ENDORSEMENTS REQUESTED
National Call to Action!
Organizing Meeting!
For
Jobs, Healthcare, Education, Pensions,
Housing
and the Environment, Not War!
No to War and
Austerity!
Sunday,
August 28, 2011
9:00
AM 5:00 PM
At the invitation of the White House, military and civilian
representatives of the 28-nation U.S.-commanded and largely U.S.-financed North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and heads of state and finance ministers of
the G-8 world economic powers are convening to Chicago, May 15-22, 2012.
The U.S./NATO military behemoth enforces the interests of the
global great power elites. $Trillions are expended for never-ending wars and
occupations while $trillions in austerity programs are extracted from working
people the world over.
The G-8 nations, the richest on earth, will assemble to plan ever
new draconian measures seeking to resolve the problems created by their
crisis-ridden and profit-driven social order at the expense of working people
and the poor everywhere.
Theirs is the agenda of the heads of state of the worlds richest
nations and their imperial military-industrial establishments the agenda of
the banks and corporations the agenda for austerity, unprecedented social
cutbacks, union-busting, environmental destruction, global warming/climate
crisis, racism, sexism, homophobia, deepening attacks on civil liberties,
democratic rights and never-ending war.
Ours is the agenda for humanitys future. We will mobilize in the
tens of thousands from cities across the
Bring All U.S./NATO Troops,
Mercenaries & War Contractors Home Now!
End
Trillions for Jobs, Housing,
Education, Health Care, Pensions and the Environment! No to Attacks on Unions,
Cutbacks, Layoffs, Mortgage Foreclosures and Austerity! Bring the War Dollars
Home!
Tax the Rich, Not Working
People! No to Corporate and Bank Bailouts!
Civil liberties for All! End Racist Attacks on Muslim and Arab Communities! End
Racist Attacks on Blacks, Latinos and Immigrants! Full Legal Rights for All! No
to FBI Repression and Grand Jury Subpoenas to Antiwar and Social Justice
Activists!
We
will demand that our guaranteed civil liberties and democratic rights be
respected that our right to peaceful assembly and political protest be
honored that the voices of the people not be stifled!
Hatem Abudayyeh, *US Palestinian Community
Network, Chicago Dave Bernt,
Shop Stewart, Teamsters Local 705
Bill Chambers, Committee
Against Political Repression
Sarah
Chambers, Executive Board Member, Chicago Teachers Union
Mark Clements, Campaign
to End the Death Penalty
Vince
Emmanuelle, *Iraq Veterans Against the War
Randy Evans, Global Reach, Inc. Chris Geovanis,
Hammerhard Media Works
Pat Hunt, Chicago Area Code Pink, Chicago Area
Peace Action
Joe
Isobaker, Committee to Stop FBI Repression Dennis Kosuth, *National Nurses United, union steward Kait McIntyre, Students for a Democratic Society,
University of Illinois Chicago
Jorge Mujica, March 10th Immigrant
Rights Activist
Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence
Eric Ruder, Chicago
Network to Send US Boat to Gaza
Adam
Shills, *Illinois Educational Association Newland Smith, Episcopalian Peace
Fellowship
Sarah
Smith, Committee to Stop FBI Repression
Students
for Justice in Palestine at School of the Art Institute of Chicago Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, *Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign
Andy Thayer, Gay
Liberation Network and Chicago Coalition Against War and Racism
*Organization for identification purposes only.
The May 15 and 19, 2012
mobilizations were initiated by the United National Antiwar Committee (UNAC) in
partnership with antiwar and social justice groups in Chicago, across the U.S.
and internationally. At the June 18, NYC National Coordinating Committee
meeting of UNAC the 49 groups present unanimously adopted a resolution to
protest the NATO/G8 meetings. They are listed as follows:
Action
for a Progressive Pakistan Al-Awda Palestine Right
to Return Coalition NY BAYAN-USA
Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace Bail Out the People Movement Black Agenda Report Black is Back
Boston Stop the Wars Boston UNAC Code Pink Committee to Stop FBI
Repression Ct. United for Peace Fellowship of Reconciliation Green Party
Haiti Liberte Hampshire Students for Justice in
Palestine Honduras Resistencia USA International Action Center
International
Support Haiti Network International League of Peoples Struggle
International Socialist Organization Islamic Leadership Council of
Metropolitan NY Jersey City Peace Movement
May 1st Workers and
Immigrant Rights Coalition Mobilization Against War and Occupation Canada
Metro West Peace Action Middle East Crisis Committee Muslim Peace Coalition
New England United Nodutdol Korean Community
Development Pakistan Solidarity Network Philly Against War Project Salam
Rhode Island Mobilization Committee Rochester Against War SI Solidarity
with Iran Socialist Action Socialist Party USA Thomas Merton Center Pittsburgh Veterans
for Peace Voices for Creative Nonviolence West Hartford Citizens for Peace
WESPAC Womens International League for Peace and Freedom Workers World
World Cant Wait
A national coordinating
committee and its
Contact: No to NATO/G-8 Warmakers: A National Network Opposing War and Austerity
email:
NATOG8protest@gmail.com
National: 518-227-6947