BECOME AN ORGANIZER FOR THE APRIL 27 NATIONAL MARCH ON
WASHINGTON!

APRIL 27 CALL TO ACTION, point your browser to
http://www.internationalanswer.org/news/update/
042702dccall.html

Organize BUSES, VANS & CAR CARAVANS from your area to come
to Washington DC on April 27. Get in touch with
A.N.S.W.E.R. for resources and logistical information.

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ADDITIONAL UPCOMING EVENT: On February 23, A.N.S.W.E.R.
will hold a mass indoor meeting for Peace with Justice for
the People of Palestine and Iraq at the Great Hall of
Cooper Union in New York City; similar events will take
place March 2 in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Speakers
traveling to the U.S. for the program include Mohammed
Kanana, General Secretary, Abna al-Balad (Palestinian
organization inside 1948 Israel) and Omar Nazzal, Founder
& Director, Al-Wattan TV, Ramallah, Palestine. Tickets are
still available but going quickly. This event assumes
additional significance because of the recent
pronouncements of George W. Bush and other leading members
of his administration that the U.S. is committed to
expanding the so-called war on terrorism to Iraq under the
broad rubric of “regime change.

WHY WE ARE ORGANIZING THE APRIL 27 NATIONAL MARCH ON
WASHINGTON?

On January 2, the A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition's
nationally-televised press conference sent a clear, bold
message: It is only the movement of the
people--manifesting itself in the streets--that can turn
the reactionary tide of the Bush Administration and
corporate ruling elites. That day, a broad representation
of organizations and activists that have campaigned
against U.S. intervention in Latin America, the Caribbean,
the Middle East and Asia, and organizations that have
campaigned for social and economic justice for poor people
and civil rights inside the United States, announced that
on April 27, thousands of anti-war activists, workers,
students, labor unionists and others would converge in
Washington DC for a massive march on the White House to
say:

* MONEY FOR JOBS AND EDUCATION NOT WAR!
* STOP THE RACIST ATTACKS!
* DEFEND CIVIL LIBERTIES AND CIVIL RIGHTS!

We are happy to announce that the Washington DC-based
organization Black Voices for Peace has endorsed the April
27 demonstration and are making preparations for a feeder
march that will join the main assembly at the White House.

The Bush administration has made a calculated effort to
stimulate extreme patriotism, national chauvinism, flag
waving and "national unity" in order to camouflage the
true character of the war abroad and at home. They have
replaced the slogans of the Cold War, namely the "fight
against communism," with the new slogan of the "war
against terrorism." The promotion of "Americanism" has
attained the status of a semi-official religion.

Many people of courage have seen through and rejected
these efforts to silence or co-opt them with the use of
nationalistic fervor and labels like “un-American.