DJ Rawkus
03-16-2003, 11:56 AM
The problem-
In Afghanistan the US military has killed thousands of people securing the power of warlords. The US spends billions funding Israel's genocidal policies against the Palestinian people. In Colombia, the US is escalating a civil war in which thousands of labor activists and peasants have been murdered. In Iraq, economic sanctions and radioactive weaponry have killed hundreds of thousands in the decade of bombing. The US “War on Terror” keeps expanding, threatening our liberty and millions around the world.
This is not a war between the people of the US and the people of the world. It is capitalism—a war on the poor. Investors in US oil companies will get regional supremacy, and access to Iraq's oil supplies(second only to Saudi Arabia). The weapons manufacturers will get new contracts and the US politicians will have an excuse to increase their power. Meanwhile, the poor and working people of America will definitely not be better off. Be not mistaken, however, this not just about oil. It about forging US capitalism into every nation and individual worldwide. The Bush team see themselves as liberators; in a literal sense and a metaphorical sense. They will not play by the rules...nor will WE THE PEOPLE.
We continue to live in a world of unemployment and minimum wage jobs, of racism and harassment, of surveillance and prisons, of impossible rents and evictions—a world not built for us, but on top of us. The brutal displays of the police in Oakland or L.A. bring to mind images of the Israeli Army in occupied Palestine. The thousands of Arab and South Asian desaparecidos in the US since September 11th recall the US-supported fascist regimes of Latin America. Even the foot soldiers the government uses to expand its empire will come home, as they did in the last Iraq war, with diseases from depleted Uranium ammunition. For us, the poor and working people living in the US, the war is not in Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan or Colombia. It is right here at home, against the rich.
The growing anti-war movement has called a number of demonstrations in the latest weeks and many to come in the months ahead. We will be there in solidarity. But we are worried that our protests have become nothing more than parades. Protest isn’t protest if it doesn’t threaten the established order or physically disrupt the functioning of the capitalist war machine.
So let’s use our collective power to change things directly. Wear black in mourning for the victims of capitalism, racism, state violence. Let’s stick together and watch each other’s backs. Let’s fight back.
Join us for a creative rampage.
The solution-
Calling for a One Day
Nationwide General Strike
Buy Nothing - No Work - No School
To STOP the War Against People Abroad and at Home
Mission Statement:
We oppose war and call all people to unite with us. Why do we oppose war? We oppose economic war because People's labor is exploited for the profit of few. We oppose military war because the government commits genocide on our sisters and brothers across the world. We oppose domestic war because the police act as occupying forces in our communities continually murdering and brutalizing our people. We demand that all of our political prisoners be set free. We oppose ecological war because our land, air, and resources are being destroyed. We oppose political war because the U.S. government is imposing its ideology on the People. For these reasons we must demonstrate the united power of the People and the need for unity throughout the world. And may I add...
Present endorsers: Black August Coordinating Committee, Bay Area AIM, Prisoners Rights Union, Freedom Socialist Party, Huff Santa Cruz, Coalition on Homelesness, Justice for Palestinians, People's United Front, A.F.R.I.C.A. Sac State, Third World Forum UC Davis, SF Bay View Newspaper, Sacramento Call For Peace, Not in Our Name Bellingham, Cesar Cruz of 4 Winds Student Movement, Richard Aoki, Yuri Kochiyama, Don Paul
In Afghanistan the US military has killed thousands of people securing the power of warlords. The US spends billions funding Israel's genocidal policies against the Palestinian people. In Colombia, the US is escalating a civil war in which thousands of labor activists and peasants have been murdered. In Iraq, economic sanctions and radioactive weaponry have killed hundreds of thousands in the decade of bombing. The US “War on Terror” keeps expanding, threatening our liberty and millions around the world.
This is not a war between the people of the US and the people of the world. It is capitalism—a war on the poor. Investors in US oil companies will get regional supremacy, and access to Iraq's oil supplies(second only to Saudi Arabia). The weapons manufacturers will get new contracts and the US politicians will have an excuse to increase their power. Meanwhile, the poor and working people of America will definitely not be better off. Be not mistaken, however, this not just about oil. It about forging US capitalism into every nation and individual worldwide. The Bush team see themselves as liberators; in a literal sense and a metaphorical sense. They will not play by the rules...nor will WE THE PEOPLE.
We continue to live in a world of unemployment and minimum wage jobs, of racism and harassment, of surveillance and prisons, of impossible rents and evictions—a world not built for us, but on top of us. The brutal displays of the police in Oakland or L.A. bring to mind images of the Israeli Army in occupied Palestine. The thousands of Arab and South Asian desaparecidos in the US since September 11th recall the US-supported fascist regimes of Latin America. Even the foot soldiers the government uses to expand its empire will come home, as they did in the last Iraq war, with diseases from depleted Uranium ammunition. For us, the poor and working people living in the US, the war is not in Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan or Colombia. It is right here at home, against the rich.
The growing anti-war movement has called a number of demonstrations in the latest weeks and many to come in the months ahead. We will be there in solidarity. But we are worried that our protests have become nothing more than parades. Protest isn’t protest if it doesn’t threaten the established order or physically disrupt the functioning of the capitalist war machine.
So let’s use our collective power to change things directly. Wear black in mourning for the victims of capitalism, racism, state violence. Let’s stick together and watch each other’s backs. Let’s fight back.
Join us for a creative rampage.
The solution-
Calling for a One Day
Nationwide General Strike
Buy Nothing - No Work - No School
To STOP the War Against People Abroad and at Home
Mission Statement:
We oppose war and call all people to unite with us. Why do we oppose war? We oppose economic war because People's labor is exploited for the profit of few. We oppose military war because the government commits genocide on our sisters and brothers across the world. We oppose domestic war because the police act as occupying forces in our communities continually murdering and brutalizing our people. We demand that all of our political prisoners be set free. We oppose ecological war because our land, air, and resources are being destroyed. We oppose political war because the U.S. government is imposing its ideology on the People. For these reasons we must demonstrate the united power of the People and the need for unity throughout the world. And may I add...
Present endorsers: Black August Coordinating Committee, Bay Area AIM, Prisoners Rights Union, Freedom Socialist Party, Huff Santa Cruz, Coalition on Homelesness, Justice for Palestinians, People's United Front, A.F.R.I.C.A. Sac State, Third World Forum UC Davis, SF Bay View Newspaper, Sacramento Call For Peace, Not in Our Name Bellingham, Cesar Cruz of 4 Winds Student Movement, Richard Aoki, Yuri Kochiyama, Don Paul