Organizing San Francisco Residents for Peace

There are 750,000 residents of San Francisco and there were about 300,000 people at the Feb 16 peace march in San Francisco, most of whom were not San Franciscans. It is time to bring San Francisco residents to the peace movement.

50% of San Francisco residents are Asian-American, Pacific Islander, mostly Chinese-American. Yet a tiny handful of the peace marchers were Asian-American, Pacific Islander. I read one account that stated that for the FIRST time, they went door to door in Chinatown to bring the Chinese community to the peace march, and thus some 500 people showed up at the Chinese-American contingent. Of course, traditional Chinatown is only a small section of the Chinese-American community. Half of San Francisco is Asian-American/Pacific Islander, mostly Chinese-American.

There is also all the rest of San Francisco, most of whom did not attend, and most of whom are workingclass as San Francisco is 2/3 tenant, most of the tenants being workingclass.

It is time the socialist organizers of these peace marches run for local office, including mayor. That is not just putting up signs in community places. It means, above all, precinct work, that is, walking and phoning precincts and finding out people's needs and interests. The socialist community has to do serious grassroots organizing in San Francisco if it wants San Francisco residents to participate in the peace movement.

The same is true of the rest of the Bay Area. There are some 6 million people in the 9 counties of the Bay Area, 11 million people in Northern California. We should be able to have 1 million people at a San Francisco peace march, easily.

San Francisco's race for mayor is filled with Democrats, a war party by definition. We need a serious, socialist peace candidate for mayor, tying the spending on war with the poverty at home.
For the calendar on the November 4, 2003 election, see:
http://www.sfgov.org/site/election_page.asp?id=10618

If the socialist peace community had serious roots in San Francisco, it would never even think to have fascist election-frauding thugs like Amos Brown and Cecil Williams on our peace rally stage, much less all the other Democrats and all the religious parasites.

Instead, it would make a great deal of sense and be easy to obtain speakers for the following, desperately needed speakers' list, who can provide useful information, which should be the primary goal of all the speakers at our peace rally:
(1) The Medical Community
(2) The Environmental Public Power Community
(3) The Environmental Anti-Nuclear Community
(4) The Public Housing/Tenant Community
(5) The Physical Science/Engineering/Aeronautical Community that can explain in precise detail why 9/11/01 was a Reichstag Fire, which needs to be stated loudly and repeatedly. The best defense is a good offense, and the evidence that 9/11/01 was a Reichstag Fire is massive.

I hope to hear soon who the socialist candidate for mayor of San Francisco is and a serious plan for precinct-walking and phone-banking ready to go by September 1 in every workingclass neighborhood of San Francisco.

All politics are local. We cannot build any movement without a massive local base.