UC students walk out
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the National Assembly to End the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and Occupations, the ANSWER Coalition, United for Peace and Justice, World Can’t Wait, and the International Action Center. The American Friends Service Committee, the San Francisco Labor Council, Labor for Peace and Justice, Peace and Freedom Party, the Iraq Moratorium, and a number of socialist organizations are also active participants.
Marilyn Levin, a leader of New England United (NEU), reports that the Boston mobilization on Oct. 17 will include participation from antiwar organizations from six New England states. The Boston action is sponsored by a broad range of organizations that have previously been at odds. National Assembly and United for Justice for Peace activists are playing leading roles in this effort.
In Philadelphia, over two dozen antiwar and social justice organizations from the city and the surrounding region have endorsed an Oct. 17 march through the downtown shopping district to Independence Mall. Similar united efforts are underway for Oct. 17 in Albany, N.Y., Minneapolis, and New York City.
The National Assembly-initiated call recommends that the Oct. 17 actions focus on the following demands: U.S. out of Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan now! End U.S. support to the Israeli occupation of Palestine! End the siege of Gaza! No to U.S. wars and threats of war against Iran and North Korea! Money for human needs, not war! Self-determination for all oppressed nations and peoples! End war crimes, including torture! Prosecute the war criminals!
Several of the organizing coalitions have adopted all of the above demands and expanded the call to include and focus on, “Money for jobs, pensions, education, health care and housing—not wars and corporate bailouts!
The National Assembly also mobilized support for an Out Now! contingent in the Sept. 25 Pittsburgh protest against the meeting of the G-20 Global Summit nations. As many as 10,000 activists joined this effort, sponsored (continued on page 2, in “UC students walk out”)
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