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Join the Virtual Sit-In against the MinuteMen/Una el "Virtual Sit-In" contra los MinuteMen

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SWARM the Minuntemen invites people from all over the world who oppose racist violence to join the Electronic Disturbance Theatre action on May 27th, 28th and 29th, 2005 to engage in a virtual sit-in on the MinuteMen website during their "Unite to Fight" Summit.

Read on for the Electronic Disturbance Theatre call to action.

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

- “The New Colossus,” by the nineteenth-century American poet Emma Lazarus inscribed on a plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty.

Dear sisters and brothers,

Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) in solidarity with Swarm The MinuteMen action will hold a 3 Day Virtual Sit-In starting on May 27th to May 29th (2005) on the MinuteMen Project. We call on all you to join us and let the MinuteMen Project know that hard borders are alien in an age of global interdependence and to the ideals of liberty as a “golden door” that is open to all. An ideal that so many have died trying to reach.

To Join The Virtual Sit-In On Starting on May 27th Click:
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html

Why we must swarm the MinuteMen:

For Víctor Nicolás Sánchez, Adolfo Pérez Hernández, Daniel Barrientos, Santos Orozco Aguilar, Raúl Hernández Soria, Sandra Edna Durán, Jesús Medina Contreras, Edgar Venegas Brambila, José Gutiérrez, Melquíades Gómez Baca, Martha Rivera García...

Myth Number 1: Immigrants take jobs away from Americans.
Myth Number 2: Most immigrants are a drain on the U.S. economy or treasury
Myth Number 3: America is being overrun by immigrants.
Myth Number 4: Immigrants aren’t really interested in becoming part of American society.
Myth Number 5: Immigrants contribute little to American society.

Facts to dispel to these myths from the American Immigration Lawyers Association: http://www.aila.org/contentViewer.aspx?bc=17,142

We call on you sisters and brothers from all over the world who oppose the MinuteMen Project and in the name of the 3,500 women, men and children who have died crossing into “The Land of Liberty” since 1994 to join the Electronic Disturbance Theatre action on May 27th, 28th and 29th, 2005 to engage in a Virtual Sit-In on the MinuteMen website during their "Unite to Fight" Summit.

Who are the MinuteMen:

The MinuteMen are a non-governmental group of people vowing to patrol the US/Mexico border with guns in order to stop migrant people from crossing the border. They represent an intensification of the trend of violence towards migrant people and people of color that has increased since 9/11/2001. While they claim that they are not violent, their very use and display of deadly weapons is a violent act in itself. How can guns be used to detain people without being violent? Already there have been numerous reports of people being forced to lie on the ground by the MinuteMen and being forced to have their pictures taken with MinuteMen volunteers, recalling Abu Ghraib style dehumanization.

SWARM the MinuteMen Group Statement:

http://swarmtheminutemen.com/

While the MinuteMen publicly claim to be non-violent, we here at SWARM know a different face of the MinuteMen. We've received numerous death threats and threats of violence filled with racial slurs. We plan to publicly release these soon to let everyone know the exact kind of hatred the MinuteMen are acting as a lightning rod for, attracting it and focusing it towards migrant people.

Just as important though, the MinuteMen are a clear result of the violent, us-versus-them mentality promoted by the Bush administration.

We are intervening into and dancing with the communication systems of the MinuteMen because along with the physical violence they are creating, they are extremely conscious of the violent power their messages have and they had any measure of success thanks to the complicity the corporate media. Their communications are a critical part of their mission to send a message to legislators that more militarization of the border is necessary. Their images and words can't be separated from the violence of their guns, and both must be stopped.

We refuse to support the United States government's attempts to find a scapegoat to blame this country's problems on while it bankrupts our social services, wages wars on the world, sends our brothers, sisters, friends and neighbors to die and profits off of the whole plan. Who stands to profit from a more militarized border? Will the same corporations that made billions in government contracts off of the war in Iraq like Halliburton and CACI be the same ones to profit from the war on the border?

We must stand together now to say that this country is made up of millions of people of many different ethnicities and cultures and that is due to migration. Migrant people have human rights, regardless of the government's and the racist's attempts to deny that fact. Until the United States has a sane immigration policy that allows people to move as freely as capital and goods do, we will continue to struggle.

Why should you join the Virtual Sit-In On May 27th 2005:

For Benito González Cruz, Benito González Serrano, Javier Rojas Bracamonte, Juan José Romo Zetina, José Luis Garza, Roberto Acegueda López, Román Robles Rojas, Reynaldo González Corona and the thousands of other people who have been murdered for simply trying to cross the border into what is now the United States and which was once Mexico.

Contact:

For any questions on the Electronic Disturbance Theater’s action in solidarity with SWARM the MinuteMen contact

Ricardo Dominguez (co-founder of the Electronic Disturbance Theater) at rdom at thing.net

Electronic Disturbance Theater
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html

See our site for more info:
http://swarmtheminutemen.com
or our mirror:
http://www.autistici.org/swarmtheminutemen/

See our mirror sites to read our original content which our domain registrar forced us to remove:
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http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/swarm/index.php



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SWARM the Minutemen Invita gente desde todo el mundo quien estan contra la violencia racista a una el accion de Electronic Disturbance Theatre en el 27, 28 y 29 de Mayo, 2005 para un "virtual sit-in" el el sitio de web de los MinuteMen durante sus conferencia de "Unate para Pelear".

Leer la llamada de accion de Electronic Disturbance Theatre:

Dadme vuestros exhaustos, vuestros pobres,

Vuestras muchedumbres que ansían respirar en libertad,

Los miserables deshechos de vuestras rebosantes orillas.

Mandadlos a todos, a los desamparados, encomendádmelos a mí.

Que yo levanto mi antorcha junto a la puerta dorada

"The New Colossus," de Emma Lazarus, poetisa norteamericana del siglo XIX, inscrito en una placa en la base de la Estatua de la Libertad.

Queridos hermanas y hermanos,

Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), en solidaridad con la acción Swarm The MinuteMen, realizará una sentada virtual de 3 días los próximos 27 al 29 de mayo (2005) contra el sitio de MinuteMen Project. Convocamos a todos los interesados a unirse a nosotros para hacer saber al MinuteMen Project que las fronteras infranqueables no pertenecen a la era de la interdependencia global, ni a los ideales de libertad vista como "puerta dorada" que está abierta a todos. Un ideal por cuya consecución muchos han muerto.

Para unirse a la sentada virtual que comienza el 27 de mayo, clicar aquí:

http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html

Por qué debemos bloquear MinuteMen:

Por Víctor Nicolás Sánchez, Adolfo Pérez Hernández, Daniel Barrientos, Santos Orozco Aguilar, Raúl Hernández Soria, Sandra Edna Durán, Jesús Medina Contreras, Edgar Venegas Brambila, José Gutiérrez, Melquíades Gómez Baca, Martha Rivera García...

Mito Nº1: Los inmigrantes quitan los puestos de trabajo a los estadounidenses
Mito Nº2: Tantos inmigrantes consumen la economía de los Estados Unidos
Mito Nº3: Estados Unidos está saturado de inmigrantes
Mito Nº4: Los inmigrantes no están interesados de verdad en formar parte de la sociedad estadounidense
Mito Nº5: Los inmigrantes apenas contribuyen a la sociedad estadounidense

-American Immigration Lawyers Association, leé aqui para ver porque esos Mitos no estan verdad: http://www.aila.org/contentViewer.aspx?bc=17,142


Convocamos a todos los hermanos y hermanas del mundo que se oponen al Proyecto MinuteMen, y en nombre de los 3500 hombres, mujeres y niños que han muerto, desde 1994, tratando de alcanzar "La Tierra de la Libertad", a que os unáis a la acción del Electronic Disturbance Theatre los días 27, 28 y 29 de mayo de 2005, realizando una sentada virtual al web site del proyecto MinuteMen durante la convocatoria "Unite to Fight"

Quiénes son MinuteMen:

MinuteMen es un grupo no gubernamental cuyos miembros patrullan armados la frontera México/Estados Unidos impidiendo el paso de inmigrantes. Representan la intensificación de reacciones violentas contra los inmigrantes y la gente de color que se ha producido después del 11 de septiembre de 2001. Aunque proclaman no ser violentos, el mero hecho de llevar y exhibir armas es un acto violento en sí mismo. Cómo no va a ser violento detener a la gente a punta de pistola? De hecho se han reportado numerosos casos de personas obligadas por los miembros de MinuteMen a tumbarse en el suelo y a ser fotografiadas por los voluntarios de MinuteMen, en el más puro estilo deshumanizante de Abu Ghraib.

Informe de SWARM:

http://swarmtheminutemen.com/

Mientras MinuteMen proclama públicamente no ser violentos, nosotros en SWARM conocemos su otra cara. Hemos recibido numerosas amenazas de muerte y amenazas de violencia llenas de insultos racistas. Pensamos publicar en breve estas amenazas para que todo el mundo sepa exactamente cuánto odio están generando, atrayendo y difundiendo en MinuteMen contra los inmigrantes.

Aunque sólo sea por eso, MinuteMen son el claro resultado de la mentalidad violenta, de "nosotros -contra-ellos", que promueve la administración Bush.

Vamos a intervenir en los sistemas de comunicación de MinuteMen porque además de la violencia física que realizan, son extremadamente conscientes del violento poder de sus mensajes, y saben hasta qué punto tienen éxito gracias a la complicidad de los medios corporativos. Sus comunicaciones son una parte crítica de su misión, el mensaje que envían a los legisladores reclamando la necesidad de militarizar las fronteras. No se pueden separar sus imágenes y sus palabras de la violencia de sus armas de fuego, y ambas deben detenerse.

Nos negamos a apoyar los intentos del gobierno de los Estados Unidos de encontrar un chivo expiatorio al que culpar de los problemas de este país mientras lleva a la bancarrota nuestros servicios sociales, emprende guerras por el mundo, envía a nuestros hermanos, hermanas, amigos y vecinos a morir y se beneficia del plan al completo. ¿Quién obtiene provecho de militarizar las fronteras? ¿Serán las mismas corporaciones que obtienen billones en contratos con el gobierno gracias a la guerra en Irak, como Halliburton y CACI.

Ahora debemos permanecer unidos para proclamar que este país se compone de millones de personas de distintas etnias y culturas y que ello es gracias a la inmigración. Los inmigrantes tienen derechos humanos, sean cuales sean los del gobierno y los intentos racistas por negarlo. Hasta que los Estados Unidos tengan una política de inmigración sana que permita la movilidad de las personas igual que permite el libre movimiento de bienes y capital, continuaremos luchando.

Por qué deberías unirte a la sentada virtual del 27 de mayo de 2005?

Por Benito González Cruz, Benito González Serrano, Javier Rojas Bracamonte, Juan José Romo Zetina, José Luis Garza, Roberto Acegueda López, Román Robles Rojas, Reynaldo González Coronav y los miles de personas que han sido asesinados por intentar cruzar la frontera de lo que ahora son los Estados Unidos, pero que antes fue México.

Contacto:
Para cualquier pregunta sobre la acción del Electronic Disturbance Theatre en solidaridad con SWARM the MinuteMen contacta con: Ricardo Dominguez (cofundador del Electronic Disturbance Theater) a través del e-amil: rdom at thing.net <mailto:rdom at thing.net>

Electronic Disturbance Theater

http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html

Ve nos sitio para mas informacíon:
http://swarmtheminutemen.com
o nos espejo:
http://www.autistici.org/swarmtheminutemen/

Ve nos espejos para leer nos palabras originales cual nuestra compania de DNS forzónos quitar:
http://swarm.mahost.org/
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/swarm/index.php
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