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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","sans-serif";color:red'>BUILD OCTOBER 6 ACTION AGAINST WARS ABROAD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","sans-serif";color:red'>AND POLICE STATE ATTACKS ON CIVIL LIBERTIES AT HOME</span></b><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","sans-serif";color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>Join us in a<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>march and rally to protest the dangerous escalation in threats of military action<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>against Syria and Iran and increased racist violence and repression at home.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","sans-serif";color:red'>SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1:30 PM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","sans-serif";color:red'>PARK ST.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.5pt'>Eleven years ago on October 7, the U.S. unleashed a war on Afghanistan, followed by the war on Iraq based on lies. While thousands of troops remain in these countries, U.S. drone missiles rain down on Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. Now the government imposes sanctions and threatens to attack Syria and Iran. The U.S. sends troops and threatens to retaliate against anti-US protesters in the Middle East. These actions will escalate the nightmare of war in the Middle East, not end it.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.5pt'>To wage war abroad, they <i>must</i> wage war at home. The last decade has seen escalating repression and poverty at home. Islamophobia and scapegoating of Muslims leads to manufactured frame-ups and violence against the Muslim community. Civil liberties and the right to dissent are under siege with indefinite detention and extra-judicial assassinations now the law of the land.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.5pt'>Racism is a weapon of war. They use it against Muslims and immigrants. They’ve stepped up the war on Black and Latino youth, with racial profiling, stop and frisk, and harsh sentencing -- resulting in police brutality, mass incarceration, military weapons in the hands of police, and a hugely profitable prison industry.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.5pt'>To pay for wars and to maximize the profits of the haves, they take more and more from the have-nots. We see cuts to the social safety nets, attacks on labor, huge unemployment, privatization of public services, neglect of infrastructure, and poisoning of the environment.</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:red'>LET’S STAND TOGETHER IN UNITY AND SOLIDARITY. TOGETHER WE ARE POWERFUL!</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:red'>HANDS OFF SYRIA AND IRAN! NO TO RACISM, RAIDS, AND REPRESSION! NO TO ISLAMOPHOBIA!</span></b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","sans-serif"'>* United National Antiwar Coalition * United for Justice with Peace * International Action Center *<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","sans-serif"'>* Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Boston *<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","sans-serif"'>* Committee for Peace & Human Rights, Boston * New England United * Rhode Island Mobilization Committee <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","sans-serif"'>* Veterans For Peace, Smedley D. Butler Brigade *</span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","sans-serif";color:red'>**</span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","sans-serif"'>Please add your organizations to list of endorsers by emailing <a href="mailto:BostonUNAC@gmail.com">BostonUNAC@gmail.com</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","sans-serif";color:red'>**</span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","sans-serif"'>If you or your organization would like to speak at the rally, contact Marilyn Levin, <a href="mailto:marilynl@alumni.neu.edu">marilynl@alumni.neu.edu</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#2208E6'>THERE WILL BE A PLANNING MEETING FOR THIS ACTION ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER, 19, 7:30 PM AT IAC OFFICE, 284 AMORY ST., J.P. (Brewery complex, near Stonybrook on Orange line).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#2208E6'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#080238'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>