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end of October.
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people to sound the alarm and affirm the principle that we must stand together
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Dear ,
Dennis Loo writes:
As Rebecca Solnit put it
in admonishing the Left to support Obama’s re-election: Obama may be killing
innocent children abroad, but that’s not new for American presidents (!!), and
Obama at least is promoting health care in ways that Mitt Romney
wouldn’t.
In other words, even if the Democrats and the Republicans are
not distinguishable in terms of foreign policy, at least with the Democrats you
get more humane domestic policies.These supposed differences in domestic
policies between the two parties are taken for granted as conventional wisdom,
but upon closer examination a very different picture
emerges.
Continue reading:
Who is Barack Obama Really? An
Examination of Obama’s Domestic Policies
Protesting Obama's Wars this Past Weekend
From the speech by Stephanie Tang for the San Francisco rally
against the war in Afghanistan:
 Yesterday I was at a high school with a young army vet
on the We Are Not Your Soldiers Tour. We spoke in 3 classes, telling the
students the truth about America’s wars.
These students were between 4
and 6 years old the day the U.S. attacked Afghanistan. Now they see military
recruiters prowling their campuses because the empire needs them to fight, kill,
and die for it. I am outraged - Are you?
We here know the story of these
11 years. How Bush launched illegal illegitimate war in Iraq/Afghanistan. How
Obama’s expanded those wars into 3 more countries.
In Pakistan, 45 drone
bombings during the entire Bush Regime. During Obama’s first year alone he sent
51 – and he’s now up to 284 in Pakistan alone.
Afghan casualties are
higher now than at any other time since the invasion. Special Forces, military
operations that terrorize those they don’t kill, night raids, the ongoing use of
torture, and mythology spun by the mass media to make the public think all this
is OK.
 Obama himself has declared this will continue for at
least another ten years. This is happening in our names. Are you for this
or against it?Continue
reading...
News coverage from
San Francisco, where activists have been conducting We Are Not Your Soldiers
presentations in schools, protested the war this past weekend, and interacted
with thousands of Obama supporters lined up for a fundraiser on
Monday:
Protesters gather in Civic Center
Plaza for Obama fundraiser
(KTVU)Obama pursues base, bucks in
California (SFGate)
Evening News (Pacifica
Radio)
Protesters Gather Outside Obama
Fundraiser (SF Appeal)
More photos
Photos from Times Square NYC, where we gathered with a replica drone, shoes
symbolizing the countless civilians being killed, and chalk for passersby to
contribute their messages: |
In Chicago, protesters had a die-in in Tribune Plaza amidst the
crowds downtown for the marathon. They then marched on Obama's campaign HQ where
they chanted "Obama, Romney, all the same, no more war crimes in our
name!"
Meanwhile, in Pakistan, anti-war activists
from the U.S. joined a march of thousands against US drones in the tribal areas,
drawing further attention to this hidden—and bipartisan—terror inflicted on the
people of the region. Read Kevin Gosztola's report, Peace March Against Drones in
Pakistan Ends with Rally After Convoy Stopped by
Army:
To show solidarity
with the people of Waziristan in Pakistan, who have experienced and been victims
of US drone strikes, thousands of Pakistanis marched in the Federally
Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan
led the march. Thirty-one American peace activists affiliated with CODEPINK
participated in the march as well.
The motorcade, which left Islamabad on
October 6, took a route that ended in Dera Ismail Khan (DIK) on the first day.
There was a rally in DIK at the end of this phase of the march. Then, on October
7, the motorcade continued onward and passed through Tank, a city nearby
Waziristan, where tens of thousands of people met the march as it
arrived.
As Barack Obama and Mitt Romney debate
foreign policy at Hofstra University, we will be outside with Reaper drone
replicas. More information: 866-973-4463. Also sponsored by
KnowDrones.com
More Protest in Upstate New
York:
Read the press release from Upstate Drone Action about their
recent action at the Hancock Air Base.
Join the conference call with Gregory Koger
On the phone Thursday October 11
10pm
Eastern / 7pm Pacific
Gregory Koger, activist and videographer from
Chicago will join us for a special conversation on his case, his activism as a
former prisoner struggling against all forms of injustice, and the "criminal
justice" system which has cruelly persecuted him for years now. Find out more about his conviction
and add your support to a statement
which will be delivered to Cook County officials very soon. We look forward to
hearing directly from this dedicated and principled human being, who has
said,
"...outrages happened in a political prosecution in my case, but
they happen on a daily basis to millions of people herded through the courts
into the United States’ historically unprecedented system of mass
incarceration. Our struggle to defeat these charges has been a small part of
the broader struggle against this oppressive system that inflicts monumental
suffering on the people, here and around the world." |
Debra Sweet, Director, The World Can't Wait
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