S.F. Activists Disrupt Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz

No War Against Iraq!
S.F. Activists Disrupt Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz

Nine activists disrupted the speech of Deputy Secretary of Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz at a lunchtime fundraiser he spoke at today in San Francisco. The activists were protesting the looming new US war on Iraq. Wolfowitz is one of the main advocates and central planners of a new war against Iraq. He is co-author of the "National Security Strategy of the USA," the Administration's doctrine of global domination. Two activists, Saul Kanowitz and Anne Sadler, organizers with the Int'l ANSWER coalition (Act Now To Stop War and End Racism) unfurled a banner reading, "Stop the War on Iraq." They chanted, "Stop the war against Iraq, No Blood for Oil." The ANSWER coalition was the organizer of the October 26, 2002 marches against US war in Iraq of 100,000 people in San Francisco and 200,000 people in Washington, D.C., the largest since Vietnam. Seven other people stood in silence, protesting Wolfowitz, wearing T-shirts with anti-war slogans. All nine were arrested and forced out of the auditorium. 100 people protested outside the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco where Wolfowitz spoke. All nine protesters were released without charges several hours later.

Saul Kanowitz stated, "Wolfowitz is the architect of the U.S. war against Iraq that will kill thousands of people. He wants to re-colonize Iraq for Big Oil. This war will be paid for with the lives of the Iraqi people. People in the U.S. will suffer as the government cuts social services to pay for the war that the is estimated to cost $200 billion. Wolfowitz is a war criminal to-be. He must be confronted wherever he speaks."

Anne Sadler told the media, "The Bush administration should know they can't travel the country promoting death and destruction without being confronted by the anti-war movement. Wolfowitz plans to send our sons and daughters around the world in an endless war to secure profits and global domination for U.S. corporations. He has no interest in peace. He is a death merchant."

"We encourage everyone, especially students to spend their holidays organizing for the next major National Marches to Stop the War on Iraq January, 18th in Washington D.C. and San Francisco, which will honor the life of Martin Luther King Jr. The momentum for these marches is overwhelmingly strong and growing. It shows most people do not support he US bombing and killing the people of Iraq in a new war. We need the money this war will cost to be spent on jobs and other needs of the people, not to send us to kill and be killed so oil corporations can make more money, " said Nancy Mitchell a youth organizer with ANSWER, at the demonstration outside the hotel.

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