Next Ant-War Vigil: Saturday, 20 April, 2013 from 3pm to 5pm(15h à 17h) at La Fontaine St Michel
Americans Against the War (AAW) invites all interested parties to join a vigil Saturday April 20th from 15:00 to 17:00 at the Fontaine Saint Michel (Paris).
AAW will continue to express solidarity with 23 year old Bradley Manning, an American anti war activist currently imprisoned and facing the death penalty for revealing military secrets via Wikileaks.
AAW Anti-War VIGILS for 2012-2013 Saturdays
23 March 2013
23 February 2013
15 December 2012
6 October 2012Afghanistan, 11 years of war and occupation
16 June 2012
19 May 2012
28 April 2012 (rained out)
24 March 2012
25 February 2012
28 January 2012
from 3 to 5 pm (15h à 17h) at La Fontaine at St.Michel, Paris 75005 Metro: St Michel
Other Events :
17 November 2012 STOP THE BOMBING of GAZA at the Opera
31 Octobre 2012Rassemblement d'opposition à la réception de Netanyahu, premier ministre israélien, à l'Élysée
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FOURTH of JULYfilm, rencontre et repas
mercredi 4 juillet à 20h projection à 20h suivi d’un repas américain à 21h
le Jour de l’Indépendance américaine sous une une autre angle
Aux Etats-Unis, deux millions et demi d’hommes et de femmes sont en prison, — sans compter ceux et celles qui sont en liberté provisoire. Un citoyen sur 100 sera en prison à un moment dans leur vie; 1 sur 3 pour les noirs américains, 1 sur 6 pour les hispaniques.
Que veut dire le jour de l’Indépendance américaine pour eux ?
Les derniers mots de Frances Newton, de Thomas Giefer, 2006, 52 min, version française
A dix-huit ans Frances Newton est accusée d’avoir tué son mari et ses deux enfants. Mal défendue par un avocat commis d’office, elle est condamnée à mort après un procès expéditif. Pourtant sa personnalité aimable, équilibrée, sans rancune, —et selon plusieurs témoins,— crée des doutes. C’est la Frances Newton que le spectateur découvre : courageuse, convaincue que la justice sera faite, qu’un nouveau sursis arrivera. Cependant le procureur répond : “ Si l’effet dissuasif de la peine de mort existe, il serait certainement perdu si nous décidons d’arrêter l’execution parce que la personne semble être quelqu’un de gentil. ” Commune Libre d’Aligre 3 rue d’Aligre 75012 Paris 01 43 41 20 55
AAW Anti-War VIGILS for 2012 Saturdays
16 June 2012
19 May 2012
28 April 2012 (rained out)
24 March 2012
25 February 2012
28 January 2012
from 3 to 5 pm (15h à 17h) at La Fontaine at St.Michel, Paris 75005 Metro: St Michel
Tuesday, 31 January 2012 at 7pm
A musical evening with Palestinian musicians in Vitry sur Seine, Théatre Jean Vilar 5€ entrance fee
Une soirée musique avec un groupe palestinien au théâtre J. Vilar à
Vitry sur seine à 19h le mardi 31 janvier, l'entrée est à 5 euros
AAW Calendar of Events in PARIS in 2011
Anti-War VIGIL, Saturday 10 December 2011 from 3 to 5 pm (15h à 17h) at La Fontaine at St.Michel, Paris 75005 Metro: St Michel
Projection debate « After Iraq » sponsored by AAW Friday 25 novembre 2011 at 8pm (20h)
Court-métrage "Après l'Irak" (After Iraq) réal : Sascha Weiss, dir photographie : Olivier Dalipagic, 15', 2010.
WAR and WALL STREET : Please join Americans against the War to take part in an international demonstration – a day that will see mobilizations across the U.S., Europe, the Mediterranean and beyond against war and corporate greed and in the defense of our basic rights, welfare, jobs and more.
When: Saturday, October 15 at 4:00 p.m. 16H00 Where: Tour St Jacques square
Americans will be gathering here and then marching to the main French manifestation at Hotel de Ville. Metro: Chatelet or Hotel de Ville.
*Note change of location
Anti-War VIGIL, Saturday 24 September 2011 from 3 to 5 pm (15h à 17h) at La Fontaine des Innocents Paris 75001
Metro: Chatelet
Anti-War VIGIL, Saturday 23 July 2011 from 3 to 5 pm (15h à 17h) at La Fontaine des Innocents Paris 75001
Metro: Chatelet
Anti-War VIGIL, Saturday 25 June 2011 from 3 to 5 pm (15h à 17h) at La Fontaine at St.Michel, Paris 75005
Metro: St Michel
On Saturday, June 25, 2011, AAW will hold its traditional monthly antiwar vigil. We welcome all who want to say No to the War, No to NATO, No to NATO attacks on Libya.
AAW will also express solidarity with 23 year old Bradley Manning, an American anti war activist currently imprisioned and facing the death penalty for revealing military secrets via Wikileaks.
Anti-War VIGIL, Saturday 21 May 2011 from 3 to 5 pm (15h à 17h) at La Fontaine at St.Michel, Paris 75005
Metro: St Michel
Anti-War VIGIL, Saturday 16 April 2011 from 3 to 5 pm (15h à 17h) at La Fontaine at St.Michel, Paris 75005
Metro: St Michel
Anti-War VIGIL, Saturday 19 March 2011 from 3 to 5 pm 15h -17h at La Fontaine at St.Michel, Paris 5 Metro St Michel
Dear Members and Friends,
On Saturday, March 19, 2011, Americans Against the War will hold its traditional antiwar vigil to:
1. Protest the 8th anniversary of the attack and invasion of the USA on IRAQ. Over 30 million people worldwide marched in March 2003 to say No to War, No to the invasion of Iraq by Bush.
2. Show solidarity with the workers in Wisconsin, USA fighting to save their rights.
3. Express solidarity with 23 year old Bradley Manning, an American anti-war activist currently imprisoned in Quantico under inhumane conditions and facing the death penalty for revealing military secrets via wikileaks.
"Marx in Soho"
by Howard Zinn
with Jerry Levy as Karl Marx
Saturday, June 18, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Studio RMX,
193, rue du Fbg Poissonniére
Paris 75009,
Metro: Barbés
Historian and activist, Howard Zinn is most well known for his alternative
portrait of American history, "A People's History of the United States."
"Zinn's play brings out the human qualities of Marx, while not forgetting
his political passions. The result is an hour and a half of educational
entertainment, the dramatic art at its best." -Lawrence McGuire, Americans
for Peace and Justice
"By showing us Marx the man, Zinn poignantly humanizes him. By showing us
Marx the theorist, Zinn gently educates us. And by bringing Marx into today'
s era, Zinn cleverly and unmistakably argues the relevance of Marx's ideas
in our time." -Backstage West
"The play sheds new light on Marx and his theories- which are presented
factually despite the play's whimsical premise". -Olympia For more about the play, see www.levyarts.com
On Saturday 26 June, 2010 Americans Against the War will hold its traditional monthly anti war vigil. We welcome all who want to say No to the War. Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan: approx. $985,000,000,000 of taxpayer dollars
The USA - led NATO army is waging wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan and the U.S. now maintains 700 military bases world-wide and another 6000 in the US and its territories.
This year the Obama administration spent billions to invade Haiti while it denied the victims of the deadly earthquake immediate emergency care.
On 13 February 15.000 mostly U.S.A troops were used to flush out and kill 30 Taliban militiamen, killing 13 “collateral damage” human beings along the way. Such disproportionate numbers prove that the real goal of the Empire Builders is to gain control of Afghanistan, strategically located in an area teeming with gas and oil. The reasons for the war are about safeguarding the interests of a few Empire Builders at the expense of everybody else.
Obama remained silent when Israel, the nuclear-armed gendarme of the Empire Builders in the Middle East, invaded Gaza and committed human atrocities. This was only one, although possibly the most blatant, instance when Obama publicly demonstrated his allegiance to Capitalism and its wars.
The U.S. spends $700 billion of taxpayer dollars on the military each year, half the military spending of the entire world – much more than Europe, China, Russia, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea, and Venezuela combined.
And in addition to the billions of taxpayer dollars used to bail out banks, the US government has so far spent an approximate $985,000,000,000 to wage war on Irak and Afghanistan.
Meanwhile:
over 2.8 million people have lost their homes to foreclosure or bank repossessions – nearly 8000 each day – higher numbers than the last two years when millions of others also lost their homes,
over 17 million people are jobless, in addition to the millions more who are working part-time when they want and need to be working full-time,
over 2.3 million people are imprisoned in the U.S.A., the highest percentage of any other country in the world,
single - payer health care coverage continues to be non-existent and young USA men and women who join the military to escape dire living conditions in the ghettos, to earn college tuition or to become eligible for health care coverage end up getting killed and maimed in wars being fought to make the world safe for the Empire Builders.
The deceased Howard Zinn, lifelong peace and anti war activist demonstrated in his book A People's History of the United States that we, as a nation, have always struggled against oppression. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. preached that “a time comes when silence is betrayal.” He went on to condemn the Vietnam War and the system which created it.
Americans Against the War–France continues the legacies of Martin Luther King and Howard Zinn by denouncing the wars being fought by and against the great majority of people in the interests of a small minority of profiteers.
20 April 2010 Americans Against the War–France. aawfrance.org
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION AAW Vigil at St. Michel 3pm to 5pm at the Fountain at St. Michel, Metro: St. Michel
Saturday March 20th
U.S.A. FORCES OUT OF HAITI AND AFGHANISTAN. NO to NATO.
Rassemblement : le samedi 20 mars de 15h à 17h à La Fontaine St. Michel, Metro: St. Michel
NON A LA GUERRE CONTRE LES PEUPLES D'HAITI ET D'AFGHANISTAN. NON A l'OTAN
Afghanistan
On 13 February U.S.A. led NATO forces together with pro U.S.A. Afghan government troops invaded the town of Marja saying they meant “to flush out “ Taliban militia men. Announcement of the invasion forced much of the civilian population to flee. NATO has announced that 13 civilians and about 30 Taliban were killed.
So the end result of the invasion is that about 15.000 mostly U.S.A troops were needed to flush out and kill 30 Taliban militiamen, killing 13 “collateral damage” human beings along the way.
The reason the USA-led NATO military force is in Afghanistan has nothing to do with flushing out or killing a relatively small number of militia men.
The real goal is to gain control of Afghanistan because of its geographically strategic location: the site of a future pipeline meant to transport gas from Turkmenistan via Afghanistan and Pakistan to India, the 6th largest energy consumer in the world.
It's all about the interests of a few Empire Builders at the expense of everybody else.
An AAW - France suggestion: Together with Haiti, Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world with a life-expectancy level of 44.5 years. Only 43.1% of men and 12.6% of women can read. The USA-led NATO coalition spends billions to kill a small number of militia men. Why not spend the money on food, housing, education, medical care and projects to build industry to eradicate the poverty that partially engenders, among other social ills, global trafficking of dangerous substances.
Haiti
Under the guise of humanitarian aid USA marines, army and navy, together with a USA installed Haitian government, have militarily taken over the country. In the mean time the Haitian population, especially in the poorer districts, continues to live in dire conditions after the devastating earthquake. The exorbitant amount of money the USA spent to deploy the military was found immediately. The relatively smaller amount of money needed for food, shelter, medical care and more pressing immediate reconstruction is very slow in coming and will never reach the astronomical sums spent in a few hours to effect a military takeover.
USA FORCES OUT OF HAITI AND AFGHANISTAN. NO to NATO.
Americans Against the War -France www.aaw.org aawfrance@gmail.com
Paris, 15 February 2010
NON A LA GUERRE CONTRE LES PEUPLES D'HAITI ET D'AFGHANISTAN
NON A l'OTAN
Événements du 13 février 2010 en Afghanistan Américains en tête, quinze mille soldats des forces de l'OTAN et afghanes se sont engagés dans une offensive majeure contre les talibans dans la ville de Marjah. Dans son ensemble, la population civile a pris la fuite mais L'OTAN a reconnu que deux roquettes tirées contre les talibans ont manqué leur cible et tué 12 civils. Toujours selon l'OTAN, une trentaine de talibans ont été tués.
Bilan des opérations: 15.000 soldats, principalement US, pour venir à bout de 30 talibans Malgré les dires des gouvernements concernés, les forces de l'OTAN, les USA en premier, ne sont pas en Afghanistan pour débarrasser la population des talibans. Le but réel: contrôler le pays où est prévue la construction d'un gazoduc destiné à transporter du gaz venant du Turkménistan, transitant par l'Afghanistan et le Pakistan, pour arriver en Inde, la 6ème puissance consommatrice d'énergie du monde. Il s'agit de faire la guerre avec nos enfants pour des gros intérêts énergétiques/financiers loin de considérations humanistes ou généreuses.
Proposition des Américains Contre la Guerre – France : Avec Haïti, l'Afghanistan est l'un des pays les plus pauvres du monde. L'espérance de vie est de 44,4 ans. Seulement 43,1 % des hommes et 12,6 % des femmes savent lire. Au lieu de dépenser des milliards pour, en somme, tuer quelques talibans pour le compte de quelques profiteurs, ne serait-il pas plus juste d'utiliser l'argent des contribuables pour aider la population afghane à s'en sortir d'un état d' extrême pauvreté qui engendre, entre autres, le commerce mondial des drogues dangereuses ?
Haïti subit les marines, l'armée et le navy USA Sous prétexte de venir en aide après le terrible tremblement de terre, les USA ont envoyé les marines, l'armée et le navy pour s'emparer militairement de Haïti afin d'éviter qu'un quelconque mouvement social ne déstabilise une région que les USA considère toujours comme leur arrière-cour, impérialisme oblige. Entre temps, surtout dans les quartiers populaires, la population continue de vivre un cauchemar : manque de vivres, conditions sanitaires dangereuses, manque de soins médicaux, pas de logement, etc. Les sommes colossales nécessaires pour s'emparer militairement d'Haïti ont été attribuées, illico presto, le lendemain de la catastrophe. Celles destinées à venir en aide à une population en détresse tardent à venir pour, finalement, ne jamais atteindre les sommes astronomiques dépensées pour effectuer une invasion militaire sous les yeux du monde.
SOLDATS U.S.A. HORS HAITI ET HORS AFGHANISTAN NON A L'OTAN Américains Contre la Guerre-France www.aaw.org / aawfrance@gmail.com fait à Paris le 20 février 2010
WEEK of SOLIDARITY INTERNATIONAL 2009 "UN NOTRE MONDE"
All AAW members and friends volunteered their help at the AAW stands at these two events :
AAW will participate in this eventful week of solidarity international sponsored by the Val de Marne. This event is aimed at young people in the Val de Marne and this year's emphasis is on world peace.
AAW has signed this CALL DIMANCHE 5 JUILLET DE 16H00 A 18H00
POUR LA DEMOCRATIE PARTICIPATIVE AU HONDURAS ! POUR LE RETOUR du PRESIDENT ZELAYA ! NON A LA BARBARIE DES FORCES MILITAIRES HONDURIENNES ! NON AUX HEURES SOMBRES DE LA DICTATURE !
Dimanche dernier au Honduras s'est produit un coup d’état contre la démocratie. Le Président constitutionnel, Manuel ZELAYA, a été séquestré et expulsé de force par l’armée. Une oligarchie des plus réactionnaires s'est installée depuis au pouvoir, personnifiée par Roberto Micheletti, ancien militaire et puissant homme d'affaires.
Le Peuple, qui s'était soulevé pacifiquement depuis l'enlèvement de son président élu, est réprimé de plus en plus violemment par la police et les militaires. La répression se fait aussi sentir par la censure de la presse nationale et internationale et par l'instauration de la terreur dans la population à travers des couvre-feux et des coupures systématiques de l'électricité, de l'eau potable et des télécommunications.
Nous ne pouvons nous résoudre au retour en Amérique Latine de dictatures militaires déguisées en démocratie, qui tentent d'empêcher les réformes nécessaires au progrès de cette région.
Nous devons tous nous mobiliser pour réaffirmer notre solidarité avec le peuple hondurien qui attend le retour sur le territoire de son président légitime. Nous devons tous exiger la fin de l’état d’urgence, le rétablissement des libertés publiques et du fonctionnement démocratique des institutions.
Ici, en France, nous appelons toutes les associations de solidarité internationale, les partis politiques, les syndicats et mouvements citoyens à se mobiliser et faire entendre leur voix pour soutenir le peuple du Honduras et accompagner le retour de son Président, Manuel Zélaya, seul Président démocratiquement élu.
Signataires de l'appel à la solidarité avec le peuple du Honduras
AAW-Américains contre la Guerre. France Argentin@s en el exterior Association des Ex-Prisonniers Politiques Chiliens en France Association de Femmes Uruguayennes Lourdes Pinto - AMULP Association France Amérique Latine Association Nuestra America en Marcha Association Raices Cubanas Association Simon Bolivar (Rennes) ATTAC-France CALPA-Coordination de soutien aux Luttes du Peuple Argentin Carta Abierta Francia Casa de Santa Fe - Paris Cercle Bolivarien de Paris Civimed Initiatives Collectif des gaullistes de gauche Collectif Manos Limpias Collectif des Péruviens en France Collectif Paraguay Collectif de soutien à l’Alba (Grenoble) Colores Latino Americanos (Lille) Comité Apoyo International du Parti Nationaliste Péruvien Comité d'Information sur l'Amérique Latine de Nanterre Comité Pérou Communistes du Pérou en France Conseil Pro Bolivia Coordination des Associations de Cubains résidents en France Coordination Populaire Colombienne à Paris Coordination de Solidarité avec Cuba Cuba Si France (Bretagne et Lorraine) Donde estan ? – Uruguay Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières FASE - Fédération pour une Alternative Sociale et Ecologique France Cuba HIJOS - Paris IPAM – Réseau Initiatives pour un Autre Monde La Plume Le Parti de Gauche Les Alternatifs Les Verts MJCF 94 - Mouvement des Jeunes Communistes du Val de Marne Mouvement de la Jeunesse Communiste Mouvement de la Paix MRAP - Mouvement contre le Racisme et pour l’Amitié entre les peuples Mémoire des Luttes NPA - Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste Parti Communiste Français Parti Humaniste Parti Socialiste Français Radio Latinos Red Cuidadana Europea SICSAL - Service International Chrétien de Solidarité avec l'Amérique Latine Tribunal International d'Opinion (cas de sud bolivar) Union des Associations Latinoaméricaines en France UNIPOMA. Université Populaire Mariátegui Union syndicale Solidaires
Bravo, Michelle for a successful evening ! A 4TH of JULY like no other MUMIA FILM SCREENING "In Prison My Whole Life"
Preceded by an informal dinner at 8pm. Café associatif de la Commune Libre d'Aligre 3, rue d'Aligre, metro: Gare de Lyon AAW is a sponsor in this event.
SYNOPSIS
William Francome is a fairly typical, white middle-class guy. Typical except for the fact that he is about to embark on a journey into the dark heart of the American judicial system; the tangled world of renowned Death Row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.
The connection between these two characters is a simple one, and the pretext for this film, as Will explains:
"I was born in London on December 9th 1981. Over 3000 miles away Mumia Abu-Jamal, a Black Panther and radical journalist, was arrested for the murder of a police officer in Philadelphia. He claimed he was innocent but was sentenced to death and has been awaiting execution ever since. Over the years, he has attracted massive international support from organisations like Amnesty International and world leaders like Nelson Mandela amongst others. I'm now 24 years old and in that time Mumia has become the most famous and controversial death row inmate in America".
Despite his situation, and against all odds, Mumia has managed to penetrate the consciousness of people like Will. Through his writings and his web and radio broadcasts from Death Row, he has become known to many as "the Voice of the Voiceless".
"In Prison My Whole Life" takes us to some surprising places and brings us into contact with some of America's most original minds. Never-seen-before footage and brand new evidence create a prevailing case for reasonable doubt while exploring the socio-political climate of America past and present. Angela Davis, Mos Def, Noam Chomsky, Alice Walker, Snoop Dogg, Steve Earle, Amy Goodman and many others take us through a decades-old struggle for equality, fairness and respect that so many Americans strive for to this day.
Mumia's cause has created a political storm but after the politicians have said their piece, after the court papers have been filed and the protestors have gone home, we are left with a film about a man , a father, a son, an inspiration and a pariah - who faces his twenty-fifth year on Death Row.
Extraordinary thoughMumia's story is, he is only one of 3,350 people currently on death row in the United States. This film allows him not only to speak to us, but also on behalf of those others who cannot find a voice.
"The Framing of Mumia Abu Jamal"un programme de télévision (une heure en anglais, très informative) rencontre avec l'auteur J. Patrick O'Connor, sur son livre ( à ne pas confondre avec le film "Toute ma vie en prison" du 4 juillet!)
un documentavec éléments et résumant le nouveau livre de l'auteur dans la rencontre ci-dessus
