[Peace-discuss] July 4th float -- okay, seriously...

[Jenifer Cartwright]

Ahhh, agreement among some/many of us posting to peace discuss!! Most of these are really good, Carl, tho' some (the last few) are too subtle, imho. But I think this is definitely the right approach for AWARE to take.
 --Jenifer 

--- On Sun, 5/24/09, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:


From: C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] July 4th float -- okay, seriously...
To: "Karen Medina" <kmedina67 at gmail.com>
Cc: "Peace-discuss" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Date: Sunday, May 24, 2009, 8:29 PM


Karen Medina wrote:
>> I have no desire to attack Lincoln.
> I'm happy to attack Lincoln outside of the parade. Just not in it.

I agree. The theme we're supposed to illustrate is "The Lasting Legacy of LINCOLN."

We should therefore accent those elements of Lincoln's thought that were anti-war (such as his opposition to the Mexican War) and anti-capitalist (such as his opposition to wage-slavery, at least as strong as his opposition to chattel slavery).

Here's an edited version of the suggestions I made before -- quotes from Lincoln & illustrative photos.  (I suggest we use a few, not all of them.)


    THE ANTI-WAR ANTI-RACISM EFFORT REMEMBERS
    LESSONS FROM LINCOLN ON WAR AND WORK

    ************************

    * "Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion ... and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
    [PHOTO = LIST OF COUNTRIES & DATE WE INVADED THEM (last 20 YEARS): PANAMA-1989 SOMALIA-1992 HAITI-1994 SERBIA-1999 AFGHANISTAN-2001 IRAQ-2003 PAKISTAN-2009]

    * "Teach all the folly of being the beginners of a war."
    [PHOTO = BUSH'S "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" BANNER]

    * "Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves"
    [PHOTO = GITMO, ABU GHRAIB, BAGRAM, ETC. ETC.]

    * No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
    [PHOTO = ISRAELI CHECK-POINT ON W. BANK]

    * I could not take an oath to get power, and break the oath in using the power.  [PHOTO = WIRETAPPING OR MILITARY TRIBUNAL]

    ************************

    * These capitalists have got into a quarrel with themselves, and we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
     [PHOTO = PAULSON, BERNANKE, GEITHNER]

    * Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
    [PHOTO = COALITION OF IMMOKALEE WORKERS]

    * With some the word liberty may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor.
    [PHOTO = HUGO CHAVEZ]

    * This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
    [PHOTO = ABBIE HOFFMAN OR NOAM CHOMSKY]

    * Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
    [PHOTO = HOWARD ZINN'S "PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE US"]

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