[Peace] Gulf War to Gulf Coast

[Brian Dolinar]

Here's an event Thursday held by my friend Tom Mackaman.
 
And to all the AWARE people, thanks for coming out to the Unity March.
It was a great showing of some beautiful faces.  
Thanks for all your support.  
 
Peace, BD
 

PUBLIC MEETING:

Hurricane Katrina, Iraq

 and the Struggle for Socialism

 

Thursday, 7pm, 111 Gregory Hall 

(corner of Wright and Armory, UIUC campus)

 

Hurricane Katrina was not only a natural disaster.  Instead, it cruelly revealed and magnified the social catastrophe that already existed in New Orleans-the result of decades of neglect of the civil and social infrastructure throughout the United States by Republican and Democratic administrations alike. The distress of the population, particularly the infirm, the poor and minorities, was met with troops armed to the teeth.

 

The hurricane brought to the surface the most essential feature of the capitalist system's profound crisis: the social deprivation faced by tens of millions of people in America and the vast gulf which divides the overwhelming majority of the people-those who must work for a wage-from a fabulously wealthy oligarchy that controls both major parties.

 

The negligence and indifference shown by the Bush administration toward the people of New Orleans mirrored the criminality and sadism of the US war in Iraq, which has now claimed the lives of over 100,000 Iraqis and nearly 2,000 US troops.  The use of force to lay hold of vital resources and markets has gone hand in hand with the destruction within the US of social programs and attacks on real wages to fund massive tax cuts for the rich. It is a policy of plunder at home and plunder abroad.

 

Opposition to war and the ever worsening social conditions facing millions of working people so graphically revealed by Katrina must take the form of a political struggle against the profit system-one that unites the working class of every country against a common enemy-and the two parties of big business that defend it. 

 

To discuss these fundamental issues, please make plans to attend Thursday's public meeting.

 

Speakers:

 


Jerry White, Editorial Board, World Socialist Web Site


Tom Mackaman, Socialist Equality Party Candidate, District 103 Rep, 2004

 

 


Sponsored by Students for Social Equality 


uiuc.socialequality at hotmail.com

 

 

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