[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Now Obama's in, is anti-war anti-racism activism out?

[C. G. Estabrook]

[I received the following note from an interested observer of AWARE. --CGE]

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Subject: Now Obama's in, is anti-war anti-racism activism out?
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:41:42 -0600
From: J.B. Nicholson-Owens <jbn at forestfield.org>

Has AWARE's Obama tiffs been settled in favor of opposing his positions on:

   - continued occupation of Afghanistan
   - continued occupation of Iraq
   - continued saber-rattling against Iran
   - war with Pakistan
   - shuffling troops around (possibly augmenting low troop levels with
more mercenaries?) instead of bringing all troops, American
corporations, and mercenaries home
   - supporting the death penalty while noting its racist application

It's my understanding that President-elect Obama holds all of these
positions and that an anti-war anti-racism group would oppose all of them.

The AWARE website isn't clear that they actually oppose what Obama
stands for.

Maybe it's too soon to expect updates.  Also, I didn't bother to dig
into the email list archives (I figured I'd find debates-in-progress
there).  I looked at the front page of http://www.anti-war.net/ and
nothing particularly anti-Obama-war-ish stood out.  I could have
overlooked something.

It would be great to know that it doesn't matter who continues the war,
or who continues to give the state an exception on killing for
punishment: AWARE will oppose them.  I miss the cogent truly anti-war
anti-racism position statement I copied and linked to from my blog some
months ago.

Thanks.