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DESCRIPTION:http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/02/1572386.php\n\nAntiWarAction Call for 
 Unpermitted March on F16\n\nOn February 16, we march without a permit. The 
 U.S. does not have our permission to wage war on Iraq and we refuse to ask 
 for permission to protest.\n\nWe march in solidarity with the people in New 
 York City denied a permit for their February 15th anti-war protest. We 
 march in solidarity with people around the world who will protest in 
 defiance of established authorities. And we march in solidarity with all 
 those whose lives are threatened by U.S. economic and military 
 violence.\n\nJoin us as we assert our autonomy from the laws and lawmakers 
 that perpetuate war and poverty.\n\nConvergence begins at 2pm at Polk and 
 Grove (Southwest corner of the Civic Center Plaza).\nMarch will commence at 
 3 o?clock.\n\nBring out the noise!\nBring your voices, musical instruments, 
 drums, pots and pans, boomboxes and other noise-makers.\n\nBring out the 
 funk!\nBring your colors of choice, props, signs, flags, banners, and 
 anything else to creatively transform the city.\n\nBring out the spirit of 
 defiance!\nBring yourselves, bring your friends and bring your 
 energy.\n\nBring it 
 on!\n\n::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::\n\n\nWe 
 are out here like everyone else today to stop the war that been waged 
 against Iraq since 1991. We mourn the more than one million Iraqis already 
 murdered by economic sanctions alone, but we have no delusions that this is 
 an isolated problem. We understand these latest threats, from obliterating 
 Baghdad to deploying nuclear weapons, as part of a longer history of racist 
 and imperialist U.S. aggression. Recently, U.S. Special Forces have been 
 deployed to nearly 50 countries all over the globe, primarily in the global 
 south. Regardless of whether this war ever happens, the troops that have 
 already been deployed to the Middle East en masse have militarized the 
 region to levels that most of us cannot comprehend. Wars, occupations, and 
 conflicts around the world, from Afghanistan to Colombia to Palestine, are 
 being fueled with U.S. economic and military support. Meanwhile, the ?war 
 on terrorism? rhetoric has opened the doors for governments such as Israel 
 and Russia to further repress struggles for self-determination.\n\nWhile 
 the U.S. prepares to escalate its war on the world, it has already been 
 waging war against the people living within its own borders, and this too 
 is escalating under the name of the ?war on terrorism?. The recent wave of 
 INS round-ups and detentions targeting communities of South Asian and 
 Middle Eastern descent, and terrifying immigrants of all nationalities are 
 reminiscent of the U.S.?s internment camps for persons of Japanese descent 
 during WWII. Ashcroft has already drafted an even more sinister sequel to 
 the infamous PATRIOT Act, which would further expand the powers of policing 
 and surveillance, legitimize secret arrests, and, perhaps, make it possible 
 for the government to expatriate U.S. citizens for holding unpopular 
 political associations. The U.S. is openly preparing an all-out assault on 
 our basic freedoms.\n\nWe must not fall into the trap that the Bush 
 Administration has laid for us by focusing all of our energy on ?anti-war? 
 organizing, ignoring the brutality and violence our communities face on a 
 daily basis. While budgets for the military, prisons, policing, national 
 security and other armed forces soar, the rich are getting fat tax cuts. 
 Meanwhile, even the most basic provisions for social welfare are abandoned. 
 Those of us fortunate enough to have jobs or homes face lay-offs and 
 evictions. Poor neighborhoods and communities of color live under 
 persistent and brutal police occupation. Disgustingly, it is precisely the 
 people already suffering the most from poverty and racism that will bear 
 the burden of the costs for this war. Under the lie of ?Care not Cash?, San 
 Francisco recently adopted laws to further criminalize homelessness, and 
 now the city of Oakland threatens to lay-off 20% of public school teachers 
 and close nine public libraries. Every decision this government makes is an 
 attack on the working and non-working poor. Every decision this government 
 makes consolidates power and wealth for the rich, the corporations, for 
 multinational capital. And some are still audacious enough to call this 
 democracy.\n\nThe current crisis only shows how little control we have over 
 our own conditions of existence.\n\nWe refuse to grovel for an end to war. 
 We refuse to continue to merely beg for more money for homes, health care, 
 jobs, schools and the means to guarantee the most basic of human needs. We 
 refuse to plead with politicians who squander the resources that our work 
 generates on weapons and handouts to the rich. We refuse to wait for 
 enlightened and compassionate leaders. We must lead ourselves.\n\nWe demand 
 dignity and freedom for all. We must take the responsibility to organize 
 ourselves and to take control over our own lives.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/15973.php
SUMMARY:AntiWarAction
LOCATION:Grove St. and Polk St.\nSW corner of Civic Center Plaza\nGather at 2, Leave 
 at 3 pm
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