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Announcement :: Lawrence |
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This Saturday: Protest Empire and the Massacre of Fallujah! |
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by Kansas Mutual Aid
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05 Nov 2004
Modified: 03:26:20 PM |
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The tactic of the electoral process failed the people. It was a failed tactic to begin with. However, where the election failed, the people can prevail! |
The election is over. Bush has won. Fallujah, a city in Iraq, stands in a state of siege. A city of over 300,000 is braced to become the next My Lai.
When the anti-war and anti-imperialist factions in this country decided to trade in our power in the streets to back a pro-war candidate in the polling stations, failure was the only thing we could expect.
We traded all the power we had last February, when millions of us voted with our feet in the streets, when we were organizing city wide meetings about the war and alternatives, when we were meeting each other, talking, and working in a form of real democracy... we traded all of that for a losing horse.
But we haven't failed... at least not yet. Here in Lawrence, and across the world, the battle rages on.
Two upcoming events will be the continuation of our struggle, and the start to a new chapter within it.
On Friday November 5 at 7pm, people living within the Oread Neighborhood in Lawrence will meet to discuss the formation of a new radical community organization. This new neighborhood assembly would focus on creating directly democratic alternatives within the neighborhood we live in. We hope to create community gardens, a neighborhood watch program (since the police won't/can't stop anti-social behavior, and since the courts only work for the rich and ruling classes), a copwatch, community dinners and potlucks, and organizing to meet the demands we all have that our city government can not and will not give us.
This is the birth of a new form of social organization for Lawrence.
On Saturday November 6th at 1pm in South Park, there will be a march against the invasion of Fallujah and the continuing formation of the American Empire.
We must come to terms that we have a duty to the rest of the world, and at this exact moment to those 300,000 civilians in Fallujah to act. We will not sit and reel in a fetal position because the other pro-war candidate didn't win. We will continue to struggle and to stop this war.
We must be thinking tactically. What if every dollar and minute spent working for the Kerry campaign had been spent trying to evict an army recruitment center? What if all the same energy had been thrown against stopping the production of M-16 ammunition in Lee's Summit? What if, for once, we actually fought to win?
The election [was always] failed. We won't. We can't. |
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