To youth and students against war in Winnipeg

A call for a rally against war with Syria was issued today by the 1919 Club of the Young Communist League, based in Winnipeg. The YCL group is asking you to send the letter to every school child who is opposed to a war with Syria. Please forward the below letter to everyone you know. Thanks!

Our office is in full support of this welcome initiative, one of the first for this renewed group. We need youth to help lead the way to a world without war and injustice!

Many of us remember the great protest by high school students in 2003; it helped greatly to keep Canada officially out of Bush’s war with Iraq. We need to change Ottawa’s support for this new war.

There is a facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/462561173851849/

Darrell Rankin
Manitoba office, Communist Party of Canada

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Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013
From: ycl-winnipeg@mail.com
Subject: YCL Urgent Action Letter
To: Everyone

Call to Action
Don’t Attack Syria
Walk out on Friday, Sept 13
Assemble at Memorial Park, Noon

As the U.S. prepares for a military strike on Syria in the coming days, youth and students and working people around the world are rallying in opposition to U.S. imperialism and in support of the Syrian people to determine their own future.

The Obama administration is using the same lies and tactics to justify a military strike on Syria that the Bush administration used to justify an attack on Iraq in 2003 – that weapons of mass destruction have been used and this consstitutes a “red line.”

We now know that the “evidence” used by the Bush administration was fabricated – no weapons of mass destruction were ever found. The “evidence” the Obama administration has that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons is equally dubious. The U.N. has testimony that the Syrian “rebels”, armed and supported by the U.S, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and others, has used chemical weapons in Syria, and Turkish authorities have arrested Syrian rebels in possession of sarin gas.

Furthermore, while the U.S. attempts to depict a military strike on Syria as a “humanitarian intervention”, the U.S. has the world’s largest stockpile of chemical weapons and has a long history of both selling and using them around the world. The U.S. used Agent Orange in Vietnam and depleted uranium in Iraq, the U.S. was silent when Israel used white phosphorus on Palestinians, and the U.S. has sold chemical weapons to many oppressive regimes around the world.

Youth and students shouldn’t believe the lies being told in the corporate media. War hurts all working people and the Syrian people have the right to determine their own future without the threat of destructive foreign intervention.

Everyone is welcome! All youth and student organizations are invited to participate and help organize for this rally in opposition to a U.S. military strike on Syria.

Winnipeg Students Say No to War!

Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/462561173851849/

For more information contact The 1919 Club of the Young Communist League:
ycl-winnipeg@mail.com
www.facebook.com/the1919club