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March on the Pentagon [commie groups gather to protest 6th anniversary of Iraq War]
Party For Socialism and Liberation (Workers World Party offshoot)

Posted on 03/17/2009 6:33:16 AM PDT by ETL

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Statement from the ANSWER Coalition:
We are organizing a Mass March on the Pentagon on Saturday, March 21, and it is important that you and your family, friends, co-workers and fellow students put on your marching shoes that day. People are coming from all over the country.

Party For Socialism and Liberation (Workers World Party offshoot):
http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=11315


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 6thanniversary; answer; internationalanswer; iraq; oif; psl; workersworldparty
The 6th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War (Second Gulf War) is on Thursday, March 19th, but the protests are being held on Saturday, March 21st.

Some background on the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition...

Behind the Placards
The odd and troubling origins of today’s anti-war movement
David Corn, November 07, 2002

"Officially, the organizer of the Washington demonstration was International ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism). But ANSWER is run by WWP [Workers World Party] activists, to such an extent that it seems fair to dub it a WWP front. Several key ANSWER officials -- including spokesperson Brian Becker -- are WWP members. Many local offices for ANSWER’s protest were housed in WWP offices. Earlier this year, when ANSWER conducted a press briefing, at least five of the 13 speakers were WWP activists. They were each identified, though, in other ways, including as members of the International Action Center.

The IAC [International Action Center], another WWP offshoot, was a key partner with ANSWER in promoting the protest. It was founded by Ramsey Clark, attorney general for President Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s."

http://www.laweekly.com/2002-11-07/news/behind-the-placards
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Note: A.N.S.W.E.R. is now officially controlled by the Party for Socialism and Liberation. They are an offshoot of Workers World Party. The David Corn article above is from 2002.-etl
http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr001=kyxltjwgo2.app5b&page=NewsArticle&id=6371&news_iv_ctrl=1261
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From the website of the Workers World Party:

"Dear Comrade Kim Jong Il...

With his leadership [Kim Il Sung], the Korean people defeated the Japanese colonial occupation and soon after brought about the first defeat of the U.S. imperialist military machine. ...

Workers World Party values our close, comradely relations with the Workers Party of Korea very highly. We are proud to have known Kim Il Sung as a great leader and a comrade in the international communist movement. ..."

With comradely solidarity, Sam Marcy Chairperson, Workers World Party" (1994):
http://www.workers.org/marcy/cd/sam94/1994html/s940721.htm
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Workers World
55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011
Email: ww@workers.org
Subscribe wwnews-subscribe@workersworld.net
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International Action Center
55 W 17th St #5C
New York, NY 10011
212-633-6646
iacenter@action-mail.org
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www.iacenter.org
[http://www.iacenter.org/polprisoners/dom-2007.htm]

National Office and NYC chapter
F.I.S.T: Fight Imperialism Stand Together
Marxist youth organization
55 W. 17 St.
New York, NY 10011
212-627-2994
Fax 212-675-7869
E-mail: FIST@workers.org
Web: www.fistyouth.wordpress.com

Troops Out Now Coalition
55 W. 17th St. #5C
NY NY 10011
www.TroopsOutNow.org
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Photo of Charlie Rangel at the podium of a March 19th, 2005 Workers World Party/Troops Out Now rally in Harlem, New York. The occasion marked the 2nd anniversary of the start of the Iraq war (Second Gulf War). The photo comes from the ("We are proud to have known Kim Il Sung as a great leader and a comrade in the international communist movement. ...") Workers World Party website.

Also appearing at this "peace" rally with the demonRat Charlie Rangel, now chairman of The House Ways and Means Committee, were Saddam Hussein lawyer, Ramsey Clark and convicted terrorist enabler/attorney, Lynne Stewart. Clark, with Workers World Party, started up that other 'peace' group, A.N.S.W.E.R. Clark also heads the International Action Center and was actually once Attorney General of the United States under democrat LBJ. -etl

Source for the photos: Workers World Party website (workers.org)
http://www.workers.org/march19/index2.html
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From David Horowitz's
FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org

PROFILE: PARTY FOR SOCIALISM AND LIBERATION (PSL)

* Marxist-Leninist antiwar group that calls for “revolution” in the United States
* Operates in tandem with International ANSWER
* Expressly supports anti-Israel and anti-American terrorism

The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) was founded in 2004, following an organizational fissure within the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party (WWP) that resulted in three WWP member branches -- based respectively in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C -- breaking away to form their own group. Openly allied with the International ANSWER Coalition (which is intimately tied to Ramsey Clark's International Action Center), PSL has also established branches in New York City (in Harlem), Baltimore, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, and West Chester, Pennsylvania.

A proponent of "revolutionary Marxism," PSL’s general raison d’etre is opposition to capitalism, which it defines as "the system in which all wealth and power is held by a tiny group of billionaires and their state," and the promotion of "socialism." The organization regards "U.S. capitalism" as the underlying cause of the war in Iraq (and all other wars) and regards "revolution" as the only viable alternative.

(snip)

Though nominally an independent group, PSL mostly acts in concert with International ANSWER. A list of campaigns and events on PSL’s website provides a summary of demonstrations and protests organized by ANSWER. PSL is staffed largely by ANSWER activists, among whom is PSL’s “leader,” Brian Becker. Other PSL members include ANSWER activist Gloria La Riva, a former gubernatorial candidate in California and a longtime apologist for communist Cuba, as well as several ANSWER coordinators and organizers, among them Saul Kanowitz, Muna Coobtee, and Caneisha Mills.

PSL is a strong supporter of Fidel Castro's Cuban government and the socialist "Bolivarian Revolution" led by Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. It also holds a favorable view of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution in 1960s China.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7278

A.N.S.W.E.R. website:
http://answer.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ANS_homepage

1 posted on 03/17/2009 6:33:17 AM PDT by ETL
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To: ETL

I initially read that headline as ‘March of the Penguin’.


2 posted on 03/17/2009 6:36:03 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

It’s basically the same thing. Both are bird brains.


3 posted on 03/17/2009 6:37:44 AM PDT by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL

I wish 1/2 a dozen Iraqis would show up with bullhorns and curse out these idiots while explaining in graphic detail what life was like under Sadaam


4 posted on 03/17/2009 6:39:05 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: nuconvert

These people are out of their minds. It’s almost impossible to reason with them.


5 posted on 03/17/2009 6:42:35 AM PDT by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL

Reminds me:

About 15yrs ago, I was trudging in from North Parking at the Pentagon, on my way into the building for another days work in the five-sided wind-tunnel when I saw a bunch of protesters blocking the walkway. Oh, darn, I recall, it was the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and the protesters were out making noise.

Well, I was walking behind a big Air Force guy, well over 6’ tall and built like a truck. His maroon beret gave away his AFSC, he was a Combat Controller (tough guys!).

Anyway, as we approached the screaming dirty hippie protesters, the Combat Controller’s arm shot out, seized the dirty hippie by the hair and threw him aside like so much trash. The dirty hippie was squirming on the ground, squealing and crying over his pulled hair.

The line of dirty hippies parted like the Red Sea and we walked, unmolested, through a silent crowd and entered the Pentagon.

What a great way to start the day!


6 posted on 03/17/2009 6:48:42 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: All
Another group that will probably be there and elsewhere around the country "protesting the war in Iraq"/calling for communist "Change" will be World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime. Speaking of "Change", they'll probably be dropping the "Drive Out the Bush Regime" portion of their name soon.

World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime is a Maoist-revolutionary movement organized by the Revolutionary Communist Party. Scroll down the list that appears (after clicking link) to find the World Can't Wait organization (rwor.org is the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party):
http://rwor.org/a/rwlink/links.htm
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From David Horowitz's FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
Profile: World Can't Wait (WCW)

*Revolutionary communist movement that stages protests against the Bush administration

*Organizes college and high-school students

*Founded in June 2005 by Charles Clark Kissinger, a longtime leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7213
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The RCP calls for the armed overthrow of the U.S. government...

From the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party (revcom.us or rwor.org) :

"Create Public Opinion, Seize Power: We are preparing minds and organizing forces for the time when there is a major crack in the system, whenever it comes and wherever it comes from: an opening that makes it possible to bring the future Revolutionary Army of the Proletariat (R.A.P.) into the field and wage a revolutionary armed struggle that actually has a chance of winning.

And we have said that building our party itself is the most important part of organizing forces for revolution. This is true now, and it is true looking forward to the creation of that future R.A.P. and the waging of that armed struggle.":

http://revcom.us/a/v20/1000-1009/1000/barw.htm
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Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA [Maoist]
Revolution interview with ["Peace Mom"] Cindy Sheehan: October 29, 2005:
['Revolution' is the newspaper of the Revolutionary Communist Party]
http://rwor.org/a/021/cindy-sheehan-interview.htm
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[Revolution] Interview with Bill Ayers, Revolution #63, October 1, 2006:
"On Progressive Education, Critical Thinking and the Cowardice of Some in Dangerous Times"
http://rwor.org/a/063/ayers-en.html
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Here's the Revolutionary Communist Party (see link below) boasting of a FULL PAGE 'World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime' ad of theirs which appeared in the New York Slimes. (either "rwor.org" or "revcom.us" takes you to the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party). The NY Times has since allowed several additional full-page RCP/WCW ads.
Article title: "Who Hated the Bush Step Down Ad in the New York Times? ...And what that Tells Us About Why We Must and How We Can Drive Out the Bush Regime"(actual title)
http://www.rwor.org/a/028/who-hated-bush-ad.htm
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"This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English..."


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On Oct 5, 2006, Democrat Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers Jr, the same guy who is leading the 'investigation' of the Bush administration, gave a friggin SPEECH to the World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime organization, the "anti-war" front for the Revolutionary Communist Party!
http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3801&Itemid=69
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Click here for a large version of this photo from wikipedia of World Can't Wait:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/World_Can%27t_Wait_J4_Demo.jpg

7 posted on 03/17/2009 6:51:11 AM PDT by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL; trooprally

This info has been posted on previous threads and the DC chapter has disseminated plans to be part of the counter-demonstration, protecting the entrance to Arlington National Cemetary. If anyone is interested in more info, please search on the website and/or freepmail trooprally.


8 posted on 03/17/2009 7:26:28 AM PDT by JoyjoyfromNJ (Psalm 121)
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To: JoyjoyfromNJ
This info has been posted on previous threads...

The info I provided here is more than just an announcement of the Mar 21 protest. It's a look into WHO the organizing groups are AND their ties to prominent democrat political leaders, such as House Ways and Means Committee chairman, Charlie Rangel and House Judiciary Committee chairman, John Conyers Jr.

9 posted on 03/17/2009 7:50:26 AM PDT by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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