MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2005
PROTEST AT AIPAC HQ & MARCH ON CONGRESS
8:30 AM - 440 1st Street NW, East of Court House exit of Judiciary Square metro, red line
U.S. OUT OF IRAQ - NO NEW WAR ON IRAN!
END OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE
The Call - Endorsers - Protest Photos
 American Israel Public Affairs Committee 440 1st Street NW Washington DC 20001-2028  See photos of June '02 and May 05 AIPAC Protests, as well as other relevant protests. See IRAQWARANDISRAEL yahoogroup for mainstream and progressive articles about Israel and its supporters' role in promoting the Iraq War. See STOPTHEWARNOW.NET for information about the coming Iran war. |
The DC Anti-war Network (DAWNDC.NET) has initiated a call for a Monday, September 26 protest at American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) headquarters at 440 1st Street NW from 8:30 to 9:30 am. (East of Court House exit of Judiciary Square metro, red line.) At 9:00 am we will have a press conference with representatives of the Jewish, Palestinian, Iranian and American peace movement communities. At 9:30 am we will march to the United States Congress to visit congressional offices and attend public sessions sponsored by the congressional U.S. Out of Iraq Caucus and Council for the National Interest (cnionline.org). This event is timed to complement later in the day civil disobedience and all-day lobby efforts by United for Peace and Justice and other groups. For more information visit http://unitedforpeace.org/ DC Anti-War Network is a member of United for Peace and Justice and organized this as one of a number of related autonomous actions. Peace, anti-war and pro-Palestinian rights activists will protest pro-Israel lobby, neoconservative and Christian Zionist-promoted US wars against both Iraq and Iran. These wars are meant not only to control oil resources and ensure United States dominance of the region, but also to secure Israel’s 57 year illegal occupation of Palestinian land and its state-sanctioned discrimination against Palestinians. Two high ranking AIPAC staffers recently were indicted for illegally receiving classified U.S. military information which enhanced AIPAC's ability to promote aggressive Middle East wars. In protesting at AIPAC and in approaching Congressional representatives, we call for: 1) a speedy withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq; 2) an end to all U.S. and/or Israel plans for pre-emptive strikes on Iran; 3) Israeli honoring of international law which supports equal rights for all and the Palestinian right of return to homes, properties, villages and cities from which they have been driven since 1948; and 4) an end to political and media labeling as “anti-Semitic” anti-war Americans who speak out for justice for the Palestinians and/or against wars promoted by neoconservatives, pro-Israel lobbyists and Christian Zionists. Three recent examples are accusations against Presbyterian groups urging divestment from companies doing business with Israel and against former CIA analyst Ray McGovern and Gold Star Families for Peace activist Cindy Sheehan, both of whom spoke at Representative John Conyers’ June 16 Downing Street Memo hearing. The DC Anti-War Network also initiated the January 21st fifty-strong “March on the Neocons” and the May 23rd seventy-five-strong protest against the AIPAC annual conference at the DC Convention Center. The latter was endorsed by over twenty activist groups nationwide. In 2002 over 1500 activists protested outside the AIPAC annual conference. See relevant calls and photographs of these protests at http://stopthewarnow.net/protests/ ** ENDORSE THIS CALL BY SEPTEMBER 19TH AND BE LISTED ON THE WEB PAGE AND THE PRESS RELEASE http://stopthewarnow.net/protests/aipacprotest-09-05.html **GET INVOLVED IN ORGANIZING, SEND OUT YOUR OWN PRESS RELEASE SUPPORTING THIS PROTEST, OR JUST TELL US YOU WILL BE THERE! CONTACT: AIPACPROTEST@EARTHLINK.NET - CALL 202-635-3739 |
ENDORSERS AS OF SEPTEMBER 17, 2005 CALL
(Note: because of summer doldrums, competing events, failure to build coalition for call,
there are just a few endorsements for this rally. Get that endorsement in NOW!!)
DC Anti-War Network
Alternative Palestinian Agenda, University of Wisconsin
Citizens For Legitimate Government http://www.legitgov.org/
Harrisburg Middle East Justice and Peace Group, Harrisburg, PA
Howard County Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
Middle
East Crisis Committee, New Haven, CT TheStruggle.org
Palestine Solidarity Committee - Seattle
Philly VietNam Veterans Against the War
INDIVIDUALS
Roy Walker, Chicago, IL Human Rights Activist
Danielle Marsden, USA
Paul Mars, member http://stpeteforpeace.org
Taleigh Smith, coordinator NY CISPES
(Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador)
P. F. Soto http://www.rule19.org/
Lenni Brenner, author of "Zionism in the Age of the Dictators"
PHOTOS OF PROTEST
About 18 protesters from all over the nation showed up to express their disgust with AIPAC and its pro-war cohorts.
At AIPAC office
Marching on Congress
At Congress - getting good use of UFPJ's old signs... Some of us then went to congressional offices distributing the AIPAC Protest and other leaflets.
