LOS ANGELES
Diverse speakers blast
sanctions on Iraq
By
Workers World Los
Angeles bureau
The
Save the Iraqi Children Coalition and the International Action Center held an
event in Los Angeles Dec. 10 to stop the genocidal U.S./UN sanctions against
Iraq. Frank Dorrel and Preston Wood co-chaired the
meeting.
Fellowship
of Reconciliation's Linda Tubach and the IAC's Magda Miller and John Parker
described how sanctions are killing innocent Iraqi people, especially children,
and how more and more countries are challenging the sanctions by flying aid
directly to Iraq in defiance of the
Pentagon.
The
honored guest at the event was S. Brian Willson, a Vietnam veteran who lost his
legs in 1987. An anti-war activist, Willson was run over while trying to stop a
U.S. Navy train carrying weapons destined for murdering civilians in Central
America.
Willson
talked about the need for people to take responsibility for fighting to stop
U.S. war and plunder abroad. "It's something we must do for our health," he
said.
He
referred to the experience of veterans who've gone back to Vietnam to help
rebuild that country and undo some of the horrors caused by U.S.
imperialism.
Hwa
Young Lee, West Coast coordinator of the Pan Korean Alliance for Reunification
in the USA, spoke about the horrors perpetrated by U.S. imperialism in south
Korea during the Korean War.
"I
remember how, as children, my brother and I would be tossed from one U.S.
soldier to another," said Lee.
Lee's
organization, along with the IAC and other groups, is preparing a "Truth
Commission" to expose U.S. war crimes against the Korean people.
Another
speaker inspired the audience with his presence. Alex Sanchez, who was framed
up, thrown in prison and threatened with deportation by the infamous Rampart
division of the Los Angeles Police Department, won his freedom this year. Many
in the audience participated in the struggle to free
him.
Other
speakers called for solidarity with political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and the
people of Colombia in their struggle against U.S. intervention.
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