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DESCRIPTION:The Trump administration is waging a new U.S. war of aggression in the 
 Middle East. The target this time is Syria. More than 70 U.S. cruise 
 missiles hit Syria tonight.\n\nThe ANSWER Coalition is calling on people 
 and organizations to mobilize nationally coordinated protests Friday at 
 5:00 p.m. and throughout the weekend to demand an end to the U.S. war 
 against Syria. These protests will be taking place in cities across the 
 country, including Washington, D.C., at the White House.\n\nIt is 
 noteworthy that in the hours before Trump ordered military strikes on 
 Syria, Hillary Clinton emerged back into the public spotlight to demand 
 that Trump carry out military strikes against Syria. The Trump-led 
 Republican Party and the Democrats will now reunite on the basis of a new 
 U.S. war in the Middle East.\n\nAgain, following a tried and true script, 
 U.S. imperialist military actions against an independent, sovereign Middle 
 Eastern government takes place under the pretext of protecting civilians 
 from weapons of mass destruction.\n\nThe hypocrisy of the war-mongering 
 politicians and media is astounding. The United States has been bombing 
 Iraq, Yemen and elsewhere daily, killing hundreds of civilians in Mosul, 
 Iraq in one attack alone. Scores of families, including their children, 
 were murdered by American bombs. The U.S. media has been virtually silent 
 about this crime.\n\nIn March, the Pentagon carried out 70 bombings of 
 Yemen, more than in all of 2016, and continues to provide the bombs and 
 bombers for the genocidal Saudi-led war on that country.\n\nNow, the U.S. 
 government is bombing the secular government of Bashar al-Assad at the 
 moment that the Syrian national army was defeating al-Qaeda, the so-called 
 Islamic State and other terrorist armed organizations. The Syrian 
 government denies using chemical weapons. Instead of bombing first and 
 asking questions later, shouldn't there be an objective investigation into 
 the facts?\n\nAgain, the U.S. government describes its war motives as 
 humanitarian. Again, the U.S. government asserts that the targeted 
 government possesses and has used weapons of mass destruction as the 
 rationale for another bombing campaign.\n\nAt this point, every person in 
 the United States should assume that the U.S. government, the Pentagon, and 
 the CIA are lying when they seek to justify this new military 
 aggression.\n\nLet us not forget that the U.S. government insisted that it 
 was required to go to war in Iraq to prevent the government of Saddam 
 Hussein from using weapons of mass destruction. No such weapons existed in 
 2003. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died, tens of thousands of American 
 troops suffered life-changing injuries or were killed, and the country of 
 Iraq was fragmented, allowing ISIS to come into existence.\n\nTrump’s 
 military strikes against Syria pose a grave danger of escalating into a 
 regional or even global confrontation. The Syrian government, in its battle 
 against al-Qaeda, ISIS and other armed groups, has the support of Russia 
 and Iran.\n\nThe ANSWER Coalition is calling on people and organizations to 
 mobilize nationally coordinated protests Friday at 5:00 p.m. and throughout 
 the weekend to demand an end to the U.S. war against Syria. These protests 
 will be taking place in cities across the country, including Washington, 
 D.C., at the White House.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/04/06/18798074.php
SUMMARY:SF Protest - Stop Trump's War on Syria!
LOCATION:Powell and Market Sts. 
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