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a Washington la più grande protesta contro l'assalto di USA e Israele 
contro il Libano e la Palestina
30.000 dimostranti riempiono le strade attorno la Casa Bianca
A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
13 agosto 2006
Washington, DC
More then 30,000 demonstrators filled the streets around the White House 
today chanting, "Stop the US-Israeli war against Lebanon and Palestine."
The New York Times reported today that the demonstration's "diverse 
crowd included many Arab-Americans and Muslims, college students and 
families, as well as veterans of prior demonstrations against the war in 
Iraq." The NY Times goes on, "thousands of people rallied near the White 
House on Saturday to protest what they described as Israeli aggression 
in Lebanon and the United States' unwavering support for Israel ...At 
the rally on Saturday, the prevailing sentiments were expressed in signs 
held aloft by marchers: "Occupation is a crime - Iraq, Lebanon, 
Palestine." "Stop Israeli terrorism." "No justice, no peace.''
This was the largest demonstration in the US since the commencement of 
the Israeli bombing campaign of Lebanon and Gaza in mid-July.
The demonstration was initiated by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, Muslim 
American Society Freedom Foundation and the National Council of Arab 
Americans. More then 150 buses brought demonstrators from, MI, IL, NY, 
MD, FL, VA, MA, NJ and 25 other states.
In San Francisco 10,000 people marched in one of several other August 12 
actions timed to coincide with the Emergency March on Washington. In Los 
Angeles 5,000 demonstrated. Smaller actions of about 600 people in 
Seattle and 300 people in Orlando, Florida were also held.
August 12 a Global Day of Action
August 12 emerged as a day of coordinated worldwide protests. Street 
demonstrations were held in Mombasa and Nairobi, Kenya; Toronto, 
Montreal and Vancouver, Canada; San Francisco;Madrid, Spain; Paraguay; 
Damascus, Syria; Santiago, Chile; Mumbai, India; Istanbul, Turkey; 
Mogadishu, Somalia; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Karachi, Pakistan; Jakarta, 
Indonesia; Sydney, Australia; Nablus, Palestine; Sao Paulo, Brazil; and 
many others.
Speakers at the Washington D.C. demonstration included, former Attorney 
General Ramsey Clark; Mahdi Bray the Executive Director of the Muslim 
American Society Freedom Foundation; Mara Verheyden-Hilliard an attorney 
and co-founder of the Partnership for Civil Justice; Brian Becker the 
National Coordinator of the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition; Dr. Mounzer Sleiman 
of the National Council of Arab Americans; Osama Siblani Publisher at 
Arab American News; Peta Lindsay Howard University student and 
Coordinator ANSWER Student and Youth; and Dr. Clovis Maksoud the Former 
ambassador from the Arab League to the U.N, Arab-American Anti 
Discrimination Committee (ADC), and others.
Crimes against Lebanon and Palestine Continue
The U.S.-Israeli war against Lebanon and Palestine has created immense 
suffering for the people but it has also created widespread resistance. 
The Bush administration and the Israeli government believed that this 
massive bombing campaign would force all of Lebanon into a new U.S. 
sphere of influence. Just the opposite has happened. This same fantasy 
has backfired in Iraq as well.
Overwhelming military power has inflicted unimaginable human suffering 
but failed in achieving its political objectives of transforming the 
entire oil rich region into a virtual colony. The effort to achieve the 
"new" colonialism by brute force has and will inspire continued 
resistance by the Lebanese, Palestinian, Iraqi, Syrian and Iranian 
people and all the peoples of the area.
The August 12 Emergency Demonstrations were an important step in forging 
the kind of U.S. anti-war movement in the United States that embraces 
the just cause of the peoples' in the Middle East who are rejecting 
domination by the new imperial Empire. Instead of having the people of 
the United States pitted against the Arab people our message is one of 
solidarity.
People in the United States must struggle for jobs, justice, education, 
and in opposition to racism at home rather than be dragged along by the 
war makers in Washington D.C. Their chauvinistic campaign against those 
in the Middle East who are seeking to freely determine their own destiny 
is a calculated propaganda effort by the Bush administration --and all 
those Republicans and Democrats alike -- who support its program of 
endless war. It is not the people of the United States but the big 
transnational corporations and banks, and especially the largest oil 
monopolies, who are the real beneficiaries of the Bush program.

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