Join us this Saturday, in the streets

World Can't Wait is one of many organizations uniting for the March 20 March on Washington, with coinciding marches in L.A. and San Francisco. The main united demand is US OUT OF IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN NOW! World Can't Wait is also raising: STOP THE WARS & TORTURE FOR EMPIRE! In Los Angeles, we're marching in a We Are Not Your Soldiers! Contingent

Find the national March 20 information here.

On March 20, World Can't Wait will be in the March in D.C., and the previous day WCW will be out in the streets in Charlottesville, Virginia, protesting another of Torture Professor John Yoo's public speeches and demanding Yoo be fired, disbarred, and prosecuted.

Why are we marching? And WHY SHOULD YOU COME MARCH WITH US TOO?

This is the SEVENTH anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Seven years of what we know the U.S. has done to the people of the Middle East. In our names. Seven years of the wars of occupation, the torture . . . in our names. And everything you hated under Bush and Cheney, is all just as intolerable and immoral now, with President Obama in command of it all.

The U.S. is occupying Iraq and Afghanistan, and now has more combat troops there - 166,000, with 30,000 more on the way - than during the Bush years. President Obama is using drones (pilot-less aircraft) on raids into Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, killing hundreds of civilians. All of these attacks are against international law, because none of these countries attacked the U.S.

IRAQ: As U.S. troops switch from "combat" to "permanent occupation" one million Iraqis are dead, 4 million are refugees. George Bush invaded Iraq seven years ago on the basis of outrageous lies: that Iraq was responsible for 9-11, and had "weapons of mass destruction." There was never any evidence of either, yet over a million people died as Iraqi civil society, schools, sewers, water, and electricity were destroyed by occupation. President Obama still has 98,000 U.S. troops there, though most people voted for him because they thought he would end the war.

AFGHANISTAN: The world's most powerful military is destroying one of its poorest countries, a horror for civilians. Afghanistan is not any more "just" than the Iraq war. It is a war of terror on the people, now being expanded by Obama. During the current and largest U.S. offensive of the war, which is going to spread over the next year, innocent civilians are being killed by U.S./NATO bombs, driven from their homes, and innocent Afghans have been imprisoned and tortured in secret U.S. detention centers.

Is the U.S. there to stop the Taliban and Al-Qaeda? The Afghan people say they want the U.S. to leave because American actions - such as killing innocents - drive more people to join the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban, and because the U.S. allies with the bullying Northern Alliance warlords.

Is the U.S. there to "save the women" from the Taliban? The Karzai government of Afghanistan, only in power because of U.S. guns, passed a law last year governing the Shi'a population (10-15% of the total) giving men the right to starve their wives if they refuse their husband's demands for sex. Maternal death rates (from childbirth) are nearly the highest in the world, eight years after the US took over.

VISIBLE PROTEST - Thre's nothing more realistic and necessary than dumpting fantasies and illusions and standing in the streets. These wars are not legitimate. People around the world must see that we don't support them, and know that to us, American lives are not more important than their own.

JOIN WORLD CAN'T WAIT SATURDAY MARCH 20 IN PROTEST!
We Are Not Your Soldiers! Contingent
12 noon Hollywood and Vine

Look for the orange bandanas, jumpsuits and We Are Not Your Soldiers Banner

Wear Orange!

E-mail: worldcantwait_la@yahoo.com