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DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n**Please circulate widely**\nU.S. Out of Iraq Now! We Are the 
 Majority!End Colonial Occupation from Iraq, to Palestine, Haiti, and 
 Everywhere!\nOctober 28 National Day of ActionLocally Coordinated Anti-War 
 Protests from Coast to Coast \nVote With Your Feet  and Your Voices, and 
 Banners, and Signs!Let Every Politician Feel the Power of the 
 People! \nThe people of this country should have the right to vote on the 
 continuation of the war against Iraq. If this was a government of, by and 
 for the people, the November 2006 election would be a referendum on Iraq. 
 The popular will of the people is to end the war against Iraq. But the 
 question of Iraq is not on the ballot. Most people will only have the 
 chance to vote for politicians from one of the Twin Parties of 
 Militarism. Neither represent the sentiment of the people who favor the 
 immediate end to a criminal enterprise the selling of which has been based 
 on lie, after lie, after lie. \nIraq is bleeding.  Hundreds of thousands 
 of people have died. U.S. soldiers are killing and being killed in a war of 
 aggression, and taxpayers are spending $2 billion each week for a repeat of 
 Vietnam.  \nThe White House and the Pentagon have created a death-squad 
 government in Baghdad that is modeled on the Salvadoran Option of the 
 1980s whereby the U.S. government employed military and police death 
 squads to quell a popular insurgency or resistance movement. \nThe people 
 of this country are confronted with a choice in the face of this criminal 
 exercise in imperialism. What shall we do in a situation where the majority 
 sentiment favors an immediate end to the war but this sentiment has no real 
 voice within the established political system?\nThe A.N.S.W.E.R. 
 Coalition has initiated a call for locally coordinated protests on 
 Saturday, October 28th, just days before the pitiful charade known as the 
 2006 mid-term elections. The people will force the issue of the Iraq war 
 onto the U.S. political stage by taking to streets in demonstrations in 
 cities and towns throughout the United States. Tens of thousands of people 
 will take to the streets in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, 
 New York, Miami, Washington D.C. and in other large and small cities and 
 towns throughout the United States. \n\nFrom Iraq to Palestine and 
 Everywhere -- One War, Many Fronts\n\n\n\n\n\nTake Action!\nSupport the 
 October 28 Call to Action!\nClick here to endorse\nClick here to tell us 
 about an Oct. 28 activity you're planning\nClick here to donateThe war in 
 Iraq is part of a region-wide strategy in the Middle East. The bankrolling 
 of Israels escalating war against the Palestinian people is a central 
 component of this strategy. The war against Palestine, including 
 economic strangulation, bombings and assassinations, is paid for by 
 the U.S. It is central to the aim of re-organizing the Middle East and to 
 make it an outpost of U.S. neo-colonial domination and a giant forward-base 
 area threatening the people of East Asia and South Asia and Africa. The 
 threats against Iran and Syria must be understood in this context. So too 
 should the widening war and occupation in Afghanistan.  \nWe reject the 
 call from the so-called opposition in Congress that calls for a strategic 
 redeployment from Iraq and the placement of the divisions now deployed in 
 Iraq into nearby locations and bases so that they can be used against other 
 peoples in the Middle East. That is not a peace platform but a tweaking 
 of imperialist military strategy. \nWe are building a global movement that 
 unites rather than excludes all those who are resisting occupation and the 
 threat of US military intervention. \nThe October 28 National Day of 
 Action will also connect the Iraq war to Bushs illegal overthrow of\nthe 
 government of Haiti and the continued occupation of that country. U.S. 
 foreign policy is a\nbi-partisan program for aggression and threats against 
 Cuba and Venezuela and intervention in the Philippines and the Sudan.\nThe 
 People Can End the War!\nThe bloodbath in Vietnam only ended because of the 
 resistance of the people. In Vietnam the majority of the people supported 
 those carrying out military resistance to the foreign military invaders. In 
 the United States, the people built a wide-reaching movement that spread 
 everywhere, grew in militancy and included tens of thousands of rank and 
 file soldiers who were sick and tired of being ordered to kill and be 
 killed in a racist, imperialist adventure. \nThe war abroad is also 
 connected to the ongoing class war at home. The corporations and banks are 
 on a rampage. Working class people in this country are suffering from huge 
 layoffs, low wages, the destruction of pensions, and the slashing of 
 traditional job benefits, especially health care coverage. Young people - 
 who are taught that hard work conquers all - instead face massive 
 education cuts that make their goals increasingly difficult to achieve. 
 \nAt the same time as torture centers have been set up at Guantanamo Bay, 
 Abu Ghraib and many secret locations around the world, prisons are being 
 constructed at a record pace here. Prisons and jails are constructed at a 
 record pace as a new form of social warehousing and punishment for working 
 class youth who are aggressively recruited not for higher education and 
 skilled jobs but to serve as foot soldiers in the imperial army. 
 \nInstitutionalized racism is taking a devastating toll as poverty mounts 
 in African-American, Latino and Native American communities. Hurricane 
 Katrina proved that the rich will use even the most devastating natural 
 disaster to intensify, not lessen, their assault on the people. And yet 
 working class communities are fighting back. As the recent mass 
 demonstrations for immigrant rights prove, millions of people are ready to 
 take to the streets and struggle for justice. The movement for justice at 
 home and in opposition to war and militarism are becoming one united 
 struggle. Millions of people in the U.S. have fought against the war in 
 Iraq since before the invasion started. Now we can mobilize from the 
 millions more who have turned against the war and are sick and tired of the 
 governments lies and deceit. Everyone must make the effort to reach out to 
 their friends and neighbors and bring new people out into the streets.  
 \nAll out for October 28 National Day of Action! Organize demonstrations, 
 rallies, teach-ins, picket lines throughout every community in the United 
 States. \nTo become an endorser of the October 28 National Day of Action 
 click here. \nClick here to tell us about an Oct. 28 activity you're 
 planning\nClick here to donate\nFor more information, go to 
 http://www.answercoalition.org/.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/06/22/18282045.php
SUMMARY:A Call to Action: October 28 Locally Coordinated Antiwar Activities
LOCATION:Locally Coordinated Antiwar Activities
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/06/22/18282045.php
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