[Peace-discuss] Fwd: CODE-RED: People for Revolution by Cindy Sheehan

[Morton K. Brussel]

Another rousing polemic by Cindy…, although one can disagree with her  
contempt for code pink actions. --mkb


> From: Cindy Sheehan <contact at cindyforcongress.org>
> Date: December 13, 2008 6:47:52 PM CST
> To: brussel at uiuc.edu
> Subject: CODE-RED: People for Revolution by Cindy Sheehan
> Reply-To: email at cindyforcongress.org
>
>
> 	
> CODE-RED: People for Revolution!
>
> Cindy Sheehan
> That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men,  
> deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That  
> whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends,  
> it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to  
> institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles  
> and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most  
> likely to effect their safety and happiness.
> Preamble to the Declaration of Independence
>
> "An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers  
> cannot."
> Thomas Paine (Revolutionary)
> I was recently in Cuba to attend a Human Right's conference. Cuba  
> is a lovely country (with many problems still) that will be  
> celebrating 50 years of Revolution on January 1st of 2009.
>
> Cuba is struggling economically because there are limits to what a  
> tiny island nation can do, especially when the mightiest nation on  
> this planet sits menacingly to the north and has maintained a  
> blockade against trade and travel for many decades. The nation of  
> Cuba is struggling economically, but since they have been able to  
> survive (not quite thrive) after all this time gives the citizens  
> of Cuba a rightful pride and sense of unity that is not so apparent  
> in The Empire that has tried to crush them.
>
> The Revolution led by the Castro brothers, Che Guevara and many  
> other Cuban heroes overthrew the US puppet government in Havana led  
> by US proxy General Fulgencio Batista. The puppet government was  
> installed, in the US way, to protect US business interests in Cuba  
> over the impoverished Cuban people. At the time of the Revolution  
> 75% of Cuba's arable land was owned by US agri-businesses. The  
> Cuban-elite took hundreds of millions of dollars of wealth from the  
> country when they fled along with Batista. The Revolution to Cubans  
> not only means independence, but it means literacy, education,  
> healthcare, housing and, like I mentioned before, a great sense of  
> pride.
>
> Traveling back from Cuba, I was sitting on the cramped plane next  
> to a Bay Area elderly Chinese woman who was returning from a luxury  
> cruise to the Bahamas who asked me: "Why did you choose Cuba to  
> have a Human Right's Conference when their record on Human Right's  
> is not transparent?" Well, first of all, that is not entirely true,  
> but secondly, I asked her if we should have had the conference in  
> the US, when our record on Human Right's is atrocious. It is hard  
> to criticize one nation when your own country is operating a  
> medieval style torture prison on that country's soil.
>
> The Revolution did not choose to isolate itself from the US; the US  
> is the one who hypocritically has full relations with Communist  
> China and Communist Vietnam, but not with one of our neighbors.  
> Cuba has full and friendly diplomatic relations with over 180  
> countries, the US and Israel being the most glaring exceptions.  
> Cuba has relations with Canada, Great Britain, Switzerland,  
> Germany, Italy, France and many other first world nations that the  
> US also enjoys full diplomatic relations with---the embargo or  
> blockade begin to make less and less sense when our allies do not  
> join in the anti-Cuban rhetoric of our Robber class.
>
> The Cuban Revolution is fresh and new in relation to the US  
> Revolution against the British that began over 232 years ago and  
> the British were defeated in 1781, only to return 31 years later to  
> try and reclaim what they had lost. 50 years into the American  
> Revolution, our nation was being divided by the stain of immoral  
> African slavery and today, we are being divided by our Robber class  
> who are steadily impoverishing the rest of us to effectively  
> destroy the middle-class and put us all into the very hard working- 
> poor class. The wars of aggression that the US has been waging for  
> 60 years (constantly and covertly in Latin America) have  
> contributed to the strength of the Robber class and the weakness of  
> our economy and standing around the world.
>
> Despite an Obama victory, many people in our nation are fed up to  
> nearly bursting with empty rhetoric and change only for the worse.  
> Obama will be a successful President if you belong to the Robber  
> class, but there are millions of us who know that the Robber class  
> only exists to perpetuate its sick-self and will stop at nothing  
> until it has reduced the US to a 3rd world nation populated by  
> citizens who have X-Boxes and computers, bought on credit, but no  
> money to pay for the electricity to run them.
>
> The Robber class won't stop until millions more people lose their  
> homes and are put out into the streets. Millions of homes already  
> stand vacant and in disrepair while potential occupants are  
> freezing on the cold streets or in tent cities.
>
> The Robber class won't stop until all unions are busted and those  
> who do have jobs are working for pittances. Why was it so important  
> for Congress to bailout the banksters who are raping our country  
> for millions while Congress and the "Big 3" collude to make sure  
> any bailout of the auto industry insures that workers will be harmed?
>
> In the final death-throes of our Empire and the eventual total  
> collapse of our economy, who will be the winners and who will be  
> the losers? Will we restructure in the way Cuba did? Will our  
> "leaders" make sure that every American is educated, housed and  
> taken care of medically? Or will the Robber class continue to  
> function in the way they always have? In their protected mansions  
> under heavy guard living in the style they have been accustomed to,  
> while we, their complacent financiers suffer unspeakable hardship?
>
> It is up to us. We are the sovereigns in this country. Will we  
> continue to dress in pink, sing cutesy songs and drop frilly pink  
> banners off of buildings hoping that our pink energy will waft up  
> to the Robbers and overcome them with integrity, or will we  
> rediscover our Revolutionary roots and start demanding a more  
> equitable redistribution of the wealth and resources (and not just  
> here in the US).
> The Declaration of Independence also says that EVERYONE is created  
> equal with certain "inalienable" rights: The right to life, liberty  
> and the pursuit of happiness." These rights are "inalienable" for  
> everyone, not just for The Empire's Robber class. Rights should not  
> pit one human against another or rob most people of their  
> prosperity and security to give an overabundance to so few.
>
> I am calling all patriots for humanity without borders to join me!
>
> Oh no, is Cindy Sheehan calling for an armed revolution to  
> overthrow a "Democratically" elected government? As if We the  
> People ever get to vote on our choices for President, anyway---the  
> Robber class chooses Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dumdum for us. No, I  
> am not calling, nor ever will call for violence. We saw a militant,  
> yet peaceful action, win in Chicago this week when the demands of  
> the plant workers were met.
>
> Together, over 300,000,000 of us have untapped and almost infinite  
> power for change here in the States. If we could channel this into  
> what Martin Luther King, Jr. called a "Revolution of values," we  
> could overthrow the Robber class without a shot being fired from  
> our side.
>
> What if the shrinking working class all decided to stop paying our  
> Federal taxes? What if we organized in every Congressional district  
> and state to overthrow our Robber class government by huge  
> electoral majorities?
>
> What if we organized to throw monkey wrenches in the cogs of the US  
> war machine by sustained actions against military recruitment  
> centers, ports and bases all over the country like activists did in  
> the Port of Seattle and active duty soldiers did during Vietnam?
>
> Millions of jobs have been lost and off-shored since George took  
> office. What if this Revolution of Values organized to support one  
> another in these sustained actions for true change? What if the  
> workers took over every plant and started on the path to clean,  
> renewable and sustainable forms of energy, farming, and  
> transportation?
>
> We can do it, in reality, but it will take millions of us committed  
> to the Revolution like the millions of people in Cuba have been for  
> decades.
>
> CODE-RED: People for Revolution, is a nascent idea that will take  
> organization and commitment from We the People who remember our  
> Revolutionary roots and want profound, revolutionary change.
>
> If you would like to join, or organize in your area, please email  
> me at: Cindy at CindyforCongress.org
>
> Viva the Revolution!
>
> USA libre!
> (Free the US)
>
> Hasta la vctoria siempre!
> (Forever, until victory)
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