{"id":2282,"date":"2011-03-01T15:39:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T21:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lavozlit.com\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2011-03-01T15:39:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T21:39:56","slug":"unac-on-libya-wisconsin-and-april-9th-10th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/2011\/03\/01\/unac-on-libya-wisconsin-and-april-9th-10th\/","title":{"rendered":"UNAC on Libya, Wisconsin and April 9th & 10th"},"content":{"rendered":"

United National<\/span><\/strong>
\nAntiwar Committee<\/span><\/strong>
\nUNACpeace@gmail.com<\/a> or UNAC at P.O. Box 123, Delmar, NY 12054
\n518-227-6947<\/a> www.UNACpeace.org<\/a>
\nUNAC Statement on U.S. Non-Intervention in Libya and Other Countries. <\/strong>
\n Building Mass Demonstrations April 9\/10<\/strong>
\nReport on Wisconsin.<\/strong>
\n 
\nUNAC Statement on U.S. Non-Intervention in Libya and Other Countries<\/strong>
\n 
\nAt great risks to their lives, activists organizing to oppose oppressive, dictatorial regimes in the Middle East and North Africa have inspired us by their courage and determination.\u00a0\u00a0 We ruefully acknowledge past and continuing U.S. support for dictatorships and military rule in the region.\u00a0 We recognize that the U.S. has been directly involved in supplying weapons and other forms of support to regimes that have committed atrocious human rights abuses against civilians.\u00a0 Conscious of our responsibility to stop the United States from further manipulations that would interfere with movements on behalf of true democratic developments in other countries, UNAC calls for an immediate halt to U.S. intervention in regions and countries where mass mobilizations are challenging oppressive regimes.
\nWe have seen the horrific consequences of U.S.\/U.N. imposed economic sanctions against Iraq, as well as the consequences of U.S.\/U.N. operation of \u201cno-fly zones\u201d over northern and southern Iraq, prior to the U.S. Shock and Awe attacks and invasion.
\nWe therefore oppose any form of U.S. military or economic intervention in Libya, Egypt, Bahrain, Tunisia and other countries where movements are rising in opposition to dictatorships and military rule.
\n <\/strong>
\nBuilding April 9th<\/sup> and 10th<\/sup>.<\/strong>
\n 
\nThe myth that the US military can bring democracy to countries like Iraq and Afghanistan is being exposed as we approach 10 years of occupation in Afghanistan with little in the way of democracy to show for it.\u00a0 Yet it took the largely non-violent masses of Egypt only 18 days.
\n 
\nAs revolutionary upsurges directed at U.S.-supported dictatorships continue through Northern Africa and the Middle East, the need for a vibrant antiwar movement in the US becomes clearer.\u00a0 We must build a movement that can help stay the hand of the US military from intervening in these struggles.\u00a0 It is in this context that we are building the demonstrations on April 9th<\/sup> in New York City and April 10th<\/sup> in San Francisco.
\n 
\nThe examples of Tunisia and Egypt are being learned by the masses throughout the world as one country after the next explode with protest.\u00a0 This is not only true in Northern Africa and the Middle East but the workers in Greece have had 8 general strikes in the past months, students in Puerto Rico are fighting against tuition increases, and the workers in Wisconsin occupy the Capitol and refuse to leave.
\n 
\nThe world has changed since we held the founding conference of UNAC last July and the April 9th<\/sup> and 10th<\/sup> demonstrations have taken on an added importance.\u00a0 This is a major opportunity to bring the broad movement against war and repression at home and abroad together in a unified show of force and solidarity as we protest U.S. policies and show the interconnectedness of these struggles. We need to work together to make these demonstrations as big as possible. The list of over 400 endorsers continues to grow from groups around the country and around the world.\u00a0 Solidarity demonstrations are being planned in several other countries including Afghanistan.
\n 
\nIf your organization has not yet endorsed, please click here and do so<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 If you have not yet sent in your transportation information, please click here and do so<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 Now is the time to make a big push towards April 9th<\/sup> and 10th<\/sup>.
\n 
\nUNAC needs volunteers now and on the day of the actions.\u00a0 If you can volunteer to help, please let us know when you are available by emailing to UNACpeace@gmail.com<\/span><\/a>.
\n 
\nWe also need your financial support.\u00a0 Please send a check to UNAC at UNAC, PO Box 123, Delmar, NY 12054.
\n <\/strong>
\n 
\nReport on Wisconsin.<\/strong>
\nA UNAC team was present at the rally of 100,000 in Wisconsin on Saturday, February 26.\u00a0 We carried a 12-foot banner and handed out thousands of leaflets for the April 9th<\/sup> demonstration with the added demand of \u201cStop the War on Unions\u201d and included the UNAC statement in support of the Wisconsin workers (click here to see the statement<\/span><\/a>).
\nPhil Wilayto, one of the people who headed our team reported, \u00a0\u201cOn Saturday, temperatures were in the mid-teens and it was snowing hard, but spirits were soaring as some 100,000 union members, students, youth and other supporters began pouring into the capital area. Using a sympathetic coffeehouse as a base (almost all small businesses in the city display signs supporting the unions), we managed to get out around 4,000 fliers.\u00a0 The response was tremendous. While leafleting, we had lots of conversations with workers about the links between the war budget and the state deficit. People were very open and receptive, many were in full agreement and I don’t know of anyone receiving a negative comment.\u201d
\n<\/span>In solidarity,<\/span>
\nJoe Lombardo and Marilyn Levin<\/span>
\nUNAC co-coordinators<\/span>
\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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