ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATION
Sunday June 9, 2002
@Hart Plaza (Woodward & Jefferson)
Downtown Detroit


The Bush Admnistration continues to direct and finance the criminal Israeli attacks against the Palestinian people. Every day over $15 million is given to Israel by the U.S. government to terrorize the Palestinian people, carry out war crimes and occupy their land. Yet the Palestinian people continue their heroic resistance.
At the same time Bush and the Pentagon are openly organizing a new, illegal war against Iraq which could involve up to 250,000 U.S. troops. Over 1.5 million Iraqi civilians have already been killed in the past 11 years due to U.S. led economic sanctions.
The U.S. corporations and the government are driven by their hunger for profits to completely dominate all the energy resources of the Middle East, Central Asia, as well as Venezuela, Colombia, and the entire Andean Region, no matter the cost in human lives.
While these buccaneers of capitalism wage material war in one hand, they wield the sword of corporate capitalist globalisation in the other, through institutions like the WTO, IMF , and World Bank, all of whom force countries the world over to slash social services and destroy workers' rights to unionize.
No U.S. city has been hit harder than Detroit in cutbacks to desperatley needed social services to pay for Bush's war machine. Our schools, our health care, and our youth are paying a tragic price for the hundreds of billion going into the Pentagon war budget and its military-industrial corporate stock portfolios.
The people of Detroit played a leading role in the fight against the hated apartheid regime in South Africa. It is time for us to step forward once again in the fight against the apartheid-Zionist state of Israel and the Bush program of endless war. It is time to address the needs of the people and not the greed of the ruling class. It is time to stop racial profiling, illegal arrests, and detentions with no charges, as well as the suppression of our human and civil rights.
Only mass mobilizations in the streets can stop the insane war plans of Bush & Co.

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Detroit, MI 48202
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