Thursday, August 30, 2007
Pacifica Commentary For August 29, 2007
There are many people out there who understand that we do not live in a monarchy. We are citizens, not subjects of the king.
So here is the message of The Voices for Creative Non-Violence. The project is called SODaPOP which stand for Seasons of Discontent: A Presidential Occupation Project.
The project begins this fall and will continue through January.
The offices of all Presidential Candidates who do not comply with the following demands of these citizens will be occupied in protest:
* A complete halt to all ground, air and naval military actions against Iraq and Iran.
* Full funding for the reconstruction of Iraq to repair the devastation caused by 17 years of warfare by the U.S. and its allies.
* Full funding for the Common Good in the United States to: rebuild our public education system; to promote a living wage, to provide a universal single payer health care system; to rebuild our country's deteriorating infrastructure and to reorganize the entire public sector of our society which has been devastated by an ideology of privatization.
Friends, we are not interested in seeing and hearing multibillion dollar advertising campaigns with meaningless political babble, especially from so-called liberals like Hillary and Obama. Just think, they are going to give us better wars, more effective wars, more funds for the military/industrial/prison/congressional and pharmaceutical lobbies. And, oh yes, they want nuclear weapons to remain on the table as a threat to the human race.
Voices for Creative Non-Violence in their Seasons of Discontent does not accept the double talk platforms of political power seekers. Voices is quite simply saying, here is a platform that expresses the hopes and desires of our people. We are tired of having our intelligence insulted on a daily basis by a corrupt and failed administration.
We deserve better than that. And if you can't offer something beneficial to the common good of our people, we will occupy your campaign offices to make our point.
Any candidate who wants to be elected in 2008 must affirm a dedication to the Constitution of the United States, all existing International Law, and to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
For more information on this project call: 773-878-3815 or email
And please listen to WORLD FOCUS, Sundays at 10:00 AM.
So here is the message of The Voices for Creative Non-Violence. The project is called SODaPOP which stand for Seasons of Discontent: A Presidential Occupation Project.
The project begins this fall and will continue through January.
The offices of all Presidential Candidates who do not comply with the following demands of these citizens will be occupied in protest:
* A complete halt to all ground, air and naval military actions against Iraq and Iran.
* Full funding for the reconstruction of Iraq to repair the devastation caused by 17 years of warfare by the U.S. and its allies.
* Full funding for the Common Good in the United States to: rebuild our public education system; to promote a living wage, to provide a universal single payer health care system; to rebuild our country's deteriorating infrastructure and to reorganize the entire public sector of our society which has been devastated by an ideology of privatization.
Friends, we are not interested in seeing and hearing multibillion dollar advertising campaigns with meaningless political babble, especially from so-called liberals like Hillary and Obama. Just think, they are going to give us better wars, more effective wars, more funds for the military/industrial/prison/congressional and pharmaceutical lobbies. And, oh yes, they want nuclear weapons to remain on the table as a threat to the human race.
Voices for Creative Non-Violence in their Seasons of Discontent does not accept the double talk platforms of political power seekers. Voices is quite simply saying, here is a platform that expresses the hopes and desires of our people. We are tired of having our intelligence insulted on a daily basis by a corrupt and failed administration.
We deserve better than that. And if you can't offer something beneficial to the common good of our people, we will occupy your campaign offices to make our point.
Any candidate who wants to be elected in 2008 must affirm a dedication to the Constitution of the United States, all existing International Law, and to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
For more information on this project call: 773-878-3815 or email
And please listen to WORLD FOCUS, Sundays at 10:00 AM.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Pacifica Commentary For August 22, 2007
THE PEACE MOVEMENT
People who are confined to commercial media are simply not in touch with the actual history of 2007. Among these unfortunates are those who say, "Where is the peace movement?" or "The peace movement is dead."
Much of the media and especially TV is delivered in a timeless bubble with no past and no future. The current movement of resistance in the United States is simply censored out of the equation.
* In the Southern California area there are more than fifty peace vigils each week.
* The Occupation Project has sat in the offices of 39 Representative and Senators demanding an end to the Iraq disaster. 320 of their members have been arrested. <www.vcnv.org>
* From September 14-21 the Declaration of Peace will coordinate a week of nonviolent actions in every Congressional District in the United States to defund the war. <www.declarationofpeace.org>
* September 15th There will be a National March on Washington to END THE WAR NOW and to impeach George Bush. <www.answercoalition.org>
* September 21 and every third Friday of every month, the Iraq Moratorium Campaign will conduct an escalating series of actions demanding an end to the war.
* October 21-23 NO WAR NO WARMING will have a massive intervention in Washington, D.C. <www.nowarnowarming.org>
* October 27 there is a coordinated plan for ten huge demonstrations across the United States. <www.unitedforpeace.org>
* Currently citizens are walking and biking across the country to end this war now.
* Then there is the giant annual manifestation by School of the Americas Watch at Ft. Benning, Georgia scheduled for November 16-18.
All of the aforementioned plans are accompanied by the actions of our troops who have shown the courage to resist an illegal war. Thousands have left their units and many have gone public. Sadly, scores of troops have committed suicide. Veterans have established memorials all over the country, including Arlington West at Santa Monica Beach, to call attention to the ongoing bloodbath that is sustained by an unconscious and spineless Congress.
And all of this is just a sampling of what the movement for justice and peace is doing throughout the United States.
People who are confined to commercial media are simply not in touch with the actual history of 2007. Among these unfortunates are those who say, "Where is the peace movement?" or "The peace movement is dead."
Much of the media and especially TV is delivered in a timeless bubble with no past and no future. The current movement of resistance in the United States is simply censored out of the equation.
* In the Southern California area there are more than fifty peace vigils each week.
* The Occupation Project has sat in the offices of 39 Representative and Senators demanding an end to the Iraq disaster. 320 of their members have been arrested. <www.vcnv.org>
* From September 14-21 the Declaration of Peace will coordinate a week of nonviolent actions in every Congressional District in the United States to defund the war. <www.declarationofpeace.org>
* September 15th There will be a National March on Washington to END THE WAR NOW and to impeach George Bush. <www.answercoalition.org>
* September 21 and every third Friday of every month, the Iraq Moratorium Campaign will conduct an escalating series of actions demanding an end to the war.
* October 21-23 NO WAR NO WARMING will have a massive intervention in Washington, D.C. <www.nowarnowarming.org>
* October 27 there is a coordinated plan for ten huge demonstrations across the United States. <www.unitedforpeace.org>
* Currently citizens are walking and biking across the country to end this war now.
* Then there is the giant annual manifestation by School of the Americas Watch at Ft. Benning, Georgia scheduled for November 16-18.
All of the aforementioned plans are accompanied by the actions of our troops who have shown the courage to resist an illegal war. Thousands have left their units and many have gone public. Sadly, scores of troops have committed suicide. Veterans have established memorials all over the country, including Arlington West at Santa Monica Beach, to call attention to the ongoing bloodbath that is sustained by an unconscious and spineless Congress.
And all of this is just a sampling of what the movement for justice and peace is doing throughout the United States.
Thursday, August 09, 2007
Pacifica Commentary For August 8, 2007
The current condition of our government is one of absolute chaos. Strangely, it seems that everyone outside of government knows that we have descended into a morass.
The inability of government to extricate itself from this mess is based on a failure to learn the lessons of history. Here are some of the fatal errors:
*Triumphalsm: we are always right and God is on our side.
*Imperialism: the world belongs to us because we have the most bombs.
*Denial: we have always intended to do the right thing but we might have madea tragic mistake.
*Pretension: we care about the Iraqi people, if we leave there might be violence.
All of the above illusions are still in place after we have starved, bombed, tortured, imprisoned and killed the Iraqi people and their children. Violent intrusion into countless Iraqi homes has created a powerful resistance.
We have actually shown our hand by offering Iraq a plan for distribution of their oil giving the lion's share (80%) to private multinational corporation with U.S. and British dominance.
The President claims we are fighting a war against terror. Any sane observer can see that war is terror. Our misleaders have created a massive expansion of Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
And now, the very same lies that gave us the Iraq disaster are being used to create a war with Iran. There is even a propaganda war identifying Islam as the problem. But any balanced observer knows that there are fanatics in every religious culture without exception.
Our nation has no authority to attack other countries based on their possession of nuclear weapons. We have signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which was designed to abolish nuclear weapons. And now our administration, together with some silly Republican and Democratic candidates with all the banality of evil, say, "Sure we can nuke Iran if we feel like it."
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the markers of our descent into perpetual war. Our brutal international interventions since August 6th and 9th of 1945 have been consistently backed by nuclear threats.
Militarism remains as the final phase of each previous culture. It will be the end of our culture if the people do not create a total regime change in the United States. A malicious polity representing 4% of the world's people will only create resistance on the part of the remaining 96%.
The inability of government to extricate itself from this mess is based on a failure to learn the lessons of history. Here are some of the fatal errors:
*Triumphalsm: we are always right and God is on our side.
*Imperialism: the world belongs to us because we have the most bombs.
*Denial: we have always intended to do the right thing but we might have madea tragic mistake.
*Pretension: we care about the Iraqi people, if we leave there might be violence.
All of the above illusions are still in place after we have starved, bombed, tortured, imprisoned and killed the Iraqi people and their children. Violent intrusion into countless Iraqi homes has created a powerful resistance.
We have actually shown our hand by offering Iraq a plan for distribution of their oil giving the lion's share (80%) to private multinational corporation with U.S. and British dominance.
The President claims we are fighting a war against terror. Any sane observer can see that war is terror. Our misleaders have created a massive expansion of Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
And now, the very same lies that gave us the Iraq disaster are being used to create a war with Iran. There is even a propaganda war identifying Islam as the problem. But any balanced observer knows that there are fanatics in every religious culture without exception.
Our nation has no authority to attack other countries based on their possession of nuclear weapons. We have signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which was designed to abolish nuclear weapons. And now our administration, together with some silly Republican and Democratic candidates with all the banality of evil, say, "Sure we can nuke Iran if we feel like it."
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the markers of our descent into perpetual war. Our brutal international interventions since August 6th and 9th of 1945 have been consistently backed by nuclear threats.
Militarism remains as the final phase of each previous culture. It will be the end of our culture if the people do not create a total regime change in the United States. A malicious polity representing 4% of the world's people will only create resistance on the part of the remaining 96%.
