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MARCH 20 PROTEST IN LOS ANGELES
Regional Protest Coordinated with
National March on Washington
Gather @ Hollywood & Vine, 12 noon
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People from all over the country are organizing to converge on Washington, D.C., to demand the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan and Iraq.On Saturday, March 20, 2010, there will be a mass National March & Rally in D.C. with joint actions in Los Angeles and San Francisco. We will march together to say “No Colonial-type Wars and Occupations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine!" We will march together to say "Reparations for the people of Haiti!” Instead of war and occupation, we will demand funds so that every person can have a job, free and universal health care, decent schools, and affordable housing.
March 20 is the seventh anniversary of the criminal war of aggression launched by Bush and Cheney against Iraq. One million or more Iraqis have died. Tens of thousands of U.S. troops have lost their lives or been maimed, and continue to suffer a whole host of enduring problems from this terrible war.
This is the time for united action. The slogans on banners may differ, but all those who carry them should be marching shoulder to shoulder.
Click here to download March 20 flyers and posters.
The initiators and endorsers of the March 20 National March on Washington include: the ANSWER Coalition; Muslim American Society Freedom; National Council of Arab Americans; Cynthia McKinney; Malik Rahim, co-founder of Common Ground Collective; Ramsey Clark; Cindy Sheehan; Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK; Deborah Sweet, Director, World Can’t Wait; Mike Ferner, President, Veterans for Peace; Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition; Heidi Boghosian, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild; Ron Kovic, author of “Born on the 4th of July”; Juan Jose Gutierrez, Director, Latino Movement USA; Col. Ann Wright (ret.); March Forward!; Partnership for Civil Justice; Palestinian American Women Association; Alliance for a Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines; Alliance for Global Justice; Claudia de la Cruz, Pastor, Iglesia San Romero de Las Americas-UCC; Phil Portluck, Social Justice Ministry, Covenant Baptist Church, D.C.; Blase & Theresa Bonpane, Office of the Americas; Coalition for Peace and Democracy in Honduras; Comite Pro-Democracia en Mexico; Frente Unido de los Pueblos Americanos; Comites de Base FMLN, Los Angeles; Free Palestine Alliance; GABRIELA Network; Justice for Filipino American Veterans; KmB Pro-People Youth; Students Fight Back; Jim Lafferty, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild - LA Chapter; LEF Foundation; National Coalition to Free the Angola 3; Community Futures Collective; Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival; Companeros del Barrio; Barrio Unido for Full and Unconditional Amnesty; Michael Berg; Action Center for Justice - Charlotte, NC; Bay Area United Against War; Casa las Américas; Community Organizing Center, Columbus, Ohio; CT-SAW (Connecticut Students Against the War); Delaware Valley Veterans for America; Hawai'i Solidarity Committee; Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination; Texans for Peace; and many more.
For more info call 213-251-1025 or email answerla@answerla.org.
ANSWER Internships
Apply for an Internship in Los Angeles Today!
Click here to fill out an internship application
Apply for an internship with ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) in Los Angeles. Learn valuable organizing skills by helping to build the movement against war, racism and bigotry, and for immigrant rights. Join the struggle for social justice in our communities and all over the world. Fill out the internship application today.
This spring, ANSWER will be continuing to organize forums, film screenings and other activities on issues like immigrant rights, fighting racism, the economic crisis and more. As an intern, you can be an important part of this process.
ANSWER uses a diversity of tactics and strategies to build, sustain, expand and deepen the people's movement that has emerged. In addition to helping build protest marches, interns have the opportunity to gain experience through organizing various ANSWER projects, including:
* ANSWER Meetings, Film Screenings & Forums
* Labor, Community and Youth & Student Organizing
* The ANSWER Outreach Committee
* Coalition Organizing
* Internet Organizing
* Regional Organizing/Speaking (public speaking)
* Website Administration
* Research
* Office Management
Qualifications
Interns must have passion to work with others to build the social justice movement. No formal experience is required. Experience in multicultural and diverse gender environments is helpful. Bilingual skills are helpful, but not necessary. General knowledge of computers and community organizing experience is helpful. Applicants of all ages are welcome.
Time Requirements
We encourage interns to commit to working with ANSWER 8 to 25 hours a week for a 4 to 6 week minimum. Some of this time will be spent in the ANSWER Office in Koreatown. ANSWER is a volunteer based organization. This internship is unpaid and will start on or around January 2009.
There will be an educational component to the internship. All interns will be able to participate in political classes on various important topics led by experienced ANSWER and community organizers.
About the ANSWER Coalition
ANSWER has been key in organizing the historic anti-war demonstrations since 2001. ANSWER's national steering committee represents groups that have campaigned against U.S. intervention in Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Asia and Africa, and for social and economic justice for workers and poor people in the U.S. ANSWER is the leading anti-imperialist coalition in the U.S. anti-war movement and a major organization in the immigrant rights movement.
ANSWER counts dozens of international affiliates. From the inception of the coalition, our strategy has been to link with movements in other countries, to create, sustain and expand a united front of local, national and international dissent and opposition to the U.S. government and corporate elite's drive for racist war and occupation and more assaults on civil liberties.
Building Community Activist Leaders
ANSWER's internship program includes a mentoring system and programs to raise awareness among activists of historical and current political developments, fighting racism and bigotry, the struggle for self-determination for oppressed peoples and how these issues affect our society and impact the overall struggle for peace and social justice.
To apply for the internship program, fill out an application online. After we review your application, an ANSWER organizer will contact you to set up an in-person or telephone interview. We look forward to working with you!
Click here to fill out an internship application
For more info call 213-251-1025 or e-mail answerla@answerla.org.
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