De : "John Catalinotto" <jcat@wwpublish.com>
Date : Sun, 15 Dec 2002 00:02:02 -0500
À : undisclosed-recipients:Objet : IMPORTANT message from ANSWER--appeal

 Dear friends:Below is a call from the ANSWER coalition forinternational actions Jan. 18 against the war drive, plussome announcements of changes in specific plans for that> weekend. Please give it your attention.
 John Catalinotto

CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL ACTIONS ON JAN. 18


 The ANSWER Coalition calls on all those people and
 organizations around the world who oppose the threatened
 U.S. war on Iraq to find a way in your own countries on or
 around January 18-19, 2003, to protest as ANSWER protests
 within the United States.
 
 ANSWER will be holding a demonstration at the Capitol in
 Washington on January 18 and another massive mobilization
 in San Francisco. With people already organizing in 150
 U.S. cities ANSWER expects an even larger protest than the
 200,000 people in Washington and another 100,000 in San
 Francisco who marched on October 26, 2002.
 
 The Bush administration is threatening to launch a war
 against Iraq as soon as the Pentagon's military machine is
in place. This appears to be sometime in January. If it is
 at all possible we want our mobilization to take place
when it can still be an obstacle to the government's war
plans.
 
 ANSWER has already received statements of solidarity and
 messages of other protests planned for that weekend in
 countries around the world, from Brussels to Tokyo to New
 Delhi to Cairo to Bogotá. We ask all anti-war organizations if they can send short messages of
 solidarity to ANSWER, if possible before the winter holidays.

 ANSWER is aware that in many parts of the world, anti-war
 organizations have taken steps to demonstrate immediately
should the U.S. open up aggression against Iraq. ANSWER
 too has taken these steps. ANSWER salutes those groups
 that are demonstrating the weekend of December 14-15 as we
 salute demonstrations that took place from Jakarta to  Casablanca, from London to Florence and the actions
 planned for later in February 2003.
 

We are concerned, however, that the Bush administration
 has every plan to strike as soon as it can come up with a
pretext. This is despite its problems in lining up diplomatic

and military support internationally and
despite the growing opposition inside the United States.

So we hope that anti-war forces worldwide will find a way
either to hold actions to coordinate with those the U.S.
 movement takes on January 18 in the homeland of the
warmakers or to send messages of solidarity with that  protest.

 International ANSWER
 December 13, 2002
 
 (Attached are ANSWER's plans for Washington and its political analysis)