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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.?