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DESCRIPTION:First March 20 Coalition Meeting - Stop the Expanding U.S. War!\nAll 
 anti-war organizations and individuals welcome.\n\nU.S. Out of Afghanistan 
 and Iraq Now!\nFree Palestine!\nMoney for health care, jobs and 
 education!\nU.S. Hands Off Latin America\n\nMass Marches and Rallies 
 Planned in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco \n\nJoin us for the 
 first meeting of the Bay Area March 20 Coalition. March 20 will mark the 
 7th anniversary of the criminal invasion and occupation of Iraq. The Obama 
 administration and the Pentagon are escalating the wars in Afghanistan and 
 Pakistan, and extending their aggression into Yemen and Somalia. The brutal 
 Israeli colonial occupation of Palestine continues, fully backed by 
 Washington. At the same time, U.S. intervention against the progressive 
 governments in Latin America is intensifying.\n\nWhile students in 
 California are facing a 32% tuition hike (which will prevent hundreds of 
 thousands of working class and poor students from going to college), and we 
 are told that there is no money for true health care reform, the real 
 Pentagon budget for next year will be over $1.4 trillion! \nA year ago, 
 millions of people celebrated the end of both the Bush administration and 
 the 220-year streak of exclusively well-to-do white males allowed to occupy 
 the highest office. But what the last year has reaffirmed is that a change 
 of top officials alone cannot and will not bring the change we really need. 
 That can only be accomplished by a powerful movement of the people.\n\nJoin 
 us--now is the time to take action! At the Sat. Jan. 9 meeting we will be 
 discussing how to get the largest possible number of people into the 
 streets on March 20. We will also hear about plans for the statewide (and 
 possibly national) student strike and day of action planned for March 
 4.\n\nFollowing is a partial list of endorsers of the March 20 mass marches 
 and rallies: ANSWER Coalition; Muslim American Society Freedom; National 
 Council of Arab Americans; Cynthia McKinney; Malik Rahim, co-founder of 
 Common Ground Collective; Ramsey Clark; Cindy Sheehan; Medea Benjamin, 
 co-founder of CODEPINK; Debra Sweet, Director, World Can't Wait; Mike 
 Ferner, President, Veterans for Peace; Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to 
 Return Coalition; Heidi Boghosian, Executive Director, National Lawyers 
 Guild; Ron Kovic, author of "Born on the 4th of July"; Juan Jose Gutierrez, 
 Director, Latino Movement USA; Col. Ann Wright (ret.); March Forward!; 
 Partnership for Civil Justice; U.S. Labor Against War; Palestinian American 
 Women Association; MANA - Muslim Alliance in North America; Alliance for a 
 Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines; National Assembly to End the 
 Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and Occupations; Alliance for Global Justice; 
 Claudia de la Cruz, Pastor, Iglesia San Romero de Las Americas-UCC; Phil 
 Portluck, Social Justice Ministry, Covenant Baptist Church, D.C.; Blase & 
 Theresa Bonpane, Office of the Americas; Coalition for Peace and Democracy 
 in Honduras; Comite Pro-Democracia en Mexico; Frente Unido de los Pueblos 
 Americanos; Comites de Base FMLN, Los Angeles; Free Palestine Alliance; 
 GABRIELA Network; Justice for Filipino American Veterans; KmB Pro-People 
 Youth; Students Fight Back; Jim Lafferty, Executive Director, National 
 Lawyers Guild - LA Chapter; LEF Foundation; National Coalition to Free the 
 Angola 3; Community Futures Collective; Advocates for Indigenous California 
 Language Survival; Compañeros del Barrio; Barrio Unido for Full and 
 Unconditional Amnesty; Michael Berg; Action Center for Justice - Charlotte, 
 NC; Bay Area United Against War; Casa las Américas; Community Organizing 
 Center, Columbus, Ohio; CT-SAW (Connecticut Students Against the War) ; 
 Delaware Valley Veterans for America; Arab American Union Members Council; 
 Hawai'i Solidarity Committee; Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination; 
 Texans for Peace; and many more.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/01/06/18634529.php
SUMMARY:March 20 Anti-War Protest Organizing Meeting - Stop the Expanding U.S. War!
LOCATION:Centro del Pueblo, 474 Valencia St., SF (near 16th St)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/01/06/18634529.php
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