Re: There is a war on......

[Susan Harman <susanharman@igc.org>]

There were many great slogans in the Frisco demo. I immediately forgot 
most, Im sorry to say. I remember this one: Nuremburg Now.
And: No
C - Cheney
A - Ashcroft
R - Rumsfeld
B - Bush
And no Rice
Speaking of whom, have you noticed that her face seems to be collapsing 
in on itself? Her eyes are slits, her mouth is a slit, her forehead is 
squashed, and she looks truly evil.
Did you see Blitzers interview with Cheney?
A lotta, lotta people were there yesterday!
Susan
	

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> From: Rich Gibson <rgibson@pipeline.com>
> Date: Sun Jan 28, 2007  7:52:14 PM US/Pacific
> To: ca-resisters@interversity.org
> Subject: [ca-resisters] There is a war on......
> Reply-To: ca-resisters@interversity.org
>
> Sometimes it seems like education workers forget that what 
> encapsulates all of our every day work is the system of capital and 
> its birthplace in imperialism, which necessarily means perpetual war, 
> though the Bush open promise for nothing but that is quite striking. 
> It is the only thing he is not lying about.
>
> The US elites CANNOT leave Iraq, and cannot afford to lose, neither in 
> the Middle East oil regions nor in the Caucuses oil fields. The US 
> cannot allow imperial rivals like China, Japan, Russia, or Europe to 
> inveigle their way into that region, cannot afford to abandon the 
> social and geographical importance of that region. The US bosses 
> cannot openly display a military that is so incompetent, so cowardly, 
> that it becomes obvious to rivals that the US really is what Ho Chi 
> Minh used to call a "paper tiger."
>
> The US ruling class CANNOT become energy independent. And it cannot 
> halt its thirst for oil as every military in the world runs on oil, 
> and the militaries are absolutely necessary to maintain the profits 
> won from imperial adventures.
>
> There is now a direct pipeline from the oil fields to war, and 
> importantly, from schools to war, where education workers are expected 
> to provide soldiers and civilians so witless that they are willing to 
> go fight and die for what are really the enemies of their real > enemies.
>
> That the regimentation of the curricula and racist, anti working class 
> high stakes tests are so frequently taken up apart from this 
> overarching process of war and profiteering, especially in these times 
> of emerging fascism, is troubling, but perhaps not surprising. The fog 
> that is the media today may have a lot to do with that, and school 
> workers remain relatively privileged in the working class, and, 
> importantly, all the leaders of all the significant reform groups, 
> like the unions, are corrupt to the core.
>
> So, here are two pieces, one from Chalmers Johnson, whose work on the 
> books Blowback and Sorrows of Empire, has been remarkably presicient, 
> and one from me, taking up the question of what to do.
>
> http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16260.htm
>
> http://susanohanian.org/show_atrocities.html?id=6831
>
> The demonstrations this weekend were heartening in many ways, 
> especially here in San Diego where what little antiwar action there 
> was seemed to be slipping away. Nobody, however, is going to save us 
> but us. No politician, no movement hero, nobody but our own actions on 
> the job and off is going to halt the rush toward expanded war, 
> bankruptcy, and fascism.
>
> Up the rebels.
>
> best, r
>
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