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.
