10/26: Grand Peace March in San Francisco

The Grand Peace March in San Francisco will take place October 26, 2002, starting with a rally at the foot of Market at 11 a.m., march up Market Street at Noon and rally at the Civic Center at 1 p.m. We march to stop the war in Iraq and to restore our civil liberties taken from us by the Fascist “Patriot” Act of one year ago, October 26, 2001, a 342-page bill approved by Congress without most of them having read it!

A good analysis of the destruction of our civil liberties by George War Bush, fascist Ashcroft and the obsequious Congress can be found at the editorial of September 11, 2002 of the World Socialist Website, entitled “One Year Since September 11: An Unprecedented Assault on Democratic Rights” at http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/sep2002/demo-s11.shtml

Information on the Grand Peace March in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. on October 26, 2002 can be found at http://www.internationalanswer.org/ and http://www.actionsfbay.org

These peace marches are called Voting With Our Feet, and are very effective in changing public policy, as we learned during the Vietnam War. We need to make this a large 200,000-plus person demonstration, as we had at the time of the Persian Gulf Massacre in 1991, and as we had at the end of the Vietnam War. An invasion of Iraq could become World War 3 and most likely will cause the restoration of the draft. If you are a healthy man, ages 18 to 26, you could be drafted.

Let’s have a real San Francisco-style Grand Peace March on Market Street, filling the street from sidewalk to sidewalk, as we walk shoulder to shoulder, for peace, civil liberties and a priority on spending for domestic needs such as housing, food, education, medical care and public transportation, with the front of the march reaching the Civic Center, while the rear is still waiting to leave Justin Herman Plaza.

Buses and/or planes are coming from Arizona, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon and the state of Washington.

In California, buses and carpools are coming from Chico, Claremont, Davis, El Dorado/Placerville, Eureka/Arcata, Fresno, Los Angeles, Marin County, Mariposa, Merced/Modesto, Monterey, Nevada City/Grass Valley, Orange County, Redding/Shasta, Riverside, Sacramento, San Diego, San Jose, Santa Barbara/Ventura, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Santa Rosa, Sonoma, Stockton and Ukiah.

Some of the endorsers are:
San Francisco Labor Council (AFL-CIO)
International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU), Local 10 Exec Board
Albany (NY) Central Federation of Labor
Letter Carriers Union #214
Sign Display Union #510
Oakland (CA) Education Association
United University Professions Delegate Assembly, State University of NY
1199/SEIU New York Health and Human Services Union, Delegates Assembly I-V
Rochester (NY) & Vicinity Labor Council, AFL-CIO
Troy Area Labor Council (AFL-CIO)
Typographical Sector, Northern California Media Workers Union, CWA
Sacramento Valley Labor Comm. For Peace & Justice
Sacramento-Yolo Peace Action, CA
Labor Committee for Peace & Justice, Berkeley, CA
Labor Committee for Peace and Justice (Bay Area)
Gloria La Riva, President, Typographical Sector, No.Calif. Media Workers, CWA
Kenneth Lerch, President, Letter Carriers Union #3825 (Maryland)*
Sally Davies, President, AFSCME Council 92 (Maryland)*
Leslie Feinberg, activist and author, NWU/UAW Local 1981*
Queers For Racial & Economic Justice
Workers World Party
National Committee for Radiation Victims
Marin Peace & Justice Coalition
Gray Panthers California
ADC Fresno, CA
California Peace Action, Berkeley, CA
Sustainable Life, Santa Cruz, CA
Lee Harrison Chauser, United teachers of L.A.*, CA
Digital Media Strategy Group, San Francisco, CA
International Socialist Organization
Left Party, CA
Bus Riders Union, Los Angeles, CA
San Francisco Bay Area Progressive Challenge
Harvey Milk Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Transgender Democratic Club
SF Bay Area Progressive Challenge
Carol Brouillet, Co-Founder Who's Counting Project*, Palo Alto, CA
Bay Area Iranians for Peace and Social Justice
Asian Americans for Justice in Palestine
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, Lawrence, KS
Philippine Information Network Services (PINS)
First Quarter Storm Movement (FQSM), Fremont, CA
"The Meria Heller Show", AZ
Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America
Howard Zinn, Peoples' Historian
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Black Voices for Peace
Student Liberation Action Movement (SLAM)
Kathy Kelly, Voices in the Wilderness
Greens/Green Party USA
National Lawyers Guild
Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general
Veterans for Peace
Radical Women
Global Exchange
Free Palestine Alliance
Mexico Solidarity Network
Nicaragua Network
Korea Truth Commission
International Action Center
Kensington Welfare Rights Union
Middle East Children's Alliance
Bayan USA-International
Not In Our Name/Pledge of Resistance
Ted Glick, National Coordinator, IPPN
Dr. Helen Caldicott, founder, Physicians for Social Responsibility
Center for Constitutional Rights
Committee in Support of the Iraqi People
Network in Solidarity with the People of the Philippines (NISPOP)
National Coalition for the Homeless, Washington, DC
Haiti Support Network, Brooklyn, NY
Congress for Korean Reunification - U.S.A
Campaign to End the Sanctions
The Network of Arab-American Alumni & Professionals, NY, FL
Herman Wallace, one of the “Angola 3,” in Angola, Louisiana State Penitentiary
Alfred Woodfax, of the “Angola 3,” in Angola, Louisiana State Penitentiary
Robert King Wilkenson, former political prisoner, released from Angola, Louisiana State Penitentiary
Michael Parenti, Author, Berkeley, CA
Margarita Papandreou, former first lady of Greece
Dr. Rosalee Bertell, winner, Sean McBride Peace Prize
M.E.Ch.A. - University of Utah Chapter
Nebraskans for Peace
Peter Phillips, Editor, Project Censored
The Military and Draft Counseling Project
Filipino Workers Association (FWA)
Students for Social Responsibility
Palestine Aid Society
Socialist Workers Organization
Socialist Workers Party