On Saturday, February 4, The Action for Peace Working Group of Occupy Boston will co-sponsor a rally and march as part of an international day of action to demand NO WAR ON IRAN. The march, which begins at Park Street Station at 1:00pm, will include a visit to the Israeli Consulate and will end with a rally at Copley Square. Saturday’s Boston action is one of fifty-five demonstrations taking place in the United States and in six countries to demand, “No War! No Sanctions! No Assassinations! No Intervention!” All members of the 99% who want peace, not war, are encouraged to attend.
“The United States is now following the same path of aggression with Iran as it did with Iraq – using the false pretext of WMDs to start a war whose real goal is control of oil by the 1%,” said Marilyn Levin, a member of the Action for Peace Working Group. “The costs of war – in lives and to the economy — are staggering.”
The United States went to war in Iraq after twelve years of crippling sanctions using the fabricated claim that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. The costs of that war were devastating: thousands of lives, trillions of dollars, and the destruction of a country that posed no threat to the United States. The war also unleashed a decade of endless war with a massive war budget, cutbacks on social services, and attacks on our Bill of Rights.
The campaign of demonization against Iran – including brutal sanctions and threats of war from Israel and the United States – mirrors the run-up to the war on Iraq. This time, the false claim is that Iran is developing nuclear weapons when there is absolutely no evidence that Iran is doing anything but developing nuclear power, a legal act that poses no threat to other nations. Once again, we are seeing the 1% threatening to start a horrible war to dominate the flow of oil from that region.
Added Levin, “To prevent that disastrous history from repeating itself, we need the voices of the 99%. Join us on February 4.”
The march and rally are co-sponsored endorsed by many peace and justice organizations in the Boston area, including Boston United National Antiwar Coalition, United for Justice with Peace Coalition, International Action Center, and Dorchester People for Peace. For more information, please visit http://www.facebook.com/events/214341975322807/.
13 Responses to “No War on Iran: March and Rally, Saturday, February 4”
Ill be the first ti enlist if we go fight these sand coons
Eh? You are either a rasist asshole or a six year old.
It is MOST likely that there will be no war on Iran (if one reads as much as one can these days, Informed Comment, http://www.juancole.com/ is a good place to start). And ALL, repeat, ALL evidence indicates that Iran is NOT building nuclear weapons.
However, there just might be military conflicts in the Persian Gulf over oil shipments. And that must be prevented and why I am going to participate.
Wiki-dickhead…..you are in error….
….there is NO evidence that Iran is NOT building nukes.
The USA should remove the Iranina dicttors and allow the Iranin people to gain the freedom they fought so hard for a few years ago.
Observor – there is no evidence that you are not an Army recruiter or on the payroll of Blackwater, either. The USA cannot run the whole world and will become an bankrupt backwater if it keeps trying. 1000 bases (what we have now) is way too many. General Smedley Darlington Butler (go ahead, google him) was right. “War is a racket” that only enriches profiteers. Hey? Are YOU a profiteer?
Well…..I guess I profit from the destruction of a hateful regime that threatens world peace…
..I would love to see Iranians free from their hateful dictators……(one of my physicians was an Iranian refugee)…
…Then that area of the world could reach its fulfillment peacefully.
Deborah….why do you hate freedom…..what are you afraid of…?
Do you think Blackwater and the US Army are the only organizations that seek the release of captive nations..?
It’s sad to see this movement – which originated from a widespread sense that our democracy has been hijacked by monied interests – become hijacked by doctrinaire left-wing interests. A lesson for all you kids out there.
Andy:
Are you saying that it is sad to see this movement “hijacked” by those who seek peace? By those who see the connections between the military industrial complex & the wealth divide?
The “monied interests” you see this movement (rightfully) fighting are the same interests pounding the drum beat for perpetual war.
The 99% movement has a large tent Andy, there is room for all of us here. If you are not morally outraged by our foreign policy, perhaps you can manage to get your gander up over the COST of war.
Let’s end wars and redirect those resources towards human and environmental needs.
See you in the streets tomorrow.
peace,
Dennis
Andy – come on in, the water is fine. The citizens of the USA will have the WORST government they tolerate, and we have been collectively tolerating some AWFUL government. You want MORE wars to profit oil companies, do you? See above, and how about you google General Smedley Darlington Butler? That would educate you, and fast. And guess what? I am not a “kid”.
It’s hard to know how to respond. If you can’t see that this movement has been taken over by left-wing causes, then I won’t be able to convince you. I should say I’m a Obama liberal, so I agree with a lot of these causes. But what was so attractive about this movement in the beginning was that it focused on something so many of us can support – returning our democracy to the people. This is a question of fixing a PROCESS that we cherish, not about specific OUTCOMES once the process has been fixed. Believe me, no democratic process is going to return Boston to the Indians. What’s sad to me is that this has changed. It’s not anymore about reclaiming democracy, it’s about what a small number of us want to do with it. This is why this movement has become so marginal.
This ‘No war on Iran’ buisness – no sanctions! no interventions! – is idiotic. If you folks think that Irans’ leaders are just a bunch of benevolent caretakers who want only to supply their citizens with clean and safe nuclear electricity, you are FOOLS.
By the way, where is OB’s condemnation of Anonymous? They performed a destructive act in your name. Or do you approve of this kind of thing?
The left-wing is a sorry sack of losers with no ideas but try to pretend to be profound by contradicting the most obvious conclusions drawn by normal world citizens who have the power of thought.
Americaaaaaa!!!! OOOiiiiiii….Wake Up!!! Occupy your mind.