Tuesday, July 24, 2018

ROL, USA NEWSLETTER #109 (JULY-AUGUST 2018) SYNOPSIS

ROL, USA NEWSLETTER NUMBER 109 (JULY-AUGUST 2018) SYNOPSIS

Revolutionary Organization of Labor, USA
#109
JULY-AUGUST, 2018
 
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Main Articles:
 
Trump’s USA: No Country For Children
by RAY LIGHT


When Donald Trump was placed in the U.S. Presidency by the Electoral College vote in the 2016 Election, I observed that, at least in the short run, Trump, with his awkward connection to the Republican Party, would be a less dangerous foe than Hillary Clinton, with the slick Wall Street-backed Democratic Party machine, would have represented to the international working class and the oppressed peoples outside the borders of the USA. But I emphasized that, for the working class and the oppressed nationalities within the U.S. multinational state, the Trump Regime would be more repressive and cause us more difficulties here sooner.
 
http://rayolightnewsletter.blogspot.com/2018/07/trumps-usa-no-country-for-children-by.html
 
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Let’s Say “NO” to Forced Military Conscription

by CINDY SHEEHAN

 
The U.S. Congress has commissioned a “bi-partisan” panel of 11 people to study the future of a forced military draft in the United States.  
 
http://rayolightnewsletter.blogspot.com/2018/07/lets-say-no-to-forced-military.html
 
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Defense of Leninism:
Response to A Criticism from ICOR Chief Monika Gartner-Engel


[In late May 2018, the Revolutionary Organization of Labor-USA (ROL-USA), received a brief critical letter addressed to our leader, comrade Ray Light, criticizing his assessment of the ICOR-sponsored October Revolution celebration in Germany in his lengthy article entitled, “Reflections on the Hundredth Anniversary Year of the Great October Socialist Revolution.” (Ray O’ Light Newslatter #105, November-December 2017) The brief letter purports to have been written individually by Monika Gartner-Engel, the Main Coordinator of ICOR. According to the letter, comrade Monika then “placed this letter before the ICC [ICOR’s leading body] and it has been unanimously approved.” The writer asks that the letter be published in Ray O. Light Newsletter, the organ of ROL-USA. 
 
http://rayolightnewsletter.blogspot.com/2018/07/in-defense-of-leninism-response-to.html
 
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Breath of Fresh Air about Trump/Putin Meeting (Soapbox Podcast July 24, 2018)

July 24, 2018




Guest: Luciana Bohne
Topic: Liberal Insanity over Trump and Putin



Since at least 1945 when the USSR liberated the Nazi death camps and largely helped to defeat Nazi-ism and with the rise of the nuclear age, it's never really been about war with Russia or the USSR. The policy of containment and the threat of Mutually Assured Destruction has held the US super (dangerous) power in check.

However, we have seen a phenomenon recently about how Democrats, hoping that their party will prevail in November has pulled out all stops to bring the world closer to thermonuclear annihilation with their insane, yet calculated and manufactured, diatribes against the Putin/Trump summit.

As my wonderful guest, Luciana points out, it's also dangerous to assume that Trump is doing this for "peace." Trump is doing it for Trump and while neither leader can be trusted, we also have to reign in the "red-baiting" with some commentators opining that Trump committed treason because the unproven Russian hacking of US elections were an "act of war."

Please listen to the above interview with the wonderfully brilliant and insightful Luciana Bohne for clarity on the issue. 

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Monday, July 23, 2018

Community Conference Call for Women's March on the Pentagon (Weds, July 25)

Community Conference Call

Weds, July 25

Times: 4pm Pacific
5pm Mountain
6pm Central
7pm Eastern

Please email Cindy Sheehan to RSVP and receive call-in info

CINDYSHEEHAN@MARCHONPENTAGON.COM

We will discuss current organizing efforts and our
plans for Occupy the War Machine 
(Oct 22-November10)

https://www.marchonpentagon.com/volunteering





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Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Women's March on the Pentagon Goes to America's Mordor (Progress!) By Cindy Sheehan


Who knew Mordor was on the Yellow Line for DC Metro?

On July 17th, six of us organizers for the Women's March on the Pentagon  descended on America's Mordor to start the process rolling to apply for a permit for our planned march and rally on October 21st.

Our group was comprised of dedicated anti-imperialist activists: myself, Cindy Sheehan; Bonnie Caracciolo from Boston (co-coordinator), Malachy Kilbride our Washington (DC co-ordinator); Paki Weiland who is also in DC and on our Steering Committee; Kevin Zeese from Baltimore who is on the Advisory Committee and also our ad hoc legal advisor; and Margaret Flowers, also from Baltimore and also on the Advisory Committee for Women's March on the Pentagon.
In Front of Mordor

 
Kevin, Margaret, Paki

We met at the Pentagon Metro station which is festooned with ads by and for the war machine: slowly, very slowly ascending the escalator from the metro station to the visitor's entrance of America's Mordor if one is aware, one can feel the build up of negative energy that is even more oppressive than the suffocating humidity.

After getting the run around for quite awhile, Malachy finally got
Malachy channels Frodo
someone on the phone and told that person that we would not leave the "reservation" (as it is called) until someone came out and met with us about our October 21st march and protest.

Finally, an officer from the "Special Events Office" came out and we had a relatively civil conversation where he took our info and gave us the down-low on getting a permit.

The date October 21st was open at America's Mordor and we told him that we wanted to use the very same parking lot that the pro-war motorcycle group Rolling Thunder uses every Memorial Day for their grand celebration of carnage. So, if the PTB (powers that be) deny our permit for our right to "peaceably" gather in opposition to same carnage, it will demonstrate and expose the hypocrisy of the war machine.


Cindy in two-finger salute to the War Machine
Personally, I hate the very un-freedom-like concept of applying for permits and I don't agree that we should have to ask permission to exercise our 1st amendment rights to peaceably assemble, but the Pentagon is a HUGE and very unwieldy place, especially after 9/11: Fences and checkpoints abound. We also want to have a stage, sound system, and unless we all want to do our bathroom bit on the lawns, we will need porta-potties. 

As a side note,

As I stated above I hate permits--I think the process is inherently un-freedom-like, but, shhhh, don't tell anybody, we are planning on doing some civil resistance there, too. 

While we were at the Pentagon on July 17th and after Malachy Kilbride told them we weren't leaving the property until we spoke in person to someone, they sent Officer John Doe out to meet with us. Honestly, I almost cracked another tooth from tightly clenching my jaw because Officer Doe told us, not once, but twice: "That's why I served in the Air Force for 20 years, to give you all the freedom to protest." I am not known for my restraint, but I held my tongue then (we all did), which won't be the case on October 21st. By the by, John Doe you didn't "serve" in the Air Force for 20 years to give me, or anyone else any "freedom." 

How does one even say we are "free" here in the US? Free to starve (1 in 5 children everyday); free to die from lack of adequate healthcare; free to go into lifelong debt for the audacity of wanting a university education; free to go into lifelong debt to the banks for having the audacity to want to own your own home; free to work for slave wages while the wealthy get wealthier; free to be poisoned by the food and water supplies; free to die in bullshit wars for the profit of a few---and "free" speech? How is speech free if alternative views are never, ever allowed to be heard? The deep state is able to freely spy on every person in this country and is fully aware of every aspect of our online presence.

You, Officer John Doe, "served" 20 years to enrich the war machine and to pontificate and bloviate about your service to Empire.
I just want him to know that we know, even though we all just stared at him with blank expressions, maybe that's why he felt the need to repeat himself.



The Women's March on the Pentagon has always been serious about confronting the bi-partisan war machine in a very non-partisan way, but it's getting closer to the date of the kickoff march and rally for our anti-imperialist Movement and WE NEED YOUR HELP!

Please consider donating (any amount: tax deductible).
 (Our effort is a true grassroots effort. We have no big foundation money pouring in as we oppose both political halves of the War Machine)
https://afgj.salsalabs.org/womensmarchonthepentagon/index.html


Please consider volunteering. 

https://www.marchonpentagon.com/volunteering


Contact Cindy Sheehan for any questions/clarifications/ideas/input

CindySheehan@MarchonPentagon.com

Submitted on behalf of WMOP by 
Cindy Sheehan
July 18, 2018



Friday, July 6, 2018

Cindy interviewed by Women's Liberation Radio Network on What the 4th Really Means



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JULY 2018


We are pro- peace, anti-war, pro-immigrant, anti-racist, environmentalist and otherwise, aligned with the left -- just not on feminism & identity politics -- surprise surprise -- sexism on the left is just as prevalent as it is on the right. American militarized misogyny goes beyond the left/right binary two-party system we got goin' in the U S of A and hits home for women around the world due to US imperialism & empire. All women are world subordinates under US rule that is maintained through military force & conflicts. Yesterday, war veterans and women alike who have suffered the brutal violence of males, expressed how much they dislike fireworks because they trigger their ptsd. Today, please take a moment to undue our patriarchal social conditioning and listen to our handcrafted international news program brought to you with care & style. Solidarity with all of our Sisters Around the World! ~ The WLRN Staff Collective

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Wednesday, July 4, 2018

SPEAKING TRUTH TO EMPIRE W/DAN YASEEN JUNE 2018 EDITION




 JUNE 2018


RAY MCGOVERN 


Speaking Truth to Empireon KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews Ray McGovern about  “Russiagate” and “FBI/DOJ-gate”. Ray is a veteran CIA officer turned political activist. Ray was a CIA analyst for 27 years, from the administration of John F. Kennedy to that of George H. W. Bush. Ray’s duties included chairing National Intelligence Estimates and preparing the President’s Daily Brief. In January 2003, Ray co-created Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) to expose how intelligence was being falsified to “justify” war on Iraq. His website is www.raymcgovern.com

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