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--- "International A.N.S.W.E.R." wrote:
> Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 17:29:20 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "International A.N.S.W.E.R."
> Subject: REPORT from ANTI-WAR CONFERENCE: 600
> ATTEND, ANNOUNCE PLANS
> To:
petalindsay_dc@yahoo.com
>
> 600 ANTI-WAR ACTIVISTS ATTEND JUNE 1 EMERGENCY
> NATIONAL ANTI-WAR CONFERENCE IN NEW YORK CITY
>
> Report on the June 1 conference:
> - Plans announced for mass June 29 demonstration at
> FBI’s Washington D.C. headquarters to tell Ashcroft
> "Hell No, We Don’t Want Your Cointelpro"
> - This summer, Commission of Inquiry hearings on
> U.S.-backed Israeli war crimes against the
> Palestinian
> people will take place around the country
> - Great press coverage of the conference
> - List of speakers and topics of the conference.
>
>
>
> PRESS RELEASE
> on June 1 Emergency National Anti-War Conference
>
> (June 2, 2002 - NYC) Over 600 activists with
> International A.N.S.W.E.R. met yesterday in New York
> City and announced plans for a mass June 29
> demonstration at the FBI's Washington D.C.
> headquarters to protest John Ashcroft’s domestic
> espionage program that targets political
> organizations, mosques and community groups.
>
> A.N.S.W.E.R. — which stands for Act Now to Stop War
> &
> End Racism — was one of the central forces behind
> the
> 100,000-strong March for Palestine April 20th in
> Washington, D.C. The activists who planned this
> demonstration came from around the country Saturday
> for an all-day, anti-war conference opposing Bush's
> war policies that threaten Iraq, Colombia, and the
> Philippines, back genocide against Palestinians, and
> take money from people's needs and funnel it to the
> Pentagon.
>
> A special section on the conference’s Opening
> Plenary
> entitled “Emergency action plan to fight back
> against
> the FBI and Ashcroft” featured Mara
> Verheyden-Hilliard
> and Carl Messineo, attorneys and co-founders of the
> Partnership for Civil Justice. “Today we have
> launched a national fightback movement to stop John
> Ashcroft and the FBI from bringing back the very
> worst
> features from J. Edgar Hoover’s reign over domestic
> intelligence,” stated Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, also
> a
> member of the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition steering
> committee.
>
> “Ashcroft’s changes have been presented as an
> innocuous update of FBI procedures,” said
> Verheyden-Hilliard. “This has become the preferred
> method of presentation by Ashcroft as the Justice
> Department shreds the First Amendment and the Bill
> of
> Rights.
>
> “These changes, however, are much more insidious
> than
> simply allowing the FBI to surf the web,”
> Verheyden-Hilliard continued. “They are a
> full-scale
> revival of Cointelpro, the notorious government
> infiltration program which reached its peak in the
> 60s
> and was aimed at Martin Luther King and the civil
> rights movement.”
>
> “Ashcroft is facing a growing and powerful anti-war,
> anti-racist movement that won’t be easily
> intimidated,” said Larry Holmes, co-director of the
> International Action Center, also with A.N.S.W.E.R.
> “We’re not going to let Ashcroft, the FBI, Bush and
> his right-wing gang — with the complicity of the
> Democratic Party and Congress — tear up the
> constitution, open up a war on political dissent,
> and
> stop the very necessary movement against his
> war-mongering, pro-rich madness.”
>
> Later in the day -- after a reportback from
> A.N.S.W.E.R.’s medical and legal delegation that
> just
> returned from the West Bank and Gaza -- conveners
> announced plans this summer for mass public
> inquiries
> entitled Commission of Inquiry hearings on
> U.S.-backed
> Israeli war crimes against the people of Palestine.
>
> Details of the A.N.S.W.E.R. Action Plan will be
> released in the coming days.
>
>
>
> The June 1 Emergency National Anti-War Conference
> was
> one of the top stories on NY1. That story follows:
>
> TOP STORY:
> Anti-War Activists Hold Conference On War Against
> Terrorism
> June 1, 2002
>
> To view the 60 second clip that was shown many times
> on NY1, go to:
>
http://www.ny1.com/ny/Search/SubTopic/index.html?&contentintid=21994&search_result=1
>
> Anti-war activists gathered at a conference in
> Manhattan Saturday to rally against what they call
> the
> Bush administration's “war machine.”
>
> The demonstrators were part of the group ANSWER,
> which
> stands for “Act Now to Stop War and End Racism.” The
> conference was held at the Fashion Institute of
> Technology.
>
> ANSWER members say they want to challenge efforts by
> Attorney General John Ashcroft and the FBI to give
> investigators new authority to keep tabs on
> Americans.
> They also say they plan to start a movement to stop
> any plans for a war in Iraq.
>
> “It is taking everything that we need for schools
> and
> hospitals and food and everything that people need
> and
> robbing it from us and pouring it into a military
> budget," Larry Holmes of the International Action
> Center said Saturday.
>
> ANSWER also wants to put an end to any racial
> profiling of Arabs or Muslims in the United States.
>
> The group is planning to hold a massive rally in
> front
> of FBI headquarters in Washington D.C. later this
> month.
>
>
>
> The conference included a wide array of speakers on
> many topics, including:
>
> - Elias Rashmawi, Free Palestine Alliance
> - Larry Adams, President, Mailhandlers Local 300;
> New
> York City Labor Against the War
> - Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, attorney and co-founder,
> Partnership for Civil Justice
> - Larry Holmes, Co-Director, International Action
> Center
> - Yoomi Jeong, Korea Truth Commission
> - Chuck Kaufman, Nicaragua Network
> - Jennifer Wager, IFCO/Pastors for Peace
> - Arturo Garcia, Bayan International
> - Carl Messineo, attorney and co-founder,
> Partnership
> for Civil Justice; member of A.N.S.W.E.R. delegation
> to Palestine
> - Dr. Hillel Cohen, public health doctor and
> epidemiologist; delegate for 1199 Health and
> Hospital
> Workers Union; member of A.N.S.W.E.R. delegation to
> Palestine
> - Randa Jamal, Al-Awda NY-NJ, Free Palestine
> Alliance
> - Sara Flounders, International Action Center;
> member
> of A.N.S.W.E.R. delegation to Palestine
> - Brenda Stokely, President, AFSCME District Council
> 1707; New York City Labor Against the War
> - Williams Camacaro, member, Venezuela Civic Center,
> NYC
> - Teresa Gutierrez, Committee to Stop the U.S. War
> in
> Colombia
> - Ben Dupuy, Co-Director, Haiti Progres; Secretary
> General, National Popular Party in Haiti
> - Mahmoud Ahmed, Free Palestine Alliance-Chicago
> - Richard Becker, Western Regional Coordinator,
> International Action Center; member of A.N.S.W.E.R.
> delegation to Palestine
> - Gloria La Riva, President, Typographical Sector of
> the Northern Calif. Media Workers Union; National
> Committee to Free the Five Cuban Political Prisoners
> Held in the U.S.
> - Leslie Feinberg, author and lesbian/gay/bi/trans
> rights activist
> - Brian Becker, International Action Center
> - Renee Washington, volunteer organizer, All
> People’s
> Congress
> - Doreathea Peacock, coordinator, Boston Women’s
> Fightback Network
> - Sharon Ceci, Baltimore A.N.S.W.E.R.
> - William Guerrero, IAC
> - David Sole, Pres., Auto Workers Local 2334,
> Detroit
> - Ed Childs, chief shop steward, Local 26 HERE
> (Hotel
> Employees and Restaurant Employees), Boston
> - Lyn Meza, Vice-President, IUE-CWA Local 201
> - Mike Gimball, NYC AFSCME progressive caucus, local
> 375, delegate to NYC Central Labor Council
> - Trudy Rudnick, organizer, AFT (American Federation
> of Teachers) Local 3882 in NY
> - Andre Powell, trustee, AFSCME Local 119, Baltimore
> - Dave Welsch, retired Vice-President, National
> Association of Letter Carriers (NALC)
> - Andy Thayer, Chicago Coalition Against War &
> Racism
> - Roger Wareham, Aug. 17 Millions for Reparations
> march
> - Subash Kateel, DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving)
> - Khadouri Al-Kaysi, Committee in Support of the
> Iraqi
> People
> - Ismael Kamal, Sudanese American Society
> - Deirdre Griswold, Workers World newspaper
> - Peta Lindsay, youth and student coordinator,
> A.N.S.W.E.R.
> - Daniel Keesler, student, School Without Walls high
> school
> - Ayman El-Sawa, IAC
> - Deirdre Sinnott, A.N.S.W.E.R. organizer
> - Alicia Jrapko, Int’l Action Center-SF
> - Cherrene Horavuk, CISPES (Committee in Support of
> the People of El Salvador)
> - Bob Marsh, Iraq Sanctions Challenge
> - SOA Watch representative
> - Dan Wilson, Philippine Forum, Network in
> Solidarity
> with the People of the Philippines
> - Tom Burke, Colombia Action Network
> - Rebeca Toledo, Committe to Stop the U.S. War in
> Colombia
> - John Parker, International Action Center-LA
Thanks for the heads ups! Getting the press to give this the attention it deserves will be the biggest challenge, IMHO.