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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> friends_of_kpft@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:friends_of_kpft@yahoogroups.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Gloria
Rubac<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, February 19, 2007 8:02 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Al-Awda
Texas Group; Friends of KPFT; Houston ABC; Houston Global Awareness; Latinos Por
La Paz<BR><B>Subject:</B> [friends_of_kpft] Open letter to
UFPJ<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Dear Friends,</DIV>
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<DIV>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. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>(I think the anti-war movement in Houston needs to be planning what we will
do on the 4th anniversary-<WBR>-either send a bus to DC or have an action
here. I hope we could do both.)<BR></DIV>
<DIV>Please sign on to the following letter by directly replying to this
<BR>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. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Thanks,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Gloria<BR><BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">OPEN LETTER TO
UFPJ (CIRCULATE WIDELY)<BR><BR><BR>Dear sisters and brothers in the leadership
of United for Peace and <BR>Justice,<BR><BR>It is with deep concern, sincerity
and hope that we the undersigned <BR>appeal to you to cancel the protest that
you have only recently <BR>announced for March 18 in New York City, well after
plans had been <BR>announced for a D.C. mobilization, thus setting up
misconceptions and <BR>promoting confusion.<BR><BR>We urge you to support and
work for a united mobilization in Washington <BR>and use the power of your
outreach to endorse and support the march on <BR>the Pentagon on March 17 to
mark the fourth anniversary of the war.<BR><BR>Surely you must know that the
activists in the antiwar movement view <BR>your late announcement of a March
18 event as little more than a <BR>deliberate attempt to undermine the long
scheduled mobilization to <BR>Washington and the Pentagon on Saturday, March
17; the talk already <BR>going around is:"Why isn't UFPJ supporting the March
on the Pentagon?" <BR>People do not see it as uniting.<BR><BR>The hard working
rank and file activists of the anti-war movement, as <BR>well as the millions
of people who have come out to antiwar <BR>demonstrations don't care which
coalition calls the march, or what the <BR>political differences are between
the various coalitions, or about the <BR>history of problems that the
coalitions have had working together;what <BR>they want is for us to march
together, especially now.<BR><BR>Indeed, hardworking anti-war activists have
attended all rallies called <BR>by UFPJ as well as the other coalitions;
therefore, demonstrating a <BR>consistent expression of unity.We should then
expect nothing less from <BR>those who have taken leadership responsibility
within the U.S. anti-war <BR>movement.<BR><BR>The broad array of forces that
comprise the resistance to the Iraq war, <BR>and new looming wars ie Iran
expect the people in decision making <BR>positions to take the high road,focus
the peoples' energy on common, <BR>united actions and pave the road together
to strengthen our unity for <BR>peace with justice.<BR><BR>Would it not be an
enormous step forward, indeed a step towards <BR>revitalizing the anti-war
movement, if all concerned abandoned the <BR>cynical infighting and
divisiveness that only serves to make the <BR>movement more fragmented, and
weak? UFPJ can make that possible, by <BR>calling on its supporters to JOIN
ONE LARGE AND STRONG ACTION IN <BR>WASHINGTON ON MARCH 17. Anything short of
that spreads more negativity <BR>than positive unity.<BR><BR>Dear friends,
please take this appeal to heart and help unite us all on <BR>March 17,
2007.<BR><BR>Sincerely,<BR><BR>Abayomi Azikiwe, Editor, Pan-African News
Wire,<BR>Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice<BR><BR>BAYAN
USA<BR><BR>Brenda Stokely, Co-Convener New York Labor Against The<BR>War,
Operation Power, TONC, MWMM, MAY 1 Coalition<BR><BR>Comrade Shahid, Pakistan
USA Freedom Forum<BR><BR>Charles Barron , New York City
Councilmember<BR><BR>Chris Silvera, Secretary Treasurer, IBT Local
808,<BR>Million Worker March Movement (MWMM), National Black<BR>Teamsters
Caucus<BR><BR>Ellie Ommani, member, WESPAC, AIFC, NoWarWestchester,
PNN<BR><BR>Eric Anders-Nilsson, Jersey City Peace Movement<BR><BR>Heather
Cottin, LI Coalition for Immigrant Rights*<BR><BR>Jesse Lokahi Heiwa , Queer
People Of Color Action<BR><BR>Larry Adams, Co-Convener New York Labor Against
The War<BR>(NYCLAW)<BR><BR>Michael Letwin, Co-Convener, New York City Labor
Against<BR>the War & Former Member, UFPJ National and NYC steering
committees<BR><BR>Saladin Muhammad, Member, Black Workers For
Justice<BR><BR>Teresa Gutierrez, New York Committee to Free the Cuban
Five<BR><BR>Troops Out Now Coalition<BR><BR>Vicente Alba–Panama,
Activist<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><SPAN class=296101505-20022007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff> Lee Loe, Defenders of Habeas Corpus, We thank you.
Houston, TX </FONT></SPAN><BR><BR>
<DIV><FONT color=#6000bf>"Without struggle, there can be no progress."
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#6000bf>Frederick Douglass</FONT></DIV>
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