( – promoted by buhdydharma )
In an attempt to reenergize the U.S. antiwar movement, activists from the American Friends Service Committee, U.S. Labor Against the War, and veterans against the war have formed a steering committee, the National Assembly. The Assembly’s first act is to call for a national meeting of antiwar activists, to be held on June 27-28, 2008, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio. All antiwar coalitions, organizations, and activists are welcome to attend.
Endorsers of the National Assembly include the Iraq Moratorium, Veterans for Peace, A.N.S.W.E.R., UFPJ, the National Lawyers Guild, Progressive Democrats of America, AfterDowningStreet, Cindy Sheehan, Howard Zinn, Ramsey Clark, Scott Ritter, and many others.
The position of the assembly is that there must be an immediate and unconditional withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq. Since there is no mechanism such as a national referendum to force a withdrawal, the American people are left with mass action in the streets. It is believed by the organizers that the best way to prepare such mass mobilizations is through “democratic and open conferences that function transparently, with all who attend having the right to vote.”
You can endorse the National Assembly, and details of the conference and their positions can be found at their website.
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Important stuff going on these days!
to address them. He’s had some insightful critique of the anti-war movement as a whole. Put a lot of thought into it. His vision is certainly not weak-kneed.
I’ve been hoping for something to bring all the groups together. 🙂
It must be opposition to the Empire, and sense of our entitlement to unlimited consumerism/consumption at the expense of every other living thing on the planet.
I’m glad this Assembly is happening and that you brought it to our attention.
It was the coalitions coming together for a single purpose that brought the critical mass to the 60s Peace movement. ’08 is getting to be more of a ’68 repeat every day. Let’s hope the DLC and Hillary don’t repeat the disaster of the Dem establishment and HHH. There are too many of us this time to let them get away with it. I hope.
Silence is not golden. Silence is complicity.
Shanti.
where a few job openings were announced, some years ago, and about 940 brazillian Ohioans lined up to beg for applications?
thanks so much for bringing this here.