A-Infos (en) US, Black Blocs in San Francisco [Anti-capitalist Convergence]

[Dean <resist@infinex.com>]

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BRING THE WAR HOME
A CALL FOR BLACK BLOCS AT UPCOMING
ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATIONS IN SAN FRANCISCO

In Afghanistan, the US military has killed thousands of people. The US spends
billions funding genocidal policies against the Palestinian people. In
Colombia, the US is escalating a civil war in which thousands of labor
activists and peasants have been murdered. In Iraq, economic sanctions and
radioactive weaponry have killed hundreds of thousands in the decade since
the last war. The US "War on Terror" keeps expanding, threatening millions
around the world.

This is not a war between the people of the US and the people of the world.
It is capitalism-a war on the poor. Investors in US oil companies will get a
new pipeline through Afghanistan and increased access to the Iraqi oil
reserves (second only to Saudi Arabia). The weapons manufacturers will get
new contracts and the US politicians will have an excuse to increase their
power. Meanwhile, the poor and working people of America will definitely not
be better off.

We continue to live in a world of unemployment and minimum wage jobs, of
racism and harassment, of surveillance and prisons, of impossible rents and
evictionsóa world not built for us, but on top of us. The brutal displays of
the police in Oakland or L.A. bring to mind images of the Israeli Army in
occupied Palestine. The thousands of Arab and South Asian desaparecidos in
the US since September 11th recall the US-supported fascist regimes of Latin
America. Even the foot soldiers the government uses to expand its empire will
come home, as they did in the last Iraq war, with diseases from depleted
Uranium ammunition. For us, the poor and working people living in the US, the
war is not in Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan or Colombia. It is right here at
home, against the rich.

The growing anti-war movement has called a number of demonstrations in the
upcoming weeks and months. We will be there in solidarity. But we are worried
that our protests have become nothing more than parades. Protest isn't
protest if it doesn't threaten the established order or physically disrupt
the functioning of the war machine.

So let's use our collective power to change things directly. Wear black in
mourning for the victims of capitalism, racism, state violence. Let's stick
together and watch each other's backs. Let's fight back.

Join us for a creative rampage.


LOOK FOR THE BIG BLACK "ANTI-WAR ACTION" FLAGS

BLACK BLOC -- THE DAY THE NEW WAR ON IRAQ STARTS
Anti-war groups have called for a protest the day the new US war on Iraq
begins. The protest will meet at 5pm the day the war starts at Powell and
Market.

BLACK BLOC -- JANUARY 18th
There will be a large anti-war protest on January 18th, 2003. The protest
will meet at 11:00am at Embarcadero and march to the Civic Center.

-- 
Many people say this war is about oil and, of course, this war is 
about oil, but it is really about world-wide American imperialist 
hegemony and prerogative.
As Jay Bookman, deputy editorial page editor of the Atlanta-Journal 
Constitution observed ("The President's Real Goal in Iraq," September 
29, 2002):
"This war, should it come, is intended to mark the official emergence 
of the United States as a full-fledged global empire, seizing sole 
responsibility and authority as planetary policeman. It would be the 
culmination of a plan 10 years or more in the making, carried out by 
those who believe that the United States must seize the opportunity 
for global domination, even if it means becoming the "American 
imperialists" that our enemies always claimed we were....Rome did not 
stoop to containment; it conquered. And so should we."


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