Albany, NY Rally, July 25 Solidarity with the Muslim community

Follows United National Antiwar Conference -- July 23 to July 25

Sunday Demonstration info: www.projectsalam.org

Registration, information for conference: nationalpeaceconference.org

The Muslim Solidarity Committee and Project SALAM (Support And Legal Advocacy for Muslims) have called for a public demonstration on Sunday, July 25 in Albany in solidarity with the Muslim community there, that has been subject to discrimination and persecution by the U.S. political police. The demonstration is set for the end of a national anti-war conference in the city. The organizers have called on conference participants to meet at east steps of the Capitol, Washington & State Streets, a block from the Conference site, at 1 p.m. for a march to Masjid As-Salam at 278 Central Avenue. The Muslim Solidarity Committee and Project SALAM will also participate in a luncheon panel on political repression and closing Guantanamo. (See www.projectsalam.org)

The resentencing of attorney Lynne Stewart on July 16, quadrupling her sentence from 28 months to 10 years in federal prison, has put on the front burner of the movement the need to fight against the demonization of Muslim people and the FBI and police frame-ups of Muslim youth and all who defend Muslims against state repression.

The International Action Center will participate in this protest demonstration, after taking part from Friday, July 23 to Sunday July 25 along with hundreds of other anti-war and community activists in the anti-war conference at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Albany. This National Conference to Bring the Troops Home Now will be an intense weekend of plenary sessions, workshops, education, resolutions and networking.

The weekend comes as casualties among NATO and especially U.S. troops are rapidly increasing, and when the disarray in the U.S. command following Gen. McChrystal’s “resignation” highlight the disintegration of the U.S. war strategy.

The conference’s action proposal demands an immediate end to the illegal occupations of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and calls on the movement to be prepared to respond to an attack on Iran. It also joins those essential anti-war demands with others that call attention to the enormous waste of human resources to feed the war machine. The conference will take up actions for the coming Fall and next Spring.

Workshops will take up issues from Palestine, the U.S. occupation of Haiti, U.S. intervention in Colombia, global warming and the environment, the role of poor people’s movement’s and developments in the GI resistance movement.

The IAC is committed to determined activism and resistance to U.S. militarism, racism and corporate greed. We want to link international solidarity to fighting oppression in the U.S. We are interested in meeting up with other revolutionary activists and militant community organizations at this conference.

Along with 30 other antiwar, peace and justice national organizations, the International Action Center is a co-sponsor of this conference.

A look at the schedule for the weekend indicates that there will be opportunities for anti-imperialists to intervene and fight for their positions within the context of building the broadest possible anti-war actions.

(See nationalpeaceconference.org for more details of Conference registration, schedule of speakers, workshops, panels and housing)
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