[Peace-discuss] Fwd: CODE-RED: People for Revolution by Cindy
Sheehan
E. Wayne Johnson
ewj at pigs.ag
Mon Dec 15 14:53:34 CST 2008
Cindy, like the rest of us, must learn to avoid lashing out at those who
are on our side.
Code Pink is definitely not a "sit around and do-nothing outfit". But I
imagine that many of
us would look ridiculous in pink.
We do need a Revolution in values. Most of the people are not quite
awakened yet.
It's going to take some fairly well-orchestrated actions to be successful.
Morton K. Brussel wrote:
> Another rousing polemic by Cindy…, although one can disagree with her
> contempt for code pink actions. --mkb
>
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>> *From: *Cindy Sheehan <contact at cindyforcongress.org
>> <mailto:contact at cindyforcongress.org>>
>> *Date: *December 13, 2008 6:47:52 PM CST
>> *To: *brussel at uiuc.edu <mailto:brussel at uiuc.edu>
>> *Subject: **CODE-RED: People for Revolution by Cindy Sheehan*
>> *Reply-To: *email at cindyforcongress.org
>> <mailto:email at cindyforcongress.org>
>>
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>>
>> 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 <mailto:Cindy at CindyforCongress.org>
>>
>> Viva the Revolution!
>>
>> USA libre!
>> (Free the US)
>>
>> Hasta la vctoria siempre!
>> (Forever, until victory)
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