A CALL FOR EMERGENCY PROTESTS: SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 2004

MARCH ON THE PENTAGON
(assemble at the White House at 12 noon)

MASS MOBILIZATIONS in SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES

*call initiated by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition*

To ENDORSE:
http://www.ANSWERcoalition.org/campaigns/j5/endorse.html

The U.S. war and occupation of Iraq is a disaster for the
people there and here, a disaster that the Bush
administration wants to escalate. In the first three weeks
of April alone, more than 1,000 Iraqis, most of them
civilians, and at least 110 U.S. soldiers have been
killed. It is not only U.S. troops that are dying but
those from Latin America and from other countries in
Bush’s "coalition of the willing." Thousands more have
been wounded. The war is costing more than 300 million
dollars ($300,000,000) every day, money that is
transferred from working people in the U.S. to the pockets
of arms manufacturers and corporate war profiteers. It is
a war that is destroying an entire country and the lives
of the Iraqi people - already victimized for more than a
decade by sanctions.

Now the White House and the Pentagon are calling for more
troops, more death and destruction, and even more money
for a war that is based on lies and deception. The Iraqi
people, U.S. soldiers and reservists, and all those who
are casualties in Iraq are dying for the sake of the real
agenda: Corporate America’s drive to dominate the oil-rich
and strategic Middle East.

While Bush imposes a murderous occupation in Iraq, the
administration has given its full backing to the Sharon
government in Israel which continues to carry out routine
assassinations and land expropriation, placing an entire
population within the confines of a prison wall. The Bush
administration has recently announced that it too is
committed to the denial of the Palestinian people’s right
to return 56 years after being violently expelled from
their homeland.

As public opinion here and around the world turns more and
more against war and occupation, the Bush administration
has announced a phony "turnover of sovereignty" in Iraq on
June 30. In reality, it will only be a transfer of
authority from one U.S. overseer, L. Paul Bremer, to
another, John Negroponte, the newly proposed U.S.
ambassador (dictator) in Iraq. More than 150,000 troops
from the U.S. and countries dependent on the U.S. will
continue to occupy Iraq after June 30. The "turnover of
sovereignty" is just propaganda meant to deceive people
here into believing that the situation is getting better.
In fact, the Bush administration is growing ever more
isolated and exposed as other countries, including Spain,
Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic, are
withdrawing their troops in the face of growing public
outrage within their own countries.

It is time to bring an end to occupations and
dispossession of people.

On June 5, we will march to demand a real end to the
occupation of Iraq by bringing the troops home now, and we
will demand that all foreign troops be removed from Iraq.

June 5 is the anniversary of the 1967 war in which Israel,
with full backing from Washington, conquered the West
Bank, Gaza Strip and the Syrian Golan Heights. We will
march to call for an end to the colonial occupation of
Palestine, and to support the Palestinian people’s right
to self-determination, including their right to return to
their homeland.

We will stand in solidarity with the Haitian people who
are living under foreign military occupation following the
February 28/29 U.S.-coup against the democratically
elected government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. President
Aristide must be returned to office and U.S., French and
other occupation forces must withdraw. Having overthrown
the government of Haiti, the Bush administration is
renewing its efforts to carry out a coup against the
democratically elected President of Venezuela, Hugo
Chavez. Likewise the Bush administration is growing ever
more threatening towards the people of Cuba, in their
continuing efforts to reinstate a neo-colonial regime on
the island. The people of the Caribbean and Latin America,
having endured more than a century of U.S. military
intervention and forcible "regime change," are united in
their opposition to U.S. overt and covert aggression.

The Bush administration is waging war on the people here,
attacking civil rights and civil liberties at home under
the pretext of the war on terrorism. At the same time,
hundreds of billions of dollars are being diverted for war
and war contractors, while the administration is slashing
desperately needed funds for jobs, education, housing,
healthcare and other vital programs.

Now is the time to act! Join us in national emergency
protests on June 5!

BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW - ALL FOREIGN TROOPS OUT OF
IRAQ!

END THE COLONIAL OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE SUPPORT THE
RIGHT OF RETURN!

U.S. OUT OF HAITI, AFGHANISTAN, PHILIPPINES, COLOMBIA,
VENEZUELA, KOREA & CUBA!

MONEY FOR JOBS, EDUCATION, HOUSING AND HEALTHCARE - NOT
FOR WAR!

DEFEND CIVIL LIBERTIES AND CIVIL RIGHTS!

To ENDORSE fill out the easy-to-use form at
http://www.ANSWERcoalition.org/campaigns/j5/endorse.html

A downloadable flyer for the March on the Pentagon is
available at
http://www.ANSWERcoalition.org/pdf/j5/dc.pdf

If you are organizing transportation from your city, fill
out the form at
http://www.ANSWERcoalition.org/campaigns/j5/transportation.html

A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
Act Now to Stop War & End Racism

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
www.ANSWERcoalition.org
info@internationalanswer.org
New York 212-633-6646
Washington 202-544-3389
Los Angeles 213-487-2368
San Francisco 415-821-6545