[WB-Discuss] Wed Nov 10 Protest the Assault on Falluja 4:45 PM - 6 Boston Downtown Crossing

[David Rolde]

WED NOV 10    PROTEST THE ASSAULT ON FALLUJAH!
At Downtown Crossing, Washington St. at Winter St., Boston
4:45PM-6:00PM

Wear a black arm band

Send a message to Bush, to America and to the World:
We will not be silent as U.S. forces firebomb Iraq!
Not in our names!
Not with our tax dollars!!



U.S. forces are invading Fallujah, a city that is home to 300,000 
people.  Known since ancient times as The City Of A Thousand Mosques, 
the US and the US appointed ruler, Allawai, claim that it's this 
massive, deadly onslaught is necessary to 'liberate' Iraq.  The vast 
majority of Iraqis disagree. According to a June, 2004 poll US 
sponsored poll, most Iraqis say they would feel safer if Coalition 
forces left immediately.  According to a study in the British Medical 
Journal, The Lancet, US airstrikes may have killed as many as 100, 
000 Iraqis-mostly women and children.

Below are excerpts from an eyewitness account written by an 
independent journalist, Rahul Mahajan, of the first siege, in April 
2004.

I was in Fallujah during the siege in April, and I want to paint for 
you a word picture of what such an assault means. Fallujah is dry and 
hot; like Southern California, it has been made an agricultural area 
only by virtue of extensive irrigation. It has been known for years 
as a particularly devout city; people call it the City of a Thousand 
Mosques. In the mid-90's, when Saddam wanted his name to be added to 
the call to prayer, the imams of Fallujah refused.
U.S. forces bombed the power plant at the beginning of the assault; 
for the next several weeks, Fallujah was a blacked-out town, with 
light provided by generators only in critical places like mosques and 
clinics. The town was placed under siege; the ban on bringing in 
food, medicine, and other basic items was broken only when Iraqis en 
masse challenged the roadblocks. The atmosphere was one of pervasive 
fear, from bombing and the threat of more bombing. Noncombatants and 
families with sick people, the elderly, and children were leaving in 
droves. After initial instances in which people were prevented from 
leaving, U.S. forces began allowing everyone to leave except for what 
they called "military age males," men usually between 15 and 60. 
Keeping noncombatants from leaving a place under bombardment is a 
violation of the laws of war. Of course, if you assume that every 
military age male is an enemy, there can be no better sign that you 
are in the wrong country, and that, in fact, your war is on the 
people, not on their oppressors, not a war of liberation.

...You can read whenever you like about the bombing of so-called 
Zarqawi safe houses in residential areas in Fallujah, but the reports 
don't tell you what that means. . . A town under bombardment is a 
town in constant fear. . .

BUSH LIES-WHO DIES?-UP TO 100,000 IRAQIS!-- AND OVER 1,000 AMERICANS
NO OCCUPATION=NO INSURGENTS=NO IRAQIS AND AMERICANS DEAD
FROM OUR TAX DOLLARS


    Join United for Justice with Peace to Work AGAINST THIS and ALL 
INHUMANITIES perpetrated by our Government in our names!

                
                               www.justicewithpeace.org    --  617 
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