Speaking Truth to Empire w/Dan Yaseen (October 2019 Edition)

https://soundcloud.com/speaking-truth-to-empire/191016-speaking-truth-to-empire-david-swanson

On “Speaking Truth to Empire” on KFCF 88.1 independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews David Swanson, an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is the director of WorldBeyondWar.org.  He is the author of several books. Swanson has spoken on a variety of topics related to war and peace all over the United States and in many countries. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org. They will talk about an anti-war conference called ‘NoWar2019 Pathways to Peace’ that took place on October 5 and 6 in Limerick, Ireland organized by World Beyond War.

It's a Beautiful Day to Rage! (March on the Pentagon Press Release)

For Immediate Release

CONTACTS:

CINDY SHEEHAN: 

CindySheehan@MarchonPentagon.com

Emma Fiala:

Emma@MarchonPentagon.com

Where: Meet at the White House 
(Lafayette Parkside)

When: 11 Am
(10 Am for poster making; Civil Resistance Training) 

After 18 years that the U.S. has been in Afghanistan, in a war that never should have taken place anyway, today is the day that activists from all over the U.S. will gather in the nation's capital to Rage Against the War Machine.

Building upon last year's successful "Women's March on the Pentagon," antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan and many others will take to the streets of D.C. to Rage Against Trump at the White House; Rage Against Sanctions at the I.M.F.; Rage Against the Democrats at Farragut Square; Rage Against Think Tanks at the Atlantic Council; Rage Against War Profiteers at Booz Allen Hamilton; and finally, Rage Against the Corporate Media and the 1% at the Washington Post.

Cindy Sheehan, speaking from Washington D.C. had this to say about the strategy of marching through D.C. on a Friday, "too many times, I have come to D.C. and marched on a weekend, where all we were doing was shaking our fists at empty buildings and performing for tourists. On a Friday, we may not be able to gather as many people with us to protest, but we will be able to hit the Beast where it counts and reach out to workers and citizens who may not otherwise be seeing the entire picture of what this Empire does to people."

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Two Days Until We Rage (For Immediate Release: March on the Pentagon Press Release)

October 9, 2019

For immediate release:

Two Days Until We Rage!

CONTACTS:     Cindy Sheehan

                           CindySheehan@MarchonPentagon.com

                           Emma Fiala

                           Emma@MarchonPentagon.com

Where:              The White House; 1600 Pensylvania Ave

Date:                  Friday, October 11th

Time:                 11 AM

Who:                Activists from all over the US who are outraged by                            the continuing wars and devastation wrought by the

                         USA and its allies in war crimes.

What:              An unpermitted march through the seat of violent

                        imperial power to Rage against the institutions, 

                        people, and corporate power that make the wars and

                        other oppressions possible.

CLICK BADASS BILLIE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT RAGE

 

Please read this statement by Black Alliance for Peace about Rage Against the War Machine.

         

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Rage Against Trump, the Democrats and the War Machine October 11th and 12th (For immediate release)

March on the Pentagon Presents

Rage Against the War machine 

and

Anti-Imperialist Revolution Summit

When: October 11th and 12th

Where: Various Locations in Washington, DC

CONTACTS: CINDY SHEEHAN

                         CindySheehan@MarchonPentagon.com

                         Emma Fiala

                         Emma@MarchonPentagon.com

This Friday, October 11, at 11 am, activists from all over the country will gather in front of the White House to Rage Against Trump and Republicans and then begin an unpermitted march through the streets of the "Belly of the Beast" where they will march from location to location that represent the "worst of the worst" of organizations/corporations that support the US War Machine.

Since the US War of Terror began 18 years ago with millions of deaths and lives destroyed, "Peace Mom" Cindy Sheehan, whose oldest son Casey was killed in 2004 in another illegal and immoral US war for profit and resource control, is once again calling activists and other concerned humans to join her in demanding an end to the US war machine.

As alternative media and peace activist Mnar Muhawesh from Minnesota recently wrote: 

Some 2.7 billion dollars per day. That’s how much the U.S. government will spend next year to prop up the military and the more than 800 bases it maintains in over 70 countries. The U.S. military also drops a bomb every 12 minutes on foreign countries most Americans can barely make out on a map. That money is more than enough to pay for four years of college for every college student in this country, to fund food stamps and other social safety nets that help our most vulnerable including our veterans, and to fund programs that would cut fossil-fuel emissions by 40 percent by 2035.

Despite this, there has been an utter failure by both the media and grassroots activists to address the growing waste and greed of the military-industrial complex. The several millions of victims of our war machine pay theis heavy price and their voices are censored by the media.
An estimated 4 million people just took part in worldwide climate strikes that put the issue of climate breakdown at the forefront of the media conversation. Missing from this conversation, however, is an analysis of the role militarism and empire plays in driving the chaos. The U.S. military is the world’s largest polluter and emits more carbon dioxide than a hundred countries combined.
Now is your chance to speak up and join the anti-war movement. Let's rage against the war machine together October 11th.

The day after the march and rallies, MoP is presenting the Anti-Imperialist Revolution Summit at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Mount Pleasant at 1525 Newton St NW from 11:30 to 9:00 PM.

More information about both events is here. 

If you'd like to interview Cindy Sheehan, or anyone else involved, please email the above contacts!

BadAss Billie

Mascot of March on the Pentagon

 

Stand Up Against Endless Wars—Rage Against the War Machine October 11th and 12th

Stand Up Against Endless Wars—Rage Against the War Machine This October

September 26, 2019 Emma Fiala 1 Comment

September 26, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Cindy Sheehan: CindySheehan@MarchonPentagon.com Emma Fiala : Emma@MarchonPentagon.com

Join March on the Pentagon to Rage Against the War Machine This October

September 25, 2019 — March on the Pentagon invites all those outraged by the War Machine, U.S. imperialism, and endless wars to join us in Washington D.C. on October 11 and 12. From the mind boggling cost which strips money from basic human needs like healthcare, education, clean water and more, the stomach churning death toll, the irreversible environmental impact, the fueling of militarized police, the uptick in right-wing domestic terrorism, the too often ignored contribution to climate change as well as the resulting and potentially deadly PTSD, substance abuse, domestic abuse and rape suffered by those who have served in the armed forces to the toll war takes on women across the globe—from rape and loss of children to raising one’s family as a refugee in a foreign land—there is something for everyone to be outraged about. If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention. 



 The War Machine and U.S. imperialism are the umbrella over virtually every other issue plaguing the world today including climate change, underfunded education, increasingly militarized police, a lack of adequate healthcare, refugee crises across the globe, and much much more.

We have had more than enough and will not stand for these atrocities being done in our name and with our tax dollars while the pockets of the elite are lined and average people suffer the world over. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed thanks to the war on terror, innocent children are born with life threatening abnormalities (if they even survive that long), toxic “forever chemicals” in our water are poisoning military families and refugees alike, the U.S. military is the world’s biggest polluter, the radioactive residue of abandoned uranium mines are wreaking havoc on the lives of the Navajo people, suicides among active-duty soldiers are up 20%, the Pentagon has emitted over a billion metric tons of greenhouse gases, U.S. sanctions killed over 40,000 people in Venezuela since 2017, 14 million people are at risk of starvation and death due to disease in Yemen while the death toll could reach over 230,000 by 2020, all the while Julian Assange sits in solitary confinement in Belmarsh prison for simply revealing the War Machine’s crimes—you get the idea.

The anti-war movement died a disappointing and uneventful death during Barack Obama’s two terms as president when, thanks to his promise of “hope and change,” many Americans went to sleep, falsely thinking such a charismatic leader wouldn’t dare lead us into more war. Similarly, a fair number of those who voted for Donald Trump expected him to be an anti-war candidate. He is not. The truth is, war is one of few things that Democrats and Republicans unite over—year after year. Whether it is to approve massive military budgets and involvement in the murder of innocent lives abroad or to cover up incomprehensible war crimes, the two halves of the War Party are determined to keep our War Economy growing. 

In addition to the human cost of what was mentioned above, the War Machine and the War Economy siphon money from every aspect of life in the United States. A quick glance at our 2019 discretionary budget says it all.



Taking on the War Machine is no easy task. The military is massive. A whopping 3.5 million people are directly employed by the Department of Defense and this does not include the many military contractors—upwards of 560,000—working for the DoD. And the majority of the world’s largest weapons manufacturers are based in the United States—including Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, United Technologies, and L-3 Technologies—employing who knows how many Americans while raking in profits that most Americans cannot even begin to comprehend. We have a war based economy.
The approach to taking on the War Machine must be multipronged. Annually, March on the Pentagon plans and hosts an anti-war and anti-imperialism march, rally, and educational gathering. Last October around 2,000 people marched on the Pentagon in Arlington, VA. 

This year, we invite you to join us in Washington DC on October 11 at 11 am to visibly express your outrage at the War Machine, but this is only a piece of the puzzle. The following day we will host an Anti-Imperialism Revolutionary Summit to learn more about what we can take home to our own cities and towns and how we can be anti-imperialist every day. This is one piece of the puzzle.

This year, we will meet at the White House on Friday, October 11 at 11 am where we will rage against President Donald Trump and his administration. From there we will visit the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Booz Allen Hamilton, Farragut Square where we will rage against the Democrats, the Atlantic Council, and we will end at the Washington Post where will we rage against mainstream media, Jeff Bezos, and Amazon where we will hold a brief rally and engage in an act of civil disobedience. 

While holding this event on a Friday may make it more challenging for some to travel to Washington DC to join us in our efforts, it will ensure that war profiteers, government employees, and tourists will see and hear us. Visibility and disruption are pieces of the puzzle of dismantling the war machine.

Learn more about the march here and RSVP on Facebook here.
The following day we will gather from 11:30 am to around 9 pm at St. Stephen Church in Washington DC for the Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary Summit. The goal of the summit to bring activists and interested people together to learn why we should be anti-imperialist and what can we do to continue the struggle against militarism and US wars of aggression after we return to our homes across the country. The summit will consist of several panels of experts talking about various aspects of US imperialism and militarism, live music, organizational tabling and information, networking, and childcare in our Peace Place for Children.

Cindy Sheehan is slated to be our keynote speaker and will speak on the USA's endless war against Afghanistan near the 18th anniversary of the 2001 invasion. 

Panels include:

• • Local Organizing with Women Against Military Madness
  • Struggles Against Imperialism in North America
  • Killer Sanctions
  • Enough is Enough: End the Endless Wars

Panelists include women on the Women Against Military Madness board of directors, Eugene Puryear, Lisa Davis, Dakotah Lilly, Ann Wright, Mnar Muhawesh, Terri Mattson, Lee Camp, Medea Benjamin, Janice Kortkamp and more. Musical guests include Sharon Abreu and Luci Murphy.

Summit tickets are $10 each. Scholarships are available for those who need them—we will not turn away anyone who cannot pay. We are also accepting pay it forward donations to cover ticket and travel costs for those in need of assistance.

Learn more about the summit here, RSVP on Facebook here, and purchase your tickets here. Interested organizations may set up a table during the summit for a fee.

If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention. The time to act is now. It’s time to get uncomfortable. It’s time to take risks and force real, actual change. The health of our planet, the lives of our neighbors, and the futures of our children depend on it.

Follow March on the Pentagon on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram Join our Facebook community RSVP to Rage Against the War Machine on Facebook RSVP to the Anti-Imperialism Revolutionary Summit Purchase your ticket to the Anti-Imperialism Revolutionary Summit Donate to March on the Pentagon

A People's History of Fake News: (Soapbox Podcast Sept 29, 2019)

September 29, 2019

Guest: Danny Haiphong

Topic:  A People's History of Fake News

American Exceptionalism and American Innocence

 

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"Fake news existed long before Donald Trump…. What is ironic is that fake news has indeed been the only news disseminated by the rulers of U.S. empire.”—From American Exceptionalism and American Innocence"

According to Robert Sirvent and Danny Haiphong, Americans have been exposed to fake news throughout our history—news that slavery is a thing of the past, that we don’t live on stolen land, that wars are fought to spread freedom and democracy, that a rising tide lifts all boats, that prisons keep us safe, and that the police serve and protect.
Thus, the only “news” ever reported by various channels of U.S. empire is the news of American exceptionalism and American innocence. And, as this book will hopefully show, it’s all fake.
Did the U.S. really “save the world” in World War II? Should black athletes stop protesting and show more gratitude for what America has done for them? Are wars fought to spread freedom and democracy? Or is this all fake news?
American Exceptionalism and American Innocence examines the stories we’re told that lead us to think that the U.S. is a force for good in the world, regardless of slavery, the genocide of indigenous people, and the more than a century’s worth of imperialist war that the U.S. has wrought on the planet.
Sirvent and Haiphong detail just what Captain America’s shield tells us about the pretensions of U.S. foreign policy, how Angelina Jolie and Bill Gates engage in humanitarian imperialism, and why the Broadway musical Hamilton is a monument to white supremacy.

READ HAIPHONG'S ARTICLES ON BLACK AGENDA REPORT

Danny at Left Forum

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CINDY SHEEHAN'S SOAPBOX 

 

SPEAKING TRUTH TO EMPIRE W/DAN YASEEN (SEPTEMBER 2019 EDITION)

September 2019

https://soundcloud.com/speaking-truth-to-empire/190918-speaking-truth-to-empire-jeff-j-brown

Jeff J. Brown

On Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews Jeff J. Brown; he is a geopolitical analyst, journalist, lecturer and the author of The China Trilogy. It consists of 44 Days Backpacking in China, China Rising – Capitalist Roads, Socialist Destinations and China Is Communist, Dammit! – Dawn of the Red Dynasty. They will discuss U. S. – China trade war, ongoing protests in Hong Kong and Belt and Road Initiative.. His website is: http://www.chinarising.puntopress.com/

 

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Anti-Imperialist Revolution Summit Details

Anti-Imperialism Revolutionary Summit Details:

As part of March on the Pentagon’s weekend of outrage in Washington, DC, we have organized a summit to bring activists and interested people together to learn why we should be anti-imperialist and what can we do to continue the struggle against militarism and US wars of aggression after we return to our homes across the country.
The summit will consist of several panels of experts talking about various aspects of US imperialism and militarism, live music, organizational tabling and information, networking, and childcare in our Peace Place for Children.

Cindy Sheehan is our keynote speaker. Panels include:

• Local Organizing with WAMM (Women Against Military Madness)
• Killer Sanctions
• Enough is Enough: End the Endless Wars
• Struggles Against Imperialism in North America

 

We will have music from Sharon Abreu and others.

 

Additional details regarding the exact schedule and speakers will be announced as those details become available.

 

Summit tickets are $10 each and are available on Eventbrite.

If you are in need of a scholarship, please register for a free ticket. We will not turn away anyone who cannot pay.

If you are unable to attend, or are attending and want to defer the cost for others, please pay it forward by donating at least $10.

Please RSVP to our AIRS Facebook event here.

Attending organizations can purchase space at a table for $50 – this includes admission for two people. Please contact us if you are interested in tabling.

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Comprehensive Healthcare or Continuous Warfare? (SOAPBOX PODCAST SEPTEMBER 15, 2019)

September 15, 2019

Guest: Margaret Flowers
Popular Resistance

Topic: Fund Comprehensive Healthcare, Not Warfare 

March on the Pentagon sponsors regular informational Community

Events, our recent event was with Dr. Margaret Flowers who has long been a proponent of medicare for all.

The US spends over a trillion dollars a year on warfare and 

imperial maintenance, but bring up the idea of a compassionate healthcare plan, the powers that be freak out.

Listen to the special Soapbox Audio at the above media player, or 

watch the youtube below.

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CINDY SHEEHAN'S SOAPBOX 

The Future is Local w/Guest: Helena Norberg Hodge (SOAPBOX PODCAST 9/2/19)

Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox

September 2, 2019

The Future is Local*

Guest: Helena Norberg-Hodge

Topic: Localization v. Globalization 

Helena Norberg-Hodge

Biography


Helena Norberg-Hodge is a pioneer of the new economy movement. Through writing and public lectures, she has been promoting an economics of personal, social, and ecological wellbeing for four decades.

She is a widely respected analyst of the impact of the global economy and international development on local economies, agriculture, and cultural as well as personal identity. She is a leading proponent of “localization,” or decentralization, and was awarded the Arthur Morgan award in 2017, and the prestigious Goi Peace prize in 2012 for contributing to “the revitalisation of cultural and biological diversity, and the strengthening of local communities and economies worldwide.”

Since 1975, she has worked with the people of Ladakh, or “Little Tibet,” to find ways of enabling their culture to meet the modern world without sacrificing social and ecological values.  For these efforts she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, or “Alternative Nobel Prize.”

Helena’s seminal book, Ancient Futures has been described as “an inspirational classic,” offering guidelines for a better future. Together with the film of the same title, it has been translated into more than 40 languages, and sold over half a million copies. She is also the producer and co-director of the award-winning film, The Economics of Happiness.  Helena has written numerous articles, essays, and book chapters, and is the co-author of two groundbreaking  books on food and farming: Bringing the Food Economy Home and From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture.

 
Helena has lectured in seven languages at numerous Universities including Oxford, Harvard, Melbourne, Tokyo, Stockholm, and Munich - and was Regents’ Lecturer in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley. She has also taught regularly at Schumacher College and appeared in broadcast, print, and online media worldwide, including MSNBC, The Times (London), The Morning Herald (Sydney), and The Guardian.

The Earth Journal counted Helena among the world’s ‘ten most interesting environmentalists,’ while in Carl McDaniel’s book Wisdom for a Liveable Planet, she was profiled as one of ‘eight visionaries changing the world.'

Helena is the founder/director of Local Futures and The International Alliance for Localisation (IAL).  She is also cofounder of the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture, the International Forum on Globalisation, and the Global Ecovillage Network. She is a member of the Global University in Hong Kong.


Local Futures works to renew ecological, social, and spiritual wellbeing by showing the way towards a genuinely sustainable future - one of interconnected, localized economies. At the same time, the organization’s wide-ranging programs examine the economic root causes of today’s crises — from unemployment to climate change, from depression and anxiety to loss of biodiversity. The non-profit has worked in countries all over the world, including the UK, the US, Mexico, Italy, Australia, India, Thailand, Bhutan, South Korea, and Japan.

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CINDY SHEEHAN'S SOAPBOX 

Rage Against the War Machine Planning Meeting August 22.

Rage Against the War Machine

Planning Meeting

Thursday, August 22

TIME: 3PM PACIFIC

4PM MOUNTAIN

5PM CENTRAL

6PM EASTERN

Our sub-committees will be coming together to give reports to the larger committee.

It's preferable to login by computer so we can share documents.

It's very easy,  just click the link below.

If you must call by phone, the number is also below:

You have created a conference call!
RAWM PLANNING MEETING
August 22, 2019 at 3:00PM (PDT - US/Pacific)
Ways to Join
Go to: 

 

 https://www.uberconference.com/marchonpentagon 

or just call 707-605-0735 . No PIN needed.

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Gun Control Begins at the Pentagon (MoP Community Conference Call: 8/18/19)

Gun Control Begins at the Pentagon

You are invited to join March on the Pentagon and our special guest activist extraordinaire and Advisory Board member

Ann Wright*

for our montly Community Conference Call

Our topic will be the phenomenon of gun violence 

in the USA domestically tied in with the overwhelming

violence displayed by the U.S. war machine around the world on a daily basis.

Ways to Join

 

Go to: https://www.uberconference. com/marchonpentagon  (preferred)

 

or just call 707-605-0735 . No PIN needed.

*Ann Wright is a Colonel (Ret) in the Army Reserves and

a retired diplomat from the U.S. Department of State.

Ann travels the world connecting with other activists to

try to end this military madness. 

From her Wiki page:

"She received the State Department Award for Heroism in 1997, after helping to evacuate several thousand people during the civil war in Sierra Leone. She is most noted for having been one of three State Department officials to publicly resign in direct protest of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. "

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March on the Pentagon

 

The USA is Over-due for a Do-Over by Cindy Sheehan

The USA is Over-Due for a Do-Over
By Cindy Sheehan

Since its inception over 243 years ago in a hot meeting room in Philadelphia, dripping with testosterone, the idea of any kind of democracy or equality in the USA  has steadily eroded  to where, today, those promises are all but non-existent.

First of all, the Founders were a pack of human-owning, indigenous-slaughtering elites that forged a new society that would, of course, benefit themselves: where the top would stay firmly at the top and the bottom would be conditioned to believe in the American dream of easily attainable wealth and power.

Secondly, there would really be no middle in this corporation called the United States of America—-there would be “lesser-elites” and “greater-poor" to keep everyone fighting with each other over the crumbs that fell from the marble tables of the oligarchy.

When another member of this diseased and demented oligarchy was selected to be the new “leader” of this country following rules of the constitution that were designed to keep most of us out, but get people like him in, many were very surprised.

Of course, the preference of the imperialists and capitalists was Hillary Clinton. The First Female President™ would have able to keep the masses as blind as The First Black President™ did. Her Hillaryness would have been very adept at proper decorum and complete sentence construction while she presided over the further transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top and bombed even more brown people in other countries than her predecessor.

Not that Donald Trump is NOT presiding over these things and worse (not quite separating as many families at the border as Obama was able to and with impunity), but what the regime of Donald Trump has been able to do is stick it right in the faces of the people and has also gotten in some jabs in at the system while he has been at it.

What is to be done about these systemic cancers that have spread out of control and threaten the very existence of life on this planet? Should we workers and activists keep on going the way we have been going hoping that the God of America will swoop in at the last minute and cure us? This would be like a heavy-smoker thinking that his lung cancer can be cured by smoking more cigarettes every day!

We recently witnessed an extraordinary event in Puerto Rico, where hundreds of thousands of puertorriqueños took to the streets of San Juan (and tens of thousands around the world in the diaspora) to demand the resignation of its corrupt governor.

These people in the streets of San Juan were not all far leftwing sovereignty campaigners and socialists, but a wide cross-sections of puertorriqueños who have had enough with the corruption of their government and joined together to demand a people’s recall.

Now, that this uprising was successful, it’s the job of those leftwing sovereignty campaigners and socialists to lead these ordinary people into a funnel that will also demand an end to US colonialism there. Only when Puerto Rico is free from the blood-stained boot of U.S. colonialism will the people of the long-misused island be able to take matters into their own hands for the good of this generation and the future!

I do not demand impeachment of Donald Trump, because that would only give us the rightwing extremist Pence and I don’t have any confidence in the dimwitted and complicit Democrat party to even affect that reformist change, anyway.

To save the planet from the devastating effects of climate change, war, and economic destruction, it’s time for a People’s Do-Over of the United States of America.

Do Trump and Pence have to go? Of course, but so do Nancy Pelosi and her ilk. U.S. militarism must be put on notice that its wealth and resources will be redistributed to the people of the U.S. for positive programs like healthcare and education.

The Trump regime has predictably expanded the Obama/Bush/Clinton (etc) wars and has increased the vicious policy of imposing crippling sanctions on countries that have the audacity to believe that they are sovereign and don’t have to put the interests of the U.S. before their very own.

However, we cannot rely on the same people who got us into this enormous mess to clean it up. Despite the rhetoric of some of them, the current crop of Democrat candidates for President are completely useless for those of us who want socialist revolution. There’s no hope there. There’s no hope that the top will give up voluntarily the stranglehold on our lives that they have claimed from the beginning.

We need to join forces as did those in Puerto Rico in a people’s movement for change. Get Trump-Pence out, but then, we socialists and peace and social justice activists need to funnel that energy into the same movement that is burgeoning in Puerto Rico and elsewhere—the end of oligarchical colonialism here in the USA!

Everyone reading this is invited to join me, our comrades, and March on the Pentagon for October 11-13 in Washington DC for Rage Against the War Machine. We need the masses to join us to demand an end to the Trump-Pence cancer, but not to stop there until the total system is transformed into one that works well for all of us.

A healthy U.S.A. means a healthier world.

The website for Rage Against the War Machine is
Https://www.marchonpentagon.com