Dear Friend,

The ANSWER Coalition had its 18^th birthday on September 14, 2019. Our coalition was formed three days after the September 11, 2001 attacks by people who were convinced that it was urgently necessary to start a new antiwar movement. Bush and Cheney were gearing up to take the country into a string of endless wars using the terrorist attack as a pretext. Just 15 days after ANSWER was formed we drew together 25,000 people in a large national action in Washington D.C. that inaugurated a new anti-war movement that grew by leaps and bounds as Bush prepared to attack Iraq. 

The ANSWER Coalition’s work has grown and continues to expand. We have twenty five chapters. In the last year we helped mobilize people all over the country in opposition to the attempted coup against Venezuela. Mass mobilizations on March 16 helped invigorate a larger solidarity movement. We played a major role in the Embassy Protection Collective struggle to stop the illegal seizure of a diplomatic compound.

2019 has been a year of intense struggle and activity. As one looks back at the calendar of 2019 you can see that the ANSWER Coalition was mobilizing almost every day, in cities and towns throughout the country, opposing the U.S. war machine on many fronts. Organizing, educating and building grassroots resistance is the key work of ANSWER. We do it every day and we do it as an all-volunteer effort.

I’m writing to you because the ANSWER Coalition is appealing to all of its supporters to make an urgently needed donation. Our movement is growing but so is the ever-increasing drive toward endless war. We will continue this critically important work but only with your help and with the support of other people of conscience. Please make an urgently needed donation today.

Help Build the Antiwar Movement,

Brian Becker
National Director, ANSWER Coalition