[Sosfbay-discuss] SF MARCH NEXT SATURDAY

[Michael Fischetti]

greens   the tide has turned against bush and the war  -- but neither the 
democrats nor the media are reacting - the marches in dc and sf this 
saturday are  important and will be  effective if lots of us show up. i hope 
all greens are considering the trip to sf this coming saturday. absent a 
plan for us all to march together, we should join the sf greens. see you all 
in sf   mike fischetti


below is from ANSWER
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>Why We Are Marching: Ten Reasons
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>What is needed above all is to have hundreds of thousands of people
>marching in the streets to demand funding for people's needs not for
>war, occupation and oppression. Only the massive intervention of the
>people in the political process can bring about the change we need. learn 
>how to donate by check.
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>1) More than 100,000 Iraqis have died since March 20, 2003, when Bush
>began the invasion and bombing of Iraq. Nearly 2,000 U.S. soldiers
>have died and more than 30,000 have been evacuated from Iraq with
>severe wounds or serious illnesses.
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>2) Bush lied to the people about the reasons for war: Iraq had no
>connection to September 11, Iraq had no nuclear weapons or weapons of
>mass destruction and Bush knew it. Iraq did not pose a "grave and
>imminent danger" to the United States.
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>3) The Bush administration does pose a grave and imminent danger to
>any country or people's movement that dares to follow an independent
>path from the United States: Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Korea, Philippines
>and more.
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>4) The real U.S. military budget is now over $500 billion - more than
>all other countries in the world put together - in the name of
>"national security." But when the security of the people of New
>Orleans and the entire Gulf region was ripped to shreds by Hurricane
>Katrina, the racist, anti-poor Bush administration did almost nothing
>for days.
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>5) The Bush administration advocates the right to carry out so-called
>preemptive war; that is, a war of aggression against any country in
>the world.
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>6) The Bush administration is building new nuclear weapons and has
>announced a military doctrine allowing for first strike nuclear
>attacks against non-nuclear powers. The U.S. has 10,000 nuclear
>weapons today.
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>7) The war in Iraq costs $250 million a day. The Bush administration
>is proposing to cut $15 billion in education, housing, healthcare and
>other essential services.
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>8) The U.S. spends $15 million every day to support Israel's continued
>occupation of the West Bank and to carry out non-stop aggression
>against the Palestinian people in the territories seized since 1967
>and in the borders of historic Palestine.
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>9) The Bush administration carried out the coup and kidnapping of
>Haiti's democratically elected government on March 29, 2004.
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>10) Every person should have the right to a job, decent housing,
>healthcare and education, but the resources that could provide for
>those basic rights is instead spent on militarism. Join us on Sept. 24
>to say: "Money for People's Needs, Not for War!"
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>The National March in San Francisco on Saturday, September 24 will
>gather at 11 am at Dolores Park (18th and Dolores) to
>march to a rally at Jefferson Square Park (Turk and Laguna.)