Posted on 01/27/2007 12:28:55 PM PST by Sam Hill
UFPJs Steering Committee
UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE (UFPJ)
P.O. Box 607
Times Square Station
New York, NY
10108Phone :212-868-5545
URL :http://www.unitedforpeace.org/* Anti-war coalition consisting of more than 1,300 local and national groups
* Co-chaired by pro-Castro socialist Leslie CaganUnited For Peace and Justice (UFPJ) is an anti-war coalition consisting of more than 1,300 local and national groups joined together "to protest the immoral and disastrous Iraq War and oppose our [American] governments policy of permanent warfare and empire-building." The coalitions Unity Statement denounces "the pre-emptive wars of aggression waged by the Bush administration" in its "drive to expand U.S. control over other nations and strip us of our rights at home under the cover of fighting terrorism and spreading democracy."
In an effort to diminish the potential calamities that might result from what UFPJ characterizes as Americas aggressive pursuit of world domination, the coalition has launched a Nuclear Disarmament Campaign. "The world," it says, "is destined to find itself in a state of perpetual war so long as the United States maintains its bloated nuclear arsenal. Nuclear disarmament must become a core issue on the global peace movements agenda."
UFPJ was officially created on October 25, 2002 in the Washington, DC offices of People For the American Way. Its initial membership consisted of approximately 70 organizations. Prior to UFPJs founding, the anti-war movement had earned a reputation as a hodgepodge of radical elements. All the large-scale peace demonstrations to that point had been held under the auspices of International ANSWER, an organization aligned with the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party; Global Exchange, headed by the longtime pro-Castro communist Medea Benjamin; and Not In Our Name, a project organized by Ramsey Clark and fellow leaders of the Revolutionary Communist Party. United For Peace and Justice was created explicitly to put a milder face on the anti-war movement, although from its inception UFPJ shared with the aforementioned groups a passionate hatred for the United States and for capitalism.
The Co-Chair and principal leader of UFPJ is Leslie Cagan, an original founder of the Committees of Correspondence (a remnant organization created by the American Communist Party upon going out of business) and a strong supporter of Fidel Castro since the 1960s; Cagan proudly aligns her politics with those of Communist Cuba.
The breadth of UFPJs agendas extends well beyond anti-war activism. Passionately anti-American, this group condemns virtually every aspect of U.S. foreign policy and domestic life. It impugns Americas "daily assaults and attacks on poor and working people, on women, people of color, lesbians/gays and other sexual minorities, the disabled, and so many others." It asserts that "the government treats all immigrants as potential terrorist threats until proven innocent, in violation of the Constitution," thereby "expanding the scope and depth of racial injustice within the U.S."
UFPJ was a Co-Sponsoring Organization of the April 25, 2004 "March for Womens Lives" held in Washington, D.C., a rally that advocated unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.
UFPJ has campaigned against American support for Israels construction of an anti-terrorist security fence in the West Bank, which it describes as an illegal "apartheid wall" that violates the civil and human rights of Palestinians.
UFPJ is also a sponsoring organization of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Coalition, which seeks to secure ever-expanding civil rights and civil liberties protections for illegal aliens, and policy reforms that diminish or eliminate all restrictions on immigration to the United States.
The UFPJ steering committee is a somewhat fluid collection of nearly four-dozen individuals; in recent years this committee has included representatives of such organizations as Historians Against the War, the Independent Progressive Politics Network, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Global Exchange, Peace Action, Veterans For Peace, September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom, Tikkun Magazine and Community, the Communist Party USA, Code Pink, Not In Our Name, the American Friends Service Committee, the Institute for Policy Studies, the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, and Military Families Speak Out. Among the individuals serving on the steering committee are Medea Benjamin, Van Gosse, Kevin Martin, and Rania Masri.
UFPJ has received financial support from the Colombe Foundation, the Samuel Rubin Foundation, the Shefa Fund, the Tides Foundation, and the Town Creek Foundation.
But our watchdog media can never be bothered to report such unimportant details.
Does anyone know if the 4 soldiers who were murdered in cold blood yeaterday in Iraq were mentioned? I haven't really heard it mentioned on the MSM,only that innocent Iraquis are being killed by the mean Americans.
Shame on those protesters.
I live just inside the Beltway, up in Maryland, and am very skeptical of these numbers as well. We usually have some warning when something big is going on downtown because plans are made in advance for street closings, Metro schedule changes, etc. Hotels are booked full, that sort of thing. I wasn't aware of this until Thursday, and I read the ComPost & the Washington Times daily.
Also, I heard Gary Nuremberg (reporting for CNN) say flat out late this morning that there were more people here Monday for the Right to Life March. He'll probably be fired, but I think the truth slipped out nonetheless.
And frankly, I love our soldiers, and don't want to see another single person die over there, American or Iraqi, but these traitors scare me a lot more than us standing up for freedom over there. Disgusting. They are clueless to the realities of the world. Clueless.
Where's comparing soldiers to Nazi's, and all those good posters?
Maybe it was a misprint. It should have been "Tenths of Thousand" ???
Right, and the 'hundreds of thousands' of pro-life demonstrators last weekend got the same media attention right? not.
Kucinich you scumbag
you destroyed my hometown (Cleveland) with your socialist "experiment" in civil bankruptcy
and the fools there continue to elect you to Congress every 2 years
as my Irish grandmother (RIP) would say
"the devil take his soul"
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NEVER FORGET
Many come out to show war support across land
http://www.post-gazette.com/nation/20030324antiwar0324p7.asp
NEVER FORGET
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If Rep. Dennis Kucinich can truly help make the Democratic Party much less popular with the general public prior to November '08 elections, then let's not get in his way! He probably believes that he has a better chance for victory in November '08 now that Senator Kerry has dropped out of the Democratic Presidential race when Kucinich even worse than Senator Kerry.
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NEVER FORGET
No Joke.
JANE FONDA =
Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education Camp
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
NEVER FORGET
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NEVER FORGET
The Words
http://www.Freerepublic.com/~ALOHARONNIE
The Pictures
http://www.RickRescorla.com/The%20Statue.htm
The Heroism
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24361
NEVER FORGET
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I was there for all of it, and these pukes ain't reliving sh*t.
This is a Disney World war protest.
Does anyone know how to organize a rally against this nonsense? I am too quiet, but I saw signs for this on the news:
http://www.bapd.org/n8001.html
Our soldiers cannot watch from overseas while these freaks go unchecked. I do not think the supposed November 2006 election 'message' was intended to reflect this sort of cowardice.
Ideas?
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Thank you for asking, Yankee Dutch.
Freeper Ron Dog and Los Angeles Activist TED HAYES were the brains behind our widely covered 'GOD Bless Ameria' Freep right across the street from the 2003 OSCARS.
Ron & TED built it and we came.
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Thanks! I'll go private to ask Ron Dog questions.
"Also, I heard Gary Nuremberg (reporting for CNN) say flat out late this morning that there were more people here Monday for the Right to Life March. He'll probably be fired, but I think the truth slipped out nonetheless."
From the photos thus far it would be pretty hard for them to deny this.
But I'm sure most will simply ignore it.
If their pressure (and our cowardice) get us out of Iraq, then it's no joke at all.
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