Momentum builds for May 19 protest against NATO /G8
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On March 23-25, hundreds of antiwar and interna tional solidarity activists, students, and Occupiers are coming together in Stamford, Conn., for the United Na tional Antiwar Coalition conference. A major task of the UNAC conference will be to build national support for the May 19 protest against the NATO/G8 summit convening in Chicago. Leaders of every social struggle responding to the obscene war drive and military ex penditures of the White House and its allies will be on hand to say “No!” to the wars of the 1% abroad and at home.
Today, the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan and the continued drone attacks on Pakistan are generating new and militant resistance on the ground. Afghans have been mobilizing in large demonstrations, and of ficials in Pakistan have announced that they will not be deterred from finalizing an agreement for a PakistanTony Savino / Socialist Action INSIDE Chi. workers occupy plant — 2 Witch hunts abetted by law — 3 New ICE deportation measure — 5 U.S. / NATO hands off Syria! — 6 Books: Black holocaust The real Martin L. King — 9 Films / Canada news — 10 Greeks resist austerity — 12 (Photos) Obama’s policies have brought us more war and attacks on civil liberties. U.S. antiwar and social justice movements cannot afford to step aside during run-up to the presidential election.
ing the NATO/G8 summit, an event that will garner extraordinary global media coverage, to determine whether or not they have allies in the belly of the beast. Their calculations about the odds of beating back U.S. aggression if they dare risk mounting a resistance are based in part on their reading of U.S. politics. Antiwar activists have the most elementary obligation to show the world that the Occupiers and working people of the U.S. understand that the elementary obligations of the slogan “An Injury to One is An Injury to All” are international at their root.
An organizing pole that centers on opposition to U.S. wars can only strengthen the movement for economic