Author: Axis of Logic
Post Date: 2006-02-18 17:03:04 by robin
Keywords: International, Anniversary, Occupation
Views: 94
Comments: 5
Antiwar Movement From the Editors WORDS! WORDS! WORDS! IN THE ALTERNATIVE MEDIA WE TALK, WRITE, EDIT AND PUBLISH AGAINST THE WAR IN IRAQ EVERY DAY. BUT WORDS ARE NOT ENOUGH! THOSE WHO WRITE AND TALK, ALSO HAVE AN RESPONSIBILITY TO ACT. THE MOST IMPORTANT ACTION YOU CAN TAKE NEXT MONTH WILL BE TO JOIN THE INTERNATIONAL PROTESTS AGAINST THE WAR IN IRAQ! THERE IS NOTHING MORE THREATENING TO OUR COMMON ENEMY THAN THE WELL-ORGANIZED, NON-VIOLENT MARCH IN POWERFUL NUMBERS AGAINST THEM AND THEIR AGENDA. IF THE PEOPLE OF IRAQ CAN GIVE SO MUCH TO STAND UP AGAINST THESE LORDS OF WAR - SURELY WE CAN GIVE 2 DAYS OF OUR TIME IN THE SAFETY OF NUMBERS - WITH OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS - TO DEMAND THEY STAND DOWN AND BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW. FIRST-TIMERS! IF YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN TO AN ANTI-WAR PROTEST BEFORE, COME JOIN US ON THE STREET AND STAND UP FOR THE TRUTH YOU KNOW! EXPERIENCE THE POWER OF STANDING SHOULDER TO SHOULDER IN SOLIDARITY WITH THOSE OF LIKE-MIND. SEASONED ACTIVISTS! THOSE OF YOU WHO IN THE PAST HAVE MARCHED WITH US - WE NEED YOU ON THIS ONE! BRING SOMEONE NEW WITH YOU! SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, MARCH 18 & 19 IN THE UNITED STATES: JOIN US IN A CITY NEAR YOU. TROOPS OUT NOW HAVE DONE A FANTASTIC JOB OF ORGANIZING THESE PROTESTS - COAST TO COAST. AROUND THE WORLD: PEOPLE ARE BEING MOBILIZED IN EVERY MAJOR CITY AROUND THE WORLD TO DEMAND THE UNITED STATES AND BRITISH GOVERNMENTS WITHDRAW THEIR TROOPS FROM IRAQ NOW! PLEASE JOIN THEM!! IN THE TROOPS OUT NOW ANNOUNCEMENT PROVIDED BELOW - SEE HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE AND HELP! - AXIS OF LOGIC EDITORIAL BOARD On the Third Anniversary of the War and Occupation of Iraq
Next Month: The Third Anniversary of the War and Occupation of Iraq. March 18 & 19 - International Days of Action Against the War
By Call to Action!
Feb 25, 2006, 23:37
ON THE THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF THE INVASION OF IRAQ
Let's Unite and Shut Down the Recruiters from Coast to Coast 
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New York - Boston - Washington DC - Los Angeles -
Baltimore - Detroit - San Francisco - Atlanta - Denver -
Mass March/Convergence on Times Square Recruiting Station, NYC
- and dozens of cities across the country
This Year - Keep the Heat in the Street!
March 18 & 19, 2006 will mark the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. The Troops Out Now Coalition calls on the entire antiwar community at the local and national level to rise above anything that would hinder the unity that the world and history demands of us. Together we must grasp the opportunity to help transform the turning tide against the war into a human tidal wave of antiwar resistance in the streets.
On the weekend of March 18 & 19, TONC joins with all who are calling for coordinated mass actions coast to coast and around the world. TONC proposes that the movement jointly target military recruiting stations all across the country on this weekend with coordinated protests, especially neighborhood recruiting stations in poor communities and communities of color. We can shut the war down, and the way to start is by shutting down military recruiting.
In the New York City region we call on activists to protest in the morning at the recruiting office on 125th Street in Harlem as well as other neighborhood recruiting offices.
Donate to help mobilize for March 18 & 19
In the afternoon we urge everyone to converge on Times Square, where the best known recruiting station in the country is located, for a massive rally to shut down the recruiting station and the entire area.
TONC offers the following points reflecting our perspective as we open the new year of struggle against the war:
* If we learned anything from the 2004 presidential elections, it is that we must not demobilize and retreat from the streets in order to pour all of our energy into the congressional elections next fall. The antiwar movement must never again allow itself to be misled into becoming an appendage of either corporate political party. Our growth, our independence, our visibility, our effectiveness, power and very existence depend on the antiwar movement making the streets the central battlefield in the struggle to stop the war.
* We urge the entire movement to demand an end to colonial occupations, not only in Iraq, but in Afghanistan, Palestine, and Haiti, and in every part of the world where people are resisting occupation, intervention, colonialism and neo colonialism. The strength of the resistance in Iraq, the results of the recent Palestinian elections, and the virtual regionwide rebellion against U.S. imperialism in Latin America and the Caribbean, are only the latest reminder that every front in the struggle against colonial occupation and empire are interconnected. The growing threat of economic and military attacks on Iran are another reminder. The more that the antiwar movement here solidarizes itself with these fronts, the more our movement will be viewed as independent, vital and a relevant part of a larger world struggle against war and imperialism.
* On the home front, our challenge as a movement is to fully embrace the struggle of poor and working people, and the struggle against racism in particular. No sector of the population is more antiwar than the Katrina evacuees, or immigrant workers, or transit workers, etc. The best way to facilitate the active participation of working and poor people is for us to find meaningful ways of solidarizing the anti-war movement with their daily struggles.
What you can do to help build March 18:
- Endorse - Add your name to the growing list of hundreds of endorsers who say "Troops Out Now!
- Donate - Help us with the massive costs of mobilizing coast to coast -- sound and stage, printing tens of thousands of leaflets, organizing buses, and much move.
- List Your Local Activity 
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#2. To: robin (#0)
There's nothing more amusing than people who think the elites worry about what the proles think. If these marches were any threat what-so-ever, they would have gotten the "Tblisi treatment" a long time ago.
The protests of the Vietnam War were said to have been effective at the time.
Yes, it only took them over a decade (62-73) to bring about change. Even then the protests only packed any real fury during the draft. Something the neocons have been wise to avoid. Can the US afford another 5, 7, or even 10 years of war while we wait for peaceful political pressure to bare fruit? IMHO, not a 5 billion a month, we can't.
Can the US afford another 5, 7, or even 10 years of war while we wait for peaceful political pressure to bare fruit? IMHO, not a 5 billion a month, we can't. True, the big marches/protests weren't going until the late 60s. All the more reason to become twice as active. Perhaps the most significant development of the period between 1965 and 1968 was the emergence of Civil Rights leaders as active proponents of peace in Vietnam. In a January 1967 article written for the Chicago Defender, Martin Luther King, Jr. openly expressed support for the antiwar movement on moral grounds. Reverend King expanded on his views in April at the Riverside Church in New York, asserting that the war was draining much-needed resources from domestic programs. He also voiced concern about the percentage of African American casualties in relation to the total population. King's statements rallied African American activists to the antiwar cause and established a new dimension to the moral objections of the movement. The peaceful phase of the antiwar movement had reached maturity as the entire nation was now aware that the foundations of administration foreign policy were being widely questioned.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestTHERE IS NOTHING MORE THREATENING TO OUR COMMON ENEMY THAN THE WELL-ORGANIZED, NON-VIOLENT MARCH IN POWERFUL NUMBERS AGAINST THEM AND THEIR AGENDA.
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#4. To: robin (#3)
The protests of the Vietnam War were said to have been effective at the time.
#5. To: Pissed Off Janitor (#4)
Yes, it only took them over a decade (62-73) to bring about change. Even then the protests only packed any real fury during the draft. Something the neocons have been wise to avoid.
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