[HCCN] Fwd:Featured Speakers at April 9 NY Antiwar and Bangor; and Honor the legacy of MLK

Thu Apr 7 01:03:31 UTC 2011

[For those going to NY this weekend, read below for featured speakers  
at the rallies.  ( Peninsula Peace & Justice is an endorsing  
organization...)
For those not going to NY, please read below and plan to attend  
(scroll down) for the event in Bangor, organized by Peace & Justice  
Center E. Maine (also co-sponsored by PPJ) -- JR]

> United National
> Antiwar Committee
> UNACpeace at gmail.com or UNAC at P.O. Box 123, Delmar, NY 12054
> 518-227-6947  www.UNACpeace.org
>
>
> Protest the Wars at home and abroad in New York City on April 9 and  
> San Francisco on April 10
>
>
> (Please forward widely) -
>
>
> Dear Peace Activists,
>
> In this email:
>      Featured Speakers at April 9th UNAC Demonstration (additional  
> speakers in SF on April 10)
>      HONOR THE LEGACY OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING: MARCH FOR JOBS AND  
> AGAINST WAR ON APRIL 9TH!
>
> Featured Speakers at April 9th UNAC Demonstration
> Join thousands of activists at the United National Antiwar  
> Committee rally on April 9th in New York City. We march to bring an  
> end to all the US occupations and US-supported occupations from  
> Iraq to Afghanistan and Palestine. We march to bring all the troops  
> home NOW. We march in solidarity with the struggle for democracy in  
> the Middle East and North Africa.
> We march to end the war at home against workers, Muslims, and  
> people of color. We march to bring the war dollars home to meet our  
> needs. We march in solidarity with the Japanese people to end US- 
> backed expansion of nuclear power at home and abroad.
> The rally will feature key leaders of the antiwar movement from  
> across the United States and around the world. Join them to raise  
> our voices for a new world of peace and justice. See the fantastic  
> list of speakers below as well as all the information you need to  
> build and attend the demonstration.
> Featured Speakers:
> Omar Barghouti
> Ann Wright
> Vijay Prashad
> Cindy Sheehan
> Ramsey Clark
> Sara Flounders
> Harvey Wasserman
> Seemi Ahmed
> Joe Lombardo
> Mary Richmond
> Hatem Abudayyeh
> Marilyn Levin
> Howie Hawkins
> Malik Mujahid
> Lisa Savage
> George Gresham
> Vinie Burrows
> John Samuelson
> Ahmed Shawki
> Pardiss Kebriaei
> Glen Ford
> Sherry Wolf
> Charles Barron
> Nada Khader
> Jose Vasquez
> Statements from Mumia Abu Jamal, Kevin Cooper, and Lynne Stewart
>
> HONOR THE LEGACY OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING: MARCH FOR JOBS AND  
> AGAINST WAR ON APRIL 9TH!
>
> Today, April 4, 2011, unions and their allies rally all across the  
> country to protest unionbusting and to carry on the example set by  
> our heroic sisters and brothers in Wisconsin. We march today  
> because it’s the anniversary of the assassination of Rev. Martin  
> Luther King, Jr., who gave his life on April 4, 1968 while fighting  
> for the rights of workers in Memphis.
> Exactly one year before, on April 4, 1967, Dr. King took a heroic  
> stand by linking the fight for jobs and against racism to the  
> struggle against Washington’s wars abroad.
> In his speech on April 4th at Riverside Church, Dr. King said:
> "A time comes when silence is betrayal." That time has come for us  
> in relation to Vietnam…
> “Over the past two years, as I have moved to break the betrayal of  
> my own silences and to speak from the burnings of my own heart, as  
> I have called for radical departures from the destruction of  
> Vietnam, many persons have questioned me about the wisdom of my  
> path… Why are you speaking about war, Dr. King? Why are you joining  
> the voices of dissent? Peace and civil rights don't mix, they say.  
> Aren't you hurting the cause of your people, they ask?”
> In reply he spoke to them of the inseparable nature of the fight  
> for justice at home and abroad.
> He linked the failure of domestic antipoverty programs to the huge  
> sums wasted on death and destruction in Vietnam: “I was  
> increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and  
> to attack it as such.”
> He noted that it was the poorest working class youth – especially  
> people of color – who were asked to fight and die out of all  
> proportion to their numbers in the population.
> He further noted that the US was not fighting for freedom and  
> justice, but that our government was making war “on the side of the  
> wealthy and the secure while we create hell for the poor,” in order  
> to protect “the immense profits of overseas investment.”
> He educated his listeners how “individual capitalists of the West  
> [are] investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa and South  
> America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the  
> social betterment of the countries.”
> And in a line that still has the ring of truth as people are rising  
> up all over North Africa and the Middle East for freedom and  
> justice, he declared: “These are revolutionary times. All over the  
> globe men are revolting against old systems of exploitation and  
> oppression and out of the wombs of a frail world new systems of  
> justice and equality are being born… We in the West must support  
> these revolutions… Our only hope today lies in our ability to  
> recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes  
> hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and  
> militarism.”
> The workers of Wisconsin, who expressed their admiration for and  
> solidarity with the workers of Egypt, who know that an injury  
> abroad is an injury at home, are following directly in the  
> footsteps of Dr. King. Let’s continue in their path!
> HONOR THE LEGACY OF DR. KING BY JOINING THE APRIL 9TH NATIONAL  
> MARCH FOR JOBS AND AGAINST WAR! This march is endorsed by 1199  
> United Health Care Workers East, Transport Workers Union Local 100,  
> and Teamsters Local 808. Get your local union to endorse and send  
> buses!
>
>
> Demonstration Information:
>  Logistics: http://nepajac.org/logisticspage[1].htm
> To Endorse: http://nationalpeaceconference.org/Page_2.html
> To Volunteer: http://www.jotform.com/form/10804714127
> Donate to UNAC: http://nationalpeaceconference.org/Donate.html
>
> Click here for the Facebook UNAC group.
>
>

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Rally and Walk to
Bring Our War $$$ Home
In support of national demonstrations in New York and SanFrancisco

Saturday, April 9th 1:00 p.m.
Paul Bunyan Park, Bangor
(walk from Paul Bunyan Park to Westmarket Square*)

Speakers:

Douglas Allen, Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine
William Murphy, Bureau of Labor Education University of Maine
Maryalice Horrigan, Gold Star Mother
Dud Hendrick, Veterans for Peace Chapter 001
Mary Ellen Quinn, Pax Christi, Maine
Ryan Tipping-Spitz, Maine People's Alliance
Representative of Greater Bangor NAACP
Representative of Dignity Campaign

Performances by
Tripeace with Judd Esty-Kendall and Larry and Leslie Latour
Voices for Peace

Sponsoring Organizations

Veterans for Peace Chapter 001; Veterans for Peace Chapter 003; Peace  
& Justice Group of Waldo County; Greater Bangor NAACP; Pax Christi,  
Maine;
Orono Peace Group; Peace & Justice Center of Northern Maine;  
Waterville Bridges for Peace; Peninsula Peace & Justice; Midcoast  
Peace & Justice; Alamoosook Progressive Alliance, Bucksport; H.O.M.E.  
Orland; PICA (Power in Community Alliances)

*Walk planned to Cascade Park has been changed to Westmarket Square  
so that more can  participate.

Let us now if you can help to set up before the rally and help take  
down after.

Help organize a carpool from your community.

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