On March 6, 2007, the Argus Leader posts this on the front-page of their web site:
A peace rally commemorating the anniversary of the day the United States entered Iraq will be 1 to 3 p.m. March 18 in front of the U.S. Courthouse at 13th Street and Phillips Avenue.
Sponsor is the South Dakota Peace & Justice Center.
The public rally also provides a platform to voice opposition to the administration’s goal to enter into war with Iran.
"Support Our Troops – Bring Them Home" has invited representatives from Disabled American Veterans, the Veterans Administration and each congressional office.
Anyone who is part of an organization that would like to speak out should contact organizers.
There will be room for peace groups to set up tables to disseminate materials. The Department of Peace and the A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition will have tables.
A peace rally making the anniversary of the day the United States entered Iraq will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. March 18 in front of the U.S. Courthouse at 13th Street and Phillips Avenue.
The sponsor is the South Dakota Peace & Justice Center.
A politically themed art exhibit and reception also will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. the same day at Michelle's Coffeehouse, 324 S. Phillips Ave.
A rally to support United States troops in Iraq and urge the government to bring them home will be 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday in front of the Federal Courthouse at 13th Street and Phillips Avenue in downtown Sioux Falls.
The public rally commemorates the fourth anniversary of U.S. entry into Iraq, and organizers say they want to give notice to the administration that escalation of conflict with Iran should cease.
Representatives from throughout the community have been invited, including the Disabled American Veterans, the Veterans Administration and each congressional office.
The South Dakota Peace and Justice Center also is hosting a war-themed art exhibit and reception at Michelle’s Coffeehouse, 324 S. Phillips Ave., from 3 to 5 p.m. Artists who wish to show their work should contact the Peace and Justice Center at 743-5647.
I wonder if those two French performers that were in Rapid City last week will show up? But we do know that the A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition is expected to be there. In 2003, Byron York provides us with the background of these folks as they were part of protest on January 18, 2003:
The protest was put together by a group called International ANSWER, which stands for Act Now to Stop War and End Racism. ANSWER is an outgrowth of another group called the International Action Center, a San Francisco-based organization that showcases the work of Ramsey Clark, the Johnson administration attorney general who has specialized in anti-American causes. Both ANSWER and the International Action Center are closely allied with a small but energetic Marxist-Leninist organization known as the Workers World Party, which in its turbulent history has supported the Soviet interventions in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the Chinese government's crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Today, the WWP devotes much of its energy to supporting the regimes in Iraq and North Korea.
At the demonstration, which many media reports portrayed as a gathering of mainstream Americans, speaker after speaker condemned the United States with ancient Communist rhetoric: "revolution," "struggle," "oppressed peoples," "imperialism," and "liberation." One speaker even addressed her fellow protesters as "comrades." Given the impressive strength of the public-address system, it felt like a literal blast from the past. And if the subject had not been so serious, it might have seemed almost quaint. But the demonstration's organizers, perhaps unwittingly, made a very serious point: More than a decade after the fall of the Soviet Union, and long after most Americans stopped worrying about the Red Menace, a significant part of the movement that has risen up in opposition to war in Iraq is, in essence, a Communist front.
And it is by no surprise that the Argus Leader has also been portraying this as a "peace rally" that has invited representatives from Disabled American Veterans, the Veterans Administration. I only hope the current leader of DAV is more on the ball than Roger Andal. It is a shame to see Americans who have sacrificed for America’s freedom to be coned into being used as pawns by these anti-American communists.
Here is more recent insight (January 2005) about these radicals:
United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ), an "umbrella group" of over 100 left wing groups, including the Young Communist League, Communist Party USA, and various state communist parties, will also be involved in the Jan. 20 protests. The background of the UFPJ leadership is similar to that of International ANSWER.
And now I will like to remind readers about the Cultural Marxist column by Linda Kimball that have included in my Public Education links. Here is the introduction:
There are two misconceptions held by many Americans. The first is that communism ceased to be a threat when the Soviet Union imploded. The second is that the New Left of the Sixties collapsed and disappeared as well. "The Sixties are dead," wrote columnist George Will (Slamming the Doors, Newsweek, Mar. 25, 1991)
Because the New Left lacked cohesion it fell apart as a political movement. However, its revolutionaries reorganized themselves into a multitude of single issue groups. Thus we now have for example, radical feminists, black extremists, anti-war ‘peace’ activists, animal rights groups, radical environmentalists, and ‘gay’ rights groups. All of these groups pursue their piece of the radical agenda through a complex network of subversive organizations such as the Gay Straight Lesbian Educators Network (GSLEN), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), People for the American Way, United for Peace and Justice, Planned Parenthood, Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), and Code Pink for Peace.
Both communism and the New Left are alive and thriving here in America. Code words by which they can be recognized are: tolerance, social justice, economic justice, peace, reproductive rights, sex education and safe sex, safe schools, inclusion, diversity, and sensitivity. All together, this is Cultural Marxism disguised as multiculturalism.
And the communist and the New Left are alive and thriving here in South Dakota. Now that I have Patrick Lalley’s attention, lets she if he has the journalistic ethics to expose his fellow far-left "comrades" as they invade South Dakota on Sunday. Or will the Argus Leader simply be portraying these radicals as mainstream moderates.
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