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Please read this email to find: - Letter from former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark to President Bush regarding the new authorization for U.S. military personnel in Iraq to shoot looters - Ramsey Clark will be one of the featured speakers at the May 17-18 National Anti-War A.N.S.W.E.R. Conference in New York City - May 24 in Washington DC: Muslim Solidarity Day march & rally ------------------------------------------ LETTER FROM FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL RAMSEY CLARK TO PRESIDENT BUSH May 14, 2003 President George W. Bush Dear President Bush, The authorization to U.S. military personnel in Iraq to shoot looters reported in the press today must be rescinded immediately. Neither the laws of war, nor peace, or any legal definition of "American Justice", authorize soldiers, or police to shoot looters. Any soldier who shoots a looter has committed armed assault if injury results and murder if death results. You must not put this Iraqi blood on the hands and conscience of young American soldiers. During the racial turbulence of the 1960's, there was "Much loose talk of shooting looters." As Attorney General I said "this talk must stop!" "If America has a conscience we had best awake from this wild talk of shooting looters and face reality." "Far from being effective, shooting looters divides, angers, embitters, drives to violence... Is this American justice?" Deadly force, including firearms, can be employed only as a last resort when necessary to stop a direct and immediate threat to life. This new authorization to shoot looters compounds the excessive use of force employed against the people of Iraq by the shock-and-awe aggression already committed. It means the U.S. does not respect the lives of the people of Iraq and will use its armed might to kill them as it chooses. Only your immediate action can prevent more deaths and greater hatred toward our country. Sincerely, ********* Ramsey Clark will be one of the featured speakers at the MAY 17-18 National Conference Against War, Colonial Occupation & Imperialism. A full list of plenary and workshop speakers will be send out in an email later today. For a detailed schedule of workshops and plenaries, transportation to the conference, online pre-registration and more information, go to http://www.internationalanswer.org ------------------------------------------ Say NO to Bush & Ashcroft's attack on STAND FOR PEACE & JUSTICE Sponsored by MAS Freedom Foundation ********* FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THOUSANDS TO PROTEST BUSH ATTACK ON MUSLIMS, IMMIGRANTS, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND CIVIL LIBERTIES (Washington, DC) -- Thousands are expected to come to the nation's capital on May 24th to protest the Bush-Ashcroft policy of discrimination and persecution of Muslims and immigrants, and its blatant attack on the civil rights and civil liberties and domestic and international tranquility. The march and rally, called Muslim Solidarity Day for Justice and peace, sponsored by Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation, America's largest Muslim grassroots organization, will commence at 12 noon at The Ellipse across from the White House. The group will be joined by many peace, justice, religious and civil rights organizations and will include speakers such as Brian Becker (International Action Center), Congressman John Conyers, Rev. Al Sharpton, Imam Siraj Wahaj, Dr. Jamal Badawi, Zaid Shaker, Mara Verheyden-Hillard (A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition), and Mahdi Bray, President of MAS Freedom. According to Bray, "The recent barbaric and illegal invasion of Iraq has emboldened the Bush administration in its actions to target the Muslim and immigrant community and to violate the rights of Muslims, immigrants, and all Americans with impunity. We must continue to forge a coalition of conscience to resist the Bush administration's belligerent and destructive policy which is the greatest impediment to global peace today." ### MAS ADMINISTRATOR DETAINED AFTER REFUSING TO SPY FOR THE FBI (Arlington County, VA) -- Azzam Abu Huwil, an Office Administrator for the Muslim American Society, recently had his INS bond revoked and was placed in detention in the Arlington County (Virginia) Jail. Abu Huwil, a Jordanian Palestinian, believes his arrest is directly related to a refusal to spy on the Muslim community for the FBI. Abu Huwil had previously been released from detention on bond pending an INS hearing to address his residency status. According to Abu Huwil, he was visited by the INS on May 7th and asked about his recent change of address, then he was informed that because he would not serve as an FBI informant, that his bond had been revoked and was placed under arrest. He currently awaits a review of his bond revocation. "This is clearly a case of harassment and intimidation by the government," says MAS Freedom Executive Director Mahdi Bray, "many of our members have been questioned and harassed by the government, especially those of Palestinian descent." MAS Freedom is calling upon members of the American Muslim community to step out and speak out against the government's harassment and targeting of Muslims and immigrants. MAS has called for a major rally in Washington, DC across from the White House on May 24th to protest the government's actions and to protect the rights of Muslims, immigrants, and all Americans. For more information, go to www.masnet.org or call (202) 496-1288. MAS Freedom is the Public Affairs branch of the Muslim American Society. Our mission is to build an integrated empowerment process for the American Muslim community through civic education, participation, community outreach, and coalition building; to forge positive relationships with other institutions outside of our community, that will ensure and facilitate the protection of civil rights and liberties for American Muslims and all Americans and fair treatment of all immigrants. ### MAS Freedom Foundation --------------------------------------- Email circulated by: FOR MORE INFORMATION: To make a tax-deductible donation, go to Sign up to receive updates (low volume): ------------------ Send replies to iacenter@action-mail.org This is the IAC activist announcement |