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Taking Democracy from the Polls to the Streets!<br>
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3rd<br><br>
Join the Anti-Imperialist Contingent at the Not In Our Name March Look
for<br>
red shirts and black and red armbands!<br><br>
Begin gathering at Powell and Market at 4pm, Program begins at 5pm.
We<br>
will March from Powell St. to Valencia and 24th with the Local Bloco
crew<br>
holding it down in the front. We will pass the 16th St. Police
station<br>
where an altar, action, and street theater will be happening to pay<br>
repsects to the lives taken by INS repression and war at home and
abroad.<br><br>
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(The following is a press release from the Anti-Imperialist
Contingent)<br><br>
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Taking Democracy from the Polls to the Streets<br><br>
On November 3rd the march for democracy moves from the polls to the<br>
streets. People across the country - in Asheville, Baltimore,
Boston,<br>
Chicago, Denver, Gainesville, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, New York
City,<br>
Pittsburgh, Tucson, and in San Francisco are declaring that the people
are<br>
the decision-makers in society, not just on Election Day, but
everyday.<br><br>
In this election between two pro-war candidates there has been
massive<br>
voter disenfranchisement and voter intimidation targeting working
class<br>
people, communities of color, young people and immigrants who vote<br>
Democrat. With outright, public efforts to undermine one of the
most<br>
basic rights in a democratic society, we take to the streets to
exercise<br>
our power and announce to the world that we will fight back.<br><br>
At the 5pm march called by the anti-war coalition Not In Our Name,
the<br>
groups Siafu, Global Intifada and the Heads Up Collective have called
for<br>
an Anti-Imperialist Contingent to make visible struggles for justice
in<br>
the US and around the world.<br><br>
"From Baghdad to the US/Mexico border, women, children and elders
suffer<br>
and die every day because of the so-called 'War on Terrorism.' Bush
has<br>
created and aided this plan for empire and Kerry has not pledged to
stop<br>
it," says Lupe Arreola of St. Peter's Housing Committee and a member
of<br>
Siafu. Arreola and the Anti-Imperialist Contingent will focus on both
the<br>
attacks against immigrant communities and the leadership of immigrants
in<br>
social justice movements.<br><br>
She continues, "We, as an immigrant community, must be out in the
streets<br>
on Nov 3, in defense of democracy and in solidarity with other third
world<br>
immigrants, and with the people of the world - from Port-au-Prince to
West<br>
Oakland."<br><br>
Raeanne Young of Global Intifada is working nationally to build the
Beyond<br>
Voting strategy of mobilizing people to take to the streets Nov.
3rd. "We<br>
recognize that we cannot vote for freedom within this two party
system.<br><br>
Real democracy comes from grassroots organizing, leadership and<br>
self-determination in our communities." She explains,
"This time around<br>
we're taking it from the polls to the streets."<br><br>
In vigils, marches and acts of civil disobedience around the
country,<br>
communities committed to social justice are stepping forward to
reclaim<br>
democracy. Rahula Janowski of the Heads Up collective argues,
"As a white<br>
working class mother struggling to get by, I march in the streets today
in<br>
solidarity with immigrants, communities of color and all working
class<br>
people and poor people struggling to get by. We come together not
just to<br>
march on Nov 3rd, but to build a truly just society for us
all."<br>
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