Where Are You Going To Be On June 5?

Where Are You Going To Be On June 5?

As the wheels come off of the Bush war wagon the June 5 demonstration could not be more timely. If you are tired of the lies coming out of Washington, fed up with the images of U.S. torture of the Iraqi people, angry about the bulldozing of homes in the Gaza strip than you should join thousands of others in the streets of San Francisco this Saturday.

Gather 11am at UN Plaza (Market between 7th & Hyde, Civic Center BART)
March down Market Street to Embarcadero (rally start at 1pm)
For more info call the ANSWER office 415-821-6545

* The popular resistance to the U.S. occupation has only deepened following the announcement that a long-time CIA operative, Iyad Alawi, has been named the "Prime Minister" in the "sovereign Iraqi government" (hand-picked by the U.S.) which will be initiated on June 30. Alawi left Iraq in 1971, worked for a while for the British intelligence service MI6, and returned to Iraq with the U.S. occupiers. Offices of his party, the Iraqi National Accord, have been attacked and burned to the ground during the recent popular uprisings.

* According to highly suspect U.S. official figures, at least 205 U.S. soldiers were killed in April-May of this year, and hundreds more seriously wounded. More than 800 U.S. troops have been killed and 5,000 seriously wounded since the invasion of Iraq began. U.S. officials don't give out casualty figures for Iraqis, but at least 15,000 have killed and tens of thousands more wounded over the past 14 months. Thousands more Iraqis have been subjected to sadistic systematic torture and abuse in U.S. custody. The humiliating torture, killings, home destruction and sending into exile peoples throughout the world are the norm of an expanding racist war machine that must be stopped.

* The only real turnover of power on June 30 will be from outgoing U.S. dictator, L. Paul Bremer, to incoming U.S. dictator John Negroponte, the new U.S. 'ambassador' to Iraq. More than 135,000 U.S. and U.S.-led troops will continue to occupy Iraq.
* On June 5 we will march to say: "All Foreign Troops Out of Iraq!"