From stuartnlevy at gmail.com Fri Jun 1 11:41:28 2018 From: stuartnlevy at gmail.com (Stuart Levy) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 06:41:28 -0500 Subject: [Peace] #FamiliesBelongTogether - ACLU rally noon *today* 6/1 at US Attorney's Office in Urbana Message-ID: <59231ec3-ab17-a578-65e7-309d22540d8f@gmail.com> #FamiliesBelongTogether Rally noon *today*, Friday 6/1 US Attorney's Office in Urbana 201 S Vine St, Suite 226 RSVP here:     https://go.peoplepower.org/event/action_attend/14164 >From ACLU People Power.   They write: We need to raise our voices against the key actors who are carrying out Trump’s family separation order: ICE and U.S. Attorneys. ICE apprehends and separates families while US Attorneys enforce the separation in legal proceedings. We need to stand up against this incompetence and the moral abomination of family separation. We're excited to be partnering with the National Domestic Workers Alliance, MomsRising, United We Dream, MoveOn and many others to hold family-friendly rallies across the country. Bring your friends, wheel your stroller on over, grab your lunch boxes, and make your family's voice heard loud and clear, that #FamiliesBelongTogether. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bjornsona at ameritech.net Fri Jun 1 15:51:10 2018 From: bjornsona at ameritech.net (bjornsona at ameritech.net) Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 10:51:10 -0500 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] #FamiliesBelongTogether - ACLU rally noon *today* 6/1 at US Attorney's Office in Urbana Message-ID: Sorry to hitch onto this thread. Is AWARE holding regular Ist Saturday of month protest in downtown Champaign tomorrow, June 2? We discussed it at last Sundays AWARE meeting. Attendees were Don, Genevieve, Doug, Anne Bj. (Hope I have names and spelling correct!) Consensus on Sunday seemed to be yes. Question was- is there something else going on downtown that might interfere with protest? Also do we need a flyer? Suggestion on flyer: "Do All Lives Matter?" What about Native Americans? "   Sent from my LG Phoenix 2, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone ------ Original message------From: Stuart Levy via Peace-discussDate: Fri, Jun 1, 2018 6:42 AMTo: Peace;Cc: Subject:[Peace-discuss] #FamiliesBelongTogether - ACLU rally noon *today* 6/1 at US Attorney's Office in Urbana #FamiliesBelongTogether Rally noon *today*, Friday 6/1 US Attorney's Office in Urbana 201 S Vine St, Suite 226 RSVP here:     https://go.peoplepower.org/event/action_attend/14164 From ACLU People Power.   They write: We need to raise our voices against the key actors who are carrying out Trump’s family separation order: ICE and U.S. Attorneys. ICE apprehends and separates families while US Attorneys enforce the separation in legal proceedings. We need to stand up against this incompetence and the moral abomination of family separation. We're excited to be partnering with the National Domestic Workers Alliance, MomsRising, United We Dream, MoveOn and many others to hold family-friendly rallies across the country. Bring your friends, wheel your stroller on over, grab your lunch boxes, and make your family's voice heard loud and clear, that #FamiliesBelongTogether. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Jun 1 19:07:22 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 19:07:22 +0000 Subject: [Peace] The NYT's and the murder that wasn't Message-ID: * Print * Leaflet * Feedback * Share » The New York Times and the murder that wasn’t By Andre Damon 1 June 2018 On Tuesday, the right-wing Ukrainian regime reported that Arkady Babchenko, a Russian journalist living in Kiev and a vocal critic of the Kremlin, had been shot dead in his apartment building. Kiev immediately pointed the finger at Moscow, with Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroysman declaring that “the Russian totalitarian machine” was responsible for the journalist’s murder. Within minutes, the news flashed across the globe, becoming a lead story in major news outlets in Europe and the United States, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian and the BBC. The Mighty Wurlitzer of American propaganda began belching vast amounts of hot air. In every report, the announcement of the murder was accompanied with the conclusion that the Russian government was behind it: that is, the US media outlets announced a murder mystery and its solution simultaneously. The New York Times’ star reporter, Andrew Higgins, declared, “The killing of the journalist, Arkady Babchenko, a former war correspondent who stirred fury among Russian nationalists with his sharply critical coverage, is the latest in a series of attacks, many of them fatal, on outspoken foes of President Vladimir V. Putin, both inside Russia and beyond.” Higgins, who in 2014 was forced to retract a story featuring falsified photographs of Russian troops entering Ukrainian territory, placed the murder in a long list of alleged crimes by the Putin regime, including the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal earlier this year, and the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014. In their coverage, the Times and other major newspapers relied on a script they have used repeatedly: A prominent critic of the Kremlin dies or is injured abroad, and Moscow is immediately blamed. Any effort by Russia to deny these claims, or even to challenge the accusations, are treated as more evidence of a malevolent Kremlin plot. But at the height of the international furor over the murder, the unexpected took place: the corpse of Babchenko made a dramatic reappearance at a press conference called by the Ukrainian police, and the journalist announced that he had dramatically faked his own death. Looking back on the story, it would not have taken more than a careful examination of the photo of Babchenko’s corpse released by Kiev—which showed the journalist slumped over in a puddle of a liquid resembling ketchup—to know that something was amiss. But the American press responded to the resurrection of Babchenko by trying to find another way to incriminate the Kremlin. Typical was the editorial published by the New York Times Thursday, headlined, “Whatever It Was, We Didn’t Do It.” “After news came from Kiev on Tuesday that a Russian journalist critical of Vladimir Putin had been shot dead, it did not take long for the Kremlin’s denial machinery to shift into high gear,” the Times wrote, complaining that the Kremlin had the audacity to deny that it was complicit in a murder that never took place. In other words, the Times sought to shift the story to the Kremlin’s “denial machine,” instead of what the incident has exposed about the lies peddled by the Times. What really stands exposed is the propaganda machine operated by James Bennet, the editorial page editor of the Times, who manipulates the news in the service of the intelligence agencies to promote war abroad and political repression at home. For Bennet, when one lie is exposed, the time has come to reply with an even bigger lie. Every editorial published in the online edition of the New York Times includes a note that the editorial section “is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section.” Nothing could be further from the truth: In fact, they are generally indistinguishable. The Times routinely places stories on its news page that consist entirely of unsubstantiated claims and speculation, which then becomes the basis for the editorials promoting war and domestic repression. For more than a year and a half, the US media has been engaged in a campaign against what they call “fake news” allegedly spread by Russia and its sympathizers. In the name of this campaign, the major media outlets, leading politicians, and the US intelligence agencies have justified the imposition of the most sweeping regime of internet censorship in US history, deleting thousands of social media accounts, silencing oppositional viewpoints, and burying left-wing news sites in search results. But the fraud of Arkady Babchenko’s murder has shown who the real purveyors of “fake news” are: not the oppositional news sites targeted for censorship, but the newsrooms of the mainstream press in New York, Washington and London. Andre Damon WSWS.ORG -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Jun 2 13:27:26 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2018 13:27:26 +0000 Subject: [Peace] AWARE ANTI War Demonstration Today. Message-ID: Join us, downtown today to protest the current wars and potential wars the US is provoking. 2:00 - 4:00pm The corner of Church and Neil Streets. Signs available. From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Jun 2 22:41:50 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2018 22:41:50 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Watchdog Training in Champaign Message-ID: [https://bettergov.salsalabs.org/c22660d9-9355-4116-a480-a93dd34d93f3/c753de73-4369-428f-ac05-c558b15f51cd.jpg] Watchdog Training: Champaign BGA Watchdog Training teaches you how to keep an eye on government and find out what’s happening in your community. In this training, experts will help you understand government, the Open Meetings Act and the Freedom of Information Act. This training is in collaboration with Illinois Green Party, Prairie Chapter*. It is free and open to the public. For more information, call Annum Haider at (312) 821-9031 or email at ahaider at bettergov.org. Special thanks to the McCormick Foundation for supporting BGA civic engagement programming. *This is a nonpartisan training. The BGA is nonpartisan nonprofit organization and is not affiliated with Illinois Green Party, Prairie Chapter. REGISTER DATE & TIME Wednesday, June 27, 2018 6:00 PM CDT - 8:00 PM CDT LOCATION Champaign Public Library Auditorium 200 W. Green St. Champaign, IL 61820 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Jun 2 22:54:28 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2018 22:54:28 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Watchdog Training in Champaign References: Message-ID: Please register: https://bettergov.salsalabs.org/illinoisgreenparty/index.html [https://bettergov.salsalabs.org/c22660d9-9355-4116-a480-a93dd34d93f3/c753de73-4369-428f-ac05-c558b15f51cd.jpg] Watchdog Training: Champaign BGA Watchdog Training teaches you how to keep an eye on government and find out what’s happening in your community. In this training, experts will help you understand government, the Open Meetings Act and the Freedom of Information Act. This training is in collaboration with Illinois Green Party, Prairie Chapter*. It is free and open to the public. For more information, call Annum Haider at (312) 821-9031 or email at ahaider at bettergov.org. Special thanks to the McCormick Foundation for supporting BGA civic engagement programming. *This is a nonpartisan training. The BGA is nonpartisan nonprofit organization and is not affiliated with Illinois Green Party, Prairie Chapter. REGISTER DATE & TIME Wednesday, June 27, 2018 6:00 PM CDT - 8:00 PM CDT LOCATION Champaign Public Library Auditorium 200 W. Green St. Champaign, IL 61820 _______________________________________________ Peace mailing list Peace at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bjornsona at ameritech.net Mon Jun 4 15:24:47 2018 From: bjornsona at ameritech.net (bjornsona at ameritech.net) Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2018 10:24:47 -0500 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] A 'doubtless very different' revolution Message-ID: <8s26u11um7dphcbml29fc367.1528125661488@email.lge.com> And the article about Cambridge Analytica''s parent group conducting surveillance and interference in other countries that Karen Aram submitted to the peace discuss list just after this, is just one example of the barbarism, immorality etc. in this age. Sent from my LG Phoenix 2, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone ------ Original message------From: Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discussDate: Mon, Jun 4, 2018 8:22 AMTo: peace-discuss at anti-war.net;Cc: Peace;Subject:[Peace-discuss] A 'doubtless very different' revolution “It is always dangerous to draw too precise parallels between one historical period and another; and among the most misleading of such parallels are those which have been drawn between our own age in Europe and North America and the epoch in which the Roman Empire declined into the Dark Ages. None the less certain parallels there are. A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of shoring up the Roman imperium and ceased to identify the continuation of civility and moral community with the maintenance of that imperium. What they set themselves to achieve instead—often not recognising fully what they were doing—was the construction of new forms of community within which the moral life could be sustained so that both morality and civility might survive the coming ages of barbarism and darkness. If my account of our moral condition is correct [one characterized by moral incoherence and unsettlable moral disputes in the modern world], we ought to conclude that for some time now we too have reached that turning point. What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us. And if the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not entirely without grounds for hope. This time however the barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time. And it is our lack of consciousness of this that constitutes part of our predicament. We are waiting not for a Godot, but for another—doubtless very different—St. Benedict.” – Alasdair MacIntyre, in 'After Virtue,' thirty-five years ago -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From davidgreen50 at gmail.com Mon Jun 4 19:52:24 2018 From: davidgreen50 at gmail.com (David Green) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 14:52:24 -0500 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Pepe is correct & Bannon mostly so In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Very interesting; but the more the word nationalism gets used from various persuasions, whether positively or pejoratively, the less it seems to mean in a consistent way; but nationalism has always been a kind of fiction, as Eric Hobsbawm and others taught us; as well as a political football, perhaps relevant as the World Cup approaches and we see that national identity is a given in the most crass and chauvinistic terms. On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 9:57 PM, Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss < peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156331653311678&set=a. > 10150294029661678.381794.775051677&type=3&theater > > ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME – AGAIN > > Steve Bannon is absolutely bonkers with what’s goin’ on in Italy. La > Repubblica calls him “the Dark Knight of global populism”. He talked to the > paper (portal). Here’s the low down. > > For Bannon, “Rome is now at the center of world politics” (correct). He > has “advised” La Lega’s Salvini, and said they paid due attention. > > He’s enthusiastic that Lega and 5S “hit the heart of the European beast” > (correct), foreign capitals and “foreign opposition media” (FT, Le Monde, > etc.). He considers Salvini and Di Maio “heroic” – and the other hero is > Berlusconi (not really). On 5S, he says they are “similar to socialist > Sanders in the US”, anti-establishment and for transparency. And are allies > to Italy’s “Trump” – referring to Salvini. > > He’s sure “Brussels, the stock market and the financial powers will go > through hell” (correct). > > For Bannon, Italy is “a sleeping giant, with a huge economy” (correct). > Brussels and media like the FT are “afraid of Italy” (true – the FT even > invoked “barbarians”). > > He expects a “confederation of free states” to emerge in place of the > current EU (not so fast). “The fascists are in Brussels” (relatively > correct). And “we are on the right side of history; Merkel and Macron will > fall” (not so fast). > > Trump is “back to his national-populist agenda” and “things could not be > better for the US” (incorrect). Especially now that “the military have been > sidelined from the administration” (but not the deep state – on the > contrary). He thinks Pompeo could become President one day (Lord have > mercy). > > Bannon thinks the Judeo-Christian West must be united – thus no Russia > demonization. He stresses Russia’s economy is smaller than Italy’s > (correct). “The problem is Russia is hated by the Democrats because is a > nationalist country and they have the Orthodox Church (fundamentally > correct). “The real problem is Iran” (ridiculous). > > Well, as you can see the man IS on a roll. > > ### > > > _______________________________________________ > Peace-discuss mailing list > Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Tue Jun 5 20:10:26 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 20:10:26 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: June 23 rally at Drury Inn: ICE Out of CU! References: Message-ID: Hi all, We have a Facbook page up ready to go Gracias, BD https://www.facebook.com/events/215642742564958/ -- Brian Dolinar, Ph.D. briandolinar.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Thu Jun 7 11:06:14 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 11:06:14 +0000 Subject: [Peace] US WAR CRIMES IN SYRIA EXPOSED Message-ID: * Print * Leaflet * Feedback * Share » US war crimes in Syria exposed 7 June 2018 The United States committed war crimes of staggering proportions last year during its four-month-long siege of the Syrian city of Raqqa, demolishing up to 80 percent of the city with an unrelenting blitzkrieg of bombs and artillery shells that killed hundreds of civilians. The devastation left behind by the US military and its proxy troops in the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces was detailed in a damning report published this week by Amnesty International grimly titled “War of Annihilation.” Defense Secretary James “Mad Dog” Mattis routinely used the phrase when describing the effort to take control of the city from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The US dropped thousands of bombs on Raqqa and shelled the city with 30,000 artillery rounds in just five months. The population of Raqqa and its surrounding villages have been reduced from a pre-war total of 340,000 to less than 100,000. Most of those who fled the city are unable to return as most homes and critical infrastructure have been damaged or destroyed. Those who have returned face the prospect of being blown apart by unexploded bombs and missiles dropped by the US and its allies or landmines set by ISIS. While the US has been officially waging war in Syria to defeat ISIS, the report notes that artillery and airstrikes continued to pound civilian areas even as a deal was struck which allowed thousands of the group’s members to evacuate the city. With at least 2,000 US troops currently illegally occupying Syria, Washington’s ultimate aim is to overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad and install a regime which is more pliant to the needs of American imperialism. Amnesty’s researchers interviewed more than 100 survivors and surveyed the sites of 42 US airstrikes across the city, providing a sense of the death and destruction wrought by last year’s onslaught. The human rights group spoke to the Badrans, a family that lost 39 of its members, most of them women and children, to four separate US air strikes as they scrambled to find shelter. The commander in charge of the assault boasted at its height that the attack on Raqqa was “the most precise air campaign in history.” The Pentagon has absurdly claimed that it killed fewer than 500 civilians in 2017 in all its various military operations across the globe, admitting to just 32 civilian deaths in Raqqa. A report by the Associated Press in April found that close to 500 corpses had been pulled from the rubble and that hundreds of bodies were still being uncovered many months after the siege had ended. Airwars, which closely tracks airstrikes by the US and its allies in Syria and Iraq, has documented 1,400 civilian casualties resulting from US airstrikes in Raqqa. Unlike the hysteria generated over the fake gas attack in Douma earlier this year, the revelations of widespread war crimes carried out by the US and its allies in Raqqa, as with the assault itself, have been treated as a non-event by the corporate media. Neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post, the political establishment’s two main newspapers of record, carried any mention of the Amnesty report in their print editions. Times columnists Nicholas Kristof and Thomas Friedman, who both jump at any opportunity to denounce with the utmost moral outrage alleged atrocities carried out by the Assad regime or Russian forces in order to clamor for an escalation of US “humanitarian” intervention, apparently caught a joint case of writer’s block. The editorialists and commentators in the American media, by and large, argue that Trump has not gone far enough in Syria, and that the US wars and occupations which have been raging for more than 15 years must be expanded to counter any challenge by Russia and Iran to US domination over the Middle East. Amid the never-ending mudslinging over Trump’s supposed collusion with the Russians to win the 2016 election, all sides agree that the wars for complete control over the region’s oil reserves must continue and in fact be expanded, regardless of the cost in civilian lives. The media’s failure to report on the atrocities in Raqqa and its coverup of Amnesty’s findings make them complicit in these crimes. They have made a deliberate decision to conceal from the American people the scope of the crimes carried out in their name in an effort to block the development of broad antiwar sentiments into a politically conscious movement against imperialist war. A critical role in this effort is played by the pseudo-left, including organizations calling themselves “socialist” who work tirelessly to justify imperialist intervention. The International Socialist Organization has routinely attacked those who oppose the US war in Syria and Washington’s so-called “rebel” proxy forces. They have responded to the repeated illegal missile strikes by President Trump on the Assad government, which could have sparked a war with nuclear-armed Russia, by charging that they did not go far enough, while complaining that both Obama and Trump have failed to do enough to arm the Al Qaeda-linked “rebels” unleashed upon Syria. Similarly, the Pabloite International Viewpoint published a statement this week calling for a renewal of the war for regime change in Syria, claiming that the US and its imperialist allies have “refused to allow the democratic components of the uprising to defend themselves…,” meaning that the US has not bombed Syria enough or delivered a sufficient amount of weaponry to their proxy forces. The ever-compliant media has worked with the Pentagon to falsely portray its wars as bloodless surgical operations in which terrorists are being killed with precision bombs, while in fact the bodies of the innocents continue to pile up. The US effort to retake Mosul in Iraq from ISIS in 2016 and 2017 killed as many as 40,000 civilians, according to an estimate by Iraqi Kurdish intelligence, while more than a million people were displaced. The three-year-old Saudi-led war in Yemen, backed by US special forces on the ground, has killed over 13,000 civilians and threatens more than 18 million with starvation. And now the Trump administration is considering more directly joining the Yemen war, while preparing for a far more dangerous military confrontation with Iran, placing millions more civilians in the crosshairs. Niles Niemuth WSWS.ORG -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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[http://www.wsws.org/asset/81942480-67b2-4e6d-8f04-a3418972f08O/image.jpg?rendition=image480]Mercedes Witnesses described a scene of total criminality. “They came with donuts,” said Mercedes, a Corso’s worker. “They got all of us into the same area telling us they were officials doing a routine inspection. When we all gathered, they encircled us and took the badges out. They had dogs, helicopters, assault rifles and helmets. We were all crying.” Another source told the WSWS that some agents were disguised as construction workers. Nearby residents said they could hear the raid from their homes. Other witnesses said workers who are US citizens denounced immigration agents at the scene, yelling at them and imploring them to stop. Workers said immigration officials detained several US citizen workers to prevent them from calling co-workers and warning them about the raid. Agents also reportedly ordered documented immigrant workers to bring their passports to work from now on. The workers said they would do no such thing. Last night, dozens of devastated family members gathered at a church in nearby Norwalk. For many, it was the first time they had seen each other since the raid. The room was full of people fighting against time and desperate for information, and most had not even spoken to their detained relatives who were shipped to facilities hours away. Not only do family and friends fear separation by deportation, they are also aware of the deadly possibility of being loaded onto unmarked airplanes destined for violent Central American countries devastated by more than a century of US imperialist exploitation, dictatorship and war. An untold number of children are now parentless. Jerry, an 18-year-old US citizen whose mother was taken in the raid, is now responsible for his younger sister and brother, aged 9 and 12. [http://www.wsws.org/asset/612007a7-0331-4386-b3c2-3d04e9a6f20H/image.jpg?rendition=image480]Jerry with his younger brother and sister “When I received that call I rushed over [to Corso’s] to see my mom,” he said. “I couldn’t. I was detained…. An agent told me to pull over. He handcuffed me and wouldn’t let me see my mom. I saw the bus she was in. It was 20 feet away, but it had tinted windows and I couldn’t see in. I’m thinking that my mom saw me but I couldn’t see her. “It was a horrible experience that no one should experience. Just because my mom is an illegal immigrant trying to support her family in this country, it’s horrible. They treated them like they’re worthless. I saw officers with assault rifles, dogs and helicopters everywhere.” Jerry said he had been saving money to go to college by working in construction from a young age. “But now this has happened I’m going to use some of that money to support my brother and sister.” [http://www.wsws.org/asset/7af698ab-ab9f-47bd-b912-b4adbf2933fP/image.jpg?rendition=image480]Flor and her relative Flor, a high school student whose mother was also arrested Tuesday, said, “I was at work. I was getting phone calls and messages from her. I felt bad because I couldn’t answer the phone because I was too busy working. I finally called her back and she was yelling and screaming: ‘They took me! They took me! Immigration got me!’” Corso’s workers also denounced the raids. One worker, Jerome, told the WSWS, “These are good, hardworking people. They are my friends. I knew these people. I go over to their houses and we have parties together. You can’t fault them for trying to better their lives, for coming here. People are starving where they come from. I’d risk my life to come here too.” Another worker said, “It was chaos. It was horrible what happened because people have children and they didn’t know what to do with them. These are hardworking people and it’s not fair. The women were all crying because they have kids too. I’ve known them for years, they’re hardworking and they’re just trying to better their lives.” A third worker said, “Some kids will now be put into foster care. They had dogs here. There was no way for anyone to hide. They don’t deserve it. They work hard for their families. They were good workers, if they saw you needed help they would offer it to you.” Many Corso’s workers reported that they often worked 80 to 90 hours a week. [http://www.wsws.org/asset/b29ae70f-1056-4672-99e7-126e51fe776A/image.jpg?rendition=image480]Families at the Norwalk meeting Ohio ACLU representative J. Bennett Guess gave a statement to the WSWS: “It was abhorrent the way they were detained, especially without regard for the children. Children were left at daycare centers. These are extremely hard working, low-wage workers who are highly exploited. What happened is a travesty of justice. What we are witnessing is the systematic dismantling of due process by every administration, Democratic and Republican alike.” He added that this was of extreme concern for all, regardless of immigration status: “How you treat your non-citizens is how you will treat your citizens.” Many workers have stories of close calls. Some, including a family of five, have moved out of their home for fear they will be hunted down by ICE. Others reported having family who are too afraid to leave their homes. As these horrific scenes play out, both the Democratic and Republican parties are calling for added “border security”—a term which means more ICE and CBP agents patrolling the country and terrorizing immigrants. Earlier this year, the Democrats supported a Trump-backed bill to hand hundreds of millions of dollars in additional funding to ICE. Some present at yesterday’s Norwalk meeting said they had family and friends who had previously been deported by the Obama administration. Tuesday’s Gestapo-style raid is a warning to the entire working class. The US government is asserting the “right” to launch military raids on workplaces, dragging workers off the job and shipping them away from their families. What is to stop the government from using the same tactic against striking teachers, hauling them off to detention centers when their strikes are made “illegal” by the corporate-controlled courts? If autoworkers protest workplace injuries or line speed, why wouldn’t the government send police in to arrest the “troublemakers” and try to make the problem disappear? The trade unions have done nothing to oppose the establishment of dictatorial conditions in America’s workplaces. Instead, they pit workers against each other based on poisonous nationalism, telling workers in the US that their enemies are not the corporations and the government but workers in Mexico or China. New, rank-and-file committees must be built to protect even the most basic workplace rights of all workers, immigrant and non-immigrant alike. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Jun 8 00:41:18 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 00:41:18 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Attack on Ajamu Baraka at the Left Forum Message-ID: At the recent Left Forum on New York City, a small group of people handed out a flyer attacking Ajamu Baraka of the Black Alliance for Peace for his political orientation on Syria and other issues and held a demonstration at the final plenary session when he started speaking. UNAC has issued the following statement in defense of Ajamu and Black Alliance for Peace, a valued member of UNAC UNAC defense of anti-imperialism 6/6/18 Two organizations used Ajamu Baraka's presence at the recent Left Forum in order to attack anti-imperialism itself. They falsely accuse him of being a defender of genocide and a Donald Trump supporter as a ruse to hide their support of imperialism as carried out not just in Syria but around the world. Ajamu Baraka's history of activism and his role as National Organizer and National Spokesperson for the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) demonstrate a commitment to democracy, justice, and the rights of all people to self-determination. United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) is a partner with BAP on initiatives such as the Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases. BAP is also represented on the UNAC Coordinating Committee. The two groups work together because we share the same determination to end U.S. state sponsored violence wherever it is carried out. In just one year since its founding, the Black Alliance for Peace has made great strides in reviving the black radical tradition of opposing "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world." While the lies and vitriol directed at Ajamu Baraka were not strictly personal they were in essence attacks carried out against this black led movement as well. BAP's success in a short period of time make it a target of faux leftists whose goal is to legitimize U.S. foreign policy while cynically appearing to oppose it. The attempt to silence a leading black anti-war organization is therefore racist and makes their actions all the more insidious. These organizations reveal themselves to be supporters of the U.S. hegemon, telling slanderous falsehoods in order to hide their true political stance. They have a history of disrupting anti-war actions and forums hosted by UNAC and others whenever an anti-imperialist position on Syria or other issues are being discussed. UNAC stands with everyone who is clear about the necessity of ending the U.S. goal of reaching full spectrum dominance in Syria and everywhere. As such it is vital for us to stand with Black Alliance for Peace and against any effort to denounce its work and its leadership. 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URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Jun 8 15:09:50 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 15:09:50 +0000 Subject: [Peace] The best thing you will hear, from Paul Street, Glen Ford, Bruce Dixon and Chris Hedges Message-ID: https://www.leftforum.org/events/imagining-authentic-21st-century-us-left -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org Fri Jun 8 21:30:15 2018 From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman) Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 16:30:15 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Let's ask Rodney Davis to support Trump's diplomacy with North Korea Message-ID: In the all the time that Rodney Davis has been my Representative, he hasn't done one single thing I've asked him to do on war and peace, even when it was bipartisan, even when it was simply a matter of saying that the President should comply with the War Powers Clause of the Constitution and the War Powers Resolution, which is U.S. law. Let's give Rodney Davis the slowest pitch imaginable. Let's ask him to issue a public statement in support of President Trump's diplomacy with North Korea. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Just Foreign Policy Date: Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 3:57 PM Subject: Stand w/ Ro Khanna: Dems should back Trump diplomacy w/ N. Korea To: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org [image: Just Foreign Policy] Dear Robert, *Stand with Ro Khanna. Dems shouldn't oppose N. Korea diplomacy just because Trump is POTUS. Sign the petition Retweet Ro's tweet * A key reason that we have too much war is that too many Democrats and Republicans opportunistically support unconstitutional wars whenever the President belongs to their party and too many Democrats and Republicans opportunistically oppose diplomacy whenever the President belongs to the other party. Now, some Senate Democrats are opportunistically opposing U.S. diplomacy with North Korea - which Democrats have long supported - just because Donald Trump, a Republican, is President. California Democratic Rep. *Ro Khanna* and liberal *New York Times* columnist *Nick Kristof* are calling out these Senate Democrats for their shameful opportunism. Kristof wrote : "*partisan petulance seems to be turning some Democrats into spoilers*." Rep. Khanna said : "*. at NickKristof⁩ is right that Democrats should support Trump’s efforts of engagement and diplomacy with North Korea. ⁦@SenSchumer⁩ is simply wrong on this issue. Democrats should learn from the blunder of the Iraq war.*⁦" In addition to Schumer, Democratic senators who signed a letter insisting on conditions for a deal that North Korea specialist Joel Wit of the Stimson Center called "*a prescription for failure because no one could achieve the conditions*" were *Sherrod Brown, Dick Durbin, Dianne Feinstein, Patrick Leahy, Robert Menendez *and* Mark Warner*. *Tell your Senators and Representative to stand with Ro Khanna and Nick Kristof in opposing this shameful Democratic partisan opportunism that threatens diplomacy by signing our petition . * Thanks for all you do to help make U.S. foreign policy more just, Robert Naiman Just Foreign Policy *If you think our work is important, please support us with an $18 donation.* http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/donate [image: Please support our work. Donate for a Just Foreign Policy] © 2018 Just Foreign Policy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Estabrook) Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 20:33:07 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: LBO News from Doug Henwood References: <000000000000fae58d056e2344d4@google.com> Message-ID: Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: LBO News from Doug Henwood > Date: June 8, 2018 at 10:44:04 AM CDT > To: carl at newsfromneptune.com > Subject: LBO News from Doug Henwood > Reply-To: LBO News from Doug Henwood > > > LBO News from Doug Henwood > Contingency: almost every demographic is down > No it’s not a gig economy > Fresh audio product > Contingency: almost every demographic is down > Posted: 07 Jun 2018 07:32 PM PDT > Someone on Twitter, reacting to my last post on contingent employment, wrote this: > > “Contingent workers were more than twice as likely as noncontingent workers to be under age 25.” Profitable corporations are putting lots of young people in incredibly exploitative jobs and making it normal. For the young work is a new hell, and it’s not temporary. > > Workers under the age of 25 are less likely to be contingent than they were 22 years ago. Here’s the detail by demographic group. > > > > The share for workers in the 20–25 age group declined more than the average—especially women. The only groups to see an increase in share were teenage males and, barely, women aged 55–64. > > This is not to say that young workers—or any workers except the professional/managerial elite—have a great thing going. But our critique should be about wages, benefits, working conditions, and our savage lack of a basic welfare state, not about “precarity.” > > > No it’s not a gig economy > Posted: 07 Jun 2018 04:39 PM PDT > Despite the voluble testimony of pundits and bar companions, the world of work is not one of Uber drivers and temp workers. In fact, the share of U.S. employment accounted for by contingent and “alternative” arrangements is lower now than it was in 2005 and 1995. > > That testimony is derived from several original sources. For example, a much ballyhooed 2014 study commissioned by the Freelancers Union—which is not a materially disinterested party—reported that a third of workers are freelancers. The claim of a 2016 paper by Lawrence Katz and Alan Krueger that “all of the net employment growth in the U.S. economy from 2005 to 2015 appears to have occurred in alternative work arrangements” was widely quoted and quickly became folk wisdom. That paper was based on an online survey conducted by the RAND Corporation The survey was small—fewer than 4,000 respondents—and its sample wasn’t very representative of the overall population, a flaw the authors corrected through vigorous statistical handiwork. > > Data released this morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics should put an end to this chatter. According to a special edition of their Current Population Survey, a monthly poll of 60,000 households conducted jointly with the Census Bureau, just 3.8% of workers were classed as contingent in May 2017, meaning they don’t expect their job to last a year. That’s down from 4.1% in 2005 and 4.9% in 1995. (Reports from the years before 2017 are here.) Tighter definitions show smaller shares, but also down from earlier years. In 2017, 96.2% of workers were noncontingent, compared with 95.1% 22 years earlier. > > The share of workers in “alternative” arrangements was 10.1%. Of those, 6.9% were independent contractors, 1.7% were on-call, and 1.5% were employed by either temp or contract firms. That means that 89.9% of the workforce has a “traditional” job, down 0.2 point from 1995. > > There’s less of a racial pattern to contingency than one might guess: 3.7% of white workers don’t expect their jobs to last, compared to 4.0% of black workers; 4.9% of Asian, and 5.1% of “Hispanic/Latino.” All these shares are down from 1995. Nor is there a vast gender disparity: 3.9% of women, vs. 3.8% of men are contingent. > > And not all independent contractors are freelancers hanging on by a thread: 39% are in managerial or professional occupations, slightly less than their share of the overall workforce. These would include self-employed doctors or consultants. Reflecting that, independent contractors are more likely to be white and male than nonwhite non-men. Other forms of alternative arrangements show surprisingly little variation by race and gender; nonwhites are more likely to be temp workers, but there’s no gender gap at all. Almost all demographic groups show little change from 1995, and most of those changes are downward. > > Of course, not all contingent workers are consultants or contract programmers. Full-time contingent workers earn 77% as much as noncontingent workers; contingent part-timers earn 89% as much as noncontingent part-timers.. Almost three-quarters—73%—have some kind of employer-provided health insurance, compared to 84% of noncontingents. All in all, 55% of contingent workers would like a traditional job. > > “Alternative” workers are better off. Full-time independent contractors make 96% as much as noncontingent full-timers; contract workers (heavily used in tech) make 22% more. Temp workers—0.9% of the workforce—are much worse off, however, making 41% less than the traditionally employed. About three-quarters of independent contractors have employer-provided health insurance, but only two-thirds of temp workers do. > > None of this is to argue that the world of work is a delight. But we should be clear about what the problems are. Precarity isn’t the major problem in the American labor market. It’s that wages are stagnant or worse, benefits are eroding, and much labor is dull, alienating, pointless, and sometimes dangerous. Many people with normal, full-time jobs have a hard time making ends meet, and most households have little or no savings to fall back on in a crisis. Emphasizing precarity only makes workers feel even more powerless than they are. > > > This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now > > Fresh audio product > Posted: 07 Jun 2018 02:10 PM PDT > Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): > > June 7, 2018 Adam Gaffney (see link for articles) on how to get prescription drug prices down • Barry Eichengreen, author of The Populist Temptation, on the nationalist/xenophobic turn (Trump, Brexit, etc.), and on the future of the U.S. dollar > > > You are subscribed to email updates from LBO News from Doug Henwood. > To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. Email delivery powered by Google > Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Jun 9 14:50:10 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2018 14:50:10 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: [Women's March on the Pentagon 2018] ~ Cindy Sheehan with Ann Wright and other peace... References: <5e52fe0a6bf011e8be69000af7c25f18-282f49a8@8941bcc9156560f44064cc456d0f9e198e1d1b0ae2e864f13069511f871eb869> Message-ID: Bonnie J. Caracciolo and Emma Leigh Fiala posted in Women's March on the Pentagon 2018. [https://scontent.fbed1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-1/p100x100/34642278_1815982011787665_6690677685519122432_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&_nc_eui2=AeEkWBWsNbJIy7pHIlmiozMHt5MFPXg5N--r7yxGe_anjnniZYsaFZaJpWMMwc9dvpMR7BFwbOE1dSq0lFsNqQpGDXnAinAiiCcQgckfrddfjQ&_nc_ad=z-m&_nc_cid=0&oh=f52773aa9e43ce89b322cedb56488987&oe=5BBC78D8] Bonnie J. Caracciolo June 9 at 7:20am ~ Cindy Sheehan with Ann Wright and other peace activists including Veterans for Peace. 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URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Jun 9 15:06:37 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2018 15:06:37 +0000 Subject: [Peace] A most comprehensive AWARE FLYER by Carl Estabrook, Message-ID: General half-page flyer (recto & verso) for distribution at Farmers' Market, monthly demos, etc.] AMERICANS ARE AGAINST U.S. WAR-MAKING ~ DEMAND AN END TO U.S. KILLING IN OUR NAME Obama and Trump were both elected as anti-war candidates. In office, both sent more U.S. troops to Afghanistan to increase the killing ~ The U.S. military is today killing people in seven Mideast and African countries - Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan. Thousands of U.S. troops are fighting in these countries, although most Americans don’t know that. In addition, the 70,000-member U.S. ‘Special Operations Command’ is active in three-quarters of the countries of the world. Their activities include kidnapping (‘rendition’), torture, and murder. President Obama was elected as an anti-war candidate, but in office he expanded the wars he inherited and vastly increased the war provocations against Russia and Chiina; his drone assassinations were rightly called “the most extreme terrorist campaign of modern times.” President Trump, who promised caution and non-interventionism in foreign policy - and described Hillary Clinton as a “trigger happy warmonger” - has now done the same things himself. What both men knew is that, in spite of intense media propaganda, most Americans don’t want U.S. troops engaged in foreign wars and don’t see the killing as justified; they had to agree, in order to get elected. *But the ‘one percent’ - the U.S. economic elite - do want the wars.* U.S. presidents have killed more than 20 million people in wars around the world since World War II. That war left the U.S. elite in an unprecedented position of world economic dominance. U.S. wars since then - in Korea, Vietnam, Latin America, and the Mideast - have had the purpose of “maintaining the disparity,” as U.S. diplomat George Kennan wrote in 1948. Ordinary Americans have paid for these vicious wars, but they haven’t profited from them. Most Americans are not aware of how much of the world is appalled at what the U.S. government has done in our lifetimes. It is a triumph of the American system of propaganda and intellectual control - the most effective in history - that Americans are able to ignore it. For many years the U.S. has attempted to exercise military control over the Mideast and its energy resources. The U.S. doesn’t need oil from the Mideast, but Mideast gas and oil are needed by America’s economic competitors in Europe and Asia, and so control over them gives the U.S. a major advantage over China, Germany, and other countries - a choke-hold which benefits only the American one percent. In 2003 the U.S. illegally invaded Iraq - and killed perhaps a million people - and now has thousands of troops and mercenaries throughout the Mideast. The U.S. government says that we’re fighting terrorism, but we are in fact creating terrorists in response to our invasions, bombing campaigns, and drone assassinations, which have killed more than 5,000 people, including U.S. citizens and hundreds of children. AWARE, the ‘Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort’ of Champaign-Urbana, joins other anti-war groups in the United States and around the world to call upon President Trump to ~ (1) establish a foreign policy based on diplomacy, international law, and human rights; ~ (2) end U.S. wars in the Mideast and war provocations against Russia (in Eastern Europe) and China (in the South China Sea), and stop the drone assassinations; ~ (3) cut military spending by at least 50% and close the more than 800 U.S. military bases on foreign soil (Russia has twelve; China has one); bring U.S. troops (and weapons) home from 3/4 of the world’s countries; ~ (4) stop U.S. support for human rights abusers, notably Israel and Saudi Arabia; and ~ (5) lead on global nuclear disarmament. ANTI-WAR ANTI-RACISM EFFORT - on Facebook at ~ U.S. troops & weapons out of the Mideast ~ Medicare for all ~ Universal basic income ### -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Jun 9 15:17:46 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2018 15:17:46 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Illinois Governor calls for reinstatement of the death penalty Message-ID: Illinois Governor calls for reinstatement of the death penalty By Michael Walters 9 June 2018 Republican Governor Bruce Rauner issued an amendatory veto last month to Illinois state gun control legislation that establishes a 72-hour waiting period for firearm purchases. It would reinstate the death penalty at the state level for murders of two or more people or of police and create a new category of criminal offense called “death penalty murder.” The state of Illinois banned the death penalty in 2011, following an eleven-year moratorium after multiple reports of wrongful convictions emerged. The death penalty remains widely opposed by the state’s residents. The Democratic-controlled Illinois General Assembly can either accept the changes by a simple majority vote in each of the chambers or override the Governor’s veto by a three-fifths vote in each chamber. A third option is that the veto is not acted on and the bill, with its amendatory veto, dies. Rauner’s amendatory veto is an attempt to force the Democratic-controlled General Assembly to approve even more draconian law-and-order measures in order to get the bill’s gun control measures. The original bill passed by the state legislature called for a 72 hour “cooling-off” period on the sale of assault rifles. In addition to reinstating the death penalty, Rauner’s amendment would expand the waiting period to cover all firearms, ban the sale of firearm enhancements that turn semi-automatic guns into fully automatic guns, and establish a legal path for the courts to seize firearms possessed by people identified by their family members or police as “a danger to themselves or others.” At a May 14 conference, Rauner said: “There are plenty of cases where there’s no doubt who’s guilty, and they deserve to give up their life when they take the life of a police officer, who are our heroes, or they take the life of many people.” Rauner acknowledged the long history of wrongful convictions in death penalty cases in absurd fashion, declaring in his amendment: “[T]he only morally justifiable standard of proof in a death penalty case is ‘beyond all doubt.’” The evidentiary standard for criminal conviction in the United States is guilty “beyond a reasonable doubt.” Rauner’s appeal to “beyond all doubt” has no status in US law. Rauner’s effort to reinstate the death penalty in cases where two or more people are murdered and in cases where a police officer is killed echoes various “Blue Lives Matter” laws, proposed in 14 states over the past year, which increase the penalty if the victim is a law enforcement officer. One such bill at the federal level, The Protect and Serve Act of 2018, passed the US House of Representatives 382-35 with the support of 162 of 193 Democrats. The bill calls for a maximum 10-year sentence for anyone who assaults or attempts to assault a law enforcement officer and life imprisonment for murder of a law enforcement officer. Having passed the House, the bill is currently before the US Senate. What is clear is that the billionaire Rauner was using his veto to make a public appeal to the most reactionary elements in the state to vote for him in the upcoming November election. Rauner is seeking re-election against the Democratic Party’s own billionaire candidate, J.B. Pritzker. In the Illinois Republican primary, Rauner narrowly defeated a far-right challenger Jeanne Ives. Ives, who was financed by the far-right activist Uihlein family, appealed to the most reactionary elements within the Republican Party and the financial aristocracy who are angered by Rauner’s inability to deliver on his promises of further deregulating the state, lowering wages and destroying workers’ collective bargaining rights. The Democrats are in no fundamental way opposed to the terms of Rauner’s amendment, as they have elected to open the floor to debate the proposal to bring back the death penalty. Citing their concerns with the lack of time to evaluate the legislation, the Illinois State’s Attorneys Association, made up of both Democrats and Republicans, stated, “We believe that any process by which the government would end a human life should be deliberate and thoughtful, with appropriate safeguards in place, and that the death penalty should be reserved for the most serious offenses and offenders.” When Democratic Governor Pat Quinn signed into law the abolition of the death penalty in 2011, he did so largely as an effort to stem the growing outrage over wrongful convictions and claimed ending the death penalty would improve the fiscal health of the state. From the reinstatement of capital punishment in Illinois in 1977 through 2000, when the moratorium began, the state carried out 12 executions. Over that same period, 20 condemned inmates were taken off death row. Some of these men were exonerated after DNA evidence proved their innocence and other cases collapsed after new trials were ordered by appellate courts. The continued barbaric practice of capital punishment across the US and the effort to revive its use in Illinois in the face popular opposition speaks volumes about the decay of class rule in America. Rauner, and his reactionary call to bring back the death penalty, represents a capitalist class that is openly turning to repressive and authoritarian forms of rule. The few crumbs of progress afforded to the working class, including the abolition of the death penalty, are being clawed back. WSWS.ORG -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Tue Jun 12 12:40:12 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 12:40:12 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Glen Ford on Eritrea and Ethiopia Message-ID: [logo] [https://therealnews.com/wp-content/plugins/bb-plugin/img/pixel.png] No advertising, government, or corporate funding! * TOPICS * * * * * * * * * * REGIONS * * * * * * * * * * * * * PROGRAMS * * * * * * * * * ABOUT * * * * * * * * * * BALTIMORE * WAYS TO WATCH DONATE SUBSCRIBE A New Government in Ethiopia Promises Major Political Changes June 11, 2018 Following three years of protests in Ethiopia, former Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn resigned in February and now a new government is taking over, which promises to recognize a peace treaty with Eritrea, possibly bringing a long period of tensions to an end. We speak to Glenn Ford of the Black Agenda Report about Africa’s second most populous country FacebookTwitterRedditEmailShare * Help Us Make Real News! * Donate Online * Donate by Check * Donate by Phone * All donations in the US and Canada are tax deductible. To make a secure donation by credit or debit card. Please choose your location, or select PayPal. Story Transcript EDDIE CONWAY: Welcome to The Real News. I’m Eddie Conway, coming to you from Baltimore. Recently. Ethiopia has been in the news. Over the past three years there’s been protests in Ethiopia, and recently a new government has been installed, and this government has been moving rapidly to change past policies that the Ethiopian government had for the last two decades. So joining me today is Glen Ford, who is the executive editor of the Black Agenda Report, and author of “The Big Lie,” to kind of explain to us what’s going on in Ethiopia. Glen, thanks for joining me. GLEN FORD: Well, thanks for having me on. You know, Ethiopia surprised the world with the announcement from its newly sworn-in president, Mr. Ahmed, that his country is finally, finally going to accept the terms of a peace deal that it made with neighboring Eritrea that it originally agreed to back in 2000. It’s been a very uneven contest between Ethiopia and Eritrea. Ethiopia is Africa’s second-largest country. It’s got 105 million people, and it’s closely aligned with the United States. Eritrea has only six million people, but it is a fiercely independent country. Eritrea is one of only two countries on the entire African continent that has refused to have any kind of military relationship with AFRICOM, the U.S. military command in Africa. And Eritrea also refuses to accept Western so-called foreign aid, or to join their trade blocs. However, after fighting for its independence from Ethiopia for 30 years, beginning in the 1960s, and then winning independence at the point of a gun back in 1993, and then after fighting another all-out war with Ethiopia from 1998-2000, we had this agreement, finally, with Ethiopia, and Ethiopia reneged on the deal. That agreement, which would have recognized Eritrea’s borders and solidified, finalized, its quest for independence, that agreement had been backed by the United Nations, the European Union, the African Union, and the United States. But when Ethiopia backed out of the agreement and refused to recognize Eritrea’s borders, those countries, those guarantors, did nothing. Instead, the United States backed Ethiopia to the hilt and put Eritrea on its hit list. The Ethiopian government, which is in the hands of a minority people, the Tigrayans, who represent about 6 percent of the population, that government aligned itself such with the United States that it has, in fact, become a military client state of the U.S. in Africa. Back in 2006, with the backing of the United States, the Ethiopians invaded neighboring Somalia. They overthrew a government of a moderate Islamic Courts faction, and that plunged the nation into such turmoil that the radical Shabaab movement rose, and later allied itself with al Qaeda. The U.S. then accused little Eritrea of aiding the Shabaab, and got the United Nations to whip up very severe sanctions on Eritrea, further damaging its economy, further isolating it, and further damaging the reputation of the country in the world. And I have to say this, that to accuse Eritria, whose government is revolutionary and socialist and rigorously secular, of being an ally of Islamic jihadists is ridiculous. And the United Nations backed off of that charge, and said, oh well, Eritrea no longer is helping the Shabaab. But then, at the urging of the United States, said it would continue to apply those harsh economic sanctions against Eretria under the reasoning that, well, the sanctions worked, because they’re no longer helping Shabaab. So Eritrea’s isolation, at least from the West, has been ongoing, but now Ethiopia says that it is going to recognize the treaty that it signed 18 years ago. And it is commonly understood that the reason for this change on the part of Ethiopia is because the minority Tigrayan-based government in Addis Ababa has been besieged by protest movements that are based in the majority of the country’s population, especially the two largest ethnic groups, the Oromos and the Amhara. And the new president, who is from the Oromo ethnicity, has probably reasoned that they don’t need another front, another distraction, because they’ve got some nation mending to do in Ethiopia itself. EDDIE CONWAY: Well, it’s my understanding that he’s going to release, or already have released, thousands of political prisoners, and shut down some of the prisons and camps that’s been classified as torture centers. Is this true? Are the political prisoners being released? GLEN FORD: Well, you know, Ethiopian exiles and some folks within the country have been reporting that there have been prisoner releases for some months now that were widely announced and heralded, heralded by the government. But the exile and dissident groups said that the kinds of prisoners who were released were not the main leaders of these various antigovernment movements who’ve been held. So I think we’d have to wait for these groups to tell us whether the people that they really wanted out of prison are among the latest 500 or so that have been been released. But certainly this is a sustained effort at internal placation of dissidents. And, and now a serious effort to mend fences, or at least lower the military levels of conflict with Eritrea. Something certainly is happening here. And the question is what reasons internally and externally have led to this. Most, lots of folks are talking about the much more internationalized situation that has occurred in the Horn of Africa. The United States for the last more than 20 years has been the main partner in the world of the Ethiopian government, especially militarily, but China has invested massively in the Horn of Africa. It’s building a railroad from landlocked Ethiopia through to the Red Sea. It’s invested a great deal of money in buying up lands and developing projects in Ethiopia. Certainly that has an effect. And there are-. The internationalization of the situation makes it much less likely that the Ethiopian government can play the client to the United States solely in that part of the world. EDDIE CONWAY: Well, now, I understand that one of the other changes is that this new government is recognizing the peace agreement from 2000, and accepting the border dispute resolution of 2002 around that particular town. Is troops still occupying that town, are they talking about withdrawing those troops? Because that seemed to be the source of the conflict for the last 17 years or so. GLEN FORD: Yeah, one would think if Ethiopia is going to accept the agreement in full then that would call for the evacuation of its troops from Badme, because that is what the agreement calls for. The Ethiopians now say, and their friends the United States now say, that the ball is in the Eritreans’ court. But I’m sure the Eritreans say no, not as long as Ethiopian troops are on Eritrean territory. If they really are agreeing to go along with the agreement after all these years, get out of town. Get out of Badme. EDDIE CONWAY: Yes, that would seem to be the case. So do you have any idea at all, though, because I have been looking at the news, and I didn’t see any response whatsoever from Eritrea in relationship to this. And I understand that their position have always been that we’re not even going to talk about it until you take your troops off of our territory. Is that, is that why there’s silence? Or is, has there been any movement? GLEN FORD: I haven’t heard anything, I haven’t read anything, and I don’t trust any call that I make. I think that the Eritreans aren’t going to say anything until they’ve discussed this very surprise development thoroughly among themselves, and to come forward with a position that they feel internally comfortable with. But certainly their logical position would be that you must evacuate right now. But, but countries can’t just give each other ultimatums and orders. There has to be coordination between the militaries so that if Ethiopia does pull out of this border town and the Eritreans move in there aren’t clashes in the interim. There has to be consultation with the local people about who is going to take care of the water and the sewer needs of the little towns. So yeah, the two of course have to talk. It is a surprise to the Eritreans. I wouldn’t be too suspicious about them taking a few days to get used to this, this real sea change. EDDIE CONWAY: Yeah. I mean, because one of the things I notice is that there’s huge armies facing each other on that border. And part of the international, I don’t know if it’s propaganda or what it is, but I’m assuming it’s propaganda, claim is that a lot of people are leaving Eritrea as a result of conscription, or being forced to join the army, and kind of like man those posts on the border. And so people are fleeing across the Mediterranean, et cetera, et cetera. But according to Eritrea, it seems like other people from other nations in Northern Africa is using that as justification to enter Europe, and so on. Do you know anything about that? GLEN FORD: Oh, sure. This is a fascinating story. You know, of course Eritrea is a highly militarized country. There’s no doubt about that. When you are fighting a life and death battle with a neighbor who’s, who has 105 million people, and you have 5 or 6 million people, and that 105 million person country also has the world’s superpower, the United States, as an ally, yeah, you tend to get very militarized. But it’s also a socialist country. And so this state service, which they call conscription, is not just for the military. All the teachers, virtually all the teachers, in Eritrea, are also part of state service. And many other services of government are actually staffed by people who are part of the state service, which they call conscription, which everyone is liable to serve for 18 months, and many have served longer than that. But in terms of, of, you hear all the time how Eritreans seem to be the most prone to leave their country of any people in the world. Well, here’s the reason that this appearance has occurred. The United Nations, because of the West, because of the European Union and the United States and their influence over the United Nations, the United Nations recognizes any refugee from Eritrea as having, on the face of it, a political refugee bonafide. That, that is, that if you leave Eritrea you can go to any one of these European countries and say that I am leaving for political reasons, rather than being an economic refugee. No other country in Africa has that. So if you are an Ethiopian, if you are a Sudanese, and you want to make your way to Europe, or even if you are Nigerian and you think you can pass, and you want to make your way to Europe, if you can you will try to pass yourself off as an Eretrian. Because if they accept that you are an Eritrean then you have a political case for for asylum and to stay legally in the country that you don’t have if you’re an Ethiopian or Sudanese or Nigerian. So people from all over Africa, and especially from Ethiopia, which has ethnic connections, language and such, with Eritrea, claim that they are Eritreans. And that grossly exaggerates the number of Eritreans who have left their country. It also, however, has the effect of encouraging more Eritreans to leave the country, because they know that they can go to Germany and make the case that they are political refugees. And so it encourages Eritreans to leave, and then it exaggerates the number of Eritreans who have actually left by encouraging refugees from all over Africa to claim that they are Eritreans. And this is all manipulated by the United States. It’s part of their blanket hostility towards the Eritreans because they won’t collaborate with AFRICOM, they won’t accept foreign aid, they won’t dutifully roll over and take orders from the superpower. EDDIE CONWAY: OK. I know you’re going to keep up with this and the outcome of the, the peace offer and the stalemate between the military forces. Could you come back and let our audience know what the outcome of all of this new maneuvering is about in the near future? GLEN FORD: Oh sure. And you know, if there’s a trick in the game it’s going to come from the United States. The new Ethiopian president has enough to handle domestically, and wants some kind of peace with his neighbor. But the United States, not so. EDDIE CONWAY: OK. Well, I’m looking forward to hearing about this. Thanks for joining me, Glen. GLEN FORD: Thank you. EDDIE CONWAY: And thank you for joining The Real News. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bjornsona at ameritech.net Wed Jun 13 14:58:36 2018 From: bjornsona at ameritech.net (bjornsona at ameritech.net) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 09:58:36 -0500 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Singapore & Illinois' 11th Congressional district Message-ID: <50nds3853vp1r61k9tbb1q5e.1528899784756@email.lge.com> How about no incumbent need be voTed for?  Some of us independents, anarchists, DemExit, libertarians, socialists, Sandinistas,  progressives, near Left, far left, far Right, far Out and/or whatever we or the Owners call ourselves in this moment in time...see nothing but hyper-local voting (school, city, county, library boards) to be  useful or possibly trustworthy.  Sure, register, vote. It is important. Go to the polls with your eyes and ears open to pay attention to the level of Cheat. Was it easy or difficult to register? Is there same-day or online registration in your state? May felons vote?  Are absentee ballots counted? What type of ID does it take to register and to claim a ballot at the polls? Are those IDs easy or difficult for the working poor to obtain? Is there early voting and if so, how many days and are there nights & weekends, particularly Sunday, for the poor and the car-less? On voting day: are there enough polling places? Do they open and close at the correct time? Are the election judges representative of the diversity of the ward? Is there electioneering or flat-out lying about the day of election? Look at the ballot. How are candidates listed in each race? Alphabetically, by who turned in their petition first, or by which is the preferred Party candidate? Which races have only one choice? Why would that be? Make a note of the judges' names for later observation of possible corruption. What type of machines or ballots are used and who owns the companies who make them? Dig deeper into shareholders and past owners/scandals behind the machines in previous years.  After the election, did the exit poll numbers match the announced winner? If the numbers did not match, was a recount taken? Was the recount fair? Did every candidate listed first on the ballot win? Did every Party-preferred candidate win? Did the candidates with Super-PAC s or dark money win, and which Big Donor-Owners bought those elections? What votes would those Donor-Owners expect to see in the next year? Will we see that happen? Did a single progressive, anti- war, Medicare 4 All, Green, Libertarian or People's populist candidate get enough votes to scare the establishment or even win?  That is why I go to the polls. Call me pessimistic, yet I do not expect fair elections with genuine outcomes in the Heart of the Empire responsible for regime change all over the world. It is only in our hearts we wish it were so. Sent from my LG Phoenix 2, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone ------ Original message------From: Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discussDate: Wed, Jun 13, 2018 8:06 AMTo: peace-discuss;Cc: Peace;Subject:[Peace-discuss] Singapore & Illinois' 11th Congressional district 'Russiagate' and Korea mean that Democrats shouldn't be given control of Congress in the fall elections - even if it means voting for Republicans. —CGE -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bjornsona at ameritech.net Wed Jun 13 21:57:33 2018 From: bjornsona at ameritech.net (bjornsona at ameritech.net) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 16:57:33 -0500 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Sunday's AWARE meeting Message-ID: Hi Carl. Will AWARE be meeting this Sunday on Father's Day? Sent from my LG Phoenix 2, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone ------ Original message------From: Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discussDate: Wed, Jun 13, 2018 3:14 PMTo: Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss;Cc: peace;Subject:[Peace-discuss] Minutes from Sunday's AWARE meeting AWARE Meeting, 5-6pm, Sunday, June 10, 2018 =================================== Hammerhead Coffee, University & Wright, Champaign A sparsely-attended regular meeting of the 'Anti-War, Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana' considered the various outlets for the publication of anti-war concerns in C-U this summer: PRESS ~ ‘The Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette’ - under new editors - runs letters (250 words), occasional guest columns (700 words), and ‘Sunday Extras’ (500 words) on war topics. Despite its frequently objectionable editorials, the N-G maintains a letters column where differing political opinions are juxtaposed. ~ ’Smile Politely’ runs articles, blog posts, and often comments of interest to the anti-war movement. A ’News from Neptune’ column - from the UPTV show - appears occasionally. ~ ‘The Daily Illini’ publishes letters from AWAREists with a UIUC connection. INTERNET ~ There is a Facebook page ‘AWARE of Champaign Urbana Illinois’ at . ~ AWARE also has two email lists, 'peace-discuss' and ' and 'peace' . ~ ‘CounterPunch’ is a leading political website, publishing a number of articles each day, and a magazine, published six times per year. The editor-in-chief is a FOA (Friend of AWARE) and publishes material from AWAREists - including Doctor Know (J. B. Nicholson), research director for 'AWARE on the Air.' DEMONSTRATIONS ~ AWARE’s regular demonstrations, 2-4pm on the first Saturday of the month, go back 15 years - a tradition once called ‘The Main Event’ (from its location at Main & Neil Streets in downtown Champaign). ~ The Urbana Farmers’ Market hosts an AWARE table with anti-war flyers, books, buttons and bumper stickers on various Saturdays through the summer. ~ AWARE has participated in demonstrations sponsored by other groups, notably the Fourth of July parade, for which AWARE in the past has prepared notable floats (when we were younger...) TELEVISION ~ ‘AWARE on the Air’ is a weekly hour of anti-war discussion, recorded at noon on Tuesdays at the studios of Urbana Public Television. It’s cable-cast on UPTV, but it seems to find most of its viewers on YouTube. RADIO ~ The audio of ‘AWARE on the Air’ is carried by WRFU-LP (104.5 FM, ‘Radio Free Urbana’), which also features other programs of interest to AWAREists and their audience, notably ‘The History Hour,’ ’The Illinois World Labor Hour,’ and ‘News from Neptune.’ OTHER LOCAL POLITICAL GROUPS ~ AWARE joins other anti-war/anti-racism groups in C-U for particular demonstrations. Upcoming is an ‘ICE Out of CU!’ rally at Drury Inn Hotel in Champaign, on Saturday 23 June at 11 am. ### _______________________________________________ Peace-discuss mailing list Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From galliher at illinois.edu Wed Jun 13 20:13:48 2018 From: galliher at illinois.edu (Carl G. Estabrook) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 15:13:48 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Minutes from Sunday's AWARE meeting Message-ID: AWARE Meeting, 5-6pm, Sunday, June 10, 2018 =================================== Hammerhead Coffee, University & Wright, Champaign A sparsely-attended regular meeting of the 'Anti-War, Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana' considered the various outlets for the publication of anti-war concerns in C-U this summer: PRESS ~ ‘The Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette’ - under new editors - runs letters (250 words), occasional guest columns (700 words), and ‘Sunday Extras’ (500 words) on war topics. Despite its frequently objectionable editorials, the N-G maintains a letters column where differing political opinions are juxtaposed. ~ ’Smile Politely’ runs articles, blog posts, and often comments of interest to the anti-war movement. A ’News from Neptune’ column - from the UPTV show - appears occasionally. ~ ‘The Daily Illini’ publishes letters from AWAREists with a UIUC connection. INTERNET ~ There is a Facebook page ‘AWARE of Champaign Urbana Illinois’ at . ~ AWARE also has two email lists, 'peace-discuss' and ' and 'peace' . ~ ‘CounterPunch’ is a leading political website, publishing a number of articles each day, and a magazine, published six times per year. The editor-in-chief is a FOA (Friend of AWARE) and publishes material from AWAREists - including Doctor Know (J. B. Nicholson), research director for 'AWARE on the Air.' DEMONSTRATIONS ~ AWARE’s regular demonstrations, 2-4pm on the first Saturday of the month, go back 15 years - a tradition once called ‘The Main Event’ (from its location at Main & Neil Streets in downtown Champaign). ~ The Urbana Farmers’ Market hosts an AWARE table with anti-war flyers, books, buttons and bumper stickers on various Saturdays through the summer. ~ AWARE has participated in demonstrations sponsored by other groups, notably the Fourth of July parade, for which AWARE in the past has prepared notable floats (when we were younger...) TELEVISION ~ ‘AWARE on the Air’ is a weekly hour of anti-war discussion, recorded at noon on Tuesdays at the studios of Urbana Public Television. It’s cable-cast on UPTV, but it seems to find most of its viewers on YouTube. RADIO ~ The audio of ‘AWARE on the Air’ is carried by WRFU-LP (104.5 FM, ‘Radio Free Urbana’), which also features other programs of interest to AWAREists and their audience, notably ‘The History Hour,’ ’The Illinois World Labor Hour,’ and ‘News from Neptune.’ OTHER LOCAL POLITICAL GROUPS ~ AWARE joins other anti-war/anti-racism groups in C-U for particular demonstrations. Upcoming is an ‘ICE Out of CU!’ rally at Drury Inn Hotel in Champaign, on Saturday 23 June at 11 am. ### From cgestabrook at gmail.com Wed Jun 13 23:03:53 2018 From: cgestabrook at gmail.com (C G Estabrook) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 18:03:53 -0500 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Sunday's AWARE meeting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <9133B4A3-F241-471C-A5CA-41747EB3D6D3@gmail.com> Yes - 5-6pm. (The coffee shop closes at 6pm - so meetings don’t drag on…) > On Jun 13, 2018, at 4:57 PM, bjornsona--- via Peace wrote: > > Hi Carl. Will AWARE be meeting this Sunday on Father's Day? > > Sent from my LG Phoenix 2, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone > > ------ Original message------ > From: Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss > Date: Wed, Jun 13, 2018 3:14 PM > To: Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss; > Cc: peace; > Subject:[Peace-discuss] Minutes from Sunday's AWARE meeting > > AWARE Meeting, 5-6pm, Sunday, June 10, 2018 > =================================== > Hammerhead Coffee, University & Wright, Champaign... From kmedina67 at gmail.com Thu Jun 14 05:00:01 2018 From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (kmedina67) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 00:00:01 -0500 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Sunday's AWARE meeting Message-ID: <5b21f653.1c69fb81.5ddb7.efa5@mx.google.com> Oh Lois, that is amazing! I remember hearing about LAW! Outside the Urbana free library! Wow.  Between 2001 and 2003, i babysat so others could participate, so i don't remember many details of events.  There were teach-ins at mckinley foundation.Bigger demonstrations (and counter demonstrations) on north prospect until about 2004. In 2003, On the day the US invaded Iraq, an interruption of university classes was organized (because war interrupts lives) and we walked through the buildings beating on  buckets and garbage cans.  Campus anti-war network (CAN), Iraq veterans against the war,  ... In 2004 the demonstrations moved to the main event, downtown Champaign, and only monthly.  Then, during the occupy movement, a major portion of aware demonstrated weekly with Occupy CU at different locations around town. We still did the first Saturday in downtown Champaign.  -Karen Medina null -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbw292002 at gmail.com Thu Jun 14 06:52:25 2018 From: jbw292002 at gmail.com (John W.) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 01:52:25 -0500 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Sunday's AWARE meeting In-Reply-To: <5b21f653.1c69fb81.5ddb7.efa5@mx.google.com> References: <5b21f653.1c69fb81.5ddb7.efa5@mx.google.com> Message-ID: On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 12:00 AM, kmedina67 via Peace < peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote: Oh Lois, that is amazing! I remember hearing about LAW! Outside the Urbana > free library! Wow. > > Between 2001 and 2003, i babysat so others could participate, so i don't > remember many details of events. > Ladies Against War? I wrote a rather lengthy article about them for the public i. Interviewed Susan Parenti, who was fascinating. Seems like it was sometime in 2002. Not sure AWARE even existed yet. John Wason > There were teach-ins at mckinley foundation. > Bigger demonstrations (and counter demonstrations) on north prospect until > about 2004. > > In 2003, On the day the US invaded Iraq, an interruption of university > classes was organized (because war interrupts lives) and we walked through > the buildings beating on buckets and garbage cans. > > Campus anti-war network (CAN), Iraq veterans against the war, ... > > In 2004 the demonstrations moved to the main event, downtown Champaign, > and only monthly. > > Then, during the occupy movement, a major portion of aware demonstrated > weekly with Occupy CU at different locations around town. We still did the > first Saturday in downtown Champaign. > > > -Karen Medina > > > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Thu Jun 14 14:18:55 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 14:18:55 +0000 Subject: [Peace] The best thing you're going to hear, so listen carefully: Paul Street, Glen Ford, Chris Hedges and last but not least Bruce Dixon. Message-ID: https://youtu.be/4fhfVTtiQmg From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Jun 16 11:25:20 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 11:25:20 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Stop the persecution of immigrants Message-ID: Shame on those groups and individuals who refuse to participate in protests against the barbarism of the USG due to petty personal politics. * Print * Leaflet * Feedback * Share » Abolish Washington’s immigration Gestapo! Stop the persecution of immigrants! 16 June 2018 Tens of millions of Americans are watching in shame and horror as the US government arrests hundreds of thousands of immigrants, separates them from their spouses, children and parents and deports or detains them in a network of internment camps where guards subject them to physical and sexual abuse. The attack on immigrants marks one of the darkest episodes of US history. Its historical parallels include the internment of 120,000 Japanese during the Second World War, the deportation of fugitive slaves to the antebellum south, and the arrests and deportations carried out in Germany under Nazi rule. The immigration agencies enforcing these policies deserve the label “the American Gestapo.” Certain thresholds are now being crossed. This week, the Trump administration announced that it has run out of room for children detainees in detention centers and will house new detainees in an open-air tent city camp outside of El Paso, Texas. Attorney General Jefferson Sessions defended the administration’s policy of family separation yesterday by citing the bible verse Romans 13, which he said requires people “to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained them for the purpose of order.” A total of 1,995 children were separated from their parents between April 19 and May 31. There has been a 30 percent increase in immigration arrests from fiscal year 2016, totaling 143,470 arrests in 2017, while a similar increase is already underway in 2018. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) budget predicted a 65 percent increase in the daily detention population, which will likely increase from over 40,000 on a given day at present. There are already 600,000 immigrants in deportation proceedings—roughly equal to the entire population of Baltimore, Maryland. Each data point masks an individual story. Jose Luis Garcia, a 62-year-old who moved to the United States when he was 13, was arrested Sunday morning while drinking his morning coffee after immigration agents staked out his home near Los Angeles. Earlier this month, agents in a detention center plucked an infant from her weeping mother’s breast. Marco Antonio Munoz, a 39-year-old, hanged himself with his sweater in a detention facility in Texas last month after being separated from his wife and his 3-year-old son. Roxana Hernandez, a transgender woman who came to the US in the Stations of the Cross caravan, died in ICE custody in New Mexico due to HIV-related complications after being locked in an “ice box” jail cell maintained at freezing temperatures. Sources told the WSWS that recent detainees are being locked in padded cells with immigrants who have been detained for over a year and who have gone insane. Despite these worsening conditions and recent draconian restrictions on the right to asylum, immigrants remain desperate to flee war, violence and inequality produced by over a century of US imperialist exploitation in their home countries in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Central America. Fifty-five immigrants were found in the back of a big rig truck Tuesday night in San Antonio, Texas after crossing the border. Several immigrants were hospitalized. The policies of the Trump administration are extensions of the policies of the Democratic Party and the Obama administration. The Democratic Party’s role is not one of insufficient opposition but of active involvement in planning and enforcing the anti-immigrant policies Trump is now implementing with unprecedented ferocity. The Democrats have not lifted a finger to prevent or even stall the ongoing attack on immigrants, as evidenced by their decision to drop protection for recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Trump administration attorneys cite the Obama administration as precedent for each of their xenophobic measures. And in California, a center of the war on immigrants, Democratic Governor Jerry Brown agreed to send the state’s national guard to the border with Mexico. To call these policies “bipartisan” actually underestimates the pioneering role played in the attack on immigrants by the Democratic Party, both under Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. The impact on the working class, in both a material and political sense, has been devastating. Six million US citizen children live in families with at least one undocumented family member, and half a million children experienced the arrest, detention or deportation of at least one parent between just 2011 and 2013. One study showed that families lost between 50 and 90 percent of income within six months of a parent’s immigration-related arrest, detention or deportation. Workplace raids like the military crackdown on plant nurseries last week in Sandusky, Ohio show that the government is setting a precedent whereby it can arrest and detain all workers who conduct strikes or protests deemed “illegal” by the corporate-controlled courts. The trade unions and Democratic Party support the “right” of the government to drag workers off the job and haul them off to internment camps. The agencies responsible for enforcing these measures, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), are threats to the working class as a whole. They are comprised, in significant part, of bureaucrats and police officers who are fascistic in political composition. Despite the media’s efforts to downplay the attack on immigrants, millions of people are responding with horror and disgust to Trump’s family separation and mass deportation policies. In Ohio, for example, a June Enquirer/Suffolk University poll found just 27 percent of midterm election voters want their vote to support Trump’s policies, including on immigration, compared to 49 percent who want to oppose the direction Trump is leading the country. The American working class, linked by family connections and by the process of production to workers from all parts of the world, is organically hostile to the anti-immigrant policies of the government. Across the world, the ruling classes are whipping-up xenophobia to scapegoat immigrants for the lingering economic crisis. In Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Hungary, Poland, and elsewhere, far right wing parties have risen to prominence in the vacuum produced by the pro-corporate, pro-war policies enacted by the social democratic parties. In Italy, the coalition Five Star-Liga Nord government has provoked a pogrom atmosphere against immigrants, facilitating physical brutality against immigrants and denying entry to the Aquarius, a boat filled with over 600 refugees seeking to escape Africa. Two refugees from this boat have now died. In Greece, the self-proclaimed “left” SYRIZA government has rejected international legal mandates demanding it allow immigrants to leave the island camps upon which they have been held captive. All over the world, the dismantling of the deportation machines is a life or death question for the working class, against whom the dictatorial arrest-and-detain policies will next be employed. Nowhere else is this demand more crucial than in United States. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Jun 16 12:37:19 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 12:37:19 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Stop the persecution of immigrants In-Reply-To: <05E0EF45-30C8-4008-9ED4-DBAD53CF2B19@illinois.edu> References: <05E0EF45-30C8-4008-9ED4-DBAD53CF2B19@illinois.edu> Message-ID: Thank you. I sent it to Dick Durbin Please add the author’s name to the article, which I accidentally left off. Eric London of the WSWS.ORG > On Jun 16, 2018, at 05:02, Carl G. Estabrook wrote: > > Send this to > > https://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/email > https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/connect/email-tammy > https://rodneydavis.house.gov/contact/ > > —CGE > > >> On Jun 16, 2018, at 6:25 AM, Karen Aram via Peace wrote: >> >> Shame on those groups and individuals who refuse to participate in protests against the barbarism of the USG due to petty personal politics. >> >> Abolish Washington’s immigration Gestapo! Stop the persecution of immigrants! By Eric London >> 16 June 2018 >> Tens of millions of Americans are watching in shame and horror as the US government arrests hundreds of thousands of immigrants, separates them from their spouses, children and parents and deports or detains them in a network of internment camps where guards subject them to physical and sexual abuse. >> The attack on immigrants marks one of the darkest episodes of US history. Its historical parallels include the internment of 120,000 Japanese during the Second World War, the deportation of fugitive slaves to the antebellum south, and the arrests and deportations carried out in Germany under Nazi rule. The immigration agencies enforcing these policies deserve the label “the American Gestapo.” >> Certain thresholds are now being crossed. This week, the Trump administration announced that it has run out of room for children detainees in detention centers and will house new detainees in an open-air tent city camp outside of El Paso, Texas. Attorney General Jefferson Sessions defended the administration’s policy of family separation yesterday by citing the bible verse Romans 13, which he said requires people “to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained them for the purpose of order.” >> A total of 1,995 children were separated from their parents between April 19 and May 31. There has been a 30 percent increase in immigration arrests from fiscal year 2016, totaling 143,470 arrests in 2017, while a similar increase is already underway in 2018. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) budget predicted a 65 percent increase in the daily detention population, which will likely increase from over 40,000 on a given day at present. There are already 600,000 immigrants in deportation proceedings—roughly equal to the entire population of Baltimore, Maryland. >> Each data point masks an individual story. Jose Luis Garcia, a 62-year-old who moved to the United States when he was 13, was arrested Sunday morning while drinking his morning coffee after immigration agents staked out his home near Los Angeles. >> Earlier this month, agents in a detention center plucked an infant from her weeping mother’s breast. Marco Antonio Munoz, a 39-year-old, hanged himself with his sweater in a detention facility in Texas last month after being separated from his wife and his 3-year-old son. >> Roxana Hernandez, a transgender woman who came to the US in the Stations of the Cross caravan, died in ICE custody in New Mexico due to HIV-related complications after being locked in an “ice box” jail cell maintained at freezing temperatures. Sources told the WSWS that recent detainees are being locked in padded cells with immigrants who have been detained for over a year and who have gone insane. >> Despite these worsening conditions and recent draconian restrictions on the right to asylum, immigrants remain desperate to flee war, violence and inequality produced by over a century of US imperialist exploitation in their home countries in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Central America. Fifty-five immigrants were found in the back of a big rig truck Tuesday night in San Antonio, Texas after crossing the border. Several immigrants were hospitalized. >> The policies of the Trump administration are extensions of the policies of the Democratic Party and the Obama administration. The Democratic Party’s role is not one of insufficient opposition but of active involvement in planning and enforcing the anti-immigrant policies Trump is now implementing with unprecedented ferocity. >> The Democrats have not lifted a finger to prevent or even stall the ongoing attack on immigrants, as evidenced by their decision to drop protection for recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Trump administration attorneys cite the Obama administration as precedent for each of their xenophobic measures. And in California, a center of the war on immigrants, Democratic Governor Jerry Brown agreed to send the state’s national guard to the border with Mexico. >> To call these policies “bipartisan” actually underestimates the pioneering role played in the attack on immigrants by the Democratic Party, both under Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. >> The impact on the working class, in both a material and political sense, has been devastating. Six million US citizen children live in families with at least one undocumented family member, and half a million children experienced the arrest, detention or deportation of at least one parent between just 2011 and 2013. One study showed that families lost between 50 and 90 percent of income within six months of a parent’s immigration-related arrest, detention or deportation. >> Workplace raids like the military crackdown on plant nurseries last week in Sandusky, Ohio show that the government is setting a precedent whereby it can arrest and detain all workers who conduct strikes or protests deemed “illegal” by the corporate-controlled courts. The trade unions and Democratic Party support the “right” of the government to drag workers off the job and haul them off to internment camps. >> The agencies responsible for enforcing these measures, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), are threats to the working class as a whole. They are comprised, in significant part, of bureaucrats and police officers who are fascistic in political composition. >> Despite the media’s efforts to downplay the attack on immigrants, millions of people are responding with horror and disgust to Trump’s family separation and mass deportation policies. >> In Ohio, for example, a June Enquirer/Suffolk University poll found just 27 percent of midterm election voters want their vote to support Trump’s policies, including on immigration, compared to 49 percent who want to oppose the direction Trump is leading the country. The American working class, linked by family connections and by the process of production to workers from all parts of the world, is organically hostile to the anti-immigrant policies of the government. >> Across the world, the ruling classes are whipping-up xenophobia to scapegoat immigrants for the lingering economic crisis. In Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Hungary, Poland, and elsewhere, far right wing parties have risen to prominence in the vacuum produced by the pro-corporate, pro-war policies enacted by the social democratic parties. >> In Italy, the coalition Five Star-Liga Nord government has provoked a pogrom atmosphere against immigrants, facilitating physical brutality against immigrants and denying entry to the Aquarius, a boat filled with over 600 refugees seeking to escape Africa. Two refugees from this boat have now died. In Greece, the self-proclaimed “left” SYRIZA government has rejected international legal mandates demanding it allow immigrants to leave the island camps upon which they have been held captive. >> All over the world, the dismantling of the deportation machines is a life or death question for the working class, against whom the dictatorial arrest-and-detain policies will next be employed. Nowhere else is this demand more crucial than in United States. >> _______________________________________________ >> Peace mailing list >> Peace at lists.chambana.net >> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > From bjornsona at ameritech.net Sun Jun 17 22:16:51 2018 From: bjornsona at ameritech.net (bjornsona at ameritech.net) Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 17:16:51 -0500 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] AWARE meeting, Sunday 17 June Message-ID: Hi all. I am hibernating inside also. Tom and I had a houseful of people visit, which was wonderful, and then I fell asleep when they left and missed the AWARE meeting start time. Stay cool everyone. Anne  Sent from my LG Phoenix 2, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone ------ Original message------From: C G Estabrook via Peace-discussDate: Sun, Jun 17, 2018 4:48 PMTo: Peace-discuss List;Cc: Peace;Subject:[Peace-discuss] AWARE meeting, Sunday 17 June (Feeling a bit unwell, I'm afraid I won't make today's meeting: the World Cup has nothing to do with it. Apologies.) Upcoming events include 'AWARE on the Air' on Tuesday. (I'm thinking of reading 'Bartleby the Scrivener' for the program; I'm not quite sure why.) We have I think a table at the Farmers' Market on Saturday, and we'll have some up-to-date anti-war flyers for distribution. See also the anti-ICE demo on the 23rd, noted elsewhere on this list. Members and friends of AWARE are encouraged to post notices of other anti-war activities. —CGE _______________________________________________ Peace-discuss mailing list Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bjornsona at ameritech.net Mon Jun 18 20:37:23 2018 From: bjornsona at ameritech.net (bjornsona at ameritech.net) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 15:37:23 -0500 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] 'Consistent ethic of life' Message-ID: Dear Carl: I just found this podcast: "Future Left" and thought you might find some of the topics and voices represented here interesting. Torie Bosch & Roy Scranton are on this  Nov. 17, 2017 edition discussing an anthology of stories they edited which imagines our future. It starts slow- gets much better halfway through.   I am a Roy Scranton fan since his essays were published in the NYT, and now collected in his short, frank, says-what-very-few-others-wiil-say book: Learning to Die in the Anthropocene. (Which possibly should have been titled Learning to Live in the Anthropocene!)  https://player.fm/series/podcasts-future-left/ep-80-what-future-w-torie-bosch-roy-scranton Scranton, Roy. Learning to Die in the Anthropocene (City Lights Books: San Francisco,CA) 2015. ISBN 978-0-87286-669-0 www.city lights.com Sent from my LG Phoenix 2, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone ------ Original message------From: Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discussDate: Mon, Jun 18, 2018 12:00 PMTo: Peace-discuss List;Cc: prairiegreens at lists.chambana.net;Peace;Subject:[Peace-discuss] 'Consistent ethic of life' A number of our friends and colleagues on these lists seem to have been disturbed recently by my defense of what has been called a ‘consistent ethic of life’:   . That reminds me, tangentially, of a dinner party we gave for our late friend Nat Hentoff in 1992: our dozen guests were all good liberals, but Nat and I were the only ones who said we wouldn't vote for Bill Clinton. I think we were right. —CGE -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Tue Jun 19 13:01:22 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 13:01:22 +0000 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] 'Consistent ethic of life' In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I highly recommend this VDO by Vincent Emanuelle, a former marine, as he travels through his views on war, activism, the left, what comes after capitalism, and how to survive in a dystopian world. All done in one hour, by a 32 year old, two years ago. Hubris for one so young, right? Wrong, some of the greatest thinkers did their best work when in their twenties and thirty’s. https://youtu.be/NEjOnh75Apk On Jun 18, 2018, at 13:37, bjornsona--- via Peace > wrote: Dear Carl: I just found this podcast: "Future Left" and thought you might find some of the topics and voices represented here interesting. Torie Bosch & Roy Scranton are on this Nov. 17, 2017 edition discussing an anthology of stories they edited which imagines our future. It starts slow- gets much better halfway through. I am a Roy Scranton fan since his essays were published in the NYT, and now collected in his short, frank, says-what-very-few-others-wiil-say book: Learning to Die in the Anthropocene. (Which possibly should have been titled Learning to Live in the Anthropocene!) https://player.fm /series/podcasts-future-left/ep-80-what-future-w-torie-bosch-roy-scranton Scranton, Roy. Learning to Die in the Anthropocene (City Lights Books: San Francisco,CA) 2015. ISBN 978-0-87286-669-0 www.city lights.com Sent from my LG Phoenix 2, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone ------ Original message------ From: Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss Date: Mon, Jun 18, 2018 12:00 PM To: Peace-discuss List; Cc: prairiegreens at lists.chambana.net;Peace; Subject:[Peace-discuss] 'Consistent ethic of life' A number of our friends and colleagues on these lists seem to have been disturbed recently by my defense of what has been called a ‘consistent ethic of life’: . That reminds me, tangentially, of a dinner party we gave for our late friend Nat Hentoff in 1992: our dozen guests were all good liberals, but Nat and I were the only ones who said we wouldn't vote for Bill Clinton. I think we were right. —CGE _______________________________________________ Peace mailing list Peace at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The American Academy of Pediatrics calls this “child abuse”, Amnesty International says it is “nothing short of torture”, and the United Nations denounces it as “despicable” and an “unconscionable” violation of human rights. American history has no shortage of ugly episodes—the Trail of Tears, the jailing of fugitive slaves, the deportation of suspected radicals after World War I and the internment of the Japanese-Americans during World War II are only among the most notorious. But the present policy of inhuman persecution and victimization of children represents a level of political depravity and moral degradation that almost defies description. This is happening in the twenty-first century, in a country whose leaders boast endlessly and hypocritically of American democracy and respect for human rights. Across the United States, thousands of children are currently sitting on concrete slabs locked in cages like animals. Many do not know where their parents are and they are barred from speaking to them. Each day there are 250 more detained children than the day before. A constellation of camps and tent cities is cropping up across the country, some in desert areas where temperatures are over 100 degrees, to handle the growing detainee population. The crowded jails are filled with the sound of frightened children crying. Guards subject many children to verbal, physical and sexual abuse. In its level of extreme brutality and callousness, the family separation policy resembles the policies of the Nazi Gestapo. It is a point of departure in American history from which there is no turning back. The claim that the US represents a force for “democracy” and “human rights” worldwide is shattered. Such claims were used to invade or intervene in those regions of the world from which tens of millions are now trying to flee. Throughout Central America in the 1970s and 1980s, the US backed dictators whose death squads murdered and tortured hundreds of thousands. To this day entire societies remain in ruin. The US killed some 3 million people in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in the 1960s and 1970s. American imperialism continues to lay waste to much of North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, with the death toll in the millions. Now, the children of the victims of these wars are being thrown in cages by their former invaders. In the face of popular outrage, the Trump administration has responded by expanding the child tent city networks and intensifying his fascistic attacks on immigrants. Trump tweeted yesterday that “illegal immigrants, no matter how bad they may be, [are] pour[ing] into and infest[ing] our Country.” In an interview Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the key distinction between the immigration crackdown and Nazi Germany was that “in Nazi Germany they were keeping Jews from leaving the country.” In a speech yesterday to a small business convention in Washington DC, Trump denounced immigrant parents as “child smugglers.” “When I said they’re not sending their finest,” he said, referencing his claim that immigrants are rapists and criminals, “it turned out I was 100 percent right.” Trump is building a constituency for this filth. The crowd of businessmen hooted and applauded enthusiastically when Trump proclaimed, “We are taking ‘em out by the thousands!” This speech also marks the first time that Trump has effectively called for the abolition of due process for immigrants. “We don’t want judges, we want security on the border,” he said. “We don’t want people coming in.” He laughed at the right of immigrants to appear in court: “I don’t want to try people, I don’t want people coming in, you never get them out.” Immigration lawyers, he added, are “bad people” who “cheat” and “tell these people exactly what to say.” These remarks indicate that plans are well underway within the Trump White House, where fascist Stephen Miller is directing policy, for drastic new attacks on immigrants that will place not only their rights but also their lives in danger. There is a dangerous logic to the language the administration employs and the policies it implements. Millions of people want to know: How can this be stopped? It is first necessary to recognize the impotence and complicity of the Democratic Party, which cynically claims to oppose the family separation program. Trump’s policies are an extension of deportation and detention policies enacted under Bill Clinton and, especially, Barack Obama, who deported 2.7 million people and built a network of jails and detention centers. When Trump came to power, the Democratic Party voted by a 37-11 margin to confirm John Kelly, a retired general, as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Within weeks, Kelly first proposed implementing a family separation policy. Later in 2017, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer publicly offered support for Trump’s proposal to build a wall along the US-Mexico border. In January 2018, Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders, who voted to confirm Kelly, proclaimed his willingness to collaborate with Trump’s anti-immigrant policy, saying, “I don’t think there’s anybody who disagrees that we need strong border security. If the president wants to work with us to make sure we have strong border security, let’s do that.” The fight to defend immigrants requires the organized resistance of the working class based on a struggle against the underlying cause of the crisis, the capitalist system. The entire American political system is rotten to the core. The American ruling class has carried out a quarter-century of imperialist plunder and overseen unbridled corporate exploitation, killing millions, producing tens of millions of refugees and introducing an unprecedented degree of repression, surveillance, censorship and backwardness into domestic life. Trump, his fascist aides and their Democratic accomplices are the product of this process of political degeneration. The fight in defense of immigrants must seek to unite workers around the world against xenophobia and nationalism. The establishment of child camps in the US is part of a broadening international phenomenon. Everywhere the ruling class is whipping up racism and national chauvinism to (1) create the juridical framework and physical infrastructure for the repression of striking workers and protesting youth and (2) weaken the working class and dim anti-war sentiment by pitting workers against each other based on race and nationality. In Italy, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has called for a national registry of the entire Roma population. The right wing’s demand for the deportation of 500,000 immigrants has created an atmosphere in which violent attacks on immigrants are frequent. In Germany, Prime Minister Angela Merkel faces calls for mass deportations from within her own party and the neo-fascist Alternative for Germany. The French government severely restricted the right to asylum in April. All across the world, heightened attacks on immigrants parallel a wave of strikes and protests by the working class. As Leon Trotsky wrote in his 1934 essay Nationalism and Economic Life, under capitalism, the ruling class seeks to “protect [itself] by a customs wall and a hedge of bayonets.” The Socialist Equality Party calls for demonstrations and protests in defense of the rights of immigrants. We demand: * The immediate release of all children detained in the United States, as well as all immigrants detained in camps and detention centers across the world * The abolition of the American Gestapo—the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) * Active noncooperation with the deportation machine * Immediate amnesty for all immigrants without papers in the United States and guarantees of the right to travel and work * The provision of trillions of dollars in public services and job training programs to all workers, immigrant and non-immigrant alike. There is enough wealth and room for all. The working class must bring its social power to bear on the fight to defend immigrants. Committees in workplaces and neighborhoods must be formed to defend immigrant co-workers and neighbors, and to provide support and assistance against the American Gestapo’s terrorization of work locations and communities. 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(AP) — The images Spenser Rapone posted on Twitter from his West Point graduation were intentionally shocking: In one, the cadet opens his dress uniform to expose a T-shirt with a blood-red image of socialist icon Che Guevara. In another, he raises his fist and flips his cap to reveal the message: "Communism will win." Less than a year after Rapone's images drew a firestorm of vitriol and even death threats, the second lieutenant who became known as the "commie cadet" is officially out of the U.S. Army with an other-than-honorable discharge. Top brass at Fort Drum accepted Rapone's resignation Monday after an earlier reprimand for "conduct unbecoming of an officer." Rapone said an investigation found he went online to advocate for a socialist revolution and disparage high-ranking officers. Officially, the Army said in a statement only that it conducted a full investigation and "appropriate action was taken." An unrepentant Rapone summed up the fallout in yet another tweet Monday that showed him extending a middle finger at a sign at the entrance to Fort Drum, accompanied by the words, "One final salute." "I consider myself a revolutionary socialist," the 26-year-old Rapone told The Associated Press. "I would encourage all soldiers who have a conscience to lay down their arms and join me and so many others who are willing to stop serving the agents of imperialism and join us in a revolutionary movement." Rapone said his journey to communism grew out of his experiences as an Army Ranger in Afghanistan before he was accepted into the U.S. Military Academy. And those views only hardened during his studies of history as one of the academy's "Long Gray Line." He explained that he took the offending selfies at his May 2016 West Point graduation ceremony and kept them to himself until last September, when he tweeted them in solidarity with NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who was taking heat for kneeling for the national anthem to raise awareness of racism. Many other military personnel also tweeted in favor of Kaepernick, although most were supporting free speech, not communism. West Point released a statement after Rapone posted the photos, saying his actions "in no way reflect the values of the U.S. Military Academy or the U.S. Army." And U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, called on the secretary of the Army to remove Rapone from the officer ranks. "While in uniform, Spenser Rapone advocated for communism and political violence, and expressed support and sympathy for enemies of the United States," Rubio said Monday, adding "I'm glad to see that they have given him an `other-than-honorable' discharge." One of six children growing up in New Castle, Pennsylvania, Rapone said he applied to West Point, which is tuition-free, because he couldn't afford college. He was nominated out of high school by then-U.S. Rep. Jason Altmire in 2010. "He was an honors student, an athlete, a model citizen who volunteered in the community," recalled Altmire, a Democrat. "During the interview, he expressed patriotism and looked just like a top-notch candidate. There were no red flags of any kind." But he wasn't accepted to West Point, so Rapone enlisted in the Army. He was deployed to Afghanistan in 2011 and was assigned as an assistant machine gunner in Khost Province. "We were bullies in one of the poorest countries on Earth," Rapone said. "We have one of the most technologically advanced militaries of all time and all we were doing is brutalizing and invading and terrorizing a population that had nothing to do with what the United States claimed was a threat." Toward the end of his deployment, he learned West Point fulfills a certain quota of enlisted soldiers every year. Despite his growing disillusionment about the military, he applied and got in. "I was still idealistic," he said." I figured maybe I could change things from inside." In addition to classic socialist theorists such as Karl Marx, Rapone says he found inspiration in the writings of Stan Goff, a retired Special Forces master sergeant who became a socialist anti-war activist. Even while still a cadet, Rapone's online postings alarmed a West Point history professor, who wrote Rapone up, saying his online postings were "red flags that cannot be ignored." Rapone was disciplined but still allowed to graduate. Greg Rinckey, an attorney specializing in military law, said it's rare for an officer out of West Point to receive an other-than-honorable discharge. He added that it's possible the military academy could seek repayment of the cost of Rapone's education because he didn't serve the full five-year service obligation required upon graduation. "I knew there could be repercussions," said Rapone, who is scheduled to speak at a socialism conference in Chicago next month. "Of course my military career is dead in the water. On the other hand, many people reached out and showed me support. There are a lot of veterans both active duty and not that feel like I do." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From briandolinar at gmail.com Wed Jun 20 23:27:13 2018 From: briandolinar at gmail.com (Brian Dolinar) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:27:13 -0500 Subject: [Peace] ICE out of CU! Rally this Saturday 11am Message-ID: Hey all - We're having a rally Saturday 11am to protest ICE in CU! It will be at the Drury Inn hotel in Champaign, at North Prospect and I-74. For more on ICE in CU you can read my article about a man picked up at Siam Terrace earlier this year. Gracias! BD https://www.facebook.com/events/215642742564958/ -- Brian Dolinar, Ph.D. briandolinar.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bjornsona at ameritech.net Fri Jun 22 16:43:25 2018 From: bjornsona at ameritech.net (Anne Parkinson) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 16:43:25 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] 'Consistent ethic of life' In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <210123766.923916.1529685805534@mail.yahoo.com> Perhaps you noticed the N-G sentence in its (AP) Charles Krauthammer obituary today: "Krauthammer is credited with coining the term 'the Reagan Doctrine' for President Reagan's doctrine of aiding anti-Communist movements worldwide. " That sent me looking for old news articles on the fall of the Berlin wall and the Eastern bloc revolutions. I knew Reagan's presidency (and his Vice President H.W. Bush, former head of the CIA) was famous for keeping brutal dictator Noriega in Panama and for Oliver North illegally selling arms to Iran to arm guerrillas against Daniel Ortega's people-supported Sandinistas in Nicaragua (Iran-Contra).  I was under the impression the Berlin wall fell and the Eastern bloc revolutions happened after Reagan's presidency. And they did: in 1989. How else can this be worded? " President Reagan's doctrine of enforcing Multi-National-Corporation policies by legal and illegal means, including conducting peace talks with Gorbachev, the Cold War, the School of the Americas that taught torture, and allowing the CIA to foment anti-democratically-elected regime change around the world. Returning to how and when the Berlin wall felI, the article below fits in very well with the "consistent ethic of life," Carl.The last paragraphs particularly are quite interesting. Not all credit is given to PJP - Baptists and other Christians are included. I would say that Love won - and always will - no matter which religions. Why Did the Berlin Wall Fall? - The Imaginative Conservative | | | | | | | | | | | Why Did the Berlin Wall Fall? - The Imaginative Conservative The Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain seemed to be permanent fixtures of the political landscape of Europe after ... | | | | On Tuesday, June 19, 2018 8:01 AM, Karen Aram wrote: I highly recommend this VDO by Vincent Emanuelle, a former marine, as he travels through his views on war, activism, the left, what comes after capitalism, and how to survive in a dystopian world.  All done in one hour, by a 32 year old, two years ago. Hubris for one so young, right? Wrong, some of the greatest thinkers did their best work when in their twenties and thirty’s. https://youtu.be/NEjOnh75Apk On Jun 18, 2018, at 13:37, bjornsona--- via Peace wrote: Dear Carl: I just found this podcast: "Future Left" and thought you might find some of the topics and voices represented here interesting. Torie Bosch & Roy Scranton are on this  Nov. 17, 2017 edition discussing an anthology of stories they edited which imagines our future. It starts slow- gets much better halfway through.   I am a Roy Scranton fan since his essays were published in the NYT, and now collected in his short, frank, says-what-very-few-others-wiil-say book: Learning to Die in the Anthropocene. (Which possibly should have been titled Learning to Live in the Anthropocene!)  https://player.fm /series/podcasts-future-left/ep-80-what-future-w-torie-bosch-roy-scranton Scranton, Roy. Learning to Die in the Anthropocene (City Lights Books: San Francisco,CA) 2015. ISBN978-0-87286-669-0 www.city lights.com Sent from my LG Phoenix 2, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone ------ Original message------From: Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss Date: Mon, Jun 18, 2018 12:00 PMTo: Peace-discuss List;Cc: prairiegreens at lists.chambana.net;Peace;Subject:[Peace-discuss] 'Consistent ethic of life' A number of our friends and colleagues on these lists seem to have been disturbed recently by my defense of what has been called a ‘consistent ethic of life’:   . That reminds me, tangentially, of a dinner party we gave for our late friend Nat Hentoff in 1992: our dozen guests were all good liberals, but Nat and I were the only ones who said we wouldn't vote for Bill Clinton. I think we were right. —CGE_______________________________________________ Peace mailing list Peace at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This follows a separate Department of Defense announcement Thursday that the military will erect detention camps on four Army bases in Texas and Arkansas that will hold another 20,000 migrant children. The establishment of military prison camps on American soil marks an ominous milestone in US history. These are being erected to detain not only immigrants, but also striking workers, protesters against police violence, and all who resist conditions of deepening exploitation, war and dictatorship. This police state policy is aimed at the entire working class. Indicative of the complicity of the corporate media in these dictatorial moves, neither NBC, ABC nor CBS mentioned the proposal for the Navy to set up concentration camps on their Friday evening news broadcasts. The internal memo details plans to construct “temporary and austere” tent camps to house 25,000 undocumented migrants immediately, with massive facilities to come later. Under the proposal, 25,000 beds would be built within weeks at two Navy airfields near Mobile, Alabama—Navy Outlying Field Wolf in Orange Beach and Navy Outlying Field Silverhill—at an estimated cost of $233 million for six months of operation. Navy officials suggest a timeline of 60 days to complete the first stage of tent construction, which would hold 5,000 detainees. After that, capacity could be expanded at a rate of 10,000 beds per month. The document also proposes construction of two internment camps in California that would each house up to 47,000 detained immigrants. One would be located on the former site of Naval Weapons Station Concord, near San Francisco, and the other would be built at Camp Pendleton, the nation’s largest Marine Corps base on the coast of California between San Diego and Los Angeles. The memo also calls for further study of a proposal to detain an unspecified number of undocumented workers at the Marine Corps Air Station outside of Yuma, Arizona. The document, drafted by Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installations and Environment Phyllis Bayer for signature by Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer, was circulated in anticipation of the influx of detained migrant families under the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy. Under this policy, announced in April, all undocumented migrants captured by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will be detained and tried for the so-called crime of “illegal entry.” These revelations underscore the fact that Trump’s reversal on separating families does not signify a shift away from his drive to criminalize immigrants and arrest, detain and deport them in the hundreds of thousands. The executive order Trump signed Wednesday calls for indefinite detention of immigrants, including children. The release of detailed plans for the construction of military detention centers throughout the western and southern states, with the capacity to detain massive numbers of undocumented workers fleeing the violence and economic devastation that American imperialism has produced in Central America, represents a new stage in the ruling class’s turn toward authoritarian rule. This confirms the warnings made by the World Socialist Web Site at the time of the 9/11 attacks and launching of the “war on terror” that the concentration camp at Guantanamo was a prelude to similar facilities and mass repression within the borders of the United States itself. Such plans have ample precedent in the recent history of the United States. At the height of the 1986-1987 Iran-Contra affair, which was itself an illegal and unconstitutional conspiracy of the Reagan White House and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a secret plan, known as Operation Rex 84, was exposed. Rex 84 was a program to suspend the Constitution, declare martial law, establish a parallel government comprised of military-intelligence officials, and round up political opponents in the event of a US war on Nicaragua. At a July 13, 1987 hearing of a joint congressional committee investigating the Iran-Contra affair, Texas Democratic Congressman Jack Brooks sought to question Oliver North, who was at the center of the conspiracy, about Rex 84, which North had been involved in drafting. The exchange that followed is a telling illustration of the Democratic Party’s role in covering up the secret preparations of the US government and its military-intelligence apparatus for mass repression and dictatorship. BROOKS: Colonel North, in your work at the NSC [National Security Council], were you not assigned, at one time, to work on plans for the continuity of government in the event of a major disaster? BRENDAN V. SULLIVAN, counsel for Colonel North: Mr. Chairman? SENATOR DANIEL K. INOUYE, Democrat of Hawaii: I believe that question touches upon a highly sensitive and classified area, so may I request that you not touch upon that. BROOKS: I was particularly concerned, Mr. Chairman, because I read in Miami papers, and several others, that there had been a plan developed, by that same agency, a contingency plan in the event of emergency, that would suspend the American Constitution. And I was deeply concerned about it and wondered if that was the area in which he had worked. I believe that it was and I wanted to get his confirmation. INOUYE: May I most respectfully request that that matter not be touched upon, at this stage. If we wish to get into this, I’m certain arrangements can be made for an executive session. The administration’s escalation of repression against immigrant workers in recent days has been accompanied by a series of fascistic rants by Trump seeking to whip up the most backward and reactionary social and political layers in order to justify even broader attacks on democratic rights. At a Wednesday rally in Minnesota, Trump blustered that the United States faced being “overrun” by immigrants and that his administration was “sending them the hell back.” In a Friday morning tweet, Trump wrote: “We must maintain a Strong Southern Border. We cannot allow our Country to be overrun by illegal immigrants as the Democrats tell their phony stories of sadness and grief, hoping it will help them in the elections.” The Democrats have offered no opposition to the construction of military prison camps for immigrant families. On the contrary, they have consistently supported raising funding for “border security” and increasing the number of ICE and CBP agents, while peddling the false and reactionary narrative that immigrant workers endanger the jobs and depress the wages of the native-born work force. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer noted the report of the plan to detain 20,000 immigrants on Army bases, but merely expressed concerns over whether the plan was “feasible”. On Twitter Thursday, Schumer denounced the notion that Democrats were for open borders. “The bipartisan immigration bill I authored had $40 billion for border security,” he boasted. At a press conference Thursday, Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi declared, “The Democrats have taken full responsibility for securing our borders. We know that is a responsibility that we have.” The pro-war, anti-immigrant Democratic Party will do nothing to stop the establishment of military prison camps and the imposition of police state conditions in the US. That task falls to the working class, which must mobilize to demand the abolition of ICE and CBP, the liberation of all imprisoned immigrants, and the right of all workers to live and work with full citizenship rights in the country of their choice. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Jun 23 14:38:28 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 14:38:28 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: [ICE Out of CU! Rally at Drury Inn Hotel] Some good coverage in today's News-Gazette, ... References: <77edc43076ef11e88c15000af7c2305e-be3faa28@52c91b6c7ee17b4f2868a6e8160673245d90affa9efc8494183da7e7f07e6b16> Message-ID: Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center posted in ICE Out of CU! 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WHEN: Saturday, June 30, 2018, 1:30pm – 3 pm WHERE: McKinley Presbyterian Church, 5th & Daniels, Champaign Medea will offer remarks, answer questions, and autograph books for sale. Co-sponsors: Just Foreign Policy, Prairie Greens, Progressive Democrats of America From karenaram at hotmail.com Tue Jun 26 16:50:59 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:50:59 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: News Alert: Supreme Court upholds travel ban References: Message-ID: The travel ban applies to nations we have already destroyed and those we plan to destroy. If not through bombs then intervention and sanctions. [CNN] Supreme Court upholds travel ban The Supreme Court has upheld President Donald Trump's travel ban. The ruling was 5-4 along partisan lines, with Chief Justice John Roberts writing for the conservative majority. This is the third version of the travel ban. It was issued in September -- after previous bans had ricocheted through the courts -- and restricts entry from seven countries to varying degrees: Iran, North Korea, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Venezuela. Chad was originally on the list but was recently removed after having met baseline security requirements. Follow live updates You have opted-in to receive this e-mail from CNN.com. One CNN Center Atlanta, GA 30303 © 2018 Cable News Network Unsubscribe from this list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org Tue Jun 26 17:11:08 2018 From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:11:08 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Saturday 1:30pm: Medea Benjamin Of Code Pink Book Signing. Join Us! Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Deb Schrishuhn For PDA IL Date: Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 9:00 AM Subject: Medea Benjamin Of Code Pink Book Signing. Join Us! To: Robert Naiman *Come See Co-Founder Of Code PinkAnd PDA Advisory Board Member* *[image: Medea_Headshot.JPG]Medea Benjamin Book Signing*. Robert Naiman -- U.S. relations with Iran have been fraught for decades, but under the Trump Administration tensions are rising to startling levels. Medea Benjamin, one of the best-known 21st century peace activists, offers the incredible history of how a probable alliance became a bitter antagonism. Join us as Medea discusses her most recent book, "Inside Iran: The Real History And Politics Of The Islamic Republic Of Iran". Introduction by Prof. Francis Boyle. *When: Saturday, June 30, 2018. 1:30pm-3pm* *Where: McKinley Presbyterian Church, 801 S 5th St (5th and Daniels), Champaign, IL 61820 (Map )* Medea will offer remarks, answer questions, and autograph books for sale. Co-sponsors: Just Foreign Policy, Prairie Greens, Progressive Democrats of America *Please reply to this email to RSVP so we're sure to have enough space set aside.*Hope to see you there! Deb Schrishuhn [image: Facebook.jpg] [image: Twitter.jpg] [image: Logo-Flickr.jpg] [image: YouTube.jpg] [image: pinterest3.jpg] Paid for by Progressive Democrats of America (http://www.pdamerica.org ) Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee ------------------------------ Progressive Democrats of America · Grand Rapids, MI 49515, United States -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Washington Join and share the facebook page here At the protest, look for the banner that looks just like the image above. Text 773-885-3991 the day of the protest. ANSWER Chicago is joining the Party for Socialism and Liberation in the "Abolish I.C.E." Contingent in the Families Belong Together March - Chicago. You should join us! We will demand: No Separations! No Detentions! No Deportations! NO Ban! No Wall! Full Rights for All! Thurs., June 28, starting at 6 pm: Work Session for the march! Help us assemble placards and more. Meet at our office, 3460 W. Lawrence. Get involved! ________________________________ Support the efforts to Abolish ICE with a badly needed donation now! Go to the event page for the march, join and spread the word! ANSWER Coalition · United States This email was sent to karenaram at hotmail.com. To stop receiving emails, click here. Created with NationBuilder, software for leaders. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Join Us! > To: Robert Naiman > > > > > > *Come See Co-Founder Of Code PinkAnd PDA Advisory Board Member* > > > > *[image: Medea_Headshot.JPG]Medea Benjamin Book Signing*. > > Robert Naiman -- > > U.S. relations with Iran have been fraught for decades, but under the Trump > Administration tensions are rising to startling levels. Medea Benjamin, one > of the best-known 21st century peace activists, offers the incredible > history of how a probable alliance became a bitter antagonism. > > Join us as Medea discusses her most recent book, "Inside Iran: The Real > History And Politics Of The Islamic Republic Of Iran". Introduction by > Prof. Francis Boyle. > > *When: Saturday, June 30, 2018. 1:30pm-3pm* > *Where: McKinley Presbyterian Church, 801 S 5th St > (5th and > Daniels), Champaign, IL 61820 (Map > )* > > Medea will offer remarks, answer questions, and autograph books for sale. > > Co-sponsors: Just Foreign Policy, Prairie Greens, Progressive Democrats of > America > > > > *Please reply to this email to RSVP so we're sure to have enough space set > aside.*Hope to see you there! > > Deb Schrishuhn > [image: Facebook.jpg] > > [image: > Twitter.jpg] > > [image: > Logo-Flickr.jpg] > > [image: > YouTube.jpg] > > [image: > pinterest3.jpg] > > > Paid for by Progressive Democrats of America (http://www.pdamerica.org > > ) > Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee > > ------------------------------ > Progressive Democrats of America · Grand Rapids, MI 49515, United States > From deb.pdamerica at gmail.com Wed Jun 27 11:45:54 2018 From: deb.pdamerica at gmail.com (Debra Schrishuhn) Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 06:45:54 -0500 Subject: [Peace] correction on Medea Benjamin co-sponsors Message-ID: Many apologies the addition co-sponsor is PSL, not ANSWER and PDL as I erroneously cited in earlier email. So sorry for confusion, Deb From karenaram at hotmail.com Wed Jun 27 14:20:38 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 14:20:38 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Supreme Court deals a devastating blow to government unions Message-ID: Supreme Court deals a devastating blow to government unions The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 today that government unions cannot collect fees from non-members. The ruling will likely diminish unions’ negotiating power and, with it, their political clout. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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When:  Saturday, June 30, 2018.  1:30pm-3pm Where:  McKinley Presbyterian Church, 801 S 5th St (5th and Daniels), Champaign, IL 61820  (Map) Medea will offer remarks, answer questions, and autograph books for sale.  Co-sponsors: Just Foreign Policy, Prairie Greens, Progressive Democrats of America Hope to see you there! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kmedina67 at gmail.com Wed Jun 27 23:24:00 2018 From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (kmedina67) Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 18:24:00 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Medea Benjamin in C-U Saturday, June 30, 1:30pm In-Reply-To: <5b341a4f.1c69fb81.28c55.85b4@mx.google.com> Message-ID: <5b341c86.1c69fb81.9b7a5.89fc@mx.google.com> I just looked up places that sell her newest book, that aren't Amazon,  and I found it at the code pink "store" which I guess is on shopify. https://codepink.myshopify.com/products/inside-iran-the-real-history-and-politics-of-the-islamic-republic-of-iran-by-medea-benjamin -------- Original message --------From: kmedina67 Date: 6/27/18 18:14 (GMT-06:00) To: peace Subject: Fwd: Medea Benjamin in C-U Saturday, June 30, 1:30pm  Medea Benjamin, one of the best-known 21st century peace activists, offers the incredible history of how a probable alliance with Iran became a bitter antagonism. Join us as Medea discusses her most recent book, "Inside Iran: The Real History And Politics Of The Islamic Republic Of Iran".  Introduction by Prof. Francis Boyle. When:  Saturday, June 30, 2018.  1:30pm-3pm Where:  McKinley Presbyterian Church, 801 S 5th St (5th and Daniels), Champaign, IL 61820  (Map) Medea will offer remarks, answer questions, and autograph books for sale.  Co-sponsors: Just Foreign Policy, Prairie Greens, Progressive Democrats of America Hope to see you there! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please join Comptroller Susana Mendoza, State Senator Melinda Bush, and Representative Carol Ammons for an honest conversation about the barriers women face in politics. These sessions are designed for women who have worked on campaigns at all levels, in any party in Illinois, to provide guidance for the Panel’s final report on improving workplace culture. For those women who can’t participate in these panels, a website has been created where feedback can be provided either by name or anonymously on the Panel website. Sunday, July 1st, 11am Registration required and location will be emailed to you. Women Making Waves 2018 - Former Ohio State Senator and current President of Our Revolution Nina Turner will be the keynote speaker at this year's Women Making Waves Brunch hosted by Representative Carol Ammons! Senator Turner is committed to advocating for progressive ideals and values and is a clear example of why we need more women in politics. In a time where there is a new story of sexual harassment nearly every day, a voice like Nina's is vital to motivate and energize women to take leadership positions in all levels of our government. Women Making Waves is committed to encouraging more women to run for office. Right now women account for only 19% of Congress but are 51% of the population. Let’s change this. Seating is limited - purchase your tickets now! Tickets prices are a sliding scale of $50-$150 now, $200 at the door. So don't wait, pay what you can and purchase your tickets now. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Washington Join and share the facebook page here At the protest, look for the banner that looks just like the image above. You can also text 773-885-3991 now or on the day of the protest to join the contingent. We will demand: No Separations! No Detentions! No Deportations! NO Ban! No Wall! Full Rights for All Now! Thurs., June 28, starting at 6 pm: Work Session for the march! Help us assemble placards and more. Meet at our office, 3460 W. Lawrence. Get involved! ________________________________ [https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/psl/mailings/2812/attachments/original/Episode_17.jpg?1530191304]** Go to the event page for the families belong together march, join and spread the word! ** Support the efforts to Abolish ICE with a badly needed donation now! ** Listen to Episode 17 of Crashing the System Podcast: Bipartisan Deportation Machine; Trump's Trade Wars PSL · United States This email was sent to karenaram at hotmail.com. To stop receiving emails, click here. 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Co sponsors: PDA (Progressive Democrats of America), Just Foreign Policy, Prairie Greens, PSL (Party for Socialist Liberation) [https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/c0.29.525.277/p526x296/36222595_2099845896905082_17682358882795520_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=ccb6aac596d19be3e84147b9e3ef0252&oe=5B9E8F22] SAT, JUN 30 AT 1:30 PM CDT Medea Benjamin 2018 Book Tour McKinley Presbyterian Church · Champaign, IL -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Jun 29 03:24:24 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 03:24:24 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Medea is coming to WI & IL! References: <5b354ce1d46fe_19e25570f6c213b7@worker.ami.nbuild.prd.useast1.3dna.io.mail> Message-ID: [CODEPINK.ORG] [https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/codepink/mailings/3312/attachments/original/inside_iran___Medea.jpg?1530219448] Dear Karen, Inside Iran with Medea Benjamin Saturday, June 30th 801 S Fifth St , Champaign, IL 61820 Cosponsored by Progressive Democrats of America, Just Foreign Policy, Prairie Greens, and Party for Socialist Liberation/ANSWER RSVP here! Join Medea Benjamin to discuss her brand new book Inside Iran; the Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic. The book tackles the contradictions in Iran’s system of government, traces the history of its stormy relationship with the United States, and presents a realistic and hopeful case for Iran’s future. Medea will discuss the consequences of President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the nuclear deal, and what we can do to avoid a new war with Iran! Medea will also talk about CODEPINK’s new Divest from the War Machine campaign and how we can move our cities, universities, pension funds and politicians to stop supporting companies that make a killing on killing. Books will be available for sale and signing at the events. Hope to see you there! 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This was followed by a report revealing that 466 students from New York City and surrounding counties, who were no longer showing up at their schools between last October and March, had in fact been taken into custody by ICE agents, but the federal government was not reporting this to the schools or to city or state agencies. Late on June 25, a federal judge in San Diego, Dana Sabraw, ordered the government to reunite all children who had been separated from their parents while in ICE detention. However, the injunction resulting from the case brought by the ACLU, acting for separated families, allows the government two weeks before the reunification of children under five must take place, and 30 days before reunification for older children. An attorney for the Justice Department argued that federal agencies should be given time since the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) sometimes does not always know when a parent has been released. Judge Sabraw said he “was not seeking to interfere with the government’s authority to enforce criminal and immigration laws,” according to the Wall Street Journal. New York’s Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo confirmed on June 20 that they did not know how many children were sent to New York or where they were being housed, according to the Daily News. The New York consulates for Honduras and El Salvador also said they did not know how many of their child citizens were involved or how to reach their relatives. “The children included a 9-year-old boy from Honduras who had come alone on a bus from Texas, and a child as young as 9 months old,” the mayor said. The concurrent revelation of the ICE arrest in the New York area of “unaccompanied minors,” who had already been under the supervision of the ORR, only became public knowledge by coincidence. According to the Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigration Affairs, Bitta Mostofi, “Some sort of initial awareness to us that this was happening was because we were notified by schools, because kids didn’t show up to schools the next day,” the Daily News reported. These were children who had made the treacherous crossing into the US unaccompanied and were detained and then sent to New York City to be held with other children in foster-care type detention facilities run by ORR, an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, until relatives believed to be in the area are found to act as sponsors. Explaining the significance of ICE, an agency within the Department of Homeland Security, taking custody, Eve Stotland, Director of Legal Services at The Door community service centers, said, “A young person is in something that looks like foster care one day and then the next day they’re in something that looks like prison, with adults.” Many were detained by ICE merely because they turned 18. In other cases, they may have been released by ORR to a sponsor but re-arrested by ICE, often on vague allegations of gang connections, members of the Legal Aid Society told the Daily News, even though the children may have fled to the US to escape violence by MS-13. In other words, their “association” with the gangs impels them to flee, and then subjects them to imprisonment once detained in the United States. Such circumstances make it even more difficult for parents and children to be able to locate each other. The Washington Post reported “bureaucratic errors that leave government officials unaware whether a child was separated from their family or had arrived at the border by themselves.” Only two children of 300 families represented by the Texas Civil Rights Project have been tracked down. Identification numbers began to be given to families more than a week ago, according to USA Today, but social media comments pointed out that photos of children with numbers on their sleeves emphasized the parallel to prisons, and even to the numbering of Nazi concentration camp prisoners. However, since there was no system for tracking parents and children before that, government databases may not be able to link families. The horrendous toll of these inhumane policies is seen in an account on WNYC News, in which Dr. Michael Katz, CEO of New York City Health and Hospital, reported that eight immigrant children were brought by their government-appointed guardians to North Central Bronx Hospital and another four were brought to Bellevue Hospital. Dr. Ruth Gerson of Bellevue stated that at least one child was suicidal and others had been injuring themselves, with apparent psychotic symptoms, hearing voices and seeing things found to be related to the separation from their parents. The guardians do not, of course, know the children’s medical histories. The psychiatrists feel helpless as “good treatment really should be about giving them treatment within the context of putting their family back together.” The children who in many cases are being lost track of would be more correctly termed “disappeared,” as was the practice of the military regimes in Chile and Argentina in regard to political prisoners. That is in fact the proper term for these immigrants, jailed for seeking asylum in the United States, and doubly punished by having their children removed. Even if children are no longer taken from parents, ICE raids and deportations are continuing to take parents from children, including those born as citizens in the US. As of May, there was a backlog of more than 700,000 cases in federal immigration courts. Cases of detained families could take months or years to be heard. Meanwhile, the US military has been put on notice to build detention/concentration camps for 120,000 immigrants. Using alleged danger from the protests against the anti-immigrant policies and family separations as an excuse, ICE announced that in New York City it would not hold in-person hearings in court for detained immigrants for the foreseeable future. Instead there would be hearings via video conference. Since the detainees would normally only have a chance to meet their lawyer in person just before the hearings, and since judges would not be able to directly assess the credibility of the detainees in person, this would make their situation even more detrimental, the managing director of the Immigration Practice for the Bronx Defenders, Sarah Deri Oshiro, has said. WSWS.ORG -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Jun 29 17:37:10 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 17:37:10 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Reminder: Medea Benjamin Of Code Pink Book Signing Sat.! References: <5b3665ad56d33_99de63ef5c7582f@worker.ami.nbuild.prd.useast1.3dna.io.mail> Message-ID: [http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/themes/560b0f33ec8d8379d1000003/attachments/original/1444050888/National2.jpg?1444050888] Come See Co-Founder Of Code Pink And PDA Advisory Board Member [Medea_Headshot.JPG] Medea Benjamin Book Signing U.S. relations with Iran have been fraught for decades, but under the Trump Administration tensions are rising to startling levels. Medea Benjamin, one of the best-known 21st century peace activists, offers the incredible history of how a probable alliance became a bitter antagonism. Join us as Medea discusses her most recent book, "Inside Iran: The Real History And Politics Of The Islamic Republic Of Iran". Introduction by Prof. Francis Boyle. When: Saturday, June 30, 2018. 1:30pm-3pm Where: McKinley Presbyterian Church, 801 S 5th St (5th and Daniels), Champaign, IL 61820 (Map) Medea will offer remarks, answer questions, and autograph books for sale. Co-sponsors: Just Foreign Policy, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Prairie Greens, Progressive Democrats of America Please reply to this email to RSVP so we're sure to have enough space set aside. Hope to see you there! Deb Schrishuhn [Facebook.jpg] [Twitter.jpg] [Logo-Flickr.jpg] [YouTube.jpg] [pinterest3.jpg] Paid for by Progressive Democrats of America (http://www.pdamerica.org) Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Jun 29 23:46:38 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 23:46:38 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Video ICE out of Champaign rally 6/23/18 References: Message-ID: https://youtu.be/CtYpPHaoA88 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stuartnlevy at gmail.com Sat Jun 30 01:09:43 2018 From: stuartnlevy at gmail.com (Stuart Levy) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 20:09:43 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Reminder: Medea Benjamin Of Code Pink Book Signing Sat.! In-Reply-To: References: <5b3665ad56d33_99de63ef5c7582f@worker.ami.nbuild.prd.useast1.3dna.io.mail> Message-ID: <586d872e-b6a3-86bd-56a9-58320b50b7f1@gmail.com> Another event which partly overlaps this one on Saturday:     1:00pm - 2:00pm   #FamiliesBelongTogether rally at Champaign Public Library        https://www.facebook.com/events/194005744773697/        This is one of a nationwide series of rallies in support of humane immigration policies.        At 1pm, people will walk from the library to Green and Neil (about 1 block), carrying signs. I may try to attend the first part of this rally and then go to McKinley for Medea Benjamin's 1:30pm-3pm event.   Anyone else want to do likewise? On 06/29/2018 12:37 PM, Karen Aram via Peace wrote: > > >> >> >> >> *Come See Co-Founder Of Code Pink >> And PDA Advisory Board Member* >> >> *Medea_Headshot.JPG >> Medea Benjamin Book Signing >> *  >> >> >> U.S. relations with Iran have been fraught for decades, but under the >> Trump Administration tensions are rising to startling levels. Medea >> Benjamin, one of the best-known 21st century peace activists, offers >> the incredible history of how a probable alliance became a bitter >> antagonism. >> >> Join us as Medea discusses her most recent book, "Inside Iran: The >> Real History And Politics Of The Islamic Republic Of Iran".  >> Introduction by Prof. Francis Boyle. >> >> *When:  Saturday, June 30, 2018.  1:30pm-3pm* >> *Where:  McKinley Presbyterian Church, 801 S 5th St (5th and >> Daniels), Champaign, IL 61820  (Map >> )* >> >> Medea will offer remarks, answer questions, and autograph books for >> sale.  >> >> Co-sponsors: Just Foreign Policy, Party for Socialism and Liberation, >> Prairie Greens, Progressive Democrats of America >> >> *Please reply to this email to RSVP so we're sure to have enough >> space set aside. >> >> *Hope to see you there! >> >> Deb Schrishuhn >> >> Facebook.jpg >> >> Twitter.jpg >> >> Logo-Flickr.jpg >> >> YouTube.jpg >> >> pinterest3.jpg >> >> >> >> >> >>    Paid for by Progressive Democrats of America >> (http://www.pdamerica.org >> ) >> Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee >> >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Jun 30 11:09:51 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 11:09:51 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Reminder: Medea Benjamin Of Code Pink Book Signing Sat.! In-Reply-To: <586d872e-b6a3-86bd-56a9-58320b50b7f1@gmail.com> References: <5b3665ad56d33_99de63ef5c7582f@worker.ami.nbuild.prd.useast1.3dna.io.mail> <586d872e-b6a3-86bd-56a9-58320b50b7f1@gmail.com> Message-ID: There is an “excessive heat warning” today, I would avoid anything outside if possible. The Medea event fortunately is inside. On Jun 29, 2018, at 18:09, Stuart Levy > wrote: Another event which partly overlaps this one on Saturday: 1:00pm - 2:00pm #FamiliesBelongTogether rally at Champaign Public Library https://www.facebook.com/events/194005744773697/ This is one of a nationwide series of rallies in support of humane immigration policies. At 1pm, people will walk from the library to Green and Neil (about 1 block), carrying signs. I may try to attend the first part of this rally and then go to McKinley for Medea Benjamin's 1:30pm-3pm event. Anyone else want to do likewise? On 06/29/2018 12:37 PM, Karen Aram via Peace wrote: [http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/themes/560b0f33ec8d8379d1000003/attachments/original/1444050888/National2.jpg?1444050888] Come See Co-Founder Of Code Pink And PDA Advisory Board Member [Medea_Headshot.JPG] Medea Benjamin Book Signing U.S. relations with Iran have been fraught for decades, but under the Trump Administration tensions are rising to startling levels. Medea Benjamin, one of the best-known 21st century peace activists, offers the incredible history of how a probable alliance became a bitter antagonism. Join us as Medea discusses her most recent book, "Inside Iran: The Real History And Politics Of The Islamic Republic Of Iran". Introduction by Prof. Francis Boyle. When: Saturday, June 30, 2018. 1:30pm-3pm Where: McKinley Presbyterian Church, 801 S 5th St (5th and Daniels), Champaign, IL 61820 (Map) Medea will offer remarks, answer questions, and autograph books for sale. Co-sponsors: Just Foreign Policy, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Prairie Greens, Progressive Democrats of America Please reply to this email to RSVP so we're sure to have enough space set aside. Hope to see you there! Deb Schrishuhn [Facebook.jpg] [Twitter.jpg] [Logo-Flickr.jpg] [YouTube.jpg] [pinterest3.jpg] Paid for by Progressive Democrats of America (http://www.pdamerica.org) Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee _______________________________________________ Peace mailing list Peace at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org Sat Jun 30 14:30:20 2018 From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman) Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 09:30:20 -0500 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] In reference to comments on yesterdays News from Neptune In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: https://ocasio2018.com/issues [...] A Peace Economy Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the United States has entangled itself in war and occupation throughout the Middle East and North Africa. As of 2018, we are currently involved in military action in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia. Hundreds of thousands of civilians in these countries have been killed either as collateral damage from American strikes or from the instability caused by U.S. interventions. Millions more have fled their broken countries, contributing to the global refugee crisis. This continued action damages America’s legitimacy as a force for good, creates new generations of potential terrorists, and erodes American prosperity. In times when we’re told that there’s not enough money, Republicans and corporate Democrats seem to find the cash to fund a $1.1 trillion fighter jet program or a $1.7 trillion-dollar nuclear weapon “modernization” program. The costs are extreme: the Pentagon’s budget for 2018 is $700 billion dollars: to continue fighting an endless War on Terror and refighting the Cold War with a new arms race that nobody can win. According to the Constitution, the right to declare war belongs to the legislative body, and yet many of these global acts of aggression have never once been voted on by Congress. In some cases, we've even acted unilaterally, without the backing of the United Nations. America should not be in the business of destabilizing countries. While we may see ourselves as liberators, the world increasingly views us as occupiers and aggressors. Alexandria believes that we must end the "forever war" by bringing our troops home, and ending the air strikes that perpetuate the cycle of terrorism throughout the world. By bringing our troops home, we can begin to heal the wounds we're opening by continuing military engagement. We can begin to repair our image. We can reunite military families, separated by repeated deployments. We can become stronger by building stronger diplomatic and economic ties, and by saving our armed forces only for when they're truly needed. [...] Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (202) 448-2898 x1 On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 8:32 AM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss < peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2018/06/28/as-election-day- > approached-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-removed-antiwar- > foreign-policy-section-from-her-we > > _______________________________________________ > Peace-discuss mailing list > Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Jun 30 16:31:28 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 16:31:28 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Reminder: Medea Benjamin Of Code Pink Book Signing Sat.! References: Message-ID: [http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/themes/560b0f33ec8d8379d1000003/attachments/original/1444050888/National2.jpg?1444050888] Come See Co-Founder Of Code Pink And PDA Advisory Board Member [Medea_Headshot.JPG] Medea Benjamin Book Signing U.S. relations with Iran have been fraught for decades, but under the Trump Administration tensions are rising to startling levels. Medea Benjamin, one of the best-known 21st century peace activists, offers the incredible history of how a probable alliance became a bitter antagonism. Join us as Medea discusses her most recent book, "Inside Iran: The Real History And Politics Of The Islamic Republic Of Iran". Introduction by Prof. Francis Boyle. When: Saturday, June 30, 2018. 1:30pm-3pm Where: McKinley Presbyterian Church, 801 S 5th St (5th and Daniels), Champaign, IL 61820 (Map) Medea will offer remarks, answer questions, and autograph books for sale. Co-sponsors: Just Foreign Policy, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Prairie Greens, Progressive Democrats of America Please reply to this email to RSVP so we're sure to have enough space set aside. Hope to see you there! Deb Schrishuhn [Facebook.jpg] [Twitter.jpg] [Logo-Flickr.jpg] [YouTube.jpg] [pinterest3.jpg] Paid for by Progressive Democrats of America (http://www.pdamerica.org) Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: