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SF MLK March: No War, Free Mumia
Thousands took to the streets for the annual SF Martin Luther King march. Among them included voices against the impending US war on Iraq, and for justice for Mumia Abu-Jamal.
By Martin L. King, III (September 30, 2002)
“In our name, the Bush administration has taken for itself and its allies the right to rain down military force anywhere and anytime. Now, the government prepares openly to wage all-out war on Iraq – a country which has no established connection to the horror of September 11th. In our name, the government has rounded up over 1000 immigrants, detaining them in secret and indefinitely. In our name, the government has brought down a pall of repression over society. The so-called USA Patriot Act, along with a host of similar measures on the state level, gives the police sweeping power of search and seizure, supervised, if at all, by secret proceedings before secret courts. The president’s spokesperson has warned people to “watch what they say.” We believe that people of conscience must speak out, and act, in opposition to the injustice that is being done in our own name!”
“In our name, the Bush administration has taken for itself and its allies the right to rain down military force anywhere and anytime. Now, the government prepares openly to wage all-out war on Iraq – a country which has no established connection to the horror of September 11th. In our name, the government has rounded up over 1000 immigrants, detaining them in secret and indefinitely. In our name, the government has brought down a pall of repression over society. The so-called USA Patriot Act, along with a host of similar measures on the state level, gives the police sweeping power of search and seizure, supervised, if at all, by secret proceedings before secret courts. The president’s spokesperson has warned people to “watch what they say.” We believe that people of conscience must speak out, and act, in opposition to the injustice that is being done in our own name!”
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Last year, the despicable military recruiting outfit allowed in the workingclass public schools, Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC, prounced rot-see), wore their military uniforms. This year, they wore civilian clothes. Hopefully, next year, they will not be in the MLK parade or in the schools. MLK was staunchly anti-war. ROTC is living the capitalist nightmare of the workingclass being the cannon fodder for the capitalist profits; its members have no concept of MLK's dream. Our peace movement needs to kick ROTC off all campuses from junior high school, through high school and college and shut down all military recruiting stations. We did a lot of that during the Vietnam War. The Movement is back; time to do it again.
I especially like the pictures of the ROTC groups marching. I hadn't had a chance to see that yet.
Thanks alot! Indymedia rules! :)
No War in Iraq!
Thanks alot! Indymedia rules! :)
No War in Iraq!
I quote, "A country which doesn't have any establishment to 9/11" BULLSHIT!!! Iraq (Saddam) has supported alcaida for years, in fact why do you think Osama hid in Iraq, THAT'S RIGHT, because him and Saddam are good pals.
GET IT RIGHT BEFORE YOU PEOPLE POP OFF WITH A MOUTH THAT MAKES NO SENSE
this note goes to Martin luthers quote on this SF antiwar march.
GET IT RIGHT BEFORE YOU PEOPLE POP OFF WITH A MOUTH THAT MAKES NO SENSE
this note goes to Martin luthers quote on this SF antiwar march.
hey kevin,
proove it.
proove it.
MLK opposed the War in Vietnam. That war was a travesty because President Johnson ordered troops not to defend South Vietnam, just to "patrol." In effect, Johnson sent 58,000 American boys to their grave.
MLK had NOTHING to say about ROTC. MLK would not sully the memory of another civil rights leader to plead for the release of a convicted murderer.
Iraq is a terrorist state. It has financially supported deadly attacks on American civilians. It has trained men to kill American civilian and military personnel. It has murdered THOUSANDS of fellow Iraqis, most of whom for joining the growing movement against Saddam.
The only support that Saddam can rely upon is the deadly Islamic militants and the "progressive" anti-war movement. Both are dedicated the annihiliation of Western values and American lives.
MLK had NOTHING to say about ROTC. MLK would not sully the memory of another civil rights leader to plead for the release of a convicted murderer.
Iraq is a terrorist state. It has financially supported deadly attacks on American civilians. It has trained men to kill American civilian and military personnel. It has murdered THOUSANDS of fellow Iraqis, most of whom for joining the growing movement against Saddam.
The only support that Saddam can rely upon is the deadly Islamic militants and the "progressive" anti-war movement. Both are dedicated the annihiliation of Western values and American lives.
He was quite the staunch Zionist. Look it up.
Tim
Tim
Thank you Jessie. MLK would be turning over in his grave if he saw the freakshow using his name to march in support of Saddam. MLK came to his anti-war stance late in life- in the specific case of Vietnam. Do you think MLK would have opposed the Civil War? Would you latte-leftists have been unable to make that moral distinction too? War is bad. Slavery is worse. What is being done to the Iraqi people is worse still. Please, people, put the bong down....wake up. Remember the people jumping from the WTC...?? This war is not over yet.
Wonderful work on these photos!
1. Abu-Jamal, while technically a convicted "murderer", was tried under the most questionable of circumstances. This is why we call for his freedom.
2. Those of us who disagree with the impending war do not do so in support of Saddam. We don't like him either, but what he's done to his own people is easily comparitive to what we have done through sanctions and endless bombing runs. Remember, Hussein was our friend during his war with Iran. Then he decided to take his ball and go home.
2. Those of us who disagree with the impending war do not do so in support of Saddam. We don't like him either, but what he's done to his own people is easily comparitive to what we have done through sanctions and endless bombing runs. Remember, Hussein was our friend during his war with Iran. Then he decided to take his ball and go home.
And I cannot forget that the Nobel Peace Prize was also a commission, a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for the brotherhood of man. This is a calling that takes me beyond national allegiances.
But even if it were not present, I would yet have to live with the meaning of my commitment to the ministry of Jesus Christ. To me, the relationship of this ministry to the making of peace is so obvious that I sometimes marvel at those who ask me why I am speaking against the war. Could it be that they do not know that the Good News was meant for all men -- for communist and capitalist, for their children and ours, for black and for white, for revolutionary and conservative? Have they forgotten that my ministry is in obedience to the one who loved his enemies so fully that he died for them? What then can I say to the Vietcong or to Castro or to Mao as a faithful minister of this one? Can I threaten them with death or must I not share with them my life?
"Beyond Vietnam"
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLKapr67.html
But even if it were not present, I would yet have to live with the meaning of my commitment to the ministry of Jesus Christ. To me, the relationship of this ministry to the making of peace is so obvious that I sometimes marvel at those who ask me why I am speaking against the war. Could it be that they do not know that the Good News was meant for all men -- for communist and capitalist, for their children and ours, for black and for white, for revolutionary and conservative? Have they forgotten that my ministry is in obedience to the one who loved his enemies so fully that he died for them? What then can I say to the Vietcong or to Castro or to Mao as a faithful minister of this one? Can I threaten them with death or must I not share with them my life?
"Beyond Vietnam"
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLKapr67.html
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