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SUNDAY, MAY 1: END THE WAR! ABOLISH NUKES!
March and Rally Against the Iraq War & for Nuclear Disarmament
>> Assemble 11AM, 1st Ave North of 50th Street, NYC
>> March by the United Nations >> Rally in Central Park
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**Join us in New York City for a major peace demonstration on the day before the U.N. reviews the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty -- a treaty the Bush Administration is threatening to undermine, as part of its larger empire-building agenda.**

Sunday, May 1, 2005
NO WAR, NO NUKES!
End the War in Iraq: Bring Our Troops Home Now
Fund Essential Programs at Home, Not War Abroad
Abolish All Nuclear Weapons Worldwide
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Weapons of Mass Destruction Found in Iraq: 0
Nuclear Weapons Stockpiled by the U.S.: 10,350
Cost of the War in Iraq: Tens of Thousands of Lives and Billions of Dollars

In May, world leaders, mayors and people from around the world will converge on the United Nations to decide the fate of the endangered Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Signed by 189 nations including the U.S., the NPT prohibits non-nuclear states from acquiring or producing nuclear weapons, and requires nations that have nuclear weapons to negotiate their elimination. Now, the Bush administration is on the verge of undermining the NPT and generating a dangerous new nuclear arms race.

The Bush administration's posture toward nuclear proliferation has been utterly hypocritical. It threatens war against nations such as Iran and North Korea if they violate the NPT, while flouting the treaty itself. The U.S. is legally obligated under the NPT to eliminate its nuclear weapons, but in fact, the Bush administration is upgrading U.S. nuclear weapons systems and infrastructure, seeking to build a new generation of "battle-ready" nukes, and has even threatened first use of nuclear weapons. These terrifying moves are part of the larger Bush agenda of aggressive empire-building, the same drive for U.S. military and economic domination that led to the disastrous Iraq war.

Nuclear weapons -- or rather, the fiction that Saddam Hussein was developing them -- were a key pretext for the Bush administration's invasion of Iraq. The whole world now recognizes this lie as an attempt to justify a war to control access to Iraq's oil and enhance U.S. power in the Middle East.

The war in Iraq rages on with mounting casualties and a country in ruins, while here in the U.S., the cost of war translates into drastic cuts in vital services in our communities, hitting people of color, the poor, and working people the hardest.

The world has seen many horrific conflicts since the first and only use of nuclear weapons in war 60 years ago when the U.S. bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nevertheless, nuclear weapons have not been exploded in war again. Now the Bush Administration is threatening to breach that "firewall" by including nuclear weapons in its war-fighting plans.

On Sunday, May 1st, the day before the NPT Conference opens, United for Peace and Justice and Abolition Now! are organizing a massive demonstration in the streets of New York City. We will call for our troops to come home from Iraq and for complete nuclear disarmament. Join us!

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MAY 1: END THE WAR! ABOLISH NUKES!
NYC March and Rally for Peace in Iraq and Disarmament Worldwide
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Alliance for Justice Raises Serious Concerns about Gonzales' Nomination for Attorney General

11/11/2004 10:07:00 AM

Contact: Julie Bernstein of the Alliance for Justice, 202-822-6070 ext. 297 or 240-601-5562 (cell)

WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Alliance for Justice expresses serious concerns over the nomination of White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales to the post of United States Attorney General.

"Alberto Gonzales served as a primary author of memos advocating the use of torture in defiance of the Geneva Conventions, international law and standards of human decency," said Alliance for Justice President Nan Aron. "Gonzales provided the Bush administration with the legal architecture to sidestep and ignore the rule of law that, as attorney general, he will be mandated to enforce."

Prominent members of the legal community, in a bipartisan effort, have long been demanding full disclosure of all memos related to torture-a request that White House Counsel Gonzales, among others, has failed to meet. "Alliance for Justice urges the Senate Judiciary Committee to review all memos relating to torture written during Gonzales' tenure as White House counsel before voting on his nomination," said Aron.

Aron noted other areas of concern in Gonzales' record, including his direct role as White House counsel in selecting extremist judicial nominees; his cavalier treatment of clemency petitions in Texas death penalty cases while advising then- Governor George W. Bush; and his financial connections to Enron as a Texas Supreme Court justice.

"Gonzales has consistently pushed the limits of executive privilege in order to shield the Bush administration from oversight by Congress or scrutiny by the American people," added Aron. "The position of the country's chief law enforcement officer demands an impeccable level of integrity and commitment to the rule of law that Gonzales has not proven to possess."