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 aren’t 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 Theater’s 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
thanks for the ping abigail2...what a crazy situation we are in.
The Minutemen are just doing the job congress and the white house will not allow BP to do...
I snickered.
Lazy morons can't even put up a real demonstration. It has to be virtual now.
Like what? Yelling at their computer screens? Really, a virtual demonstration is a joke.
Send this to Rush.
Dane or bayourod could have wrote that.
Well, I'm glad this idiot's Spanish is as error-ridden as its English.
I wonder if nitwits like this ever see their own contradictions. They scream that America is racist and unfair, that we're one of the most evil and corrupt countries that has ever existed. Why are we so horrible? One reason would be that we are trying to push back the flood of illegals pouring over the border. And why would those illegals be swarming into America? If the U.S. is so bad, wouldn't people be doing everything in their power to stay away or leave?
Sound Pollution:These idiots don't realize that raising a racket is going to frighten the very illegals they so much want to cross. This is the biggest favor they could do the Minutemen, particularly if they do it in an area where the Minutemen aren't operating. They'll discourage the illegal crossers in that area just as the presence of the Minutemen would.On the minutemen website they have said the following:
"Use ear phones for radios at night. Try to remain as quiet and stealthy as possible; sound travels great distances at night. A cough can travel a half-mile away. Remember, your mind can play tricks on you at night. The slightest sound will be cause for your imagination to run wild. Be assured, you will know a group is approaching by their distinct sound."
So what some people want to do is simply this: if the minutemen are opperating in your area... or even if they are not, and you feel like making a road trip, they want to get out there, day or night , and make some noise!
People might bring their friends, bring a radio, bring some pots and pans. You will most likely get harrassed by the border patrol but if the minutemen are allowed to be out there then so are you. The border patrol may try to tell you that you have to leave, but they have no jurisdiction over legal U.S. residents and so people might be polite, humor them if possible, but not let them scare them off.
You may want to take me off this ping list. I am now in Allen, TX -- land of the affordable home.
But since you flagged me - A lot of LA people know Blue Lancer and he has requested prayer for his wife, here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1410660/posts
Did anyone see this past week's SNL skit about Al Sharpton taking offense to Vicente Fox saying that the illegals were only taking jobs that "even the blacks won't do"?
It was the hardest I've laughed in a while.
and to think.... these are the people that the OBL and Rove want voting in our elections. just who do they think these law-despising anarchists will vote FOR? it baffles the mind.
i have a theory that the gvt wants things to get out of control so they can declare martial law. maybe do a little pre-run in Cali.. i see no other explaination except being stupid.. and i don't buy that one.
The government really needs more control over those darned cell phones and binoculars! < /sarcasm>
Thanks, you are off the list and a prayer has already been sent.
Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!
Be Ever Vigilant!
Minutemen Patriots ~ Bump!
So how'd the move go, neighbor?
Fact number 11: Illegal immigrants have taken over the class of jobs usually reserved for our youth; they mow our lawns, care for our kids, clean our homes.
Thanks for the report. I had wondered how the meeting went.
God bless these Minutemen, finally bringing attention and action to the ILLEGAL immigration issue.
I won't say that you are very wrong on the gov wanting to
take over with martial law, as I was sure that clinton would put it into effect at any time and followed his steps to do so.
Clinton had used FEMA to do his dirty work and it was all set for martial law, I laughed when Bush took the FEMA plan and made it into "Homeland Security Dept".
To really understand why the border is not closed, you have to go back further, it is kept open by the communists that we have elected to office. (all offices of our country).
etext.org under politics, is where I really began my understanding, look at the MIM site.
The commies want the border open, they are moving voters here to vote the communist platform.
We have a bunch of brainwashed fools who run around with signs that call for peace, but the fools do not know what it takes to keep peace.
I hear callers in the west every day, who feel that America is headed to another Civil War.
As I don't watch a TV, my radio is on all the time to talk radio. I listen to Arizona, California, Nevada and Colorado
almost every day, being a nightowl helps.
I thought for years that Rush was joking about his callers using the "days talking points", let me tell you, he is not joking....
In a day, I will hear the same statement, from a sweet little lady, a broken english speaker (several accents) and from what I call the "prison voice".
I once worked in a Court, so do know the tones in voices that are fresh out of prison and going back.
Further digging or googling, will take you to a muslim, communist, nazi connection.......one plans to win, but for now they are working for the same goal, the takeover of America.
Sad and ugly. the facts hurt.
The President could not get a simple judge appointed, he can't close the border either, even with effort, the same McCain gang will stop him, as turned on us this week.
(My opinion)
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