All out for April 20!
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On April 20 nationally coordinated protest actions against the government's austerity and war policies will take place in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle.
Sponsored by the April Actions for Peace, Jobs, and Justice coalition-a broad coalition of labor, peace, church, and community organizations-the four themes of the April 20 actions are the following: end U.S. intervention in Central America and the Caribbean; freeze and reverse the arms race; jobs and justice; and end U.S. support to the apartheid regime in South Africa.
Actions in Washington, D.C., on April 19-22 include lobbying, civil-disobedience protests, and religious servives.
The April 20 national actions offer working people in this country a sorely needed opportunity to respond to the bipartisan attacks on our living standards through massive, independent protests in the streets.
President Reagan's inauguration speech and the new budget proposal have made it clear that the ruling rich in this country are fully determined to drive back and reverse the gains made through hard-fought struggles over the past decades.
Reagan's speech also served notice that the U.S. government's bipartisan WRONG Ret.
Socialist Aution: Joe Ryan aggression against the people of Central America will increase in the coming months. Plans are already under way in the Congress to renew the overt funding of the U.S.-backed contras seeking to (continued on page 14, in “The world's first genuine democracy”)
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Coalition building: See page 6