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7/28/03 - San
Francisco Labor Council Resolution Endorses Oct 25 March
on Washingon;Support Palestine Conference at Rutgers
University Oct 10-12
7/22/03 - Press
Conference Launches International Campaign vs. Coca
Cola, Accused of Responsibility for Murdered Colombian
Trade Unionists
7/16/03 -
UPCOMING ACTIONS / CALENDAR OF EVENTS
7/11/03 -
OCTOBER 25 - INTERNATIONAL MARCH ON WASHINGTON, DC -
Call to Action
7/10/03 - 5000
Protest in Philadelphia to say "Stop U.S. Wars at Home
& Abroad
7/10/03 - Int'l
SOS - August 1-3 in Omaha, Nebraska - Speakout at
STRATCOM - No New Weapons of Mass Destruction
7/8/03 - Free
Speech Victory in Philadelphia
6/28/03 -
Thousands protest Bush in California and Around the
Country
6/6/03 -
UPDATED A.N.S.W.E.R. ACTION PLAN - NATIONALLY
COORDINATED UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
5/31/03 -
Endorse July 4 Philadelphia demo vs Bush - Protest U.S.
wars at home and abroad
5/21/03 - 850
organizers attend May 17-18 Anti-War Conference in NYC,
agree on action plan
5/16/03 -
Updated Conference Speakers and Schedule
5/15/03 -
Letter from Ramsey Clark to George Bush protesting
"Shoot to Kill Looters" order for Iraq
5/12/03 -
UPCOMING ACTIONS: Cuba May 20, Muslim Solidarity May 24
in D.C., July 4 Philadelphia Bush Protest
5/6/03 - 3,500+
Sign Statement Condemning Bush's New Aggression Against
Cuba
5/1/03 - May
17-18 Conference Registration, Transportation, Logistics
and more
4/14/03 - May
10 in LA: Southern California Regional Emergency
Anti-War Conference
4/12/03 - May
17-18 in NYC: NATIONAL CONFERENCE AGAINST WAR, COLONIAL
OCCUPATION & IMPERIALISM
4/12/03 -
Thirty Thousand March in DC to say Occupation is not
Liberation, No War for Empire. Demos in 60 Countries.
Pictures
4/9/03 -
OCCUPATION IS NOT LIBERATION: WHY WE ARE MARCHING APRIL
12 - March Will Focus on the White House, Corporate
Profiteers, Fox News and the Pro-War Media - New
gathering site, march route and logistics
updated 4/11/03
- THE WORLD UNITES FOR APRIL 12
4/11/03 -
Detailed Info on April 12 March in DC
4/4/03 - ACTION
ALERT: EGYPTION ANTI-WAR ACTIVISTS ARRESTED
4/3/03 -
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ENDORSE APRIL 12 MARCH ON
WASHINGTON & OTHER UPDATES
4/1/03 - Iraqis
can't turn off the tv to make the war go away
4/1/03 - War
& Occupation; Iraq & Palestine - Speech by Carl
Messineo at the March 15 Anti-War demonstration in DC

3/30/03 - April
12 Update; April 1 Affirmative Action demo
3/21/03 - SHOCK
AND REVULSION: World Movement Fights Back
3/21/03 -
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS DEMONSTRATE ACROSS THE U.S. AND
AROUND THE WORLD
3/17/03 -
NATIONAL CALL TO ACTION: UNITED ACTION PLAN: This Week

3/15/03 -
Millions March Against War on March 15 in Over 2,000
Cities WorldwideOver A Quarter of A Million March in
The U.S.: 100,000 in Washington, 100,000 in San
Francisco and 50,000 in Los Angeles
3/14/03 - LIVE
SATELLITE UPLINK AND C-SPAN COVERAGE OF MARCH 15 MASS NO
WAR ON IRAQ RALLY IN WASHINGTON, DC
3/13/03 - MARCH
15 Demos Around the World
3/12/03 - MARCH
15 SAN FRANCISCO LOGISTICAL DETAILS
3/11/03 - DC
BUS Dropoff, Parking and More!
3/8/03 - TENS
OF THOUSANDS TO MARCH AGAINST THE WAR DEADLINE - The
Politics of Deceit, Diplomacy, Oil and War
3/6/03 - Report
from March 5 Moratorium / On to March 15!
3/4/03 -
INTERNATIONAL ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT ANNOUNCES MARCH 15
ACTIONS
3/3/03 - MARCH
15 - Buses planned from over 100 Cities
2/27/03 -
DETAILED INFORMATION about the MARCH 15 EMERGENCY
CONVERGENCE ON THE WHITE HOUSE
2/26/03 - NEW
ENDORSERS FOR THE MARCH 15 EMERGENCY CONVERGENCE ON THE
WHITE HOUSE, LA & SAN FRANCISCO
2/23/03 - MARCH
15: BUSES, VANS & CAR CARAVANS TO THE EMERGENCY
CONVERGENCE ON THE WHITE HOUSE & SAN FRANCISCO
2/20/03 - March
15: EMERGENCY ANTI-WAR CONVERGENCE ON THE WHITE
HOUSEMarch 1: Locally Coordinated Actions
2/21/03 -
ANSWER statement on Dr. Sami Al-Arian's arrest: Stop
Bush & Ashcroft's political targetting
2/15/03 - THE
WORLD RISES UP AGAINST WAR!- February 15: Millions
march around the world today to say "No War Against
Iraq"
updated 2/22/03
- Appeal From Black Community Leaders: Time to Maximize
Black Participation in the Peace Movement
2/12/03 - F15
demos in over 75 Countries - International Press
Release
2/13/03 - NYC
International Womens Day March
2/12/03 -
ANSWER Denounces F15 NYC March Permit Denial - All Out
F15 in NYC
2/11/03 - Four
Coalitions Respond to Michael Lerner
2/11/03 - March
15: Emergency Convergence on the White House(changed
from March 1)
2/11/03 -
Emergency Response Protests & Walkouts
2/8/03 - New
York City Council releases Proclamation Declaring Black
History Month "Black Protest for Peace Month"
2/7/03 - Ramsey
Clark Letter to the United Nations
2/6/03 -
Anti-War Response on Bush & Powell's U.N.
Presentation
2/5/03 -
Thousands March to UN for Peace as Powell Fails to Win
Over World for War
2/4/03- Impeach
Bush:

http://www.votetoimpeach.org/

2/2/03 - Unite
to Fight the Warmakers
1/30/03 -
ANSWER Emergency Anti-War Response Action Plan
Update
1/30/03 -
Lessons of the January 18th Mobilizationby Elias A.
Rashmawi
1/29/03 -
A.N.S.W.E.R.'s response to Bush's State of the Union
address:*COORDINATED PROTESTS SET in 100+ CITIES
JAN. 29*Emergency Response to February 5 declaration
of war
1/23/03 - Black
Commentator: An Anti-Racist Peace Movement
1/20/03 - New
York Times Editorial on January 18 Demonstration; Press
Coverage Highlights
1/20/03 -
JANUARY 18-19 WORLDWIDE DEMONSTRATIONS - ACTIONS IN 38
COUNTRIES PROTEST U.S. PLANS FOR WAR
1/19/03 -
500,000 March in Washington, 200,000 in San Francisco,
Hundreds of Thousands More Around the World to Stop the
War on Iraq
1/16/03 -
Details of Jan 18 National March on Washington, DC -
Location, bus dropoff, pickup & parking, and
more
1/16/03 -
Mobilizations set for 32 countries January
18
1/15/03 - Your
help is needed! Update on the January 18 March
1/13/03 -
Washington Post: AntiWar Activists from Across U.S.
Preparing for Weekend of Protests
1/12/03 - A
Living Tribute to Phil Berrigan: Jan 18 National March
on Washington
1/11/03 -
Building AntiWar Unity - Jan 18, Feb 15 & beyond

1/10/03 - J18
update - new endorsers, speakers & more!
1/9/03 - J18-19
demos planned in 23 countries
1/8/03 -
Coverage & Excerpts from DC Press Conference on
January 18
1/8/03 -
Chicago Teachers Union Resolution sends Bus to J18 demo
in Washington
1/2/03 - Jan 27
Trigger for War - Why We Must Act NOW
1/1/03 - 18
days - 18 actions to take to build J18 demos
12/31 - J18
update - speakers, scenarios, plans
12/26 - Reed
College Anti-War Referendum
12/22 - Bush
Races Toward War - Peoples Movement Can Stop It
12/22 - SF
Religious Leaders Appeal for Support for January 18
Marches
12/21 - Black
Commentator on Anti-War Movement
12/19 - J18-19
Youth & Student Action vs War & Racism
12/17 - What to
Expect from Bush
12/16 -
Anti-American or Anti-Imperialist? by Mumia
Abu-Jamal
12/15 -
Washington DC Teachers Union & California Federation
of Teachers Resolutions
12/12 - J18
Politics & Scenario: NO WAR AGAINST IRAQ! ELIMINATE
U.S. WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION!
12/10 -
Baltimore City Council Anti-War Resolution
12/9 - SF Labor
Council Resolution vs. War & for Jan 18
12/7 - Upcoming
Actions; New Endorsers
11/21 - 1000
Pack Brooklyn Church to Say: Wage War on Poverty and
Racism, Not Iraq!
11/11 -
Security Council Bends to U.S. - Now Only the People Can
Stop the War
11/6 - Nov 5
election NOT a mandate for war
10/29 - One
Million in Italy Say: "No to Bush's War on Iraq"
COMPLETE ARCHIVE OF
ANSWER UPDATES

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25:International
Marchon Washington DC
MASS MARCH ON WASHINGTON TO SAY:Bring the troops home nowEnd the occupation
of IraqMoney for jobs, education & healthcare -
Not war

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CALL TO
ACTION:

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25International March on
Washington DC
MASS MARCH ON WASHINGTON TO SAY:Bring the troops
home nowEnd the occupation of IraqMoney for
jobs, education & healthcare - Not war

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ENDORSE <<<<

The people in Iraq want the U.S.
occupation to end. The U.S. soldiers in Iraq want to
come home. On Saturday, October 25, tens of thousands of
people in the U.S., joined by delegations from countries
around the world, will go back into the streets to
demand End the Occupation, Bring the Troops Home Now!
Under the banner, "The World Unites Against U.S.
Militarism," the demonstration, marching from the
Justice Department to the White House to the Pentagon,
will also demand an end to the looting and destruction
of social programs by the Bush Administration.
The Bush Administration lied to the people, to the
Congress, and to the United Nations as it raced to wage
war against Iraq. The Bush administration is now
carrying out a cover up of its lies and deceptions.
Every day, people are dying as a consequence of this
illegal occupation. Every day human misery expands in
the drive for world Empire and corporate globalization.
Every day, vital social programs that serve and protect
working people in the U.S. are being destroyed as the
Bush administration cynically manipulates the slogan of
the "war on terrorism" to carry out the social transfer
of wealth from the bottom to the top. It has served as a
public relations ploy for their Robin-Hood-in-reverse
politics. Stopping Bush's war abroad and his war at home
is a matter of life and death. None of us has the luxury
of waiting. The time to act is now.
Tens of thousands of Iraqis and hundreds of U.S. GIs
have been killed and maimed. As the anger of the Iraqi
people will inevitably grow, the body count on both
sides will sharply increase.
As the anti-war movement predicted, the Iraqi people
view U.S. forces as colonial occupiers, not liberators.
U.S. troops, frightened by the hostile environment and
encouraged by the racist climate created by the military
brass, are killing and being killed in a war that serves
only the interests of U.S. oil monopolies and corporate
elites - George W. Bush's real constituents. U.S.
soldiers and their families are now realizing that high
government officials, mostly millionaires who shuttle
between corporate boardrooms and government posts, are
using U.S. troops as a private security detachment for
Corporate America's plunder of Iraq's oil riches.
The October 25 International March on Washington will
include delegations invited from countries around the
world whose banners will represent resistance to the
threat posed by the Bush Administration's
hyper-aggressive "preemptive war" strategy. The Bush
Administration has also just won approval from Congress
to proceed with the creation of a new generation of
tactical nuclear weapons explicitly designed to be used
in the Third World in coming conflicts. The march will
demand an immediate end to this new nuclear arms race.
As we continue the movement in opposition to the
occupation of Iraq, we must also oppose the daily
threats against the people of Palestine, Afghanistan,
Iran, Korea, Cuba, the Philippines, Colombia, Liberia,
Zimbabwe, and all others that are targets of the Bush
administration.
The demonstration will be followed on October 26 by
an assembly with international delegates from the global
anti-war movement to assess and strategize challenging
the Bush Administration's war drive and the component
assault on civil rights and civil liberties taking place
in many countries under the cloak of "national security"
laws, including the Patriot Act in the U.S.
THE WAR AT HOME
The Bush administration will spend $2.7 trillion in a
vast expansion of the U.S. military-industrial
apparatus, while eliminating or severely cutting taxes
for Corporate America and the one percent of the richest
part of the United States population to the tune of $1
trillion. The administration is pursuing a calculated
strategy to create a fiscal crisis inside the United
States so that lawmakers will be compelled to cut or
eliminate social programs for which there will no longer
be funds.
Pentagon officials now admit that they intend for the
U.S. to maintain at least 150,000 troops in Iraq for the
"foreseeable future," while the cost of the U.S. war in
and occupation of Iraq is nearly $4 billion a month, a
"burn rate" that will also continue.
The government of the richest country in human
history is spending more for war than any government in
human history and has its troops stationed in more than
750 military installations and bases located in more
than 130 countries all over the world. This is the means
by which the Bush administration, the Pentagon and
Corporate America are advancing the goal of Empire.
The rapid expansion of U.S. militarism under the Bush
administration is not only a threat to the people of the
world, it is a calculated assault on the standard of
living and rights of working people. Bush, Cheney,
Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz have a plan to destroy every social
reform that has been achieved since the 1930s. What are
they seeking to destroy or privatize? Social security,
medicare, medicaid, public education, affirmative
action, civil rights, women's rights, reproductive
health, l/g/b/t rights, environmental protections, and
any other programs or social rights that are perceived
as either a restriction on corporate power and profits
or are a focus of attack by the ultra-right's political
program. Under the Bush Administration, the war at home
has also meant a rise in attacks against communities of
color. Police brutality against the African American and
Latino communities in particular have escalated, from
New York City to Ohio and across the country.
The October 25-26 weekend is also the second
anniversary of the signing of the so-called Patriot Act
authorizing political arrests, indefinite detentions and
domestic spying. As the Bush administration - which only
came to power due to massive racist disenfranchisement
and voting fraud -- violates international law it has
been systematically engaged in a campaign of division
and repression in the United States including a
wholesale assault on the Bill of Rights,
institutionalization of racial profiling, and
aggregation of near dictatorial powers to the Executive
branch. The demonstration will be a political challenge
to the attack on civil rights and civil liberties and
the expansion of the system of repression in the U.S.
and in countries around the world which have also
adopted new repressive National Security laws.
The people of the world went into the streets
unparalleled global mobilizations before the war
started. On October 25, we will go into the streets
again. The anti-war, civil rights and social justice
movement, whose ranks are being joined in ever
increasing numbers by the family members of military
personnel and U.S. veterans, can create the effective
political force that will end the occupation of Iraq and
bring the troops home immediately. It was only the
people's movement that ended the invasion and occupation
of Vietnam and it will be the global people's anti-war
movement that will help end the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

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The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition was formed in the days
after September 11 by progressive organizations and
people in the United States who recognized the need to
take immediate action in response to the Bush
administration's headlong rush to war and the racist
attacks against the Arab and Muslim communities in the
U.S. The Coalition organized the first national
demonstration against war and racism following September
11 on September 29, 2001, which brought 25,000 people
into the streets of Washington DC and 15,000 in San
Francisco. The Coalition has worked to build an
anti-racist, peace and social justice movement,
including mass mobilizations on April 20, 2002 (in
support of justice for Palestine) and October 26, 2002
(the first demonstration in opposition to the war drive
against Iraq), and the first global day of action
against the war in Iraq, January 18, 2003, when millions
of people around the world took part in simultaneous
demonstrations, including a half a million people in
Washington DC. The Coalition coinued to organize mass
demonstrations in February and March and began the
campaign against U.S. occupation of Iraq in April, 2003.

Its national steering committee represents major
national organizations that have campaigned against U.S.
militarism and intervention in Latin America, the
Caribbean, the Middle East and Asia, and organizations
that work towards social and economic justice and civil
rights for people inside the United States.

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