Saturday, August 10, 2019

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The Connection between Mass Shootings and Militarism Massachusetts Peace Action Brian Garvey

Massachusetts Peace Action Brian Garvey<info@masspeaceaction.org>
To  Al Johnson  

Violence Abroad Doen't make us Safe, it comes HPeople hold up camera lights as candles during a vigil for victims of gun violence on the Capitol steps, Aug. 4, 2019. ome

Sandy Hook, Orlando, Charleston, Las Vegas, Wakefield, Sutherland Springs, Pittsburgh, Parkland, Aurora, Virginia Tech, San Bernadino, Columbine. There were already too many mass shootings to name. Now we add Gilroy, Dayton, and El Paso to the list. In the wake three more mass shootings in the last week, people across the United States are once again having the same debate we've now been having for decades. Is this about guns or mental health? Political extremism or white supremacy? Terrorism or crime? We feel the same emotions: sorrow, fear, outrage, guilty fascination, and worst of all a feeling of powerlessness.
As peace activists we are committed to challenge and confront acts of violence all over the world. It is critical for us to connect these horrific incidents of violence in the United States, especially those perpetrated with military weapons, to the violence we've exported around the world for so long. A mainstream belief among opponents to gun control is that more weapons actually make us safer. Its corollary is the belief that thousands of heavily armed American soldiers occupying countries all over the world makes us safe. It just isn't true.
There is a common root of these tragedies, the endless wars abroad and the mass killings at home. It is the glorification of violence that pervades our culture. We see it at our sports games, parades, and even in our schools. We heap our greatest honors on men with guns, police and soldiers. We have become accustomed and addicted to violence.
It's not a coincidence that this nation, the greatest purveyor of military violence in the world, suffers from so much senseless violence at home. If you see the link between militarism and gun violence, help us make the connection.
Here's what you need to do:
1) Call your representative or senator's district office. Here are the phone numbers:
Katherine Clark
  (617) 354-0292
Stephen Lynch
  (617) 428-2000
Jim McGovern
  (508)-831-7356
Lori Trahan
  (978) 459-0101
Ayanna Pressley
 (617) 850-0040
William Keating
  (508)-771-6868
Joe Kennedy
  (617) 332-3333
Seth Moulton
  (978) 531-1669
Richard Neal
  (413) 785-0325

Elizabeth Warren
  (617) 565-3170

Ed Markey
  (617)-565-8519
2) When connected say: My name is ___________ and I am a constituent living at (your address). I'm calling today because I'm concerned with the epidemic of gun violence in this country. We've been a nation at war for almost 20 years. It's not coincidence that we're seeing these massacres at home, often committed with the very same weapons of war.
3) Report back to us by calling (617) 354-2169 or write to us at info@masspeaceaction.org. We need to coordinate our efforts and know what members or their staff had to say.
Yours for peace and justice,

Brian Garvey
Organizer, Massachusetts Peace Action

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Urgent action required to save political prisoner Delbert Africa

  
Forwarded message from the MOVE ORGANIZATION:


Stop a Modern Day Lynching –


Don’t let PA DOC Murder MOVE Member Delbert Africa


The MOVE ORGANIZATION is calling for people to join us this Friday August 9th at 9:00am At Hospital 1000 East Mountain Blvd. Wilkes-Barre, Pa 18711. If traveling from Philadelphia meet at 6AM at JFK Blvd and 30th St. for rides.


We will be holding a demonstration exposing this out right PLANNED MURDER of DELBERT AFRICA by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections.


Meanwhile call PA DOC Commissioner John Wetzel – 717-728-2573; SCI Dallas Superintendent Kevin Ranson – 570-675-1101 x 351; and Geisinger Hospital – 578-808-7300 to Demand that Delbert Orr Africa,#AM4895, be allowed to call his MOVE family and let them know what is going on.


The MOVE ORGANIZATION would like to update people on what is going on right now as it relates to Delbert Africa. We received word from an anonymous source that Delbert is in fact urinating blood, his bladder is impacted and compromised and colon is starting to show wear and tear from the pressure/over worked kidneys. Fluid is still being drained but not rapidly enough. He is awake, conscious, and talking but weak.


A week ago MOVE political prisoner Delbert Orr Africa was taken out of SCI Dallas and transported to an outside hospital where he has since been held incommunicado. Delbert has not been allowed to call his MOVE Family or blood daughter. Prison and Hospital officials will not release any information to any of us on Delbert or his condition.


When Delbert was taken from SCI Dallas he had swelling from a fluid buildup. We are now hearing from two different sources that Delbert has no more than 72 hours before he dies. Delbert’s daughter, MOVE family members and even his lawyers are being denied access for communication, visitation, contact, and access to documents from prison and hospital officials.


Delbert is scheduled to go before the PA Parole Board this September. MOVE members believe that the government wants to kill Delbert before he can be paroled, and there is evidence that clearly shows this. This government does not want to give ground and parole another innocent MOVE Member, that's why they are working in conjunction with Prison and hospital officials to murder Delbert.

It would be a feather in the cap for officials to see Delbert DIE. What's more of a slap in the face is that they are trying to kill him to celebrate on August 8, 1978 - 41 years to the day that Delbert and other MOVE people were kidnapped by this government being innocent and railroaded to prison .


We are highly suspicious of what's going on here. In 2015 our MOVE 9 Brother Phil Africa was taken to an outside hospital from SCI Dallas with a minor stomach virus. He was held incommunicado for a period of 5 days and upon returning to SCI Dallas he was placed in hospice care only to die a day later.


In March of 1998 after recovering from a stomach virus at SCI Cambridge Springs, MOVE 9 Sister Merle Africa was told by prison officials she was dying only to die a couple of hours later.


The same pattern is repeating itself here.


On Aug. 8, 1978 Delbert was arrested during the Philadelphia police assault on the MOVE house in Powelton Village. Police officer James Ramp died during the 1978 police assault, likely struck by one of the tens of thousands of rounds fired by his fellow officers that day. He was brutally beaten and assaulted by police following this attack.


Nine MOVE members were all found guilty of firing the same bullet and were convicted of murder, assault and conspiracy by the late Judge Edwin S. Malmed. The MOVE 9 were subsequently sentenced to 30 to 100 years in prison.” (onamove.com) Despite serving over 40 years of a 30-to-100-year sentence, Delbert Africa remains unjustly imprisoned.


The MOVE ORGANIZATION is calling for people to join us this Friday August 9th 2019 at 9:00am At Hospital 1000 East Mountain Blvd. Wilkes-Barre, Pa 18711.
If you are traveling from Philadelphia meet at JFK Blvd and 30th St. at 6AM for rides.


FOR more info call
Carlos Africa 215 385 2772
Sue Africa 215 387 4107
Janine Africa 610 724 4504
The MOVE ORGANIZATION
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Feel the Bern 🔥 🔥 Bernie Sanders for President

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Bernie Sanders for President<info@berniesanders.com>
To  alfred johnson  

Alfred -
When Bernie launched his first campaign for president, there was some thought about what the hashtag should be.
A few ideas floated around: #Bernie2016 was an obvious one and some folks on social media wanted to use #BerniesArmy. But before headquarters tried to push anything, the movement decided and a winner emerged:
#FeelTheBern
So now — for the first time ever, we’re offering official Feel the Bern stickers... but only until Sunday night.
Image of Feel the Bernie sticker
This is one of the most popular designs we’ve ever made for a lot of campaign merchandise... but it’s never been a sticker.
For this weekend only, you can get your Feel the Bern sticker with a donation of any amount to our campaign. But that’s it — it ends Sunday night.
Thanks for all you do.
Feel the Bern,
Team Bernie






Please join the Global Network, and below listed co-sponsors, in calling for local events during space week on October 5-12 Let us know what events you hold so we can share the full list around the globe.

Please join the Global Network, and below listed co-sponsors, in calling for local events during space week on October 5-12
 
Let us know what events you hold so we can share the full list around the globe.
 
Our demands are:
  • No Space Force
  • No Missile Defense
  • Close U.S./NATO Bases Worldwide
  • Stop Drones Surveillance & Killing
  • End Privatization of Foreign/Military Policy
  • Convert the Military Industrial Complex
  • Deal with climate change and global poverty
  • Support the Green New Deal 

WARS ABROAD, WARS AT HOME Image result for MLK Beyond VietnamFifty years ago, MLK said: “As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men…

WARS ABROAD, WARS AT HOME

Image result for MLK Beyond VietnamFifty years ago, MLK said:
“As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men…  I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they asked, and rightly so …if our own nation wasn’t using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent…   “A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth…  A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death…  "Beyond Vietnam" April 4, 1968

Climate Demo on MASS Dems

VFP eNews: Veterans Condemn Racist Attacks Veterans For Peace

Veterans For Peace<vfp@veteransforpeace.org>
To  Alfred Johnson  
 
August 9, 2019 - Veterans Condemn Racist Violence, Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki, The Golden Rule Arrives in Hawai'i!, Muana Kea, Korea Armistice Day, Poor People's Campaign, New Podcast: Dee Knight , VFP Newsletters, VFP In the News and Calendar
 
Veterans For Peace Louisville chapter at Moms Demand Action

Veterans Condemn Racist Violence

Veterans For Peace strongly condemns the terrorist attack conducted by a white nationalist in El Paso, Texas, and the mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio. We hold Donald Trump accountable for his part in stoking racism and bigotry. We hold news outlets accountable for not taking Trump to task for his racism. We hold the U.S. Congress accountable for not enacting legislation that will, in part, make the National Rifle Association culpable for fomenting an atmosphere of lawlessness in our society. Their lack of will and lack of courage makes attacks by domestic terrorists a far too frequent occurrence. This cowardice continues to allow wanton murder to occur unchecked. We furthermore hold that the U.S. Congress’ unwillingness to confront and oppose the racist, bigoted language of the current occupant of the White House to be unconscionable.
Read the Entire Statement
#VetsSpeakOut #VetsVsHate
 
Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki

We continue to be dismayed at the lack of accountability that the U.S. has taken towards unleashing the most devastating attack the world has ever seen.  The U.S. remains the only country in the world that has used nuclear weapons, of which the side effects are still being felt today.
Veterans For Peace now takes up the call of the Hibakusha. We who have trained for war and experienced war know its meaningless violence, its futility, its lies and false promises. We want to abolish all war, to end the violence of military intervention, and the threats of nuclear destruction.  Read entire statement
Veterans For Peace at Mauna Kea

Veterans For Peace in Mauna Kea

On July 30th, Veterans For Peace was honored to visit Mauna Kea and meet with the Elders circle.  VFP members presented this statement and a VFP flag.
 
Chris Overfelt testifying

VFP Testifies at Budget Committee with Poor People's Campaign

Chris Overfelt, a representative of Veterans For Peace from Kansas, as part of the Poor People's Campaign, gave his testimony during a hearing on poverty in America and the economic realities of struggling families.  

VFP members handing out literature in NYC

Korea Armistice Day

Veterans For Peace, New York joins a protest organized by Soobak Kim of the Korea Peace Campaign.  Calling attention to HR 152 and getting signatures to support the legislation calling for a formal end to the Korean War.


 
Podcast: Dee Knight

New Podcast: Dee Knight

Dee Knight, who left the US to resist the Vietnam War from Canada, declares, "Don't be afraid. Follow your conscience," in the newest Courage to Resist podcast produced in collaboration with the Vietnam Full Disclosure effort of Veterans For Peace.
Golden Rule in Hawaii

The Golden Rule Arrives in Hawai'i!

The Golden Rule arrived in Hilo, Hawai'i last week. It's been 61 years since the Golden Rule was in Hawai'i on one of it's original voyages in 1958!!!!
To receive a daily email about the Golden Rule's progress once Golden Rule, click here.


 
Mary Ellen

Peace is Possible!

Veterans For Peace Evansville made two great videos to get the word out about their chapter.
Check them out:

VFP Nashville Radio Hour Puerto Rico

(This was from last week but still relevant)
Thanks to friend of the show Kat Hitchcock we were able to interview three activists from the streets of San Juan as the people have come out and driven out their governor. The story goes much deeper than just ousting the governor. The people are ready to overthrow the current administration from top to bottom.  Listen Now!
 
Lars Pip

¡Presente! Lars Prip

Veterans For Peace will miss dedicated activist and fellow VFP friend, Lars Prip, who passed away last month.  Read this thoughtful remembrance of Lars.

VFP In the News

VFP In the News!

 
VFP in the News

Important Reminders!

Online registration is now closed for Convention.  You can still register, in person, in Spokane, starting on Thursday.
VFP Board and you are current VFP veteran member?  Contact Garett Reppenhagen
Veterans For Peace ballots are around the corner.  To vote you must be a verified member, in good standing, of Veterans For Peace.  If you need to renew your membership, click here!  To send in your DD214 (or other verified documentation), email shelly@veteransforpeace!
Upcoming Events

Calendar

June 10- August 6 - 2019 East Asia Peace Walk 
August 15-18 - Annual Veterans For Peace Convention in Spokane, Washington
August 27 - Kellogg-Briand Treaty Day
September 7-22 - VFP Trip to Viet Nam
For more calendar events, check out our website!
 
Veterans For Peace Annual Convention
See You in Spokane!
Make sure to check out our website on all things Convention related. Follow us on TwitterInstagram and Facebook if you aren't able to make it!  We are excited to see you in Spokane!
 
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