ANTIWAR PROTEST

Stop the U.S./NATO/Israeli war

& all forms of intervention against Syria!

Self-determination free from outside intervention

for the Syrian people!

Fund people’s needs, not the military! U.S. Out of the Middle East!

Saturday, July 20, Park St., 1:00 pm

Representatives of Boston groups organizing the Park St. rally include UJP, UNAC, Veteran’s For Peace, ANSWER, International Action Center, MetroWest Peace Action, and the Committee for Peace and Human Rights.

Join us for the Boston protest!

We will be distributing flyers protesting US intervention in Syria to commuters at Ruggles Station on Thursday, July 18, 4-5:30 pm. Please join us.

We have enclosed a call to national action for a Saturday, July 20, 1 pm, Park St. rally against the escalation of U.S. wars moves in Syria. Initiated by the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC), the national call for local actions was jointly issued by UNAC, ANSWER (Act Now to End War & Racism) , United for Peace and Justice, World Can't Wait, International Action Center, Veterans for Peace, The Green Party of the U.S., USPCN, and hundreds of others. (See list of national endorsers below following the national call.)

The united national call reads as follows:

United Statement and Call for Action

to Oppose U.S./NATO and Israeli War on Syria

No more wars – U.S. out of the Middle East!

National Days of Action, June 28- July 17, 2013

The White House’s June 13th announcement that it would begin directly supplying arms to the opposition in Syria is a dramatic escalation of the U.S./NATO war against that country. Thousands of U.S. troops and intelligence personnel are training opposition forces and coordinating operations in Turkey and Jordan. Israel, the recipient of more than $3 billion annually in U.S. military aid has carried out heavy bombing raids against Syria. The Pentagon has developed plans for a “no-fly” zone over Syria, threatening a new U.S. air war.

The pretext for this escalation is the assertion, presented without any actual evidence, that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons in the conflict that has been raging for more than two years.

Like their predecessors, President Obama and other top U.S. officials pretend to be concerned about “democracy” and “human rights” in Syria, but their closest allies in the campaign against Syria are police-state, absolute monarchies like Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Once again the so-called “Responsibility to protect,” R2P, is used as a pretext for NATO to dominate this region.

Just as the false claim of “weapons of mass destruction” was used as justification for the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, the allegations that chemical weapons were used by the Syrian military is meant to mask the real motives of Washington and its allies. Their aim is to carry out “regime change,” as part of the drive to create a “new Middle East.”

The invasion of Iraq in 2003, the U.S.-backed Israeli war in Lebanon in 2006, the 2011 NATO bombing of Libya, the now-escalating war in Syria and the growing threats against Iran are part of a coordinated regional effort by the United States, Britain and France to dominate this oil-rich and strategic region.

The U.S. government cuts basic services and has eliminated hundreds of thousands of public sector workers jobs in the last three years in the name of a discredited austerity which has destroyed the economy, but has unlimited billions available for wars of aggression and NSA surveillance of almost every American.

We join together to call for National Days of Action, June 28- July 15, 2013, to demand:

• Stop the U.S./NATO/Israeli war and all forms of intervention against Syria!

• Self-determination free from outside intervention for the Syrian people!

• Fund people’s needs, not the military!

• U.S. Out of the Middle East!

National endorsers: partial list

• United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC)

• ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism)

• United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ)

• World Can’t Wait • Veterans for Peace • U.S. Peace Council • International Action Center

Go to www.UNACpeace.org to see up to date list of endorsers.

All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)

Alliance for a Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines

Arab Americans for Peace

Arab Americans for Syria - AA4S

BAYAN USA

CRI-Panafricain

Freedom Road Socialist Organization

Global Network Against Nuclear Power in Space

Green Party of the United States

Honduras Resistencia USA

International Coalition to Free the Angola 3

Iran Working Group VFP

KmB Pro-People Youth

March Forward!

May 1 Workers and Immigrant Rights Coalition

Pakistan USA Freedom Forum

Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL)

Revival of Panafricanism Forum

SI Solidarity with Iran

Socialist Action

Syrian American Forum

The Green Shadow Cabinet

U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)

U.S. Peace Council

Ugnayan (Linking the Children of the Motherland)

Veterans For Peace

World Can't Wait

Akbar Muhammad, International Representative, Nation of Islam

Ardeshir Ommani, President, Amer. Iranian Friendship Committee (AIFC)

David Swanson, RootsAction

Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report (org. for identification purpose only)

Heidi Boghosian, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild

Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala, candidates, Green Party

Jim Lafferty, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild/Los Angeles

Margaret Flowers & Kevin Zeese, PopularResistance

Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report (org. for identification only)

Nada Khader, WESPAC

Prof. Jared Ball, radio host

Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general

Ron Jacobs, journalist

Sami Ramadani, journalist and scholar

Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival

ANAKBAYAN Los Angeles and San Diego

BAYAN-SOCAL

Bob Carter, Justice for Palestinians, Houston Coal. to Stop $30 Billion to Israel*

Community Futures Collective

Eugene E Ruyle, Peace and Freedom Party

Habi Arts

Kevin Akin, California State Chair, Peace and Freedom Party

LEF Foundation

Los Angeles Peace Council

Maine Code Pink

Peace and Freedom Party, Santa Cruz County

Peoples Video Network

Puerto Rican Alliance-LA

RI Peoples Assembly

RI SOS Save Our Schools Coalition

RI Unemployed Council

Sabah Jawad, Iraqi Democrats Against Occupation

School of the Americas Watch - LA (SOA Watch-LA)

SiGAw-GABRIELA USA

Southern California Immigration Coalition (SCIC)

Stop the War Machine, New Mexico

Teach Peace Foundation, Sacramento, Calif.

The Dream Team 2013, RI

Union of Progressive Iranians

West County Toxics Coalition, Richmond, Calif.

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