Reply #12: I'm sending them $5 bucks and a thank you note for getting [View All]

[John Q. Citizen]

off their asses and making something happen.

I didn't really know ANSWER were the ones that got this going,who then invited United for Peace and Justice to join in the effort, and then allowed Cindy Sheehan to join with them to make for a great demonstration.

The whiners haven't figured out that there is no such thing as bad publicity, so I thank them too for bringing to my attention who was responsible for pulling this off so I would know who to send a little dough to.

The biggest legitimate complaint I've heard is that some poeople didn't like all the speakers. They liked some and didn't like others. If that's all, what the big deal?

By the way, I'm in favor of constructive critisisms of the demonstration, but this prima-donna-esque whining reminds me of the people who are always threatening to leave DU because they got their feelings hurt somewhere sometime. Just to let people know how it comes off to me.

http://www.internationalanswer.org/
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/



Here's a partial list of speakers: (from Answers web site)

- Jessica Lange, actor
- George Galloway, British Member of Parliament
- Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general
- Cindy Sheehan*
- Dolores Huerta, Co-Founder, United Farm Workers of America
- Malik Rahim, New Orleans community activist who survived Hurricane Katrina
- Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney
- Ralph Nader
- Mahdi Bray, Exec. Dir., Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation
- Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, attorney/co-founder, Partnership for Civil Justice, National Lawyers Guild
- Elias Rashmawi, National Council of Arab Americans
- Brian Becker, National Coordinator, A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
- Lynne Stewart, human rights attorney
- Rev. Al Sharpton*
- Anita Dennis, mother of Iraq War veteran / resister
- Clayola Brown, President of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, Vice President of UNITE HERE**
- Ben Dupuy, Former Ambassador At Large for the government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Jos Williams, President, President of the Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO
- Michael Berg, father of Nicholas Berg
- Christine Araquel, Alliance for a Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines
- Andy Thayer, Equality Campaign
- Curtis Muhammed, Community Labor Union of New Orleans*
- Margaret Prescod, Global Women's Strike
- Hadi Jawad, founder of Crawford Peace House
- Chris Silvera, Teamsters Black Caucus
- Musa Al-Hindi, Al-Awda National
- Michel Shehadeh, L.A-8 defendant, a Palestinian activist framed COINTELPRO-style
- Nancy Wolforth, Executive Vice President, AFL-CIO
- Manuel Santos, Socialist Front of Puerto Rico
- Brenda Stokely, Million Worker March, New York City Labor Against the War
- Peta Lindsay, Youth and Student A.N.S.W.E.R. Student, Howard University student
- Mounzer Sleiman, National Council of Arab Americans
- Macrina Cardenas, Mexicanos Sin Fronteras
- Jeanette Caceres, Spoken word artist from New York University
- Gloria La Riva, National Committee to Free the Five
- Riya Ortiz, Network in Solidarity with the People of the Philippines, Campaign for Justice Not War
- Larry Holmes, Troops Out Now Coalition
- Chuck Kaufman, Nicaragua Network
- Women’s Anti-Imperialist League
- Representative of Bayan USA
- Eugene Puryear, Youth and Student A.N.S.W.E.R. Student, Howard University student
- Patti Smith, singer
All speakers confirmed by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition except those indicated by an asterisk (*) are confirmed by UFPJ and those indicated by two asterisk (**) are confirmed by USLAW.

ANSWER has secured the permit for a massive march that will go directly on Pennsylvania Ave. in front of the White House for the first time in many years, and then onto the FBI and the Justice Department.