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Disarm America!! Rally

Bryant Park, New York City, May 1, 2004

MAY DAY 2004: We Found The WMD; No More Nuclear Excuses for War!
Global Disarmament Starts at Home — It's Time to Disarm America!!

On May 1, 2003, George W. Bush declared victory from the flight deck of
the USS Abraham Lincoln. Standing under a Mission Accomplished banner,
he proclaimed that, "major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the
battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed." With
war hanging in the balance, Bush had told the American public that we
cannot wait for the final proof the smoking gun that could come in the
form of a mushroom cloud. He didnt tell us that the mushroom cloud was
more likely to emanate from the U.S. than from Iraq.

On May 1, 2004 we will demand: No More Nuclear Excuses for War!Despite
U.S. claims in the run up to the war, UN and U.S. weapons inspectors
have found no evidence that Iraq possessed either nuclear weapons or an
active nuclear weapons program. But vigilant U.S. citizens have
discovered that the U.S. is modernizing its vast nuclear arsenal in support of
an aggressive and unilateral pre-emptive war doctrine, in which the
U.S. proclaims that its will act against emerging threats before they are
fully formed.

JOIN US ON THE ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF GEORGE W. BUSH'S DECLARATION OF
"VICTORY" IN IRAQ

º April 30th Town Hall Meeting: Nuclear Abolition, Proliferation and
War — What You Need to Know and What You Can Do. All Souls Church, 80th
Street & Lexington Ave., 4:30–10:00pm. Supper will be provided.

Speakers include: Dr. Helen Caldicott,
Councilmember Bill Perkins,
Damu
Smith from Black Voices for Peace,
Cheong Wooksik from the Civil
Network for a Peaceful Korea,
Motarilavoa Hilda Lini from the Pacific
Concerns Resource Center in Fiji,
and Zia Mian, researcher, writer and
physicist, Princeton University.

º May Day Disarmament Rally and Concert: Saturday, May 1st 1:00-4:00
pm in Bryant Park (behind the NY Public Library) at 5th Ave and 42nd
Street.

Speakers include: Leslie Cagan from United for Peace and Justice,
Mayor
Itoh of Nagasaki,
Dr. Ronald McCoy, President of the International
Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, vBruce Gagnon from the Global
Network Against Nuclear Power & Weapons in Space,
Ibrahim Ramey from
the Fellowship of Reconciliation,
Kate Hudson, Chair of the Campaign for
Nuclear Disarmament in Britain,
Heesook Kim from Young Koreans United,
Media Benjamin, CodePink
and a Japanese A-bomb survivor. Entertainment
will include musical performances by
BINARI, a Korean American
Traditional Cultural Activist Troup and
Tatsumaki, a rock band from Japan.

Sponsors include: Abolition 2000, United for Peace and Justice, and
many others.

FOR MORE INFO: May Day 2004 (includes complete list of sponsors and
endorsers, and downloadable fliers)

To join the Listserve for the UfPJ Nuclear Disarmament / Redefining
Security Working Group, send a blank email:
here.

Join Us as We Take to the Streets — Nonviolently — United in our
Opposition to the Growing Threat of Nuclear War! Now is the time, as
governments meet to discuss the Non-Proliferation Treaty, for everyone to do
whatever they can to help build the largest turn-out possible for these
events. Please send out e-mail alerts, mailings, distribute fliers, and
make announcements at events and meetings and in your newsletters. Now is
the time to be out on the streets talking to people, telling them about
the need for nuclear disarmament, and how we will not idly stand by
while the U.S. hypocritically continues to threaten the world with nuclear
weapons! Let's rid the world of all nuclear weapons and other weapons
of mass destruction, and work to create genuine security for future
generations. See below to TAKE ACTION!