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"INITIAL SIGNATORIES"
 
"INITIAL SIGNATORIES"
 
*[[Stewart Acuff]] - Organizing Director, [[AFL-CIO]]
 
*[[Stewart Acuff]] - Organizing Director, [[AFL-CIO]]
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*[[Frank Azcarate]] - [[Jobs with Justice]][[JwJ]]
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*[[Frank Azcarate]] - [[Jobs with Justice]] [[JwJ]]
 
*[[Patrick Barrett]] - [[Radfest]]; [[Midwest Social Forum]]
 
*[[Patrick Barrett]] - [[Radfest]]; [[Midwest Social Forum]]
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*[[Brian Benford]] - [[Madison Common Council]]  [[Madison]]
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*[[Brian Benford]] - [[Madison Common Council]]  [[Madison]] [[Wisconsin]]
 
*[[Medea Benjamin]] - [[CodePink]]
 
*[[Medea Benjamin]] - [[CodePink]]
 
*[[Adrienne Maree Brown]] - [[League of Pissed Off Voters]]
 
*[[Adrienne Maree Brown]] - [[League of Pissed Off Voters]]
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*[[Jim Goodman]] - [[Family Farm Defenders]]
 
*[[Jim Goodman]] - [[Family Farm Defenders]]
 
*Rev. [[Graylan Hagler]] - [[Ministers for Racial, Social and Economic Justice]] , a veteran supporter of [[Workers World Party]] fronts and causes in Washington, D.C. for the past 20 years or more - <2010)
 
*Rev. [[Graylan Hagler]] - [[Ministers for Racial, Social and Economic Justice]] , a veteran supporter of [[Workers World Party]] fronts and causes in Washington, D.C. for the past 20 years or more - <2010)
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*[[Jody Grage Haug]] - [[Green Peace Action]]  [[GPAX]]
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*[[Andy Heidt]] - [[Madison Common Council]] Madison  Wisconsin
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*[[Dolores Huerta]] - [[United Farm Workers]] [[UFW]]
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*Rev. [[Jesse Jackson]] - [[Rainbow/PUSH]]  [[Rainbow Coalition]]  [[PUSH]]
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*[[Natalie Johnson Lee]] - [[Minneapolish City Council]] [[Minneapolis]] [[Minnesota]]
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*[[Van Jones]] -- [[Ella Baker Center for Human Rights]], former Obama environmental czar; leader of the now defunct [[STORM]] revolutionary communist organization in Oakland; 2010 - with [[George Soro]]'s [[Open Society Institute]]
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*Rabbi [[Michael Lerner]] - [[Tikkun]] organization and publication which billed itself as "A bimonthly Jewish Critique of Politics, Culture and Society"; former [[SDS]] organizer; member of the violent [[Seattle Liberation Front]] [[SLF]]
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*[[Peter Karas]] - [[Racine Common Council]] [[Racine]] [[Wisconsin]]
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*[[Brenda Konkel]] - President, [[Madison Common Council]] Wisconsin
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*[[Doug La Follette]] - [Wisconsin Secretary of State]] Wisconsin
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*Rev. [[James Lawson]] - civil rights leader and veteran supporter of communist causes
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*[[Barbara Lubin]] - [[Middle East Children's Alliance]] [[MECA]], an veteran leader of the [[PLO Lobby]]
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*[[Ben Manski]] - [[Liberty Tree Foundation]]
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*[[Elizabeth Martinez]] - [[Institute for Multiracial Justice]]
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*[[Mike McCabe]] - [[Wisconsin Democracy Campaign]]  Wisconsin
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*[[Robert McChesney]] - [[Free Press]]; college professor, marxist, and leader of the movement for "Net Neutrality"
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*[[Holly Near]] - singer-songwriter; marxist lesbian, friend of [[Jane Fonda]] and accompanied her on a trip to North Vietnam in 1972
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*[[Maya O'Connor]] - [[Labor Greens Network]]
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*[[Jamala Rogers]] - [[Organization for Black Struggle]], [[St. Louis]] [[Missouri]]
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*[[Rebecca Rotzler]] - Alder  (Alderman?), [[New Paltz]]  [[New York]]
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*[[Marc Sanson]] - Co-Chair, [[Green Party of the United States]] [[GP]]
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*[[Renee Saucedo]] - [[La Raza Centro Legal]] [[La Raza]]
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*[[John Sellers]] - [[Ruckus Society]]
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*[[Charles Shaw]] - [[Newtopia Magazine]]  [[Newtopia]]
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*[[Jane Slaughter]] - [[Labor Notes]]
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*[[Damu Smith]] - founder, [[Black  Voices for Peace]], a veteran supporter of communist causes esp. those of the CPUSA and WWP, and supporter of pro-communist guerrilla movements in southern Africa
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*[[Starhawk]] - activist and writer, and supporter of WWP fronts and causes
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*[[Chuck Turner]] - [[Boston City Council]] [[Boston]] [[Massachusetts]]
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*[[Chris Vaeth]] - [[This Time We're Watching]]
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*[[Jason West]] - Mayor, [[New Paltz]]  [[New York]]
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*[[Bob Wing]] - [[War Times]] online publication, another supporter of WWP fronts and causes
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*[[Dean Zimmerman]] - [[Minneapolis City Council]]  Minneapolis, Minnesota
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*[[Howard Zinn]] - historian, and revealed in 2010 to have been a secret member of the CPUSA (see KW site as well as [[Accuracy In Media or SurvivalUS.org for more details]]
  
 
==Solidarity with Sept. 24 FBI Raid Activists==
 
==Solidarity with Sept. 24 FBI Raid Activists==

Revision as of 07:09, 24 December 2010

United for Peace and Justice

Template:TOCnestleft United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) is a coalition of more than 1400 local and national groups throughout the United States who have joined together to protest the immoral and disastrous Iraq War and oppose our government's policy of permanent warfare and empire-building.[1]

The National Coordinator is Leslie Cagan.[2]

United for Peace and Justice is a partner organization of the Institute for Policy Studies.[3]

Communist influence

Several Marxist organizations are involved in the UFPJ leadership but the most influential has been the Communist Party USA, through members and Steering Committee such as National Coordinator Judith LeBlanc, Steering Committee members such as Jacqueline Cabasso, Libero Della Piana and Siri Margerin and affiliate leaders including Rosalio Munoz, Alfred Marder and Erica Smiley.

Steering Committee

The UFPJ Steering Committee voted on at UFPJ's 4th National Assembly December 12-14, 2008 in Chicago.

National Organizations Affiliated With UFPJ

UFPJ affiliates as of July 17, 2007[4].


November 3rd Pledge of Action: No Stolen Election

UFP sent out an email on October 10, 2004 about their "November 3rd Pledge of Action" if they suspected voter fraud in the November 2004 presidential election.

The complete text of this message and its supporters is as follows.

"November 3rd Pledge of Action: No Stolen Election", Oct. 10, 2004

"We all remember the votes that were never counted in Florida 2000. So, where we are all working hard for a positive outcome on November 2nd, we also have to be prepared for a repeat of a 2000 stolen election. Below is a pledge for people to sign, supporting efforts to mobilize and protect the vote on November 2nd and making a commitment to protest starting on November 3rd in the case of a fraudulent vote count. By signing this pledge, you will be joining with thousands of others in the November 3rd Urgent Response Network. Please sign the pledge at www.nov3.us and pass it around far and wide."

"We are setting up a Fair Elections Advisory Council made up of U.S. and international election experts who will give us their assessment on election day itself. If they find significant fraud, we will activate the Urgent Response Network on or immediately after November 3rd, calling on people everywhere to engage in protest, including non-violent civil disobedience, in front of their local federal buildings and other appropriate places. We will also be asking those who can to converge in the states where the most serious fraud occurred, as well as in Washington, D.C."

"In addition to signing the pledge, please work with other people and groups in your area to protect the vote on November 2nd and to build the Urgent Response Network. Pick a venue for your local protest in the case that the Urgent Response Network is activated, and list the time and place on the website at www.nov3.us. We also recommend that you set up a place to jointly watch the election results on November 2nd."

"Let us commit ourselves to making sure that this time around, the person who occupied the White House is the one who won the election."

"November 3rd Pledge of Action"

"I remember the stolen presidential election of 2000 and I am willing to take action in 2004 if the election is stolen again. I support efforts to protect the right to vote leading up to and on Election Day, November 2nd. If that right is systematically violated, I pledge to join nationwide protests starting on November 3rd, either in my community, in the state where the fraud occurred or in Washington DC."

"INITIAL SIGNATORIES"

Solidarity with Sept. 24 FBI Raid Activists

The Committee to Stop FBI Repression lists United for Peace and Justice as one of the organizations that has issued a statement of solidarity in support of the activists raided in the September 24, 2010 FBI Raids.[5]

External links

References

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  1. ↑ About
  2. ↑ "Peace Coalition Plans to Mark 5th Anniversary of Iraq War" in Political Affairs
  3. ↑ IPS partners
  4. ↑ Affiliates
  5. ↑ Committee to Stop FBI Repression: Solidarity Statements (accessed on Oct. 6, 2010)
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