April 9th/10th, 2011 Antiwar Rallies, NYC, San Francisco (UNAC)

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Dear Friends of the International Action Center,

I have just returned from a delegation led by Ramsey Clark to blockaded and besieged Gaza. During our short visit Israel again bombed Gaza. This is now almost a daily crime.

The steadfast determination that we saw in Gaza reinforces the importance of the major national antiwar coalition that is taking shape for April 9, organized by the United National Antiwar Committee - UNAC.

What makes the April 9th bi-coastal rallies, in New York City and San Francisco truly historic is this coalitions very strong solidarity with the Palestinian people as well as the strong opposition to racism and the wave of anti-Islamic hysteria that has been sweeping the country. The International Action Center has made these issues a cornerstone of our work for many years.

This is an especially important time to respond with the greatest possible unity around the most difficult struggles. The Grand Jury subpoenas in Chicago and Minneapolis have especially targeted Palestinian solidarity activists, along with other international solidarity activists. The wave of anti-Muslim attacks, FBI sting operations and preventive prosecutions and racist frame-up must be challenged, along with the growing attacks and raids on all immigrant workers.

We must recognize that the targeted assassinations in Palestine, financed by U.S. military and political aid to Israel and the continuing drone assassination attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan have come home to the U.S. in terrible ways - in the shooting of Arizona Congressperson Gabrielle Giffords last Saturday, January 8th. Six people died, including an 9-year-old child.

In order to divert people’s attention from the economic crisis and endless war the ruling elite is increasingly fanning the flames of division, racism, and reactionary thinking.

But something of great hope also took place on Saturday, January 8. The Muslim Peace Coalition, USA organized a powerful meeting of Muslim leaders and youth at the Long Island Islamic Center. It involved training sessions on how to organize and build for a massive, unitedApril 9th demonstration.

The Muslim Peace Summit was especially timely because The Long Island Islamic Center is located within the congressional district of Peter King, the Republican congressman who heads the Homeland Security Committee. King has announced a planned witch-hunt of congressional hearings targeting Muslim communities as terrorists.

The Muslim Peace Summit’s program included a special panel, with representatives from religious, antiwar, and solidarity organizations including representatives from UNAC, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the International Action Center, Al-Awda NY, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, immigrant rights organizations and activists, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, Pax Christi, along with Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish religious leaders. The meeting concluded with a talk by George Gresham, president of SEIU 1199, the powerful healthcare workers union. This meeting was a tremendous step forward for building a far more inclusive antiwar mobilization on April 9th that can help change the prevailing climate of racism and war.

On Thursday, January 13th at the Manhattan Theatre Club at 311 West 43 St at 7:30 PM, the United National Antiwar Committee will launch the mobilizing for the April 9th antiwar rally in the New York City area. If you live in the New York City area please be sure to attend.

Your participation all across the country and your input are essential. Our unity and solidarity can send a powerful message.

Please take a look at the massive list of endorsers for UNAC.
Sign on as an endorser and see how you can build for these united antiwar rallies in your area.

Solidarity,
Sara Flounders for the International Action Center



For more information on the exciting plans for April 9 and to endorse April 9 see:www.UNACpeace.org

Or send a message to: UNACpeace@gmail.com

ENDORSE the April 9 Antiwar Rallies at www.unacpeace.org




April 9th Endorser list

(List in formation)
* = For Identification only


UNAC –United National Antiwar Committee
Center for Constitutional Rights
Muslim Peace Coalition, USA
Voices for Creative Nonviolence
Veterans for Peace
International Action Center
Pax Christi USA
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Black Agenda Report
Code Pink
National Assembly to End U.S. Wars and Occupations
World Can’t Wait
Campaign for Peace and Democracy
Islamic Leadership Council of Metro NY
Project Salam
Canadian Peace Alliance
BAYAN USA
Lynne Stewart Defense Committee
Office of the Americas
Committee to Stop FBI Repression
Tariq Ali
Joel Kovel
Dr. Margaret Flowers PNHP *
Michael Parenti
Ramsey Clark
Adirondack Democracy
Ambassador Syed Ahsani, Former Ambassador from Pakistan
Ahmed Shawki, editor, International Socialist Review
Ali Abunimah, Palestinian American Journalist
Alice Sturn Sutter, Washington Heights Women in Black *
Al-Awda NY: the Palestine Right to Return Coalition
American Iranian Friendship Committee
American Muslim Task Force, Dallas/Ft. Worth
Ana Edwards, Chair, Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project - Richmond, Va.
Ann Arbor Coalition Against the War
Anthony Arnove, Author, “Iraq: The logic of Withdrawal”
Andy Griggs, Co-chair, California Teachers Association, Peace and Justice Caucus/UTLA-retired*
Arthur Daniels, United Federation of Teachers *
Artists for Peace
B. Ross Ashley, NDP Socialist Caucus, Canada *
Bail Out the People Movement
Bay Area United Against War Newsletter
Bay Area Women in Black
Barrio Unido, San Francisco
Bashir Abu-Manneh
Baltimore Job Is a Right Campaign
Baltimore-Washington Area Peace Council, US Peace Council Chapter
Battered Mother’s Custody Conference
Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace
Bishop Filipe Teixeira, OFSJC, Diocese of St. Francis of Assisi, CCA
Black Voices for Peace, Pittsburgh
Blanca Misse, Student Worker Action Team/UC Berkeley, Academic Workers for Democratic Union – UAW 2865 *
Blauvelt Dominican sisters Social Justice Ministry
Bob Hernandez, Chapter President, SEIU Local 1021*
Bonnie Weinstein – Bay Area United Against Wars Newsletter
BookZen
Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner
Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights
Boston UNAC
Boston University Anti-War Coalition
Broome County Peace Action
Bryn Mawr Peace Coalition
BuxMont Coalition for Peace Action
Café Intifada – Los Angeles
Californian Green Party
Camilo E. Mejia, Iraq war veteran and resister
Campaign for a Mass Party of Labor
Carole Seligman – Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal *
Central Jersey Coalition Against Endless War
Chelsea Uniendose en Contra de las Guerra
Chesapeake Citizens
Chuck Anderson, ACLU, Orange County Chapter *
Howard Terry Adcock, Colombia Support Network, Austin (TX) , Center for Peace and Justice *
Coalition for Justice – Blacksburg, Va.
Codepink Golden Gate Chapter
Colombia Action/CT.
Colombian Front for Socialism (FECOPES)
Columbus Campaign for Arms Control
Committee for Justice to Defend the Los Angeles 8
Consultor Independiente
Cynthia Papermaster, National Accountability Action Network *
Dave Welsh, Delegate, San Francisco Labor Council
David Swanson, WarIsACrime.org
David Keil – Metro West Peace Action (MWPA) *
David Macko, Libertarian Party of Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality - Virginia
Derrick O’Keefe, Co-chair StopWar.ca (Vancouver)
Detroit Committee to Stop FBI/Grand Jury Repression.
Diane V. McLoughlin, The McLoughlin Post
Doug Bullock, Albany County Legislator
Dr. Andy Coates PNHP *
DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving) – New York
Ed Childs, Chief Shop Steward, Local 26, Unite-Here, Cambridge, MA
Elaine Brower - national steering committee of World Can’t Wait and anti-war military mom
Fifth WorldClass Freedom
Fight Imperialism Stand Together (FIST)
Fr. Bernard Survil, Pax Christi Greensburg *
Free Palestine Movement
Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Freedom Socialist Party
Garden Gate Blacksmith Shop
Gilbert Achcar – Lebanese academic and writer
Global Peace, Editor: Tim Nolan
Grandmothers Against the War
Grandmothers Keen
Guilderland Neighbors for Peace
Guyanese American Workers United
Haiti Action Committee
Haiti Liberte
Hands off Venezuela
Hilda Meers, Grampian Senior Citizens *
Howie Hawkins, Co-Chair, Green Party of New York State *
Humanist Party NYC Chapter
IBEW 424
IIan Pappe, Director Exeter University, European Centre for Palestine Studies
Impromptu Action
International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
International Socialist Organization
International Solidarity Movement – Northern California
International support Haiti Network (ISHN)
Iraq Peace Action Coalition – Minneapolis
Italo-American Progressive Fraternal Society
Jack Hereford, Catholic Worker *
Janata Dal (United), India
Jane Anne Jeffries, Conversation With Connection *
Jersey City Peace Movement
Jim Prentice, Science for Peace *
Jimmy Massey, Founding member of IVAW
John Pilger, Journalist and Documentary film maker
Josh Karpoff, Campus Antiwar Network *
Journal Square Homeless Coalition
Juliet Buck, F35insouthburlington.blogspot.com *
Justice for Fallujah Project
Justice for Palestinians
Kclabor.org
Karen Schieve, United Educators of San Francisco *
Keith Mchenry, co-founder Food not Bombs *
Kevin Zeese
Kim Nguyen, Metrowest Peace Action (MWPA)*
Kwame Binta, The November Coalition
Larry Pinkvey, Black Activist Writers Guild
LBC/NVK
LEARN
Leonard & Ellen Zablow, Union of Concerned Scientists *
Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee, NYC Chapter
Lillie “Ms. K” Branch-Kennedy – Director, Resource Information Help for the Disadvantaged (R.I.H.D.), Virginia
Lisa Savage, CODEPINK Maine, Bring Our War $$ Home Coalition *
Logan Square Neighbors for Justice and Peace
Lok Morcha Punjab
Los Angeles – Palestine Labor Solidarity Committee
Luis Vega, Real-Politik
Maggie Zhou – ClimateSOS *
Maine Veterans for Peace
Malu Aina, Hawaii
Maria Cristina Gutierrez, Exec. Director, Companeros del Barrio
March For Justice
Mark Roman, Waterville Area Bridges for Peace & Justice
Marlena Santoyo, Germantown Friends Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
Mary Flanagan, United Teachers of Richmond *
Marxist Update
Masjid As-Salam Mosque, Albany, NY
Mazen Almoukdad, Free Iraq Now *
Mazin Qumsiyeh
Michigan Emergency Committee Against Wars and Injustice
Middle East Children's Alliance
Mike Alewitz, Central Ct. State University *
Mike Malloy Radio Show: Progressive Radio
Middle East Crisis Committee
Misterboy.com
Mobilization Against War and Occupation - Vancouver, Canada
Mobilization to Free Mumia
Moratorium NOW Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility Shut-offs
MotherSpeeak
Muslim Solidarity Committee
Muslimah Writers Alliance
Nancy Murray, Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights*
Nancy Parten, Witness For Peace *
Nellie Bailey, Harlem Tenants Council *
New Abolitionist Movement
New Black Panther Party
New England United
New Jersey Labor Against War
New Jersey Youth United Against War and Imperialism
New Socialist Project
New York City Labor Against the War
Neil Parthun, Host, Not Another Sports Show
Nicholas J. Bisaccia, M.S.Ed., PAX CHRISTI *
No More Victims
Nodutdol for Korean Community Development
North Pilly for Peace and Justice
Northampton committee to stop Wars
Northeast Peace and Justice Action Coalition
Northern California Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
Northfield People for Peace and Goodwill
Northwest Greens
NotMyPriorities.org
Nuestro Norte Es El Sur ((NUNO-SUR) Our North is the South
Omar Barghouti, Human rights activist (Palestine)
Ometeotl Ministries
Pakistan USA Freedom Forum
Pakistani Trade Union Defense Campaign
Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People
Pax Christi Metro New York
Peace Action Maine
Peace Action Montgomery
Peace Action of San Mateo County
Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine
Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County
Peace and Justice Online
Peacemakers of Schoharie County, New York
Peace and Freedom Party
Peace Education Center
People of Faith, Connecticut
Peace Power Press
Peninsula Peace & Justice, Blue Hill, Maine
Peninsula Peace and Justice Center – Palo Alto, Ca.
Peoples Video Network
Peter Eglin, Wilfrid Laurier University *
Phil Wilayto, Editor, The Virginia Defender
Philadelphia Against War
Pledge of Resistance – Baltimore
Professor Alice Bach, Case Western Reserve University *
Progressive Peace Coalition, Columbus Ohio
Prosecute Them Now
Protestobama.org
Queen Zakia Shabazz – Director, United Parents Against Lead National, Inc.
Queer Liberation Front.us
Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, cofounder of the Community of Living Traditions
Radio Free Maine
Ralph Poynter, Lynne Stewart Defense Committee
Rev. Bruce Wright, Refuge Misistries *
Rev. Ralph Moore, Watershed School *
Revolutionary Workers Group
Rhode Island Mobilization Committee
Roland Sheppard, Retired Business Agent Painters Local #4, San Francisco *
Rochester Against War
Ron Jacobs, writer
Ruth Balter, Granny Peace Brigade, Philadelphia *
Saladin Muhammad - Founding Member, Black Workers for Justice
Salina People for Peace
San Francisco Green Party
Sarah Roche-Mahdi, Code Pink Boston*
Saratoga Peace Alliance
Senior Action Network
Seth Farber, PhD., Institute of Mind and Behavior *
Sherry Wolf – International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Author Sexuality and Socialism
Shomer Shalom Network for Jewish Nonviolence
Siege Busters Working Group
Socialist Action
Socialist Organizer
Socialist Viewpoint
Solidarity
Solidarity Committee of the Capital District
St. James Peace & Justice, Johnson City, NY
St. Louis Instead of War Coalition
Staten Island Council for Peace & Justice
Steve Scher, Green Party of NYC 26 AD *
Stewart Robinson, Stop Targeting Ohio Poor *
Steve Gillis, VP, USW Local 8751, Boston School Bus Union
Stop the Wars Coalition, Boston
Sue Kelly, Sec.-Treas., OPEIU Local 334
Suffolk Peace Network (Long Island)
Tarak Kauff, Veterans for Peace
The Blitz: A Progressive Movement
The Campaign Against Sanctions & Military Intervention in Iran
The Thomas Merton Center Antiwar Committee
Twin Cities Peace Campaign
United Latina en Accion
Upper Hudson Peace Action
US Friends of the Soviet People
Vancouver Healthcare Now
Veterans Fellowship of Reconciliation
Virginia Defender
War Moratorium, SECT
Washington Peace Center
West County Toxics Coalition
West Hartford Citizens for Peace and Justice
WESPAC Foundation
Women against Military Madness
Women Against War
Women in Black, Westchester
Women's Fightback Network, Boston
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Pittsburgh
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Santa Cruz Branch
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Santa Barbara, CA
Workers Action
Workers International League
Workers World Party
Youth for International Socialism
Y-MAD

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