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Bring the Troops Home Now!
Immediately Withdraw US troops from the Persian Gulf!
Stop the Bombing! Lift the sanctions!
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Links
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For Notices of Antiwar Protests, go to
Local demonstration / Events (Minneapolis)
USLAW web site has Links to other Antiwar coalitions
Based in New York City (listserv, open archives)
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News & Analysis
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Edited version of a Green Party press release dated 17 March 2003
By Doug Mann, 20 March 2003 -- the original statement is posted at
http://www.greenpartyus.org/press/pr_03_17_03.html
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Iraq War Propaganda
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by Doug Mann, 07 Feb 2003
Why the Labor and Antiwar Movements Should Oppose the War Unconditionally The Bush administration's trick to manufacturing consent for the war is to frame the debate around the issue of how to deal with the 'Iraqi threat.' That is the framework for the debate in the UN Security Council, the US Congress, and in the American and European press. The Bush administration's motives for going to war are not seriously questioned. It's sort of like the story about the emperors new clothes. Nobody dares to tell the emperor that he's not wearing any. - by Doug Mann, 10 Feb 2003
1990 report says "no." A report by the U.S. Army War College released in the summer of 1990 contradicts US claim that Iraq gassed its own Kurdish civilians. - by Raju G.C. Thomas, Pulse of the Twin Cities, 12 Feb 2003
[Executive Summary by Doug Mann] The claim that Saddam gassed his own people is apparently based on interviews by Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffers with Kurdish refugees in Turkey, who reported a gas attack, but no evidence has been found to confirm that it happened. Another incident, the March 1988 bombardment with chemical weapons of Halabjah, an Iraq-Kurdish city, was blamed on Iraq. However, the US Army War College found evidence that indicated the attack on Halabjah was actually carried out by Iran. The claim that Saddam ordered the chemical weapons attack on his own people was put forward by the first Bush administration as a justification for the 1991 Gulf War and the subsequent disarmament of Iraq. This unsubstantiated claim that Saddam gassed his own people was used again by President Clinton as a justification for further bombing of Iraq.
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Labor & the Anti War Movement
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The struggle against war is a struggle to reclaim the party -- Statement published by The LINK: Open Forum of Labour Party Members and Trade Unionists to Reclaim the Party (UK) -- Press Release - Monday, February 17th
From: Daniel Gluckstein, ILC Coordinator, February 5, 2003
World-wide mass demonstrations planned for Feb 15 & 16
New Labor Group Organizing Union Opposition to War
Is Sweeney Feeling The Heat Of Rising Labor Antiwar Sentiment?
by Charles Walker
by David May, Socialist Appeal, February 5, 2003
Mainstream Press Reports on USLAW
by Charles Walker, Labor Tuesday! 21 January 2003
Peace Sentiment Echoes Ever Louder in Cleveland Labor Movement
by Jerry Gordon, Labor Tuesday! 21 January 2003
By Philip Dine, 01/15/2003, St. Louis Dispatch [Twin Cities Independent Media Center web site]
by Bill Onasch, OWC Campaign News -- 12 January 2003
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Antiwar Resolutions / Statements
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Adopted at Founding Conference of US Labor Against the War, January 11, 2003 in Chicago, IL.
NYCLAW Report, Jan 13, 2003
Resolution adopted by the San Francisco Labor Council (AFL-CIO) on August 26, 2002.
Press Release / Statement -- January 2003
Dated 9.20.2002 -- The Green Party clearly opposes "unilateral" military action by the Bush administration, unless it is approved by the UN security council.
Green Party Press release / Statement
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The Antiwar Movement
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A response to "Open Letter To Activists Concerning Racism In the Antiwar Movement"
by Doug Mann, posted 25 Feb 2003
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Venezuela
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By Andreu Camps, ILC News -- 8 January 2003
By Scott Wilson, Washington Post Foreign Service
By Andy McInerney, Liberation News
HANDS OFF VENEZUELA!
Urgent Appeal to the international Labor Movement
The US embassy is helping to orchestrate efforts to overthrow the government of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. The situation there is comparable to that facing the government of Salvador Allende in Chile during 1973.
The Chavez government instituted reforms that greatly improved living standards for the working class, and put the Chavez government at odds with right-wing politicians and their friends at the US Embassy. Last April top army officers arrested and detained Chavez in a coup attempt that was foiled by mass demonstrations of workers and the poor. More recently the management of Venezuela's state-owned oil company went on strike, dramatically cutting oil production and government revenues.
And now employers, with the support of some right-wing trade union officials are staging what amounts to a lockout, which the mainstream press is advertising as a "general strike."
Please read, circulate, and obtain endorsements for the international appeal to the labor movement entitled HANDS OFF VENEZUELA! [Resolution, updated endorsement list, sample letters]
Initial endorsements from labor bodies in the US:
ATU Division #788
St. Louis Local Organizing Committee (LOC) of the Labor Party
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Humor
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If you're happy and you know it bomb Iraq
A song by John Robbins
North Dakota found to be Harboring Nuclear Weapons
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