[PAA-Discuss] FW: [friends_of_kpft] Open letter to UFPJ
Lee Loe
leeloe at igc.org
Tue Feb 20 00:16:19 EST 2007
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From: friends_of_kpft at yahoogroups.com
[mailto:friends_of_kpft at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Gloria Rubac
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 8:02 PM
To: Al-Awda Texas Group; Friends of KPFT; Houston ABC; Houston Global
Awareness; Latinos Por La Paz
Subject: [friends_of_kpft] Open letter to UFPJ
Dear Friends,
I am signing on to this letter to UFPJ and want to ask you to do so also.
This is not for the public, but something that will be sent to the UFPJ
leadership. If you would like to add your voice, please email me and I will
make sure you are added.
(I think the anti-war movement in Houston needs to be planning what we will
do on the 4th anniversary--either send a bus to DC or have an action here.
I hope we could do both.)
Please sign on to the following letter by directly replying to this
email from me, and circulate the letter widely to other progressive list
serves and individuals. Below are only the initial signers. I am sure there
will be many, many more. For some reason that I have not been made aware
of, I don't seem to be able to post anything on Houston's notinourname list
so if someone could put this on that list for me, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks,
Gloria
OPEN LETTER TO UFPJ (CIRCULATE WIDELY)
Dear sisters and brothers in the leadership of United for Peace and
Justice,
It is with deep concern, sincerity and hope that we the undersigned
appeal to you to cancel the protest that you have only recently
announced for March 18 in New York City, well after plans had been
announced for a D.C. mobilization, thus setting up misconceptions and
promoting confusion.
We urge you to support and work for a united mobilization in Washington
and use the power of your outreach to endorse and support the march on
the Pentagon on March 17 to mark the fourth anniversary of the war.
Surely you must know that the activists in the antiwar movement view
your late announcement of a March 18 event as little more than a
deliberate attempt to undermine the long scheduled mobilization to
Washington and the Pentagon on Saturday, March 17; the talk already
going around is:"Why isn't UFPJ supporting the March on the Pentagon?"
People do not see it as uniting.
The hard working rank and file activists of the anti-war movement, as
well as the millions of people who have come out to antiwar
demonstrations don't care which coalition calls the march, or what the
political differences are between the various coalitions, or about the
history of problems that the coalitions have had working together;what
they want is for us to march together, especially now.
Indeed, hardworking anti-war activists have attended all rallies called
by UFPJ as well as the other coalitions; therefore, demonstrating a
consistent expression of unity.We should then expect nothing less from
those who have taken leadership responsibility within the U.S. anti-war
movement.
The broad array of forces that comprise the resistance to the Iraq war,
and new looming wars ie Iran expect the people in decision making
positions to take the high road,focus the peoples' energy on common,
united actions and pave the road together to strengthen our unity for
peace with justice.
Would it not be an enormous step forward, indeed a step towards
revitalizing the anti-war movement, if all concerned abandoned the
cynical infighting and divisiveness that only serves to make the
movement more fragmented, and weak? UFPJ can make that possible, by
calling on its supporters to JOIN ONE LARGE AND STRONG ACTION IN
WASHINGTON ON MARCH 17. Anything short of that spreads more negativity
than positive unity.
Dear friends, please take this appeal to heart and help unite us all on
March 17, 2007.
Sincerely,
Abayomi Azikiwe, Editor, Pan-African News Wire,
Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice
BAYAN USA
Brenda Stokely, Co-Convener New York Labor Against The
War, Operation Power, TONC, MWMM, MAY 1 Coalition
Comrade Shahid, Pakistan USA Freedom Forum
Charles Barron , New York City Councilmember
Chris Silvera, Secretary Treasurer, IBT Local 808,
Million Worker March Movement (MWMM), National Black
Teamsters Caucus
Ellie Ommani, member, WESPAC, AIFC, NoWarWestchester, PNN
Eric Anders-Nilsson, Jersey City Peace Movement
Heather Cottin, LI Coalition for Immigrant Rights*
Jesse Lokahi Heiwa , Queer People Of Color Action
Larry Adams, Co-Convener New York Labor Against The War
(NYCLAW)
Michael Letwin, Co-Convener, New York City Labor Against
the War & Former Member, UFPJ National and NYC steering committees
Saladin Muhammad, Member, Black Workers For Justice
Teresa Gutierrez, New York Committee to Free the Cuban Five
Troops Out Now Coalition
Vicente Alba-Panama, Activist
Lee Loe, Defenders of Habeas Corpus, We thank you. Houston, TX
"Without struggle, there can be no progress."
Frederick Douglass
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