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DESCRIPTION:Bay Area United Against War Meeting\nMonday, January 14, 2008 at 7PM\n474 
 Valencia St. #145, San Francisco\n(To the left and all the way to the rear 
 of the building then turn right.)\n\nAs the U.S. government continues to 
 kill thousands and thousands of\nIraqi and Afghani people, and the 
 politicians continue to vote for war\nfunding while pretending to be 
 against the war, some very serious\ndemobilizing events have transpired in 
 the national antiwar movement.\n\nAt the Oct. 27 Coalition meeting Sunday, 
 January 6, there was\ndiscussion of efforts of the government to destroy 
 the anti-war\nmovement by utilizing the military groups to prevent\nactions 
 that significantly challenge the war and the right of the\nUnited States to 
 intervene anywhere in the world.\n\nSpecifically, the IVAW is exerting 
 pressure on the larger antiwar\nmovement not to hold any national mass 
 mobilizations against the war\nduring their "Winter Soldier" hearings, 
 March 13-16, 2008. They are\nputting a stranglehold on the larger antiwar 
 movements' rights to\nprotest the war in their own way.\n\nWe applaud those 
 veterans who will expose the crimes they have\ncommitted against the people 
 of Iraq and Afghanistan and the continued\nbrutality of the escalated war 
 efforts by the U.S. government. These\nhearings, exposing the brutality of 
 the U.S. Government's war can help\nto dissuade young people from joining 
 the U.S. military. But, we\nobject to any segment of the antiwar movement 
 demanding or pressuring\nothers to do as they say and place one activity 
 over that of other\nactivities, including antiwar protests.\n\nFor all 
 these reasons, we are calling for a meeting of the Bay Area\nUnited Against 
 the War on Monday, January 14, 7:00 P.M. to discuss how\nwe can redouble 
 our efforts against the war.\n\nWe are reprinting below the UK Call to 
 Action March 15; a letter by\nTiffany Burns, which has been circulating and 
 is self-explanatory; and\ntwo IVAW letters to the antiwar movement; which 
 will shed light on the\ncurrent situation in the antiwar 
 movement—especially for those who\nwere not at the Oct. 27 Coalition 
 meeting. (Which was, by the way, the\nlast and final meeting of the 
 coalition.)\n\nIn solidarity,\n\nCristina Gutierrez\n\nCarole 
 Seligman\n\nBonnie Weinstein\n\n 
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