| inbluevt | Date: Monday, 2013/06/24, 7:34 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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This is the good-news round-up of current worldwide resistance actions; in collecting them in one place, a more promising global picture is created. Seeing these events as tied together instead of as scattered news stories actually becomes a cause for hope. I know there has been a great deal of focus lately on Edward Snowden, heroic whistle blower or devil incarnate, to the point where we may never know who or what he is. But what we do have is a pile of information confirming what many of us already suspected. The question becomes, as usual, what do we do next?
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June 21, 2013 |
We are all subjects of the American Empire. Whether we live in North America, South America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East . . .we are all under the thumb of neo-liberal capitalism that puts concentrated corporate power in control of our lives.
For decades, American Empire and wealthy elite have forced privatization of resources
in developing countries and austerity measures on public programs. Now, we are also experiencing these same policies in wealthier nations like the US and Europe. All but the wealthiest are now members of the “Global South.” And, more and more people realize this. People from all over the world recognize that we must stand together in solidarity to challenge the tiny minority that dominates us. The revolts in Turkey, Brazil,
Europe, the Middle East and Asia – as well as in the United States – are
all connected.
These struggles share common messages that people are more important than profit, that human rights must be respected and that we want to live in peace with dignity. We see that capitalism is failing and that the people must take control to create the kind of world in which we want to live. The Afghan Peace Volunteers said this clearly in their recent open letter: “accomplishing these actions hinges on us, on climate change citizens, Arab Spring citizens, Occupy citizens and the ‘awakening’ citizens of every country to free
ourselves from the unequal dominance of corporate governments with their
laws and weapons of self-interest.”
And it’s happening. People from around the world are working in solidarity and protesting on behalf of others. Across the US, people are taking action to stop the drone warfare that kills innocent
Afghans, Pakistanis and others.
In Maine, they are taking a legislative approach along with protest and in Iowa, people are walking 195 miles to the Capital, Des Moines. The campaign to close Guantanamo stretches from the living rooms of US veterans to the Washington, DC to Yemen. Three veterans, Elliott Adams, Diane Wilson and Tarak Kauff are on a solidarity hunger strike with the prisoners. They are coming to Washington, DC next week to protest and invite you to join them. Codepink recently traveled to Yemen to learn from the families of the prisoners about the impact of Guantanamo on their families.
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