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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#d52226 size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><B>The George Galloway US Tour</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial><B>September 13-24: Boston, New York, Toronto, Madison, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C.</B></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><B>BOSTON:</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 10px"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><B>September 13, Faneuil Hall</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 10px"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><B>, 6:30pm</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial><I>Tickets </I></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial> </FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial><I>are $10 and are available through TicketWeb:</I></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><A href="http://www.ticketweb.com/" target=_blank><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#003399>http://www.ticketweb.com/</FONT></A><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial> or by Phone - 1-866-468-7619</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial> Ask for the George Galloway, MP Tour </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 10px">Limited number of tickets will be sold at the door.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#003bf1 size=2><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 10px"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial>George Galloway is Respect party Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow in East London. He recently electrified the United States with his appearance at a Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing on May 17, when he turned the proceedings into a condemnation of the war in Iraq. CNN's Wolf Blitzer described Galloway's speech in the Senate as "a blistering attack on US senators rarely heard" in Washington. A transcript of this speech can be found at </FONT><A href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1616578,00.html" target=_blank><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial><FONT class=Apple-style-span color=#0037e1>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1616578,00.html</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial>.</FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#003bf1 size=2><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 10px"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial>The devastation of Hurricane Katrina has highlighted the need to rebuild struggle against in the fact of the Government's inaction. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial>As Mr. Galloway's statement (attached below) says: </FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial><I>"In the most terrible way imaginable they show to the whole world that it is not only the lives of people in Baghdad, Fallujah and Palestine that Bush holds cheap. It is also his own citizens — the black and poor people left behind with no food, water or shelter." </I></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial>Galloway's new book is Mr. Galloway Goes to Washington (The New Press) and will be published and timed for national release in bookstores in conjunction with the tour.</FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#003bf1 size=2><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 10px"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial>Mr. Galloway will be available to sign books after the event. </FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#003bf1 size=2><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 10px"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; TEXT-DECORATION: underline"><I>Guest Speakers:</I></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 10px">Prof. Naseer Aruri, National Council of Arab Americans</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 10px">Prof. William Keach, editor, Literature and Revolution</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#68237b><B>National Tour sponsored by:</B></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#68237b> The New Press, International Socialist Review, Center for Economic Research and Social Change, the National Council of Arab Americans</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#68237b><B>Boston Co-Sponsors:</B></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#68237b> Traprock Peace Center</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial>To become a local sponsor or request table space at the event, email: </FONT><A href="http://us.f510.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=am1917@yahoo.com" target=_blank><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial><FONT class=Apple-style-span color=#0037e1>am1917@yahoo.com</FONT></FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial>For National Tour information, call Todd Chretien at 510-590-6073 or email </FONT><A href="http://us.f510.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=ToddChretien@comcast.net" target=_blank><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial><FONT class=Apple-style-span color=#0037e1>ToddChretien@comcast.net</FONT></FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial>To arrange interviews with Mr. Galloway, contact Ina Howard at The New Press, 212-564-4406 or email: </FONT><A href="http://us.f510.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=ihoward@thenewpress.com" target=_blank><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial><FONT class=Apple-style-span color=#0037e1>ihoward@thenewpress.com</FONT></FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial>For a full list of cities and local sponsors, please see the website: </FONT><A href="http://www.mrgallowaygoestowashington.com/" target=_blank><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial><FONT class=Apple-style-span color=#0037e1>http://www.mrgallowaygoestowashington.com</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#003bf1 size=2><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 10px"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 10px"><B><I>George Galloway Statement:</I></B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 10px"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; TEXT-DECORATION: underline">‘Katrina shows there are two Americas’</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 10px">The scenes from the stricken city almost defy belief. Many, many thousands of people left to die in what is the richest, most powerful country on earth.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 10px">This obscenity is as far from a natural disaster as George Bush and the US elite are from the suffering masses of New Orleans.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 10px">The images of Bush luxuriating at his ranch and of his secretary of state shopping for $7,000 shoes while disaster swamped the US Gulf Coast will haunt this administration.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 10px">In the most terrible way imaginable they show to the whole world that it is not only the lives of people in Baghdad, Fallujah and Palestine that Bush holds cheap. It is also his own citizens — the black and poor people left behind with no food, water or shelter.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 10px">This is not simply manslaughter through incompetence, though the White House’s incompetence abounds.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 10px">It is murder — for Bush was warned four years ago of the threat to New Orleans, as surely as he was warned of the disaster that would come of his war on Iraq.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 10px">Yet he plundered the city’s defences to fill the maw of his war machine, and the body count rises at home and abroad.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 10px">He has ravaged what little US welfare provision there was to such an extent that virtually the only public institution left is the Pentagon’s repressive apparatus deployed against the people of Iraq and now, as sickeningly, against his own citizens scavenging for fresh water.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 10px">His is the America of Halliburton, the M16 rifle, the cluster bomb, the gated communities of the rich and of the billionaires he grew up with in Texas.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 10px">There is another America. It is the land of the poor of Louisiana, it is the land of the young men and women economically conscripted into the military.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 10px">It is the land of the glorious multiethnic mix that was New Orleans, it is the land of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and of great struggles for justice.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 10px">It is to that America that I am travelling next week to begin a national speaking tour.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 10px">It is the people of that America, the majority, who will take to the streets of Washington on 24 September to march against the war on Iraq and, we must now add, against the war of rich America against its own citizens.</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV><p>
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