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No to U.S. Wars at Home and Abroad! | |
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Date | Sunday April 15 |
Time | 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM |
Event Type | Protest |
Organizer/Author | Jeff Mackler |
jmackler [at] lmi.net | |
Location Details | |
Lake Merritt amphitheater to Oscar Grant Plaza Oakland |
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Rally and March: NO! TO U.S. WARS AT HOME & ABROAD @ Lake Merritt amphitheater
Apr 15 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Join us to rally and march to end wars at home and abroad. Gather at 11 AM at the Lake Merritt Amphitheater Rally at 11:30 AM March to Oscar Grant Plaza at 12:30 PM Rally at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater, 14th and Broadway at 1:30 PM Speakers and program TBD – End U.S. overt and covert wars, drone wars, sanction/embargo wars, and death squad assassination wars. — Close all U.S. bases on foreign soil. Dismantle all nuclear weapons. — Bring all U.S. troops home now. Self-determination not military intervention. U.S. hands off the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America. End U.S. aid to apartheid Israel. Self-determination for Palestine. The U.S. cannot be the cop of the world. – $Trillions for human needs. For jobs and social services, quality debt-free education and single payer health care. No to anti-union legislation. For $15 and a Union Now. – Defend the environment against life-threatening fossil fuel-induced global warming. For a rapid transition to a 100 percent clean, sustainable energy system and retraining and jobs at union wages for all displaced energy workers. — No to white supremacy and racist policies and actions against Muslims, immigrants, people of color, and indigenous peoples. No to police brutality/murder. End racist mass incarceration. Black Lives Matter! — No human being is illegal. No to deportations. Yes to DACA and TPS (Temporary Protective Status) and a just and early path to citizenship. No ban, no wall! – No to sexism, sexual violence, and harassment and targeting of LGBTQI communities. Yes to equal work and pay. Support women’s reproductive rights. The U.S. government and its leading Pentagon generals openly and repeatedly threaten nuclear war or massive military intervention against sovereign nations. Such is the case today with North Korea, Iran and Venezuela. Simultaneously, U.S. military forces are at war in several nations including Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia. Haiti and Honduras also face covert and ongoing U.S. intervention. More than 800 U.S. military bases circle the globe in more than 170 countries at the cost of $trillions, while these same $trillions are subtracted from critical social programs at home. $Trillions in tax cuts and corporate bailouts are granted to the super rich while the war at home takes on virulent racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, Islamophobic and homophobic forms. Current signers: Cindy Sheehan, Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Alice Walker, author Nancy Price, Exec. Comm., Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases Blanca Missé, Labor Rising; International Women’s Strike* Alita Blanc, President, United Educators of San Francisco (UESF)* Barbara L. Nielsen, Co-Chair, Nat’l DISARM-End Wars Committee, Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom, United States Section*; Member, WILPF San Francisco Branch* Jeff Mackler, Northern California United National Antiwar Coal; Nat’l UNAC Administrative Comm. Ellen Schwartz, former Program co-chair, Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom, U.S. Section Jack Fleck, Steering Committee, 350 Bay Area* Mary Ratcliff, Editor, San Francisco Bay View, a National Black Newspaper Pierre La Boissiere, Co-founder, Haiti Action Committee* Irma Bajar, GABRIELA USA, national chairperson Tova Fry, International Action Center Monadel Herzallah, Labor organizer, antiwar activist Walter Riley, Board Chair, Haiti Emergency Relief Fund; Chair, Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute Alan Benjamin, Steering Committee, Labor Fightback Network; delegate, SF Labor Council* David Welsh, Vets for Peace East Bay Chapter 162; Haiti Action Commi.* delegate SF Labor Council* Don Bechler, Chair, Single Payer Now Rick Sterling, Steering Committee, Mt. Diablo Peace and Justice Center; Hands Off Syria Coalition Paul George, Director, Peninsula Peace and Justice Center Kamran Nayeri, Editor, Our Place in the World: A Journal of Ecosocialism Stephen Bingham, Past President, SF Bay Area Chapter National Lawyers Guild; Marin Grassroots Coalition for Immigrant and Civil Rights* Laura Herrera, Co-coordinator, Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Alicia Jrapko, U. S. Coordinator, International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity. Tom Lacey, Chair, San Francisco Peace and Freedom Party Karl Kramer, Campaign Co-director, San Francisco Living Wage Coalition* Dan Kaplan, Executive Sec., San Mateo Community College Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 1493 Francisco Herrera, Trabajo Cultural CAMINANTE /Cultural Worker/Educator Ron Dicks, Past International Vice President Western Region, International Federation of Professional and Technical Employees (IFPTE), retired* Ralph Schoenman and Mya Shone, Co-producers, Taking Aim, Pacifica Radio Rhonda Ramiro, Vice Chair, BAYAN-USA Carolina Dutton, Task Force on the Americas/Marin, Bill Balderston, a political organizer with the Oakland Education Association; steering committee member, National Education Association Peace & Justice Caucus Bradley Wiedmaier, SEIU Local 2015 SF Labor Council delegate* Barry Hermanson, San Francisco Green Party Marsha Feinland, State Executive Committee, Peace & Freedom Party Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs Clarence Thomas, ILWU Local 10, retired Katharine Harer, Co-VP & Organizer, AFT 1493, San Mateo Community College Fed. of Teachers Allan Fisher, AFT 2121 SF Labor Council delegate,* CISPES Attila Nagy, Pres., Peace & Justice Ctr. Sonoma County; Comité VIDA immigrant rts. organization Judith Mirkinson, National Lawyers Guild/ SF/Bay Area Steve Ongerth, co-founder IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus* PM Press Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma’at, Africans Deserve Reparations Campaign Linda Ray, SEIU 1021 delegate to San Francisco Labor Council * Susan Lamont, Veterans for Peace; May 1st Coalition,* Green Party of Sonoma County, Police Brutality Coalition of Sonoma County* Tarik Kanaana, Green Party of Sonoma County; May 1st Coalition* Peace & Justice Center of Sonoma County Comité VIDA Sonoma County Peter Phillips, Professor Political Sociology Sonoma State University Laurence Shoup, author, activist, Green Party* Michael Parenti, author, lecturer Martha Hubert and Renay Davis, San Francisco Code Pink Eugene E . Ruyle, Veterans for Peace, East Bay Chapter #162 Speak Out Now System Change Not Climate Change Workers Voice/La Voz Socialist Action Socialist Organizer Labor Fightback Network Workers World Party Veterans for Peace, Chapter 71 Sonoma County Green Party of Sonoma County ANSWER Coalition-Act Now to Stop War & End Racism-SF Bay Area Rafael Jesús González, Poet Laureate City of Berkeley, Senior Founding member of Xochipilli Latino Men’s Circle Anti Police-Terror Project
Added to the calendar on Saturday Mar 31st, 2018 2:32 PM
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§Hands off Syria! Solidarity with Palestine!

Hands off Syria! Solidarity with Palestine!
Protest the Wars at Home and Abroad
The time is now to return to the street to make our voices heard. Join us for united, nationally coordinated regional mobilizations to challenge the war makers and defend humanity. The future is in our hands.
Bay Area: Sunday, April 15 in Oakland
Assemble: 11:00am Lake Merritt Amphitheater (btwn 12th St & 1st Ave on Lake Merritt Blvd)
Opening Rally: 11:30am featuring Cindy Sheehan, Lara Kiswani, and Janetta Johnson.
March 12:30 - 1:30pm (from Lake Merritt to Oscar Grant Plaza (near 14th St & Broadway)
Final Rally 1:30 pm at Oscar Grant Plaza featuring Alice Walker, Cat Brooks, and Francisco Herrera
For more information: SpringAction2018 [at] lmi.net
https://www.springaction2018.org/
Protest the Wars at Home and Abroad
The time is now to return to the street to make our voices heard. Join us for united, nationally coordinated regional mobilizations to challenge the war makers and defend humanity. The future is in our hands.
Bay Area: Sunday, April 15 in Oakland
Assemble: 11:00am Lake Merritt Amphitheater (btwn 12th St & 1st Ave on Lake Merritt Blvd)
Opening Rally: 11:30am featuring Cindy Sheehan, Lara Kiswani, and Janetta Johnson.
March 12:30 - 1:30pm (from Lake Merritt to Oscar Grant Plaza (near 14th St & Broadway)
Final Rally 1:30 pm at Oscar Grant Plaza featuring Alice Walker, Cat Brooks, and Francisco Herrera
For more information: SpringAction2018 [at] lmi.net
https://www.springaction2018.org/
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