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<b><font face="Arial">in this email:<br>
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1) 1/10 - IAC Forum: Genocide in Gaza = US/Israeli War Crimes<br>
2) 1/17 - A FIGHTBACK CONFERENCE: Bail Out the PEOPLE, Not Wall Street!<br>
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<hr size="2" width="100%"><b><font face="Arial">1)</font></b><br>
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<a href="http://www.iacboston.org"><img alt=""
src="cid:part1.04010401.01000506@iacboston.org" align="left" border="0"
height="225" width="300"></a><big><font face="Arial"><a
href="http://www.iacboston.org"><b><big><big><font color="#990000">Genocid</font></big></big></b></a></font></big><font
face="Arial"><big><a href="http://www.iacboston.org"><b><big><big><font
color="#990000">e in Gaza = US/Israeli War Crimes</font></big></big></b></a><br>
<a href="http://www.iacboston.org"><b><big><big><font color="#990000">Stop
the US/Israeli Invasion of Gaza</font></big></big></b><br>
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<b><i>Featuring:</i> Ahmad Kawash, </b>long-time Palestinian activist</font><font
face="Arial"><br>
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<big><b><big><big><font color="#990000">Sat., Jan. 10 - 6:30 pm</font></big></big></b></big><br>
<b>Action Center</b> - 284 Amory St., (The Brewery), JP<br>
childcare refreshments<br>
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<b><font color="#009900">download flyer</font></b> -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.iacboston.org/Palestine/011009/011009-gaza-forum.pdf">http://www.iacboston.org/Palestine/011009/011009-gaza-forum.pdf</a><br>
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<ul>
<li><font face="Arial">The Role of U.S. Imperialism in the Israeli
Assault of Gaza</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial">Building Solidarity With the People of
Palestine</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial">The Global Economic Crisis and the threat of
US Imperialism</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial">Update on the January 17 <a
href="http://www.bailoutpeople.org/">FIGHTBACK Conference</a> in NYC
demanding 'Bail Out the PEOPLE, Not Wall Street' on the 80th Birthday
of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.</font></li>
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<div align="center"><b><font face="Arial">International Action Center</font></b><br>
<font face="Arial">617-522-6626 • <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:iacboston@iacboston.org">iacboston@iacboston.org</a> •
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.iacboston.org">www.iacboston.org</a></font><br>
<font face="Arial">Women's Fightback Network; Fight Imperialism, Stand
Together (FIST)<br>
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<div align="left"><font face="Georgia"><b><font face="Arial">2)</font></b><br>
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href="http://www.bailoutpeople.org/bailoutpeopleendorse.shtml">ENDORSE</a>
| <a title="http://www.bailoutpeople.org/bailoutpeopleendorse.shtml"
href="http://www.bailoutpeople.org/bailoutpeopleendorse.shtml">PRE-REGISTER</a>
| <a title="http://www.bailoutpeople.org/mlkconfendorsers.shtml"
href="http://www.bailoutpeople.org/mlkconfendorsers.shtml">VIEW
ENDORSERS</a> | <a title="http://bailoutpeople.org/donate.shtml"
href="http://bailoutpeople.org/donate.shtml">DONATE</a><br>
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<div align="center"><strong><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>In
Commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of </em></font></strong> </div>
<p align="center"><font face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
size="4"><strong>DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.’s Birthday</strong></font></p>
<p align="center"><strong><font color="#990033"
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="6"><em>In NYC:</em></font></strong></p>
<p align="center"><big><strong><font color="#990033"
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="6"><big>A FIGHTBACK
CONFERENCE</big></font></strong></big></p>
<p align="center"><big><font color="#990033"
face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="6"><big><strong>Bail
Out the PEOPLE,<br>
Not Wall Street!</strong></big></font></big></p>
<p align="center"><big><font face="Arial">Uniting & fighting
against WAR and for economic & social justice in the biggest crisis
since the depression of the 1930s!</font></big></p>
<p align="center"><big><strong><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
size="5"><big>SATURDAY, JANUARY 17th </big></font></strong></big></p>
<div align="center"><big> </big></div>
<p align="center"><strong><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
size="5"><big>12 to 6 pm</big><br>
<font size="4">Public School 41, 116 West 11 St., NYC</font></font></strong></p>
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<p align="center"><br>
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<p align="left"><i><b>INVITED GUESTS/WORKSHOPS/ACTION PROPOSALS</b></i></p>
<p align="left"><strong>CHALLENGES AND ACTION PROPOSALS TO BE TAKEN UP
(PARTIAL LIST):</strong></p>
<p align="left"> * BAIL OUT THE PEOPLE FIRST: A FIGHTBACK PROGRAM</p>
<p align="left"> * COMBINING A STRATEGY OF MASS ACTION AND DIRECT ACTION</p>
<p align="left"> * THE NEXT PHASE OF THE FIGHT AGAINST FORECLOSURES AND
EVICTIONS</p>
<p align="left"> * OPENING THE FIGHT FOR JOBS OR INCOME NOW:
CHALLENGING ORGANIZED LABOR TO DO MORE</p>
<p align="left"> * RECRUITING AN ARMY OF ORGANIZERS</p>
<p align="left"> * APRIL 3 AND 4TH, 2009: PROPOSAL FOR MASS
MOBILIZATION ON WALL STREET ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF DR. KING’S
ASSASSINATION--Some peace activists are planning peace mobilizations,
possibly on Wall Street, in New York City on April 4th. This is a good
idea. A better idea is to mobilize for two days including Friday, April
3, when the New York Stock Exchange, businesses and banks are open and
workers are there. </p>
<p align="left"> * MAY 1, 2009: ON INTERNATIONAL WORKERS DAY--Mass
mobilization for immigrant and all workers’ rights. How can we
strengthen participation and solidarity, especially now?</p>
<p align="left"> * SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 2009: MARCH ON THE PENTAGON--on
the sixth anniversary of the war and occupation of Iraq</p>
<p align="left"><br>
<strong>WORKSHOPS AND BREAKOUTS (LIST IN FORMATION)</strong></p>
<p align="left"> * THE ROLE OF YOUTH IN THE FIGHTBACK</p>
<p align="left"> * UNITING THE COMMUNITY WITH ORGANIZED AND
UN-ORGANIZED WORKERS</p>
<p align="left"> * THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT AND THE STRUGGLE VS. THE WAR
AT HOME: FORGING A NEW RELATIONSHIP—Hear voices from the growing GI and
Veterans’ Resistance Movement, Stop the war against Gaza, End the
occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. Stop the War on GAZA, Defend
Palestine!</p>
<p align="left"> * THEY SAY CUTBACK–WE SAY FIGHTBACK: The growing
struggles against cutbacks, tuition increases, transit fare hikes,
layoffs, and more</p>
<p align="left"> * CREATING AN ARMY OF ORGANIZERS</p>
<p align="left"> * IMMIGRANT WORKERS’ RIGHTS: FIGHTING RACISM IS THE
KEY TO SOLIDARITY</p>
<p align="left"><br>
Dear activists and organizers:</p>
<p align="left">In 2009, more and more lives are going to be devastated
by the biggest global economic crisis since the Great Depression of the
1930s. This crisis is the challenge of a lifetime to those of us who
have made a commitment to fight for people’s economic and social
rights. What we do, or fail to do will prove decisive to the coming
battle over whose interests in society shall prevail--the needs of the
people, or the greed of the super-rich few who insist that their
profits always come first.</p>
<p align="left">The Bail Out the People Movement invites you to come
together in New York City on Sat., Jan. 17, 2009 and help plan the
fightback. If you live in the western part of the U.S., we invite you
to come to our West Coast Fightback Conference in Los Angeles on Sat.,
Jan. 24, 2009.</p>
<p align="left">How fitting it is that we meet on the anniversary of
the 80th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. If ever there was a
time to remember King’s legacy of struggle against war, racism and for
economic and social justice, now is such a time!</p>
<p align="left">That Barack Obama will become president on Jan. 20,
realizes a measure of King’s dream. But depression- level joblessness,
evictions and foreclosures made worse by cutbacks, war, bigotry and
racism are not a dream, but a nightmare.</p>
<p align="left">The nightmare is borne out in the numbers: $1 trillion
for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, $8 trillion to bail out the biggest
and richest banks and bankers, while millions lose their jobs, homes,
healthcare, ability to go to school, and sink into life-threatening
poverty.</p>
<p align="left">There is the promise of a “Stimulus program that will
create or save some jobs.” But the stimulus will be a
drop-in-the-bucket; it’s expected that one million jobs will be lost
per month in 2009 in the U.S. </p>
<p align="left">It is up to the people to fight for the right to jobs
or a living income, along with a moratorium on foreclosures and
evictions, as well as no escalation of the war in Afghanistan.</p>
<p align="left">No election or president, however historical and
inspiring, can be a substitute for a mass movement in the struggle
against war or for social and economic rights.</p>
<p align="left">Let’s take inspiration and example from some recent and
current struggles like those of the Republic Glass and Doors Co.
workers in Chicago who occupied their factory to fight for their
rights, or the workers at the Smithfield meat processing plant in Tar
Heel, North Carolina, who fought for and won a union. Or the students
at New York City’s New School who held a successful sit-in. Or the
youth in Greece who are fighting police terror and economic oppression.
The lessons of these struggles are that we will need to utilize both
mass action and direct action in the fightback ahead of us.</p>
<p align="left">Join with activists in New York and from across the
country: If you are an anti-war activist, a union organizer, a student
activist, or someone who first became excited about politics because of
Obama’s campaign, or if you face losing a job, a home, the ability to
go to college, healthcare, or a pension—and you are ready to unite and
fight back--let’s come together and determine what we can do to help
give birth to a desperately needed fightback movement.</p>
<p align="left"><strong>Pre-register for the conference - </strong>-<a
href="http://www.bailoutpeople.org/bailoutpeopleendorse.shtml">http://www.bailoutpeople.org/bailoutpeopleendorse.shtml</a></p>
<p align="left"><strong>Endorse</strong> - <a
href="http://www.bailoutpeople.org/bailoutpeopleendorse.shtml">http://www.bailoutpeople.org/bailoutpeopleendorse.shtml</a></p>
<p align="left"><strong>See list of endorsers - </strong><a
href="http://www.bailoutpeople.org/mlkconfendorsers.shtml">http://www.bailoutpeople.org/mlkconfendorsers.shtml</a></p>
<p align="left"><strong>Donate -</strong> <a
href="http://bailoutpeople.org/donate.shtml">http://bailoutpeople.org/donate.shtml</a></p>
<p>Sponsored by: <br>
The Bail Out the People Movement<br>
55 W. 17th St., Fifth Floor<br>
New York, NY 10011<br>
212-633-6646<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.BailOutPeople.org">www.BailOutPeople.org</a></p>
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International Action Center
Boston:
617-522-6626
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National Office:
212-633-6646
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.iacenter.org">http://www.iacenter.org</a>
Troops Out Now Coalition
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://troopsoutnow.org">http://troopsoutnow.org</a>
Stop War on Iran
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://stopwaroniran.org">http://stopwaroniran.org</a>
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