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Dec. 3-10 'Stop the War Week' actions called By Dustin Langley On Oct. 17 at the Million Worker March, activists with "Anti-War 4 the Million Worker March" called for a week of action against the war from Dec. 3 to Dec. 10. The next day participants in a meeting of the Million Worker March Committee supported this call. The protest week is timed to coincide with the Pentagon's plans to launch another massive assault against the people of Iraq in order to secure enough of the country to hold sham presidential elections in January. The Oct. 11 Los Angeles Times reported that "administration and Pentagon officials say they will not try to retake cities such as Falluja and Ramadi--where insurgents' grip is strongest and U.S. military casualties could be the greatest--until after Americans vote in what is likely to be a close election." Since spring, beginning with the uprising in Falluja, a growing number of Iraqi towns have become "no-go zones" for the U.S. occupation forces. These include Falluja, Ramadi and Samarra. The Oct. 8 New York Times reported that senior Pentagon officials, speaking anonymously, said U.S. military planners had identified 20 to 30 towns and cities in Iraq that need to be "brought under control before elections can be held in the country in January." On Oct. 7, Newsweek magazine's Middle East regional editor Christopher Dickey wrote: "There's going to be a whole lot more killing and maiming before the rebel cities can be retaken and held, and by then they may be ghost towns. ... Like Israel and the militias it employed in Lebanon after 1982, the United States and its Iraqi proxies will score several initial victories in a ferocious campaign to force the insurgents out of their strongholds. The collateral damage--the mothers wounded, the babies mutilated--will be lamentable, inevitable, and pass as acceptable for the U.S. administration." 'U.S. preparing full-scale war' Larry Holmes, organizer with Anti-War 4 the Million Worker March, told Workers World: "The bombing raids on Falluja and other Iraqi cities have been intensifying, and after the U.S. presidential election the occupation forces are preparing a full-scale new war to 'pacify' Iraq in preparation for a phony U.S.-controlled election in January. "This assault will not subdue the Iraqi people; they have made it clear that they want the U.S. and U.S.-led occupation forces to leave immediately. However, this new desperate and deadly plan to conquer a people who refused to be conquered will cause enormous death and destruction unless we make it clear that the war will no longer be tolerated. "We are calling for anti-war activists across the U.S. and globally to make this a week to stop the war, to take action--student walkouts, job actions, boycotts, whatever it takes to stop the war now. "Our challenge," Holmes continued, "especially for those of us who have marched against the war and those of us who have worked hard to organize those marches, is to remind ourselves that the election is not going to stop the war, and that waiting for something beyond our control to stop the war only weakens our movement. The majority of the people want the war and occupation to end immediately. "It is up to us to act with a sense of urgency, immediacy, passion and determination. It's time to say, 'No more!'" Organizers are calling for local actions throughout the United States and worldwide to demand an end to the war. Anti-War 4 the Million Worker March will be posting a list of local and international actions on its website(AntiWar4MWM.org). FIST plans to resist war, draft Youth activists are responding to the call by organizing student walkouts and demonstrations. FIST--Fight Imperialism, Stand Together--organizer Julie Fry told WW: "The week of Dec. 3 through Dec. 10 will be a time for youth to escalate their resistance to the war in Iraq and to the U.S. military. Youth have a lot at stake in this. Youth are doing the killing and some of the dying in Iraq right now. If the occupation continues, there is a good chance we will be facing a nationwide draft. We have to stop the occupation now. "Dec. 3 and 4 in particular will be important days for youth resistance. FIST is calling on youth to walk out of their classrooms and shut down their schools on Dec. 3 to show that we will not allow business as usual while the occupation in Iraq continues and the brutality against the Iraqi people escalates. "The Dec. 4 meeting on youth resistance to the draft, sponsored by SNAFU and FIST, is an opportunity for youth to come together and build a strategy to fight against the growing threat of a generalized draft in the U.S." For updates and to read the Call to Action, see www.AntiWar4MWM.org. Reprinted from the Nov. 4, 2004, issue of Workers World newspaper This article is copyright under a Creative Commons License. Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Support independent news http://www.workers.org/orders/donate.php) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. 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