[Peace-discuss] Public Meeting: Katrina and Direct

[Tom Mackaman]

Dear AWARE members,

As you no doubt have noted, Katrina and other recent
natural disasters have painfully demonstrated the
inability of the US and other societies to care for
people.  This is inextricably bound up to the question
of the policy of US military aggression abroad and the
war in Iraq in particular.  I wish to cordially invite
you all to this Thursday's public meeting (see below
plus attached flier) to discuss.  Please share the
announcement and invite others.

Best regards,
Tom

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PUBLIC MEETING:
Hurricane Katrina, Iraq
and the Struggle for Socialism

Thursday, 7pm, 111 Gregory Hall 
(corner of Wright and Armory, UIUC campus)

Hurricane Katrina was not only a natural disaster. 
Instead, it cruelly revealed and magnified the social
catastrophe that already existed in New Orleans—the
result of decades of neglect of the civil and social
infrastructure throughout the United States by
Republican and Democratic administrations alike. The
distress of the population, particularly the infirm,
the poor and minorities, was met with troops armed to
the teeth.

The hurricane brought to the surface the most
essential feature of the capitalist system’s profound
crisis: the social deprivation faced by tens of
millions of people in America and the vast gulf which
divides the overwhelming majority of the people—those
who must work for a wage—from a fabulously wealthy
oligarchy that controls both major parties.

The negligence and indifference shown by the Bush
administration toward the people of New Orleans
mirrored the criminality and sadism of the US war in
Iraq, which has now claimed the lives of over 100,000
Iraqis and nearly 2,000 US troops.  The use of force
to lay hold of vital resources and markets has gone
hand in hand with the destruction within the US of
social programs and attacks on real wages to fund
massive tax cuts for the rich. It is a policy of
plunder at home and plunder abroad.

Opposition to war and the ever worsening social
conditions facing millions of working people so
graphically revealed by Katrina must take the form of
a political struggle against the profit system—one
that unites the working class of every country against
a common enemy—and the two parties of big business
that defend it. 

To discuss these fundamental issues, please make plans
to attend Thursday’s public meeting.

Speakers:

Jerry White, Editorial Board, World Socialist Web Site
Tom Mackaman, Socialist Equality Party Candidate,
District 103 Rep, 2004


Sponsored by Students for Social Equality 
uiuc.socialequality at hotmail.com
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