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01-21-2003, 04:45 PM
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Please come to DC on Jan 18 to help stop Bush's unilateral war on Iraq
Every person counts --
make January 18 a massive gathering for peace
BUT FIRST learn a little about the group organizing the protest:
International A.N.S.W.E.R. is a post-9/11 creation of the International Action Center, one of many front groups for the Workers World Party. The Workers World Party:
» supported the Chinese government's 1989 Tienanmen Square massacre
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» supports the "socialist" North Korean dictatorship of Kim Jong Il
</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>HTML </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>http://www.workers.org/ww/2002/korea0425.php</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>HTML </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>http://www.workers.org/ww/2002/korea0509.php</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
» and views Iraq's Saddam Hussein as a beacon of anti-imperialist resistance
</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>HTML </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>http://www.workers.org/ww/2001/iraq0125.html</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
» defends the genocidal Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic
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</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>HTML </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>http://www.workers.org/ww/2002/larry0228.php</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>HTML </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>http://www.workers.org/ww/2001/milosevic1108.php</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
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For these reasons, as well as Workers World's poor track record of relations with other groups, some people refuse to attend A.N.S.W.E.R. events, including the January 18 anti-war protest.
On the pro side, A.N.S.W.E.R. has proven skill at organizing massive demonstrations. Most who attend the group's protests know nothing about their actual political leanings and merely wish to express their opposition to war in Iraq
And many people and groups who are repulsed by A.N.S.W.E.R.'s support for genocidal dictators choose to attend their anti-war protests anyway, because they feel it is so urgent to stop the Iraq war.
See, for example, Z Magazine's Q&A on the topic (A.N.S.W.E.R. is discussed in #8):
</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>HTML </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=2527)</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
To help you make up your mind, we've assembled links to a range of writings on the topic - some more factual, some more polemical, from various points on the political spectrum:
</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>HTML </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/03/1946241&mode=nocomment&</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Lengthy, detailed expose of International Action Center's politics
</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>HTML </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>http://www.infoshop.org/texts/wwp.html</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Anarchist critique of Workers World Party
</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>HTML </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/50/news-corn.php</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
David Corn critique of A.N.S.W.E.R.'s October 26 D.C. anti-war march
</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>HTML </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/10/16/protest/</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Salon reporter's critique of A.N.S.W.E.R. and other far-left anti-war groups
</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>HTML </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2002-11/11dominick.cfm</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
A critical response to Corn and other A.N.S.W.E.R. detractors
</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>HTML </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020513&s=featherstone</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
An example of A.N.S.W.E.R.'s relations with other groups
</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>HTML </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/1/BenShepard/index.html</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Why the A.N.S.W.E.R. style of political mobilization is inherently disempowering
brought to you by International A.O.W.C.U.T.G.D.F.P.
Please come to DC on Jan 18 to help stop Bush's unilateral war on Iraq
Every person counts --
make January 18 a massive gathering for peace
BUT FIRST learn a little about the group organizing the protest:
International A.N.S.W.E.R. is a post-9/11 creation of the International Action Center, one of many front groups for the Workers World Party. The Workers World Party:
» supported the Chinese government's 1989 Tienanmen Square massacre
</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>HTML </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>http://www.workers.org/ww/tienanmen.html</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
» supports the "socialist" North Korean dictatorship of Kim Jong Il
</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>HTML </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>http://www.workers.org/ww/2002/korea0425.php</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>HTML </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>http://www.workers.org/ww/2002/korea0509.php</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
» and views Iraq's Saddam Hussein as a beacon of anti-imperialist resistance
</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>HTML </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>http://www.workers.org/ww/2001/iraq0125.html</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
» defends the genocidal Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic
</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>HTML </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>http://www.iacenter.org/yugo_milosdeligation.htm</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>HTML </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>http://www.workers.org/ww/2002/larry0228.php</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>HTML </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>http://www.workers.org/ww/2001/milosevic1108.php</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>HTML </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>http://shadow.autono.net/sin001/clark.htm</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
For these reasons, as well as Workers World's poor track record of relations with other groups, some people refuse to attend A.N.S.W.E.R. events, including the January 18 anti-war protest.
On the pro side, A.N.S.W.E.R. has proven skill at organizing massive demonstrations. Most who attend the group's protests know nothing about their actual political leanings and merely wish to express their opposition to war in Iraq
And many people and groups who are repulsed by A.N.S.W.E.R.'s support for genocidal dictators choose to attend their anti-war protests anyway, because they feel it is so urgent to stop the Iraq war.
See, for example, Z Magazine's Q&A on the topic (A.N.S.W.E.R. is discussed in #8):
</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>HTML </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=2527)</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
To help you make up your mind, we've assembled links to a range of writings on the topic - some more factual, some more polemical, from various points on the political spectrum:
</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>HTML </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/03/1946241&mode=nocomment&</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Lengthy, detailed expose of International Action Center's politics
</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>HTML </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>http://www.infoshop.org/texts/wwp.html</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Anarchist critique of Workers World Party
</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>HTML </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/50/news-corn.php</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
David Corn critique of A.N.S.W.E.R.'s October 26 D.C. anti-war march
</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>HTML </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/10/16/protest/</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Salon reporter's critique of A.N.S.W.E.R. and other far-left anti-war groups
</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>HTML </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2002-11/11dominick.cfm</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
A critical response to Corn and other A.N.S.W.E.R. detractors
</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>HTML </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020513&s=featherstone</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
An example of A.N.S.W.E.R.'s relations with other groups
</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>HTML </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/1/BenShepard/index.html</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Why the A.N.S.W.E.R. style of political mobilization is inherently disempowering
brought to you by International A.O.W.C.U.T.G.D.F.P.