Greensboro, NC
Protesters Dog Bush in North Carolina
By David Dixon
When President George Bush came to North Carolina on Oct 18, he was met by protesters all through the day.
He came to the predominantly African-American Waldo C Falkener Elementary School to tout the supposed success of his No Child Left Behind Act. Some 45 people showed up to demonstrate against his policies of endless war, torture, neglect of Rita/Katrina victims, and dishonesty. One protester held a sign that said “No child left a dime! (behind)” to highlight his tax cuts for the wealthy & gutting of social programs for working & poor people.
Afterwards, Bush was greeted by a group of protesters in Randleman, NC when he went to the Victory Junction Gang Camp, founded by Nascar’s Kyle Petty.
Then came the real life nightmare on Elm St when Bush came back to Greensboro to a wealthy enclave near Elm St & Sunset Dr to attend a private republican fundraiser where he raised over $900,000. It was held at the home of Louis DeJoy, CEO of New Breed Inc & Aldona Wos, the U.S. ambassador to Estonia. People are so disgusted with Bush & his policies that even some people in the neighborhood joined the protest.
Some 130 people came out demanding Bush be jailed for his war crimes & subversion of our constitutional rights. It was a lively protest with drummers keeping everyone’s spirits & energy up. People chanted to the beat of the drums saying, “There’s a killer in the White House, time to drive his ass out!” (the favorite of the day), “End the occupation”, Bush is bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a-s, this war is bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a-s.”
When protesters attempted to march into the neighborhood to demonstrate in front of the fundraiser, a line of cops formed. Progressive attorney Louis Pitts, after speaking with police, informed the crowd our rights were being violated. Police claimed the area was a “secure area” but were allowing cars to drive in and Bush supporters were visibly on the sidewalk ahead. Demonstrators held an impromptu street meeting to decide what to do next.
Before the discussion ended, police had closed off the entire street. It was decided not to risk arrest & police violence by crossing the line and the protest continued as people marched around the busy intersection. However, several protesters were able to sneak around the block & protest at the fundraiser.
Some signs at the demonstration included “Arrest Bush”, “Arrest the Terrorist”, “Drive Out The Bush Regime”, “1776: Patriots v George III; 2006: Patriots v George W”, “Torture hurts, don’t do it, not in my name, thank you” (referring to religious beliefs) In addition, the peace ribbon, honoring “coalition” soldiers & Iraqis killed in war, was on display. There was a makeshift jail with Bush inside, a towering orange arrest warrant, a hula-hooper for peace, a black coffin with “Roe v Wade” painted on the side, and a large pink banner saying “Impeach to support our troops.”
Almost all the protesters wore an orange ribbon and some dressed in orange to show their opposition to the recently passed Military Commissions Act of 2006 which legalizes torture. The act also strips away the right to habeas corpus to anyone Bush declares an enemy combatant, among many other unconstitutional aspects of this new law.
The protest was organized primarily by Greensboro World Can’t Wait, with the support of Action Center For Justice & Char-Meck Code Pink. People from around NC participated including the city’s of Charlotte, Reidsville, Kernersville, Burlington, Wilmington, Winston-Salem, & Chapel Hill.
The protest was covered by a couple local news stations and Greensboro’s News & Record. As usual, they under reported the number of people & ignored many of the most significant statements & details of this incredible display of disillusionment with the Bush regime.
For photos see http://new.photos.yahoo.com/actforjustice/album/576460762327121156
For news coverage, including video see http://charlotteaction.blogspot.com/2006/10/oct-18-bush-protest-news-coverage.html
Carol Marley contributed to this report.
Oct 18 Bush Protest News Coverage
Video available at http://www.wxii12.com/news/10095690/detail.html# (click on the link "Melissa Marsh: Protesting the President" in right column)
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News & Record
http://bjnlb.us.publicus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061019/NEWSREC0101/61019002/-1/NEWSREC0201&template=printart
President’s motorcade draws groups of protesters to route
By Amy Dominello
Staff Writer
GREENSBORO — As President Bush toured the Triad on Wednesday, protesters were almost always nearby.
About two dozen protestors gathered outside Falkener Elementary School in Greensboro, waiting for his 2 p.m. arrival.
Protesters carried signs that read "War criminal" and "Drive out the Bush regime." A small, makeshift jail cell was set up with an effigy of Bush inside.
As Bush’s motorcade left the school, protestors waved signs and chanted "Killer in the White House, time to drive his a-- out."
A small group also protested in Randleman as Bush visited the Victory Junction Gang Camp.
The biggest group — about 50 protesters — lined North Elm Street and Sunset Drive in Greensboro, near where Bush attended a fundraising dinner.
The Rev. Charles Hawes, 68, a former Episcopal chaplain at UNCG and Guilford College, lives nearby and heard Bush would be in his neighborhood.
"I wanted to show there were others in the neighborhood who were not so welcoming," said Hawes, holding a sign that read "Shame."
The group The World Can’t Wait! — which helped organize some of the protests — said the fundraiser supported Bush’s "torture" policies regarding prisoners in Guantanamo. Many wore orange ribbons or clothes in protest.
Tina Mercado, 48, brought her daughter Talia, 10, who was dressed in an orange jumpsuit.
Mercado, of Reidsville, said it was important for her daughter to learn about Bush’s policies.
"He lies, and he wants war to happen, and that’s not the right thing," Talia said.
Staff writer Jason Hardin contributed to this report.
Contact Amy Dominello at 373-7091 or adominello@news-record.com
Copyright © 2006
The News & Record
and Landmark Communications, Inc.
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News & Record
http://bjnlb.us.publicus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061019/NEWSREC0101/61019002/-1/NEWSREC0201&template=printart
President’s motorcade draws groups of protesters to route
By Amy Dominello
Staff Writer
GREENSBORO — As President Bush toured the Triad on Wednesday, protesters were almost always nearby.
About two dozen protestors gathered outside Falkener Elementary School in Greensboro, waiting for his 2 p.m. arrival.
Protesters carried signs that read "War criminal" and "Drive out the Bush regime." A small, makeshift jail cell was set up with an effigy of Bush inside.
As Bush’s motorcade left the school, protestors waved signs and chanted "Killer in the White House, time to drive his a-- out."
A small group also protested in Randleman as Bush visited the Victory Junction Gang Camp.
The biggest group — about 50 protesters — lined North Elm Street and Sunset Drive in Greensboro, near where Bush attended a fundraising dinner.
The Rev. Charles Hawes, 68, a former Episcopal chaplain at UNCG and Guilford College, lives nearby and heard Bush would be in his neighborhood.
"I wanted to show there were others in the neighborhood who were not so welcoming," said Hawes, holding a sign that read "Shame."
The group The World Can’t Wait! — which helped organize some of the protests — said the fundraiser supported Bush’s "torture" policies regarding prisoners in Guantanamo. Many wore orange ribbons or clothes in protest.
Tina Mercado, 48, brought her daughter Talia, 10, who was dressed in an orange jumpsuit.
Mercado, of Reidsville, said it was important for her daughter to learn about Bush’s policies.
"He lies, and he wants war to happen, and that’s not the right thing," Talia said.
Staff writer Jason Hardin contributed to this report.
Contact Amy Dominello at 373-7091 or adominello@news-record.com
Copyright © 2006
The News & Record
and Landmark Communications, Inc.
Oct 18 Protest Bush in Greensboro, NC
Action Center For Justice & NC World Can't Wait are teaming up to:
Protest EVERY STOP on Bush's NC visit to Greensboro!
Protest EVERY STOP on Bush's NC visit to Greensboro!
11:30 AM Greensboro, NC: Lunch with community leaders. Location TBA, check local news, we'll be there!
12:30 PM Greensboro, NC: Meet up at the triangular park at corner of E. Market and Franklin Blvd. for picket near Falkener Elementary school
3:00 PM Randleman, NC: Visit to Victory Junction Gang Camp, protest courtesy of Asheboro World Can't Wait chapter! Contact gn7han@carolina.net
4:30 PM Greensboro, NC: Line up along N. Elm St near Sunset Dr. to protest fundraiser for pro-torture politicians!
To carpool from Charlotte contact Action Center For Justice at (704) 492-8527.
Greensboro contact: NC World Can't Wait (336) 574-9088
For updates & more upcoming events see www.CharlotteAction.org.
Congress gives Bush more repressive law
Published Oct 15, 2006 11:28 PM www.workers.org
George W. Bush, early in his presidency, said that things would be a lot easier if he were a dictator. With the complicity of the legislative and judicial branches of government, Bush could get much closer to his wish.
Only the efforts of the people, united to defend their rights and to oppose empire, stand in his way.
Amid little fanfare, on Sept. 27 Congress passed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (S3930), which effectively suspends the writ of habeas corpus for those deemed “enemy combatants” by the president.
Habeas corpus has been touted as “the foundation of all human rights legislation since before the Magna Carta.” The U.S. Supreme Court has said it is “the fundamental instrument for safeguarding individual freedom against arbitrary and lawless state action.”
Under S3930, according to a New York Times editorial of Sept. 28, once a person is designated an “enemy combatant” he/she is subject “to arrest and indefinite detention with no hope of appeal.” With the elimination of habeas corpus, the Times points out, the disappeared “would lose the basic right to challenge their imprisonment.” Forever.
The act gives the Bush administration the authority to decide what does and does not constitute torture, and allows other governments, allies or puppets of the United States, to torture and imprison these so-called “enemy combatants” at will.
Patriot Act on crack
The Military Commissions Act subjects U.S. citizens, as well as others, to abuses that were denied to the government under the USA Patriot Act. This is accomplished by redefining an “unlawful enemy combatant” as “a person who has engaged in hostilities or who has purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States or its co-belligerents who is not a lawful enemy combatant.”
It also says, “No court, justice, or judge shall have jurisdiction to hear or consider an application for a writ of habeas corpus filed by or on behalf of an alien detained by the United States who has been determined by the United States to have been properly detained as an enemy combatant or is awaiting such determination.”
There are already an unknown number of people “awaiting” in torture cells and prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo and prisons in the United States. The U.S. is no stranger to repression and torture, as its history from the Indian Wars to the Philippines to Vietnam to Latin America has shown.
The British Magna Carta, which established habeas corpus in 1215, has for centuries been ignored when it served the state’s agenda. In 1870, Karl Marx wrote of the British treatment of Irish revolutionaries: “Thousands of people have been arrested ... without ever having been tried, brought before a judge or court, or even charged. Not content with depriving them of their liberty, the ... Government has had them tortured in the most savage way imaginable.” (Karl Marx, “The English Government and the Fenian Prisoners,” 1870)
Who is at risk?
How broad will the definition of “enemy combatant” go? In a speech on Sept. 5, George Bush declared war on the entire anti-war movement. He said there is “a media campaign to create a wedge between the American people and their government,” and that anyone who would say that the war on terror is causing financial losses and casualties is acting “under the influence of Bin Laden.”
Bush has only to sign this bill into law. In the crosshairs now are Arab and Muslim people, but as the case of attorney Lynne Stewart shows, and raids on immigrants indicate, it is open season on anyone the government wishes to detain, deport or prosecute.
Even establishment liberals are worried. Sen. Patrick Leahy said on Pacifica Radio’s “Democracy Now” on Sept. 29 that S3930 “removes as many checks and balances as possible so that any president can basically set the law, determine what laws they’ll follow and what laws they’ll break and not have anybody be able to question them on it.”
Marjorie Cohn, president-elect of the National Lawyers Guild, wrote that the Military Commissions Act of 2006 “provides the basis for the president to round up both aliens and U.S. citizens he determines have given material support to terrorists. Kellogg Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Cheney’s Halliburton, is constructing a huge facility at an undisclosed location to hold tens of thousands of undesirables.” (Counterpunch, Sept. 30)
Voting in favor of S3930 were 65 senators, 53 of them Republicans and 12 Democrats.
The New York Times worries that S3930 is “a tyrannical law that will be ranked with the low points in American democracy, our generation’s version of the Alien and Sedition Acts” of 1798.
But people resisted those laws. Over 200 years ago immigrants and native-born citizens smashed those acts without intervention or protection of the Congress or the courts.
During the Korean War, the U.S. Congress declared a State of Emergency that is still on the books. The law has not been used because of peoples’ resistance movements, beginning with the civil rights movement.
Laws are only as strong as the government’s ability to enforce them, which means that people in motion have the right and the ability to thwart any draconian attempts to curb their rights.
Congress gives Bush more repressive law
By Heather Cottin
Published Oct 15, 2006 11:28 PM www.workers.org
George W. Bush, early in his presidency, said that things would be a lot easier if he were a dictator. With the complicity of the legislative and judicial branches of government, Bush could get much closer to his wish.
Only the efforts of the people, united to defend their rights and to oppose empire, stand in his way.
Amid little fanfare, on Sept. 27 Congress passed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (S3930), which effectively suspends the writ of habeas corpus for those deemed “enemy combatants” by the president.
Habeas corpus has been touted as “the foundation of all human rights legislation since before the Magna Carta.” The U.S. Supreme Court has said it is “the fundamental instrument for safeguarding individual freedom against arbitrary and lawless state action.”
Under S3930, according to a New York Times editorial of Sept. 28, once a person is designated an “enemy combatant” he/she is subject “to arrest and indefinite detention with no hope of appeal.” With the elimination of habeas corpus, the Times points out, the disappeared “would lose the basic right to challenge their imprisonment.” Forever.
The act gives the Bush administration the authority to decide what does and does not constitute torture, and allows other governments, allies or puppets of the United States, to torture and imprison these so-called “enemy combatants” at will.
Patriot Act on crack
The Military Commissions Act subjects U.S. citizens, as well as others, to abuses that were denied to the government under the USA Patriot Act. This is accomplished by redefining an “unlawful enemy combatant” as “a person who has engaged in hostilities or who has purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States or its co-belligerents who is not a lawful enemy combatant.”
It also says, “No court, justice, or judge shall have jurisdiction to hear or consider an application for a writ of habeas corpus filed by or on behalf of an alien detained by the United States who has been determined by the United States to have been properly detained as an enemy combatant or is awaiting such determination.”
There are already an unknown number of people “awaiting” in torture cells and prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo and prisons in the United States. The U.S. is no stranger to repression and torture, as its history from the Indian Wars to the Philippines to Vietnam to Latin America has shown.
The British Magna Carta, which established habeas corpus in 1215, has for centuries been ignored when it served the state’s agenda. In 1870, Karl Marx wrote of the British treatment of Irish revolutionaries: “Thousands of people have been arrested ... without ever having been tried, brought before a judge or court, or even charged. Not content with depriving them of their liberty, the ... Government has had them tortured in the most savage way imaginable.” (Karl Marx, “The English Government and the Fenian Prisoners,” 1870)
Who is at risk?
How broad will the definition of “enemy combatant” go? In a speech on Sept. 5, George Bush declared war on the entire anti-war movement. He said there is “a media campaign to create a wedge between the American people and their government,” and that anyone who would say that the war on terror is causing financial losses and casualties is acting “under the influence of Bin Laden.”
Bush has only to sign this bill into law. In the crosshairs now are Arab and Muslim people, but as the case of attorney Lynne Stewart shows, and raids on immigrants indicate, it is open season on anyone the government wishes to detain, deport or prosecute.
Even establishment liberals are worried. Sen. Patrick Leahy said on Pacifica Radio’s “Democracy Now” on Sept. 29 that S3930 “removes as many checks and balances as possible so that any president can basically set the law, determine what laws they’ll follow and what laws they’ll break and not have anybody be able to question them on it.”
Marjorie Cohn, president-elect of the National Lawyers Guild, wrote that the Military Commissions Act of 2006 “provides the basis for the president to round up both aliens and U.S. citizens he determines have given material support to terrorists. Kellogg Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Cheney’s Halliburton, is constructing a huge facility at an undisclosed location to hold tens of thousands of undesirables.” (Counterpunch, Sept. 30)
Voting in favor of S3930 were 65 senators, 53 of them Republicans and 12 Democrats.
The New York Times worries that S3930 is “a tyrannical law that will be ranked with the low points in American democracy, our generation’s version of the Alien and Sedition Acts” of 1798.
But people resisted those laws. Over 200 years ago immigrants and native-born citizens smashed those acts without intervention or protection of the Congress or the courts.
During the Korean War, the U.S. Congress declared a State of Emergency that is still on the books. The law has not been used because of peoples’ resistance movements, beginning with the civil rights movement.
Laws are only as strong as the government’s ability to enforce them, which means that people in motion have the right and the ability to thwart any draconian attempts to curb their rights.
Published Oct 15, 2006 11:28 PM www.workers.org
George W. Bush, early in his presidency, said that things would be a lot easier if he were a dictator. With the complicity of the legislative and judicial branches of government, Bush could get much closer to his wish.
Only the efforts of the people, united to defend their rights and to oppose empire, stand in his way.
Amid little fanfare, on Sept. 27 Congress passed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (S3930), which effectively suspends the writ of habeas corpus for those deemed “enemy combatants” by the president.
Habeas corpus has been touted as “the foundation of all human rights legislation since before the Magna Carta.” The U.S. Supreme Court has said it is “the fundamental instrument for safeguarding individual freedom against arbitrary and lawless state action.”
Under S3930, according to a New York Times editorial of Sept. 28, once a person is designated an “enemy combatant” he/she is subject “to arrest and indefinite detention with no hope of appeal.” With the elimination of habeas corpus, the Times points out, the disappeared “would lose the basic right to challenge their imprisonment.” Forever.
The act gives the Bush administration the authority to decide what does and does not constitute torture, and allows other governments, allies or puppets of the United States, to torture and imprison these so-called “enemy combatants” at will.
Patriot Act on crack
The Military Commissions Act subjects U.S. citizens, as well as others, to abuses that were denied to the government under the USA Patriot Act. This is accomplished by redefining an “unlawful enemy combatant” as “a person who has engaged in hostilities or who has purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States or its co-belligerents who is not a lawful enemy combatant.”
It also says, “No court, justice, or judge shall have jurisdiction to hear or consider an application for a writ of habeas corpus filed by or on behalf of an alien detained by the United States who has been determined by the United States to have been properly detained as an enemy combatant or is awaiting such determination.”
There are already an unknown number of people “awaiting” in torture cells and prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo and prisons in the United States. The U.S. is no stranger to repression and torture, as its history from the Indian Wars to the Philippines to Vietnam to Latin America has shown.
The British Magna Carta, which established habeas corpus in 1215, has for centuries been ignored when it served the state’s agenda. In 1870, Karl Marx wrote of the British treatment of Irish revolutionaries: “Thousands of people have been arrested ... without ever having been tried, brought before a judge or court, or even charged. Not content with depriving them of their liberty, the ... Government has had them tortured in the most savage way imaginable.” (Karl Marx, “The English Government and the Fenian Prisoners,” 1870)
Who is at risk?
How broad will the definition of “enemy combatant” go? In a speech on Sept. 5, George Bush declared war on the entire anti-war movement. He said there is “a media campaign to create a wedge between the American people and their government,” and that anyone who would say that the war on terror is causing financial losses and casualties is acting “under the influence of Bin Laden.”
Bush has only to sign this bill into law. In the crosshairs now are Arab and Muslim people, but as the case of attorney Lynne Stewart shows, and raids on immigrants indicate, it is open season on anyone the government wishes to detain, deport or prosecute.
Even establishment liberals are worried. Sen. Patrick Leahy said on Pacifica Radio’s “Democracy Now” on Sept. 29 that S3930 “removes as many checks and balances as possible so that any president can basically set the law, determine what laws they’ll follow and what laws they’ll break and not have anybody be able to question them on it.”
Marjorie Cohn, president-elect of the National Lawyers Guild, wrote that the Military Commissions Act of 2006 “provides the basis for the president to round up both aliens and U.S. citizens he determines have given material support to terrorists. Kellogg Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Cheney’s Halliburton, is constructing a huge facility at an undisclosed location to hold tens of thousands of undesirables.” (Counterpunch, Sept. 30)
Voting in favor of S3930 were 65 senators, 53 of them Republicans and 12 Democrats.
The New York Times worries that S3930 is “a tyrannical law that will be ranked with the low points in American democracy, our generation’s version of the Alien and Sedition Acts” of 1798.
But people resisted those laws. Over 200 years ago immigrants and native-born citizens smashed those acts without intervention or protection of the Congress or the courts.
During the Korean War, the U.S. Congress declared a State of Emergency that is still on the books. The law has not been used because of peoples’ resistance movements, beginning with the civil rights movement.
Laws are only as strong as the government’s ability to enforce them, which means that people in motion have the right and the ability to thwart any draconian attempts to curb their rights.
Oct 28 Anti-War Rallies Coast to Coast! Defend The Charlotte Six!
Rally at
in front of war profiteer Shell Gas station
End Colonial Occupation from
Defend The Charlotte Six & the Right to Dissent!
Drop the Charges Now!
October 28 National Day of Action
Locally Coordinated Anti-War Protests from Coast to Coast
Vote With Your Feet … and Your Voices, and Banners, and Signs!
Let Every Politician Feel the Power of the People!
The people of this country should have the right to vote on the continuation of the war against Iraq. If this was a government of, by and for the people, the November 2006 election would be a referendum on Iraq. The popular will of the people is to end the war against Iraq. But the question of Iraq is not on the ballot. Most people will only have the chance to vote for politicians from one of the Twin Parties of Militarism. Neither represent the sentiment of the people who favor the immediate end to a criminal enterprise the selling of which has been based on lie, after lie, after lie.
Iraq is bleeding. Hundreds of thousands of people have died. U.S. soldiers are killing and being killed in a war of aggression, and taxpayers are spending $2 billion each week for a repeat of Vietnam.
The White House and the Pentagon have created a death-squad government in Baghdad that is modeled on the "Salvadoran Option" of the 1980's whereby the U.S. government employed military and police death squads to quell a popular insurgency or resistance movement.
The people of this country are confronted with a choice in the face of this imperialist criminality. What shall we do in a situation where the majority sentiment favors an immediate end to the war but this sentiment has no real voice within the established political system?
The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition has initiated a call for locally coordinated protests on Saturday, October 28th, just days before the pitiful charade known as the 2006 mid-term elections. The people will force the issue of the Iraq war onto the U.S. political stage by taking to streets in demonstrations in cities and towns throughout the United States. Tens of thousands of people will take to the streets in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, New York, Miami, Washington D.C. and in other large and small cities and towns throughout the United States.
Please make a donation today to help pay the many expenses for the October 28th protests. We are printing thousands of leaflets, and also need to print posters, placards, and petitions. We can only meet these and other expenses associated with building the antiwar movement with your generous donation. Please see http://www.geocities.com/nomorevictims/support to donate or for information on sending a check.
From Iraq to Palestine and Everywhere -- One War, Many Fronts
The war in Iraq is part of a region-wide strategy in the Middle East. The bankrolling of Israel's escalating war against the Palestinian people is a central component of this strategy. The war against Palestine, including economic strangulation, bombings and assassinations, is paid for by the U.S. It is central to the aim of re-organizing the Middle East and to make it an outpost of U.S. neo-colonial domination and a giant forward-base area threatening the people of East Asia and South Asia and Africa. The threats against Iran and Syria must be understood in this context. So too should the widening war and occupation in Afghanistan.
We reject the call from the so-called opposition in Congress that calls for a strategic redeployment from Iraq and the placement of the divisions now deployed in Iraq into nearby locations and bases so that they can be used against other peoples in the Middle East. That is not a "peace platform" but a tweaking of imperialist military strategy.
We are building a global movement that unites rather than excludes all those who are resisting occupation and the threat of US military intervention.
The October 28 National Day of Action will also connect the Iraq war to Bush's illegal overthrow of the government of Haiti and the continued occupation of that country. U.S. foreign policy is a bi-partisan program for aggression and threats against Cuba and Venezuela and intervention in the Philippines and the Sudan.
The People Can End the War!
The bloodbath in Vietnam only ended because of the resistance of the people. In Vietnam the majority of the people supported those carrying out military resistance to the foreign military invaders. In the United States, the people built a wide-reaching movement that spread everywhere, grew in militancy and included tens of thousands of rank and file soldiers who were sick and tired of being ordered to kill and be killed in a racist, imperialist adventure.
The war abroad is also connected to the ongoing class war at home. The corporations and banks are on a rampage. Working class people in this country are suffering from huge layoffs, low wages, the destruction of pensions, and the slashing of traditional job benefits, especially health care coverage. Young people - who are taught that hard work conquers all - instead face massive education cuts that make their goals increasingly difficult to achieve.
At the same time as torture centers have been set up at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and many secret locations around the world, prisons are being constructed at a record pace here. Prisons and jails are constructed at a record pace as a new form of social warehousing and punishment for working class youth who are aggressively recruited not for higher education and skilled jobs but to serve as foot soldiers in the imperial army.
Institutionalized racism is taking a devastating toll as poverty mounts in African- American, Latino and Native American communities. Hurricane Katrina proved that the rich will use even the most devastating natural disaster to intensify, not lessen, their assault on the people. And yet working class communities are fighting back. As the recent mass demonstrations for immigrant rights prove, millions of people are ready to take to the streets and struggle for justice. The movement for justice at home and in opposition to war and militarism are becoming one united struggle.
Millions of people in the U.S. have fought against the war in Iraq since before the invasion started. Now we can mobilize from the millions more who have turned against the war and are sick and tired of the government's lies and deceit. Everyone must make the effort to reach out to their friends and neighbors and bring new people out into the streets.
All out for October 28 National Day of Action! Organize demonstrations, rallies, teach- ins, picket lines throughout every community in the United States.
Defend The Charlotte Six & the Right to Dissent.
For more information call Action Center For Justice at (704) 492-8527 or details and flyers will be posted at www.CharlotteAction.org.
Then come to the show...
Oct 28 The Casualties, Southside Punx, The Briefs, & Wednesday Night Heroes at 7:00pm at Tremont Music Hall, 400 W. Tremont Ave, Charlotte, NC. Tickets $12 available at www.etix.com.
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Oct 18 Invisible Ballots film screening
Oct 18 Invisible Ballots. A Temptation For Electronic Vote Fraud film screening.
INVISIBLE BALLOTS is an in-depth exposé of all-electronic computerized voting. Underneath the radar of public scrutiny, election officials and voting machine manufacturers are putting into service tens of thousands of touch screen voting machines that cannot be relied upon for accuracy or security from tampering. Elections already using these machines are often plagued by "glitches" and “technical problems” that only technicians working for the manufacturers can solve. Voting is swiftly coming under the control of private corporations using secret software with little or no independent oversight. These companies and the people who run them are rife with corruption and insider alliances. Mysterious election upsets are increasing, and verified recounts are impossible. If we are to preserve representative government, the public must learn the secrets revealed in Invisible Ballots and take action quickly.
To view a trailer & for more info about the film see http://www.invisibleballots.com/iballot.cfm?x=home
For more info about this screening contact Action Center For Justice at (704) 492-8527 or bringthemonhome@yahoo.com.
Books for Impeachment, Anti-War Shirts & Wall Calendars
Books for Impeachment, Anti-War Shirts & Wall Calendars
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Articles Of Impeachment Against George W. Bush
Paperback, 144 pages
$15 donation each (includes postage)
In the halls of Congress and on the front pages of a growing number of mainstream periodicals, impeachment is being discussed more and more widely. And many leading constitutional scholars agree: There has never been so strong a case for impeachment since Richard Nixon.
In this gripping new book, one of our nation's leading institutions of constitutional scholarship, the Center for Constitutional Rights, sets out the legal arguments for impeachment detailing four separate charges: warrantless surveillance, misleading Congress on the reasons for the Iraq war, violating laws against torture, and subverting the Constitution's separation of powers. It is, say the CCR attorneys, a case of black letter law, with abundant evidence.
The book also contains the relevant laws and legal precedents. It explains what the Constitution says about impeachment and gives a brief history of impeachment, its procedures, and previous articles of impeachment against presidents Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton.
About the Author
Founded in 1966 by attorneys defending civil rights activists in the South, the Center for Constitutional Rights is one of America's most prestigious collectives of constitutional lawyers and experts.
The Case For Impeachment: The Legal argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office
Hardcover, 288 pages
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It's time for the American people and Congress to act. With so much at stake, we have a president whose administration stands out in its criminality and disdain for the rule of law. The Case for Impeachment explains the legal history and grounds for impeaching George W. Bush and brings forth more than a half dozen articles of impeachment the likes of:*Lying and inducing Congress and the American people into an unjust war.*Allowing his friends and business cronies to profiteer off the war in Iraq.*Authorizing torture and rendition of prisoners of war and suspected terrorists--a complete violation of the Geneva Conventions, a treaty the U.S. has signed and is therefore part of our law.*Stripping American citizens of their Constitutional rights--holding people with no charge, wiretapping them illegally, offering them no trial, and never allowing them to face their accusers.*Failing in almost every way possible to defend the homeland and our borders. Hard hitting and persuasive in its argument, The Case for Impeachment will be one of the most talked-about political books for the pathetic remainder of the Bush Presidency.
About the Author
About the Author
DAVE LINDORFF is a journalist for over three decades who has written for numerous publications including, BusinessWeek, Salon, and The Nation. He's also the author of three books, This Can't Be Happening!, Killing Time, and Marketplace Medicine. BARBARA OLSHANSKY is the Director Counsel for The Center for Constitutional Rights who is currently managing habeas litigation on behalf of 300 detainees held at Guantanamo Bay.
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Colors of Palestine 2007 Wall Calendars
$20 donation each (includes postage)
Culture and art are the soul of human civilizations. Throughout history, culture and art have always been the celebration of freedom under oppression. The blooming of Palestinian culture and art under harsh and thorny conditions is a true example of the strength and defiance of the Palestinian character. The Palestinian art and artists have come a long way over the years and are beginning to enjoy international fame. Palestinian artists ought to be recognized for their creativity, talents, and persistence.
Resistance Art is a Palestinian initiative to celebrate the diversity and richness of Palestinian art and culture. As John Lennon said, "Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding is all you see." It takes courage to face life with eyes open. We, at Resistance Art, are happy to present to you a small window to the Palestinian people and culture. We would like to extend our thanks and gratitude to all Palestinian artists, who have been very supportive of this initiative.
We dedicate the “Colors of Palestine” 2007 Wall Calendar to the memory of Ghassan Kanafani, a Pioneer Palestinian artist (1936-1972).
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