Posted on 05/25/2005 7:12:16 PM PDT by jdluntjr
Join the Virtual Sit-In against the MinuteMen by SWARM the Minutemen Tuesday May 24, 2005 at 12:57 PM
SWARM the Minuntemen invites people from all over the world who oppose racist violence to join the Electronic Disturbance Theatre action on May 27th, 28th and 29th, 2005 to engage in a virtual sit-in on the MinuteMen website during their "Unite to Fight" Summit. // SWARM the Minutemen Invita gente desde todo el mundo quien estan contra la violencia racista a una el accion de Electronic Disturbance Theatre en el 27, 28 y 29 de Mayo, 2005 para un "virtual sit-in" el el sitio de web de los MinuteMen durante sus conferencia de "Unate para Pelear".
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SWARM the Minuntemen invites people from all over the world who oppose racist violence to join the Electronic Disturbance Theatre action on May 27th, 28th and 29th, 2005 to engage in a virtual sit-in on the MinuteMen website during their "Unite to Fight" Summit.
Read on for the Electronic Disturbance Theatre call to action.
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
- The New Colossus, by the nineteenth-century American poet Emma Lazarus inscribed on a plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
Dear sisters and brothers,
Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) in solidarity with Swarm The MinuteMen action will hold a 3 Day Virtual Sit-In starting on May 27th to May 29th (2005) on the MinuteMen Project. We call on all you to join us and let the MinuteMen Project know that hard borders are alien in an age of global interdependence and to the ideals of liberty as a golden door that is open to all. An ideal that so many have died trying to reach.
To Join The Virtual Sit-In On Starting on May 27th Click: http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html
Why we must swarm the MinuteMen:
For Víctor Nicolás Sánchez, Adolfo Pérez Hernández, Daniel Barrientos, Santos Orozco Aguilar, Raúl Hernández Soria, Sandra Edna Durán, Jesús Medina Contreras, Edgar Venegas Brambila, José Gutiérrez, Melquíades Gómez Baca, Martha Rivera García...
Myth Number 1: Immigrants take jobs away from Americans. Myth Number 2: Most immigrants are a drain on the U.S. economy or treasury Myth Number 3: America is being overrun by immigrants. Myth Number 4: Immigrants arent really interested in becoming part of American society. Myth Number 5: Immigrants contribute little to American society.
Facts to dispel to these myths from the American Immigration Lawyers Association: http://www.aila.org/contentViewer.aspx?bc=17,142
We call on you sisters and brothers from all over the world who oppose the MinuteMen Project and in the name of the 3,500 women, men and children who have died crossing into The Land of Liberty since 1994 to join the Electronic Disturbance Theatre action on May 27th, 28th and 29th, 2005 to engage in a Virtual Sit-In on the MinuteMen website during their "Unite to Fight" Summit.
Who are the MinuteMen:
The MinuteMen are a non-governmental group of people vowing to patrol the US/Mexico border with guns in order to stop migrant people from crossing the border. They represent an intensification of the trend of violence towards migrant people and people of color that has increased since 9/11/2001. While they claim that they are not violent, their very use and display of deadly weapons is a violent act in itself. How can guns be used to detain people without being violent? Already there have been numerous reports of people being forced to lie on the ground by the MinuteMen and being forced to have their pictures taken with MinuteMen volunteers, recalling Abu Ghraib style dehumanization.
SWARM the MinuteMen Group Statement:
http://swarmtheminutemen.com/
While the MinuteMen publicly claim to be non-violent, we here at SWARM know a different face of the MinuteMen. We've received numerous death threats and threats of violence filled with racial slurs. We plan to publicly release these soon to let everyone know the exact kind of hatred the MinuteMen are acting as a lightning rod for, attracting it and focusing it towards migrant people.
Just as important though, the MinuteMen are a clear result of the violent, us-versus-them mentality promoted by the Bush administration.
We are intervening into and dancing with the communication systems of the MinuteMen because along with the physical violence they are creating, they are extremely conscious of the violent power their messages have and they had any measure of success thanks to the complicity the corporate media. Their communications are a critical part of their mission to send a message to legislators that more militarization of the border is necessary. Their images and words can't be separated from the violence of their guns, and both must be stopped.
We refuse to support the United States government's attempts to find a scapegoat to blame this country's problems on while it bankrupts our social services, wages wars on the world, sends our brothers, sisters, friends and neighbors to die and profits off of the whole plan. Who stands to profit from a more militarized border? Will the same corporations that made billions in government contracts off of the war in Iraq like Halliburton and CACI be the same ones to profit from the war on the border?
We must stand together now to say that this country is made up of millions of people of many different ethnicities and cultures and that is due to migration. Migrant people have human rights, regardless of the government's and the racist's attempts to deny that fact. Until the United States has a sane immigration policy that allows people to move as freely as capital and goods do, we will continue to struggle.
Why should you join the Virtual Sit-In On May 27th 2005:
For Benito González Cruz, Benito González Serrano, Javier Rojas Bracamonte, Juan José Romo Zetina, José Luis Garza, Roberto Acegueda López, Román Robles Rojas, Reynaldo González Corona and the thousands of other people who have been murdered for simply trying to cross the border into what is now the United States and which was once Mexico.
Contact:
For any questions on the Electronic Disturbance Theaters action in solidarity with SWARM the MinuteMen contact
Ricardo Dominguez (co-founder of the Electronic Disturbance Theater) at rdom@thing.net
Electronic Disturbance Theater http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html
See our site for more info: http://swarmtheminutemen.com or our mirror: http://www.autistici.org/swarmtheminutemen/
See our mirror sites to read our original content which our domain registrar forced us to remove: http://swarm.mahost.org/ http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/swarm/index.php
For one make sure that you have news media there to find out and report if their little Eeeee-Lec-Tron-ick messing with the Minute Men affects LE/Emergency Service Communications or Military communications if near a military base. That makes it a Federal offense. Result -- the perp walk and bye-bye.
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The idiots of SWARM are trying to incite a race war. The pro-illegal alien groups are becoming increasingly violent, as seen recently in Baldwin Park, California. They are so ignorant that violence and hate is all they know.
Well .. they're very emotional and that causes them to do stupid and irrational things.
A different summary of the Baldwin Park protest.
"The anti-Mexican xenophobes are slow learners. This was demonstrated when a group called 'Save our State' experienced an extremely humiliating event on Saturday May 14 in Baldwin Park, California. They miscalculated the degree that Alta California has changed when they undertook to protest a 12 year old public monument that has the inscription, 'This land was Mexican once, was Indian always and is, And will be again'. The vile and irresponsible leader of S.O.S. recruited about 25 senior citizens from the areas 'rest homes' and staged the protest in front of the monument. They were shocked went they were confronted by over 300 counter demonstrators, mostly youths of Mexican descent. One very old white lady of S.O.S. collapsed and had to be taken to the hospital. The police had to escort the 25 S.O.S. members out of town for their safety."
For those who haven't, go to:
http://aztlan.net/bigots_meet_in_las_vegas.htm
And they call US the racists and haters!
Ping to my previous post.
Globalists, pure and simple; they oppose border control because they desire a global economy and government.
- The New Colossus, by the nineteenth-century American poet Emma Lazarus inscribed on a plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
Ya know, I've been thinking a lot about the Statue lately. It seems that the lady is a beacon to those mentioned on that plaque, but since it was given to us by France, then I'm all for giving it back to them and let them be a beacon to those down and out illegals. I'd gladly chip in to arrange for a ship to pick it up and ALL the illegals. I'm so sure France would welcome them with open arms, since they think we are so terrible.
Not that I want to see some FCC SWAT Team formed or anything. Hey wait a second, that image is pretty funny.
Can you imagine heavily armed FCC employees descending on a bunch of smelly hippies in the Texas desert? It's like a Monty Python skit or something.
With any luck we could get them to call in the FBI HRT squads and then God only knows what might happen.
OK, maybe it's just me who thought that might be funny.
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I thought their web site was shut down.
Or did they find a new provider?
Translation: We had no problem with Saddam slaughtering fellow Iraqis. But when Mexicans are merely REPORTED to be breaking the law, THAT's going too far!
I have a friend who was at the CCIR's meeting in Garden Grove tonite. He said they were in the meeting and were surrounded and were really in fear for their lives. Hal Netkin, of mayorno.com ran over 2 protesters and my friend said that he was probably scared by the protesters who were really violent and angry. The police were dressed in riot gear but didn't do anything to break them up. They attacked people, one person went to his car to get something and was attacked and his car window was smashed. They had to escort attendees to their cars afterwards. This was very terrible. If anyone wants to donate to Hal Netkins defense and bail fund Barbara Coe of CCIR is collecting money. Also, I will give anyone Hal's email address if you freemail me.
Los Angeles area ping...
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