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Here's another flyer from eight years ago (December, 2008). As
Obama did then, Trump now needs a protest movement.<br>
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AWARE calls on the Obama administration<br>
to live up to the promise of change<br>
<br>
Do we need to do this? Shouldn't we just wait and see what he
does? No!<br>
There's a great deal of power and trillions of dollars of money at
stake in<br>
keeping things as they are, from the military industry, the new
"security"<br>
industry, the media industry, the oil industry, the banking
industry, from many<br>
sorts of powerful constituencies. They speak with confidence,
calling Obama's<br>
Bush- and Clinton-era appointments "pragmatic" and
"non-ideological".<br>
<br>
Beware of such labels: "pragmatism" implies not questioning
assumptions, such as the<br>
assumption that the US has an inalienable right to use military
force anywhere in<br>
the world, that major changes to the way we use energy or provide
health care are<br>
just not feasible, that "free market" practices serve our people
well, that erosion<br>
of civil liberties and use of torture are regrettable but
necessary. That's why...<br>
<br>
Obama Needs a Protest Movement [*]<br>
<br>
Obama is being compared with Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who brought
in the New Deal,<br>
the fruits of which (Social Security, labor protections,
infrastructure creation, ...)<br>
we still depend on. But as Frances Fox Piven[*] and others argue,
FDR didn't and<br>
wouldn't have done it alone: "mass protests [...] forced him to make
choices he<br>
would otherwise have avoided [...] the rise of protest movements
forced the new<br>
president and the Democratic Congress to become bold reformers."<br>
<br>
Obama and the Congress need our pressure now to resist pressure from
our opponents,<br>
who are not waiting. We must call on the Administration to carry
out the best of<br>
Obama's promises, and to do other things which he has not promised.
Join us [**],<br>
join other groups, act on your own, but act. Write letters to the
editor, to the new<br>
Administration, to Congress. Make signs and demonstrate. Talk with
your neighbors.<br>
<br>
Some things AWARE [**] calls on the new Administration and Congress
to do:<br>
<br>
- Withdraw from Iraq *all* US troops, *and* all military
contractors.<br>
The Iraqi Parliament agreed to a 2011 deadline, but don't wait.<br>
Make it plain that the US will keep no military bases there.<br>
<br>
- End the war in Afghanistan. As in Iraq, our invasion violates
international law;<br>
and as in Iraq, our violent presence there only strengthens our
opponents. Even<br>
our own military have acknowledged that military means will not
suffice in<br>
Afghanistan. Encourage the Afghan government's efforts to
negotiate with the<br>
Taliban, including all who are willing to talk.<br>
<br>
- Cease illegal and counterproductive incursions into Pakistan,
Syria, Somalia, ...<br>
<br>
- Renew US efforts to resolve Israeli-Palestinian conflict,
including dismantling<br>
West Bank settlements. Support the 2002 Arab League offer for
peace in exchange<br>
for a return to the 1967 borders and agreement on refugee
status. Negotiate with<br>
Hamas (as 64% of Israelis support doing) -- they won free and
fair elections.<br>
<br>
- Put our vast military spending, including our own weapons of
mass destruction,<br>
on the table for cuts.<br>
<br>
- Close Guantanamo Bay, and end use of torture, as promised, and
promptly.<br>
<br>
- Whether by prosecution of those who created and justified the
policies, or by a<br>
Truth Commission, ensure that the world and the US people know
we understand that<br>
wars of aggression, torture and arbitrary imprisonment are never
acceptable.<br>
<br>
- Talk with Iran, as promised, without preconditions. Reestablish
US diplomatic<br>
representation. Make clear that the US will accept a peaceful
Iranian nuclear power<br>
program under international supervision. Seek Iran's help in
resolving Middle East<br>
conflicts, including in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel/Palestine, and
Lebanon.<br>
<br>
- Rethink our policies toward Central America and Latin America.
End our<br>
long-running, counterproductive embargo against Cuba, and open a
dialog<br>
with the Cuban government. Repair relations with Venezuela and
Bolivia,<br>
including restoring Bolivia's preferential access to US markets.<br>
<br>
- Repudiate the Bush Administration's signing statements, and the
whole notion<br>
that a President can override laws by fiat. Stop this terrible
precedent now.<br>
<br>
[*] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081201/piven">http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081201/piven</a><br>
Article by Frances Fox Piven's in the Dec. 1, 2008 issue of The
Nation<br>
<br>
[**] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.anti-war.net/">http://www.anti-war.net/</a> AWARE meets every Sunday at 5PM in
the basement<br>
of the Independent Media Center, Broadway & Elm, Urbana.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/7/17 7:13 AM, Ricky Baldwin via
Peace-discuss wrote:<br>
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It is interesting to note that this flyer from the Bush-Obama
transition nowhere mentions Bush, who started the specific wars in
question (at least in their most recent form) and includes
specific calls to action (phone numbers, etc.) to reach the
president-elect, yet the new flyer for the Obama-Trump transition
seemingly can't let go of beating up Obama for his crimes and
hardly mentions Trump hypocrisy in any equivalent way or
specifically calls on people to petition their government.
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<div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1483794386283">An effective
flyer would not only challenge and inform (agitate and educate)
but tap into thoughts and feelings in its intended audience to
move people into action (organize). I hope the goal is always
to encourage resistance and opposition to war and racism and not
simply to attack and distinguish oneself from people with whom
one may disagree.<br>
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<div>On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 11:47 PM, Carl G. Estabrook via
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<div>Here’s a flyer that AWARE distributed eight years ago,
as Bush was leaving office.</div>
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<div class="">
<div
style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"
class=""><span style="text-decoration:underline;"
class=""><b class="">U.S. WAR IN THE MIDDLE
EAST: AFGHANISTAN</b></span></div>
<div
style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;min-height:12px;"
class=""><br class="">
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<div
style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"
class="">Some people think that Barack Obama is
poised for an historic presidency that could unite
this country and lead us to a better future. He
has talked of ending wars and negotiating
diplomatically with world leaders. Earlier this
year he said, <b class=""><i class="">"I don't
want to just end the war, I want to end the
mindset that got us into war." </i></b>This
talk and these positions gave us some hope for
peace in the world and an end to the millions of
killings. And millions of our people voted for
Obama.</div>
<div
style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;min-height:12px;"
class=""><br class="">
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<div
style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"
class=""><b class="">Just recently, though, he
spoke of sending a surge of tens of thousands of
troops into Afghanistan.</b> <b class="">Whoa!</b>
We already have more than 30,000 U.S. troops
there, in addition to more than 140,000 troops and
maybe 50,000 mercenaries in 17 permanent bases in
Iraq. And we will never "win" the war in Iraq,
nor the one in Afghanistan. How can we not have
learned at least that much? How can we kill one
more person, one more old man, one more woman, one
more child? And how can we stand losing even one
more of our young men and women? And did you know
that the recent U.S. military death count in
Afghanistan exceeds that in Iraq?</div>
<div
style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;min-height:12px;"
class=""><br class="">
</div>
<div
style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"
class="">Obama has made major appointments of
people who have supported the wars and the
killings; these evoke serious concerns. <b
class="">He must defy the War Party and the
corporate interests surrounding him</b>, and pay
homage to the millions of Americans who want real
change -- and the ones who voted for him and made
him president.</div>
<div
style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;min-height:12px;"
class=""><br class="">
</div>
<div
style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"
class="">That which we do not resist, we may be
forced to accept. Millions of us want the wars to
stop -- recent surveys suggest as many as
70%-80%. Then anti-war movement needs to move
immediately to oppose this shift of the "central
front" of the fraudulent "war on terror" to
Afghanistan. We must not be silent and let the
"surge" of American troops into Afghanistan become
a reality.</div>
<div
style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;min-height:12px;"
class=""><br class="">
</div>
<div
style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"
class="">The U.S. "war on terror," which began
after the crimes of September 11, 2001, was not
just a campaign against the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and
Osama bin Laden, but <b class="">a broad global
war to control Afghanistan and to the keep the
U.S. the global superpower with permanent
domination over the Middle East.</b> It will be
fought the same way that the war in Iraq is being
fought, where most of he people killed are
civilians. There is no such thing as a good war
on terror -- as Benjamin Franklin wrote on another
September 11, in 1773, </div>
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style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;min-height:12px;"
class=""><br class="">
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<div
style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"
class=""><i class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span>"After
much occasion to consider the folly and
mischiefs of a state of warfare, and the little
or no advantage obtained even by those nations
who have conducted it with the most success, I
have been apt to think </i><b class=""><i
class="">that there has never been, nor ever
will be, any such thing as </i>a good war, or
a bad peace</b><i class="">."</i></div>
<div
style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;min-height:12px;"
class=""><br class="">
</div>
<div
style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"
class=""><b class="">We must show the people in
the Middle East and in the world that in the
U.S. there is a difference between the people
and the government.</b> And we must stand up
and show our government that the great majority of
us do not agree with more war.</div>
<div
style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;min-height:12px;"
class=""><br class="">
</div>
<div
style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"
class=""><b class="">Silence and passivity don't
work.</b> We can't wait and see. The "surge"
must be stopped before it is started. We must be
visible, and we must be heard. Our world does not
need any more war. </div>
<div
style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;min-height:12px;"
class=""><br class="">
</div>
<div
style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"
class=""><b class="">We can write letters and make
phone calls now -- right now! </b> Obama (and
Bush) needs to hear from us (202.456.1111) --
perhaps we can remind him of his desire to <b
class=""><i class="">"end the war [and] end the
mindset that got us into war." </i></b>Congressman
Johnson needs to hear from us (202.224.3121), and
Senator Durbin needs to hear from us
(202.224.3121), and any other person whom we can
tell needs to hear from us. And we can all write
and make phone calls...</div>
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style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;min-height:12px;"
class=""><br class="">
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style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"
class=""><i class="">###</i></div>
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style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;min-height:12px;"
class=""><br class="">
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<div
style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"
class="">{This comment, by Linda Weber, was
cablecast on <b class=""><i class="">AWARE on the
Air</i></b> on 23 December 2008.</div>
<div
style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"
class="">The program, presented by members and
friends of the Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort</div>
<div
style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"
class="">of Champaign-Urbana, is seen every
Tuesday at 10:00pm on cable channel 6.}</div>
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