[Listeeworld] Fwd: Obama makes the case for war; We Say NO!

From: debrasweet@worldcantwait.org
To: edelkin@aol.com
Sent: 12/2/2009 4:18:32 A.M. Pacific Standard Time
Subj: Obama makes the case for war; We Say NO!

From the Desk of Debra Sweet, Director, The World Can't Wait

Breaking News from the Culture of Resistance

Outernational, a righteously radical NYC-based band has just released this new video: Sir No Sir! Check it out, and spread it!

On the eve of Obama's announcement of his escalation of the war in Afghanistan the new rock band Outernational responded with a sharp and provocative music video:

"Sir No Sir"
with Graphic Design by Ron Wilhelmsen.

Speaking to the reality that confronts those who will fight Obama's war, lead singer Miles Solay sings:

Your planet's burning war and torture's madness
Bodies burning, whole countries torn to bits

First you're cannonfodder, now you're accomplices

I can see the scars from your arms to your conscience

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From the December 7, 2009 issue of The New Yorker:

"Channeling the radical stance and the disregard for stylistic parameters that were a hallmark of the Clash, New York City's Outernational is hell-bent on restoring righteous indignation to rock and roll through a propulsive, ska-inflected attack. The group is currently performing material from its new EP, "Eyes on Fire," which was produced by Tom Morello, the similarly inclined string-bender from Rage Against the Machine."

In NYC this weekend:

Sunday, Dec 6th at 7PM
Highline Ballroom NYC
Japanther and R-Tronika
$12 adv. $15 dos (advance purchase includes free download of 'Eyes On Fire')

EDWIN

Don't miss a chance to visibly protest the escalation of the war! More than 60 cities have protests Wednesday.

I was outside the Military Academcy at West Point tonight as President Obama spoke to the military and the whole country, making the case for escalating the now eight-year-old war/occupation of Afghanistan. The order was signed Sunday, the troops are beginning to ship out. This was just a cynical sales job.

Cleta Ciulla of Nyack joins a group of protesters outside West Point voicing their opposition to President Obama's decision to send more troops to Afghanistan Dec. 1, 2009. ((Vincent DiSalvio / The Journal News))

About 300 people came to protest the escalation Obama announed, more than we ever had protesting there during the Bush era. Over and over, people talked about having voted for Obama, but now being disillusioned, and really "heart broken" as Matthis Chiroux, the Iraq war resister put it. The protest, by the way, was quite intense, as the group marched silently to the main gate of West Point. Once there, we chanted STOP THIS WAR NOW!

Matthis, Elaine Brower and 16 others sat down in front of the gate for an hour, as drums and a sax, and a lot more chanting lited the intensity of the evening. Just after 8:00, when we knew the speech had begun, six of those "sitting in" moved to the active part of the gate, sat down again, and were immediately arrested for disorderly conduct. They were released to us about an hour later.

Is this more of the hope and change we wanted? Barack Obama outlined his plans tonight to raise the level of regular US troops to 100,000 now, on top of the military contractors already occupying Afghanistan. People are being killed in the thousands and truly, the richest country in the world is destroying one of the poorest. Check worldcantwait.net for more analysis tomorrow.

Others were protesting in front of the White House, and Cindy Sheehan was in Nevada at the Creech Air Force Base (one of the military's centers that deploys drones that kill people in Afghanistan and Pakistan). Protests continue tomorrow. Find one near you!

Outside of West Point, I found people who were angry and disillusioned. The anti-war movement as a whole collapsed in the wake of Obama's presidency. Some of our movement has a bad case of the blues over this, and I was with some people tonight who are waking up to our responsibility to stop this -- no matter who the president is.

Now is the time to sound the alarm and shake those who had been on the sidelines back into motion. The occupation of Iraq continues, and this surge of troops in Afghanistan definitely means more death and destruction.

First grainy cell-phone photos From Tuesday Action at West Point

Get in the streets for women and abortion rights!
Why should the right-wingers in Congress set the terms for women's lives? Why should the "tea-baggers" and racist lunatics be the only ones protesting in the streets?

The National Organization for Women and World Can't Wait have called for protest to defeat the further restrictions of abortion coverage.

For more information about Stupak-Pitts, read No Healthcare for Half of Humanity.

Watch "Abortion, Women's Lives, and the Democrat's Women-Killing Abortion Ban."

Pro-choice groups and individuals from across the country wil gather in Washington DC, Wednesday December 2 to mobilize against the Stupak-Pitts Amendment and for women's right to birth control and abortion.

NOW and World Can't Wait are calling for national protests this week. Find ororganize a protest at your local government building or Archdiocese (the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops was instrumental in pushing through Stupak-Pitts).

Debra Sweet, Director, The World Can't Wait

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