100,000 MARCH FOR PALESTINE!

national | miscellaneous | news report Sunday April 21, 2002 20:35 by Paul Kinsella - Globalise Resistance paulkinsella53 at yahoo dot com 53 Lorcan Grove, Santry, Dublin 9, Eire 087-9748511

This should be a very big boost for the Anti capitalist globalisation movement here in Ireland!

This collection of reports that are directly from the various multitude of Protests happening in Washington DC over the weekend of April 20TH to April 22ND that ultimately are Protesting against the same evil that is the root cause of all the World's problems - Namely the cancer of Capitalism that weren't even reported by any of the mainstream corporate, capitalist press show that the Anti capitalist globalisation is alive and kicking in the USA and has made a very good recovery from the serious damage caused by the fallout from September 11TH. What's also even more encouraging was that the Demonstraters Rallied around and United into One Big Rally from their own seperate smaller Demos and they also Rallied around and United to Demonstrate together even though the Protestors represent a very wide multitude of groups, interests and many varied causes.

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100,000 MARCH FOR PALESTINE!
April 20 in Washington DC

Members of the Muslim Community, Antiwar Activists, Latin
American Solidarity Groups and People From All Over the
United States Unite to Say: ?We Are All Palestinians!?

Today over 100,000 people marched in Washington DC in the
largest pro-Palestinian rally in U.S. history. (Police
estimated the figure at 75,000, cited in Washington Post,
April 21.) Another 35,000 marched in San Francisco.

Demanding an end to the U.S.-backed onslaught by the
Israeli military against Palestinian civilians and calling
for an immediate end to the Israeli occupation of the
Palestinian homeland, protesters turned Pennsylvania
Avenue into a sea of kaffiyas, the traditional Palestinian
scarf worn by demonstrators in a show of solidarity.

?Free, free Palestine!? echoed from the White House to the
Department of Justice to the U.S. Capitol. Over 60,000
people demonstrated at the White House, where bus after
bus from Mosques and Islamic Centers all over the eastern
seaboard dropped off a stream of protesters that continued
to pour into the rally from the opening speaker until the
beginning of the march on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Once the various rallies merged, tens of thousands filed
past the Department of Justice demanding the repeal of the
USA Patriot Act, and an immediate end to the Ashcroft
raids on the Muslim and Arab community.

?Yesterday the U.S. threatened to veto a UN Security
Council resolution calling for an investigation into the
Jenin massacre,? said Larry Holmes, co-director of the
International Action Center, part of A.N.S.W.E.R. ?The
U.S. finally forced the removal of the word
?investigation? from the resolution language. This is one
more example of how Sharon?s war against Palestinian
people is backed and protected by the George W. Bush.?

?The U.S. is afraid the truth will come out,? said Carl
Messineo, co-founder of the Partnership for Civil Justice
LDEF, also with A.N.S.W.E.R. ?And they?re afraid of the
kind of multinational solidarity shown for the Palestinian
people by the people of the United States today in massive
numbers. It has become impossible for the Bush
administration to claim he speaks in the name of the
United States when he bombs Afghanistan, pays for the
slaughter of Palestinians and threatens Iraq. The people
in this country want money for jobs and human needs, not
war against the people of Palestine.?

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AP. 20 April 2002. Protesters for Diverse Causes Join Forces for Day of
Demonstrations in Capital.

WASHINGTON -- Marching with puppets and placards and armed with many
messages, tens of thousands of protesters joined forces on a warm
spring
Saturday to demonstrate peacefully against everything from U.S. policy
in the Mideast to globalization and corporate greed.

Protesters massed at sites across the city, then swarmed down
Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol, in an eclectic crowd that mixed
young communists, Black Panthers and "Raging Grannies."

People came in busloads from around the country to show there is active
political opposition in the United States.

"I think the movement is beginning to wake up," said 80-year-old
Valerie
Mullen of Vershire, Vt., part of the "grannies" group. She said she
came
to protest "any war."

Six-year-old Kira Appleman of Silver Spring, Md., came with her mom and
held aloft a sign that said, "Palestinian children have rights, too."

After starting the day with separate protests around the city, the
various groups converged for a concluding rally that brought their
causes together.

Authorities do not provide official crowd figures for demonstrations in
Washington, but by midafternoon Police Chief Charles Ramsey gave a
rough
estimate of 35,000 to 50,000.

It was the spring meeting of world financial powers at the World Bank
and International Monetary Fund that attracted the protesters to
Washington, but anti-globalization forces did not seem to mind sharing
the stage with many other causes.

The various protests are "all connected in the sense that it's all part
of how the world economic structure works," said 24-year-old Brad
Duncan
of Detroit.

Protesters marched with two open wooden coffins bearing young sisters
of
Palestinian descent. When 7-year-old Philastine Mustafa was overcome by
the heat, a young boy quickly took her place.

"My people back home her age are being killed," said Anwar Mustafa, 33,
of Philadelphia, the father of the girls. "Me and my daughters can
spend
a little time in the heat to show people who don't know."

Not all the groups were in perfect agreement. When Black Panthers
chanting "jihad" and "holy war" hoisted a Palestinian flag next to a
picture Osama bin Laden, a Palestinian activist urged them to take the
flag down.

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BBC; AP. 20 April 2002. Thousands rally at Washington summit; Thousands
Protest Globalization, US Mideast Policy, Other Issues.

WASHINGTON -- Thousands of demonstrators have gathered in Washington to
demand action against globalisation.

A 30-foot-tall Earth balloon carrying a "For Sale" sign was inflated
across the street from the glass-and-chrome building where world
financial powers gathered.

At least 2,000 protesters are already attending one rally, with numbers
at other locations rising quickly.

A wide range of groups are believed to be planning to meet up to march
down Pennsylvania Avenue - just blocks from the White House - before a
rally on the steps of the Capitol Building.

The crisis in Argentina is expected to dominate many agendas.

The different protests are "all connected in the sense that it's all
part of how the world economic structure works," said 24-year-old Brad
Duncan of Detroit.

He was among a group of demonstrators headed first for a Palestinian
solidarity march and then to a rally against international financial
policy.

Across the street from the barricaded IMF and World Bank, 22-year-old
Rob Fish of New Jersey complained, "It's becoming a global doomsday
economy. The planet is not for sale."

Demonstrators were protesting the war in Afghanistan, U.S. aid to
Israel
and Colombia, and third world debt and poverty.

At a pro-Palestinian rally on the grassy Ellipse behind the White
House,
Teresa Gutierrez of the International Action Center told protesters,
"We
are all Palestinians today."

Kanaan Jadallah, an Arab-American who came with his family from
Detroit,
argued against Bush administration support of Israel, saying that U.S.
policy "is why Israel is able to carry out these atrocities" in the
West
Bank.

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A20 day 2 - update

Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 14:12:26 -0400

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AFP. 21 April 2002. Anti-globalization protesters rally outside World
Bank, IMF meetings.

WASHINGTON -- Police on horseback, motorbikes, bicycles and on foot
surrounded groups of protestors as demonstrators flashed placards and
chanted slogans against globalization and other causes.

By mid-morning, several thousand had gathered on the capital's
rectangular stretch of grass known as the Mall.

On the street, some groups marched shouting debt relief slogans while
others, wearing all-black including black bandanas across their faces,
carried banners denouncing "corporate rule."

Secret service joined with the police to keep control the
demonstrators,
and there were few scuffles.

Several hundred protesters, hemmed in by police, rallied outside the
World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings, but they may have
been outnumbered by police, who restricted the rally to a triangular
park across from the headquarters of the World Bank and IMF, where
policymakers were gathered.

"I've watched IMF and World Bank policies crush rural economies from
the
Rio Grande to the other end of Chile," said Cliff Bradley of Missoula,
Montana.

"It has to be obvious to senior IMF and World Bank officials that these
policies don' work."

Some of the demonstrators taunted police by rocking the metal
barricades
hemming them in, while chanting slogans.

The Mobilization for Global Justice, one of the groups organizing the
rally here, renewed its call to open all World Bank and IMF meetings to
the media and the public; cancel all impoverished country debt to the
two institutions; and halt what they called "socially and
environmentally destructive projects" such as oil, gas, and mining
activities, as well as dams that include forced relocation of people.

The protesters Sunday were to march later to a site near the Washington
Monument, to join with another rally protesting US policies in
Colombia.

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100,000 MARCH FOR PALESTINE!