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Momentum Building for Mass Marches To Bring the Troops Home — Washington DC and San Francisco
Saturday,
October 25
In San Francisco:
11 a.m. Gather Civic Center (Grove and Larkin, Civic Center BART)
12 noon March
1 p.m. Rally at Jefferson Square Park
On Saturday, October 25, thousands will demand: "Bring the Troops Home Now! End the Occupation! Repeal the Patriot Act! $87 Billion for Jobs, Healthcare & Education, Not for War & Occupation!" at national demonstrations in Washington, DC and San Francisco.
San Francisco will be the West Coast march on October 25. Buses and vans are being organized from Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara and as far away as Seattle, Washington and Tucson, Arizona. The S.F. march is being co-sponsored by the Not In Our Name Project, Bay Area United Against War, Vanguard Foundation and ANSWER, and has been endorsed by hundreds of organizations and individuals, including Bay Area United for Peace & Justice, the San Francisco Labor Council, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Ramsey Clark, Veterans for Peace, and many others.
Speakers
and performers will include:
Hon. Cynthia McKinney, former Congresswoman
Fernando Suarez del Solar, father of Marine killed in Iraq
Ron Kovic, Vietnam veteran and author of "Born on the Fourth of July"
Rock band Los Mocosos and others
President Bush wants $87 billion more for war in Iraq and Afghanistan.That’s $238 million per day or $10 million every hour! Remember these numbers when they say there is no money for education and healthcare and libraries, firehouses, childcare or other vital social services.
Download a flyer, stop by the A.N.S.W.E.R. office at 2489 Mission St., Rm. 24 (near 21st St.) in San Francisco, or call 415-821-6545 to have flyers sent to you by mail.
Oct 25 Full-Page Flyer PDF Oct 25 Half-Page Flyer PDF Oct 25 Poster PDF
Regional Organizing Centers for October 25
Info on Washington DC march: www.InternationalANSWER.org
Actually most of that $87 billion is earmarked for education and healthcare, firehouses and police stations as well as vital social services. For the Iraqi people. But hey, who gives a fuck about them when you can promote your own agenda and do some good old America bashing to boot?
87 billion for restoration of services and education for two countries sounds fairly reasonable.
The capitalists are demanding that $87 billion go to Iraq. This money will be going to prop up the US/UK colonial adminstration. It a few hospitals and power plants are built, that is a secondary consideration.
Once Iraq is free of all foreign troops and its own independent, sovereign government is called, it should demand and receive war reparations for the invasion and occupation from the US and UK.
$66.7 billion for military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq;
$800 million for rebuilding Afghanistan
$19.5 billion for rebuilding Iraq.
Most of the "rebuilding" money will end up in the pockets of Halliburton, Bechtel and other U.S.-based corporations who often charge 100 times what Iraqi contractors could do the same work for.
Rumsfeld's $9 Billion Slush Fund
By Fred Kaplan
Posted Friday, October 10, 2003, at 2:42 PM PT
For all the debate over President Bush's $87 billion supplemental request for military operations and economic reconstruction in Afghanistan and Iraq, no one seems to have noticed that the sum includes a slush fund of at least $9.3 billion, which Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld can spend pretty much as he pleases.
For complete article:
http://slate.msn.com/id/2089674/
Within the article is a link to a copy of the actual 58 page supplemental appropriations request:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/budget/fy2004/omb/supplemental_9_17_03.pdf
Remember - "No Blood for Oil"?
"Iraq has the world’s second largest proven oil reserves. According to oil industry experts, new exploration will probably raise Iraq’s reserves to 2-300 billion barrels of high-grade crude, extraordinarily cheap to produce, leading to a gold-rush of profits for international oil firms in a post-Saddam setting. The four giant firms located in the US and the UK have been keen to get back into Iraq, from which they were excluded with the nationalization of 1972. They face companies from France, Russia, China, Japan and elsewhere, who already have major concessions. But in a post-war military governments, imposed by Washington, the US-UK companies expect to overcome their rivals and gain the most lucrative oil deals that will be worth hundreds of billions, even trillions of dollars in profits in the coming decades."
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/oil/irqindx.htm
Project Underground is a great informational resource. Their mission statement: "...exists as a vehicle for the environmental, human rights and indigenous rights movements to carry out focused campaigns against abusive extractive resource activity. We seek to systematically deal with the problems created by the mining and oil industries by exposing environmental and human rights abuses by the corporations involved in these sectors and by building capacity amongst communities facing mineral and energy development to achieve economic and environmental justice.
In general we work to provide informational, technical, legal and scientific support to communities facing oil, gas and mining operations; as well as to campaign in support of communities adversely affected by these industries."
http://www.moles.org/
Pipeline Politics- Nine Controversial Pipeline Projects:
http://www.moles.org/ProjectUnderground/news/pipeline000804.html
THEY CAN PAY US OFF IN OIL OR MONEY FROM OIL
ETHER WAY WE NEED TO COLLECT THE MONEY WE SPENT ON THEM!
You are a complete moron. Have you been living under a rock for the past few years?
RICH AMERICANS KNOW MORE ABOUT IRAQ, THEN THE DUMB IRAQIS WHO WANT US TO STAY
We must save the lives of hundred white people, don't worry about the 25 million Arabs they are not humans!
NO AID TO ARABS, ALL MONEY FOR WHITE PEOPLE!
I have no idea why the rest of the world hate us?
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