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
thanks for that very interesting and informative response. i agree with you.. and have studied this for 20+ years. and i am wondering if a lot of the socialist/communist infiltration problems in our fed gvt isn't rooted in some of these fed agencies that are not elected positions. the socialists like BClinton appoint appoint appoint.... and these people have alot of power and infulence, even during a conservative administration. although i'm starting to really wonder at the agenda of even the current one.. the more i learn the more cynical i become.. LOL
I think Hal ought to sue the Garden Grove Police Dept for not protecting him.
Hey SB, thanks for the reminder...
I really should post on my "Moving" vanity that we are settling in to our home (yeaaaay!), about to make our first mortage payment (booo), and discovering the never ending list of maintenance chores that come with a large yard, a pool, and home (BOOOOOOOO).
I appreciate you thinking of me. Take care neighbor, BTW, you are in Plano, right?
source: http://deletetheborder.org/?q=getinvolved#comment
re... Early August will probably be one of the hottest times of the entire year, so we'll need to bring truckloads of water... As for content of the event, I definitely think we should have concerts and/or dissident speakers. We should also have a information stand in case we run into any immigrants, to let them know where there are job opportunities and how to survive in America, as well as tell them what their rights are and who to contact if anyone fucks with them...so they dont end up as slaves, like these people (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/americas_florida_tomato_picker/html/1.stm )
http://www.humanitarian.tk
By humanitarian at Mon, 2005-05-16 22:51 | login or register to post
re We should try to get some big names to give speeches, maybe Noam Chomsky, Ward Churchill, Howard Zinn, etc. I also think we should focus on the issue of racist immigration policies within the context of capitalist globalization, as both issues are very much connected. - http://www.humanitarian.tk By humanitarian at Sat, 2005-05-21 02:54 | login or register to post comments
It appears the "activists" think so as well
source: http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2005/05/109063.shtml
(comments at bottom of page:
Thats about as dumb as the communal hunger strikes where people sit in shifts and promise not to eat for a whole 4 hours, then say how the strikes been going on for a month.
Loquacious
Questionable
I think that focusing too much on virtual activism (this seems like an oxymoron) might actually undermine serious efforts that happen in the physical world to improve our living conditions. It is questionable, to say the least, to think that taking down a web site for a couple of hours will bring about a positive social change (like stopping this bloody military machine, for example). We can use the Internet to spread information, but let's not fool ourselves to think that "virtual activism" can somehow replace real activism. I do think "virtual activism" has a few qualities though; it makes its participants feel like they are doing something without risking their own sense of comfort.
Mr. P
Hmmm...
I think you should think about what the goals of a "real protest" are. Is it to spread information? Can marches and rallys really stop a war? In the past Electronic Disturbance Theatre's actions have been on the front page of the New York Times and have created a response from the Pentagon. How often is a "real protest" that effective in getting the word out and forcing the machine to respond?
reader
This is seriously one of the lamest things I've ever seen. I think it's really telling that the right wing nut jobs can get people to go sit out on the border all night long, and the counter on the left to that is a frigin "virtual" sit in.
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