National Online Teach-in – No War with Iran!

Organized nationally by a variety of anti-war forces and hosted in Madison by the Party for Socialism and Liberation

On Saturday, January 11 at 2 pm CT at the Lakeview Library Tableside Room, we will hold a national online teach-in to build the movement against war with Iran! Featuring anti-war leaders, scholars, journalists, representatives from religious communities and others.

The teach-in features speakers representing different sectors of the new anti-war movement that is growing.

Speakers for the teach-in will include:

Kathy Kelly, Voice for Creative Nonviolence
Abby Martin, host of The Empire Files
Dr. Gerald Horne, author and historian
Claudia De La Cruz, The People’s Forum
Liz Theoharis, Co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign
Mazda Majidi, Iranian-American journalist
Leila Zanda, Iranian-American activist
Dr. Jill Stein, Green Party presidential candidate 2016
Eugene Puryear, ANSWER Coalition
Media Benjamin, CODEPINK
Ciara Taylor, The People’s Forum
Max Blumenthal, journalist at The Grayzone
Leonard Flores, CODEPINK Latin America Coordinator
Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, Partnership for Civil Justice Fund
Mike Prysner, Iraq anti-war veteran
Anya Parampil, journalist at The Grayzone
And others

Please join us to learn more about the situation in Iran and counter lies being spread by the mainstream media. And remember to come out for the global day of protest on January 25th!

ACCESSIBILITY INFO:
Lakeview Library is accessible by bus on the 4, 6, and 22 buslines.

Free childcare with an accredited early childhood educator will be provided from 2:00-4:00.

The Lakeview Library Tableside Room is accessible by wheelchair and walker, although participants should know that the room may be a tight fit with more than 20 attendees.

In an effort to increase accessibility of our events, PSL encourages attendees to come fragrance free. An article about how to do this is here: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.thinkagaintraining.com/about-us/fragrance-free/&ved=2ahUKEwjUz8iT1fLmAhWCWM0KHTbOAzAQFjAAegQIBxAC&usg=AOvVaw34LYrrI5j0T99Vxh_g4xgk

For additional accessibility accommodations, please contact our Facebook page The Party for Socialism and Liberation Madison.

If your organization is interested in co-sponsoring this event please contact us!

Stand with Chicken Don (NO Trump in MKE)

4 – 7:30 P.M., Corner of W Kilbourn Ave. and Vel Philips (4th Street)

That’s right, “Chicken” Donald Trump is coming to Milwaukee, and we will let him know he is #NotWelcomeInMKE. Join our 20 foot giant inflatable “Chicken Don” at 4 PM to let the world know that Milwaukee stands in opposition of Trump and his war mongering with Iran, his xenophobia, white supremacy, family separation policy, his #GOPTaxScam, and his criminal administration!

Community Conversation about Public Education

Thursday, January 9 at 4 p.m., Madison

Please join your neighbors in a “No War With Iran!” event. We will stand on the sidewalk at James Madison Park on E. Gorham St. at N. Blair St. on Thursday January 9th from 4 PM to 5:30 PM. We’ll hold signs and flags, and wave to passersby. Bring your own signs.

Sign Petition: https://bit.ly/2s2ZLw6

8 AM, Friday, Jan. 10, 2020

Rally: No U.S. War On Iran! U.S. Out of Iraq & the Middle East! Money For People’s Needs Not War!

Lafayette Hill Rd. & Lincoln Memorial Drive, Milwaukee

No War on Iran! Emergency Protest!

5:30 -8:30 P.M., Wacker and Wabash, Chicago

Donald Trump decided to declare war against Iran when he assassinated a senior Iranian general at the Baghdad airport. Now, predictably Iran has retaliated. The entire region could be engulfed in war and this war can quickly become a global conflict. Join the thousands of people who are demanding no war with Iran, who are demand peace!

Come out to this emergency protest at Wacker and Wabash, the people will not go quietly into another disastrous war in the Middle East!

Iranian children carry portraits of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani during a funeral ceremony in Tehran, January 6, 2020. / https://www.presstv.com/

Anti-War Demonstration

Fox Valley Youth for Peace

11:30 A.M., 111 W College Avenue, Appleton, WI – Houdini Plaza

This Thursday at 11:30 A.M., students across the country and within the Fox Valley will be rallying against a potential U.S. war with Iran. We will not be forced into fighting another endless war, it is never the children of the Wall Street aggressors that die in war but the children of working families who never wanted it to happen. If you are able bring a sign, please do so and dress warm!

Baltimore protest, one of dozens in the U.S. over the past week.

Draftees and enlistees — eighteen-year-olds from the South Bronx, factory workers from Buffalo, miners’ sons from Kentucky, unemployed youth from Watts — hate the military and the Vietnam War. They throw a wrench into the Pentagon’s war machine, becoming leaders of the anti-war movement and organizing a union in the conscript military to battle war, racism and their officers. Turn the Guns Around: Mutinies, Soldier Revolts and Revolutions

https://bit.ly/37LYysuj

https://orinocotribune.com/

January 7, 2020

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has targeted the US airbase of Ain al-Assad in Anbar province in western Iraq after launching a wave of attacks to retaliate the US assassination of top Iranian anti-terror commander, Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani.

“Tens of surface-to-surface missiles” were fired at the strategic airbase and the attack was later confirmed by the US officials.

The IRGC has called for a complete withdrawal of US troops from the Arab country, asserting that it would not differentiate between the US and Israel in retaliating against the assassination of the Iranian national hero.

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“We warn US allies providing bases for the [American] terrorist army… that any country serving as the origin of bellicose and aggressive attacks in any form against the Islamic Republic of Iran will be targeted,” read the IRGC statement.

The IRGC added that it would release more details about the strike.

The strike comes as no surprise since Iran had vowed to take a “harsh revenge” in the wake of the US terror attack.

Sirens were reportedly heard and American helicopters flew over the airbase and the total alert was activated.

US President Donald Trump was being briefed about the retaliatory strikes.

“We are aware of the reports of attacks on US facilities in Iraq. The President has been briefed and is monitoring the situation closely and consulting with his national security team,” White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said in a statement.

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The Pentagon claimed that it would take necessary measures to protect the US military forces amid heightened tensions in the region.

“We are working on initial battle damage assessments,” Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said in statement, adding that the bases targeted were at al-Assad air base and another in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.

Following the strikes on Wednesday morning, oil prices rose over 4.5 percent at one point. The benchmark WTI jumped as much as 4.53 percent to $65.54 a barrel before settling down.

Global stock markets have also plunged as investors took fright at the escalating tensions. Tokyo opened sharply lower on Wednesday. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index dropped 1.57 percent or 370.40 points to 23,205.32 in early trade, while the broader Topix index was down 1.35 percent or 23.32 points at 1,701.73.

Wall Street stocks lost more ground, with The Dow Jones Industrial Average losing 0.4 percent to close the session at 28,583.68. The broad-based S&P 500 shed 0.3 percent to finish at 3,237.18 but the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index dipped only a fraction to 9,068.58.

Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) anti-terror group, better known as Hashd al-Sha’abi forces, announced the start of Crushing Response Operation to the United States.

Meanwhile, White House was preparing for an address to the US nation by the American commander in chief.

The story is being updated…

Source URL: PressTV

Featured image: Courtesy of Alaa Ghazy @alaaghazy2010