[Peace-discuss] (no subject)
"E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"
ewj at pigsqq.org
Sat May 11 01:13:50 UTC 2013
Ignorance, apathy, and entropy were the real enemies the last time I
checked.
But really I don't know what to do about them and quite frankly I don't
much care. I is so confused.
On 05/11/13 5:43, David Johnson wrote:
> So who are " our " real enemies Roger ?
> David Johnson
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Roger Helbig <mailto:rwhelbig at gmail.com>
> *To:* David Johnson <mailto:davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net>
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 09, 2013 7:22 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Peace-discuss] (no subject)
>
> Hope that these actions don't get infiltrated by our real enemies
> or are all these anarchist types and their foolish hangerons
> really the enemy!
>
>
> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 5:02 AM, David Johnson
> <davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net
> <mailto:davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net>> wrote:
>
> *by KEVIN ZEESE and MARGARET FLOWERS*
> *Yesterday, a media outlet contacted us to be on a show about
> how Occupy had “fizzled coming into this year’s May 1.” The
> media keeps looking for encampments or last year’s protests
> and is missing how popular resistance is growing and
> demonstrating all over the country.*
> *This year there were actions in many cities on May Day. On
> **Occupy Washington, DC** we have reports from **New York,
> NY**, **Denver, CO**, **Portland, OR** and **Richmond, VA** as
> a few examples among many.*
> *Allison Kilkenny, the movement writer for the Nation**, got
> it right when she wrote, “/Now is actually the time when the
> most exciting grassroots workers’ actions are taking place./”
> She points to the **low-wage worker**, **fast food** and
> **non-unionized** workers actions as examples. As you will see
> in this weekly report there are many more examples of the
> growing popular resistance.*
> *Kilkenny also points out that the FBI counter-terrorism unit
> in Washington State remains concerned and was interviewing
> activists about their plans for May Day. In the end, in
> Seattle, there was a mass peaceful march on immigration and an
> anti-capitalist march**marred by police violence and property
> destruction**.*
> *While a single day action can show breadth of support, we
> prefer campaigns to single day actions like May Day, because a
> campaign has the time to build, educate and energize more
> people. Here is news about a few recent campaigns:*
> *The **month long protests against drones** ended with actions
> on both coasts. At the Hancock Air National Guard Base in
> Syracuse, NY, the Upstate Coalition Against Drones organized a
> banner drop, conference, rally and mass protest. Bruce
> Gagnon, an antiwar activist who **works to keep weapons out of
> space** and serves as the **Green Shadow Cabinet**’s Secretary
> of Space, wrote **a thorough summary** of all of the events,
> and we added photos and a video of the banner drop. Bruce was
> one of the 31 arrested at Hancock who participated in a die-in
> after reading the names of victims of drones. And, at Beale
> Air Force Base in California, **protesters closed the
> base** for hours resulting in long lines of cars waiting to
> get in. Five people were arrested.*
> *The **month-long protests against the Guantanamo prison**,
> done in solidarity with the hunger strike at the prison, have
> raised awareness of the abusive detention without charges.
> They forced President Obama to address the issue, saying he
> would try again to close the prison (of course, under the law
> he could do a lot more than “try again”). And a petition put
> forward a few days ago by Col. Morris Davis, who served in the
> US Air Force for 25 years and was chief prosecutor for
> terrorism and trials at Guantanamo Bay for over two years, to
> close the base already has over 110,000 signers. Here is a
> **link so you can sign it.*
> *Related to these war crimes was the opening of the Bush
> LIE-bury. **Activists showed up in force** to let all the
> presidents know that many Americans oppose their policies of
> war and militarism. Dick Cheney was arrested! Actually, it
> was really Dennis Trainor, Jr. who was wearing a Dick Cheney
> costume. Dennis produced a **powerful mini-documentary of the
> Bush protest events**. And, Bradley Manning, the young man who
> blew the whistle on war crimes in the Bush and Obama
> administrations, created controversy after his selection as a
> grand marshal for a gay pride parade was rescinded by the
> board. The result: **protests against the group** and pressure
> to fire the chairman of the board.*
> *Environmental protests, which we **regularly report on in
> weekly newsletters**, continue. In New York, Dr. Sandra
> Steingraber and dozens of others who **protested a fracking
> waste storage facility** that will threaten their water supply
> and the health and safety of their community were **released
> from jail** ten days into their 15 day sentence. It was
> Steingraber’s first arrest for civil resistance. She voiced
> what many people are learning,*
> *“/I would do it again in a minute. …Being new to civil
> disobedience, I’m still learning about its power and its
> limitations… But I know this: all I had to do is sit in a
> six-by-seven-foot steel box in an orange jumpsuit and be
> mildly miserable, but the real power of it is to be able to
> shine a spotlight on the problem./”*
> *The power of protest has been evident in the effort to stop
> TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline. While the approval of the
> pipeline has looked like a sure thing in DC, the fact that
> **TransCanada has spent $280,000 lobbying** for the approval
> shows it is not a done deal. They’ve been bringing in high
> powered lobbyists connected to the State Department where the
> decision will be made. Lobbyists include former Secretary of
> State Hillary Clinton’s Deputy Campaign Manager for her 2008
> campaign, and a top grassroots organizer for the current
> Secretary of State John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign.
> This is **another sign** that we might be closer to success
> than we realize – keep the pressure on. Even if they approve
> the pipeline, that does not mean they will be able to build it
> if protests continue to escalate. See below for information on
> direct action training camps.*
> *Environmental destruction is one of the key issues that have
> led to an inspiring campaign in New York for the 400^th
> anniversary of the first treaty between the Native Indians
> and European settlers – **the Two Row Wampum Renewal
> Campaign**. The two parallel rows in the wampum record
> the agreement between two nations – Indian and European
> settlers – which include a three-part commitment to
> friendship, peace between peoples, and living in parallel
> forever—“/as long as the grass is green, as long as the rivers
> flow downhill and as long as the sun rises in the east and
> sets in the west./” This summer they are planning an epic
> canoe trip down the Hudson to renew the agreement, which has
> been repeatedly violated by the United States.*
> *The annual **shareholders meeting of Peabody Coal was
> protested** by a coalition of miners, environmentalists and
> Indians in Wyoming. Peabody, the world’s biggest coal
> company, has been subjected to **repeated**
> **protests** because it destroys the land, pollutes the air
> and water, adds carbon to the climate and steals worker’s
> pensions. Peabody moved its meeting from its headquarters in
> St. Louis to avoid protests, but found they couldn’t hide.
> The protest in Wyoming included the arrest of three people for
> dropping a banner and for holding a sign in the parking lot
> that said “Peabody Abandons Miners.”*
> *There are lots of upcoming events as part of the growing
> popular resistance:*
> *- On May 3, the movie **Occupy Love launched its tour** in
> New York, San Francisco, Los Angles, Seattle and other venues.*
> *- On May 8 there will be **nationwide protests against Bank
> of America** (Muckrock released FOIA documents this week
> showing how **BoA intelligence worked with DC police against
> Occupy Our Homes in DC**.)*
> *- On May 10 **National Day of Actions Against Corporate
> Personhood** organized by Move to Amend.*
> *- May 11 **Poor People’s Campaign March** from Baltimore to DC*
> *- May 18 to 23 The Home Defenders League and Campaign for a
> Fair Settlement are planning a **week of actions around
> foreclosure*
> *- May 18 **‘Operation Green Jobs’ March** From Philadelphia
> to Washington, DC begins
> *
> *- May 22 **Stop the Frack Attack People’s Forum** in
> Washington, DC*
> *- May 25 Day of protests against Monsanto, everywhere on May
> 25^th .*
> *- June 24 to 28 **Fearless Summer week of actions unites
> front line environmental movements*
> *- July 21 to 28 **Tar Sands Direct Action Training Camp in Utah*
> *- July 27 to August 9 **Epic Hudson River Canoe Trip** as
> part of the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign begins in Albany, NY.*
> *You can order or print **OccuCards** to bring with you to
> these actions. There are cards for all of the issues being
> protested above and new cards are being created.*
> *The popular resistance is growing. Historian Howard Zinn in
> the “**Coming Revolt of the Guards**” described a vision of
> how a broad popular resistance could bring change, and that is
> what we see growing in our midst:*
>
> *“The prospect is for times of turmoil, struggle, but also
> inspiration. There is a chance that such a movement could
> succeed in doing what the system itself has never
> done-bring about great change with little violence. This
> is possible because the more of the 99 percent that begin
> to see themselves as sharing needs, the more the guards
> and the prisoners see their common interest, the more the
> Establishment becomes isolated, ineffectual. The elite’s
> weapons, money, control of information would be useless in
> the face of a determined population. The servants of the
> system would refuse to work to continue the old, deadly
> order, and would begin using their time, their space-the
> very things given them by the system to keep them quiet-to
> dismantle that system while creating a new one.”*
>
> /*Kevin Zeese JD and Margaret Flowers MD co-host
> *//*ClearingtheFOGRadio.org*//* on We Act Radio 1480 AM
> Washington, DC and on*//*Economic Democracy Media*//*,
> co-direct *//*It’s Our Economy*//* and are organizers of the
> *//*Occupation of Washington, DC*//*. Their twitters are
> @KBZeese and @MFlowers8.*/
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