Antiwar leftists to infest Penn station in NYC Thursday pm 1/15/04

January 15, This Thursday - Protest in NYC to say NO to Bush's War! Current rating: 0 by New Jersey Solidarity Email: info (nospam) njsolidarity.org (verified) 12 Jan 2004 This Thursday, Jan. 15, join labor, tenants, anti-war and other activists in protesting Bush's war and his convention at Madison Square Garden. Carry on MLK's work on the 75th anniversary of his birth. PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!

**SEE BOTTOM OF ANNOUNCEMENT FOR NJ TRAIN INFORMATION!! PROTEST LOCATED DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM NY PENN STATION!!**

Free Palestine! No War on Iraq! Fund Jobs and Education, Not War and Occupation!

In the Spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On his 75th Birthday, Thursday, January 15 , 4:30-7:00 p.m., We will Rally in front of Madison Square Garden- 32nd St. and 7th Ave.- - the site of Bush's Convention, to say:

Stop the War on Iraq, on workers and unions, civil rights and civil liberties, the poor, immigrants, people of color, students and youth, tenants, women, seniors, and LGBT people.

Money for jobs, healthcare, housing and education, Not occupation and world domination.

Partial List of Endorsers: MLK Peace Now Committee; NY ANSWER; NY Aids Housing Network; Working People's Voices Collective; SNAFU; San Romero De Las Americas Church; Rev. Herbert Daughtry, House of the Lord Church; Dr. Luis Barrios, John Jay College; Nellie Bailey, Harlem Tenants Council; NY City Council member Charles Barron; NY City Council member Bill Perkins; NY City Council member Larry Seabrook; Queers for Peace and Justice; Movement in Motion Arts Collective; New York City Labor Against the War; The Center for Constitutional Rights; The International Action Center; The Arab Muslim American Foundation; The 1199 Bread & Roses Cultural Project; New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine; NISPOP - Network in Solidarity with the People of the Philippines; Al-Awda; Trabajadores por la Paz; Vinciente "Panama" Alba, Latino Committee WBAI; Workers World Party; ISO- the International Socialist Organization; UFPJ/NYC; 1199'ers for Peace and Justice; FIERCE; PVN - the People's Video Network; Brecht Forum; Harlem Fight Back; the Deir Yassin Society of New York; DC1707

Some good info for the pro-Palestine kooks

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/154805p-136130c.html

Yasser's wealth
of problems
By KENNETH R. BAZINET in Washington
and CORKY SIEMASZKO in New York
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Wednesday, January 14th, 2004

Yasser Arafat is rich, but his Palestinian Authority is going broke. And with foreign aid drying up, his economy chief has had to take out a bank loan to pay 125,000 workers.
"If this situation continues ... we will not be able to provide salaries next month," said Economy Minister Maher Masri.

Masri might want to consider hitting up the Palestinian Authority's leader for a loan.

While the Palestinians have grown poorer, Arafat has amassed a fortune estimated by Forbes at $300 million, putting him in sixth place on the list of richest world leaders. Israel says his real net worth exceeds $1 billion.

The Palestinians, however, blame their fiscal woes on the Israelis, who have refused to turn over millions in tax revenues and have enforced travel bans to deter terrorist attacks. Now the Palestinian Authority is facing a $400 million shortfall, according to the World Bank, despite having received $6.5 billion in foreign aid over six years.

Josh Block of the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC said the Palestinian Authority is broke because Arafat and his cronies have been lining their pockets with aid money for years.

"If Yasser Arafat and the thugs running the PA hadn't stolen their people's money and spent it on terrorism, not only would they be able to make payroll, they would have the money to invest in improving people's lives," Block said. "Clearly, terrorism is their priority."

Under U.S. pressure, the Palestinian Authority recently installed Texas-trained bean counter Salam Fayyad to keep track of the cash. Still, Arafat controls virtually all the aid money and doles it out through a personal patronage system.

And while nearly half his people are unemployed and survive on less than $2 a day, Arafat's wife and daughter live in a swanky Parisian hotel and get a monthly allowance of $100,000. Arafat lives modestly in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Concerns about corruption and unending violence in the Holy Land have taken a toll on donations. The World Bank, which last year gave $37 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority, said their donors are not giving like they used to. Also, U.S. and Arab sources told the Daily News that the Saudis and Europeans, both big Arafat backers, also may start cutting back.

"The issue here is that some of the Arab donors are not meeting their obligations, and the Europeans are finally starting to put requirements on their money," added a member of Israel's ruling Likud Party. The U.S. has also been keeping the Palestinians afloat with donations to charitable groups. But until Arafat goes, the Palestinian Authority will not get any direct payments from the White House.

-Yasser Arafat’s estimated worth is between $300 million and $1.3 billion.
-Wife Suha and daughter Zahwa live on $100,000 a month in Paris, far from Arafat’stwo-room West Bank residence.
-He holds a 23% stake in a $28.5 million casino in the West Bank city of Jericho.
-Profits from all gasoline imported into territories.
-Owns a $55 million firm that controls most of the cement trucked to West Bank and Gaza.
-Has several Swiss bank accounts.

Protest in NYC to say NO to Bush's War! Current rating: 0 by New Jersey Solidarity

Why can't these mutants stay in their own damn state and leave my city alone?!

It's just like last March, when I had to travel out of Penn Station on the same Saturday afternoon that these hygienically challenged twits invaded this city and then clogged up Penn Station -- and literally took turns cursing out and screeching at the National Guardsmen stationed there.

I resent having my tax dollars go for police overtime, sanitation overtime (because they're such damn pigs!) and everything else which they cost us.

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