Thursday, August 26th
3:00pm to 9:30pm
Martin Luther King Auditorium
65th St. & Amsterdam
New York, NY
War crimes, crimes against peace and crimes against humanity.
Hear the testimony - The people will judge...

* From across the globe political leaders and expert witnesses are coming to NYC to testify on the criminal U.S. occupation of Iraq.
* GI resisters, eyewitnesses, and UN representatives will uncover Bush administrations lies, fraud and war profiteering.
* Community activists and labor leaders will describe the billions of dollars for war stolen from social services.
* Solidarity activists will discuss the impact of "Endless War" on Haiti, Palestine, Philippeans, Korea, Cuba and here at home.
* Videos, photo exhibits and panels will explain 14 years of war for oil.
Get Involved!

Help organize the Tribunal
and the week of Resistance
Meetings every Tuesday at 7:00pm
International Action Center
39 W. 14 St. #206, NY, NY, 10011
(212) 633-6646
www.iacenter.org


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Be part of a historic event in New York City on August 26!


Every day that the war and occupation in Iraq continue, Iraqi civilians are killed, injured, denied civil liberties, jailed, abused and tortured by the occupation forces while their basic services and economy are deteriorating. Meanwhile, our sons and daughters are being killed and maimed.

Under the new phony "transfer of power," business as usual will continue with more U.S. troops occupying Iraq, the construction of 14 permanent U.S. military bases, the funneling of oil revenues to the occupiers, the continuing torture and abuse of innocent Iraqis, the denial of democratic rights, and a failing infrastructure and qualify of life for the women, men and children.

The people of the world know that it is those in the highest echelons of the U.S. government who are responsible for the atrocities, torture, deaths, and war crimes in Iraq.

We have a responsibility to hold this administration accountable for the past and continuing horrors of the war and occupation.

Join in the War Crimes Tribunal being organized by the International Action Center on Thursday, August 26th, just prior to the Republican National Convention in New York City. This historic undertaking will investigate how the Bush and Blair Administrations violated international law and basic human rights by instigating an aggressive war against the Iraqi people, then instituting a brutal occupation, now continuing under the phony "transfer of power."

We invite you to participate, to help organize for this major international undertaking, and to bring friends, family, co-workers, members of your organizations, unions, and from your campuses and communities.

Eyewitnesses from Iraq, delegations from over twelve countries, expert witnesses, UN officials, and military resisters, will testify.

The Tribunal will investigate attacks against Iraq civilians, the use of napalm, cluster bombs, and depleted uranium weapons, the illegal incarceration and torture of civilians at Abu Ghraib prison and elsewhere, war profiteering and the initiation of the war itself. It will show culpability for the deteriorating Iraqi economy, infrastructure and social services in Iraq. And it will demonstrate for all to see violations of the Geneva Convention, the Nuremberg Principles, and the UN Charter.

A Program Journal is planned for the Tribunal. It will document the Bush Administration's crimes and will serve as an informative and lasting commemoration of the Tribunal; it will be a historic record of the August 26 Tribunal--in which your voice can be heard!

We urge you to be a part of the historic Tribunal Program Journal by taking out a display ad, listing your name as a Sponsor or Friend so you can be included (see ad form), or making a direct donation towards the costs of this event--donations of all sizes are appreciated.

Journal ads can be political statements, solidarity messages, memorial tributes to loved ones, progressive bookstore or website ads. Submissions by anti-war, community, labor, student, religious, legal, artists, writers, and other organizations are welcome. Commercial ads can be sent in as well.

Thousands of copies of this Program Journal will be distributed to Tribunal participants, members of the media, elected officials, activists, religious, labor, legal and academic institutions.

Tens of thousands of Journals will be given out to the activists from all over the country who will converge in New York City in late August to protest the administration's policies of war and occupation at the Republican National Convention.

The Journal will also serve as a Resource Field Guide to these protests, with maps, listings of events, and more information of use to the demonstrators.

By contributing to the Tribunal, you will help defray its expenses--printing, travel for expert witnesses, mailings, phone calls, and much more.

Donations by check or credit card can be made out to "IAC / People Judge Bush".

Please help get the word out in your communities and organizations about the Tribunal and to be included in its Program Journal to aid this critically important effort. The deadline for ad copy is Tuesday, August 10.

This is a decisive moment. Polls show that the vast majority in the U.S. are opposed to this occupation and want the troops brought home NOW. Now more than ever, people all over the world oppose the U.S. government.

Please join us on August 26th and contribute to the success of this major effort. Your donations will make a difference and will help to publicize this International War Crimes Tribunal and its findings to anti-war activists throughout the world and right here. It will be a resource for the international anti-war movement. It is only through donations from individuals such as yourself that these decisive and historic events happen.

Thank you for your continuing support, and we hope you can join us.

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The Crimes

The People of the World Demand Bush, Blair, and all complicit World Leaders be held accountable for:

* Initiating War: the crime against peace
* Crimes Against Humanity - targetting civilians; destruction of basic services
* War Profiteering and privatizing of national resources
* Cultural genocide, systematic looting of art, archives and cultural institutions
* Mass detentions, random roundups, & torture
* Violating Iraqi sovereignty
* Using prohibited weapons including cluster bombs and depleted uranium weapons
* Stealing trillions from social services
* Policy of Endless War targetting: Haiti, Palestine, Philippines, Korea, Cuba
* False testimonies, lies and fabrications to the public, the media, the United Nations and Congress
* Inciting bigotry, racism and a climate of fear.


Indictment

This Criminal Indictment Charges George W. Bush, Richard B. Cheney, Colin Powell, Donald H. Rumsfeld, John D. Ashcroft, Tommy Franks, and his successors as Commander of U.S. Forces in Iraq, George J. Tenet, L. Paul Bremer, III, John Negroponti and others to be named with Crimes Against Peace, War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity and other criminal acts in violation of the Charter of the United Nations, International Law, the Constitution of the United States and Laws Made in Pursuance Thereof.


The Crimes Charged are:

1. Waging a War of Aggression against the sovereignty of Iraq and the rights of its people, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths and injuries among the people of Iraq, most civilians, from military violence and thousands of U.S. G.I’s. War of aggression is defined as "the Supreme international crime" in the Nuremberg Judgment.
2. Authorizing, encouraging and condoning the use of excessive force, in terrorem, tactics called "Shock and Awe", targeting defenseless civilians, civilians facilities and indiscriminate bombing and assaults.
3. Authorizing and ordering the use of illegal weapons including super bombs, cluster bombs, depleted uranium enhanced bombs, missiles, shells and bullets and threatening the use of nuclear weapons.
4. Authorizing, ordering, concealing and condoning assassinations, summary executions, murders, disappearances, kidnappings and torture.
5. Authorizing, financing, utilizing and condoning illegal violence, use of force and torture by highly paid paramilitary civilian forces operating anonymously and not accountable to U.S. supervisors for their acts, who kill, coerce, control and contain the Iraqi population.
6. Authorizing, ordering and condoning the systematic destruction of economic, social, cultural, medical, educational, governmental and diplomatic resources, properties and facilities throughout Iraq.
7. Authorizing, ordering and condoning acts designed to divide the Iraqi population to cause internal conflict and violence among major segments of the society, ethnic, religious, political and economic, in order to weaken and exhaust the population and bring all segments under the control of a new surrogate government submissive to U.S. command.
8. Authorizing, imposing and maintaining a violent, criminal military occupation over Iraq which kills defenseless Iraqi’s daily and fans the flames of anti-U.S. anger worldwide.
9. Defying and incapacitating the peace making capacity and role of the United Nations by unilateral actions to undermine its potential effectiveness while continuing to coerce and use the U.N. to pursue U.S. policies in Iraq and elsewhere, and coercing and enticing other nations to support U.S. policies and actions in violation of international law in the U.N. Security Council and against Iraq and other nations.
10. Engaging in systematic acts to undermine and destroy international laws and treaties designed to prevent and control war, weapons of mass and indiscriminate destruction; limit participants in military service; protect the environment; prevent the economic exploitation of poor nations; and engaging systematic acts to obstruct justice by the evisceration of the International Criminal Court and manipulation or defiance of other international judicial and regulatory bodies that might seek to hold the U.S. accountable to international law and the will of the majority of the people of the international community.
11. Manifesting their continuing commitment to world domination by ordering, directing and condoning violent regime change in Haiti in March 2004 to replace the independent, elected democratic President Jean Bertrand Aristide with a U.S. selected and controlled neo Duvalierist surrogate causing growing violence, hundreds of deaths and further improvishment of the Haitian people.
12. Threatening the sovereignty and independence of nations, and acting to change regimes that refuse to yield to U.S. demands for economic subservience and political control for U.S. corporate and government interests, including most prominently Cuba, Iran, a divided Korea, the Philippines, Syria, Sudan and Venezuela; and supporting Israel’s illegal occupation, brutalization and expanding settlement of Palestine in defiance of the United Nations, international law and world opinion; all of which adds to international anger and violence against the United States and its citizens.
13. Destroying the sovereignty, right to self determination, cultural integrity and control of its own resources of Iraq and its peoples by imposing an interim government headed by a long time C.I.A. asset who directed violence against Iraqi civilians for the U.S. in the 1990's; and manipulating procedures for the imposition of a new Constitution drafted by and installation of a new government chosen through controlled electoral processes and subservient to the will and command of the U.S. government.
14. Usurping the war powers delegated in the constitution to the Congress to pursue wars of aggression and other unlawful military actions; and attempting to pack the federal courts with judges committed to ideologies in conflict with the Constitution of the United States to achieve judicial decisions supporting those ideologies.
15. Systematically weakening fundamental human rights globally and the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution within the U.S. enabling U.S. forces to unlawfully seize individuals in 100 countries, including U.S. citizens and arrest thousands of aliens in the U.S. and hold them, transport them, torture many, deny all access to courts to determine the legality of such seizures, arrest and treatment.
16. Making Guantanamo a symbol of U.S. power to imprison and abuse persons on the soil of a foreign sovereign nation, Cuba, against its will and to publicize U.S. contempt for human rights by displaying its power to arbitrarily seize, confine and abuse persons without revealing who they are, any charges against them, or what their future may be, placing U.S. power above all laws, international and national, and beyond the reach of all courts, including those of the U.S.
17. Giving economic preferences to favored corporations and business interests to extract enormous profits in both war and peace sectors of the economy from impoverished Iraq and U.S. taxpayers.
18. Systematically utilizing, controlling, directing, manipulating, misinforming and restricting press and media coverage and deliberately presenting false and misleading reports to obtain support for U.S. military and political and actions; and to deprive the American people of knowledge essential to develop an informed opinion which is essential to democratic processes and elections.
19. All for the purpose of dominating, controlling, and exploiting Iraq and other non compliant nations by military force and economic coercion.

In addition to full accountability for the foregoing crimes and full reparation to victims, the offenses constitute "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" under Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States requiring the removal from office of all the participating civil Officers of the United States upon impeachment for and conviction for their acts.

Dated: August 5, 2004
Ramsey Clark

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Schedule - War Crimes Tribunal

2:00 pm Opening Registration
3:00 - 5:30 Panels, Workshops, Exhibits and Videos
6:00 - 9:00 Full Plenary Session
Testimony of other international tribunals
Expert and eyewitnesses accounts
GI resisters, and UN representatives
Community activists and labor leaders
Solidarity activists

9:30 pm People Judge Bush

Martin Luther King Auditorium
65th & Amsterdam, NY, NY


Participants

Participants' List is still under formation

* Ramsey Clark: former U.S. Attorney General and leading participant at tribunals on Iraq (1991-1992), Yugoslavia (1999-2000) and Korea (2001). Ramsey Clark has drafted the indictment that is the basis of charges for this tribunal.
* Tod Ensign: organizer of Citizen Soldier and the legal defense of ex-Marine Stephen Funk, Army Private Camilo Mejia and other military resisters.
* Fernando Suarez: father of GI killed in Iraq, and anti-war speaker.
* Michael Hoffman and others: participants in the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and founders of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW).
* Maritza and Norma Castillo: family members of Camilo Mejia, a veteran of the current war on Iraq, and resister who is currently in military prison for refusing to redeployment and participate in war crimes.
* Joachim Guilliard (Germany): an organizer of the German tribunal, co-author of books on Iraq and long-time activist against the sanctions on Iraq. Based in Heidelberg.
* Maria Rosa Peñarroya Miranda (Spain) and Javier Barandiaran (Basque Country): Both from the Committee in Solidarity with the Arab Cause (CSCA) and both with the CSCA delegation which, in March and April 2003, witnessed the bombing during the active phase of the war and interviewed wounded Iraqis in the Baghdad hospitals.
* Jo Wilding (Britain) in Iraq November 2003 to May 2004, she drove an ambulance in Falluja when it was under siege.
* Manik Mukerji (India): A leader of the All-India Anti-Imperialist Front that organized protests of hundreds of thousands to oppose the U.S. occupation of Iraq and successfully opposed the sending of Indian troops to participation in that occupation.
* Prof. Akira Maeda and Keiko Yasuhara and others (Japan): organizers of several war crimes tribunals on U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq held in Japan. They will speak on those tribunals, the use of depleted uranium weapons, and on the diminished rights for Iraqi women under the occupation.
* Denis Halliday: U.N. official who resigned from the "Oil for Food" program imposing sanctions on Iraq. Leading spokesperson against the sanctions and the war. (video presentation)
* Brenda Stokeley: president of AFSCME DC 1707, a leader of the Million Worker March organization and of NYC Labor Against the War.
* Prof. Dennis Brutus: a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, poet and leading anti-apartheid activist.
* Ayca Cebukcu: organizer of the May 8 New York session of the World Tribunal on Iraq.
* Lynne Stewart: progressive attorney facing charges stemming from the new repressive climate that gave birth to the Patriot Act.
* Also participating: Representative of the Brussels Tribunal on Iraq; Speakers from the movement in South Korea who are organizing the opposition to Korean participation in the occupation of Iraq.

Schedule - Week of Resistance

Many groups are organizing events during the week of resistance. Email us if you'd like to add your event, with a description and your contact info: calendar@PeopleJudgeBush.org. We'll add you to the schedule listed here and the Week of Resistance journal.


Thursday, August 26: War Crimes Tribunal - Open a week of resistance!
Thursday, August 26: DNC2RNC March reaches NYC
Monday, August 23 - Friday, Aug 27: Bushville Tent City
Friday, August 27: Critical Mass Against the RNC, 7pm, N. Union Sq.
Friday, Aug 27 & Tuesday Aug 31: Immigrant-Worker Solidarity Day of Action
Saturday, Aug 28: Ring Out Against the RNC - Ground Zero
Sunday, Aug 29: Mass Worldwide Protest Against the RNC
Monday, Aug 30: Still We Rise Poor Peoples March - Union Sq. to Times Sq.
Tuesday, Aug 31: A day of creative resistance outside the protest pens
Wednesday, Sept 1: Annual Labor Day Parade Protesting Bush Policies - Support the Right to Organize - NYC Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, Municipal Labor Committee
Thursday, Sept 2: Protest against the RNC as Bush is nominated.

Join us to learn more and to help build a movement to stop the warmongers of both parties.

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Register

Register to attend the Iraq War Crimes Tribunal.

To register, please send an email with your name, phone number, address, and the email at which you wish to be contacted to register@peoplejudgebush.org.

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