Saturday, March 19 at 12 Noon
From Boston to Baghdad: End the Occupation!
Fight for Jobs & Education! Say ‘No’ to Racism!
Rally and March
Southwest Corridor Park at Ruggles Station
MBTA: Orange Line
A renewed wave of struggle is gaining momentum
abroad and at home. From Tunisia and Egypt to Wisconsin and Ohio, people are
coming together and courageously fighting against oppression. These inspiring
examples prove that real change is not only possible but inevitable when
injustice is confronted with a militant mass movement.
It’s time to step up our struggle. On Saturday,
March 19, we will take to the streets as part of an international day of action
against war and occupation.
Today, Iraq remains occupied by tens of
thousands of U.S. soldiers and foreign mercenaries. While the war in
Afghanistan rages on, the U.S. is bombing Pakistan, financing atrocities
against the people of Palestine, relentlessly threatening Iran and stepping up
hostility against progressive movements in Latin America and Africa.
The wars abroad are directly connected to the
war on poor and working people at home. Politicians and corporate media pundits
tell us there is no money for jobs, education, housing or health care yet the
United States will spend $1 trillion for war, occupation and weapons in 2011
alone.
Thirty million people in the U.S. remain
unemployed or severely underemployed, with disproportionately higher rates in
communities of color, amongst youth and military veterans.
Just as the U.S. military and foreign forces
occupy Iraq and Afghanistan, our communities too are occupied – by big business
interests, criminal banks and racist police.
In Boston and elsewhere, health care and
retirement benefits are under attack while billions in tax breaks are handed
over to multi-million-dollar corporations and private elite universities.
Mayor Menino’s hand-picked School Committee has
moved to close seventeen schools throughout the city and proposed additional
cutbacks for this year’s budget. Yet over $30 million has been been spent
building a new state-of-the-art police station in Roxbury. While racial
profiling and police violence continue to plague the city’s Black and Latino
neighborhoods, 7 out of the 10 highest paid city employees are Boston police
officers.
Gov. Patrick is trying to bring the
anti-immigrant law enforcement program “Secure Communities” program to
Massachusetts and gentrification continues to push working families out of
communities like Jamaica Plain.
It doesn’t have to be this way! Now more than
ever it is clear that our movement must stay in the streets. Join us on March
19th for a rally and march to say “From Boston to Baghdad: End the
Occupation! Fight for Jobs and Education! Say ‘No’ to Racism!”
Initiated by ANSWER Boston: To endorse the
March 19th demonstration, click below.
http://www2.answercoalition.org/site/Survey?SURVEY_ID=8281&ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&AddInterest=4581
For more information and to get involved,
contact ANSWER Boston:
BostonAnswer.org – [email protected] –
(857) 334-5084
