December 3, 2009 ~ Revolutionary Greetings on a brand new day!
Gracias Brother Cort! Good to see you are on the ball!
We should recognize and respect these early anti-evil wars organizers.
Let us not be weak pacifists. There are evil wars going on in the world and just wars fought by various tactics by global vanguard elements.
You cannot throw a blanket on connected reality.
We should stand against Obama's War Plan. Afghanistan is the Achilles heel of the Obama regime, independent voters and progressive minded people were key to his winning the Presidency. Recall history!
These rallies and protests are signs of conscious awareness, practical activism and higher mass consciousness. These regional escalations of war by the Obama Regime will impact on all of us in one way or another in varying degrees. Do you have enlisted men in your family or among your friends who joined the Army out of desperate unemployment and stifled educational opportunities?!?!
Let us be clear! Those who die in unjust wars are not heroes who die for us, they are fools used and discarded as paid mercenaries by the Amerikan Empire. So spare us your phony patriotism and nationalist bullshit.
I have no Taliban or Al-Qaeda terrorists attacking me. From where I now sit on this foggy morning in Sacramento, California, my people are being attacked by the terrors of hunger, no homes, no jobs and the general misery of poverty. Wake up Amerika! There is a war going on and we're now losing! We can only completely lose if we give us our struggles!
We all need to be united against fascist-imperialist wars with evil motives. We all must overcome any remnants of racism, nationalism and all other manifestations of social division amongst us.
Our humane needs are common: food, clothing, shelter, medical care and education. We should unite on the basic of our common needs, our common goals and our common dreams, NOT by any narrow subjective definitions of left-right, black-white, male-female, straight gay, democratic-republican or other manifestations of division.
We do NOT have to agree on 'everything' nor should we because we do not want blind mindless followers with hidden agendas and fascist agent provacateurs in our midst.
We just need to agree on the basics ~ the recognition of our basic survival needs and we can meet on different levels together in different locations and work out our common goals, common objectives and compassionate plans of action.
Our common agenda should be humane rights! What thinking mind or caring spirit can be against humane rights in all battlefronts: the rights of immigrants, workers rights, prisoners rights and all basic humane rights.
We should come together as one humane family, not under separate flags, regions and provinces.
True refinement seeks simplicity! ~ Bruce Lee
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Venceremos Unidos! Education for Liberation!
Peter S. López, Jr. aka~Peta
Field Coordinator HumanE-Liberation-Party
Email: peter.lopez51@yahoo.com
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P.S. Please post sources via Links when
applicable for better authenticity.
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From: Cort Greene <cort.greene@gmail.com>
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Sent: Thu, December 3, 2009 4:46:13 AM
Subject: [NetworkAztlan_News] Over 300@ West Point March and Rally/Protests Obama's War Plan
Gracias Brother Cort! Good to see you are on the ball!
We should recognize and respect these early anti-evil wars organizers.
Let us not be weak pacifists. There are evil wars going on in the world and just wars fought by various tactics by global vanguard elements.
You cannot throw a blanket on connected reality.
We should stand against Obama's War Plan. Afghanistan is the Achilles heel of the Obama regime, independent voters and progressive minded people were key to his winning the Presidency. Recall history!
These rallies and protests are signs of conscious awareness, practical activism and higher mass consciousness. These regional escalations of war by the Obama Regime will impact on all of us in one way or another in varying degrees. Do you have enlisted men in your family or among your friends who joined the Army out of desperate unemployment and stifled educational opportunities?!?!
Let us be clear! Those who die in unjust wars are not heroes who die for us, they are fools used and discarded as paid mercenaries by the Amerikan Empire. So spare us your phony patriotism and nationalist bullshit.
I have no Taliban or Al-Qaeda terrorists attacking me. From where I now sit on this foggy morning in Sacramento, California, my people are being attacked by the terrors of hunger, no homes, no jobs and the general misery of poverty. Wake up Amerika! There is a war going on and we're now losing! We can only completely lose if we give us our struggles!
We all need to be united against fascist-imperialist wars with evil motives. We all must overcome any remnants of racism, nationalism and all other manifestations of social division amongst us.
Our humane needs are common: food, clothing, shelter, medical care and education. We should unite on the basic of our common needs, our common goals and our common dreams, NOT by any narrow subjective definitions of left-right, black-white, male-female, straight gay, democratic-republican or other manifestations of division.
We do NOT have to agree on 'everything' nor should we because we do not want blind mindless followers with hidden agendas and fascist agent provacateurs in our midst.
We just need to agree on the basics ~ the recognition of our basic survival needs and we can meet on different levels together in different locations and work out our common goals, common objectives and compassionate plans of action.
Our common agenda should be humane rights! What thinking mind or caring spirit can be against humane rights in all battlefronts: the rights of immigrants, workers rights, prisoners rights and all basic humane rights.
We should come together as one humane family, not under separate flags, regions and provinces.
True refinement seeks simplicity! ~ Bruce Lee
Venceremos Unidos! Education for Liberation!
Peter S. López, Jr. aka~Peta
Field Coordinator HumanE-Liberation-Party
Email: peter.lopez51@yahoo.com
http://twitter.com/Peta51
P.S. Please post sources via Links when
applicable for better authenticity.
c/s
From: Cort Greene <cort.greene@gmail.com>
To: NetworkAztlan_News <NetworkAztlan_News@yahoogroups.com>; Left-wing <Left-wing@yahoogroups.com>; Activism_USA <Activism_USA@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thu, December 3, 2009 4:46:13 AM
Subject: [NetworkAztlan_News] Over 300@ West Point March and Rally/Protests Obama's War Plan
From the Hudson Vally Peace Newsletter:
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
12-2-9 Report on West Point protest
West Point March and Rally
Protests Obama's War Plan
Over 300 antiwar protesters took part in a demonstration at the gates to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point Dec. 1 as President Barack Obama sought to justify his decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
Facing police and soldiers at the Highland Falls gate to the Academy, demonstrators repeatedly chanted, "30,000 more! What the Hell for?, 30,000 more! —What the Hell for?" Drummers and a trumpet player accompanied the chanting.
Six protestors were arrested for sitting down to block the road into the military facility. They were charged with disorderly conduct, released and summoned to appear in court Dec. 15.
The protest was organized in less than a week, according to civil liberties attorney Michael Sussman, who leads the Orange County Democratic Alliance and was among the chief organizers. Another organizer, Nick Mottern of WESPAC and Consumers for Peace.org, first heard the announcement that Obama would speak locally, and sent out the message to a few local organizers. "They all got busy calling other people and groups and within 24 hours some 14 organizations signed up to protest Obama's speech," he said.
Hudson Valley peace groups sponsoring the demonstration were Rockland Coalition for Peace and Justice, WESPAC, Orange County Peace and Justice, Democratic Alliance, Hudson Valley Activist Newsletter, Peace & Social Progress Now, Consumers for Peace.org, Social Action Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation (Rock Tavern, N.Y.). National groups backing the protest included the ANSWER Coalition, International Action Center, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Peace Action of New York State, Troops Out Now, and World Can't Wait.
The protest began in the darkness of 6:30 p.m. at Veterans' Park in Orange County's Highland Falls, a town adjacent to the 16,000-acre military reservation on the banks of the Hudson River. Most of the demonstrators came from various peace groups in the counties of Orange, Rockland, Westchester, Ulster and Dutchess, but some attended from New York City, the Upper Hudson Valley, and even from Massachusetts.
Nine speakers representing different groups took the megaphone to denounce Obama's escalation of the war. They included Rev. Jim Bridges, Rock Tavern Unitarian Universalist Congregation; Elaine Brower, Military Families Speak Out; former Sgt. Matthis Chiroux, of Iraq Veterans Against the War; Don DeBar, Green Party activist and reporter; Larry McGovern, Westchester County Peace and Justice; Jack A. Smith, editor of Hudson Valley Activist Newsletter; Michael Sussman, Democratic Alliance; Deborah Sweet, World Can't Wait; and Nancy Tsou, Rockland County Peace and Justice.
Following the 45-minute rally, MC Bennett Weiss instructed participants to line up single file for the nearly half-mile silent, candlelight peace walk to the Academy gates. A full moon illuminated the night.
At the gates, demonstrators spontaneously began singing peace songs in subdued and unsure voices, but as the crowds grew the voices became more strident and determined. Individuals, then groups, began chanting "End the War," "Bring them Home Now," "What do you want — Peace. When do you want it — Now!
About 30 protesters sat down on the pavement in front of the gates, and were not removed by police. But when six of them moved to the road, they were arrested and transported to night court.
The Hudson Valley peace movement, as in the rest of the nation, has suffered declines in number in recent years, and particularly after warmaking President George W. Bush left office. Many Democratic voters who opposed Bush's military adventurism have been reluctant to protest against any of Obama's policies, including his enthusiastic support for the Afghan war.
Movement observers believe that after nearly 11 months of Obama's presidency the tide is slowing turning, in good part since it became clear he was going to order a significant increase in U.S. troop strength in Afghanistan. The demonstration in West Point, as well as many protests throughout the country during and after the Dec. 1 speech, appears to be a harbinger of a movement in the process of rebuilding itself.
A test of this thesis will be on Saturday, March 20 — on the sixth anniversary
of the U.S. invasion of Iraq — when a mass peace demonstration is set for Washington DC, and a number of large cities across America.
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Protest Wider War in New Paltz, N.Y., Dec. 5
Join the protest against sending more troops to war on Saturday, Dec. 5, in New Paltz from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Main St. in front of the (Stop 'n' Shop) shopping plaza. Bring signs or use ours. Rain or shine. Organized by Peace & Social Progress Now and the Hudson Valley Activist Newsletter. Endorsed by New Paltz Women in Black. Information: jacdon@earthlink. net, http://activistnews letter.blogspot. com/.
Protests Obama's War Plan
Over 300 antiwar protesters took part in a demonstration at the gates to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point Dec. 1 as President Barack Obama sought to justify his decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
Facing police and soldiers at the Highland Falls gate to the Academy, demonstrators repeatedly chanted, "30,000 more! What the Hell for?, 30,000 more! —What the Hell for?" Drummers and a trumpet player accompanied the chanting.
Six protestors were arrested for sitting down to block the road into the military facility. They were charged with disorderly conduct, released and summoned to appear in court Dec. 15.
The protest was organized in less than a week, according to civil liberties attorney Michael Sussman, who leads the Orange County Democratic Alliance and was among the chief organizers. Another organizer, Nick Mottern of WESPAC and Consumers for Peace.org, first heard the announcement that Obama would speak locally, and sent out the message to a few local organizers. "They all got busy calling other people and groups and within 24 hours some 14 organizations signed up to protest Obama's speech," he said.
Hudson Valley peace groups sponsoring the demonstration were Rockland Coalition for Peace and Justice, WESPAC, Orange County Peace and Justice, Democratic Alliance, Hudson Valley Activist Newsletter, Peace & Social Progress Now, Consumers for Peace.org, Social Action Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation (Rock Tavern, N.Y.). National groups backing the protest included the ANSWER Coalition, International Action Center, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Peace Action of New York State, Troops Out Now, and World Can't Wait.
The protest began in the darkness of 6:30 p.m. at Veterans' Park in Orange County's Highland Falls, a town adjacent to the 16,000-acre military reservation on the banks of the Hudson River. Most of the demonstrators came from various peace groups in the counties of Orange, Rockland, Westchester, Ulster and Dutchess, but some attended from New York City, the Upper Hudson Valley, and even from Massachusetts.
Nine speakers representing different groups took the megaphone to denounce Obama's escalation of the war. They included Rev. Jim Bridges, Rock Tavern Unitarian Universalist Congregation; Elaine Brower, Military Families Speak Out; former Sgt. Matthis Chiroux, of Iraq Veterans Against the War; Don DeBar, Green Party activist and reporter; Larry McGovern, Westchester County Peace and Justice; Jack A. Smith, editor of Hudson Valley Activist Newsletter; Michael Sussman, Democratic Alliance; Deborah Sweet, World Can't Wait; and Nancy Tsou, Rockland County Peace and Justice.
Following the 45-minute rally, MC Bennett Weiss instructed participants to line up single file for the nearly half-mile silent, candlelight peace walk to the Academy gates. A full moon illuminated the night.
At the gates, demonstrators spontaneously began singing peace songs in subdued and unsure voices, but as the crowds grew the voices became more strident and determined. Individuals, then groups, began chanting "End the War," "Bring them Home Now," "What do you want — Peace. When do you want it — Now!
About 30 protesters sat down on the pavement in front of the gates, and were not removed by police. But when six of them moved to the road, they were arrested and transported to night court.
The Hudson Valley peace movement, as in the rest of the nation, has suffered declines in number in recent years, and particularly after warmaking President George W. Bush left office. Many Democratic voters who opposed Bush's military adventurism have been reluctant to protest against any of Obama's policies, including his enthusiastic support for the Afghan war.
Movement observers believe that after nearly 11 months of Obama's presidency the tide is slowing turning, in good part since it became clear he was going to order a significant increase in U.S. troop strength in Afghanistan. The demonstration in West Point, as well as many protests throughout the country during and after the Dec. 1 speech, appears to be a harbinger of a movement in the process of rebuilding itself.
A test of this thesis will be on Saturday, March 20 — on the sixth anniversary
of the U.S. invasion of Iraq — when a mass peace demonstration is set for Washington DC, and a number of large cities across America.
——————————
Protest Wider War in New Paltz, N.Y., Dec. 5
Join the protest against sending more troops to war on Saturday, Dec. 5, in New Paltz from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Main St. in front of the (Stop 'n' Shop) shopping plaza. Bring signs or use ours. Rain or shine. Organized by Peace & Social Progress Now and the Hudson Valley Activist Newsletter. Endorsed by New Paltz Women in Black. Information: jacdon@earthlink. net, http://activistnews letter.blogspot. com/.
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