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

[Rich Gibson <rgibson@pipeline.com>]

Susan

That is the best idea I have heard in months. A terrific scheme, and 
nice too. Nice sometimes works, and surely would be the underpinning 
of a better day ahead. .

Now, how do we figure out how to find a troop pen pal?

I hope you will bring this up at the RF conference. It is really, 
really subversive.

While I still like Michael Collins, it is a grand plan. There are 
actually far more teachers than troops, at least right now. So the 
odds are pretty good.

best r


At 09:45 PM 1/28/2007, you wrote:
> Troops and Teachers Against the Wars
> has a nice ring. Can each teacher find a serviceperson to take on as a penpal?
> Susan
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > 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
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------
> > Report list problems to listmom@interversity.net
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> Report list problems to listmom@interversity.net