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SF: Bay Area United Against War Meeting | |
Date | Monday January 14 |
Time | 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM |
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Bay Area United Against War Meeting Monday, January 14, 2008 at 7PM 474 Valencia St. #145, San Francisco ** needed- a volunteer to post updates and meeting announcements to Indybay! |
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Bay Area United Against War Meeting
Monday, January 14, 2008 at 7PM 474 Valencia St. #145, San Francisco (To the left and all the way to the rear of the building then turn right.) As the U.S. government continues to kill thousands and thousands of Iraqi and Afghani people, and the politicians continue to vote for war funding while pretending to be against the war, some very serious demobilizing events have transpired in the national antiwar movement. At the Oct. 27 Coalition meeting Sunday, January 6, there was discussion of efforts of the government to destroy the anti-war movement by utilizing the military groups to prevent actions that significantly challenge the war and the right of the United States to intervene anywhere in the world. Specifically, the IVAW is exerting pressure on the larger antiwar movement not to hold any national mass mobilizations against the war during their "Winter Soldier" hearings, March 13-16, 2008. They are putting a stranglehold on the larger antiwar movements' rights to protest the war in their own way. We applaud those veterans who will expose the crimes they have committed against the people of Iraq and Afghanistan and the continued brutality of the escalated war efforts by the U.S. government. These hearings, exposing the brutality of the U.S. Government's war can help to dissuade young people from joining the U.S. military. But, we object to any segment of the antiwar movement demanding or pressuring others to do as they say and place one activity over that of other activities, including antiwar protests. For all these reasons, we are calling for a meeting of the Bay Area United Against the War on Monday, January 14, 7:00 P.M. to discuss how we can redouble our efforts against the war. We are reprinting below the UK Call to Action March 15; a letter by Tiffany Burns, which has been circulating and is self-explanatory; and two IVAW letters to the antiwar movement; which will shed light on the current situation in the antiwar movement—especially for those who were not at the Oct. 27 Coalition meeting. (Which was, by the way, the last and final meeting of the coalition.) In solidarity, Cristina Gutierrez Carole Seligman Bonnie Weinstein |
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