End the Racist Wars at Home and Abroad
Nationally Coordinated March & Rally
Saturday, April 9, 2011
12PM – 4PM
Union Square Park
New York City
March with our dynamic contingent!
Assemble at 12PM on 17th Street and Broadway
(North West Corner of Union Square Park)
Be part of our cultural, colorful and militant contingent of workers, youth, womyn, im/migrants, LGBTQ & allies. This event is part of the nationally coordinated action by the United National Antiwar Committee.
“The war against working people should be understood to be a real war… Specifically in the U.S., which happens to have a highly class-conscious business class… And they have long seen themselves as fighting a bitter class war, except they don’t want anybody else to know about it.” — Noam Chomsky
In the last decade, the world has seen war intensified at home and abroad. Whether one considers Baghdad, Tunis, Manila, Gaza, New York, or New Orleans as one’s home, economic and political hardship has become more severe for the majority of the 6.91 billion people in the world. Since President Obama has taken into office in January 2009, little has changed from the Bush administration’s foreign policy of war and militarization. With US troops in 150 countries and after spending $1.17 trillion in Iraq and Afghanistan — murdering hundreds of thousands of civilians, including innocent women and children — the US government has expanded its racist-imperialist conquest and repression by heightening a call for new wars in the interest of controlling oil and natural gas reserves in Libya, Bahrain and Yemen. The quest for profit through waging war on sovereign nations renders no one safer or more secure.
The US Government has not only expanded the war against sovereign countries like Libya — the largest oil-producing country in Africa — but it has intensified the war waged on US soil. Public schools are shut down while net assets of billionaires shoot up. With $14 trillion in bailouts for banks and corporations, the general public is told that the US economy is bankrupt and must shoulder sacrifices in the form of lay-offs, decreased benefits and union busting in Wisconsin, Ohio, New Jersey and other cities in the US. During the financial crisis of 2008, when workers experienced the highest unemployment rates since the 1930’s Great Depression, the top 400 richest Americans have increased their wealth by $30 billion — with a combined wealth of $1.57 trillion, the top 400 in the US have more than 50% of the 300 million total US population. It is clear that the economic crisis is aimed at further debilitating the already marginalized sectors of society.
If poor, working and middle class people are going to have a future, we must collectively voice our opposition to the ongoing war at home and abroad. We must challenge the bleak circumstances that we are presented with today. This can only happen through educating, organizing and mobilizing in the streets, our neighborhoods, workplaces and wherever we experience injustices. We must do this if we expect to have a life of decency and dignity for us, our global community and generations to come.
* No to US War on Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan & Everywhere!
* No more blood for oil! Bombs won’t liberate Libya!
* From Palestine to the Philippines, end US intervention now!
* Money for jobs & education, not for war & occupation!
To march with us or for more information, contact DAMAYAN/UGNAYAN: (212) 564-6057, contact@damayanmigrants.org, ugnayan.nyj@gmail.com
