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| National March on Washington on Saturday, March 20 |
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People from all over the country are organizing to converge on Washington, D.C., to demand the immediate and unconditional withdrawalof all U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan and Iraq.
We will march together to say “No Colonial-type Wars and Occupations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine!" We will march together to say "No War Against Iran!” We will march together to say “No War for Empire Anywhere!”
Thisis the time for united action. The slogans on banners may differ, butall those who carry them should be marching shoulder to shoulder. Click here to become an endorser. Killing and dying to avoid the perception of defeat Bushis gone, but the war and occupation in Iraq still go on. The Pentagonis demanding a widening of the war in Afghanistan. They project anendless war with shifting battlefields. And a “single-payer” war budgetthat only grows larger and larger each year. We must act. Boththe Iraq and Afghanistan wars were predicated on the imperial fantasythat the U.S. could create stable, proxy colonial-type governments inboth countries. They were to serve as an extension of “American” powerin these strategic and resource-rich regions. Thatfantasy has been destroyed. Now U.S. troops are being sent to kill orbe killed so that the politicians in uniform ("the generals andadmirals") and those in three-piece suits ("our elected officials") canavoid taking responsibility for a military setback in wars that shouldhave never been started. Their military ambitions are now reduced toavoiding the appearance of defeat. That is exactlywhat happened in Vietnam! Avoiding defeat, or the perception of defeat,was the goal Nixon and Kissinger set for themselves when they tookoffice in 1969. For this noble cause, another 30,000 young GIs perishedbefore the inevitable troop pullout from Vietnam in 1973. The number ofVietnamese killed between 1969 and 1973 was greater by many hundreds ofthousands. All of us can make the difference — progress and change comes from the streetsand from the grassroots. Thepeople went to the polls in 2008, and the enthusiasm and desire forchange after eight years of the Bush regime was the dominant cause thatled to election of a big Democratic Party majority in both Houses ofCongress and the election of Barack Obama to the White House. Butit should now be obvious to all that waiting for politicians to bringreal change — on any front — is simply a prescription for passivity byprogressives and an invitation to the array of corporate interests frommilitary contractors to the banks, to big oil, to the health insurancegiants that dominate the political life of the country. These corporateinterests work around the clock to frustrate efforts for real change,and they are the guiding hand behind the recent street mobilizations ofthe ultra-right. It is up to us to act. If people had waitedfor politicians to do the right thing, there would have never been aCivil Rights Act, or unions, women’s rights, an end to the Vietnam waror any of the profound social achievements and basic rights that peoplecherish. It is time to be back in the streets. Organizing centers are being set up in cities and towns throughout the country. We must raise $50,000 immediately just to get started. Please make your contribution today.We need to reserve buses, which are expensive ($1,800 from NYC, $5,000from Chicago, etc.). We have to print 100,000 leaflets, posters andstickers. There will be other substantial expenses as March 20 drawscloser.
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