Support grows for April 9 & 10 antiwar mobilizations
2011Christine Marie 2011-02Read it in the scan (PDF at ETOL), page 1 →
The words are the paper's own, from its digital file; the division into articles was made by machine, so a box or caption can end up inside the article next to it.
Scan page 1
“No More Support to the Mubarak Dictatorship! Hands Off Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen!” So began a statement from the United National Antiwar Committee (UNAC), the coalition calling and building major bicoastal antiwar demonstrations to be held on April 9 in New York City and April 10 in San Francisco.
As the world watched dramatic video footage in which the Egyptian masses enroute to Tahrir (Liberation) Square pushed Mubarak’s police back across the Kasr al-Nil bridge, UNAC activists in the U.S. fanned out to demonstrations in solidarity with the revolt against the dictators. Seasoned U.S. activists understood that the U.S. State Department was already plotting to limit the impact of the popular revolts in the interest of an only slightly modified status quo. The global stakes involved for those attempting to rebuild the U.S. antiwar movement have never been clearer.
On Jan. 29, close to 1000 demonstrated outside the UN Building in New York in solidarity with the struggle in Egypt. The same afternoon, a march of about 500-700 people went from Harvard Square into Boston, ending near City Hall. There were placards calling for freedom and democracy in Egypt, cutting off U.S. military aid, and some that said “support Egyptian workers.” Some chanted, “Not a nickel, not a dime! No more money for Mubarak’s crimes!”
The revolt against the dictators, if the most earthshaking and historic, is only one of a number of the events inspiring antiwar activists from coast to coast. On Jan. 8, more than 150 Muslim Americans and their allies crowded into the Islamic Center of Long Island to organize a unified response to the McCarthyite and Islamophobic Congressional hearings planned by Congressman Peter King and to plan outreach for the April 10 antiwar march in New York. Representatives from major Long Island (continued on page 9, in “Toronto sets April 9 antiwar protest”) (Above) Tunisian women denounce the country’s ruling party. Antiwar demonstrations on April 9-10 in N.Y. and S.F. will take up the call: “U.S. hands off the Middle East!”
Books: Obama’s Wars — 8 Films: Company Men — 10 Repression / Arizona — 11
Scan page 2
Philadelphia Independent Media Center
----- pull-quotes -----
INSIDE SOCIALIST ACTION: Phila. police brutality — 2 Obama’s economic plans — 3
Stop FBI witch hunt! — 4 Women’s reproductive rights — 5 U.S. intervention in Middle East — 7