Posted on 09/05/2009 5:23:13 PM PDT by kristinn
Edited on 09/05/2009 7:13:37 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
"The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City," said Van Jones, director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, who also warned against forthcoming violence by the Bush Administration. "The US cannot bomb its way out of this one. Safety at home requires justice abroad."
Oakland, CA (September 13) - Hundreds of people gathered at Snow Park in Oakland tonight to mourn, provide support for each other, and speak out against violent United States policies at home and abroad, which they say are the underlying reasons for unprecedented terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington DC. Organizing against a growing climate of racism, nationalism and anti-Arab bigotry was a focus of the rally.
Organized by youth and people of color in Oakland and San Francisco, solidarity speakers included supporters of Palestine, people returning from the WCAR in South Africa, police brutality activists, anarchists and socialists, anti-gentrification activists and other people representing dozens of cultures and ethnicities. International solidarity was the theme as community and activist groups stood together against the threat of more US violence. Michael Franti of Spearhead also spoke, saying that "we need to be in a war against war."
In addition to an open mic, people at the rally talked with friends and strangers, cried, and began coming to terms with the events of the last three days. Many people who attended have family members still missing on the east coast. And many others have been the target of increased racism and discrimination during times of crisis in the United States, like the Oklahoma City bombing or Gulf War.
A recurring theme of the speakers was the brutal violence committed by or supported by the United States government on a daily basis. "The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City," said Van Jones, director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, who also warned against forthcoming violence by the Bush Administration. "The US cannot bomb its way out of this one. Safety at home requires justice abroad."
In a diverse international community shocked by recent world events, deep feelings about the United States government were expressed. A young Puerto Rican person said that "the belly of the beast had something back to eat." A young Filipino human rights activist said that "when we found out what kind of place got hit, we were kind of glad to see the Pentagon burning. But we also know that thousands of Puerto Ricans, Haitians and other workers were in those buildings." An African-American man who works on gentrification issues in West Oakland said that "we're always seeing Americans drop bombs on people. We watch the Vietnamese get bombed, Iraqis get bombed, Palestinians get bombed, now it has come home to roost." Japanese-Americans spoke about internment camps and the nuclear holocaust brought on by US militarism.
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From a report at Indybay.org Sept. 13, 2001.
They need to be fired. Obama needs to be jacked up against a wall, and put down a number of levels. His ego has elevated him beyond that of President of the United States. A most important position, possibly in the World, but he’s not a GOD as he seems to think.
Those Czars are for circumventing the system. They are Obama cronies in vital positions being paid with taxpayer dollars, and not one is vetted by our Congress. Not one has any representative of the people of this Nation had the opportunity to endorse.
It’s wrong, and dammit what is wrong must be made right.
Why isn’t the Czar situation being persued? Just because previous Presidents had a Czar, or two doesn’t mean Obama can have 40, or however many he has now.
All “H” should be breaking loose over this BS.
Maybe Rev. Wright is available to replace Jones...
It should but it is not. When they have you [us] behind the barb and razorwire with machine guns aimed at us it will be too late. I used the term “us” generically. Whenthat time comes I will already be dead.
YEP. I got home early work (After Flight 93 flew over my state and the brave passengers ended the threat to the Capitol building) and there were candles and peace signs on the sidewalks. The only thing in my lib neighborhood that didn’t make me mad that night was a goofy teen running around screaming “we’re all gonna die!” I had to laugh at that. Only laugh I had for a while.
This is no longer Dem vs Republican, Liberal vs Conservative - it’s people who love America vs those who don’t.
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“In the words of professor Jeff Atkinson of DePaul Law School, impeachment is designed “to protect our country and our Constitution from leadership that has become a danger to the country. Phrases used by the framers of the Constitution include ‘corruption,’ ‘abuse of power,’ ‘subversion of the Constitution,’ and ‘neglect of duty.’”
After a mere 8 months in office, Obama has committed 3 of these offenses that we know of and possibly the 4th.
IT’S TIME TO IMPEACH!
Van Jones makes Bill Ayers look like William F. Buckley, Jr.
He's OUTTA THERE!!!
You are right. He apparently is gone. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2333209/posts
He’s gone, outta there. Who’s next? Rangle? Jarrett? or Obama himself?
Van Jones hates Jews too: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/showc/445/7662215
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One of the issues that really disgusted me about Van Jones which as far as I could tell got ZERO mention in this recent brouhaha was how rabidly anti-Israel he was, to the extent of becoming one of those on-the-scene pro-Palestinian “reporters”/propagandists in the West Bank sent there by the Stalinist radio station KPFA. He also joined in with the frothing maniacs of Students for Justice in Palestine in several “actions,” including an infamous one in which they hijacked a Holocaust Remembrance Day and took over the protest site by force and then read kaddish for all the victims of the the murderous Jews.
I witnessed myself that second incident, shortly before I made the conversion to the zombie persona. In fact, it was one of the things that pushed me away from moonbathood.
I didn’t know! I didn’t know! I just picked his name out of a hat! That’s how I picked every last czar and half my cabinet. Honest.
I was in NYC, and on my way to work that day, and I saw people gloating and celebrating, or blaming Bush in wild conspiracy theories that required studious ignorance, while the towers were still falling and the lower part of Manhattan was covered with a huge cloud of smoke and dust. DOWN WITH THE CZARS!
I agree...but this is not an option with the House and Senate firmly in Dhimmicrat hands...and with Nancy and Dingy Harry at the helm of both houses of congress, all you will see is some Republican giving a speech on the floor when congress is ajourned for the day.
we must push for a change in congress for 2010, and in the mean time if zer0bama goes too far(there is no 'if' it already is under way), States must exercise their 10th amendment rights....
hell that is a description of zer0bama
How much more of this BS will we be subjected to before something happens.
maybe Obama is doing this to provoke a violent response from the right. Then he can implement martial law and then the fun really begins.
Or maybe he really does think he is above the law and can use his powers as only he sees fit and the hell with the rest of us.
Either way, we are in a bad way.
What is really scary is that apparently these are the best people The Marxist Onada can find to work for him.
When Onada was allegedly elected I predicted he would bring the dysfunctionality of the black community into the WH. He has.
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