War against the world? I am ready to resist. Knowing I am not alone, there must be mass resistance.
There is no simple way to describe the anger, the dispair, for the Arab
people that I feel. Imperialism is a monster. Now reckless in its
weakness, an anti-people machine.
Within the United States, Great Britain and to a much lesser extent
Israel, there are millions of people who are opposed in their very bones to endless war with the
world. Not just these crimes, so undeniable, racist and unrelenting.
But the whole bloody history.
Now. This is not a cry against one bombing or one war. It is to condemn
no people to the worst of their rulers and even own selves. It is a world system, backed by
nuclear weapons and black ops. A cynical, de-humanized media
propaganda that runs right into people's minds a culture of
supremacy, well-minded ignorance and the cold surrender of our common human
heart. I am refusing to accept these ground rules, the devil's choice our government always demands. We must begin to actually resist this war.
A movement against war can be nothing but a movement against empire,
the economic vampirism and fake-ass "clash of civilization" bullshit. It must no longer just declare, opt out, reject. It must refuse through resistance. Our governments will not listen to reason because their interests are not our own. They will never listen.
Students out on the west coast have non-violently disrupted military supply chains at the Port of Olympia. Counter-recruiting puts the issue among the youth most at risk here. Opposition must now turn to not just to rallies of opposition, but demonstrations of manifest resistance to the war machine.
Participants in this action want to emphasize and make visible to
people in the United States and beyond that the United States government does not represent them, that there is a significant group
of people
who will not allow U.S. aggression to occur in their name. It is an attempt to raise the social
cost of
the war by showing through actions the growing forms of resistance that
will
occur in the United States as the war continues. The participants in this action and its advocates
were
primarily younger people.
If Israel can drop American bombs on Lebanese roads killing the very refugees they are creating, then we can at least put our bodies on the streets and roads of America. Why should traffic proceed as normal? Why should normality be assumed, or shifted off to a fear of terrorism? Why should professors of the status quo direct fall's campus syllabus? You know, there are thousands of people in the USA who have blockaded whole cities. The knowledge is out there, but the political will to lead is lacking. [Opinions stated above are my own —JB]
On the jump, A World To Win News Service puts out a detailed analysis
of the causes and implications of this war. The murder of Lebanon is
not simply another grotesquery of Zionism, which it certainly is -- but it is Israel's very purpose as a state.
This is the US/UK war. It is the larger conflict, it is the same war, the logic of imperialism. Here in America we
must take heed of this. This is the best analysis I have seen, coming
as it does from the revolutionary, internationalist and proletarian
perspective.
People's historian Howard Zinn says:
