[Sosfbay-discuss] Fwd: Invitation / Anti-war organizing meeting this Saturday! (Dec 9th - 5pm)

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From: ragina at mac.com
To: ragina at mac.com
Sent: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 9:40 AM
Subject: Invitation / Anti-war organizing meeting this Saturday! (Dec 9th - 5pm)


Hi everyone, 
 
I hope this finds you well! This is Ragina Johnson writing you. We worked together during the College Not Combat (Prop I) campaign over a year ago. I was the campaign manager. 
 
On January the 27th, there will be a anti-war march in Washington DC and various activists have put out a call to see if there can be momentum for building a march/rally in SF. We are casting the net widely to find individuals and organizations interesting in building something that day. The general call is to Bring the Troops Home Now (see below) and within the room on Saturday we will be discussing additional demands for the march/rally. 
 
Here's the meeting info (see the letter below for further details): 
Saturday, December 9, 5pm 
Haymarket Reading Room 
110 Capp St (near the 16th and Mission BART station) 
San Francisco 
 
I hope you can make the meeting! It would be great to see you on Saturday and work with you again. Now is the time to rebuild the anti-war movement in the Bay Area. 
 
In solidarity, 
Ragina 
 
= = = = = = 
 
Rumsfeld is Gone:  Time to Bring All the Troops Home from Iraq Now! 
 
We, the undersigned, are asking you to attend an urgent organizing meeting to discuss the potential of planning an anti-war demonstration on January 27 in San Francisco.  On that day, hundreds of thousands of people will march outside Congress and the White House in Washington, D.C. to demand an end to the war in Iraq.  The Bay Area's voice must be heard in solidarity.  Some of us voted for the Democrats, some voted for the Greens or Peace and Freedom parties, some didn't vote at all, but we all agree that we cannot put our faith in the politicians to bring our troops home now.  We owe it to the Iraqi people and to the American troops in Iraq to rebuild the anti-war movement, and to do it now.  
 
One of the biggest obstacles facing the anti-war movement was the sense that Bush was invincible and that protesting didn't matter.  In San Francisco, hundreds of thousands of people marched on February 16, 2003 to try to prevent the war.  Most of them are more opposed to the occupation now than they were back then, but most of their opposition has been passive.  It's time to appeal to them to come back to the streets.  We have to take advantage of the new expectations and the new hope that millions are drawing from watching Rumsfeld pack his bags and see Bush get a "thumping," as he put it.  
 
We do not have to agree on everything.  This organizing meeting will be open to everyone who agrees that:  Rumsfeld is Gone:  Time to Bring the Troops Home from Iraq Now!  Other demands, such as End the Occupation in Afghanistan, Free Palestine/End Aid to Israel, No Sanctions against Iran, Defend Arab and Muslims from Racist Attacks, US Out of the Middle East and others can be discussed and decided upon by the group as a whole at the meeting. 
 
Please spread the word far and wide and attend this important meeting.  Bring your friends and family.  You don't have to have experience to participate.  You don't have to live in San Francisco.  You don't have to know everything about the Middle East!  You just have to want to end the war and do something about it.  The meeting will be: 
 
Saturday, December 9, 5pm 
Haymarket Reading Room 
110 Capp St (near the 16th and Mission BART station) 
San Francisco 
 
Signed, 
  
Alexander Van Dempsey, treasurer, Students Against War*, SFSU 
Carlos Villareal, Executive Director, San Francisco National Lawyers Guild* 
Chris Daly, City Supervisor, San Francisco 
Debra Reiger, state chair, Peace and Freedom Party 
Husam Zakharia, Students for Justice in Palestine*, UC Berkeley chapter 
Jennifer Mogannam, General Union of Palestine Students*, SFSU chapter 
Krissy Keefer, San Francisco Dance Brigade* 
Kristin Anderson, Campus Anti-War Network*, National Coordinating Committee member 
Marsha Feinland, Peace and Freedom Party 
Nancy Mancias, Code Pink* and Global Exchange* 
Pamela Stephens, Berkeley Stop the War Coalition*, UC Berkeley 
Ramsey El-Quare, General Union of Palestine Students*, SFSU chapter 
Renee Saucedo, San Francisco Day Laborers' Program*, Director 
Snehal Shingavi, International Socialist Organization* 
Veena Dubal, Alliance of South Asians Taking Action* 
 
*All organizations are for ID purposes only 
 
To add your name or organization to this invitation letter or let us know you're coming, please email snehal100 at hotmail.com or call 510-484-5242.= 
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