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DESCRIPTION:Organizing Meeting for March 20 Anti-War Protest - 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!\nHaiti Needs Aid, Not 
 Occupation!\n\nMass Marches and Rallies Planned in Washington, D.C., Los 
 Angeles, San Francisco \n\nThe first meeting of the March 20 Coalition 
 meeting on Jan. 9 was attended by 85-90 people, including representatives 
 of more than 35 labor, student, community, religious and political 
 organizations. The meeting unanimously approved a plan for the event to 
 begin and end at the Civic Center and to march to some of the downtown area 
 hotels that are being boycotted in solidarity with the Local 2 workers who 
 are fighting for a new contract with their health benefits intact. 
 \n\nPeople from the following organizations participated in the meeting: 
 FMLN—Northern Calif., Bay Area Latin America Solidarity Coalition, Party 
 for Socialism and Liberation, Vets for Peace, March Forward!, World Can’t 
 Wait, National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, Grey Panthers, San Jose 
 Peace & Justice Center, South Bay ANSWER, Woodside High School, National 
 Assembly to End the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and Occupations, Military Out 
 of Our Schools, Notre Dame High School, Single Payer Healthcare Now, Unite 
 Here Local 2, Socialist Action, Barrio Unido, Code Pink, Youth & Student 
 ANSWER, Labor Committee for Peace and Justice, Socialist Viewpoint, Walnut 
 Creek High School, Bay Area United Against War, Carlos Alvarez for Governor 
 Campaign, ILWU Local 10, Peace and Freedom Party, Unitarian Church, Bayan 
 USA, ANSWER Coalition, Local 510, Alliance for Just and Lasting Peace in 
 the Philippines, Revolutionary Workers Group, Al-Awda - Palestine Right of 
 Return Coalition, Senior Action Network, and AFT 1481.\n\nThe coalition 
 formed working committees, the largest of which is Youth & Student 
 Outreach. Students from several colleges and high schools are working to 
 coordinate March 20 outreach along with the organizing for the March 4 
 National Day of Action against cutbacks and tuition/fee hikes. \n\nThe Feb. 
 6 meeting is planned to be relatively brief, followed by mass outreach. All 
 anti-war individuals and organizations are welcome to attend.\n\nJoin us 
 for the second 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 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/01/19/18635684.php
SUMMARY:Organizing Meeting & Outreach for Mar. 20 Anti-War Protest - Stop the Expanding U.S. War!
LOCATION:Centro del Pueblo, 2nd Floor auditorium\n474 Valencia St. at 16th St., near 
 16th St. BART
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/01/19/18635684.php
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