Date: Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 9:56 AM
Subject: SAT Nov 21: Don't Let Paris be Pretext for More War!
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Subject: SAT Nov 21: Don't Let Paris be Pretext for More War!
Call
to Action: Not Another US War!
Don't Allow the Paris Attacks to
Become a Pretext for Racism & War
We Need Healthcare, Education, and Jobs for All!
We Need Healthcare, Education, and Jobs for All!
facebook
event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1089935431039761/
Where
are we demonstrating? Park
Street and Tremont, Boston
When? Nov.
21 at 1pm
Why?
The US-NATO alliance just completed its largest military operation to date in Europe – called Trident Junction – with Russia as the main target. At the same time, Washington escalated its four-plus-year proxy war against the Syrian government by sending Eagle jets to the Turkish-Syrian border and U.S. Special Forces into Syrian territory to protect the so-called “moderate rebels.”
The US-NATO alliance just completed its largest military operation to date in Europe – called Trident Junction – with Russia as the main target. At the same time, Washington escalated its four-plus-year proxy war against the Syrian government by sending Eagle jets to the Turkish-Syrian border and U.S. Special Forces into Syrian territory to protect the so-called “moderate rebels.”
All
of this has come in response to Russia’s intervention to eliminate ISIS in
Syria. The Obama administration’s campaign promise of “no boots on the ground”
has once again been broken. What Washington has promised with its actions is
ever-lasting war.
People
all over the world have paid a price for the U.S.-NATO escalation. Hundreds have
died in a recent massacre in Paris. Fifty died in Beirut just days before.
Hundreds more died just weeks before in the bombing of a Russian tourist flight
from Egypt. Washington and its allies have armed and empowered terrorist groups
like ISIS to destabilize the Syrian government. The result of this U.S. and NATO
military intervention in the region is the blowback that struck the people at
home. This intervention has also led to a dangerous military escalation that
brings the U.S. closer to a regional war with Russia.
The
cost of U.S. war has been far reaching. Over 4 million people have died in
Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq since the “War on Terror” began in 2001. North
Africa has been turned into a hotbed of chaos and terrorism since NATO destroyed
Libya in 2011. And Congress has promised $80 billion more in revenue for the
trillion dollar Pentagon military apparatus necessary to maintain the global
supremacy of the U.S. superrich. These critical funds come from our own pockets
and could be used to develop education, healthcare, employment, and housing for
all.
This
is especially important as the wars on oppressed people continue to wage on
within the war-making nations. The racist anti-immigrant movements in Europe and
the U.S. are already planning how they will use the attacks in Paris on November
13 to bolster their violent campaigns against African, Arab, and Latino
immigrants. Police chiefs across the U.S. who have been pushed back by the Black
Lives Matter movement are at this very movement feverishly strategizing about
how they will use the Paris attacks to support the ongoing police war against
Black and Brown people.Homeland Security and the Wall Street interests that it
serves will try to use the Paris attacks to expand surveillance and repression
against protest movements. Politicians and their billionaire backers are already
plotting how they will use the Paris attacks to launch a wider war against the
peoples of the Middle East, Africa and Asia -- the same way that Bush used 911
to destroy Iraq. Now is the time for all of us who know this to stand up and say
NO!
Join
us at Park Street in Boston to speak out and demand an end to all U.S.-NATO
wars! U.S. out of Syria! No to attacks on Immigrants! Divest from war, invest in
the people!
Sponsors
include: International Action Center, Syrian American Forum, Committee for Peace
and Human Rights, Boston
United National Anti-War Coalition, Community Activist Chuck Turner, Coalition
for Equal Quality Education Peoples Power Assembly, Women's Fightback
Netork, Fight Imperialism Stand Together (FIST), Workers World Boston branch
(list in formation)
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