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<div> Northeastern U. Campus Against War and Racism (NUCAWR) has called a speakout on campus for Thurs. at 5--anyone and everyone, on campus and off, is welcome and encouraged to attend. Perhaps it can get the ball rolling in terms of planning a bigger, city-wide action along the lines that Dan is proposing.
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<div>Speak Out: "MONEY FOR, RELIEF NOT WAR!"<br>Thursday: Sep 8th
<div>Northeastern University<br>Krentzman Quad (On Huntington Ave., near "Northeastern" T stop on the Green Line, E Branch)<br>5:00 pm - 6:00pm<br><br>The backwards priorities of this government have been exposed through
<br>the unfolding horror we have all witnessed in the states hit by<br>Hurricane Katrina. As the category 4 storm approached the Gulf coast<br>last weekend, residents were simply advised to flee. Lacking<br>transportation and money, the poor of the area - disproportionately
<br>African-American - were literally left behind to die. As the days<br>added up and images of pleading stranded victims were released, it has<br>become even clearer that race and class are at the heart of this<br>crisis, and not a natural disaster.
<br><br>Bush's smirk-filled comment that "I don't think anyone could have<br>anticipated the breach of the levees" has been proven completely<br>false. In fact, as recently as this year, he was warned by the Army
<br>Corp of Engineers that a category 4 hurricane could breach the levees<br>and kill thousands.<br><br>The tragic connection between the crisis in New Orleans and the<br>occupation of Iraq couldn't be clearer. The hundreds of millions of
<br>dollars allocated to make sure this sort of disaster never occurred<br>were instead used to pay for the war in Iraq. Now Iraqis are dying<br>from American bombs that were paid for with money that should have<br>gone to protecting the people of the Gulf Coast. The US spends $5.6
<br>billion in Iraq every month while people are left in New Orleans to<br>die from dehydration and starvation.<br><br>Millions of Americans are rightfully outraged at the government's<br>direct responsibility for this man-made disaster.
<br><br>Demands include: calling on your campus' administration to<br>accept (and grant free tuition) ALL students from the hurricane-<br>affected area, not just those from elite schools; calling for your<br>administration to donate to the NAACP relief fund; give students
<span></span> <br>course credit to go assist with relief and rebuilding efforts. Direct<br>aid is also desperately needed, and we recommend it be sent to the<br>NAACP Relief Fund, which has been set up to help black communities
<br>that are being systematically overlooked by the Red Cross. Info can be <br>found at <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.naacp.org/" target="_blank">www.naacp.org</a> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.naacp.org/" target="_blank">
http://www.naacp.org/</a>>, or direct donations may be<br>made online at: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://store.yahoo.com/naacp-donate1/" target="_blank">http://store.yahoo.com/naacp-donate1/
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/7/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Cook</b> <<a href="mailto:pseacook@comcast.net">pseacook@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">This is an excellent idea.<br><br>The Troops Out Now Coalition (<a href="http://www.troopsoutnow.org">http://www.troopsoutnow.org
</a>) put out a<br>call for a National Day of Outrage To Demand Justice for Hurricane<br>Katrina Victims on Monday, Sept. 12. To date several dozen cities<br>including: New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, Amherst, New Haven,
<br>Charleston SC, Jackson MS, Miami FL, Minneapolis-St.Paul, Detroit,<br>Jersey City, Los Angeles, Houston, Raleigh, Washington DC, San<br>Francisco, Chicago, Cleveland, Baltimore, Philadelphia, San Diego,<br>Seattle, St Louis, Kansas City, Memphis, Milwaukee, Atlanta are all
<br>planning activities on the day.<br><br>We have been planning for a protest at JFK for Monday, Sept. 12 at<br>5:00pm and would like to open it up to the Oct. 29 Coalition for<br>participation.<br><br>I have attached a copy of the flyer that we are using.
<br><br>Peter Cook<br>International Action Center<br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:O29-bounces@massglobalaction.org">O29-bounces@massglobalaction.org</a><br>[mailto:<a href="mailto:O29-bounces@massglobalaction.org">
O29-bounces@massglobalaction.org</a>] On Behalf Of Dan DiMaggio<br>Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 10:28 AM<br>To: <a href="mailto:O29@massglobalaction.org">O29@massglobalaction.org</a><br>Subject: [O29] Proposal for demonstration: Money for Relief, Not War
<br><br>Hi everyone,<br><br>The disaster of Hurricane Katrina has exposed how backward the<br>priorities of our government are - spending hundreds of billions to<br>fight an unjust war in Iraq while defunding levee systems and leaving
<br>tens of thousands of mainly poor, African-American people to suffer<br>and die in New Orleans. I think that this is a turning point in<br>American society - "the bursting point," as David Brooks called it in
<br>the New York Times. Socialist Alternative would like to propose that<br>the October 29th coalition discuss and organize a demonstration soon<br>in solidarity with the victims of Hurricane Katrina to demand "Money
<br>for Relief, Not for War." Since this coalition includes activists<br>from many different anti-war organizations, a demonstration organized<br>by this coalition would be capable of mobilizing the largest numbers<br>
of people, more than just demonstrations called by any of our<br>individual organizations (although I'm not trying to discourage that).<br>Such a demonstration should try to reach out to African-American<br>community organizations and clearly protest the racist (lack
<br>of) response on the part of the government. It could also help to<br>mobilize people for September 24th. I think that it would be best if<br>this demonstration was organized soon - sometime next week - both to<br>give us time to organize it but also to respond rapidly to these
<br>events. A demonstration in front of the Federal Building would<br>probably be the most effective. I think that people are looking for a<br>way to vent their anger at the government on this issue, and that it<br>is our task to organize a political response. September 24th will be
<br>the big one, but a united local action before then would also be good.<br><br>Can this be placed on the agenda for tonight's meeting?<br><br>In solidarity,<br><br>Dan DiMaggio<br>Boston Socialist Alternative<br>Tufts Coalition Opposed to the War in Iraq
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lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many<br>waters.... Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and<br>it never will."<br>Frederick Douglass, 1857<br><br><br><br><br>______________________________________________________
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